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The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken.
SPECIAL PREVIEW: JUNE 2020 ISSUE
George Packer Staff writer for The Atlantic OLIVER MUNDAY
When the virus came here, it found a country with serious underlying conditions, and it exploited them ruthlessly. Chronic ills—a corrupt political class, a sclerotic bureaucracy, a heartless […]
Journalist who exposed Donald Trump charitable claims and revealed ‘grab ’em by the pussy’ tape wins Pulitzer
Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold honoured for his dogged investigations, and three prizes for the ‘failing’ New York Times
Rachel Roberts – Tuesday 11 April 2017 01:09
The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold has won a […]
We got creative 😆 Life in plastic is fantastic! Vayu Spa 💆🏻♀
Posted by Roberta Vėju Dziugaite on Thursday, April 23, 2020
WASHINGTON (AP) Apr 28th, 2020 — President Donald Trump took executive action Tuesday to order meat processing plants to stay open amid concerns over growing coronavirus cases and the impact on the nation’s food supply. ********************
The order uses the Defense Production Act to classify meat processing as critical infrastructure to try […]
Note: this interactive map details the corruption within this Administration
https://prospect.org/mapping-corruption-interactive
IRISH TIMES article. by Fintan O’Toole April 25, 2020
THE WORLD HAS LOVED, HATED AND ENVIED THE U.S. NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE PITY IT
Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy […]
Permanent Lockdown – We have been shut out of most of the UK’s open land for centuries. It’s time this changed.
by George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 22nd April 2020
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In the name of freedom, we have been exposed, to a greater extent than any other European nation, to a deadly pandemic. In […]
via Washington Post 202 – By James Hohmann with Mariana Alfaro Email – Apr. 23, 2020
Ousted vaccine expert, alleging retaliation, is not the first scientist sidelined in Trump era
President Trump said three times Wednesday that he had “never heard of” Rick Bright, the scientist who alleges he was removed as the leader of […]
Text from Luciano Berio’s Symphonia Third Movement *********************** “You are nothing but an academic exercise no time for chamber music {…} we need to do something. For though the silence here is almost unbroken it is not completely so he emerges as from heavy hangings. Hardly a resurrection we want that It seems there are […]
Trump declares himself a dictator. Blue-state governors organize. A breakup is now on the table kos for Daily Kos Daily Kos Staff Tuesday April 14, 2020 · 10:40 AM EDT
President Gavin Newsom of the nation-state of California
In a Monday overwhelming with Big News, these two events kinda got lost.
Impeached president […]
The Trailer: The resistance to stay-at-home orders rises from the right
By David Weigel April 16 at 5:46 PM In this edition: The stay-at-home culture wars start in Michigan, “you can temporarily take away my speedboat, but you can never take away my freedom.”
People protest Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home […]
where no one reads the book
The Daily 202 via WaPo – April 15th, 2020 By James Hohmann with Mariana Alfaro Email Leaked CDC and FEMA plan warns of ‘significant risk of resurgence of the virus’ with phased reopening
A draft national strategy to reopen the country in phases, developed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Centers for […]
Checks were being readied for dispersal but Trump insisted his signature be on the checks instead of the Treasury Disbursement Officer, delaying the dispersion …all because POTUS is a petty, petulant, narcissist!
Trump Signing Coronavirus Checks is Nonsensical and Probably Illegal
10 key ways that Trump has let the coronavirus pandemic get out of control: _____________________________________________ *Refusing to take responsibility for his administration’s response to the pandemic. Trump doesn’t believe he’s responsible for how he and his administration are dealing with the crisis. When asked by reporters about it, he said, “I don’t take any […]
Note: This chart shows the percent of confirmed cases of COVID-19 which ended in death in the period: Mar 11 – Apr 9th, 2020
Declining Numbers
a) total US population 325,000,000 = 100%
b) estimated number of potential cases asof Jul 31 – 56,000,000 = 17.2%
c) estimate number of cases with only mild […]
The Extinction Rebellion
Pie joins the Extinction Rebellion protest that is helping save the planet whilst annoying commuters. For tickets to see Jonathan Pie: The Fake News Tour go to JonathanPie.com
Posted by Jonathan Pie on Thursday, April 18, 2019
This is a statement from an epidemiologist at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. Please share widely
.* * *Hey everybody, as an infectious disease epidemiologist, at this point, feel morally obligated to provide some information on what we are seeing from a transmission dynamic perspective and how they apply to the social distancing measures.
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