When the party moves "left", Biden has always followed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/04/28/progressives-biden-moved-left/
I think Cuomo/NY deserve a lot of credit for explicitly saying what the policy is and attaching concrete benchmarks to it. Note also that there are actually 2 constraints, that pertain to both the growth rate and the level: R must be <1.1 and hospitals/ICUs must be <70% capacity.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1255181335737634821
Sweden has closed the country’s last coal-fired power station two years ahead of schedule. It becomes the third European country to exit coal completely after Belgium closed its last coal power station in 2016, and Austria ended its final coal-fired energy operations earlier this month.
https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change-coal-power-sweden-fossil-fuels-stockholm-a9485946.html
It blows me away that Trump continuously abandons and betrays his supporters, yet they still praise him religiously. Reminder: "I can't imagine why": Trump says he takes no responsibility for people ingesting disinfectant despite telling them to
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-ingest-disinfectant-cases-us-white-house-conference-today-a9487106.html
Cult followers dying for their cult leader isn't a new thing. We can see this kind of theme repeated throughout history when it comes to cults. Branch Covidians.
Cult45 = the religion
Branch Covidian = the sect
Covidiot = the title
Covfefe = the communion
Example: Cult45 Covidiots of the Branch Covidians take part in this year's Covfefe ceremony.
Hillary had a pretty accurate name for them as well.
“I would love it if Donald would get on TV and take an injection of Clorox and let’s see if his theory works,” Howard Stern said as he raged about Trump’s suggestion that absorbing disinfectants might cure people of coronavirus.
https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2020/04/howard-stern-id-love-it-if-donald-trump-took-an-injection-of-clorox.html
Chinese officials said there are no coronavirus patients in hospitals across Hubei province, whose capital, Wuhan, was the epicenter of the global pandemic. Many residents and netizens from elsewhere, however, remain skeptical of the government’s claim about Wuhan.
https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/wuhan-residents-skeptical-claim-city-has-zero-hospitalized-covid-19-patients
House leaders on Tuesday reversed course on plans to bring the chamber back into session next week amid fears about whether it is safe to return to the Capitol amid the coronavirus pandemic. Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) announced the change in plans after initially saying the day before that the House would return next Monday, citing discussions with the Capitol physician, who warned that the Washington region has not yet flattened its number of coronavirus cases. "We will not be meeting next week," Hoyer told reporters. "The House physician's view was that there was a risk to members that was one he would not recommend taking."
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/495016-house-reverses-plan-will-not-return-to-washington-next-week
Former CNBC anchor and current congressional candidate Michelle Caruso-Cabrera ripped Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) for voting against a recent $484 billion coronavirus economic stimulus package, accusing her of being "out of touch" with her New York constituents. “If she really cared, she would’ve come home after that last vote,” Caruso-Cabrera, who is challenging Ocasio-Cortez in the upcoming Democratic primary in New York's 14th Congressional District, told Yahoo News. “If she really cared, she wouldn’t drive away 25,000 jobs like she did," she added, in reference to Amazon's decision not to build a New York City headquarters after Ocasio-Cortez opposed the move. "If she really cared, she wouldn’t be telling the poorest people in her district not to go back to work like she did earlier this week. She’s out of touch to tell people who are desperate for food that they shouldn’t go back to work. How out of touch can you be?” Caruso-Cabrera added.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/494982-caruso-cabrera-rips-ocasio-cortez-for-opposing-covid-stimulus-package-how-out
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/aoc-opponent-coronavirus-stimulus-vote-153403278.html
https://twitter.com/MCaruso_Cabrera
https://michellecc2020.com/
The first person to climb Everest with 100% vegan diet and equipment - really inspiring interview with Kuntal Joisher
https://veggievagabonds.com/kuntal-joisher-interview-ethical-adventure-interview/
Don't forget Atanas Skatov, the first known vegan to ascend Everest. As of October 2019 he is attempting to become the first known vegan to summit the 14 highest summits on Earth and has successfully reached the top of 10 of them: Everest (north and south routes), Manaslu, Annapurna, Makalu, Lhotse, Cho Oyu, Kangchenjunga, Gasherbrum I, Gasherbrum II, and Dhaulagiri. I'm not sure if his equipment is vegan but the strength, endurance and dedication shows that diet doesn't effect performance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanas_Skatov
Most people I’ve discussed Tara Reade this with have the same question: How come this didn’t come up during his vetting for VP (because she's a liar, just like Christine Blasey Ford and every single Trump and Epstein and Spacey and Weinstein and Cosby and Clinton accuser.....)? I would imagine that vetting is thorough. Her story has changed too much. No wonder people have doubts. Reade does not come across as very credible. She has changed her story over time. She enhances the allegations the closer we get to November. She does not regret telling her "story" which may be all it is. Biden was the VP of the US from 2009 for 8 years, that was the time to file an official police report, which she currently refuses to do (she did recently filed a report but never named the assaulter).
Mr. Sanders’s 2016 campaign manager and another architect of the 2016 bid are joining together in an effort to rally progressive support for the former vice president ahead of the November election.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/us/politics/bernie-sanders-biden-progressive-super-pac.html
Piglets aborted, chickens gassed as pandemic slams meat sector | He ordered his employees to give injections to the pregnant sows, one by one, that would cause them to abort their baby pigs.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-livestock-insight/piglets-aborted-chickens-gassed-as-pandemic-slams-meat-sector-idUSKCN2292YS
Nathan Robinson pushed Reade’s brother to change his story. I guess this explains why he deleted his entire Twitter history.
https://twitter.com/agraybee/status/1255161155816960003
Vice President Mike Pence tours Mayo Clinic without coronavirus mask even though he was told to wear one. Mike Pence visited the Mayo Clinic Hospital, where he met with a patient who HAS Coronavirus, and was the only person in the room not to wear a mask....Mayo Clinic then tweeted: Mayo Clinic had informed @VP of the masking policy prior to his arrival today
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/28/coronavirus-mike-pence-tours-mayo-clinic-without-mask.html
https://twitter.com/MayoClinic/status/1255199721301442561
https://twitter.com/ddiamond/status/1255148508044128269
Edna Adams lived through the 1918 flu pandemic, women’s suffrage, the Great Depression and two world wars. She died of covid-19 at the age of 105, the oldest D.C. victim
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/at-105-dcs-oldest-coronavirus-victim-was-a-woman-of-faith-who-lived-alone-until-she-turned-100/2020/04/28/944da662-88cd-11ea-8ac1-bfb250876b7a_story.html
"If he’s going to invoke the DPA now for food production facilities, he absolutely should do so for PPE,” Iowa US Rep. Abby Finkenauer says on Trump’s EO mandating meat processing plants stay open amid coronavirus outbreak. At least 20 meat and food processing workers have died.
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1255253997528776706
On the cases, though, that data has started to look better. Tests up, cases down, so the percentage of positive tests is down quite a bit. A lot of this is driven by NY state, which is down to just 16% positives in its testing today (19% for NYC) from a peak of 50% (59% for NYC).
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1255253348175003648
52 positive cases tied to Wisconsin election
https://apnews.com/b1503b5591c682530d1005e58ec8c267
Two men in Georgia drank disinfectants in efforts to prevent COVID-19
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/495089-two-men-in-georgia-drank-disinfectants-in-efforts-to-prevent-covid-19
Pelosi mocks Trump: Ice cream in my freezer better than Lysol in your lungs
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/495118-pelosi-mocks-trump-ice-cream-in-my-freezer-better-than-lysol-in-your-lungs
https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/04/28/pelosi-ice-cream-217103
Andrew Yang is suing the New York board of elections over the effectively-canceled state presidential primary, arguing that canceling it disenfranchises voters and could also suppress turnout for downballot races
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/28/andrew-yang-lawsuit-new-york-primary-217349
"the rule was changed after Bernie withdrew" is a lie
Bill passed: April 2nd
Bill signed: April 3rd
Sanders drops out: April 8th
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/s7506/amendment/b
Kansas Democrats triple turnout after switch to mail-only presidential primary
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article242340181.html
Former NAACP leader Kweisi Mfume wins special election for Maryland congressional seat of the late Elijah Cummings.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/politics/maryland-seventh-district-election-results/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/28/us/elections/results-ohio-primary-elections.html
Naval leaders have recommended Capt. Brett Crozier be restored to command of an aircraft carrier. He was removed after complaining that the Navy was not helping his coronavirus-struck crew enough.
https://www.npr.org/2020/04/24/844777609/the-navy-has-decided-to-restore-capt-brett-crozier
Investigators from former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation told a judge that Trump political adviser Roger Stone orchestrated hundreds of fake Facebook accounts and bloggers to run a political influence scheme on social media in 2016, according to court documents from the Mueller investigation unsealed on Tuesday. The disclosure came as the Justice Department on Tuesday made public dozens of search warrants from its investigation into Stone, after CNN and other news organizations sued for access to the files.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/politics/doj-roger-stone-warrants-lawsuit/index.html
Governments should not use taxpayer cash to rescue fossil fuel companies and carbon-intensive industries, but should devote economic rescue packages for the coronavirus crisis to businesses that cut greenhouse gas emissions and create green jobs, the UN secretary general has urgedC
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/28/un-chief-dont-use-taxpayer-money-to-save-polluting-industries
CEO of surveillance firm hired by Utah is former KKK: Damien Patton helped hate group members shoot up a synagogue in 1990: The CEO and founder of a surveillance firm hired by the state of Utah was involved with the KKK during his youth. The bombshell finding, first revealed by OneZero on Tuesday, links Banjo CEO Damien Patton to the shooting of a Tennessee synagogue in 1990. Patton made headlines in March after his company was awarded a five-year, $20.7 million contract by Utah to use its surveillance software to “detect anomalies.” | But it wasn’t those concerns that ultimately led the Utah Attorney General’s Office to suspend its contract with Banjo on Tuesday. It was his involvement with the Dixie Knights of the Ku Klux Klan instead. In its reporting, OneZero says it was able to locate “transcripts of courtroom testimony, sworn statements, and more than 1,000 pages of records produced from a federal hate crime prosecution.” Patton found himself tied up in the legal system due to his involvement in a drive-by shooting at a Nashville synagogue in 1990 at the age of 17.
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/damien-patton-banjo-kkk/
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2020/04/28/utah-attorney-general/
Utah Attorney General suspends state contract with Banjo in light of founder’s KKK past
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2020/04/28/utah-attorney-general/
The U.S. economy shrank at a 4.8% pace in Q1 - steepest contraction since 2008
https://www.wsj.com/articles/first-quarter-gdp-us-growth-coronavirus-11588123665
Some states, such as Colorado and Kentucky, have reported fewer new cases in the past week. But no single state has had 14 days of decline.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/guidelines-call-14-day-drop-cases-reopen-no-state-has-n1194191
Americans are drinking bleach because of Trump and still Republicans stand by him
https://www.newstatesman.com/international/us/2020/04/americans-are-drinking-bleach-because-trump-and-still-republicans-stand-him
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/28/opinions/biden-sanders-progressives-weaver/index.html
Jeff Weaver: Why Bernie supporters should back Biden
Updated 11:11 PM ET, Tue April 28, 2020
Jeff Weaver, a long-time aide to Senator Bernie Sanders and campaign manager for Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign, is a leader of "Future to Believe In (FTBI) PAC," a new political group to support Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and push for more progressive policies. The opinions expressed here are the writer's own. Read more opinion articles at CNN.
As progressives debate their role in the upcoming general election, they must consider what our movement has accomplished in a very short time and why, at this moment, we must press our advantage and not abandon the people we represent -- working people, middle-income people, the poor and marginalized communities.
Bernie Sanders' millions of volunteers, supporters, donors and voters demonstrated the breadth of our movement that is widening the boundaries of acceptable political debate in this country. As Bernie himself has pointed out, ideas like Medicare for All and jobs for all, that only a few years ago would have been radical, are now supported by the American people. Our work has been so successful that policies such as a $15 minimum hourly wage and free public college tuition have been adopted by the Democratic Party and even by Bernie's primary opponents.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/15/politics/joe-biden-free-public-university-tuition/index.html
We made that happen. We made policies that benefit everyday people important again. We effectively delivered, and will continue to deliver, a new hopeful vision for our country. My good friend Senator Nina Turner uses a quote from the late Congresswoman Barbara Jordan that sums up the vision that we offer -- "an America as good as its promise."
The Sanders' candidacy was always about accelerating our path toward that "America as good as its promise" by institutionalizing as much progressive change into law as could be accomplished had he become president. Just as Republicans have spent decades unsuccessfully trying to gut Social Security and Medicare, so they would spend decades trying to undo a President Sanders' plans for college for all, Medicare for All, and the rest.
Now we have come to the place where Bernie is not going to be the president. I wish I could convey how deeply that hurts me to write it. But that's where we are. We can spend a lot of time fixated on the unfairness of the process over the last two primary cycles, the role of big money, the advantages of the establishment and the fecklessness of much of the media. All that is true. But, so what? Who in our movement ever thought that the ruling class was just going to roll over? Progressive politics is not for the faint of heart.
Now we have come to the place where Bernie is not going to be the president. I wish I could convey how deeply that hurts me to write it. But that's where we are. We can spend a lot of time fixated on the unfairness of the process over the last two primary cycles, the role of big money, the advantages of the establishment and the fecklessness of much of the media. All that is true. But, so what? Who in our movement ever thought that the ruling class was just going to roll over? Progressive politics is not for the faint of heart.
Nor is it a debating society. It's not the "holier than thou" Olympics. It is organizing to achieve real and positive change in the lives of the people we represent. It's not about being right. It's about achieving what's right for the right people. The people who are, in Sanders' words, too often "put down and pushed around." That is why so many people worked for, donated to and voted for Bernie's campaign -- to make life better for ordinary people.
As our movement moves the Democratic Party and much of the nation in our direction through our blood, our sweat, and, too often in recent days, our tears, we must be good stewards of the hard-won political influence we earned to benefit the people we care about.
I don't know anyone who thinks Joe Biden will be as far to the left as president as Sanders would have been. But after all the work we progressives have done together, having knocked on all those doors, made all those calls, made all the small donations, the rank and file supporters of our movement deserve to enjoy the success of their efforts so far. Will the changes we see in the short run be incremental? Of course, they will (although it is our mutual responsibility to make them as expansive as possible). But that increment will be an improvement in the lives of real people that springs directly from the organizing we have done.
Does this mean we should support an incremental approach to change? Absolutely not. We will all continue to push forward an agenda of transformative change and we will fight for candidates who will deliver it. I know this position will be controversial to some, as will the decision to use a SuperPAC as the vehicle for this effort. Senator Sanders himself doesn't approve of this vehicle. But a real improvement in people's lives at this moment is possible. So we must all deliver it in the most effective way we are comfortable with.
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/04/28/us/politics/28reuters-usa-election-sanders.html
Otherwise, how can we look in the face the single mother that Bernie and I met in Iowa, who was making $8.00 an hour, if we sit home because we don't want to pull the lever for Joe Biden -- who supports a $15 minimum wage? Why should our ideological sensitivities mean anything to her and her kids if they can't afford housing, or medicine, or food? Where is our moral standing to ask her or anyone like her to stand with us in the next campaign?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/04/29/joe-biden-minimum-wage-2020-campaign-pittsburgh/3622645002/
How do we explain to the 60-year-old service worker who has no health insurance that we could have gotten her access to Medicare (not a buy-in, but access like 65-year-olds get now)? Should she care that we were so committed to Medicare for All that we wouldn't support a candidate who would make Medicare available only to some 40 million additional people over the course of a single term in office? Why should people trust progressives to protect their interests in the future if we fail to deliver when we have the opportunity now?
In this moment, we must work as hard as we can to secure as much as we can for the people whose interests our movement champions: the poor and marginalized, working families and the middle class. That's not to say any of these changes go far enough or that our work is finished. Far from it. We will keep pushing. We will keep organizing. We will keep building. This isn't about Joe, or Bernie, or any one of us. It's about all of us. It's about meeting the needs of people so that together we can create that America as good as its promise. That won't happen by sitting on the sidelines with our arms folded.
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A study looking at eight Georgia hospitals finds that 80 percent of the COVID-19 patients are black, more than expected. African Americans make up 30 percent of the state's population and more than 50 percent of the deaths.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/more-than-80-percent-of-hospitalized-covid-patients-in-georgia-were-african-american-study-finds/2020/04/29/a71496ea-8993-11ea-8ac1-bfb250876b7a_story.html
Reminder: Coronavirus (red line) is way worse than the flu (yellow line).
https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/1255542590944002048
South Korea now seems to think the so-called "re-infections" it found are actually just false positives. A lot of smart epidemiologists thought this was likely the case all along, so not a huge surprise, but passing this along for people who freaked out earlier.
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1266758/tests-in-recovered-patients-in-s-korea-found-false-positives-not-reinfections-experts-say
The coronavirus may have killed more people in the U.S. than is officially known: Total deaths in 7 hard-hit states are nearly 50% above normal, CDC data shows. That's 9,000 more deaths than were reported as of April 11 in official counts.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/28/us/coronavirus-death-toll-total.html
Texas' attorney general intervened in the coronavirus policy of a remote Colorado county. Records reviewed by AP show an exclusive group of Texans stood to benefit, including a Dallas donor and college classmate. | An Associated Press review of county and campaign finance records shows Paxton’s actions stood to benefit an exclusive group of Texans, including a Dallas donor and college classmate who helped Paxton launch his run for attorney general and had spent five days trying to get a waiver to remain in his $4 million lakeside home. Robert McCarter’s neighbors in the wealthy Colorado enclave of Crested Butte are also Paxton campaign contributors, including a Texas oilman who has given Paxton and his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, more than $252,000.
https://apnews.com/3c992cd29925f80e94c5d75ef82f7fe4
Congressional Black Caucus member Joyce Beatty defeats Justice Democrat Morgan Harper in Ohio. The shellacking Harper received is a big rebuke to the national progressive insurgency.
https://www.businessinsider.com/joyce-beatty-morgan-harper-ohio-dem-primary-live-results-votes-2020-4
500 TSA employees have tested positive for COVID-19
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/495225-500-tsa-employees-have-tested-positive-for-covid-19
How many elections does the social media mob have to lose before concluding that coalition building beats online vitriol every time?
https://twitter.com/hakeem_jeffries/status/1255340788189462531
Twelve rangers and five other people were killed in Virunga National Park in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo. It was the latest deadly incident in the park, where more than 150 rangers have been killed since 2006.
https://news.mongabay.com/2020/04/twelve-rangers-killed-in-latest-virunga-park-incident/
If a single unfactual gossip-based Ronan Farrow story can sink you, then five deep-dive investigations by the New York Times, Washington Post, NBC, AP, and Salon that find nothing - not one shred of evidence - clears you. I dismiss all the accusers of Trump, B. Clinton, Kavanaugh, Cosby, Biden, Weinstein, Franken, etc, as liars. I am a female and a minority and I am telling you, 99% of females dismiss the accusers as liars. Real sexual assault, real sexual harassment, real sexual misconduct, is serious, not the lies these females are selling for personal profit.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will grant an emergency use authorization for remdesivir after early results from a clinical trial showed the drug’s promise in treating COVID-19 patients, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The move would allow doctors to use remdesivir to treat coronavirus patients, even though it has not formally been approved to treat the deadly disease.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/495292-fda-to-authorize-emergency-use-of-new-coronavirus-treatment-nyt
Judge blocks Trump from giving coronavirus relief for Native American communities to corporations
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/29/judge-blocks-trump-from-giving-coronavirus-relief-for-native-american-communities-to-corporations/
Florida officials have reportedly withheld medical examiners’ data on coronavirus deaths in the state for over a week, with the policy changing shortly after the Tampa Bay Times reported that the medical examiners were counting 10 percent more deaths than the state. Stephen Nelson, the chairman of the state Medical Examiners Commission, told the Tampa Bay Times that the state health department intervened and told him it planned to remove causes of death and case descriptions from mortality data. Nelson told the newspaper the data is meaningless without that information, and the entirety of the list should be considered public information. “This is no different than any other public record we deal with,” he said. “It’s paid for by taxpayer dollars and the taxpayers have a right to know.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/495295-florida-ordered-coroners-to-stop-releasing-coronavirus-death-data-report
https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/04/29/florida-medical-examiners-were-releasing-coronavirus-death-data-the-state-made-them-stop/
A federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday that Kansas can’t require voters to show proof of citizenship when they register, dealing a blow to efforts by Republicans in several states who have pursued restrictive voting laws as a way of combating voter fraud. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals panel in Salt Lake City upheld a federal judge’s injunction nearly two years ago that prohibited Kansas from enforcing the requirement, which took effect in 2013. The appeals court, in a ruling that consolidated two appeals, found the statute former Gov. Sam Brownback signed into law violates the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause and the National Voter Registration Act, commonly known as the “motor-voter law.” Many experts say voter fraud is extremely rare, and critics contend the Republican-led efforts are actually meant to suppress turnout from groups who tend to back Democrats, including racial minorities and college students. The law was championed by former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who led Trump’s now-defunct voter fraud commission. Kobach was a leading source for Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that millions of immigrants living in the U.S. illegally may have voted in the 2016 election. Dale Ho, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Voting Rights Project, said the ruling doesn’t immediately affect other states because Kansas’s law was unique in requiring people to show a physical document such as a birth certificate or passport when applying to register to vote. However, Ho said the ruling is grounded in a broader constitutional principle that when a state significantly burdens the right to vote, it has to justify it. “Kansas wasn’t able to muster evidence that the law in question here was necessary to prevent voter fraud, and I think that broader principle could have reverberations beyond the specific context of this case in a wide range of disputes over voting access between now and November,” Ho said. The decision is binding in states covered by the 10th Circuit, which also covers Oklahoma, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, plus those portions of the Yellowstone National Park extending into Montana and Idaho.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/court-says-kansas-cant-require-voters-to-show-citizenship-proof
Jameis Winston’s one-year contract with the Saints carries a base value of $1.1M, per source. He got a $148,000 signing bonus, a base salary of $952,000 and $3.4M is available in incentives. Jameis prioritized the chance to learn and grow as a player. (twitter.com)
https://twitter.com/fieldyates/status/1255499799316619269
.@realDonaldTrump has eschewed a daily coronavirus briefing for lengthy Q&A sessions at @WhiteHouse events. However, unlike the briefing, none of the cable networks are taking today's full Q&A live.
https://twitter.com/johnrobertsFox/status/1255610423287611395
DOJ must pay attorney fees in sanctuary city case | In a written opinion, U.S. District Judge Harry D. Leinenweber awarded the United States Conference of Mayors more than $97,000 in attorney fees it incurred battling the federal government’s attempt to withhold public safety funds from sanctuary cities. Leinenweber held the conference established it is entitled to the fees under the Equal Access to Justice Act.
https://www.chicagolawbulletin.com/getdoc/2b6072db-77ea-4a67-9afb-c5cbd5080017/feds-ordered-to-pay-$97k-in-sanctuary-city-case
Ron DeSantis announced that Florida will start lifting stay-at-home orders starting Monday. The orders won’t apply to Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, however, where the epidemic has hit hardest.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article242368531.html
"Hopefully in the not too distant future we'll have some massive rallies and people will be sitting next to each other. I can't imagine a rally where you have every 4th seat full, every six seats are empty for every one you have full. That wouldn't look too good."
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1255609621919731714
Nearly 400 workers in Georgia’s prized poultry industry have tested positive for the disease caused by the coronavirus, and one has died from his illness, according to Georgia Department of Public Health statistics obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. | Nationwide, at least 20 meatpacking workers have died from COVID-19 and more than 5,000 have been hospitalized for it or are showing symptoms of the disease, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Meanwhile, 22 meatpacking plants have closed during the last two months, resulting in a 25% reduction in pork slaughter capacity and a 10% percent drop in beef slaughter capacity, the union said.
https://www.ajc.com/news/breaking-news/hundreds-georgia-poultry-workers-have-tested-positive-for-covid/K0vGYEGTSbvAYIeU3I6qtM/
http://www.ufcw.org/press/
CLOSE DOWN ANIMAL EXPLOITATION INDUSTRY. STOP. BREEDING. THESE. TORTURED. CREATURES. RELOCATE THEM TO SANCTUARY FARMS. PROBLEM SOLVED. RETOOL SLAUGHTERHOUSE INTO VEGAN MEAT/DAIRY FACTORIES.
While you‘ve been desperately trying to apply for #unemployment through #Florida DEO’s debacle, @SenRickScott says you are “today’s welfare queens, out to game the system & cheat the taxpayer”
https://twitter.com/Annette_Taddeo/status/1255611991928057857
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/opinion/editorials/fl-op-edit-coronavirus-florida-unemployment-rick-scott-20200429-uzvhqrk3kngq3bqmhse72zrfam-story.html
Sen. Coons (D-Del.) defends former VP Joe Biden against allegations of sexual misconduct. "I know Joe, I know his life, his character, his record" #MTPDaily @ChrisCoons: "He and his campaign urged that these allegations be fully investigated. They have been."
https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1255611061165871104
Trump says one death is too many, but "if we lose 65,000 people," that's horrible but we could've lost 1 or 2 million if we didn't do what we did. (Again, nine days ago, he said we could finish between 50,000 and 60,000 deaths. He keeps revising the success number upward.)
https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1255611435775922178
Last Wednesday, two days before Trump lashed out at Parscale, his campaign manager and several other top political advisers briefed him on internal campaign and Republican National Committee data showing the President was heading for defeat in key battleground states. Parscale, RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel and other advisers urged him to scale back his daily, combative news conferences and pointed to data showing that the briefings were hurting him with critical swing voters in those states.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/29/politics/donald-trump-brad-parscale-campaign-coronavirus/index.html
No, the Media Isn’t Burying the Biden Allegations
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/29/no-the-media-isnt-burying-the-biden-allegations-221920
When holding the press to account, whether TV or not, it’s also worth noting the difficulty of confirming another outlet’s findings. The Wednesday Washington Post repeats the nut of the new Business Insider story on Page One, but has trouble advancing it very far because Reade’s two acquaintances did not respond to the Post’s requests for comment.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/04/29/no-the-media-isnt-burying-the-biden-allegations-221920
^I'm glad the author brought this point up. Something I've noticed about the media outlets that rushed to publish articles on the story always did so in a really sloppy way. It looks really bad when these stories are done not following standard journalistic practices. Too often these independent media outlets are just quoting each other as their sources.
YEP: .@NYCMayor - we strongly support social-distancing and agree the time for warnings has passed. We also know what happens when any one community is scapegoated or referred to in generalizations, especially when threatening arrest & as anti-Semitism is on the rise. Words matter.
https://twitter.com/HalieSoifer/status/1255551816567226369
It is worth noting we are still adding about 25,000 cases and over 2,000 deaths a day, and have already blown through the University of Washington estimate for how many deaths would occur through the end of May. And that assumed continuation of distancing that's now being unwound.
Dozens of Decomposing Bodies Found in Trucks at Brooklyn Funeral Home. Neighbors complained of a foul odor coming from trucks parked outside the home, which had a broken freezer, a law enforcement official said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/nyregion/bodies-brooklyn-funeral-home-coronavirus.html
Kentucky Gov. Beshear thought it was a joke when a man named Tupac Shakur filed for unemployment and has since apologized.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tupac-shakur-filed-unemployment-kentucky-governor-could-hardly-believe-it-n1195011
Michael Fleming died in federal prison on April 19th. The first word his family received from the BOP that he was even ill with coronavirus came after he died. A prison chaplain called to ask if his body should be cremated & where the ashes could be sent. | Over 70% of tested inmates in federal prisons have COVID-19
https://apnews.com/fb43e3ebc447355a4f71e3563dbdca4f
It's fascinating how much staying power the Tara Reade allegation has had compared to the allegations against Trump. Dismiss ALL accusers as LIARS and tell them "go to the police and tell them you want to file an official account with the perpetrator's name and want them to investigate the report, and include the names and contact information of each and every witness. Refusal means nothing happened and you're a liar."
After One Tweet To President Trump, This Man Received $69 Million From New York For Ventilators | The Silicon Valley engineer, who had no background in medical supplies but was recommended by the White House, never delivered the ventilators.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosalindadams/after-one-tweet-to-president-trump-this-man-got-69-million
He could already picture the virus spreading as players moved from table to table, passing cards from hand to hand, seeding an invisible course of infection. | A bridge club was a social draw for scores of older Coloradans. Now, with four members dead from the virus, its future is unclear.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/29/us/coronavirus-bridge-colorado-springs.html
Another NYT article that missed out on saying he is Biden his time: Joe Biden Is Not Hiding. He’s Lurking. Never get in the way of an incumbent who is digging his own grave.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/opinion/joe-biden-campaign.html
Just Biden My Time Til The Revolution
https://helloresistance.com/collections/just-biden-my-time-til-the-revolution
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