Thomas Eakins Walt Whitman 1891 • Strzok’s Newly Discovered FBI Notes Deliver Jolt To ‘Obamagate’ Evidence (JTN) • Flynn Dismissal Order ‘Thoroughly Demolishes’ Dissenting Judge’s Opinion (ZH) • Julian Assange Accused In US Indictment Of Conspiracy (Fox) • State, Local Gov’ts Need Billions More In Aid To Avert 4 Million Layoffs (MW) Ever since I began reporting on the new coronavirus, I have pointed to trendlines as the reason to publish graphs and numbers on a daily
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Dorothea Lange Arkansas flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas 1937 • 80% of COVID19 Cases In The US Went Undetected In March (CNN) • What the US Stock Market Looks Like Minus APPL, MSFT, AMZN, GOOG, FB (WS) • Putin Reviews Military Parade On Eve Of Vote That Could Extend His Rule (R.) • ‘The Skripal Case And The Decline Of Russia’s Spy Agencies (G.) • Johnson And May Ignored Claims Russia Had ‘Likely Hold’ Over Trump (G.) •
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G. G. Bain Katherine Stinson, “the flying schoolgirl,” Sheepshead Bay Speedway, Brooklyn 1918 • Protesters Fail To Bring Down Andrew Jackson Statue Near White House (R.) • To Kill A Mockingbird, Huckleberry Finn Banned From Minnesota Syllabuses (SOTT) • WHO Reports Largest Single-Day Increase In COVID19 Cases (SCMP) • Mexico Reports 5,343 New Coronavirus Infections And 1,044 Deaths (R.) • Surge In Coronavirus Cases Linked To More Texans In Their 20s (TT) • Complete Shutdown Could Be Only Way
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Lewis Wickes Hine 12-year-old newsie, Hyman Alpert, been selling 3 years, New Haven CT 1909 • Trump Makes Triumphant Return To Campaign Rallies (JTN) • Trump’s Tulsa Rally Was Just Another Sad Farce (G.) • Over A Third Of Americans Think Civil War Is Likely (ZH) • Judge Says Bolton ‘Gambling With National Security’ But Won’t Block Book (JTN) • Lawyer Says Bolton ‘Utterly Powerless’ To Stop Book’s Circulation (JTN) • Manhattan Prosecutor Steps Down, Ending Stand-Off With AG
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Howard Hollem Assembly and Repairs Department Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi 1942 • Several US States See Coronavirus Infection Spikes (R.) • Mainland China Reports 27 New Coronavirus Cases, Including 22 In Beijing (R.) • US Attorney Berman Refuses To ‘Step Down’ After Barr Asks For Resignation (ZH) • Coronavirus Was Already In Italy By December, Waste Water Study Finds (BBC) • Trump Admin To Name Most Recipients Of Bailout Loans (ZH) • The Crisis Goes Up A Gear
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NPC “Largest electric locomotive and Congressman John C. Schafer” 1924 (he’d be in an electric car today) • Mainland China Reports 32 New Coronavirus Cases, 25 Of Them In Beijing (R.) • Mexico Posts Record Number Of New Coronavirus Infections (R.) • AMC Theaters To Reopen, Say Face Masks A “Political Controversy” (V.) • John Bolton’s Bad Reviews Don’t Stop Him Topping Us Book Charts (G.) • Bolton, Pelosi Agree: Trump Unfit To Be US President (R.) • Japan’s
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NPC Grand Palace shoe shining parlor, Washington DC 1921 • Vitamin D New Hope In The War On Corona (DM) • Doctors Can Still Prescribe HCQ to Patients – US Health Secretary (N18) • New Zealand Reports Fresh Corona Case, More Quarantine Breaches Emerge (G.) • Beijing COVID19 Cluster May Have Begun A Month Earlier – Health Official (G.) • China Reports 28 New Coronavirus Cases In Mainland (R.) • Sweden Says Herd Immunity “Surprisingly Slow” To Develop (ZH)
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Gustave Dore Dante and the Angel of the Church before the Door of Purgatory 1868 • Biden Appears Likely To Pick Kamala Harris As VP (Mcleod) • Gaslighted by the Ruling Class (Chris Hedges) • New Zealand Ends Covid-Free Run With Two Cases From UK (G.) • China Reports 40 New Coronavirus Cases In Mainland, 27 In Beijing (R.) • Virus-Hit Beijing Tightens Outbound Travel; Shanghai Demands Quarantine (R.) • FDA Warns Against Combination Of HCQ And Remdesivir (R.)
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Gustave Dore Dante before the wall of flames which burn the lustful 1868 • The Masks Masquerade (Nassim Taleb) • Millions of US Job Losses Are at Risk of Becoming Permanent (BBG) • Powell Is Now Helpless (Eric Peters) • US Labor Department Throws 401k Investors To The Wolves (F.) • UK Lawmakers Urge FM Sunak To Add 1 Million Workers To Income Schemes (R.) • Beijing Lockdown Spreads In Race To Control Outbreak (SCMP) • Sudden Jump In
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Gustave Dore Dante and Virgil among the gluttons 1868 • China Reports 57 New Confirmed, 9 Asymptomatic COVID-19 Cases For June 13 (R.) • Clusters of Coronavirus Disease in Communities, Japan, January–April 2020 (CDC) • The Greatest Science Policy Failure For A Generation – Lancer Editor (G.) • Nadler: ‘Eliminating’ Private Insurance Could Pay For ‘Medicare For All’ (JTN) • Congress Spent $3.06 Million On Failed Impeachment Probe (JTN) • How Beijing Cultivated Wall Street’s Giants (SMH) • The
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