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Testing shortages have been one of the big stories of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, with legitimately sick people unable to get tested. But now that a personal valet to Donald Trump has tested positive for COVID-19, Trump and Mike...
by Laura Clawson
 97 comments
on Fri May 08, 2020 at 07:36 AM PDT
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The coronavirus pandemic has prevented the Trump campaign from unleashing the full force of its massive bank account and bottomless dishonesty against former Vice President Joe Biden so far, but that’s about to end. It just wouldn’t have looked...
by Laura Clawson
105 comments
on Fri May 08, 2020 at 07:00 AM PDT
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Attorney General William Barr claimed he was “doing the law’s bidding,” and not Donald Trump’s bidding, when he had the Justice Department move to dismiss charges against former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, who had pleaded guilty to...
by Laura Clawson
278 comments
on Fri May 08, 2020 at 05:58 AM PDT
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For all the talk about how they’re heroes, too many essential workers still aren’t feeling valued in the ways that matter: protections for their health and safety. A new study of essential workers in western Massachusetts—a region with two cities among...
by Laura Clawson
17 comments
on Thu May 07, 2020 at 12:02 PM PDT
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Donald Trump loves big donors and hates the U.S. Postal Service, and now he’s putting one of the former in charge of the latter. Trump has tapped Louis DeJoy—who has given more than $2 million to the Trump campaign and other Republican causes since...
by Laura Clawson
61 comments
on Thu May 07, 2020 at 09:17 AM PDT
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The Trump administration is determined to keep meatpacking plants open and running fast even as they become epicenters of coronavirus—and administration officials are trying to distract from that by blaming the workers for getting sick. Health and...
by Laura Clawson
130 comments
on Thu May 07, 2020 at 07:53 AM PDT
with 144 Recommends
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