Posting History for Laura Clawson
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| It took months for Ahmaud Arbery's killers to be charged. Now the Justice Department may investigate After it took two changes of prosecutor and a leaked video before Gregory and Travis McMichael were arrested and charged with murder and aggravated assault, Georgia’s attorney general has asked the Department of Justice to investigate how the case was... |
Laura Clawson | 05/11/2020 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| 'It is scary to go to work,' Trump adviser says, after COVID-19 appears in the White House Donald Trump’s personal valet has tested positive for COVID-19. So has Mike Pence’s press secretary, Katie Miller, who has not only been maskless at recent White House meetings but is married to top Trump staffer Stephen Miller. “It is scary to go to... |
Laura Clawson | 05/11/2020 | 32 | 44 | - | - |
| Unemployment insurance boost is tiny next to tax cuts for the rich, this week in the war on workers Republicans are doing their best to push people off of unemployment, with governors reopening states so that the most vulnerable workers are forced back into unsafe workplaces. But the Economic ... |
Laura Clawson | 05/09/2020 | 11 | 79 | - | - |
| COVID-19 news: Trump and Pence to be tested daily as another White House aide tests positive The day after news broke that a military aide who serves as a personal valet to Donald Trump had tested positive for coronavirus, Trump announced that he and Mike Pence would be getting daily ... |
Laura Clawson | 05/08/2020 | 60 | 73 | - | - |
| Trump claims 'Project Airbridge' is a big COVID-19 success, so why is he hiding its results? Donald Trump and Mike Pence have done a lot of bragging about “Project Airbridge,” the effort—supposedly led by First Son-in-Law Jared Kushner and his merry band of inexperienced "volunteers"—to quickly bring in personal protective equipment (PPE)... |
Laura Clawson | 05/08/2020 | 44 | 121 | - | - |
| Republicans threaten low-wage workers with fraud charges if they're too scared to go back to work Republicans were really not happy about passing a $600 per week increase in unemployment benefits, and Republican governors are moving to make it impossible for many people to collect it. As Republican governors reopen their states quickly—more quickly... |
Laura Clawson | 05/08/2020 | 87 | 142 | - | - |
| Trump and Pence to get daily coronavirus tests after valet diagnosed with COVID-19 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... |
Laura Clawson | 05/08/2020 | 97 | 108 | - | - |
| Trump campaign teases upcoming attack ads with widely mocked 'Death Star' brag 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... |
Laura Clawson | 05/08/2020 | 105 | 90 | - | - |
| 'History is written by the winner': Barr and Trump do victory lap after dropping Flynn case 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... |
Laura Clawson | 05/08/2020 | 278 | 203 | - | - |
| Essential workers speak out on the unsafe conditions they face 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... |
Laura Clawson | 05/07/2020 | 17 | 99 | - | - |
| Trump taps big Republican donor to head the Postal Service during coronavirus crisis 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... |
Laura Clawson | 05/07/2020 | 61 | 117 | - | - |
| Meatpacking plants are epicenters of coronavirus. The Trump administration is blaming workers 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... |
Laura Clawson | 05/07/2020 | 130 | 144 | - | - |
| CDC guidance on reopening safely will 'never see the light of day,' scientists told 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... |
Laura Clawson | 05/07/2020 | 139 | 249 | - | - |
| Republican rush to reopen states means unemployment cutoffs for terrified workers As Republican governors move to reopen businesses in their states before it’s safe to do so, they’re risking certain people’s lives more than others. Workers in restaurants and retail stores, among other businesses that would not be reopening if public... |
Laura Clawson | 05/06/2020 | 81 | 145 | - | - |
| Trump insists 'the people' want the economy to reopen, as two polls say very differently “The people aren’t going to accept” a long shutdown, Donald Trump said Tuesday, even as poll after poll finds that a majority of people support stay-at-home orders or would not want to go to the sort of businesses Trump is pushing to reopen. But... |
Laura Clawson | 05/06/2020 | 167 | 140 | - | - |
| What has the pandemic taught 'us,' according to Donald Trump? 'That I was right' If you’d like some pure, unadulterated Donald Trump injected straight into your veins, the New York Post is here for you. The Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid got an hour-long interview with Trump and is running the semi-coherent bits a little at a time.... |
Laura Clawson | 05/05/2020 | 137 | 159 | - | - |
| Trump's ego needed the image of him at Lincoln's feet and he got it, rules be damned Donald Trump didn’t just do a Fox News virtual town hall in the Lincoln Memorial, sitting at the feet of the giant statue of Abraham Lincoln while saying he was treated worse than the assassinated president. He had the monument closed and the rules... |
Laura Clawson | 05/05/2020 | 293 | 210 | - | - |
| 'I think you can really have it both ways,' Trump says on coronavirus restrictions Donald Trump is claiming that the United States can have it both ways on coronavirus. Literally. During his Fox News virtual town hall Sunday, Trump said “I think you can satisfy both” people who are afraid to go back to work and people who are raging... |
Laura Clawson | 05/04/2020 | 130 | 132 | - | - |
| Trump goes on Fox News to offer lies, more lies, and an outrageous Lincoln comparison Donald Trump lied and misled—about HIV/AIDS, trade with China, hydroxychloroquine, former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, Hunter Biden, NATO, and Dr. Anthony Fauci—in Sunday evening’s Fox News virtual town hall at the Lincoln... |
Laura Clawson | 05/04/2020 | 237 | 168 | - | - |
| From Amazon warehouses to online teaching, coronavirus is creating a spike in the war on workers The coronavirus pandemic continues to completely shape the world of work, no matter what your job is. But while the effects are different if you’re an essential worker trying to stay safe, a low-... |
Laura Clawson | 04/25/2020 | 6 | 67 | - | - |
| Bitter, unhappy Trump stews over his poor press coverage and endangered political future Donald Trump is a lonely, angry, bitter man adrift without the usual ego-feeding he relies on. Which we already knew, but is confirmed by a New York Times story based on information from “more than a dozen administration officials and close advisers.”... |
Laura Clawson | 04/24/2020 | 330 | 385 | - | - |
| Biden says he thinks Trump will 'try to kick back the election somehow' Joe Biden is saying one of the things many of us have feared in our darker moments: that Donald Trump will try to stop the elections from happening in November. “Mark my words, I think he is going to try to kick back the election somehow, come up with... |
Laura Clawson | 04/24/2020 | 415 | 238 | - | - |
| Trump 'compromises public trust,' former surgeon general said, even before bleach-injection scandal Donald Trump’s approach to coronavirus information is dangerous, former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy told CNN’s Brian Stelter. And while that’s not exactly news in the wake of Trump’s ultraviolet-light-and-bleach-cure advice, Murthy said that before... |
Laura Clawson | 04/24/2020 | 56 | 96 | - | - |
| Trump's dangerous rant on disinfectant injections is a case study in how broken the media is Donald Trump suggested sunlight and disinfectant as treatments for coronavirus—as in, he suggested injecting disinfectants like bleach into sick people, perhaps directly into their lungs—which is a sentence it is simply unbelievable to be typing. This... |
Laura Clawson | 04/24/2020 | 357 | 331 | - | - |
| Trump's Phase One coronavirus reopening list includes ... gyms? Donald Trump is not known as a man who cares much about physical fitness. But one thing he does care about is the happiness of rich people who suck up to him a lot, and that fact goes a long way to explaining how it is that gyms made it into the first... |
Laura Clawson | 04/23/2020 | 64 | 56 | - | - |
| 'Space outfits' are Trump economic adviser's hot idea for reopening the economy The quality of thinking from the economic geniuses on Team Trump is truly alarming. Economists tend to believe that they’re qualified to hold forth on any topic because The Market is so central to all life, but even by that standard, these people are... |
Laura Clawson | 04/23/2020 | 114 | 121 | - | - |
| Democratic areas in some swing states are making vote-by-mail easier. How will Republicans respond? The coronavirus pandemic makes nationwide vote-by-mail a matter of life and death, and voters support it. Congresssional Republicans and Donald Trump, though, remain opposed, and Democrats haven’t yet forced the issue. But there is good news on the... |
Laura Clawson | 04/23/2020 | 35 | 77 | - | - |
| Elizabeth Warren mourns her 'charming and funny' oldest brother after his coronavirus death Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s loving stories of her older brothers were a fixture of her presidential campaign—the way their military service shaped her childhood, her ability to talk to them and find points of agreement even though two were Republicans.... |
Laura Clawson | 04/23/2020 | 88 | 357 | - | - |
| COVID-19 cases linked to Wisconsin election keep rising—while Republicans sue to reopen the state Wisconsin Republicans refused to delay an election during the coronavirus pandemic. Now, as those same Republicans are suing state health officials to force an end to a stay-at-home order, the number of people who have tested positive for COVID-19... |
Laura Clawson | 04/23/2020 | 59 | 131 | - | - |
| Trump does an about-face from 'OPEN FOR BUSINESS' to 'it's too soon' for Georgia's reopening Well, that was fast. Between Wednesday morning and Wednesday evening, Donald Trump went from celebrating that “Our Country is starting to OPEN FOR BUSINESS again” to criticizing Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp’s decision to reopen businesses, including hair... |
Laura Clawson | 04/23/2020 | 229 | 190 | - | - |
| What would it look like to reopen the economy safely? First, listen to workers At some point, some way, businesses and other parts of the economy will reopen. Donald Trump wants that to happen within weeks, quickly and without regard for public health. But while we need to ... |
Laura Clawson | 04/22/2020 | 11 | 67 | - | - |
| Americans rate their governors' coronavirus responses highly. Trump's, not so much Yet another poll is throwing cold water on Donald Trump’s plan to boost his own political standing by attacking governors over their handling of the coronavirus crisis. There are a lot of polls doing this. So many polls. Now, according to the new... |
Laura Clawson | 04/21/2020 | 31 | 82 | - | - |
| Trump is putting the shock doctrine in action, using COVID-19 as an excuse to slash regulations It’s not just immigration. Donald Trump plans to use coronavirus as an excuse to weaken environmental, labor, health, and other regulations in exactly the ways he’s wanted to all along. While the White House negotiates with Congress, including... |
Laura Clawson | 04/21/2020 | 17 | 83 | - | - |
| Georgia massage parlors and bowling alleys among businesses to reopen Friday If you’ve spent your coronavirus shut-in time waiting to get in a good sweaty workout followed by a massage, a hair cut, a tattoo, and a friendly game of bowling, get yourself to Georgia on Friday. Gov. Brian Kemp is allowing gyms, barber shops,... |
Laura Clawson | 04/21/2020 | 135 | 98 | - | - |
| Trump to suspend immigration to the U.S. in a blatant attempt to distract from coronavirus failures Donald Trump is always looking around for excuses to use immigration to divide the country to his own political benefit, and he’s currently looking for ways to distract from his fatal incompetence on coronavirus. Monday night he tweeted out the latest... |
Laura Clawson | 04/21/2020 | 96 | 121 | - | - |
| Pence claims 'sufficient capacity of testing across the country.' Bitter laughter ensues One of Mike Pence’s key coronavirus roles is to batter, deep fry, and roll in sugar the sh#t sandwich that is the testing situation in the United States of America. It didn’t go over well when Pence briefed Democratic senators, and it didn’t go over... |
Laura Clawson | 04/20/2020 | 121 | 159 | - | - |
| Ruth's Chris is another poster child we didn't need for abuse of Paycheck Protection Program Burger chain Shake Shake did the right thing by reversing course and returning $10 million to the Paycheck Protection Program, but the parent company of Ruth’s Chris Steak House is doing the exact opposite. In returning the money, which is supposedly... |
Laura Clawson | 04/20/2020 | 115 | 126 | - | - |
| Dead bodies, broken promises: Coronavirus is hitting public housing hard, with little help in sight Living in multi-unit buildings is a new and special challenge during the era of coronavirus—but, like so much else, while the complaints of the well-to-do are heard most clearly, lower-income people are experiencing a disproportionate amount of the... |
Laura Clawson | 04/20/2020 | 22 | 92 | - | - |
| Trump is betting his political future on attacking governors over coronavirus shutdowns Donald Trump has been pressuring governors to lift coronavirus restrictions against the advice of public health experts, but that’s not the whole plan. The rest of the plan is pure Trumpian messaging: blaming the governors. Not the governors who... |
Laura Clawson | 04/20/2020 | 108 | 158 | - | - |
| Why is Trump pushing to end coronavirus restrictions? His 'electoral future is on the line' Gee, what a surprise: when Donald Trump rages and raves about lifting coronavirus restrictions, he’s thinking more about his own political future than about public health. Internal polling for conservative groups shows increasing numbers of people... |
Laura Clawson | 04/20/2020 | 176 | 144 | - | - |
| Trump isn't just 'nursing grievances' about coronavirus shutdowns—he's encouraging violence The media needs to do better when it comes to Donald Trump and the recent spate of well-organized protests against coronavirus restrictions. We’re talking about large groups of people standing around shouting without masks, so lives are at stake here... |
Laura Clawson | 04/20/2020 | 169 | 207 | - | - |
| 'What we thought we knew, we don't know,' doctors say of COVID-19 Much of the concern about treating COVID-19 patients has focused on ventilators—specifically, whether hospitals will have enough ventilators to treat everyone who needs them. But, with a high ... |
Laura Clawson | 04/19/2020 | 230 | 369 | - | - |
| 'If I die [...] I want you to politicize my death,' nurse writes, this week in the war on workers This week, as millions of people continue to be hammered by unemployment and essential workers continue to lack needed protections, let’s start off by hearing what some workers are saying. Trader ... |
Laura Clawson | 04/18/2020 | 17 | 127 | - | - |
| COVID-19 news: Small business relief is the latest part of Trump's corrupt coronavirus mess COVID-19 deaths continue to rise at a horrible rate, nearly all Americans have seen their lives affected by the pandemic, and Donald Trump keeps trying to make things worse. |
Laura Clawson | 04/17/2020 | 18 | 87 | - | - |
| Armed pro-coronavirus protests are not grassroots and they don't reflect majority opinion There are two things we need to be very clear about in coverage of the pro-coronavirus protests being held in several states recently: these are not grassroots endeavors, and they do not reflect the will of the majority. Interestingly, The New York... |
Laura Clawson | 04/17/2020 | 212 | 253 | - | - |
| Republican-connected firm gets $569 million to build 17 miles of border wall. During a pandemic No pandemic is going to stop the Trump administration from pouring billions of dollars into building a needless border wall, apparently. And once you’re blowing through money at the rate of $20 million per mile, why not up it to $30 million per mile... |
Laura Clawson | 04/17/2020 | 36 | 112 | - | - |
| There aren't many women world leaders, but somehow they're leading the coronavirus fight Message to U.S. voters reluctant to vote for a woman for president: Around the world, women are standing out among the leaders fighting coronavirus most effectively. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Taiwan... |
Laura Clawson | 04/17/2020 | 72 | 150 | - | - |
| Biden is putting together a White House transition team to be ready to undo Trump's damage Now that the path is clear and former Vice President Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, he’s starting to think about what a transition to the presidency would look like, should he win. (Please pause to observe all relevant... |
Laura Clawson | 04/17/2020 | 440 | 324 | - | - |
| One company is 'furious' after Trump named it to advisory group without actually asking True to form, the behind-the-scenes reality of the new White House “Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups” advisory council is rather different than the picture Donald Trump painted in Wednesday’s coronavirus press briefing. For one thing,... |
Laura Clawson | 04/16/2020 | 209 | 321 | - | - |
| States now have rapid COVID-19 testing devices ... but where are the tests for them? The White House unveiling of rapid tests for COVID-19 was a Trump classic: Donald Trump in the Rose Garden, unboxing a testing device and declaring it “a whole new ballgame.” And the aftermath has likewise been a Trump classic: states complaining that... |
Laura Clawson | 04/16/2020 | 52 | 102 | - | - |
| Trump's FEMA awards big N95 mask contract to shady company without medical supply experience The Trump administration is turning to some shady third-party vendors to get N95 masks, it should surprise no one to learn. After the administration waited until mid-March to order supplies in bulk despite being warned in January that a pandemic was... |
Laura Clawson | 04/16/2020 | 124 | 197 | - | - |
| Decision to put Trump's name on coronavirus stimulus checks was made in secret How, exactly, did the Trump administration end up delaying $1,200 relief checks in order to get Donald Trump’s name on them? Secretively, The Washington Post reports. It seems that even within the Trump administration, this isn’t a decision people were... |
Laura Clawson | 04/16/2020 | 221 | 204 | - | - |
| New York City transit union wins line-of-duty death benefits for workers killed by COVID-19 Transport Workers Union members who die of COVID-19 while working for New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority will get a $500,000 death benefit, the union and the MTA announced Tuesday. Surviving spouses and children under 26 years old... |
Laura Clawson | 04/14/2020 | 13 | 97 | - | - |
| Why are some grocery store shelves bare? It's all about the supply chain How worried about bare spots on grocery store shelves should you be? The answer, food supply chain experts say, is … complicated. Food isn’t about to be scarce in the U.S. anytime soon—but you may not be able to get all the variety you usually take for... |
Laura Clawson | 04/14/2020 | 104 | 139 | - | - |
| Wisconsin judges who forced election to go on during pandemic all voted absentee themselves Four Wisconsin state Supreme Court justices blocked Gov. Tony Evers’ effort to delay the April 7 election—and all four protected themselves by voting absentee. In fact, all seven justices voted absentee. It’s just that the two who voted to protect... |
Laura Clawson | 04/14/2020 | 75 | 175 | - | - |
| People are buying stamps and rallying around the Postal Service, but the government needs to act Donald Trump is refusing to fund the U.S. Postal Service through the novel coronavirus crisis, putting the future of the most popular part of the federal government in danger. Because the Postal Service is very popular, lots of regular people are... |
Laura Clawson | 04/14/2020 | 92 | 189 | - | - |
| Barack Obama endorses Joe Biden: 'Now's the time to fight for what we believe in' Former president Barack Obama moved quickly to endorse his former vice president, Joe Biden, now that the Democratic primary field has cleared and left Biden as the presumptive nominee. “Choosing Joe to be my vice president was one of the best... |
Laura Clawson | 04/14/2020 | 99 | 173 | - | - |
| This is awkward: CIA warned employees against Trump's wonder drug Donald Trump has pushed hydroxychloroquine as a potential coronavirus treatment so hard that he actually got the Centers for Disease Control to modify its website with anecdotes about the drug and COVID-19. One government agency that isn’t going along... |
Laura Clawson | 04/14/2020 | 147 | 209 | - | - |
| Trump gets slapped down by constitutional experts after claiming his 'authority is total' Monday was a disastrous day in Donald Trump’s coronavirus response, even by Trump’s disastrous standards. He ran a campaign ad during a coronavirus press briefing, leading MSNBC and CNN to cut away. His “Opening Our Country Council” promised to be a... |
Laura Clawson | 04/14/2020 | 349 | 365 | - | - |
| You've seen the pictures of food bank lines? Diaper banks are slammed with massive new need, too Images of thousands of cars waiting in line for hours for food from the San Antonio Food Bank went viral late last week, prompting a flood of donations of which the food bank’s CEO, Eric Cooper, said “philanthropy came to the rescue and food companies... |
Laura Clawson | 04/13/2020 | 17 | 62 | - | - |
| Sanders endorses Biden: 'We need you in the White House' Calling Donald Trump “the most dangerous president in modern history,” Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president, less than a week after Sanders ended his own presidential bid. Sanders made a split-screen appearance in... |
Laura Clawson | 04/13/2020 | 326 | 297 | - | - |
| Trump is trying to kill off the most popular part of the federal government Donald Trump is trying to kill the U.S. Postal Service. When members of Congress tried to include funding for the agency in the coronavirus stimulus, the White House made clear that it was a dealbreaker for Trump. Without additional funding, the USPS... |
Laura Clawson | 04/13/2020 | 160 | 200 | - | - |
| Republicans know vote-by-mail is a good thing. They just only want it available to Republicans Donald Trump deserves to vote-by-mail, but the mass of regular people do not, according to Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers. Coronavirus makes vote-by-mail essential—an actual life-or-death issue—but Republicans don't want to make it easier and... |
Laura Clawson | 04/13/2020 | 60 | 160 | - | - |
| Trump retweets #FireFauci after Fauci says 'obviously' faster COVID-19 response could've saved lives Donald Trump spent his Easter weekend predictably sullen and angry, and one of his targets was one of the people most trusted by Americans in the coronavirus crisis: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and... |
Laura Clawson | 04/13/2020 | 229 | 204 | - | - |
| Bosses can make essential workers exposed to COVID-19 keep working, this week in the war on workers The Centers for Disease Control gave employers the go-ahead to make essential workers who’ve been exposed to COVID-19 keep working right up until they get sick. That’s despite the well-... |
Laura Clawson | 04/11/2020 | 12 | 66 | - | - |
| COVID-19 news: Trump, his polls in the toilet, wants to 'reopen America' before fixing past failures No wonder Donald Trump is all over the place with his coronavirus response. (Everywhere but competence, that is—and that’s just beyond him.) His polling is looking baaaad . But he’s going in ... |
Laura Clawson | 04/10/2020 | 97 | 114 | - | - |
| Testing failures doomed U.S. COVID-19 response, which is why Trump now has to downplay testing The Trump administration failed many times in its early response to the emergence of COVID-19, and its testing failure is one of the worst. The United States has “the best testing system in the world,” Donald Trump said Thursday, but this is... |
Laura Clawson | 04/10/2020 | 121 | 161 | - | - |
| Trump is trying to kill the USPS as vote-by-mail becomes the best chance to save our democracy Though the novel coronavirus has Americans more reliant on package delivery than ever—including for prescription medications—it has put the future of the U.S. Postal Service in danger. Not distant, far-in-the-future danger, but... |
Laura Clawson | 04/10/2020 | 167 | 281 | - | - |
| Trump campaign wants us talking about the racism in its Biden attack ad so we won't notice the lies The Trump campaign is trying to call attention to its own racism with a video attacking former vice president Joe Biden for being insufficiently anti-China. The video accuses Biden of having “protected China’s feelings” during the novel coronavirus... |
Laura Clawson | 04/10/2020 | 29 | 85 | - | - |
| Trump's White House is finally preparing for something: Beating back oversight of coronavirus relief Coronavirus is going to give the Trump White House another opportunity to put into play the obstruction tactics it honed during the impeachment inquiry. There’s $2 trillion in economic stimulus, including a $500 billion relief fund for businesses,... |
Laura Clawson | 04/10/2020 | 67 | 145 | - | - |
| Pelosi pushes back against Trump's hope to lift COVID-19 precautions 'very, very, very, very soon' Oh, great. This again. There’s once again pressure inside the Trump White House to lift social distancing guidelines earlier than public health would call for. “Hopefully, we’re going to be opening up—you could call it opening—very, very, very, very... |
Laura Clawson | 04/10/2020 | 86 | 138 | - | - |
| Coronavirus has killed dozens of New York City transit workers after they had to beg for masks Workers in New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) took measures into their own hands. They wore their own masks, brought their own bleach solutions to clean shared workspaces, and had bus passengers enter through the rear door and blocked them... |
Laura Clawson | 04/09/2020 | 19 | 121 | - | - |
| A few Republicans furrow their brows over Trump's inspectors general purge Donald Trump’s firing of two inspectors general and public attack on a third, amid reports that he plans a broader purge of inspectors general, is drawing bipartisan concern—for now, anyway. Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley is working on a letter asking... |
Laura Clawson | 04/09/2020 | 33 | 84 | - | - |
| Food bank lines and rent struggles show just how big of an economic emergency coronavirus is Soaring unemployment is having immediate effects on millions of people, in an economy where—before coronavirus hit—40% of people said they’d struggle to deal with an unexpected $400 expense. Two of the big impacts are on two of the most basic expenses:... |
Laura Clawson | 04/09/2020 | 19 | 84 | - | - |
| Trump's attorney general went on Fox News to suck up, but Barr also pulled out a scary red flag Donald Trump must be feeling especially ragey and in need of ego stroking, because, despite his total lack of involvement with the only news anyone cares about, Attorney General William Barr sat down with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham to praise Trump and... |
Laura Clawson | 04/09/2020 | 297 | 287 | - | - |
| Four grocery workers have died of COVID-19 in recent weeks and dozens more have tested positive Grocery workers have become some of the most essential workers of the coronavirus crisis—making clear that we’ve relied on them all along. But it’s also a dangerous job, exposing workers to hundreds of customers a day, often without adequate protective... |
Laura Clawson | 04/07/2020 | 36 | 95 | - | - |
| Rep. John Lewis endorses Joe Biden in 'a fight to redeem the soul of America' Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights legend who has gone on to a distinguished career as a lawmaker, endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president on Tuesday. Despite the endorsement coming during a near-nationwide shutdown due to the coronavirus... |
Laura Clawson | 04/07/2020 | 38 | 96 | - | - |
| Trump lashes out at inspector general who dared report on failures in COVID-19 response Donald Trump is having the predictable temper tantrum over the Health and Human Services inspector general's report finding that hospitals face huge challenges—many of them caused by the Trump administration—in fighting the coronavirus pandemic. The... |
Laura Clawson | 04/07/2020 | 100 | 196 | - | - |
| Stephanie Grisham out as White House press secretary. Don't feel bad if you're asking 'who?' Consider it the political version of “if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, did it really make a sound?” If a White House press secretary never gives a press briefing, did she really do the job? Yes, White House press secretary... |
Laura Clawson | 04/07/2020 | 121 | 108 | - | - |
| FEMA is now distributing medical supplies, but it's still the Trump-and-Jared corrupt clown show The Trump administration has gone from telling governors they're on their own in fighting coronavirus to sweeping in and taking equipment that state or local governments or hospitals—or other countries—have ordered. From Jared Kushner insisting that... |
Laura Clawson | 04/07/2020 | 73 | 146 | - | - |
| Trump adviser issued January coronavirus warning, but Trump only paid attention to the racist part White House trade adviser Peter Navarro is an epic jerk who thinks he’s qualified to push an unproven coronavirus treatment because he has a social science PhD and who would "bet on President Trump's intuition" over science, but even he joined the... |
Laura Clawson | 04/07/2020 | 46 | 140 | - | - |
| Postal workers are risking their lives on the job, and Congress is risking the future of the USPS A second postal worker has died of COVID-19, and the United States Postal Service itself remains in danger from the pandemic. Anthony Smith, a Detroit mail handler who had spent 30 years at the postal service and 12 years in the Army, became the first... |
Laura Clawson | 04/06/2020 | 31 | 126 | - | - |
| Biden, Trump and COVID-19: 'I'll always tell you the truth' vs. 'I don't take responsibility at all' Donald Trump’s epic string of lies about coronavirus is impressive enough on its own, but it looks even worse when you compare it with former Vice President Joe Biden’s public statements on the same topic. Greg Sargent did just that, with a devastating... |
Laura Clawson | 04/06/2020 | 51 | 125 | - | - |
| Huge restaurant and hotel chains can get coronavirus stimulus loans intended for small businesses The big source of coronavirus-related government help for businesses with 500 or fewer employees is a $350 billion loan program. But somehow big restaurant and hotel chains got themselves included in the program, leaving small businesses worried... |
Laura Clawson | 04/06/2020 | 25 | 62 | - | - |
| Hospitals face 'unprecedented' challenges from coronavirus, internal government report confirms An internal government report gives added details on what we already knew: hospitals are struggling to get enough personal protective equipment, and the federal government is not helping the situation. The report from the inspector general for the... |
Laura Clawson | 04/06/2020 | 33 | 86 | - | - |
| Trump chooses magical thinking over science in White House blow-up over unproven COVID-19 treatment The internal White House coronavirus task force battle over hydroxychloroquine, Donald Trump’s favorite unproven COVID-19 treatment, burst into the news over the weekend when Trump refused to let Anthony Fauci answer a question on the medical evidence... |
Laura Clawson | 04/06/2020 | 223 | 209 | - | - |
| COVID-19 updates: Trump's mask failure worse than we knew, surgeon general issues dire warning As the numbers continued to get worse, the day when we all know someone who has COVID-19—maybe even someone who has been killed by it—is getting closer, all too fast. This weekend, Surgeon General Jerome Adams went on the Sunday talk shows to warn that... |
Laura Clawson | 04/06/2020 | 181 | 259 | - | - |
| We're in a long-term fight to keep coronavirus from being the biggest weapon in the war on workers The United States economy is crashing in historic fashion and that’s not even necessarily the worst thing going on—but one of the long-term dangers of coronavirus is that its damage to the ... |
Laura Clawson | 04/04/2020 | 15 | 68 | - | - |
| COVID-19 updates: Cheering sailors warm the heart but can't erase the disaster going on around us The week ended as it started and middled: in a depressing, frightening morass of incompetence, corruption, and rising numbers of sick and dead people. From the newly prominent role of Trump son-in-... |
Laura Clawson | 04/03/2020 | 14 | 74 | - | - |
| Not this again! Sen. Kelly Loeffler made yet another eyebrow-raising stock transaction Another eyebrow-raising stock transaction by Sen. Kelly Loeffler has surfaced. Because apparently the ones we already knew about weren’t shady enough. In the latest case, Loeffler bought shares in an online travel booking company on March 6 … and then... |
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| Fauci and Birx show frustration with stay-at-home failures but Trump won't take the next step Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx have been very careful to stay on Donald Trump’s good side. But some tensions seem to be bubbling up over Trump’s ongoing refusal to issue a nationwide stay-at-home order. CNN’s Anderson Cooper focused a question on... |
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| Trump canceled pandemic early warning program designed to find threats exactly like COVID-19 The missed warnings and canceled programs to stop a pandemic like the one we’re experiencing now are getting to the point of being ridiculous. The latest is almost cartoonish. In September, two months before COVID-19 emerged in Wuhan, China, the Trump... |
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| Sailors cheer Navy captain fired for COVID-19 warning as he leaves ship The acting secretary of the Navy fired Captain Brett Crozier over his letter begging his Navy superiors to take action to stop the spread of COVID-19 on the USS Theodore Roosevelt, but Crozier has plenty of support from elsewhere. At the top of the... |
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| Senate Republicans brag about unemployment 'lifeline' they voted against Senate Republicans made a giant stink about the $600-per-week boost to unemployment insurance included in the novel coronavirus stimulus. It was just too much money for low-income people, they said. Nurses might decide not to work, said Sen. Lindsey... |
Laura Clawson | 04/02/2020 | 71 | 168 | - | - |
| Trump super PAC follows instructions from Trump campaign with $10 million ad campaign against Biden Consider the message received: Last week, Trump campaign concerns about a key Trump super PAC falling down on the job leaked out. That job was “attack, attack, attack”—and America First is following orders, with a $10 million ad buy attacking former... |
Laura Clawson | 04/02/2020 | 25 | 59 | - | - |
| Georgia Republican says widespread vote by mail would be 'extremely devastating to Republicans' Georgia isn’t delaying its May 19 primary at this time, but the secretary of state’s office is mailing out absentee ballot applications to every one of the state’s 6.9 million registered voters. That has some Republican lawmakers very unhappy. State... |
Laura Clawson | 04/02/2020 | 151 | 152 | - | - |
| Jared Kushner rebrands himself as Mr. Coronavirus, and is working to privatize public health Having fulfilled his previous goal of bringing peace to the Middle East (that happened, right?), Jared Kushner is now Mr. Coronavirus, and Politico is On It with the requisite puff piece. The thing about yet another Jared Kushner puff piece, though, is... |
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| White House and public health experts disagree on which states should get COVID-19 rapid tests The failure to test for COVID-19 gave the virus a head start in the United States, and while things are improving slowly, it’s still basically a big flaming mess. One of the glimmers of hope comes from the new rapid tests from Abbott Laboratories—but... |
Laura Clawson | 04/02/2020 | 22 | 67 | - | - |
| CDC doctors warned about dangers of pandemic in 2018—yet another warning Team Trump ignored Another day, another report on a recent pandemic warning ignored by the Trump administration. In 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held a day-long conference to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Spanish flu pandemic, with... |
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| Google bans political ads on coronavirus crisis, allows Trump administration's politicized message Google says it’s trying to crack down on misinformation and price-gouging by banning most ads relating to coronavirus. But there’s a presidential campaign on, the guy in office is not shy about using government resources to promote himself, and... |
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