Good morning. 
Saturday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 87. Sunrise is 5:15 AM and sunset 8:34 PM, for 15h 18m 25s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 4% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1899, a tornado hits the town of New Richmond, Wisconsin: it “formed on the early evening of Monday, June 12, 1899 and tore a 45-mile long path of destruction through St. Croix, Polk and Barron counties in west-central Wisconsin, leaving 117 people dead, twice as many injured and hundreds homeless.”
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The Associated Press reports YouTube suspends Sen. Ron Johnson for COVID-19 misinformation:
The Oshkosh Republican’s removal stems from statements he made during a June 3 Milwaukee Press Club event, which were posted to YouTube. He criticized the Trump and Biden administrations for “not only ignoring but working against robust research (on) the use of cheap, generic drugs to be repurposed for early treatment of COVID,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
A YouTube spokesperson said: “We removed the video in accordance with our COVID-19 medical misinformation policies, which don’t allow content that encourages people to use Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin to treat or prevent the virus.”
The company’s policy says it doesn’t allow content that spreads medical misinformation contradicting local health authorities or the World Health Organization’s information about COVID-19.
Johnson blasted the website.
“YouTube’s ongoing COVID censorship proves they have accumulated too much unaccountable power,” he said in a statement. “Big Tech and mainstream media believe they are smarter than medical doctors who have devoted their lives to science and use their skills to save lives. They have decided there is only one medical viewpoint allowed and it is the viewpoint dictated by government agencies.”
(Johnson, of course, has no alternative medical viewpoint, just as Trump’s suggestion that injecting bleach might cure Covid-19 wasn’t a medical viewpoint. Whether ambitious, compromised, or crazy, Johnson’s kept going with a string of lies about the Capitol insurrection, relations with Russia, and the pandemic. He’ll use his deserved suspension from YouTube to position himself as redder than red, whether for another Senate run or a hoped-for place in a future Republican administration.)
Bill Glauber writes Ron Johnson called Joe Biden ‘a liberal, progressive, socialist, Marxist.’ Can someone be all those things?:
Johnson replied: “Because he’s weak. And don’t ask me to get inside the mind of a liberal, progressive, socialist, Marxist like President Biden.”
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Kennan Ferguson, at UW-Milwaukee political science professor, said: “I don’t think anybody can be all those things. Certainly the last three are like nesting dolls. Almost all Marxists are socialists and many socialists are progressives. But liberalism in the United States was developed as an anti-Marxist political theory.”
Ferguson said by his usage of the words, “Johnson means them all as epithets rather than ideological descriptors. You can see that in that he doesn’t know the differences between them.”
Richard Avramenko, a UW-Madison political scientist and director for the Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy, said Johnson would have been more accurate to describe Biden as a “left liberal.”
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Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette University Law School Poll, said that “for folks on the right, at this point those labels have become more or less synonymous regardless of what their dictionary meanings are. From my point of view it represents the blending together of these terms without much care or concern for the actual substantial differences in meaning in those four words.
(Note well, Whitewater: Using these four terms indistinguishably is a measure of a disqualifying lack of knowledge or of sheer indifference. There is, however, a fitting term for someone who so misuses these distinct categories: ignoramus.)