Good morning. 
Tuesday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of ninety-two. Sunrise is 5:17 AM and sunset 8:28 PM, for 15h 10m 21s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 85.2% of its visible disk illuminated.
Today is the one thousand three hundred second day.
The Whitewater School Board meets at 6 PM via audiovisual conferencing, and the Whitewater Common Council meets via audiovisual conferencing at 6:30 PM.
On this day in 1924, Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
Recommended for reading in full —
Michelle Boorstein and Sarah Pulliam Bailey report Episcopal bishop on President Trump: ‘Everything he has said and done is to inflame violence’:
The Right Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington, was seething.
President Trump had just visited St. John’s Episcopal Church, which sits across from the White House. It was a day after a fire was set in the basement of the historic building amid protests over the death of George Floyd in the custody of Minneapolis police.
Before heading to the church, where presidents have worshiped since the days of James Madison, Trump gave a speech at the White House emphasizing the importance of law and order. Federal officers then used force to clear a large crowd of peaceful demonstrators from the street between the White House and the church, apparently so Trump could make the visit.
“I am outraged,” Budde said in a telephone interview a short time later, pausing between words to emphasize her anger as her voice slightly trembled.
She said she had not been given any notice that Trump would be visiting the church and did not approve of the manner in which the area was secured for his appearance.
“I am the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and was not given even a courtesy call, that they would be clearing [the area] with tear gas so they could use one of our churches as a prop,” Budde said.
She excoriated the president for standing in front of the church — its windows boarded up with plywood — holding up a Bible, which Budde said “declares that God is love.”
“Everything he has said and done is to inflame violence,” Budde of the president. “We need moral leadership, and he’s done everything to divide us.”
In a written statement, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry, head of the Episcopal denomination, accused Trump of using “a church building and the Holy Bible for partisan political purposes.”
(The video, above, shows Trump awkwardly posing with a Bible. His awkwardness is unsurprising – the Bible is a series of books, and few things could be more unfamiliar to Trump than a book.)
Jeff Stein reports Coronavirus fallout will haunt U.S. economy for years, costing it $8 trillion through 2030, CBO says:
Fallout from the coronavirus pandemic will shrink the size of the U.S. economy by roughly $8 trillion over the next decade, according to new projections released by the Congressional Budget Office on Monday.
In a letter to U.S. lawmakers, the CBO said the U.S. economy will grow by $7.9 trillion less from 2020 to 2030 than it had projected in January. That amounts to a 3 percent decline in U.S. gross domestic product compared to its initial estimate.
SpaceX Crew Dragon captured incredible view of International Space Station:
I imagine that Trump was humming “Onward Christian Soldiers” as he did his bible-desecration routine.
The revolution is now. Trump is doing everything he can to egg it on, and nothing to ameliorate it. It is his only path to retaining power.
This is now owned by all of the Republicans that saw Trump as a means to their nirvana of a tax-free, Christo-fascist, pasty-assed white, society. Their leaders (Yertle, nationally, and Vos/Fitz, locally) understand that they will never have another chance like this to return the USA to 1850 standards, so they are all-in on Trump.
Since Trump took office, it has been clear that this isn’t going to end happy. I’ve been expecting a declaration of Martial Law for some time, and yesterday we got one.
Trump will not leave office voluntarily. He will not be re-elected. It’s time now to figure out how to deal with that.
Agreed. I saw Jelani Cobb has a perspective like this: “You’re kidding yourself if you think this dude would ever leave office peacefully, under any circumstances.” It’s a view that might have seemed absurd a few years ago, but is more prescient with each day.