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When the White House released its “Opening Up America Again” guidelines last month, a lot of people noticed that something was missing: details on how to do that safely. Now, the Trump administration has blocked the release of a detailed guidance from...
by Laura Clawson
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This Twitter thread is getting a great deal of attention, mostly for its dramatic crescendo. Mmm hmm. Well, you can't say it's an outlier in the "reopen our economy" ranks. And it's an intriguing little thread, if only because it encapsulates so much...
by Hunter
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Donald Trump ventured outside the White House on Tuesday, loading up Air Force One with a full staff to head to the Honeywell factory in Phoenix, Arizona, where workers are busy cranking out N95 medical grade masks around-the-clock for healthcare...
by Jen Hayden
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White House aide and noted white supremacist Stephen Miller has long been itching for a public health crisis as a pretext to implement more of his anti-immigrant agenda, The New York Times reports. In a current pandemic that has killed tens of...
by Gabe Ortiz
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The opening briefs for California v. Texas, the Affordable Care Act repeal lawsuit before the Supreme Court, begin Wednesday and an interesting wrinkle on the White House side of things has popped up. The Trump administration has advanced the challenge...
by Joan McCarter
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Donald Trump and his campaign have been ramping up the lawsuits against the press these last few months because Donald Trump is an authoritarian-minded narcissistic idiot contemptuous of the very notion that somebody out there in the great wide world...
by Hunter
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Dr. Rick Bright is back in the news. The vaccine researcher says he was fired from his position in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) because he fought Donald Trump on things like "the broad use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine,...
by Joan McCarter
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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...
by Hunter
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The Democratic firm Public Policy Polling is out with the first general election survey we’ve seen all year of the Iowa Senate race, and it shows GOP Sen. Joni Ernst leading businessman Theresa Greenfield just 43-42 in a hypothetical contest; this same...
by Jeff Singer
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More than 70 detained people are expected to be released from the privately operated Otay Mesa Detention Center by the end of this week, following a class action lawsuit filed by a leading advocacy group last month seeking an urgent reduction in the...
by Gabe Ortiz
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