ABOVE: Comedy icon Lucille Ball was born 109 years ago today!

BELOW: Keep reading for Nolan Gould's shirtless adventure, Trump's possible indictment (???), a novel approach to battling the novel coronavirus and more ...

Gould says he has “lost his mind” and to “send help.” Volunteers? (Image via video still)

GAY FLESHBOT (WORK UNFRIENDY): Nolan Gould gets shirtless, takes the plunge.

NYT: Trump's bank, Deutsche Bank, which has advanced him something like $2 billion over the years, was subpoenaed by New York prosecutors investigating Trump and his family and businesses for fraud ... and in a bombshell report, it is claimed that the bank complied, providing the Manhattan D.A. with everything requested. (In an unrelated development we all hoped would be related, New York's AG Letitia James is made a “major” and “national” announcement at 11:30 a.m. today, Thursday, August 6, but it was regarding a massive lawsuit vs. the NRA.)

NPR: In relation to the story above, Biden is vowing to stay out of any potential prosecution of Trump:

Look, the Justice Department is not the president's private law firm. The attorney general is not the president's private lawyer. I will not interfere with the Justice Department's judgment of whether or not they think they should pursue the prosecution of anyone that they think has violated the law.

WAPO: I agree that this is a huge national security threat — QAnon is so utterly insane, and yet many people embrace it uncritically. Now, Trump's campaign is among those embracing it ... but cynically.

AP NEWS: Biden won't accept the Democratic nomination for president in Milwaukee, as previously planned, because there's a pandemic and he's a smart and empathetic and pragmatic leader. We will be getting our first virtual nominating parties this year — from both sides.

HUFF POST: Democrats are leading comfortably in Senate races in Arizona and North Carolina, and are negligibly ahead in the toss-up races of Iowa and Maine.

POLITICO: Pence is ever-so-disappointed in John Roberts' SCOTUS tenure.

TRUE CRIME DAILY: A drunken man allegedly got in the face of a child, demanded the boy remove his mask, touched him and said, with spittle in full effect: “You now have coronavirus.” I will give you one guess as to which state is home to this incident.

KENNETH IN THE (212): Maybe if the kid had been wearing his Devo Energy Dome PPE Kit face shield? Or Devo PPE Extreme Light Face Shield?

JOE.MY.GOD.: Texas regulators warn that anyone promising COVID-19 cures can be prosecuted. This means you, Dr. Stella Immanuel, Strip-Mall Clara Barton.

EXTRATV: YouTube's Stokes Twins — Alan and Alex, now 23 — were arrested and have been charged with “one felony count of false imprisonment effected by violence, menace, fraud, or deceit and one misdemeanor count of falsely reporting an emergency” for two bank-robbery, uh, pranks they pulled in 2019. The details are outrageous: They dressed all in black and carried duffel bags seeming to be filled with money, called an Uber, and then filmed the driver refusing to take them. Bystanders called cops and the driver had to step out of the car, hands drawn. It was resolved and they were released — and they pulled the same prank later that day. Easily, easily someone could've been shot and killed. I hope the Uber driver sues these entitled little shitheads for every dime they've made on social media.

OMG.BLOG! (WORK UNFRIENDLY): Catch more than a glimpse of hot actor Aleksandr Kuznetsov fully nude on Season 2 of Amazon Prime's Soderzhanki.

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