“See you in court”

A new billboard in New York City’s Times Square courtesy of The Lincoln Project. 

First daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, have threatened to sue The Lincoln Project over two Times Square billboard ads that attack the two senior White House advisers.
The billboard depicts Ivanka Trump presenting the number of New Yorkers and Americans who have died of COVID-19 and Jared Kushner next to a Vanity Fair quote.
The anti-Donald Trump Republican group snapped back with a statement that it plans to make its response ― a “civics lesson” on First Amendment rights ― as “painful as possible.” (More below.)

News blues…

Covid is spiking throughout the world, particularly in the United States: 

Nearly 225,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, and the number of deaths could rise to 500,000 by February, experts warned. [The president] attacked the media for its focus on COVID-19 “CASES, CASES, CASES” after the nation hit an all-time high of more than 83,000 daily infections on Friday.
Trump said without evidence that the coverage was a plot to “create fear” ahead of Election Day. Trump told a campaign rally later in North Carolina that “you won’t hear about it anymore” after the election.
Trump falsely blamed the increase in cases on too many COVID-19 tests and ignored the fact that the U.S. leads the world in the number of COVID-19 deaths. With about 4% of the globe’s population, the U.S. has almost 20% of all COVID-19 deaths in the world.
Trump inaccurately argued that the new surge “included many low risk people.” He also said falsely that the nation’s “mortality rate is DOWN 85% plus.”
A spike in deaths inevitably follows a surge in cases. Already, the rising rate of infections has resulted in a 40% hike in hospitalizations.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released another new COVID-19 guideline, this time as it pertains to those who are considered in “close contact” with someone who is infected with the coronavirus.

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“South Africa, since the first of October has seen a slow and steady increase in the overall number of cases nationally,” says Professor Salim Abdool Karim. 

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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump sicced their lawyers on The Lincoln Project after seeing the billboard (shown above) in Times Square. The Lincoln Project explains,

[Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump] threatened to sue The Lincoln Project for sharing truthful information.
We purchased billboard space across the country to tell the truth about the malice, complicity, and cruelty behind the White House’s failed coronavirus response.
Jared and Ivanka didn't like it, and — as they do every time they see something they don't like — they sicced lawyers on us.
We don't just have the First Amendment right to broadcast our message, it is our duty to expose the malfeasance, the cruelty, and the corruption of the Trump family.
We are not afraid of the Trump family and their mafia of stooges, grifters, and nut-jobs.

And, the latest episode of this ongoing soap opera from The Lincoln Project: 

Most people buckle as soon as Trump family lawyers issue a threat.
In addition to nearly a dozen battleground states, we are reminding Americans of the deadly legacy of the First Family right from the bowtie of Times Square — the crossroads of the world — because the world must know the malice, complicity, and cruelty behind the White House’s failed coronavirus response.
Jared and Ivanka immediately threatened to sue us, because they refuse to take responsibility for their failures and don’t want anyone to know the truth.

It’s safe to say that the world is now watching.
This is what the First Family does: defraud, con, and stiff hard-working Americans, and send a pack of lawyers to force capitulation.

They have gotten away with this playbook for their entire lives. They expect us to let them get away with it again.

The Lincoln Project lawyers are on the job…  

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The Lincoln Project Mourning in the Republican Party  (0:55 mins)

Healthy futures, anyone?

A celebration of South Africa's feathered friends:
Part 1  (14:00 mins)
Part 2  (16:38 mins)
Part 3 (10:25)

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Meanwhile, back at the ranch…

Thunder rolls overhead. Will it rain?
I’ve secured from heavy rain 5 large bags of compost I’ve blended over the last weeks. I numbered the bags, too, with each number representing a particular blend. The first 3 bags include “kraal manure” and the last 2 bags include 2 types of pond weed, plus fresh kitchen scraps.
I fantasize about taking the elderly concrete mixer with me when I move. Common sense makes me scrap that idea: my new home is under what is known in the US as a Home Owners Association – HOA - and in SA as a “body corporate.” Both would frown on someone running a concrete mixer to blend compost in her small back yard.
Perhaps I can create a Compost Team: a group to dedicated composters who collect the community’s kitchen scraps and the landscaping company’s clippings, to create community compost? Better yet, I could join an already formed Compost Team?
Good to have dreams….