Klobuchar: "I was thinking back to the Republican convention when Donald Trump stood in front of America and said, 'I alone can fix this.' Now, he is saying, 'I'm back up to the state governors.'"
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/klobuchar-trump-went-from-i-alone-can-fix-this-to-i-am-backup-81718341630
Voters in Wisconsin are going to the polls today, but results are not
expected until April 13, in compliance with a federal court ruling.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/07/us/elections/results-wisconsin-president-democrat-primary-election.html
Trump overrode the Inspectors general and installed a lackey (Sean W. O'Donnell) to oversee trillions of dollars in discretionary funds knowing that Congress is in recess for 2 weeks: Trump has upended the panel of federal watchdogs overseeing implementation of the $2 trillion coronavirus law, tapping a replacement for the Pentagon official who was supposed to lead the effort. A panel of inspectors general had named Glenn Fine — the acting Pentagon watchdog — to lead the group charged with monitoring the coronavirus relief effort. But Trump on Monday removed Fine from his post, instead naming the EPA inspector general to serve as the temporary Pentagon watchdog in addition to his other responsibilities.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/trump-removes-independent-watchdog-for-coronavirus-funds-upending-oversight-panel-171943
Buh-Bye: Fake Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigns after calling ousted aircraft carrier captain 'stupid'
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/politics/modly-resign-crozier-esper-trump/index.html
Boris Johnson Awake And Breathing Without Ventilator In Intensive Care
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/boris-johnson-intensive-care_uk_5e8c5b70c5b62459a92ee61a
The Event Horizon Telescope, which took the first image of a black hole last year, has captured another unprecedented shot. This time, it has zoomed in on a quasar jet shooting material from a nearly 1-billion-solar-mass black hole located in a galaxy some 5 billion light-years away. (
https://astronomy.com/news/2020/04/event-horizon-telescope-peers-down-a-black-holes-jet
In 2019, a conservative group sued to force Wisconsin to purge 234,000 from voter rolls, which an analysis of Census data, found could disproportionately target voters of color.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/lawsuit-deactivate-234000-voters-wisconsin-66966967
https://www.courthousenews.com/wisconsin-elections-board-sued-to-enforce-voter-roll-purges/
A portrait of disparity in Wisconsin: Milwaukee's population is about 600,000 and more than a 1/4 African-American. The city is running 5 voting sites today. Madison has a population of about 250,000 And is about 7 percent black. It is operating 66 polling locations today.
Former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Senator Bernie Sanders are on the ballot in Wisconsin, but the main event is the State Supreme Court race between the conservative incumbent justice, Daniel Kelly, and a liberal challenger, Jill Karofsky. The winner will be in position to cast a deciding vote on a case before the court that seeks to purge more than 200,000 people from Wisconsin’s voter rolls — in a state where 2.6 million people voted in the last governor’s race. When the matter was first before the court in January, Mr. Kelly recused himself, citing his upcoming election. He indicated he would “rethink” his position following the April election, which comes with a 10-year term. But the election proceeding on Tuesday is not just about the voter purge case. It is the latest example of what many in the state see as a decade-long effort by Wisconsin Republicans to dilute the voting power of the state’s Democratic and African-American voters. | Since 2011, when Mr. Walker led a Republican takeover of the state government, the G.O.P. has enacted one of the nation’s strictest laws requiring government-issued identification to vote. The ID must show a current address — a hardship for poorer black Milwaukee residents who live in neighborhoods with some of the highest eviction rates in the country. A 2017 study by the University of Wisconsin found nearly 17,000 registered voters were unable to cast a ballot during the 2016 election, and untold more were deterred from voting. The Republican majority also drew legislative and congressional boundaries that are widely considered the most gerrymandered in the country. During the 2018 election, Democratic candidates won 190,000 more votes for State Assembly seats, but the G.O.P. held a 64-35 advantage in the chamber. | If Mr. Kelly wins, it would cement the conservative majority’s ability to block any future Democratic efforts to change voting laws and litigate an expected stalemate over congressional and state legislative boundaries during redistricting that will follow the 2020 census. | For weeks Mr. Evers insisted he didn’t have the power to change the election date without consent of the state legislature, which consistently refused to entertain the idea. Instead he sought other remedies, such as sending absentee ballots to all voters and extending the time for voters to return ballots by mail — ideas that Republicans resisted and that were eventually struck down in courts dominated by Republican appointees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/us/politics/wisconsin-pandemic-primary-republicans.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/us/wisconsin-voters.html
NRA Loses Court Challenge on Order to Shut California Gun Shops
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-07/nra-loses-court-challenge-on-order-to-shut-california-gun-shops
Doctors and nurses will need PTSD treatment after covid-19 virus peaks in hospitals
Andrew Cuomo: "The last thing I do is get numb. The pain is increasing, the grief is increasing."
Abandoned when Pakistan's largest cities went into lockdown, hundreds of caged cats, dogs and rabbits have been found dead inside pet markets hurriedly shuttered as the coronavirus spread. Animals still alive in the corner of Karachi's sprawling Empress Market were rescued only after activists appealed to the authorities for access. Two weeks into the shutdown, Ayesha Chundrigar could hear the cries of the pets from outside the shops, which together housed up to 1,000 animals. "When we got inside, the majority of them were dead, about 70 percent. Their bodies were lying on the ground," Chundrigar, who runs ACF Animal Rescue, told AFP. "It was so horrific, I can't tell you." Starving and locked in cages with no light or ventilation, the surviving pets sat amongst the dead, trembling.
https://www.france24.com/en/20200407-hundreds-of-abandoned-animals-die-at-pakistan-pet-markets
White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham out after 9 months and 0 press briefings
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/07/politics/stephanie-grisham-press-secretary-briefing-melania-trump/index.html
Swedish hospitals have stopped using chloroquine to Treat COVID-19 after reports of Severe Side Effects.
https://www.newsweek.com/swedish-hospitals-chloroquine-covid-19-side-effects-1496368
3M reaches deal with Trump administration allowing face-mask exports to Canada, Latin America
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/3m-reaches-deal-with-trump-administration-allowing-face-mask-exports-to-canada-latin-america-2020-04-06
China Ends Wuhan Lockdown, but Normal Life Is a Distant Dream | In the city where the coronavirus outbreak was first reported, the reopening of outbound travel won’t end hard times, wariness or confinement. | But the city that has reopened after more than 10 weeks is a profoundly damaged one, a place whose recovery will be watched worldwide for lessons on how populations move past pain and calamity of such staggering magnitude. In Wuhan, sickness and death have touched hundreds of thousands of lives, imprinting them with trauma that could linger for decades. Businesses, even those that have reopened, face a wrenching road ahead, with sluggishness likely to persist. Neighborhood authorities continue to regulate people’s comings and goings, with no return to normalcy in sight.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/world/asia/wuhan-coronavirus.html
Senate Democrats propose $25,000 hazard-pay plan for essential workers
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/491547-senate-democrats-propose-25000-hazard-pay-plan-for-essential-workers
Eighteen members of Congress signed a letter calling the DOI’s decision to rescind federal protection from Native American lands into question. Members of Congress sent a letter last week addressing Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) over the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI)’s recent disestablishment of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s land by removing it from federal trust, and thereby revoking federal funding and benefits from the tribe. The tribe received notification of the status change from the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs two weeks ago on Friday. The current letter, dated April 3, was signed by 18 sitting members, including Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Joe Kennedy III, both Democrats from Massachusetts, where the Mashpee Wampanoag’s land is located. The Mashpee Wampanoag have lived on their land for more than 12,000 years, predating the U.S. government, according to the letter. Lawmakers in the letter called on the Senate to take up the 2019 Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Reservation Reaffirmation Act, which would guarantee the trust status of the 320 acres of tribal land. It also referenced a bill that would recognize the Mashpee Wampanoag under the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/491398-congress-knocks-trump-administrations-decision-to-remove
A federal court on Tuesday struck down the Trump administration’s move to suspend an Obama-era rule that restricted the use of a powerful greenhouse gas, saying the Trump administration did not follow the proper procedure. After the court ruled in 2017 that part of an Obama-rule regarding the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) was too far reaching, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suspended the entire rule without giving the public time to weigh in. A federal court in Washington, D.C., determined in a 2-1 decision that this was unlawful and reversed the EPA’s 2018 action.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/491568-court-strikes-down-epa-suspension-of-obama-era-hfc-rule
So one reporter will ask him about replacing a neutral inspector general with a Team Trump lackey, and he'll say he still has to look into it
The next reporter will ask about the Navarro memo, and he'll say it's fake news
The next reporter will ask about the lack of materials for hospitals, and he'll call her nasty
The next reporter will ask about what he's heard regarding Johnson. He'll say Boris is a tough guy and he's praying for him.
The next reporter will ask why the banks aren't processing small business loans, and he'll say they are
The next reporter will ask about reopening the US at the end of the month, and he'll say he can't commit, but he sees the light at the end of the tunnel.
New White House Press Secretary Said a Month Ago That the Coronavirus Would Never Spread to the U.S.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/04/new-white-house-press-secretary-kayleigh-mcenany-denying-coronavirus.html
Fake Navy Secretary Thomas Modly is the 512th person to leave the Trump administration since the beginning. Modly is the 4th Secretary of the Navy Trump has had in less than 4 years. Only one of those, Richard Spencer, was confirmed by the Senate. In comparison, Obama had 3 Naval secretaries - one acting and two permanent - in 8 years. Edit: forgot to add - Modly served 13.6 Mooches, if his resignation is accepted effective today
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qw7uAkCag7FPX6qI9pBAAzi1a4sgyD3k5xvleIOwL-s/edit?usp=sharing
For the uninformed, Milwaukee typically has around 180 polling centers for elections in the city. Now there are only 5. During a global pandemic. This must not be forgotten.
173 sailors on the USS Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/coronavirus-pandemic-covid-19-latest-news-2020-04-07/
The largest Arctic ozone hole ever measured is hovering over the North Pole
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/largest-arctic-ozone-hole-ever-measured-hovering-over-north-pole
ICE has instructed field offices to assess detainees determined to be at 'greater risk' of exposure to COVID-19 and has identified 600 in custody as 'vulnerable' --- 160 have been released from ICE custody as of March 30, per notification to Congress.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-ice-considers-release-vulnerable-immigrants-cases-rise/
“In four days, Trump has fired one inspector general tied to his impeachment, castigated another he felt was overly critical of the coronavirus response and sidelined a third meant to safeguard against wasteful spending of the coronavirus funds.”
https://apnews.com/b66fe3c530a6be1a78082e948336f8a7
YEP: One thing re: sports getting re-started. People seem to be interpreting proposals by the various leagues in light of the current situation, i.e. where there are rather strict lockdowns almost everywhere. In the current situation, these proposals are dumb and/or far-fetched IMO.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1247634301858054154
We know. Hopefully there will be no more press secretary briefings (there haven't been any in at least 9 months): Trump’s new press secretary has a history of birtherism and wildly inaccurate coronavirus takes | Kayleigh McEnany has a storied record of defending some of Trump’s most egregious excesses.
https://www.vox.com/2020/4/7/21212354/kayleigh-mcenany-trump-press-secretary-birtherism-obama-coronavirus
In 2012, then businessman Donald Trump was casting doubt on President Obama's place of birth, credentials and love of country as he worked to build his profile inside the GOP. The president's new press secretary tweeted the below during that period.
https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/status/240993516443037698
Trump has often highlighted how many Americans died from H1N1 -- 12,469 over a one-year period from April 2009 to April 2010 https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html … Per latest figures, 12,234 Americans have died from the coronavirus -- in a little more than a month (Feb 29 to April 7)
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/2009-h1n1-pandemic.html
https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6
People waiting to vote in Milwaukee in the middle of a pandemic. This is what Wisconsin Republican state legislatire and Wisconsin state supreme court and the Republican-controlled federal Supreme Courts have done. They have endangered the lives of people who simply want to vote. Mailing out absentee ballots to everybody and extending the deadline, and rescheduling in-person voting for June, was the solution.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVBbMTtWsAEeScK.jpg
Virginia Pastor Landon Spradlin, who criticized coronavirus as “mass hysteria” that the Democrats and the media were using to hurt Donald Trump, has died from the illness. https://nypost.com/2020/04/07/pastor-who-criticized-coronavirus-mass-hysteria-dies-from-illness/
Tomorrow's planned 45-minute telephonic briefing to House Democrats by/from Pence, Fauci, Birx and Polowczyk will be followed Immediately by a "regular Caucus meeting" by phone with special guest, former HHS secretary Sylvia Burwell, says a notice sent to offices.
https://twitter.com/HouseInSession/status/1247633533331558401
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvia_Mathews_Burwell
It remains illegal to shoot federal officials. It’s also illegal to shoot people for looting. Not that anyone would walk 51 hours from Atlanta to Augusta to steal from former Republican Representative Paul Broun, who took out a 2nd mortgage to win the 1st time. Teally felt like I was gonna hear the N word any second. with "these damn" in front of it: How to try to win election by stoking fear amid the COVID-19 crisis: Former Georgia Rep. Paul Broun who is running to return to Congress just released an ad warning that “in uncertain times like these,” it’s important to protect yourself against “looting hordes from Atlanta”
https://twitter.com/mbaram/status/1247597527987339269
Here's Wisconsin's Republican state Assembly speaker lying to voters. He says those who requested absentee ballots but didn't get them can have them emailed today — that's false, as the Wisconsin Elections Commission discussed last night.
https://www.facebook.com/163266575601/videos/576705336386460/
The Nimitz has been conducting an onboard quarantine of sorts since April 1, with all crew being ordered onto the ship "to minimize potential COVID exposure" and "maximize warfighting readiness and ensure the health of the force," per a spokesman. Screenings underway, but...
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1247629834282385408
some are concerned about a potential repeat of disaster on the Roosevelt, which now has more than 150 positive Covid-19 cases and is working to evacuate thousands of sailors and quarantine them in hotels in Guam.
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1247629835578626055
If Justice Kelly wins, it will cement the conservative majority’s ability to block future Democratic efforts to change the state’s strict voting laws and litigate an expected stalemate over congressional and state legislative boundaries during post-2020 redistricting.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/us/politics/wisconsin-primary-election.html
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