Some news from the New York Times about some American states who are going to throw out lockdown orders so people can work again.

Sweeping lockdown orders are giving way to measures allowing millions of Americans to return to some parts of public life.

Nearly a dozen states tentatively reopened on Friday. But clashes emerged across the country over how it should be done. Partisan battles flared in Illinois and Michigan, where protesters, some of them armed, demanded that Democratic leaders loosen restrictions. And Texas opened restaurants and businesses just a day after the state reported its highest death toll from the coronavirus.

Here’s the latest and a map of which states are starting to open.

Ultimately, the act of reopening will be carried out by individuals, and the decision has not been easy. In homes across the country this week, Americans whose governors said it was time to reopen, as in Colorado, above, wrestled with what to do, weighing what felt like an impossible choice.

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Here in Idiot America we have assholes who bring their weapons everywhere they go, and they're getting away with it.

Michigan: It is legal to carry firearms inside the State Capitol. That's ridiculous. What a fucked up country.