Reminder: Trump's "‘Liberate Virginia/Michigan/Minesota" tweets incite insurrection which is illegal. Federal law bans advocating the overthrow of government.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/04/17/liberate-michigan-trump-constitution/
Reminder: Trump Campaign Illegally Paying $180,000 A Year To His Sons’ Significant Others | Lara Trump and Kimberly Guilfoyle are each illegally receiving $15,000 per month through the campaign manager
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-secret-payments-sons-wife-girlfriend_n_5e9a1c46c5b635d25d6c747a
Critically endangered Sumatran elephant is found with its trunk hacked off and its face mutilated after straying from its enclosure
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8230395/Sumatran-elephant-trunk-hacked-face-mutilated-straying-enclosure.html
Pelosi Statement on Trump Rule Unleashing Toxic Mercury Pollution During Coronavirus | While tens of thousands of Americans are dying from the coronavirus pandemic, the President is yet again seeking to unleash toxic pollution and dirty air into our communities. Even President Trump’s own EPA has admitted that this rule threatens to cause serious health problems including brain damage and death and to inflict billions of dollars of economic damage on our struggling economy. | The President’s senseless, special interest decision is another galling example of his disdain for science and for the health of the American people. It comes just weeks after the President slashed car pollution standards and refused to strengthen protections against lung-damaging industrial soot emissions – and after studies have shown a clear link between pollution and higher coronavirus death rates. | Americans are facing a public health and economic crisis of staggering and historic proportions, and they need smart, science-based leadership, not more frantic handouts to dirty corporate polluters.”
https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/41620-1
Sanders, who suspended his presidential campaign last week, would normally be forced to forfeit a third of the delegates he’s garnered to Biden under a strict interpretation of Democratic Party rules. However, behind-the-scenes negotiations have been ongoing between the Biden and Sanders campaigns to allow the Vermont lawmaker to keep his delegates as a gesture of goodwill, though it is still not settled how many Sanders would be able to keep. “We feel strongly that it is in the best interest of the party to ensure that the Sanders campaign receives statewide delegates to reflect the work that they have done to contribute to the movement that will beat Donald Trump this fall,” a Biden official told The Hill. “We are in discussion with them now on how to best accomplish that.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/493454-biden-campaign-seeks-to-let-sanders-keep-his-delegates-in-unusual-move
As Trump goes on a tweet-spree about Obama and H1N1, this is a reminder that he completely destroyed the pandemic apparatus that the Obama/Biden administration established. Spread this graphic far and wide https://i.redd.it/ekwueavi6ht41.png
Donald Trump is lashing out at Democratic governors to pass the buck for his handling of the coronavirus crisis and hoping to pass the blame for an economy ravaged on his watch.
The White House set six benchmarks to evaluate if states should scale back distancing measures. I made an interactive showing how each state fares on four of them. The states Trump wanted to “liberate” today don’t pass.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/17/states-that-trump-wants-liberate-dont-pass-benchmarks-he-himself-set/
From the cashier to the emergency room nurse to the drugstore pharmacist to the home health aide taking the bus to check on her older client, the soldier on the front lines of the current national emergency is most likely a woman. | One in three jobs held by women has been designated as essential, according to a New York Times analysis of census data crossed with the federal government’s essential worker guidelines. Nonwhite women are more likely to be doing essential jobs than anyone else. | Women make up nearly nine out of 10 nurses and nursing assistants, most respiratory therapists, a majority of pharmacists and the overwhelming majority of pharmacy aides and technicians. More than two-thirds of the workers at grocery store checkouts and fast food counters are women. | Among all male workers, 28 percent have jobs deemed part of this essential work force. Some of the biggest employers of men in the United States are building trades, like construction and carpentry — lines of work that are now, for the most part, on hold. Men do make up a majority of workers in a number of essential sectors, including law enforcement, transit and public utilities, and millions face serious and unquestionable risk as they head to work every day. But there are simply not as many of these jobs as there are in the industry at the forefront: health care. There are 19 million health care workers nationwide, nearly three times as many as in agriculture, law enforcement and the package delivery industry combined.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/us/coronavirus-women-essential-workers.html
"She said, 'Mommy, I'm going to work because no one else is coming in early to help the senior citizens.'"
Disabled herself, she risked her life to help others, then died of coronavirus. The darkest days bring out the brightest heroes. | A victim of the coronavirus, she had been hired under a supermarket program for disabled people, but took care of customers less able than herself. | Leilani Margurite Jordan was born on Oct. 22, 1992, in Honolulu to William C. Jordan Sr. and Zenobia (Toomer) Jordan. She was one of six children of a military couple and traveled widely before her mother remarried and settled in Upper Marlboro, Md., east of Washington, with her second husband, Charles E. Shepherd Jr. Ms. Jordan graduated from Wise High School in Prince George’s County and earned an associate’s degree in biblical studies in 2017 from Breakthrough Bible College and Theological Seminary in Maryland. She completed a sign language course at Prince George’s Community College, where she also enrolled in a hospitality services management program to pursue her dream of one day managing a supermarket. Visually impaired (she had a service dog, a Jack Russell terrier named Angel) and coping with other vulnerabilities, she was employed by the Giant Food supermarket chain under a program for people with disabilities. Ms. Jordan began feeling ill around the middle of last month; her last day at work was March 16. She later tested positive for the virus, her mother said. After her condition deteriorated, she collapsed with a 104-degree fever on March 26 in the parking lot of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., where she was going for treatment. She died there that day. Before dying she was able to record a video message for her family, which they found on her phone, her stepfather told CNN. “She told them, you know, ‘See you on the other side,’” he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/us/leilani-jordan-dead-coronavirus.html
In Japan, which is having a surge in #COVID19 after initially appearing to have the virus under some level of control, doctors warn of health system 'break down' as cases spike.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52336388
The White House praised hotels for housing doctors. Cities say Trump’s hotels aren’t participating | In five U.S. cities where Trump’s company operates large hotels — New York, Chicago, Miami, Washington and Honolulu — local authorities said that the Trump hotel was not involved in their efforts to provide low-cost or no-cost rooms to those fighting the virus. “They did not volunteer, and we did not ask them,” said Frank Rollason, the head of emergency management for the fire department in Miami-Dade County, Fla. That county is home to Trump’s Doral resort. | But — by staying out of these programs — Trump’s company could be missing a chance to lead by example, embodying the sort of sacrifice that Trump has praised in others.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-white-house-praised-hotels-for-housing-doctors-cities-say-trumps-hotels-arent-participating/2020/04/18/da553fde-8009-11ea-9040-68981f488eed_story.html
Tarlach MacNiallais, Who Fought for Gay and Disability Rights, Dies at 57 | Mr. MacNiallais helped organize the St. Pat’s For All Parade in Queens, a more inclusive version of the annual parade on Fifth Avenue. | He was known for his decades of advocacy for L.G.B.T. and disability rights. “A battering ram on issues of importance,” according to Harriet Golden, a vice president at A.H.R.C. New York City, an organization that serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, where Mr. MacNiallais worked for nearly 35 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/obituaries/tarlach-macniallais-dead-coronavirus.html
Navajo Nation has lost more to coronavirus than 13 states
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/04/17/navajo-native-american-coronavirus-pkg-tuchman-ac360-vpx.cnn
Laura, you live in New York. Livestream yourself walking the streets without a mask. Ride the subway. Shake strangers hands. Visit an ER without PPE and hug the nurses and doctors. Be the vessel that proves the mainstream media liars and liberate our nation. This is your moment!
https://twitter.com/IngrahamAngle/status/1251219755249405959
There are plenty of states with Republican governors that are currently under "stay at home" orders. Trump has not called for any of them to be "liberated."
Liberate OH from the tyranny of it's REPUBLICAN Gov!
Liberate MD from the tyranny of it's REPUBLICAN Gov!
Liberate ID from the tyranny of it's REPUBLICAN Gov!
Liberate TX from the tyranny of it's REPUBLICAN Gov!
Liberate GA from the tyranny of it's REPUBLICAN Gov! Right?
Wyoming Democratic caucus turnout more than doubles 2016. | She said, as of Wednesday, the party had already received more than 15,000 returned ballots. Just over 7,000 people caucused four years prior. “A big reason we were able to do that is because from the very start we instituted a very robust mail-in program where we automatically sent ballots to every registered Democrat in Wyoming and included postage prepaid return envelopes,” Hebert said. The increased turnout comes despite major changes before and after ballots went out.
https://www.wyomingnewsnow.tv/content/news/Wyoming-Democratic-caucus-turnout-more-than-doubles-2016-569748391.html
The US has had 4 straight days with more than 2,000 reported deaths from the Coronavirus. There will be more deaths this week in the US due to the Coronavirus than the entire year of the H1N1 swine flu in 2009-2010.
https://twitter.com/jamiedupree/status/1251490910073950208
Because of the colossal impact that the coronavirus outbreak has had on the U.S. economy, less than half of Los Angeles County residents — 45% compared with 61% in mid-March — still hold a job, a decline of 16 percentage points, or an estimated 1.3 million jobs, according to findings from a national survey released Friday. The survey also suggests that 25.5 million jobs have been potentially lost across the U.S. since mid-March, and that people of color, especially black Americans, are more likely to have lost their jobs since mid-March. Nationally, 15% of white people said they had lost their jobs, while 18% of Latinos and 21% of black people reported job losses. But a significant majority of job losses, 67% nationally, were reported as temporary layoffs. Angelenos reported similar experiences.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-04-17/usc-coronavirus-survey
29,000 health care workers—nurses and health aides, paramedics, technicians and doctors—on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic are facing additional concerns about their fate as they await a Supreme Court ruling over DACA. | They are enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program. Started in 2012 by President Barack Obama, it has allowed over 700,000 immigrant young adults who lack legal status — but who were raised primarily in the U.S. — to work and study without fear of deportation. But the Trump administration has fought to end the program, and by the end of June the Supreme Court will announce its decision to allow the president to shut it down or to side with lower courts that have kept DACA going. If the program is shut down, DACA recipients fear they would lose their existing protections and face the possibility of being deported.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/thousands-daca-health-care-workers-fight-coronavirus-worry-about-their-n1177691?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
https://www.dhs.gov/deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-daca
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/historic-moment-young-daca-recipients-rally-supreme-court-hears-arguments-n1080036
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-appears-inclined-let-trump-end-daca-program-n1080796
The marginal political impact of the deaths is declining because a rising proportion of the people doing the dying are politically marginal.
Fox News advertising protests against social distancing. It’s just what they did with the Tea Party rallies, prmoting them and broadcasting them live.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EV418f1WsAcZfBP.jpg
Stephen Moore says the right-wing activists protesting stay-at-home orders are "modern-day Rosa Parks"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/rallies-against-stay-at-home-orders-grow-as-trump-sides-with-protesters/2020/04/17/1405ba54-7f4e-11ea-8013-1b6da0e4a2b7_story.html
Stephen Moore should give them these
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EV2uoViXgAQspPX.jpg
I’m having a hard time getting mad about ANY individual person hoarding ice cream (Nancy Pelosi) when Washington gave the high-end animal murder steak chain Ruth Chris $20 million that was meant for small businesses
The world’s seas are simmering, with record high temperatures spurring worry among forecasters that the global warming effect may generate a chaotic year of extreme weather ahead. Parts of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans all hit the record books for warmth last month, according to the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Information. The high temperatures could offer clues on the ferocity of the Atlantic hurricane season, the eruption of wildfires from the Amazon region to Australia, and whether the record heat and severe thunderstorms raking the southern U.S. will continue. In the Gulf of Mexico, where offshore drilling accounts for about 17% of U.S. oil output, water temperatures were 76.3 degrees Fahrenheit (24.6 Celsius), 1.7 degrees above the long-term average, said Phil Klotzbach at Colorado State University. If Gulf waters stay warm, it could be the fuel that intensifies any storm that comes that way, Klotzbach said. | The record warm water in the Gulf of Mexico spilled over into every coastal community along the shoreline with all-time high temperatures on land, said Deke Arndt, chief of the monitoring section at the National Centers for Environmental Information in Asheville, North Carolina. Florida recorded its warmest March on record, and Miami reached 93 degrees Wednesday, a record for the date and 10 degrees above normal, according to the National Weather Service. While coronavirus has the nation’s attenton right now, global warming continues to be a threat. Sea water “remembers and holds onto heat” better than the atmosphere, Arndt said.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-18/warmest-oceans-on-record-could-set-off-a-year-of-extreme-weather
While the world was busy fighting the coronavirus, Russia for the eighth time tested PL 19 Nudol, an anti-ballistic missile interceptor that also functions as an anti-satellite weapon
https://www.ibtimes.sg/space-wars-why-you-need-know-about-pl-19-nudol-russian-satellite-destroying-missile-43258
U.S. doctor who cited Trump to push hydroxychloroquine 'miracle cure' charged by feds
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/u-s-doctor-who-cited-trump-to-push-hydroxychloroquine-miracle-cure-charged-by-feds-1.4902071
358 cases of COVID-19 now linked to a Cargill slaughterhouse in Canada - Cargill had kept the plant open despite calls from the union to close over worker's safety
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cargill-deena-hinshaw-covid-19-1.5536916/
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had four phone calls in the past two weeks
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8232865/Donald-Trump-Vladimir-Putin-four-phone-calls-past-two-weeks.html
What would it take to get someone to print a tee shirt that says "I HAVE COVID-19" and go stand in the middle of these "open the country, covid is a hoax, democrats banned freedom and guns and church and jobs" protests nationwide? No guns or anything. Just wear the COVID shirt and stand right there in the middle of all of them.
There was/is no "China travel ban", 40,000+ people from China have flown to the US since Trump made his "I've banned China travel" in early February
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/coronavirus-china-travel-restrictions.html
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THE BIDEN PLANS – EPISODE FIVE: FOREIGN POLICY
FOREIGN POLICY:
• Ending forever wars in Afghanistan and the Middle East
• Bring most troops home from Afghanistan and focus on Al-Qaeda and ISIS
• End support for Saudi-led war in Yemen
• Diplomacy to be used as premier tool of global engagement
• Secure commitment from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras to take on the corruption, violence, and endemic poverty that drive migration
• Keep NATO’s military capabilities sharp while expanding ability to combat weaponized corruption and cyber theft
• Strengthen cooperation with democratic nations beyond North American and Europe
• Reach out to partners in Asia to fortify collective capabilities
• Rebuild strong hemispheric ties based on respect for democracy, human rights, and the rule of law
• Strengthen alliances with Japan, South Korea, Australia and other Asian democracies
• Sustain strong commitment to Israel’s security
• Re-enter Iran nuclear deal to strengthen and extend it
• Push back against Iran’s other destabilizing activities
• Pursue extension of the New START Treaty
• Use START Treaty as foundation for new arms control arrangements between the United States and Russia
• Demonstrate US commitment to reducing nuclear weapons
• Strengthen belief U.S nuclear arsenal should only used in retaliating against a nuclear attack
• Reserve right to defend country and its allies by force, if necessary
• Prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon
• Prepare use of force in event of imminent long range missile attack by another country
• Mobilize nations to respond to genocide or chemical weapon use
• Use military force for humanitarian intervention
• Consider use of the military, in partnership with allies to defend shipping lanes and important assets
• Provide nonmilitary support for opposition movements seeking universal human rights and more representative and accountable governance
• Keep American troops in Korean Peninsula
• Tighten sanctions on North Korea, forcing them to give up its nuclear and missile programs
• Reduce current level of military aid to Israel
• Oppose Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement in Congress
• US Embassy in Israel should remain in Jerusalem
• Support establishment of a Palestinian state which includes West Bank
• Regard Russia as adversary they continue current course in Ukraine and other former Soviet states
• Declare humans right the core of U.S foreign policy
• Pushback on China deepening authoritarianism
• Secure private sector-led 5G networks, leaving no community behind
• Provide countries aid if they are under attack regardless if they do not fulfill their NATO funding commitment
• Ensure strategy of persistent engagement within the United States Cyber Command strategy & perform appropriate reviews
• Strengthen treaty alliances with Australia, Japan, and South Korea
• Deepen partnerships from India to Indonesia to advance shared values in a region determining US future
• Integrate Latin America and Africa friends into broader network of democracies, and seize opportunities for cooperation in those regions
• Organize and host global Summit for Democracy to renew spirit and shared purpose of nations of the free world
• Lead efforts internationally to bring transparency to global financial system
• Make it difficult for leaders stealing from their people to hide behind anonymous front companies
• New deals must include labor and environmental leaders at the table
• Ensure strong enforcement provisions in deals, holding partners to deals they sign
• Ensure countries are able to once again trust and work together to confront the rise of populists, nationalists, and demagogues
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So here’s the bottom line on the last couple of days:
Goodbye healing, unifying wartime leader, steeling America in very hard times.
It didn’t fit. It didn’t work. Truth-telling is too hard.
Welcome back, hyper-partisan, divisive, blame-shifting, media-bashing
Lots of protest speakers saying Trump should fire Fauci who they say “made up” the coronavirus. They call him Fascist Fauci
https://twitter.com/James_Barragan/status/1251564643887218688
If you’re wearing Trump paraphernalia, you're already wearing the Mark of The Beast
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/19/us/elections/results-wyoming-president-democrat-caucus-election.html
What the anti-stay-at-home protests are really about: They're part of a Trumpian strategy from the pro-Trump base to reshape public opinion. Democrats are banning guns, religion, your jobs, your nation's economy, your freedom. Democrats won't let you by lawn fertilizer or grass seed or get haircuts or by lotto tickets or alcohol.
The "fuck covid-19" protests are reminiscent of the early days of the Tea Party, when well-funded right-leaning groups lit a fire under an already outraged Republican base and helped to ignite a political movement. The displays are tapping into Trump’s main message on the coronavirus pandemic: Democratic governors are to blame for the crisis, not him (even though he holds "total authority"). The "Democrats have banned our guns and religion and jobs and the economy and freedom and lotto tickets and alcohol and lawn supplies and paint and so on" argument resonates best in rural, redder parts of the country, which have not been hit as hard by the pandemic as blue, urban areas. It’s a message of division, designed to pit Republican-voting areas of states against their Democratic-voting neighbors, even rural Republicans against urban Republicans. All this to activate white rural voters who supported Trump in 2016 and whom he’ll need again in 2020. Vilify Democratic governors and agitate for the end of shutdown orders. Then, "reopen the economy" and spur a massive turnaround in the nation’s economic prospects just in time for Trump to be reelected in November. If the pandemic recedes, he can claim he was entirely responsible; but if people continue to die, he can place the blame on Democratic governors, especially Democratic governors of swing states and red states that Trump must win to be re-elected.
The same protestors have no problem with children locked up in detention camps, or with Latin Americans locked up in detention camps who came to America because they thought America was a great country to build a better life in.
In contrast to how Fox News reports on left-leaning protests (for example, this 2017 Fox News report that blames a Black Lives Matter effort to encourage black Americans to shop only at black-owned businesses on billionaire George Soros), the anti-stay-at-home order protests are being covered approvingly, with any extremism (or violations of social distancing taking place) minimized.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/black-lives-matter-has-been-hijacked-by-george-soros-sheriff-clarke
https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/foxs-jeanine-pirro-praises-michigan-protests-against-covid-mitigation-efforts
According to Johns Hopkins, we are 39,000 deaths of Americans. We are likely to cross 40,000 deaths today. A non-sociopathic president would acknowledge that devastation. 507 New Yorkers died in the last 24 hours, horrible, but fewer than the 540 the day before and 630 the day before that.
Illinois' governor organized secret flights to bring masks and gloves from China out of fear Trump would seize them
https://www.businessinsider.com/illinois-reportedly-organized-secret-flights-bringing-masks-from-china-2020-4
Lincoln’s funeral parade, Washington DC, 155 years ago today:
https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1251907712188907526
Global concert raises more than $127m for WHO emergency response fund
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/19/entertainment/one-world-concert-who-global-citizen-scli-intl/
I couldn't be prouder of my friends Lady Gaga and Chris Martin of Coldplay for organizing the Global Citizen One World: Together At Home broadcast. We are all in this fight together — and if we stand as one, we will defeat COVID-19.
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1251653085925179392
Ten years after an oil rig explosion killed 11 workers and unleashed an environmental nightmare in the Gulf of Mexico, companies are drilling into deeper and deeper waters, where the payoffs can be huge but the risks are greater than ever.
https://apnews.com/8181adee796a45706cb4be265ca1e0d1
Stephen Moore compared the "open the country" protesters to Rosa Parks. She was forced to ride the back of the bus because people like him did not think her life mattered. Democratic Governors (and a few Republican governors) are forcing you to limit you outdoor activities because they feel your life matters. And quit pretending you're "enslaved", your outdoor activities are simply limited, and real slaves did not have the freedom to learn how to read or write the word freedom let along the freedom to protest their conditions without being whipped to death.
Joseph R. Biden Jr. has wiped the floor with Bernie Sanders in the Wyoming caucuses
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/19/us/elections/results-wyoming-president-democrat-caucus-election.html
The coronavirus has been anything but a great equalizer. It’s been the great revealer, pulling the curtain back on the class divide, exposing how deeply unequal this country is and how deep the fissures are. Rather than trying to cover it all up with pithy sayings — rather than trying to sweep these divides under the rug with platitudes like “we’re all in this together” — we should use this moment as an opportunity to take a hard look at the broken systems that perpetuate inequality: education, health coverage, distribution of opportunity and wealth, to name a few. Already, statistics show low-income communities are bearing the brunt of this epidemic: In New York, the nation’s coronavirus epicenter, the least well-off neighborhoods are hit the hardest; South Florida is the center of the state’s covid crisis. Writing in CityLab, urbanist Richard Florida teamed up with economist Todd Gabe to examine the class divide and identify “the cities and metro areas whose workforces are most exposed and at risk from Covid-19.” They zoomed in on two factors or “two key at-risk characteristics of jobs: the degree to which workers interact directly with the public and jobs that require high levels of very close physical proximity to others.” Guess what they found? We’re not all in this together. “Three-quarters of the jobs that involve working directly with the public are low-paying service jobs; 70% of the people who work in close physical proximity to one another are low-wage service workers or blue-collar workers. From there, our analysis zeroed in on metropolitan areas to determine which workforces have the highest percentages of these high-risk occupations.” Simply put, lower-income people are at greater risk. Lower-income workers have to keep going out to work. Let us not forget that this is a “white-collar quarantine” as one small business owner put it, pointing out that for many with blue-collar jobs, it’s business as usual — that is, if they haven’t been laid off. And let’s remember that #WhenThisIsOver, those of us who did not go into this pandemic with good jobs behind us and a bit of money below us will likely be left reeling for years to come. For those of us hanging on to the lower socioeconomic rungs, none of this is new. We see and feel these class differences keenly. The pandemic poses an opportunity for the rest of the country, and our leaders, to acknowledge these fissures and to figure out how we got here and how we can remedy them. As a nation, we’re only as strong as the most vulnerable in our society. The coronavirus shows how easily huge segments of our country — those who are the backbone of our country — can, and do, fall through the cracks.
https://time.com/5814360/poor-new-york-city-neighborhoods-coronavirus/
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2020/04/coronavirus-risk-jobs-essential-workers-data-class-divide/609529/
.@JayInslee on the protests: “Comments in the news today by some Republican legislators calling for 'open rebellion,' claiming a 'deep state' plot and other radical statements are irresponsible and could needlessly lead to more people getting sick."
https://twitter.com/IsaacDovere/status/1251981227990626304
Officials describe what happened in Nova Scotia today as devastating and incomprehensible - A gunman dressed as a police officer went on a shooting rampage and least 14 people are dead including an actual officer and mother of two. The gunman is deceased: One Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer was killed and another was wounded, a police union president said. The authorities identified the gunman as Gabriel Wortman, 51, who was taken into custody after a manhunt on Sunday. A police officer and a 51-year-old gunman were dead after a shooting rampage in Nova Scotia in which multiple people were killed, the authorities and a police union president said Sunday. | The authorities identified the gunman as Gabriel Wortman, 51, whom the CBC described as a denturist who owned real estate in Halifax, the provincial capital. It was not immediately clear what the motive for the shooting was, or how he was apprehended.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/world/canada/nova-scotia-shooting-gabriel-wortman.html
The reality is that social distancing is mostly voluntary regardless of what orders or laws are put into place. The orders and laws have endless exemptions and exceptions and define 90% of businesses as essential. That's why restrictions need to be rational, clearly communicated, and justified to the public by political leaders. Otherwise, people will stop listening eventually.
The Texas Gulf Coast is the United States’ petrochemical corridor, with four of the country’s 10 biggest oil and gas refineries and thousands of chemical facilities.
Residents of the mostly black and Latino communities closest to the refineries and chemical plants say that puts them on the front line of the Trump administration’s rollbacks of decades of public health and environmental protections. Under Republicans, federal regulatory changes are eliminating requirements on industry to monitor, report and reduce toxic pollutants, heavy metals and climate-damaging fossil fuel emissions, and to work transparently with communities to prevent plant disasters — such as the half-dozen major chemical fires and explosions that have killed workers and disrupted life along the Texas Gulf Coast over the past year alone. And that plunge in public health enforcement may be about to get even more dramatic. Last month, Environmental Protection Agency administrator Andrew Wheeler, a coal lobbyist before Trump appointed him to the agency, announced the end of enforcement for industries on monitoring, reporting and quickly fixing hazardous releases, in cases the EPA deems staffing problems related to the coronavirus pandemic made compliance difficult. Since then, air pollutants in Houston’s most heavily industrialized areas have surged as much as 62%, a Texas A & M analysis of state air monitor readings found. | Even before the Trump administration began the rollbacks, Houston’s urban freeways and industries were pumping enough poisonous refinery chemicals, heavy metals, and diesel and car exhaust to “almost certainly” be to blame for some respiratory problems and early deaths, as well as an “unacceptable increased risk” for cancers and chronic disease, concluded a landmark city task force, started in 2005 to study the health impacts. Residents of some predominantly minority Houston neighborhoods face at least three times the cancer risks of Americans overall, according to a 2014 EPA assessment, the most recent available. Last year, state health officials confirmed a cancer cluster in one African American Houston neighborhood where residents had for years complained that creosote from a former rail yard was killing multiple members of families. One woman drove around with a mock human skeleton in her passenger seat to try to draw attention to the deaths. Among other health harms, Houston’s African American families, many of them in neighborhoods near one of the nation’s largest clusters of petrochemical plants, report twice as many asthma cases as the city’s white families, according to a federal government study.
https://apnews.com/9553e45fd2fc46940ce5b3ca4b4a0d04
NYS will undertake the most aggressive statewide antibody testing survey in the nation in the next week. It will tell us for the first time what percentage of the population has actually had #Coronavirus.
https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1251910878452232194
Government matters today in a way that it hasn’t mattered in decades. People need confidence in government. We commit to giving you the facts and looking for the answers.
https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1251937627915386880
We have slowed the infection rate so that every 10 people infect about 9 people. That means that the outbreak is slowing, not growing. But it leaves very little room for error. We need the bring the infection rate down even more in order to safely reopen the economy.
https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo/status/1251911932191399936
Never going to happen, fuck off fake Democrat "experts" with your fear-mongering and lies already, this is EXACTLY why Republicans are protesting and why Trump will win re-election: Dozens of grocery store workers have died from the coronavirus. Experts say it's time for large grocery store chains to go "dark" to the public and convert to curbside pickup and home delivery for food and other essential goods.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/19/business/grocery-stores-coronavirus-pickup-delivery/index.html
Let’s just ban everything. Let’s get it over with and worship government, technology, and COVID
https://twitter.com/BobQuarantine/status/1251987920640258055
YEP: CNN: The Economy must go dark until after the election so we can blame Trump. GOP: We need to safely get this economy restarted so the American people can get back to work and care for their families.
See the BIG difference?
https://twitter.com/Copter_Dave57/status/1251989574148112384
Women have the right to be heard and we have the responsibility to listen. Allegations should be given serious independent review, as was done by The New York Times (Biden/Tara Reid). Vice President Biden has spent over 40 years in public life advocating for women, and nothing in the Times review suggests anything other than what I already knew: That Joe Biden is a man of highest integrity who will make all women proud as our next President.
Which would you prefer?
1) A stay-at-home order along the lines of what's in place in NY or CA, for 6 weeks.
2) A much stricter order where outdoor exercise is prohibited, a wider range of businesses are closed, delivery is limited, and enforcement is greater—but for 3 weeks.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1251991349718650881
The chief executive of a MA hospital, outbid for PPE by the feds multiple times, cut a deal, paid extra, hired the trucks — and then was interrogated by the FBI and had to get his Congressperson to intervene to keep DHS from heisting the shipment. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2010025 …
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2010025
Over 4,000 vehicles full of Houstonians showed up at NRG Park Saturday afternoon where 90,000 pounds of food were distributed by Houston ISD with the Houston Food Bank. It was a site I would not have imagined just one month ago. Full story
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Houston-ISD-hands-out-food-to-more-than-4-000-15210655.php#photo-19314380
Trump doing a show and tell on swab vs Q-tips but not yet telling the states when the new shipments will be available as some continue to be desperate for testing supplies
Covid-19 tests as a proportion of the population, selected country rankings:
1. Iceland: 12%
10. Norway: 2.5%
18. Italy: 2.2%
20. Germany: 2.1%
21. Spain: 2.0%
31. Australia: 1.6%
34. Canada: 1.4%
37. Russia: 1.3%
38. USA: 1.1%
52. France: 0.7%
55. UK: 0.7%
Source: Worldometer
https://twitter.com/brianklaas/status/1251784649870802944
Fair point. We need to be focused on answers and obvious inadequacy. How can America be this impotent vs a virus? We really cant make tests? Cant make ppe? We made airplanes in ww2...we stepped up. Where is that now?
https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo/status/1252002200613724169
If you have a marginal cause and few supporters, behave maximally obnoxiously and TV will cover you as if you were the 1963 March on Washington.
As Trump vaguely proclaims everything great on testing, the fact is that there are widespread shortages and other impediments, as confirmed by politicians of both parties, and that the US is nowhere near the level most experts say is needed for a safe lifting of restrictions.
Trump didn't "ban" people from coming in from China or Europe. His travel restrictions had numerous exemptions -- for US citizens, green card holders, many of their family members -- and the Europe restrictions exempted entire countries.
He risked his life photographing the 1961 Freedom Riders. Theodore Gaffney just died from the coronavirus at 92. | In the spring of 1961, Jet magazine asked Theodore Gaffney, a Washington freelance photographer, to travel with the Freedom Riders, a group of activists from across the country who planned to challenge segregation in the South by riding Greyhound and Trailways buses. Organized by the Congress of Racial Equality, the Freedom Riders wanted to sit in the front of the buses with white people, use whites-only restrooms in bus terminals and eat at whites-only lunch counters. Gaffney, who died Easter Sunday of the coronavirus at age 92, eagerly signed up. He found himself risking his life and documenting one of the most tumultuous 48 hours in civil rights history.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/04/16/he-risked-his-life-photographing-1961-freedom-riders-theodore-gaffney-just-died-coronavirus-92/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Nahon
https://www.imdb.com/seen/nm0619600/
He thinks old clips of Cuomo cancel out the newer comments from Cuomo
The Michigan far-right was for rent or lease back in Tea Party days too, as I detailed in this 2012 column about how a Michigan billionaire whistled up a pseudo-citizens' movement to protect his monopoly ownership of a bridge to Canada
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1252008831648923648
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/david-frum-buying-a-bridge-monopoly-in-michigan
Trump again mentioning nice things Cuomo has said about federal help. No mention of criticism including - quoting Cuomo here - "How many times do you want me to say thank you? I'm saying thank you for doing your JOB." I wish they would roll a clip of the scathing comments Cuomo made the other day. That was glorious. Play the full 9 mins when Cuomo tore you up the other morning Donnie, you pathetic man-child.
Trump is now reading quotes from his own tweets aloud at the coronavirus task force briefing. He is leaving out all the comments he made during February to downplay the Coronavirus.
Trump: “I wanna read something I just saw on television.”
Note to Trump: People frequently drive between counties and cities each day
"Who are you with? ... nice and easy. Just relax ... keep your voice down, please. Keep your voice down" -- Trump tries to bully @weijia after she asks him a question about his statements downplaying the virus in February and his decisions to hold rallies that month
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1252018788507234311
THIS “I call these people the modern-day #RosaParks ...protesting against injustice” Stephen Moore #Shutdown demonstrators protest to GO BACK to their jobs—despite more Blacks dying of #coronavirus. Rosa Parks protested against racial injustice and LOST her JOB. Apologize.
https://twitter.com/CornellWBrooks/status/1251525481406529536
Trump says the Justice Department lawyers and FBI agents from the Mueller investigation, many of whom still work for the US government, are "crooked ... dangerous ... very bad ... human scum." During his rant, he also praised convicted criminals Manafort, Flynn, Stone.
It’s been 44 days since the president said, “Anybody that wants a test can get a test.”
1 hour of rambling nonsense
Insulting Mitt Romney
Blaming the Obama/Biden admin for the CDC’s failed attempts at testing Covid 19, a virus that didn’t exist until Trump was president
Praising known insider trader Kelly Loeffler
Praising the people protesting the lockdowns, lockdowns which Trump also said were very good and limited the spread of the virus, all the while saying the protesters were really great Americans with a lot of American flags, and downplaying the fact that some of them literally have Nazi flags and confederate flags and antisemitic flags
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