HHS – The Politicus

Previous guy's an alien, “…because when you're a star they let you do it”

Former President Trump ordered the Pentagon to release all of its information on “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP) within 18 days in his last coronavirus relief bill in December 2020. More inexplicable sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) will be released for public scrutiny in June — including a UFO that broke...

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May 29, 2021

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Minerva @ Midnight: previous guy crashes wedding, then crashes border

Caravan with a drum solo, perhaps Trump will go to the border to help frame what is appearing to be deliberate GOP orchestration of migrant issues at the southern border. As if the Trumpian chaos never existed for four years, with declared emergencies, veiled threats of terrorists, and then that...

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March 30, 2021

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MD-Sen: Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D) Boosts Public Support For Pres. Biden's HHS Secretary Nominee

Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen’s (D. MD) re-election campaign: Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D. MD) Today the Senate begins confirmation hearings for President Biden’s nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. I worked closely with Xavier during our time serving...

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February 24, 2021

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Nine senators who voted to confirm Betsy DeVos flog Biden Cabinet pick's 'lack of experience'

Remember back in the olden days when Republicans were consistently willing to set aside petty partisanship and perpetual grievance in order to ensure that only the most qualified individuals were given top government posts? Yeah, me neither. Before we get to the current minority party obstruction, let’s all hop in the Wayback...

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February 23, 2021

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Vaccinations Pass 25 Million as Biden's Team Untangles Trump's Mess

http://www.nytimes.com/… The number of Americans who have received at least one Covid-19 dose exceeded 25.2 million yesterday, as the number of shots administered Friday was more than 1.5 million for the day. This includes over 1.1 million who received their first shot and almost 400,000 who received their second. Joe Biden set a...

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January 31, 2021

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25 Million Now Vaccinated as Biden's Team Untangles Trump's Mess

http://www.nytimes.com/… The number of Americans who have received at least one Covid-19 dose exceeded 25.2 million yesterday, as the number of shots administered Friday was more than 1.5 million for the day. This includes over 1.1 million who received their first shot and almost 400,000 who received their second. Joe Biden set a...

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January 31, 2021

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The herd market for immunity was also about denying every American a mask in March

Crimes against humanity by needless deaths, because sending Americans a check with his name on it obligated a vote. Trump needed anti-masking reactionaries and antivaxxers to merge in order to foment some naïve idea of herd immunity such that wanting to get more people infected was more important to the...

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December 19, 2020

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How do you spell Genocide? Memo exposing the let it happen Covid spread. ” We want them infected”.

Joy Reid just showed a memo from the quack Trump picked and it is a bloody memo. We need some folks going to Gitmo or International courts for human rights violations. Are you listening Desantis? This applies to you as well. Afterall, Ron, you worked at Gitmo and proudly claim...

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December 17, 2020

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The Trump fantasy projection machine: $250 million HHS COVID pep talk as planned propaganda

A presidency whose essence is publicity and public relations, because the most important thing before declaring the pandemic over, was to “defeat despair and inspire hope”. The most important thing to Trump is to divert attention from what you aren’t doing, and defeating despair is like a war on terror....

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October 29, 2020

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IMPOTUS* may still have a 5% chance of winning, yet the war on Xmas despair continues

The war on Xmas continues as Santas aren’t essential workers, but VP Pence is, ignoring the guidelines to quarantine after being exposed to not an insignificant number of staffers infected by COVID19. Elves and Mrs. Claus could still be included in the unemployment figures for vaccine promotion. Despair still must...

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October 26, 2020

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It’s sick, and it is evil: Chris Hayes & fmr. HHS Sec. on Trump’s herd immunity policy.

Chris Hayes gave a dire description of Trump's herd immunity policy that will send chills down the spine of most Americans. Elections matter. Herd immunity raises it's head again x x YouTube Video See full episodes here. One of President Trump’s top medical advisers is urging the White House to embrace a...

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October 23, 2020

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Trump admitted his coronavirus plan is to let millions die to achieve herd immunity

Recent Trump appearances have revealed that his giving lip service to vaccines has remained secondary to a continuing belief in herd immunity as if death would be a luck of the draw, or just bad luck, perhaps sacrifices rationalized by some religion. The vaccine is a panacea in terms of any pre-November announcement...

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September 17, 2020

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I have a concern. Does Caputo have access to secure areas at the CDC? Possible Trigger Warning

I have a legitimate concern. I have passed by the CDC more times than I can count. Emory Hospital, Eglestons Children Hospital and the VA are all right there near the CDC. I have no idea how many competent scientists and docs work at these life saving facilities. None of...

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September 15, 2020

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Breaking: Trump's HHS alters CDC documents for political reasons.

40,000 cases a day and 1,000 deaths a day but this is altered? I just saw this on CNN. Is this not criminal? http://www.cnn.com/… (CNN)Trump-appointed communications officials at the US Department of Health and Human Services pushed to change language to weekly science reports released by the US Centers for...

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September 12, 2020

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Jose Williams on March on Washington, Trump called out by Biden, Press slams Trump

Trump thinks the Law and Order message will sell, but the failure is in his America. Former CNN iReporter Jose Williams tells us about the March on Washington. Jose Williams on, March on Washington. Trump’s America x x YouTube Video Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM Central Video...

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August 31, 2020

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Another Trump Presser: more raw animal magnetism and 157,690 deaths

Live Blog below: Trump to hold press conference today at 5:30 in briefing room Apparently they’ve given up trying to announce it for 5pm. Will Trump show up on time? Will there be medical professionals there, or generals to affirm yesterday’s “attack” in Beirut? Trump on Obama's speech at John...

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August 5, 2020

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Trump chief of staff on U.S. COVID numbers: There are some things you can't control

Hey, guys. Never mind that a thousand people are dying every day from COVID-19, long after most other countries have gotten the virus under control. There are some things you just can’t do anything about because … you just can't. Lay off, already. God grant me the serenity to accept the...

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July 26, 2020

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Host scolds a willfully ignorant Republican mayor blaming CDC for COVID-19 failure

MSNBC Host Nicolle Wallace masterfully called out GOP Miami Mayor Francis Suarez as he tried to blame CDC as opposed to Trump for COVID-19 continued failed response. Nicolle Wallace pleasantly scolds mayor Francis Suarez on behalf of CDC x x YouTube Video Watch complete episodes here. Nicolle Wallace asked a simple question....

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July 21, 2020

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New record high in US COVID cases, Trump administration tries to divert CDC data

Trump continues to ignore the COVID-19 crisis, trying pathetically to divert attention with cranes, weights reminding us of the Python 16 tons, and trucks. because this is what deregulation does not look like, but only idiots in the WH PR team would choose Monty Python weights WaPo’s Philip Bump addresses how...

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July 17, 2020

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Trump now tries to do campaign speeches from South Lawn disguised as stand-up comedy show & tell

More Trump shtick, recycling old material, but he still loves trucks. The president is ranting about shower heads, dishwashers, and light bulbs. Now Fox News is fact-checking IMPOTUS*. x Cool. Now do one for the weight of 135,000 dead Americans. And 30 million unemployed workers. https://t.co/kKPThOG7zaÃ¢Â€Â The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July...

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July 16, 2020

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Trump on school supplies: “We don't need 57 pencils for every kid. You can have two.”

Trump apparently believes that science should not stand in the way of full schools, because his truism is that the economy must turn around for him to be reelected. Also COVID data must now go to HHS rather than CDC, because it can be suppressed/filtered. One of the latest models...

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July 16, 2020

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Is the Trump administration preparing to disappear grim coronavirus stats?

Turns out George Orwell lacked imagination. Donald Trump has already decried our robust (er, 23rd-ranked by number of tests per capita, but who’s counting?) testing regime because it makes him look bad. He’s said that if we didn’t test we’d have very few cases. Which sort of makes sense if...

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July 14, 2020

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A short note on face masks [UPDATED]

I watched Mike Pence’s joint appearance today with TX Gov. Greg Abbott, and wanted to point out the latest, harmful and obfuscating dodge when it comes to wearing face masks. There are many other examples of this with Pence, but I will use this latest appearance as the example. Multiple...

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June 28, 2020

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Chuck Todd scolds Trump’s HHS Sec. for Admin’s face mask message: You did not answer my question!

Chuck Todd scolded Trump's Secretary of Health and Human Services for spinning Trump's administration's irresponsible face mask example. Chuck Todd scolds Alex Azar x x YouTube Video Check out full episodes here. Chuck Todd did fairly well today as he interrogated Secretary of Health and Human Resources Alex Azar. Even as...

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June 28, 2020

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Coronavirus Taskforce briefing: 1st one in 2 months

Live Stream at HHS x 12:30pm ET today (6/26/2020), thereÃ¢Â€Â™ll be a Covid-19 Taskforce briefing, the 1st in ~2 months. Hope for more truth/facts from Dr. Fauci, but suspect PenceÃ¢Â€Â™ll Ã¢Â€Â˜happytalkÃ¢Â€Â™ it instead. I trust Dr. Fauci, less so Dr. Birx & CDCÃ¢Â€Â™s Dr. Redfield (think CDCÃ¢Â€Â™s been muzzled by...

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June 26, 2020

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Trump backward-shifts blame by announcing US leaving WHO in yet another distraction

Donald Trump has said he is terminating the nation’s relationship with the World Health Organization. Trump, who has threatened to withhold funding from the organisation, says the US will redirect funds to other bodies. This announcement is within the tactical measures Trump has adopted for his reelection campaign, hoping to blame...

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May 29, 2020

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Trump's White House presser “I know you better than you know yourself.”

Today’s presser had more Trump lies. Trump claimed that the numbers are now going down. They aren’t. The same press questions happened and Trump chose not to answer ones asking for specificity. Why can’t we get tested as easily as Trump. He didn’t answer that question. Trump repeats his same bafflegab,...

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May 11, 2020

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“I don't need to have the numbers double because … that wasn't our fault…”

There could be a moment where the death toll could become a 9/11 every day, resulting in carnage that was avoidable. It is about keeping numbers down, aided by testing undercounts and shortfalls in testing at the state level, while promising a vaccine “miracle” in time for election day. Trump has...

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May 8, 2020

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Trump claims to have saved “millions of lives” in his “tremendous year of death”

Trump keeps lying as he goes to Camp David for a “working weekend”, prepping for a Fox News Town Hall on Sunday. x Trump is again describing their problem-plagued pandemic response as a great success, citing model estimates of up to 2.2 million people dying. “We have saved thousands and...

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May 1, 2020

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For a few crucial weeks, the US COVID-19 response lay with a small-time Labradoodle breeder

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar

273 days left in the cluster of incompetence that is the Trump regime. Was Trump and Fox News hyping hydroxychloroquine really a pump and dump scheme? HHS Secretary Alex Azar tapped Brian Harrison, a trusted aide who joined the government after running a dog-breeding business for six years . For a few critical weeks, the...

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April 23, 2020

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Trump, WHO, and China: A Timeline

I often find, in history as well as in current events, that having a timeline can be very useful in sorting out just what happened and when, and for judging claims made later on. It is, unfortunately, impossible to do a full timeline on Trump’s mishandling, misadministration, and maladministration of...

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April 15, 2020

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Trump: “I don’t want to see anyone hurt unnecessarily” – tales of the Trump death cult

But Trump is all about the necessity of hurting people. His cruelty and sado-populism continue to manifest themselves during this pandemic as he continues to tout corporations as the only savior for a leader like Boris Johnson. His mercenary rule comes with the daily COVID taskforce briefing as propaganda so...

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April 7, 2020

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HHS Inspector General Ann Maxwell: Pack Your Bags Because Trump Is Going to Fire You.

Health and Human Services Assistant Inspector General Ann Maxwell is a dead woman walking with regards to her job. A reporter brought up Maxwell’s report on the dire state of American hospitals with regards to coronavirus testing and needed supplies at Trump’s daily coronavirus rally today. And Trump went ballistic. ...

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April 6, 2020

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Denial, Dysfunction, and The Donald … 70 days of failure

The nation is now reaping the consequences of the Trump regime’s massive inaction and ignorance in the face of actual warnings, mechanisms, and planning initiatives. By the time Donald Trump proclaimed himself a wartime president — and the coronavirus the enemy — the United States was already on course to see...

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April 5, 2020

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Live Blog: In COVID presser, Trump hypes hydroxychloroquine treatment “What do you have to lose?”

New Trump Covid-19 taskforce briefing It started early today, as it tends to on Saturdays, Sunday will likely start later. x Wow Trump, who says he tested negative for virus twice, says he may start take hydroxychloroquine, anti-malaria drug he thinks may be a “game changer” for treating coronavirus. He...

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April 4, 2020

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Live Blog: Trump's “burst of light” presser campaign rally … “Death, a lot of death”

Trump Presser / Campaign rally substitute. Live Blog below x Pres Trump at WH says Dr. Fauci & Dr. Birx will be going over data & models about the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. He also reiterated that WH guidelines go through 4/30. Ã¢Â€ÂœItÃ¢Â€Â™s a matter of life and death...

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March 31, 2020

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CO-Sen: Denver Post, “Cory Gardner (R) once opposed economic stimulus bills. Not anymore.”

What a difference ten years makes: In early 2010, Cory Gardner sent an email to supporters that criticized his Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey, for supporting “the most expensive spending bill in the history of the United States,” an economic stimulus package that cost upward of $800 billion. “The stimulus has failed....

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March 31, 2020

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“You see, I know the Truth” – Donald J. Trump, despite the 'Crimson Contagion' report

The daily WH brief hosted by IMPOTUS is now becoming a Real Housewives show in the absence of campaign rallies and chopper talk. More whining about the press verging into intoning his complaints about the media, including Trump flirting with the OAN reporter. The reality is that new or complementary therapies won’t...

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March 19, 2020

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The Federal Government's COVID-19 Response Plan draft that Trump hasn't read

The Federal government excels at producing documents, in this case the head of the Executive Branch “looked the other way until it was too late.” This not-yet-released HHS report on COVID-19 projects an 18-month-long tsunami of nationwide disease and death. The Trump administration could’ve stemmed the tide but looked the...

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March 18, 2020

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“Trump's Katrina” continues as experts step in despite IMPOTUS calling COVID-19 “a hoax”

We remain ready for Trump’s “Way-to-go Brownie” moment, although that may remain the cipher for his entire presidency, having failed the tests of leadership by obfuscating every moment with disinformation and outright lies. Bush's response was to give his buddy Brownie a “way to go!” thumbs up. x 1. Had tests available so we...

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March 8, 2020

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Trump gaslight: blames someone else for COVID-19 delay in testing… Thanks Obama

More GOP stunts rather than action. Trump continues to emit a cloud of disinformation about the lag in testing which because of a lag in data is causing public anxiety. Example: CDC says there are 80 cases (there are 158). (CNN) President Donald Trump sought to lay blame on the Obama administration for slowing down...

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March 5, 2020

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The “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done So Far” Omnibus (Week 162)

As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this week. Justice Sotomayor warned that, thanks in part to Trump's...

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February 28, 2020

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Trump COVID19 Presser needs fact-checks as he dismantles the national pandemic preparation system

Trump’s Katrina is coming. The global economy will be making a downturn with the coronavirus COVID-19. Trump just had another lie-filled presser claiming it will all get better and that there will soon be a vaccine (experts say 1-2 years away). Daniel Dale does another tweet thread. x Trump says he's...

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February 27, 2020

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save a stock market, don't cough on Trump

SARASOTA, FL - NOVEMBER 07: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump holds up a rubber mask of his face during a campaign rally in the Robarts Arena at the Sarasota Fairgrounds November 7, 2016 in Sarasota, Florida. With less than 24 hours until Election Day in the United States, Trump and his opponent, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, are campaigning in key battleground states that each must win to take the White House. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Cooties! Sinophobia! Trump White House Resists Calls To Appoint A Coronavirus Czar (Jared Kushner?) (and he tries to blame the Democrats for the stock market drop) x After HHS Sec. Alex Azar says he doesn't currently anticipate a czar to be appointed to coordinate the government's coronavirus response, Rep. Mark Pocan...

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February 26, 2020

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Sherrod Brown to HHS secretary: Tell Trump to stop lying about preexisting conditions

Donald Trump knows how important health care is to voters these days. He saw a blue wave surge in 2018 largely because voters were torqued about Republicans’ repeated attempts to scuttle Obamacare and its ironclad protections for people with preexisting conditions. (Those attempts include a current lawsuit, backed by the...

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February 14, 2020

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Coronovirus and 4 from my county in quarantine at sea. Trump won't fund money.

thehill.com/… This is the headline from The Hill. Lawmakers frustrated with lack of emergency funds for coronavirus The Trump administration does not plan to request emergency funding from Congress to respond to the coronavirus, a frustration for lawmakers and experts who argue it is better to be overprepared than underprepared...

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February 9, 2020

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Charles M Blow: Remembering the Poor on Christmas

is a column I strongly urge people here to read. It is subtitled “It’s easy to forget those left behind in a strong economy.” Blow writes powerfully about his own childhood as the youngest of 3 sons raised without his father after his mother ended her marriage to his philandering...

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December 23, 2019

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HHS Rule legalizing religious discrimination in medicine struck down

Back in May, Trump pushed through a HHS administrative rule that permits medical workers to deny services based on their personal religious beliefs. As that NPR article suggests, this was unusually egregious even for a Thing Trump Did. The rule would have permitted doctors to refuse even emergency abortions… or allowed...

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November 6, 2019

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Migrant children in private detention center removed under the cover of darkness-destination unknown

The children were removed under the guise of a hurricane. To be clear. Miami is not under a hurricane watch or warning, nor is any of South Florida in “the cone”. In fact, there is no hurricane in the Atlantic at all. We are tropical today, but that means downpours...

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August 3, 2019

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Trump may make head of a literal hate group director of national intelligence

Because this is our world now. Business Insider: Among the names that have reportedly been discussed as a replacement are controversial former CIA analyst Fred Fleitz, president of the Center for Security Policy (CSP). The CSP is a far-right think tank that has been labelled a hate group by the Southern...

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July 23, 2019