Supreme Court: We're going to delay oral arguments for the first time since the Spanish flu because this pandemic is an extraordinary time & also we don't know how to use Zoom. Also Supreme Court: There's no reason people shouldn't still have to show up to the polls in-person.
Coronavirus Is Forcing the GOP to (Tacitly) Admit Its Ideology Is Delusional https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/coronavirus-trump-dhs-undocumented-workers-essential.html As the coronavirus pandemic shutters America’s storefronts and fills its ICUs, the GOP is camouflaging a whispered confession beneath a cough. The party’s admission is so quiet most Republicans can’t even make it out themselves. But listen carefully to recent directives from the Trump administration and its allies and you’ll hear unmistakably: Our theory of governance is a lie.
#ObamaSellout you're out of your fucking mind if you think I'll forget or look past 'bloody monday', aka the day Obama got Pete & Amy to drop & endorse Biden. Obama single handedly destroyed the grassroot movement he pretended supporting Obama is the biggest
As far back as late November, U.S. intelligence officials were warning that a contagion was sweeping through China’s Wuhan region, changing the patterns of life and business and posing a threat to the population, according to four sources briefed on the secret reporting. https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/intelligence-report-warned-coronavirus-crisis-early-november-sources/story?id=70031273 Concerns about what is now known to be the novel coronavirus pandemic were detailed in a November intelligence report by the military's National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI), according to two officials familiar with the document’s contents. The report was the result of analysis of wire and computer intercepts, coupled with satellite images. It raised alarms because an out-of-control disease would pose a serious threat to U.S. forces in Asia -- forces that depend on the NCMI’s work. And it paints a picture of an American government that could have ramped up mitigation and containment efforts far earlier to prepare for a crisis poised to come home.
Trump administration pulls funding for drive-through COVID-19 testing https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/04/trump-admin-pulls-funding-for-drive-through-covid-19-testing/ Loss of testing comes as states expect to see peak hospitalizations in next two weeks.
Biden emerging as the nominee has garnered low enthusiasm among his own supporters. But it is going to be very popular among Trump’s supporters. - Jeremy Scahill
Tucker Carlson: "Ask yourself, is Joe Biden ready to lead this country? Could he find his car in a three-tiered parking garage? Could he navigate a salad bar? And by the way, what exactly is his position on the Coronavirus pandemic? Those are the mysteries Democrats now face." https://t.co/8jYaRdPRms // let's see how boomer centrists gone crazy from now on 🤪
