Events

2nd Wednesday Happy Hour Dinners
April Happy hour Dinner at Shirky's Pizzia Zone in Carroll
Event Details  ·  Apr 8, 2020

Adopt a highway
Join fellow Dems in community service cleaning the roadside on Rt 33.
Event Details  ·  Apr 25, 2020

Election Day
Election Day - Vote by Mail Only
Event Details  ·  Apr 28, 2020

2nd Wednesday Happy Hour Dinners
May Happy hour Dinner at O'Huids Pub in Lancaster
Event Details  ·  May 13, 2020

2nd Wednesday Happy Hour Dinners
June Happy hour Dinner at El Pedregal Mexican Restaurant Pub in Lithopolis
Event Details  ·  Jun 10, 2020

News Articles

ICE cancels request for 45,000 face masks for deportation agents following congressional pressure
While Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is incapable of feeling shame, it seems it can still be shamed: Border Report said the agency "suddenly canceled” an order for 45,000 face masks that it put out as medical professionals nationwide have been experiencing a mass shortage of...
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Mar 30, 2020  

Seniors, despite the coronavirus, still support Trump
With America’s pandemic-related death toll projected to soon be in the tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands by the end of April, we know for a fact that seniors will be the most heavily impacted by the disease.  Yet for whatever reason, seniors are most likely to be satisfied...
News Item  ·  5 DailyKos Headlines  ·  Mar 30, 2020  

Twitter Deletes Laura Ingraham’s ‘Misleading’ Post Touting Coronavirus Cure
REUTERSTwitter on Monday morning deleted Fox News host Laura Ingraham’s viral tweet posted earlier this month touting the drug hydroxychloroquine as having been used by one New York hospital to “very promising results” and claiming that one “seriously ill” patient had a Lazarus-like...
News Item  ·  Daily Beast  ·  Mar 30, 2020  

Your Freezer Is Important at a Time Like This. Make the Most Out of It With these Helpful Tips
I have spent more time in my freezer these days, shuffling through bags of frozen cauliflower rice and chicken thighs, as I’m cooking dinner almost every night. The freezer can be a daunting tundra of freezer burnt leftovers and old, plastic quart containers. But fear not, there are ways to...
News Item  ·  Daily Beast  ·  Mar 30, 2020  

What Happens When a 5-Year-Old in ICE Detention Is Considered a Coronavirus Risk
A five-year-old girl in a Pennsylvania immigration detention facility was rushed to a nearby hospital with pneumonia-like symptoms on Monday—only to be returned the facility that same day and put in isolation with her mother after being tested for COVID-19. The girl, who had been detained for...
News Item  ·  Mother Jones Politics  ·  Mar 28, 2020  

Walmart Was Almost Charged Criminally Over Opioids. Trump Appointees Killed the Indictment.
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. On a Tuesday just before Halloween in 2018, a group of federal prosecutors and agents from Texas arrived in...
News Item  ·  Mother Jones Politics  ·  Mar 28, 2020  

Let’s Count Our Blessings. If You Think Things Are Bad, Look Back a Century
  In a recent column, Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, an assiduous observer of our present plight, wrote that “this is the week when memories rush back from childhood.” I’ll second that. A particular memory from my own childhood is that of an oft-told retelling by my grandmother in...
News Item  ·  Plunderbund  ·  Mar 26, 2020  

“Yeah, We Should Have Our Wills Ready”: What Happens When Both Parents Get COVID-19
The CDC told them not to hug their daughter. When the 7-year-old cried, she took off her daughter’s sock and rubbed her foot.
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  Mar 30, 2020  

Amazon and Instacart Workers Are Striking for COVID-19 Protections
Workers are asking for hazard pay and safety gear, among other things.
News Item  ·  Slate  ·  Mar 30, 2020  

All the President’s Crackpots
Jeet Heer Richard A. Epstein’s crank theories about the coronavirus are influential thanks to a powerful network of right-wing legal activists. The post All the President’s Crackpots appeared first on The Nation.
News Item  ·  The Nation  ·  Mar 30, 2020  

As the Coronavirus Pandemic Spreads, Gun Sales Soar
Colleen Quinn “Coming storm”: In the United States, gun violence is already a public health epidemic. The post As the Coronavirus Pandemic Spreads, Gun Sales Soar appeared first on The Nation.
News Item  ·  The Nation  ·  Mar 30, 2020  

Majority say television is their primary news source amid coronavirus pandemic: poll
A vast majority of Americans say television is their primary source of news as the U.S. hunkers down amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new poll.The latest Harvard CAPS/Harris poll found that 71 percent...
News Item  ·  The Hill  ·  Mar 30, 2020  

Cuomo favorability in US hits 45 percent: poll
Forty-five percent of Americans say they have a favorable view of how New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) is responding to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released exclusively to The Hill....
News Item  ·  The Hill  ·  Mar 30, 2020