Good morning. 
Tuesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of sixty-one. Sunrise is 6:01 AM and sunset 7:45 PM, for 13h 43m 58s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 2.4% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand two hundred sixtieth day.
The Whitewater Unified School District will hold an electronic public forum for the finalists for district administrator (Dr. Caroline Pate-Hefty, Ms. Kellie Bohn). The forum, from 6 – 8:30 PM, is available via Zoom or phone. Whitewater’s common council also meets electronically tonight, at 6:30 PM.
Naturalist John Muir is born on this day in 1838.
Recommended for reading in full —
Catherine Rampell writes Trump has almost nothing to lose. That’s why he wants to reopen the economy:
Public health experts worry that “reopening” the country too soon will be bad for public health. Economists worry it will be bad for the economy. The general public worries it will bad for, well, everyone.
So why is President Trump agitating to do so anyway, even encouraging insurrection against his own administration’s stay-at-home guidance?
Because it’s the only Hail Mary chance he has at reelection. And, sure, it probably won’t pay off. But just as he’s done his entire life, Trump has no problem gambling with other people’s money and well-being — even if the stakes could be fatal.
Andrew Romano reports Most Americans reject anti-lockdown protests:
An overwhelming majority of Americans, Republicans included, are rejecting right-wing protests — encouraged by President Trump — to immediately “reopen” the country in the midst of the world’s largest and deadliest coronavirus outbreak, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll.
The survey, conducted April 17 to April 19, found that a full 60 percent of the public opposes the largely pro-Trump protesters whose calls for governors to “liberate” their states by lifting lockdown measures have attracted intense media attention in recent days — and whose message the president amplified Friday in a series of all-caps “LIBERATE” tweets about three swing states: Minnesota, Michigan and Virginia.
Only 22 percent of Americans say they support the protesters. Despite Trump’s messaging, even Republicans oppose the protests 47 percent to 36 percent. Asked whether they agree or disagree with Trump’s “LIBERATE” tweets, only a quarter of Americans say they agree.
Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins report Conservative activist family behind ‘grassroots’ anti-quarantine Facebook events:
A family-run network of pro-gun groups is behind five of the largest Facebook groups dedicated to protesting the shelter-in-place restrictions, according to an NBC News analysis of Facebook groups and website registration information.
The groups were set up by four brothers — Chris, Ben, Aaron and Matthew Dorr — and have amassed more than 200,000 members collectively, including in states where they don’t reside, according to an NBC News analysis based on public records searches and Facebook group registrations.
The Dorr brothers are known in conservative circles for running pro-gun and anti-abortion rights Facebook groups that bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars annually by antagonizing establishment conservative leaders and activists.
Their usual method is to attack established conservative groups from the right, including the National Rifle Association, and then make money by selling memberships in their groups or selling mailing lists of those who sign up, according to some conservative politicians and activists who have labeled the efforts as scams.
They ran that place into the ground plus treated a lot of people in Janesville like crap.
“LIQUIDATION SALE”
“EVERYTHING MUST GO!”