Calvin Woodward and Hope Yen at the Associated Press introduced their updated fact-check story of the squatter in the White House Saturday morning with these words: Truth can be a casualty when President Donald Trump talks about deaths from the coronavirus in the United States. True enough, although they could have ended that sentence at “talks.” His endless stream of lies…
Getting things back to normal is President Donald Trump’s new game plan. After being warned off his daily dinnertime briefings, the President’s next move is getting out and about, even as the U.S. daily death toll has stayed stubbornly high and new projections based on states easing social distancing show total American deaths could surpass…
Paging former president Barack Obama: You are cordially invited to the class of 2020 commencement. Thousands of students throughout the country took to Twitter to express their desire to have Obama deliver a nationwide commencement speech after one high school senior from Los Angeles posted a tweet asking the former president to speak. Within five…
Everyone involved with modern conservatism is a stone-cold idiot and the COVID-19 pandemic is nature’s latest brute-force effort to scrape them into mass graves so that everyone else can get on with their lives without coal-rolling and misspelled signs. What? We’re supposed to give details? Still? Fine. In the latest version, The Washington Post brings…
A new Washington Post report gives more detail on Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s COVID-19 “response” efforts, and it is just about the most depressing and insane thing you will read all week. That government effort to obtain vital medical supplies needed for the pandemic that has now killed 70,000 Americans, and only continues to grow? It was staffed…
With #BlueLivesMatter trending Sunday, Twitter users pointed out just how much protesters fighting coronavirus stay-at-home orders sound like activists advocating for the basic human rights of Black people, minus the part about Black people of course. “MY RIGHTS DON’T END WHERE YOUR FEAR BEGINS,” one sign read at an anti-quarantine protest in California. “STOP TYRANNY,” another demanded. Those are…
On Sunday, Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus task force coordinator, warned anti-lockdown protesters who are not adhering to federal guidelines that their actions are unsafe from a public health standpoint. Birx was asked by host Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday about “big crowds of protesters that went into the Michigan state capitol…
The United States today topped 60,000 COVID-19 deaths, a milestone once suggested by Donald Trump as a potential “success,” if the pandemic’s toll could be held to just that. It shows no evidence of being held to just that; instead, the 60,000 deaths marker came over three months sooner than the White House-cited pandemic model used…
After initially denying the mask he wore was a Confederate flag, a Michigan state senator later apologized for wearing his “choice of pattern” during a Senate meeting, adding that he did not support “the things this pattern represents.” “I’m sorry for my choice of pattern on the face mask I wore yesterday on the Senate…
Residents of Miami’s Fisher Island, which was named the richest zip code in America by Bloomberg in 2018, have reportedly decided to not accept a $2 million federal loan granted to their homeowners association. The Fisher Island Community Association (FICA)— the island’s master homeowners’ association, which was granted the loan — was reportedly approved for…
Weeks ago, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease Dr. Anthony Fauci says he would want “Brad Pitt, of course” to play him on Saturday Night Live. During the show’s second socially distanced episode, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert had his wish come true. Dr. Anthony Fauci jokingly says "Brad Pitt,…
Navy officials have officially recommended the Department of Defense reinstate Captain Brett Crozier as the commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt and return him to duty aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier after he was fired for writing a letter detailing the spread of coronavirus among the sailors onboard. According to The New York Times, Defense Secretary Mark Esper wants more…
LAS VEGAS — Nevada officials condemned comments Wednesday by Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman after she called for casinos and other nonessential businesses to reopen and suggested the city could serve as a test case to measure the impact during the coronavirus pandemic. One local official called her comments “reckless and dangerous” and another described…
Across the country this week and last, protests have sprouted up against the social distancing measures in place to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. They’ve featured blocked traffic, confederate flags, picnics with people wearing few facemasks, and protesters pushed up against each other, receiving outsized attention relative to the number of people participating….
Mass testing at a state prison in Ohio has provided more evidence of just how quickly and easily the novel coronavirus can spread in correctional facilities. 1,828 people — or 73% of all inmates — have tested positive for COVID-19 at the Marion Correctional Institute in Marion County, Ohio, according to the Ohio Department of…
The news from the nation’s prisons and jails is increasingly grim. On Sunday, there were reports that 1,828 people incarcerated at Marion County Correctional Facility in Ohio, 73% of its total population, have tested positive for COVID-19. One staff member has died and another 109 have tested positive. Similar reports are coming in from federal…
Her name was Skylar Herbert, a 5-year-old Black girl from Michigan and the daughter of first responders. She developed a rare type of meningitis and brain swelling after testing positive for COVID-19 and died Sunday in the state’s first confirmed case of a child dying of the virus, according to The Detroit News. In her final days, as…
An extraordinary number of coronavirus-related deaths overwhelmed a nursing home in northern New Jersey where police found 18 bodies in what the governor called a “makeshift morgue” on two consecutive days earlier this week. Police got an anonymous tip Monday that a body was being stored outside the home, Andover Township Police Chief Eric Danielson…
As the White House flails in their attempts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, Donald Trump and his top advisers continue to make matters worse. Trump is, according to news reports, fully devoted to “re-opening” American businesses on May 1 regardless of pandemic status, a move which would assuredly kill more Americans and which is…
(WASHINGTON) — Citing the coronavirus, Donald Trump is threatening unprecedented action — adjourning both houses of Congress — to entice the Senate to approve more of his nominees. In recent years, Congress has refused to fully adjourn during most breaks precisely to prevent the president from making recess appointments. Little or no business is conducted…