Saturday, March 7, 2020

Light News Dump Sat/Sun

Map: The number of known coronavirus cases in the U.S. continues to grow
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

Trump "didn’t know people died from the flu." It killed his grandfather.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/03/07/flu-trump-grandfather-death-coronavirus/

Man infected with coronavirus goes to bars ‘to spread’ it
https://www.tokyoreporter.com/japan/aichi-man-infected-with-coronavirus-goes-to-bars-to-spread-it/

.@BernieSanders, the ‘civil rights icon,’ wouldn’t go to Alabama to commemorate #BloodySunday. Bernie canceled his Mississippi rally because “you can’t go everywhere.” Bernie will do a town hall on @FoxNews Well, we know whose votes he’s willing to compete for.
https://twitter.com/TalbertSwan/status/1236140031720517634

Trump’s Interior Department Changed Scientific Reports To Say Climate Change Is Good
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/interior-edited-docs-to-say-climate-change-is-good-report.html

Matt Gaetz made light of coronavirus by wearing a gas mask. Now one of his constituents has died.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03/07/matt-gaetz-coronavirus-florida/

Reminder that Erik Prince’s sister is Betsy DeVos, current Secretary of Education: Erik Prince Recruits Ex-Spies to Help Infiltrate Liberal Groups | Mr. Prince, a contractor close to the Trump administration, contacted veteran spies for operations by Project Veritas, the conservative group known for conducting stings on news organizations and other groups. | One of the former spies, an ex-MI6 officer named Richard Seddon, helped run a 2017 operation to copy files and record conversations in a Michigan office of the American Federation of Teachers, one of the largest teachers’ unions in the nation. Mr. Seddon directed an undercover operative to secretly tape the union’s local leaders and try to gather information that could be made public to damage the organization, documents show. Using a different alias the next year, the same undercover operative infiltrated the congressional campaign of Abigail Spanberger, then a former C.I.A. officer who went on to win an important House seat in Virginia as a Democrat. The campaign discovered the operative and fired her. Both operations were run by Project Veritas, a conservative group that has gained attention using hidden cameras and microphones for sting operations on news organizations, Democratic politicians and liberal advocacy groups. Mr. Seddon’s role in the teachers’ union operation — detailed in internal Project Veritas emails that have emerged from the discovery process of a court battle between the group and the union — has not previously been reported, nor has Mr. Prince’s role in recruiting Mr. Seddon for the group’s activities. | Mr. Prince invited Project Veritas operatives — including Mr. O’Keefe — to his family’s Wyoming ranch for training in 2017, The Intercept reported last year. Mr. O’Keefe and others shared social media photos of taking target practice with guns at the ranch, including one post from Mr. O’Keefe saying that with the training, Project Veritas will be “the next great intelligence agency.” Mr. Prince had hired a former MI6 officer to help train the Project Veritas operatives, The Intercept wrote, but it did not identify the officer. Mr. Seddon regularly updated Mr. O’Keefe about the operation against the Michigan teachers’ union, according to internal Project Veritas emails, where the language of the group’s leaders is marbled with spy jargon. They used a code name — LibertyU — for their operative inside the organization, Marisa Jorge, who graduated from Liberty University in Virginia, one of the nation’s largest Christian colleges. Mr. Seddon wrote that Ms. Jorge “copied a great many documents from the file room,” and Mr. O’Keefe bragged that the group would be able to get “a ton more access agents inside the educational establishment.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/politics/erik-prince-project-veritas.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/a-woman-approached-the-post-with-dramatic--and-false--tale-about-roy-moore-sje-appears-to-be-part-of-undercover-sting-operation/2017/11/27/0c2e335a-cfb6-11e7-9d3a-bcbe2af58c3a_story.html

China hotel collapse: 70 people trapped in building used for coronavirus quarantine
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-hotel-collapse-coronavirus-quarantine-fujian-province-death-latest-a9384546.html

Virginia state legislature passes background checks for all firearm purchases
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/486442-virginia-state-legislature-passes-background-checks-for-all-firearm

Here's the Democratic Challenger to the GOP Congressman Who Threatened Beto with AR-15 from Colorado District 4: Isaac McCorkle, a USMC Veteran. Donate! http://ike4co.com @Ike4CO
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mccorkleforcolorado

Testing failures and refusal to use World Health Organization tests allowed coronavirus to sweep the U.S.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/06/coronavirus-testing-failure-123166

The Boeing 737 MAX Nightmare Keeps Getting Worse - A damning report from House investigators shows the worst breakdown in keeping passengers safe since the start of the Jet Age.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-boeing-737-max-nightmare-keeps-getting-worse

FCC to require anti-robocall tech after “voluntary” plan didn’t work out - Pai follows Congress' orders, requires carriers to verify Caller ID accuracy.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/03/ajit-pai-follows-congress-instructions-requires-new-anti-robocall-tech/

Five major things Trump has done to roll back women’s rights
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-women-international-womens-day-abortion-policies-healthcare-a9380411.html

My issue is not that people are mean to me online. My issue is that 2 days before the caucus, another candidate’s paid staff told every student at the largest university in Iowa that Elizabeth Warren believes in conversion therapy and wants to privatize all mental health services
https://twitter.com/morganrsperry/status/1236061350062952455

Sanders attacked Whitmer for endorsing Biden even though Sanders previously attacked Whitmer and endorsed the person running against her.....: 1. Bernie endorsed Whitmer's opponent in the primary. 2. Biden endorsed Whitmer well before Bernie endorsed her. 3. Whitmer got elected by herself. Not because Bernie did one rally with her in a college town....: In Michigan -- must win for Sanders -- he sounded miffed about Gov. Whitmer's endorsement of Biden: “Well, that wasn’t her thoughts when I came here to help her get elected, as a matter of fact.''
https://twitter.com/tripgabriel/status/1236117879243890689

In which Elizabeth Warren decimates a Bernie Bro in the same fashion she did Mike Bloomberg. #CNNTownHall
https://twitter.com/OnceUponARoss/status/1232870577226092546
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/20/bernie-sanders-pushed-contested-convention-2016-now-he-wants-avoid-one/

Indonesia to relocate capital to environmentally sensitive island of Borneo as rising sea levels threaten current capital of Jakarta
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/xsyGF2fhsL/Indonesia_new_capital

US reports 17 coronavirus deaths among more than 330 cases
https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-coronavirus-us-cases-health-risk-2020-1

Bernie Sanders adds rallies in Dearborn and Ann Arbor ahead of Michigan primary
https://www.metrotimes.com/news-hits/archives/2020/03/06/bernie-sanders-to-hold-rallies-in-dearborn-and-ann-arbor-ahead-of-michigan-primary

The right wanted to destroy the "administrative state": Coronavirus is why we need it. For three years, Trump has destroyed the federal government from within. Now we begin to see the true price
https://www.salon.com/2020/03/07/the-right-wanted-to-destroy-the-administrative-state-coronavirus-is-why-we-need-it/

Democratic Majority in Virginia Strips Itself of the Power to Draw District Lines
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/06/us/virginia-legislature-redistricting.html

Starting today, @NHL will close dressing rooms to media, on recommendation of Centers for Disease Control (@CDCgov) in effort to stop the spread of coronavirus. NBA, MLB + MLS are expected to follow. Media availabilities will be conducted in formal press conference area.
https://twitter.com/friedgehnic/status/1236355989580001280?s=21

20 bills that died in the Oregon Legislature after Republicans walked out | Republicans walked out to accomplish one thing: to kill Democrats’ carbon-capping climate bill. Mission accomplished, at least for now. It’s dead. Here are 20 other bills that got traction but died because Republicans stopped all legislative action. >> A trio of bills to enact an unprecedented effort to restore forest health and quadruple the number of acres subjected to thinning and controlled burns: Senate Bill 1514, Senate Bill 1516 and Senate Bill 1536. >> A bipartisan bill to provide $45 million to open homeless shelters and to allow them to be located regardless of zoning, planning and design rules. House Bill 4001 would also have given Eugene and Salem $5 million each, Bend and Medford $2.5 million and McMinnville $1.5 million to open super-shelters that would offer not only shelter but also connections to health care, public assistance, social services and other community supports. Cities and counties would have gotten a share of $27 million in one-time help to create or operate shelters with low barriers for entry. >> A bill granting independence to the state’s government transparency expert, who currently answers to the governor. The Senate passed Senate Bill 1506 unanimously before the Republican House boycott killed it. >> Senate Bill 1552 would have greatly expanded community mental health treatment. >> House Bill 4010, which would have trimmed a capital gains tax break for wealthy investors and required legislative economists to study its potential impacts on future state revenue since no one in the state has quantified the likely impact. >> A bill to clarify Oregon’s new $1 billion-a-year business tax for education and lessen its impact on agricultural producers, House Bill 4009. >> A bill to require most businesses and state and local government agencies to accept cash. House Bill 4107 contained a bipartisan-backed prohibition on discrimination based on culturally associated hairstyles. >> A bill requiring out-of-state facilities to meet Oregon’s standards before an Oregon foster child could be sent to live there, Senate Bill 1566. >> A bill to begin state regulation of the drug kratom and ban sales to minors under 21, House Bill 4013. >> A bill that would require schools to offer free breakfast to more than 100,000 additional children, Senate Bill 1520. >> A requirement that guns be stored safely, House Bill 4005. >> A bill to permanently increase the state’s tourism lodging tax, with the implicit understanding that millions from the tax would go to help put on the Eugene 2021 world track championships, House Bill 4047. >> A bill to delay 2006 voter approved campaign contribution limits until at least July 2021 and create a task force to recommend new contribution limits, House Bill 4124. >> A bill that would have provided $50 million to fast-track affordable housing, House Bill 5201. >> A bill that expands requirements for public officials in Oregon to disclose their financial conflicts of interest, House Bill 4123. >> A bill authorizing nearly $300 million in borrowing to help update and expand buildings on a half-dozen public university campuses, House Bill 5202. >> A bill that would have required the Department of Human Services to prioritize finalizing roughly 700 pending adoptions that have been delayed by paperwork. Since Oregon has approximately 7,000 children in foster care, that could result in a 10 percent reduction in the caseload. The state’s child welfare program is also one area where lawmakers wanted to direct a chunk of the nearly $500 million revenue windfall economists predicted in a November forecast. >> A bill capping how much patients could be charged for insulin, House Bill 4073.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/03/20-bills-that-died-in-oregon-legislature-after-republicans-walked-out.html
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/02/oregon-democrats-advance-more-aggressive-potential-paths-to-regulate-carbon-emissions-than-cap-and-trade-bill.html
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/03/oregon-climate-cap-and-trade-bill-on-track-to-die-today-unless-republicans-return.html
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2020/01/lawmakers-look-to-supersize-firefighting-and-forest-cleanups-critics-say-it-could-be-counterproductive.html
https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2020/SB1514/
https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2020/SB1516/
https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2020/SB1536/
https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2020/HB4001/
https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2020/sb1506/
https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2020/SB1552/
https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2020/hb4010/
https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2020/HB4009/
https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2020/hb4107/
https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2020/sb1566/
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/02/oregon-considers-banning-youth-sales-of-the-unregulated-drug-kratom.html
https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2020/hb4013/
https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2020/sb1520/
https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2020/hb4005/
https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2020/hb4047/
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/02/oregon-lawmakers-air-plan-to-reshape-2006-campaign-donation-limits.html
https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2020/hb4124/
https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2020/HB5201/
https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2020/hb4123/
https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2016/HB5202/
https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2020/SB1518/
https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2020R1/Downloads/CommitteeMeetingDocument/217304
https://gov.oregonlive.com/bill/2020/HB4073/

Cuomo declares state of emergency in New York as state coronavirus cases soar to 76
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cuomo-declares-state-of-emergency-in-new-york-as-state-coronavirus-cases-soar-to-76-2020-03-07

Democrats taking more precautions than Republicans amid coronavirus spread
https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-democrats-coronavirus-1491075

Pope cancels main appearances in public to avoid crowds gathering amid coronavirus
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-pope/pope-cancels-main-appearances-in-public-to-avoid-crowds-gathering-amid-coronavirus-idUSKBN20U0JH

Melbourne doctor with coronavirus symptoms continued seeing patients - Victorian health minister says doctor likely caught Covid-19 while in US but had seen 70 patients since returning
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/07/flabbergasted-melbourne-doctor-with-coronavirus-symptoms-continued-seeing-patients

South Korea's coronavirus cases rise to 6,767 with most cases traced to church
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-south-korea/south-koreas-coronavirus-cases-rise-to-6767-with-most-cases-traced-to-church-idUSKBN20U02M

Second Iranian MP dies of Covid-19
https://www.nst.com.my/world/world/2020/03/572595/another-iranian-mp-dies-covid-19

Diamond Princess passenger dies, bringing ship's death toll to seven: NHK
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coroanvirus-japan/diamond-princess-passenger-dies-bringing-ships-death-toll-to-seven-nhk-idUSKBN20U0KQ

Reminder: Muslims killed at least 32 Muslims and injured almost 60 other Muslims at a remembrance ceremony attended by several high-profile politicians in Kabul on Friday. | The attack came a week after the Taliban signed a peace deal with the US that laid out the path for a US military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
https://www.dw.com/en/afghanistan-gunmen-kill-32-in-kabul-attack/a-52668281

Leaked Plans Suggest Europe Wants to Pass Right to Repair Laws for Electronics: A draft action plan says that Europe wants to make electronics a "priority sector for implementing the right to repair."
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7j93k/leaked-plans-suggest-europe-wants-to-pass-right-to-repair-laws-for-electronics

Italy set to quarantine whole of Lombardy due to coronavirus, impose fees on anyone caught entering or leaving the region until 3 April
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/07/italy-set-to

Brexit has cost £4.4Bn to date.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-news-live-brexit-coronavirus-huawei-priti-patel-latest-a9380611.html

ExxonMobil 'tried to get European Green Deal watered down': ‘The move appears to be an attempt to stall the rollout of electric vehicles by keeping a lid on the cost of driving a traditional combustion engine vehicle running on fossil fuels.’
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/06/exxonmobil-tried-to-get-european-green-deal-watered-down-claims-climate-lobbying-watchdog

U.N. calls for immediate freeze of military operations in Yemen
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security/u-n-calls-for-immediate-freeze-of-military-operations-in-yemen-idUSKBN20U0JK

Hooded vultures 'on brink of extinction' in Africa after mass poisoning: Accidental ingestion of strychnine believed to be cause of nearly 1,000 deaths in Guinea-Bissau
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/06/hooded-vultures-extinction-africa-mass-poisoning

Dutch coronavirus cases rise by 60 to 188
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-netherlands-tally/dutch-coronavirus-cases-rise-by-60-to-188-health-authorities-idUSKBN20U0L9

Incel terrorist Tobias Rathjen obsessed over anti-Trump conspiracies & far-right propaganda before Germany massacre
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11008269/incel-terrorist-tobias-rathjen-trump/

Senior Thai judge dies in second suicide bid - Khanakorn Pianchana blew whistle on alleged interference in judicial rulings
https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1873689/senior-judge-dies-in-second-suicide-bid

Greek forces stripped migrants and sent them back to Turkey in their underwear
https://abc17news.com/news/national-world/2020/03/07/migrants-say-greek-forces-stripped-them-and-sent-them-back-to-turkey-in-their-underwear/

Researchers find evidence of a cosmic impact that caused destruction of one of the world's earliest human settlements | They contend Abu Hureyra is the first site to document the direct effects of a fragmented comet on a human settlement
https://phys.org/news/2020-03-evidence-cosmic-impact-destruction-world.html

The first case of coronavirus has been confirmed in Washington, D.C., according to the city’s mayor
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/07/coronavirus-washington-dc-first-case-123431

Trump and Pence and other administration officials attended: A CPAC attendee has tested positive for coronavirus in New Jersey, per an email from the American Conservative Union. "The exposure occurred previous to the conference," according to the email.
https://twitter.com/nielslesniewski/status/1236421724415184897

Have to wonder when the real world starts to impact the political one this voting season, is this the excuse Trump will use to cancel elections

Betsy Devos introduces rule making it harder for child abuse victims come forward at school
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/betsy-devos-title-ix-sexual-assault-child-abuse-victims-report-a9383986.html 

I do agree: Sanders: 'I never expected in my life as an American to see a swastika at a major political rally'
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/486487-sanders-i-never-expected-in-my-life-as-an-american-to-see-a-swastika-at-a

Richard Cordray, former CFPB head and Warren ally, endorses Joe Biden. Warren is responsible for recruiting the team of policy writers who wrote the legislation that created the CFPB.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/richard-cordray-former-cfpb-head-and-warren-ally-endorses-joe-biden/2020/03/07/aeb7787e-60ba-11ea-9055-5fa12981bbbf_story.html

Dallas County asks to recount Super Tuesday election results after 44 thumb drives discovered
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/politics/dallas-county-asks-to-recount-election-after-44-thumb-drives-discovered/287-84e19400-81bc-4256-bcb3-e25df380d699

Bernie is bragging about voting against the bailout. In Michigan. Bernie is bragging about voting against the bailout. In Michigan.
https://twitter.com/MadMolly10/status/1236451813219540992

Coronavirus patient in Oman skips quarantine, attends prayers in mosque
https://www.y-oman.com/2020/03/coronavirus-patient-in-oman-skips-quarantine-attends-prayers-in-mosque/

A total of 13 deaths at a Seattle-area long-term care facility have been connected to coronavirus, and more could be confirmed in the coming days, a spokesman said Saturday.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/13-deaths-seattle-area-care-facility-connected-coronavirus-n1152306?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

Coronavirus Kills the ‘Butcher of Tehran’. Mohammad Abolghasem’s Basij milita took part in the bloody suppression of last year’s pro-democracy protests
https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/03/05/iran-basij-commander-is-latest-senior-official-to-die-from-coronavirus/
https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/03/05/iran-basij-commander-is-latest-senior-official-to-die-from-coronavirus/

Throwback to when Jessie Jackson endorsed Hillary and Bernie supporters attacked his character
https://twitter.com/RevJJackson/status/741696302443069440?s=19

Airlines are burning thousands of gallons of fuel flying empty 'ghost' planes so they can keep their flight slots during the coronavirus outbreak
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-airlines-run-empty-ghost-flights-planes-passengers-outbreak-covid-2020-3

Trump Flatly Admits He’d Leave Americans Stranded to Hold Coronavirus Numbers Static | The president is purposely downplaying the coronavirus for selfish reasons but is too stupid to keep that quiet
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-main-concern-about-coronavirus-is-himself-964175/

Trump administration overrode CDC recommendation that elderly, at-risk populations not fly | White House didn’t want to tell seniors not to fly
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/486475-trump-administration-overrode-health-officials-recommendation-that-elderly
https://apnews.com/921ad7f1f08d7634bf681ba785faf269

Trump’s White House violates federal law using taxpayer-funded social media to post campaign material
https://www.masslive.com/politics/2020/03/president-donald-trumps-white-house-may-be-violating-federal-law-using-taxpayer-funded-social-media-to-post-campaign-material.html

The r/SandersForPresident sub looks like the Donald right now....you literally have right wing produced hit piece videos on the front page....

If he doesn't win MI he needs to drop out. Biden already proved on ST that he can get a vast coalition of voters to come out with little campaign spending and almost no campaign infrastructure - all Biden has is his RECORD - If Bernie can't do that in Michigan he has no business being in the primary anymore. Also, we already know young people had a historically low turnout for ST, most voted for Biden, not Sanders.

Sanders: We need to remove money from politics. Biden: Wins without spending a dime

Northern Italy quarantines 16 million people
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51787238?

"I didn't share these then because it was an overwhelming few days. @BetoORourke came to Odessa after the mass shooting because he wanted to be supportive. Not a photo op, just who he is. No one at this event knew he would be there. One of the reasons why #WeLoveYouBeto" @BlueTX2020
https://twitter.com/BlueTX2020/status/1236384315325513733

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