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 … Read More

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. … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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? … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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. … Read More

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 … Read More

Coronavirus Taskforce briefing: 1st one in 2 months

Live Stream at HHS x 12:30pm ET today (6/26/2020), there’ll be a Covid-19 Taskforce briefing, the 1st in ~2 months. Hope for more truth/facts from Dr. Fauci, but suspect Pence’ll … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

“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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

“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 … Read More

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 … Read More

“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 … Read More

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: … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

save a stock market, don't cough on Trump

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More

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 … Read More