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Daily Bread for 6.11.21

Good morning.

Friday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 96. Sunrise is 5:15 AM and sunset 8:33 PM, for 15h 17m 52s of daytime.  The moon is a waxing crescent with 1.1% of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress appoints the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.

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 Hope Karnopp reports Republican lawmakers spent more than $8.5 million in taxpayer money on lawsuits over three years:

In the last three years, Republicans have hired attorneys to challenge Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ COVID-19 response, intervene in cases to prevent changes to election laws and to defend laws limiting the powers of Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul that were enacted after the two were elected but before they took office.

Among the lawsuits they launched was one to halt Evers’ stay-at-home order during the pandemic last year. The state Supreme Court ruled in lawmakers’ favor, ending the stay-at-home order early.

The cost of the litigation to taxpayers was tallied by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau at the request of Democratic Rep. Evan Goyke of Milwaukee.

 Robert Mentzer reports Via Satellite, Trump Will Return To Wisconsin For Rally With Conspiracy Promoters:

A rally in western Wisconsin on Saturday featuring former President Donald Trump will include speakers who have called for martial law and promoted a bizarre conspiracy theory based on the false claim that Trump can be reinstated as president.

The “MAGA Frank” rally in New Richmond is expected to draw thousands of Trump supporters. It features a number of fringe conservative figures and commentators, including many who are still calling for the 2020 election to be overturned. At its center is Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, who in January was photographed carrying notes to a White House meeting that suggested Trump should declare martial law to prevent then President-elect Joe Biden from taking office.

More recently, Lindell has said he believes Trump will be back in office by August. The New York Times reported this month that Trump himself has told people he believes this is possible. There is no constitutional mechanism for reinstating a defeated president before the next election, and numerous recounts and investigations have uncovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.

That won’t stop the speakers at Saturday’s Wisconsin rally from making wild, false claims, said Right Wisconsin editor James Wigderson, as they did at a similar event last month in South Dakota. Wigderson, a conservative who has become alienated from the Republican Party due to his strident rejection of Trump, says he sees little chance Wisconsin’s Republicans will condemn false or inflammatory statements made this weekend.

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“When you’re telling the Republican base that the election got stolen, and oh by the way, the next election is going to get stolen, too, you’re driving people to do terrible things,” Wigderson said.

 Domenico Montanero reports There’s A Stark Red-Blue Divide When It Comes To States’ Vaccination Rates:

Surveys have shown Trump supporters are the least likely to say they have been vaccinated or plan to be. Remember, Trump got vaccinated before leaving the White House, but that was reported months later. Unlike other public officials who were trying to encourage people to get the shot, Trump did it in private.

The top 22 states (including D.C.) with the highest adult vaccination rates all went to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

Some of the least vaccinated states are the most pro-Trump. Trump won 17 of the 18 states with the lowest adult vaccination rates. Many of these states have high proportions of whites without college degrees.

Wolf pups frolic in Belgium wildlife park:

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