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Elder Lister
Stephen Collinson and Shelby Rose Why fish are falling from the sky 
Take today, for instance. The Delta variant of Covid-19 is rampaging across the heartland – victimizing those who won’t get a free vaccine that would save their lives. Former President Donald Trump’s campaign against democracy is intensifying – even as his hack election lawyers are being defenestrated by a Michigan judge. It turns out, according to a new book, that Trump’s election night claim of victory was largely the brainchild of Rudy Giuliani, who told the loser to say he won everything. There are signs of real desperation among grass-roots Democrats who are waging a losing fight against Republican restrictive voting laws passed in multiple states based on Trump’s lies. More than 50 state Democratic legislators from Texas piled onto two chartered planes and flew to Washington to plead with their federal counterparts to trash the arcane filibuster rules Republicans are using to block voting rights legislation. When they go home, they risk arrest after walking out of the state House. President Joe Biden traveled to the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, a stone’s throw from where Thomas Jefferson and John Adams and the gang thrashed out the Declaration of Independence, which freed America from the rule of a real king – rather than a wannabe autocrat like Trump. “You don’t call facts fake and then try to bring down the American experiment just because you're unhappy,” Biden said. "That’s not statesmanship, that’s selfishness. That’s not democracy.” In Utah, meanwhile, the sky really does seem to be falling -- literally, folks, as Biden might say. Planes are dumping tens of thousands of fish to restock remote lakes. The baby “fingerlings” are so small they flutter to the surface of the water, and most survive the drop. Even when everything seems like it can’t get worse, not all the news is bad. 
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