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Some big news today: The AFL-CIO, the country’s largest coalition of labor unions, endorsed Joe Biden for president Tuesday, with the organization’s top official vowing to wage an aggressive effort to help … Read More
From the San Antonio Current: believe this is @JohnCornyn's most explicit email yet on this: "CHINA is to blame, NOT President Trump" #TXSEN pic.twitter.com/kw6nptYB9I — Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) May 16, … Read More
Rough weekend as Trump did some ceremonial duties among the golf trips to Virginia. President Trump’s struggles to stand still during a Memorial Day visit to Arlington National Cemetery lit … Read More
This fucking guy: Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jason Lewis has joined a growing list of litigants challenging the Walz administration over the Minnesota governor’s shutdown orders to curb the spread … Read More
The real problem is (human) capital flow. But it’s about referring to human capital as “stock” in a yard. Remember that Hassett’s model was the one followed by Trump/Kushner that predicted … Read More
Don’t worry, faceless industrial-production facilitators! Your output will be duly leveraged when the time comes! Never fear! Steven Mnuchin will not be forced to empty the contents of his safe deposit boxes … Read More
This happened yesterday in Frankfort, the state capitol in Kentucky: Beshear hanged in effigy as Second Amendment supporters rally at Capitol before Memorial Day What started out as a freedom-loving … Read More
Trump needs/wants the big crowds, because he doesn’t care about the chaos of infection spread, especially if he will appear to be in a downward spiral approaching November Third. Do Republicans … Read More
“As the death toll in the coronavirus pandemic neared 100,000 Americans this Memorial Day weekend, President Trump derided & insulted perceived enemies & promoted a baseless conspiracy theory, in between … Read More
Jared Kushner’s Air Bridge may have worked to not only expedite delivery of PPE, but also failed to deliver by perhaps hoarding an as yet unaccounted amount of PPE materiel. Slender Man … Read More
Well, not your pocket — an irredeemable dipshit’s pocket. But you already knew that. Because Jared Kushner has done such a bang-up job with the coronavirus crisis, the opioid crisis, … Read More
The Trump Crazy Train never stops, so if you want to get on, understand you’ll have to risk your life to do it. This isn’t some snowflake cult where you … Read More
x Church “rights” crusader Donald J. Trump is not going to church this fine Sunday on his way to golf. Though he will likely drive by many large churches in … Read More
As Trump golfs today and thousands continue to succumb to COVID-19, progressive video producers Meidas Touch are all over the story. I just got back from the grocery store, where … Read More
Politico has a great piece out today how U.S. Senator Cory Gardner (R. CO), who is absolutely one of the most vulnerable incumbent GOP Senators this election cycle, used to … Read More
Oh really? When asked how President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic might impact her reelection race, Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst was confident his response to the public health … Read More
Completely agree: Former Vice President Joe Biden has renewed his criticism of e-commerce giant Amazon, once again turning the company into a political football that has been kicked around by … Read More
Oh yeah: President Trump’s advisers are increasingly concerned about Senator Kelly Loeffler’s campaign in Georgia, a newly competitive state where the president’s own poll numbers have tightened against former Vice … Read More
The other half are also pretty dangerous… “A lot of disinformation is done through innuendo or done through illogical statements, and those are hard to discover,” https://twitter.com/KatyQ82600832/status/1262403028440793088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw “Because [the pandemic … Read More
Because Donald Trump is the angel of death, people are dying in numbers that would have been inconceivable just a few short months ago. We’re rapidly approaching 100,000 officially reported … Read More
Republicans were not always Neanderthals when it came to science and climate. In 1901, the Theodore Roosevelt administration established the USFS, the United States Forestry Service. Along with that came … Read More
Received this e-mail yesterday from Andru Volinsky’s (D. NH) gubernatorial campaign: The most powerful response to the spread of COVID-19 is to wear a simple facial covering or a mask. … Read More
Each year, the G-7 summit is hosted by one of the member countries in rotation. In 2020, it’s the turn of the United States. Trump had always planned to use … Read More
Eugene Robinson’s article “The United States is a country to be pitied” should be a wakeup call to many. Many of our peers around the world have held us up to a … Read More
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Ed Markey’s (D. MA) re-election campaign: One $1,200 stimulus check is not nearly enough to help families who are struggling. With the unemployment … Read More
Wow: New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) CEO Jeff Sprecher made a $1 million donation to a super PAC supporting Trump’s reelection, just as his wife, Sen. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., was … Read More
Donald Trump is scheduled to visit Baltimore on Memorial Day, and Baltimore’s mayor doesn’t want him there. Can you blame him? Who would want that tactless, maskless disease vector anywhere … Read More
Trump tells an African-American Roundtable “What do you have to lose”. President Donald Trump said African American residents were experiencing historic economic prosperity before “we had the plague flow in … Read More
Some big news out of Wisconsin: WISCONSINBiden 51% (+9)Trump 42%@GlennHodas/ @restorationpac (R) 5/6-8https://t.co/oFKSAai8YR — Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) May 21, 2020 Donald Trump’s standing against Joe Biden slipped again this month … Read More
Are Fox News personalities in such a hermetically closed off alternate universe that they’re literally unaware of the daily fire hose of bullshit coming from the White House on all … Read More
We should not get fatigued since there are only 185 days left. The GOP will go Benghazi/Hunter Biden until the election, even as with the attempt to free Flynn. it … Read More
I know I touched upon this in a diary last week but I’m happy that Eleanor Clift at The Daily Beast brought this up today: Texas Senator John Cornyn voted … Read More
If you are a Republican governor who wants to cook the books on the number of coronavirus infections and deaths in your state, there are multiple methods for doing so. … Read More
Ed Yong of The Atlantic hs a strong track record as a writer on medical issues. He has a new piece up, titled America’s Patchwork Pandemic Is Fraying Even Further … Read More
Absentee voting, which Trump and his family utilize every year, is critical during a pandemic. However, Trump just told the states of Nevada and Michigan that he is perfectly fine with … Read More
Wow: On a recent call with local business leaders, Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) defended Georgia’s reopening process by comparing the risks of contracting Covid-19 to those of driving a car, indicating that calculating risk … Read More
Here’s the latest news out of Kentucky courtesy of Public Policy Polling: PPP’s newest Kentucky poll finds that Mitch McConnell continues to be unpopular in the state, with only 41% … Read More
Recent attempts to distort COVID information in Florida are only a symptom of how GOP states will be undercounting or suppressing data. This is only part of the larger GOP … Read More
Rachel Maddow exposes a very cruel act by the President as he cuts national guard deployment by one day to avoid giving them retirement and educational benefits. Rachel Maddow exposes … Read More
Let’s close out the day with some very good news out of Virginia: Former Vice President Joe Biden holds a double-digit lead over President Trump in Virginia, according to a new poll from Roanoke College released … Read More
The chaos continues as we’re only just beginning the scorched earth campaign on the way to the bunker. 167 days to go. It's May 19th, and President Trump still doesn’t … Read More
On Tuesday, when President Donald Trump was asked to comment on America leading the world in confirmed coronavirus cases, he replied that he views it as a “badge of honor,” … Read More
Some good news today out of Florida: FLORIDA Head-2-Head:Biden 52% (+4)Trump 48%@PBlankPolitical 5/14-17https://t.co/UwQao3ICaH https://t.co/gfuyJDkyeQ — Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) May 19, 2020 Here’s some more info: Former Vice President Joe Biden … Read More
Where to start with when it comes to the results of Sweden’s COVID-19 response? Sweden decided to tell their seniors to stay at home, and they essentially left most of … Read More
Received this e-mail today House Intelligence Committee Chairman, Adam Schiff (D. CA-28), in support of Theresa Greenfield’s (D. IA) U.S. Senate campaign: Theresa Greenfield (D. IA) Listen, you’ve heard me … Read More
I highlighted the story last about whether or not U.S. Senator Richard Burr’s (R. NC) COVID-19 insider trading scandal would hurt his colleague, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis’ (R. NC) re-election … Read More
You might think the most seismic fake conversion of all time was Donald Trump pretending to be a pro-life Christian conservative. (If you sprinkled holy water on him once a … Read More
More diversions from the actual crisis as Trump issues an ultimatum to the WHO. President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to make the freeze on U.S. funding for the World Health … Read More
This is what Republican governance looks like. Vote them all out! “I think it’s been a team effort here in Florida, we’ve got great public health people here at the … Read More
This is what Republican governance looks like. Vote them all out! “I think it’s been a team effort here in Florida, we’ve got great public health people here at the … Read More
