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May 2020

There was a time in the long ago past that we did Open Threads. Basically opening the floor to whatever you wanted to talk about in the comment section. I have a lot of topics on my plate, but every now and then you need to stop and pause.

On Wednesday, CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge shared the bombshell news about acting DNI Richard Grenell’s notification to Congress of the declassified “unmasking list." The list proved that some very high-level Obama administration officials, including then-Vice President Joe Biden and President Obama's Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, "submitted requests to the National Security Agency at any point between 8 November 2016 and 31 January 2017, to unmask the identity of former National Security Advisor” Michael Flynn. Predictably, Biden campaign surrogates and staffers went into attack mode - not just against President Trump and Grenell, but Herridge, too.

When it comes to shutdowns, the goal posts keep getting moved and people are noticing. We were told we needed to quarantine to keep the healthcare system from collapsing, and we did that. So why are we still shut down? Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports did an epic rant about this on Twitter which has picked up millions of views in a very short period of time.

You mean to tell me that China's claim of having only 80,000 coronavirus cases is probably a lie? I am shocked:
A leaked database from a Chinese military-run university suggests the country may have at least 640,000 COVID-19 cases — a figure substantially higher than Beijing’s dubious claim that it has seen just 80,000 coronavirus infections.