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Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 71. Sunrise is 5:25 AM and sunset 8:34 PM, for 15h 09m 23s of daytime.  The moon is a waning crescent with 2.3% of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1789, James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in Congress.

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Ricardo Torres reports ‘We never agreed to anything’: Foxconn area property owners get $1.6 million they didn’t ask for and their business is landlocked:

It may seem like the Ericksons got a good deal from the Village of Mount Pleasant: $1.6 million for less than 2 acres of land to help make way for the massive Foxconn project.

But it’s a deal the family didn’t ask for, or agree to, and now they’re waging a fight against the village.

“It closed our business,” Jack Erickson said. “So when you say you got $1.6 million for an acre and a half; well, an acre and a half plus you closed our business. And you landlocked us on 11 acres. They know what they’re doing.”

Jack and his wife, Colleen, have owned and operated Erickson Trucks-N-Parts since 1997 in Mount Pleasant. In 2016, they were planning to construct a new building on their property along the frontage road.

Then, in 2017 the Foxconn Technology Group announced it would be building a massive campus in Mount Pleasant, and the Ericksons’ property was in Area I of the development.

Now the Ericksons are one of the few remaining private properties in the Foxconn area. They’ve launched a fight against the village to prevent officials from declaring the property blighted, be fairly compensated for their property or have access to a public road so they can maintain their business.

See also FREE WHITEWATER‘s dedicated category on Foxconn.

 Paul Waldman writes Trump’s latest ridiculous lawsuit shows how small he has become:

The lawsuit itself is so laughable that it gives away the game; not even Trump could think this is something he’d actually win.

His complaint against Facebook — presumably prepared by actual lawyers, hard as that may be to believe — claims that it “rises beyond that of a private company to that of a state actor. As such, Defendant is constrained by the First Amendment right to free speech in the censorship decisions it makes regarding its Users.”

It goes on to use the word “unconstitutional” again and again to describe Facebook’s decisions, despite the fact that only government action is or isn’t constitutional.

Facebook may be one of the most pernicious forces on Earth, but it’s a private company that set up rules for those who chose to use its service. Trump repeatedly violated those rules, and was kicked off. It really isn’t all that complicated, and it’s the furthest thing from “unconstitutional.”

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To repeat, even if the companies were just removing Republicans for being Republicans (which they aren’t), they would have every right to do so.

Ambitious politicians often stage stunts to appeal to their party’s base; the dumber they think that base is, the dumber the stunts will be. But Trump is a former president. No one expected him to discover dignity for the first time in his 75 years, yet so much of what he is doing these days is just petty and small.

And what is this suit about? It’s about money, of course. As soon as Trump announced the suit, fundraising texts were blasted out to his supporters.

“President Trump is filing a LAWSUIT against Facebook and Twitter for UNFAIR CENSORSHIP!” they read. “Please contribute IMMEDIATELY to INCREASE your impact by 500% and to get your name on the Donor List President Trump sees!”

Sikh soldier honors his religion and his country:

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Wednesday in Whitewater will see scattered thunderstorms with a high of 80. Sunrise is 5:24 AM and sunset 8:35 PM, for 15h 10m 31s of daytime.  The moon is a waning crescent with 6.1% of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1832 during the Black Hawk War, General Atkinson leads his entire militia, which includes future presidents Abraham Lincoln and Zachary Taylor, to a camp just south of Palmyra

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 Kelly Meyerhofer reports UW System proposes no tuition increase for in-state students despite freeze set to be lifted:

Tuition for in-state undergraduates enrolled at a University of Wisconsin System campus will remain flat over the next school year under a plan put forth by System officials.

That’s despite the UW Board of Regents being poised to have its tuition-setting authority restored for the first time in eight years under a state budget that Gov. Tony Evers must act on by Friday.

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UW leaders have long lamented the freeze. In 2019-20, UW-Madison charged in-state undergraduates the fifth-lowest tuition rate among public Big Ten schools and charged out-of-state students the third-highest.

Asked why interim System President Tommy Thompson didn’t include a tuition increase in the budget, System spokesperson Mark Pitsch said only that the Regents and Thompson “are committed to a thoughtful consideration of tuition.”

The average cost of attending college this year will, however, increase slightly.

When factoring in room and board, along with student fees, System officials calculate the average cost for a Wisconsin student living on campus will increase 1%, or $160 at four-year campuses. At UW-Madison, student fees will decrease from $1,469 to $1,447, dorm rates will increase by about $200 and meal plans will cost $50 more.

The budget Republicans forwarded to Evers also includes $8.25 million in additional state money for the System, a fraction of the $96 million UW requested and all of which is tied to a specific purpose. That means campuses will have to find a way to foot their portion of a 2% pay increase for UW employees in each of the next two years — about $8.4 million — with existing funds.

Nicole Perlroth and David E. Sanger reports Attempted Hack of R.N.C. and Russian Ransomware Attack Test Biden:

Russian hackers are accused of breaching a contractor for the Republican National Committee last week, around the same time that Russian cybercriminals launched the single largest global ransomware attack on record, incidents that are testing the red lines set by President Biden during his high-stakes summit with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia last month.

The R.N.C. said in a statement on Tuesday that one of its technology providers, Synnex, had been hacked. While the extent of the attempted breach remained unclear, the committee said none of its data had been accessed.

Early indications were that the culprit was Russia’s S.V.R. intelligence agency, according to investigators in the case. The S.V.R. is the group that initially hacked the Democratic National Committee six years ago and more recently conducted the SolarWinds attack that penetrated more than a half-dozen government agencies and many of the largest U.S. corporations.

The R.N.C. attack was the second of apparent Russian origin to become public in the last few days, and it was unclear late Tuesday whether the two were related. On Sunday, a Russian-based cybercriminal organization known as REvil claimed responsibility for a cyberattack over the long holiday weekend that has spread to 800 to 1,500 businesses around the world. It was one of the largest attacks in history in which hackers shut down systems until a ransom is paid, security researchers said.

Student Completes One of the World’s Largest Jigsaw Puzzles:

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Tuesday in Whitewater will see afternoon showers with a high of 92. Sunrise is 5:24 AM and sunset 8:35 PM, for 15h 11m 37s of daytime.  The moon is a waning crescent with 11.7% of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1885, Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.

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David Marchese interviews Rep. Adam Kinzinger on the Moral Failure of Republicans and the Big Lie:

Do you suspect that some members of Congress were aware of what was going to happen that day and supported it? I won’t name names, but yes, I do have that suspicion. I will say, if you just looked at Twitter — the whole reason I brought my gun and kept my staff home and told my wife to stay in the apartment was looking at Twitter. I saw the threats. When Lauren Boebert — I will call her out by name — tweeted “Today is 1776,” I don’t know what that meant other than this is the time for revolution. Maybe it was a dumb tweet that she didn’t mean. Fine. I’ll give her that credit for now. But if you have members of Congress who were involved in nurturing an insurrection, heck yeah, we need to know.

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What’s your sense of whether Trump was sui generis or a particularly bad symptom of trends that had already been going on in the Republican Party? The best analogy I can give: He’s like a gangrenous limb. But then that limb gets cut off, and now you don’t have a leg. He’s a symptom of what probably was about a quarter of the party that was always kind of conspiracy-driven but was generally suppressed by most normal Republicans. But everybody has fear in their heart, and when somebody, especially somebody in authority, speaks to the darkest parts of your heart, your fears, your racism — it gives you permission to let those things overtake you. That’s what happened with a lot of the rest of the party.

 Amy Gardner reports In ramp-up to 2022 midterms, Republican candidates center pitches on Trump’s false election claims:

 John Flesher reports As many as a third of Wisconsin’s wolves were killed after the species dropped from the endangered species list, study says:

As many as one-third of Wisconsin’s gray wolves likely died at the hands of humans in the months after the federal government announced it was ending legal protections, according to a study released Monday.

Poaching and a February hunt that far exceeded kill quotas were largely responsible for the drop-off, University of Wisconsin scientists said, though some other scientists say more direct evidence is needed for some of the calculations.

Adrian Treves, an environmental studies professor, said his team’s findings should raise doubts about having another hunting season this fall and serve notice to wildlife managers in other states with wolves.

Removing federal protections “opens the door for antagonists to kill large numbers in short periods, legally and illegally,” Treves and two colleagues said in a paper published by the journal PeerJ. “The history of political scapegoating of wolves may repeat itself.”

This Argentinian city is turning vacant land into urban food gardens:

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Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 92. Sunrise is 5:23 AM and sunset 8:35 PM, for 15h 12m 38s of daytime.  The moon is a waning crescent with 17.7% of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1832, General Atkinson and his troops enter the area known by indigenous people as “trembling lands” in their pursuit of Black Hawk: “Many of the militiamen were on horses, which plunged to their bellies in the swamp. The “trembling lands” forced Atkinson to retrace his steps back toward the Rock River, in the process losing days in his pursuit of Black Hawk.”

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 Heather Long reports 20 million Americans still don’t have enough to eat. A grass-roots movement of free fridges aims to help:

PHILADELPHIA — Darrell Brokenborough opened the bright yellow refrigerator that stood on the sidewalk outside a row home at 308 N. 39th St., smiled and said, “It’s full.” He balanced on his cane so he could take a closer look at the apples, yogurt, greens, pasta, cheese and chicken inside. On the front of the fridge was written: “Free food” and “Take what you need. Leave what you don’t.”

Brokenborough grabbed several bags of apple slices to slip in his slim over-the-shoulder bag. He tried to stuff some applesauce containers in his pouch but returned the applesauce for someone else. His favorite groceries are fresh bagels and cream cheese, which weren’t there this time.

“I always recommend the fridge to my friends with kids. There’s always something healthy here,” he said, calling the free food he gets at the fridge on his way to and from a nearby medical facility a “blessing.”

Philadelphia now has more than 20 of these refrigerators sitting outside homes and restaurants, offering free food to anyone passing by. Volunteers keep the fridges clean and stocked with food donated from grocery stores, restaurants, local farmers and anyone with extra to share.

The concept of the community fridge ? sometimes called a “freedge” ? has been around for more than a decade, but it exploded during the pandemic as hunger spiked in the United States and worldwide. Images of thousands of cars lined up at U.S. food banks shocked the nation, and people looked for ways to help. There are now about 200 of these community fridges in the United States, up from about 15 before the pandemic, according to the organizers of the Freedge website, at freedge.org.

“There was a big focus on mutual aid in the past year in the U.S. as people were losing jobs. People wanted to bridge the gap between people who have food and people who don’t,” said Ernst Bertone Oehninger, who set up a freedge outside his Davis, Calif., home in 2014 and serves as a community organizer for Freedge. “Community fridges won’t solve all the problems of food insecurity and food waste, but they help people connect, like community gardens.”

(Key info: Whitewater once had, and perhaps still does, at least one Little Free Pantry. She now also has, to caring volunteers’ credit, a Community Space located at 834 E. Milwaukee Street where residents can find basic provisions.)

The Associated Press reports Neenah Inc. To Close Appleton Paper Mill By September:

The company did not say how many employees will be affected by the shutdown of the plant, which Neenah Inc. expanded about five years ago. But, according to the Cities Chamber of Commerce’s website, the facility employs about 100 people.

The facility isn’t the first of its kind to close in the Fox Valley. Clearwater Paper Corp. announced last month the indefinite closure of its paper mill in Neenah where nearly 300 people are employed.

Tonight’s Sky for July:

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Independence Day in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 92. Sunrise is 5:22 AM and sunset 8:36 PM, for 15h 13m 36s of daytime.  The moon is a waning crescent with 25.7% of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s Independence Day events include the Whippet City Mile at 11:30 AM, a parade at Noon, amusements, food vendors from Noon to 10 PM, Steve Meisner at 3:30 PM, the band Cold Sweat and the Brew City Horns 7-10 PM, and fireworks @ 10 PM.

On this day in 1776, the Second Continental Congress ratifies the text of the Declaration of Independence, after having voted unanimously for separation from Great Britain two days earlier. 

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Kellen Browning reports Hundreds of Businesses, From Sweden to U.S., Affected by Cyberattack:

Hundreds of businesses around the world, including one of Sweden’s largest grocery chains, grappled on Saturday with potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities after a software provider that provides services to more than 40,000 organizations, Kaseya, said it had been the victim of a “sophisticated cyberattack.”

Security researchers said the attack may have been carried out by REvil, a Russian cybercriminal group that the F.B.I. has said was behind the hacking of the world’s largest meat processor, JBS, in May.

Nicholas Stephanopoulos writes The Supreme Court showcased its ‘textualist’ double standard on voting rights:

Today’s conservative judges pride themselves on being textualists. When interpreting a statute, they always start with the law’s text. Unless the law is ambiguous, they end with the text, too. As Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. put it just last year, the courts’ focus must never waver from what a statute’s “words were understood to mean at the time of enactment.” Any other approach, even one that “sails under a textualist flag,” Alito lectured, is “like a pirate ship” — inappropriate and illegitimate.

So it was a shock to see the Supreme Court, in an opinion authored by none other than Alito, stacking one extra-textual constraint after another onto Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. That provision prohibits any “standard, practice, or procedure” that makes it disproportionately harder for minority citizens to vote. In that situation, voting isn’t “equally open” to citizens of all races, and minority citizens “have less opportunity” to vote.

But Alito, and the five conservative justices who joined his opinion in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, were unwilling to heed this clear textual command. They invented several limits that will make it harder for plaintiffs to win future Section 2 cases — and that appear nowhere in Section 2’s language.

One of these is a requirement that a law impose more than the “usual burdens of voting,” before being struck down. But Section 2 states that it applies to any “denial or abridgment” of the right to vote. The court qualified that broad language, effectively inserting the word “substantial” before “abridgment,” with no basis in the text.

The court also manufactured out of whole cloth a principle that, even if a particular regulation is racially discriminatory, it can be overlooked if a state offers “other available means” for voting. Maybe that’s a good idea; maybe not. But it wasn’t Congress’s idea. On the contrary, Congress made clear that each electoral restriction must be analyzed separately.

The court’s most astonishing extra-textual move, however, was its pronouncement that one “relevant consideration” is “the degree to which a voting rule departs from what was standard practice” in 1982, when Section 2 was revised in response to an earlier Supreme Court ruling. Why on earth would that be? The provision never says that. In fact, Section 2’s whole point is to unsettle the status quo, to end voting restrictions that disproportionately harm minority citizens. The provision aspires to move American democracy forward, not keep it fixed forever in 1982.

Meet The Last Artisans Making Traditional Bagpipes By Hand In Scotland’s Capital:

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Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 89. Sunrise is 5:22 AM and sunset 8:36 PM, for 15h 14m 30s of daytime.  The moon is a waning crescent with 33.8% of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s Independence Weekend events include amusements (with a wristband special of $20 from 12-4 PM), food vendors from Noon to 10 PM,  a car show 2 – 7 PM, the band Wunderlich from 7-10 PM, and fireworks @ 10 PM.

On this day in 1863, the Union is victorious on the third and final day of the Battle of Gettysburg.

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David Frum writes Trump Is Preparing for the Worst:

So far, the danger is to Trump’s friends and his business, not the former president himself. But the danger could spiral, because Trump knew only so many tricks. If Trump’s company was bypassing relatively moderate amounts of tax on the income flows to Trump’s friends, what was it doing with the much larger income flows to Trump and his own family? Even without personal testimony, finances leave a trail. There is always a debit and a credit, and a check issued to the IRS or not.

An early indication that things may end badly for Trump is the statement released today from the Trump Organization. “Allen Weisselberg is a loving and devoted husband, father and grandfather who has worked for the Trump Organization for 48 years. He is now being used by the Manhattan District Attorney as a pawn in a scorched earth attempt to harm the former President. The District Attorney is bringing a case involving employee benefits that neither the IRS nor any other District Attorney would ever think of bringing. This is not justice; this is politics.”

Here is what is missing from that statement: “I’m 100 percent confident that every investigation will always end up in the same conclusion, which is that I follow all rules, procedures, and, most importantly, the law.” That’s the language used by former Trump Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke when he was facing ethics charges in 2018. Likewise, when Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe was accused of violating campaign-finance laws in 2016, he too was “very confident” that “there was no wrongdoing.” Plug the phrases very confident and no wrongdoing into a search engine and you will pull up statement after statement by politicians and business leaders under fire. For some, their matter worked out favorably; for others, not so much. Either way, everybody expects you to say that you’re confident you didn’t do anything wrong. It’s the thing an innocent person would want to say. So it’s kind of a tell when it goes unsaid.

 Catherine Rampell writes One economic prediction I’m glad to have been wrong about:

Early in the pandemic — with entire industries shuttered and millions of workers laid off — state tax revenue plummeted. Demand for government-supplied assistance of various kinds spiked. Understandably, forecasts for state budgets looked ugly.

The implications for the economy were troubling, since state budget problems can drag on the private-sector recovery.

This is what happened during and after the Great Recession. That downturn left states and municipalities strapped for cash; state and local governments’ own-source revenues (those excluding federal grants) plunged by 8 percent and stayed below their prerecession level for years. Balanced-budget requirements and insufficient federal aid forced states to implement austerity measures, which then rippled throughout the rest of the economy.

More than a year into the pandemic, though, things look quite different.

After an initial dip, tax revenue quickly rebounded. Nominal state and local tax receipts over the past four quarters were slightly higher than over the preceding year, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Recent state tax revenue data from the Urban Institute shows strong growth so far in 2021, with states’ coffers likely to fatten further as the economy rebounds.

Siberian center uses tattoos to protect rare falcons:

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Friday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 77. Sunrise is 5:21 AM and sunset 8:36 PM, for 15h 15m 21s of daytime.  The moon is a waning crescent with 43.9% of its visible disk illuminated.

On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not published until July 4.

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Andrea Salcedo reports A former police officer arrested after the Jan. 6 riot was told to stay away from guns. He bought 34, feds say:

In January, a federal judge agreed to release Thomas Robertson, a former Rocky Mount, Va., police officer facing multiple charges over his alleged participation in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

But Judge G. Michael Harvey’s release conditions were clear: Robertson could not own any firearms, destructive devices or dangerous weapons while his case was pending. If he owned any guns, he must relocate them within two days.

Days after his release, authorities found eight firearms at his Ferrum, Va. home, according to court documents. The judge gave Robertson a second chance, reminding him of his release conditions.

Then, last month, authorities found a loaded M4 carbine and a partially assembled pipe bomb while conducting an authorized search at his home, court records state. Robertson is also accused of buying 34 firearms online and “transporting them in interstate commerce while under felony indictment,” prosecutors said.

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On June 29, the FBI visited Robertson’s Virginia home for a second time and discovered a loaded M4 on his bed, along with the ammunition and the semi-assembled pipe bomb. Agents also found a box labeled with the words “Booby Trap.” Inside the box, agents found a metal pipe “with two ends caps, with a fuse inserted into a hole that had been drilled into the device.” Although this device did not contain explosive powder, such material was found in the building on Robertson’s property, prosecutors said.

Donald Ayer, Norman Eisen, and E. Danya Perry write Why the Law Is Strong Enough to Take On Donald Trump:

A 15-count indictment for tax fraud and other charges filed in New York on Thursday against the Trump Organization and its longtime chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, has already stimulated as much hand-wringing as satisfaction from those who have called for accountability for Donald Trump.

Some express concern that Mr. Trump himself was not charged and may never be. Others note that these are “only” state tax fraud counts against his business and an associate — rather than bold federal action against Mr. Trump himself by the Justice Department.

As former federal and state prosecutors and government lawyers, we believe that the charges support a different conclusion. Rather than betraying weakness, they are a signal that our system of dual sovereignty, in which multiple jurisdictions are empowered to address egregious wrongdoing, can also address the difficulties that Mr. Trump has posed in his long-running battle with the rule of law.

Ali Breland reports The Trump Team’s New Social Media Platform Is Already Flooded With Hentai:

“Welcome to GETTR and start a new journey!” So reads an introductory message on the home page of Gettr, a right-wing social media app recently launched by a team led by Jason Miller, an ex-spokesperson of former president Donald Trump.

That “new journey,” thanks to spam comments left en masse below the message, involves encountering things like anime porn and repeated copies of an image depicting Hillary Clinton’s head photoshopped onto another woman’s nude body.

Major social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and its image-sharing subsidiary platform Instagram, have automated filters that root out and remove or censor nude images. At the moment, the Trump-linked social media app apparently has nothing of the kind.

Flying car makes successful test run between airports in Slovakia:

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Thursday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 80. Sunrise is 5:20 AM and sunset 8:37 PM, for 15h 16m 07s of daytime.  The moon is a waning gibbous with 53.9% of its visible disk illuminated.

Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets at 6 PM, and the Whitewater Fire Department holds a business meeting at 6:30 PM.

On this day in 1967, it becomes legal to purchase oleomargarine in Wisconsin.

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Molly Beck reports Wisconsin lawmakers pass bill that labels legislators’ discipline records ‘confidential’:

Wisconsin lawmakers on Wednesday sent Gov. Tony Evers legislation that could make it harder to get records about lawmakers who are disciplined or accused of harassment, government transparency experts warn.

The measure would formally create a human resources office for the state Legislature and says disciplinary records and complaints against lawmakers should be treated confidentially, bolstering a legislative practice of withholding complaints against lawmakers.

The proposal passed the Senate Wednesday and goes to Evers just as a Dane County Judge ruled that Assembly leaders violated the public records law by withholding a sexual harassment complaint against a Democratic lawmaker after the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other news outlets sued seeking the records.

“This greatly magnifies the concern that I have over the proposed human resources office,” Bill Lueders, president of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council, said. “The Legislature is trying to change the law after getting caught breaking it.”

The measure passed both the Assembly on Tuesday and the Senate on Wednesday with no opposition.

Reid Epstein reports Wisconsin G.O.P. Wrestles With Just How Much to Indulge Trump:

Wisconsin Republicans were already going to great lengths to challenge the 2020 election results. They ordered a monthslong government audit of votes in the state. They made a pilgrimage to Arizona to observe the G.O.P. review of votes there. They hired former police officers to investigate Wisconsin’s election and its results.

But for Donald J. Trump, it wasn’t enough.

In a blistering statement last week on the eve of the state party’s convention, the former president accused top Republican state lawmakers of “working hard to cover up election corruption” and “actively trying to prevent a Forensic Audit of the election results.”

Wisconsin Republicans were alarmed and confused. Some circulated a resolution at the convention calling for the resignation of the top Republican in the State Assembly, Speaker Robin Vos, who in turn announced the appointment of a hard-line conservative former State Supreme Court justice to oversee the investigation. The Republican State Senate president released a two-page letter addressed to Mr. Trump that said his claims about Republicans were false — but that made sure to clarify in fawning language the state party’s allegiance to the former president.

“The power of your pen to mine is like Thor’s hammer to a Bobby pin,” the Senate president, Chris Kapenga, wrote, adding that he was wearing “Trump socks” and a “Trump-Pence mask” while boarding a commercial flight.

Alex Horton reports The land was worth millions. A Big Ag corporation sold it to Sonny Perdue’s company for $250,000:

In February 2017, weeks after President Donald Trump selected him to be agriculture secretary, Perdue’s company bought a small grain plant in South Carolina from one of the biggest agricultural corporations in America.

Had anyone noticed, it would have prompted questions ahead of his confirmation, a period when most nominees lie low and avoid potential controversy. The former governor of Georgia did not disclose the deal — there was no legal requirement to do so.

An examination of public records by The Washington Post has found that the agricultural company, Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), sold the land at a small fraction of its estimated value just as it stood to benefit from a friendly secretary of agriculture.

Boston Dynamics’ robot dogs dancing in sync to BTS: