Fact check: Trump claims it's his call on when to
'reopen' the country. He's wrong. Only
the states can give shutdown orders, and only the states can lift them, legal
scholars say. Many governors agree.
Trump’s latest coronavirus press briefing featured one of
his most memorable meltdowns yet
“When somebody is the president of the United States, the
authority is total.”
Contrary to Trump’s Claim, A Pandemic Was Widely Expected
at Some Point
RUSSIA WANTS TO TEAM UP WITH U.S. TO 'FIGHT AGAINST'
CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
80% of Russia’s Coronavirus Aid to Italy ‘Useless’ – La
Stampa
'Lock her up!': Anti-Whitmer coronavirus lockdown protestors
swarm Michigan Capitol. Demonstrators
were supposed to stay in their cars for social distancing. Not everyone did.
Failure: Debunking Trump's dangerous new attack on W.H.O
during pandemic. In an unusual Rose
Garden announcement, Pres. Trump attacked and pulled funding from the World
Health Organization, raising alarms over how the move may compromise
international work to combat the coronavirus. In this special report airing
directly after the White House announcement, MSNBC anchor Ari Melber
fact-checks the President’s allegations against the W.H.O. -- documenting how
several apply more to Trump’s initial virus response rather than the health
organization.
We’re Going to Need a Bigger Bailout: As the pandemic
spreads and the economic collapse continues, Congress will have to act again.
Furious Trump ERUPTS in Authoritarian Explosion
Let's talk about about dancing nurses and Matt Walsh....
Let's talk about reopening the economy....
Top U.S. & World Headlines — April 16, 2020
Trump unveils ‘Opening Up America’ plan, aims for May 1
Senate Republicans snuck $90 billion tax cut for
millionaires into coronavirus relief bill
Russia will accept Trump's offer of ventilators
Russia will accept Trump’s ventilator offer for
coronavirus patients if needed
The COVID Class Divide, Trump's Narcissism & Handouts
for the 1% | The Common Good with Robert Reich
Trump Encourages His Supporters To Defy Stay At Home
Orders
'If he's sitting watching TV, he should go to work':
Cuomo roasts Trump over coronavirus response in fiery press conference
Florida beaches will start reopening THIS EVENING:
Jacksonville becomes first county to start easing restrictions - despite
state's RISING COVID-19 infection rate - after Trump handed control to
governors with three-phase plan to reopen America
Governor Wolf has outlined a plan for relief, reopening,
and recovery that will keep Pennsylvanians alive and repair the damage this
virus has caused across Pennsylvania.
Republicans are willing to accept millions dying because
they have ’embraced’ Trump’s death cult: conservative columnist
GOP digs in against more economic aid for people,
hospitals, states
Dr. Anthony Fauci shuts down Laura Ingraham’s
‘misleading’ coronavirus claim
Pence, in Craziest Lie Yet, Denies Trump Ever Downplayed
the Coronavirus
Cuomo offers up New York as coronavirus vaccine
‘laboratory’
Dr. Phil begrudgingly apologizes for comparing
coronavirus to swimming pool deaths
Mikhail Gorbachev: When The Pandemic Is Over, The World
Must Come Together
Did the President Incite a Riot? A new case filed by anti-Trump protesters
will test the limits of free speech—and the responsibility Trump bears for his
own statements.
Mitch McConnell tried to gut a CDC program directed at
detecting and responding to infectious-disease outbreaks
COULD TRUMP BE CRIMINALLY LIABLE FOR HIS DEADLY
MISHANDLING OF CORONAVIRUS? | OPINION
Pastor Flouting Stay-At-Home Order Remains Defiant After
Parishioner’s Death: His congregant died due to COVID-19, but Tony Spell still
plans to keep his church open while asking for people’s stimulus checks.
The lost month: Trump says he took ‘strong action’ in
February to stop coronavirus. Here’s the full picture.
“Gangster in the White House”: Noam Chomsky on COVID-19,
WHO, China, Gaza and Global Capitalism
‘Stop tweeting. People are dying’: Trump condemned for
Twitter rampage encouraging right-wing protests
Trump’s GOP is worried that coronavirus shows that a
social democratic state is feasible: op-ed
Trump’s precipitous collapse in the polls is tied to the
coronavirus ‘chaos’ he is creating: columnist
Trump’s old strategy of ‘outrunning his debts’ won’t work
when it comes to defeating coronavirus: op-ed
Trump campaign fraudulently claims ‘Democrats are trying
to steal the election’ as president calls to ‘liberate’ blue states
‘Dereliction of duty’: Senate Democrats blow up at Pence
over lack of COVID-19 tests on conference call
Intelligence Failure: The Director of National
Intelligence was created after the 9/11 disaster to bring coherence to the
intelligence community and “speak truth to power.” Trump wants a DNI who will
tell him only what he wants to hear.
Trump is insane: And it's time for leading Democrats to
say that out loud. Rational Americans already understand that our president is
mentally ill. Will Democrats ever speak truth to power?
Trump’s Deadly Search for a Scapegoat: If the president
had listened to the World Health Organization, American lives would have been
saved.
A beloved bar owner was skeptical about the virus. Then he took a cruise.
Trump Boasts He Likely Saved ‘Billions’ Of Lives In A
Nation With 330 Million People: That’s a whopper.
Hundreds crowd newly reopened Florida beaches even as the
state sees a spike in coronavirus infections
Donald Trump Says Protesters Challenging State Lockdown
Orders “Seem To Be Very Responsible People To Me”
An Infectious Stupidity or Conspiracy of Idiots
The White House Has Erected A Blockade Stopping States
and Hospitals From Getting Coronavirus PPE
Coronavirus: migrants in frontline jobs not entitled to
any financial help if they get sick
Foreign NHS workers are risking their lives for us – and
paying for the privilege: They are battling on the coronavirus frontline but
still liable for the NHS surcharge, set to rise to £624
Trump’s Plan to Contain the Coronavirus by Unleashing
Anarchy Seems Risky
Opinion: Why Is Trump Gutting Regulations That Save
Lives? Smart safeguards, designed by
specialists, protect public health and safety.
Tea party-style protests break out across the country
against stay-at-home orders: The gatherings to oppose what critics say is
government overreach have been promoted by conservative commentators.
'This Is a Massive Scandal': Trump FDA Grants Drug
Company Exclusive Claim on Promising Coronavirus Drug. "It is insane and unacceptable,"
said Bernie Sanders. "We will not tolerate profiteering. Any treatment or
vaccine must be made free for all."
Illinois' governor organized secret flights to bring
masks and gloves from China out of fear Trump would seize them
Pulling back the curtain on the not-all-that-pro-life
movement
Maryland Acquires 500K COVID-19 Tests From South Korean
Lab, Gov. Hogan Wants To Test Up To 20,000 A Day
Shake Shack returning $10 million government loan meant
for small businesses: With the Paycheck Protection Program already out of money,
the burger chain says other restaurateurs need its loan more than it does.
The Trump Administration Is Writing a Death Sentence for
America’s Most Important Restaurants: The CARES act bails out homogeneous
chains but ignores the local restaurants that have transformed every region of
this country.
Conservative activist family behind 'grassroots'
anti-quarantine Facebook events: A family-run network of pro-gun groups is
behind five of the largest Facebook groups dedicated to protesting the
shelter-in-place restrictions.
Trump allies beg Bill Barr to take action against states
for imposing coronavirus restrictions
CNN’s Anderson Cooper stunned
as oil prices drop below zero: ‘I’m not even sure what that means’
Kentucky sees highest spike in coronavirus cases after
lockdown protests
Fully Armed Rally-Goers Enter Kentucky’s Capitol Building
With Zero Resistance: “I’m not a Kentucky resident… I’m a complete stranger. I
walked in [and security acted like] ‘Cool, come on in. Enjoy the capitol,’” one
of the gun-toting men said
Give Me Liberty and Also Death: American Ignorance rears
its head as scattered groups of protesters demand an end to the coronavirus
lockdown because "liberty."
White House, GOP, face heat after hotel and restaurant
chains helped run small business program dry
Morten Morland’s animated cartoon: Donald Trump’s
coronavirus press conference
POLITICAL OPERATIVES DESIGNED ANTI-STAY-AT-HOME RALLIES
TO DIVERT ATTENTION AND KEEP PUBLIC DIVIDED
Letters from an American April 19, 2020
Reich at Home: Alarming Lockdown Protests, Unemployment
Benefits in Limbo, Mixed Families Ignored
Barr threatens legal action against governors over lockdowns
Opinion: The Infection That’s Silently Killing
Coronavirus Patients. This is what I
learned during 10 days of treating Covid pneumonia at Bellevue Hospital.
Texas lt. governor on reopening state: 'There are more
important things than living'
Biden Ad: Trump Left U.S. Unprepared For Epidemic,
"Rolled Over For The Chinese"
The head of WHO warns that 'the worst' of the coronavirus
pandemic is 'ahead of us'
In front of White House, Nurses read names of colleagues
killed by coronavirus
Trump Puts For-Profit Insurer in Charge of COVID-19
Hospital Funds
Director of key federal vaccine
agency says his departure was retaliation
Tennessee woman gets
coronavirus after bragging about not social distancing
Elizabeth Warren Demands
Investigations Into Trump’s Shambolic Coronavirus Response: For instance, why
has Jared Kushner been allowed anywhere near this thing?
Top Coronavirus Aide’s Last Job Was Breeding Dogs: Report
Elizabeth Warren’s Oldest Brother, Don Reed Herring, Dies
Of Coronavirus: The senator has been a vocal critic of the Trump
administration’s response to the pandemic.
Elizabeth Warren’s Oldest Brother Dies of Coronavirus in
Oklahoma
Sen. Warren's brother, Don Reed, dies from coronavirus
Trump Company asks Federal Government to include it in
any rent relief offered tenants
Boris Johnson to seize control over NHS with new law:
Ministers want new powers to instruct health bosses to force pace of change,
amid fears that private-sector involvement could be expanded across health
service
Anti-Lockdown Protests Distract from Trump’s Coronavirus
Failures | The Common Good w/ Robert Reich
Trump Didn't See It Coming: Coronavirus Deaths Increased
Tenfold This Month
We Are Living in a Failed State:
The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken.
Trump’s dangerously effective
coronavirus propaganda: The president’s effort to play down the pandemic is being amplified by a coalition of partisan
media, digital propagandists, and White House officials
Boris Johnson and Donald Trump agree ‘coordinated’
response to coronavirus: British prime minister and US president also committed
to signing a free-trade agreement ‘as soon as possible.’
Donald Trump on 'injecting patients with disinfectant'
and UV light to treat coronavirus
House Republicans anger Democrats by refusing to wear
protective masks
Grim Reapers: How Trump and Xi set the stage for the
coronavirus pandemic
It’s not a protest. It’s a Trump-endorsed tantrum: This
is the apex of Trumpism and aggrieved white victimhood: angry, illogical, and
corrosive.
The looming battle between science and stupidity:
Governors rush in where the coronavirus pandemic experts fear to tread.
The assault on women’s abortion rights: Some states are
including abortions as “non-essential” medical services, to be postponed
indefinitely during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Vanishing Public Square: What happens when we can no
longer march?
The States Are Stepping Up: Imagine how much worse off
we'd be if governors weren't challenging Trump’s policy of neglect.
Jim Hightower: Pandemic Profiteers, Trump and Peter
Cottontail
Coronavirus Proves It: We Need Medicare for All. Health care rationing isn’t what awaits us in
a single-payer system. It’s happening now in our failed for-profit system.
Letters to the Editor: Labels Are Not the Problem, etc.
TRUMP KEEPS TOUTING VIRUS ‘CURE’ DESPITE DEATH, EXTREME
ILLNESS AND DOCTORS’ WARNINGS.
How Governor Cuomo Filled the Void
Thanks, Nancy
Efficiency vs. Resilience: This crisis is pulling back
the curtain on unfettered capitalism, showing that we are actually
interconnected.
Who’ll Play Dan Patrick’s Hunger Games?
Crisis at the Borders
Trump Goes Full ‘Shock Doctrine’ As Pandemic Rages: The
administration is pushing its pro-polluter agenda as the U.S. death toll from
COVID-19 rises.
An Epidemic of Insecurity
The Relative Generosity of the Economic Rescue Package:
Boeing vs. Public Broadcasting
Not an April Fool: This humiliating failure is actually
our president during a national crisis
Turns out a second-rate celebrity whose only skill was in
branding was not qualified for this. What a surprise
Robert B. Reich: Ignore the billionaires; public health
comes first
Absentee President
We Need a 9/11 Commission to Probe Coronavirus
Trump's Personal Politics Mean a Cruel April for American
Cities
The End of American Exceptionalism: The word means
different things to different people—but it’s gone.
Out of the Coronavirus Crisis Can Come Efficient Historic
Changes for Justice
The Speech Trump Must but Cannot Give
Republicans were warned. Yet they persisted in defending
Trump
New study finds that Hannity viewership correlates with
more COVID-19 cases and fatalities: University of Chicago study finds
statistical evidence suggesting that “greater viewership of Hannity relative to
Tucker Carlson Tonight is strongly associated with a greater number of COVID-19
cases and deaths in the early stages of the pandemic”
On MSNBC’s All In, Angelo Carusone describes how Fox News
laid the groundwork for anti-mitigation effort protests. Carusone: “They create the demand and then
they’re able to satisfy it, and reward it, promote it, and amplify it”
Why We Need To Shut Down The Idea Of Reopening America |
Full Frontal on TBS
Coronavirus V: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
GOP Governors Will Push Workers off Unemployment by
Reopening Early: The Department of Labor confirmed to VICE that workers who
refuse to return to work out of a general fear for their safety will lose their
CARES Act unemployment benefits.
Republican state lawmakers sign on to plan calling for
immediate and full re-opening of Ohio businesses
Al Gore on Trump pandemic response: 'Irresponsible,
incompetent, and disgraceful performance'.
Former Vice President Al Gore: “We’ve got to get through this in spite
of Donald Trump. But it has been an irresponsible, incompetent, and in many
ways disgraceful performance.”
Trump Says He Takes No
Responsibility For People Ingesting Disinfectant: The president said he “can’t
imagine” people are ingesting disinfectant to treat COVID-19 because of his
comments last week.
Trump’s COVID-19 failure shows his ‘omnipotent
destructiveness’ — as he is ‘actively engaging in sabotage’: Psychologist John
Gartner
Trump admin forsakes worker safety in false choice over
meat supply: Debbie Berkowitz, former senior policy advisor for OSHA, talks
with Rachel Maddow about the false choice the Donald Trump administration has
presented of either preserving the U.S. food supply or keep workers safe from COVID-19
infection in meat processing plants.
Trump Orders Meat Plants to Stay Open in Move Slammed by
Union
Pence flouts Mayo Clinic policy by touring coronavirus
testing facility without a mask: Pence defended his actions afterward, saying
he didn't need a mask because he is "tested for the coronavirus on a
regular basis."
Reich at Home: Trump’s Latest Quackery — From Drinking
Disinfectant to Nonexistent Voter Fraud
Trump’s COVID-19 Timeline VS. WHO's COVID-19 Timeline |
NowThis
‘A phantom plague’: Evangelicals who defied social
distancing guidelines are dying of coronavirus in frightening numbers
Trump uncorks nonsensical rant about Obama failing to
deliver tests for virus that didn’t exist last year
Trump reportedly ignored intel briefings on coronavirus
threat: Trump "rarely, if ever" reads the President's Daily Briefing.
When it comes to the coronavirus, his indifference has had brutal consequences.
The FBI Didn’t Frame Michael Flynn. That’s Just Trump’s
Excuse for a Prospective Pardon. Flynn’s
lawyer says new documents show that Flynn was “set up” by the FBI. In fact,
they show no such thing. But they may provide a flimsy excuse for a pardon.
DeSantis and Trump tout Florida a coronavirus success as
state announces 83 new deaths: The Republican governor from the Oval Office
took aim at governors issuing strict orders. ‘Florida’s done better,’ he said.
Governors in all 50 states get better marks than Trump
for COVID response
Coronavirus update: German infection rate ticks higher
after reopening moves, offers lesson to U.S. governors
FLORIDA STOPS MEDICAL EXAMINERS FROM RELEASING
CORONAVIRUS DEATH DATA: REPORT
NATIONAL GUARD PROTECTING MARYLAND'S CORONAVIRUS TESTS IN
UNDISCLOSED LOCATION SO FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CAN'T SEIZE THEM
Michigan Governor Reinstates State of Emergency as Protests
Ramp Up: The governor’s moves were in response to the Republican-led
Legislature’s refusal to extend the original emergency declaration.
Trump calls protesters who carried guns into the Michigan
Capitol 'very good people' and says the governor should 'make a deal' with them
The Secret Group of Scientists and Billionaires Pushing a
Manhattan Project for Covid-19: They are working to cull the world’s most
promising research on the pandemic, passing on their findings to policy makers
and the White House
The Oil Execs On Trump’s ‘Opening The Country’ Council
Are Major GOP Donors: The 12-member energy panel includes eight fossil fuel
executives who have donated $4.2 million to Republican candidates and PACs
since June 2016.
White House blocks Fauci from testifying next week
NIH abruptly cuts coronavirus research funding, alarming
scientists: The funding went to understanding how coronaviruses jump from bats
to humans.
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