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• 5 DailyKos Headlines
• Mar 30, 2020 Both town and staff are livid with Falwell for reopening Liberty University during pandemic Politico has a closer look at Jerry Falwell Jr.'s decision to reopen his grifty Liberty University, inviting students back into the dorms after they distributed themselves across the country during spring break. Sure enough, some students are now displaying possible COVID-19 symptoms, and the...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Mar 30, 2020 Republican state and local officials realize the truth: Trump is hampering fight against coronavirus As the first reports of a deadly and horrendously infective respiratory virus ravaging China emerged in January, some state and local emergency coordinators around the country galvanized. And some listened to Donald Trump and—tragically—believed him. This investigative piece from The...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Mar 30, 2020 Trump warns that easier voting means 'you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again' Donald Trump called in to Fox & Friends Monday morning and openly admitted that if more people vote, Republicans will lose. Democrats are pushing for vote by mail so that people don’t have to risk coronavirus to exercise their right to vote. Asked about “special interest projects”...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Mar 30, 2020 'Moving the goalposts' doesn't begin to describe what Trump is doing on coronavirus deaths In just over a month, Donald Trump has gone from predicting that U.S. coronavirus cases would be “down close to zero” very soon to suggesting that a mere 100,000 to 200,000 deaths would represent “a very good job” by him. In response, the terms “moving the goalposts” and...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Mar 30, 2020 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...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Daily Beast
• Mar 30, 2020 Pentagon May Keep Paratroopers in Mideast to Counter Iran via REUTERSDefense Secretary Mark Esper is looking at extending the deployment of a reaction force sent to the Middle East to counter Iran’s militia network, according to three sources and documents provided to The Daily Beast. The 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division arrived...     Daily Beast        more   
• Mar 30, 2020 CNN Chief Jeff Zucker Defends Not Cutting Away From Trump’s Coronavirus Pressers MIKE COPPOLA/GETTYIMAGESCNN chief Jeff Zucker on Monday defended the network’s decision to carry President Donald Trump’s coronavirus press briefings live despite criticism that he uses the conferences to spread misinformation during a pandemic.During an internal employee call, the network...     Daily Beast        more   
• Mar 30, 2020 Rodney Howard-Browne, Megachurch Pastor Who Flouted Virus Rules, Arrested Courtesy Hernando County SheriffA controversial Florida pastor who refused to stop holding packed church services, in violation of coronavirus restrictions, was arrested Monday by a local sheriff who said he was putting his followers’ lives at risk.Pastor Rodney Howard-Browne was booked on...     Daily Beast        more   
• Mar 29, 2020 Ex-Cheerleader Jackee Stang Just Launched the ‘Goop of Psychedelics’ Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastA blonde woman wearing a denim jacket saying, “Jesus is psychedelic” swaggered into her garage in Marina del Rey. Like the love child of Timothy Leary and Gwyneth Paltrow, Jackee Stang burst into the “psychedelic space” at the end of...     Daily Beast        more   
• Mother Jones Politics
• Mar 30, 2020 Doctors Are Being Told That Wearing Masks “Might Freak Out Patients” As hospitals face a wave of patients with COVID-19, Dr. Christopher Garofalo, a family physician in Massachusetts, has become increasingly concerned about physicians working without masks and other protective equipment. In private Facebook groups for doctors, Garofalo asked them to...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Mar 28, 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...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• 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...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Mar 27, 2020 “Containing the Virus Was Going to Be Antithetical to the Economy”: Joe Biden’s Former Economic Adviser on Why This Recession Got So Bad A couple of weeks ago, as companies began to ask their employees to work remotely amid early coronavirus fears, economist Jared Bernstein had a realization. “It occurred to me pretty quickly, although I didn’t recognize the magnitude, containing the virus was going to be antithetical to the...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Plunderbund
• Mar 26, 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...     Plunderbund        more   
• Feb 19, 2020 More Ohio Republicans Tout Anti-Vax Views Republicans in several competitive Statehouse districts have sought the endorsement of Ohio's largest anti-vaccination interest group.     Plunderbund        more   
• Feb 13, 2020 Vincent Price, Master of Horror, Meet the Abominable Donald Trump Just in time for the Oscars, the recent Friday Night Massacre of two of Trump's White House staff and Ambassador Gordon Sondland, along with rumors of further retribution for dissenters in his administration, provide a reminder of a classic 1971 Vincent Price film, The Abominable Dr. Phibes.     Plunderbund        more   
• Slate
• Mar 30, 2020 How Long Can Indie Bookstores Survive on Goodwill Alone? A surge in online orders from appreciative customers has kept them going during the coronavirus crisis. It may not be enough.     Slate        more   
• Mar 30, 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.     Slate        more   
• 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.     Slate        more   
• The Nation
• Mar 30, 2020 Cuomo Helped Get New York Into This Mess Ross Barkan The governor’s position on health care spending looked starkly different a couple of months ago. The post Cuomo Helped Get New York Into This Mess appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• 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.     The Nation        more   
• 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.     The Nation        more   
• Mar 30, 2020 Out From Under ‘the Economy’ Sheetal Chhabria, Aparna Gopalan Covid-19 proves we can’t conflate the market’s health with workers’ well-being. The post Out From Under ‘the Economy’ appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• The Hill
• Mar 30, 2020 New Jersey announces 3,347 new coronavirus cases, 37 deaths New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) announced Monday that the total number of coronavirus cases in the state surged by 3,347 on Monday, with more than three dozen new deaths related to the virus being reported.At a pre...     The Hill        more   
• Mar 30, 2020 House chairwoman diagnosed with 'presumed' coronavirus infection House Small Business Committee Chairwoman Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) said Monday that she has been diagnosed with a "presumed" case of the coronavirus, although she has not been officially tested.Velazquez, who was i...     The Hill        more   
• Mar 30, 2020 Democratic lawmakers demand government stop deporting unaccompanied children Top Democrats on the House and Senate judiciary committees demanded Monday that the Trump administration stop removing unaccompanied minor migrants seeking asylum at the U.S. border....     The Hill        more   
• Mar 30, 2020 Gannett newspaper chain to furlough journalists Gannett announced Monday it is cutting pay and furloughing journalists at its newspapers across the country as ad revenue plunges during the coronavirus pandemic.The publisher of more than 100 newspapers, including...     The Hill        more   
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