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President Donald Trump urged the re-opening of America during Saturday’s Coronavirus Task Force briefing. “We want to finish this war,” Trump said. “We have to get back to work,” he continued. “We have to get — we have to open our country again.” “We have to open our country again,” he said. “We don’t want […]

President Donald Trump warned America of the continuing loss of life as COVID-19 spreads across America. “There will be a lot of death, unfortunately,” Trump admitted. “But a lot less death than if this wasn’t done, but there will be death,” he continued. "There will be death" — Trump pic.twitter.com/XdXKNoANu3 — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April […]

by T. Christian Miller and Megan Rose Capt. Brett Crozier, fired this week from command of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, joins a growing list of Navy officers who attempted to raise concerns about the safety of their ships and crew, only to pay with their jobs. Crozier wrote a letter dated March 30 […]

President Donald Trump is considering a billionaire investor Steve Feinberg for a “senior role” at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Axios reported Saturday, citing “four sources familiar with the planning.” “Why it matters: Feinberg would enter the ODNI at an especially fraught time — during a pandemic, an election year, and during […]

With COVID-19 hot spots “erupting across the South,” one New York Times columnist warned on Saturday why things are going to get worse. Margaret Renkl “covers flora, fauna, politics and culture in the American South” for the newspaper’s opinion section. Renkl noted that Nashville’s efforts to close down were hampered by Republican Gov. Bill Lee’s […]

In a brutal analysis for the Washington Post, Ashley Parker and Philip Rucker documented the ways in which President Donald Trump’s efforts to “win the daily news cycle” have worsened a public health disaster. “President Trump began the seven-day stretch threatening — and then reneging on — a quarantine of the New York region. He ended […]

On MSNBC Saturday, Intercept reporter Mehdi Hasan slammed President Donald Trump for mismanaging the coronavirus pandemic — and particularly for putting his son-in-law Jared Kushner at the forefront of the effort. “I think it’s very unified leadership. They’re all unified in their ignorance and their denialism and their callousness,” said Hasan, speaking with host Ali […]

Welcome to another edition of What Fresh Hell?, Raw Story’s roundup of news items that might have become controversies under another regime, but got buried – or were at least under-appreciated – due to the daily firehose of political pratfalls, unhinged tweet storms and other sundry embarrassments coming out of the current White House. It was […]

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, inquires forwarded to Sen Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) asking who is handling all of her stock maneuverings since she was first informed about the growing coronavirus pandemic months ago are going unanswered as calls for her to be investigated grow. The AJC, which broke the  story that the Georgia Republican dumped […]

On Saturday, writing for the conservative website The Bulwark, columnist Philip Rotner tore into President Donald Trump for governing via his basest instincts in a time of national catastrophe. “Donald Trump’s character flaws have shaped — and are continuing to shape — the federal government’s disastrous response to COVID-19,” wrote Rotner. “From the day Trump […]

On Saturday, the Washington Post reported that in February, White House officials grew enraged with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar when he requested $4 billion for his department to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus — an amount that the Trump administration believed was way too much. “Azar … spoke to Russell […]

From Europe to South America, U.S. allies are complaining about the superpower’s “Wild West” tactics in outbidding or blocking shipments to buyers who have already signed deals for vital medical supplies. In France and Germany, senior officials said the United States was paying far above the market price for medical-grade masks from No. 1 producer […]

The American people – at least those who don’t watch Fox News – are learning the depths of the false and misleading information some Fox News hosts have been spewing. Now that #FoxNewsLiedAsPeopleDied trends on Twitter they’re finding out even more. On Friday “The Daily Show” posted this video of Fox News’ top stars and […]

On Saturday, Bloomberg News highlighted how the collapse of the economy, spurred by the coronavirus pandemic and the U.S. government’s poor response, is leading to destitution in the backyard of one of President Donald Trump’s most famous properties. “Though it’s just a four-minute drive across the lagoon from Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s private club, and […]

The Trump administration has quietly issued new guidance that will exempt many small businesses from having to provide some workers with paid leave during the coronavirus pandemic. The Department of Labor issued a temporary rule Wednesday that effectively exempted businesses with fewer than 50 workers from being required to provide 12 weeks of paid leave for workers whose […]

The National Guard are an essential part of the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, and thousands of them have potentially been exposed to infected civilians, making it a particularly dangerous and important time to serve. But according to The Daily Beast, the guard has been deployed in a way that prevents them from being eligible […]

According to a report from the Washington Post, in the early days as health officials became concerned about the possibility of the COVID-19 pandemic blossoming out of China, researchers sat and wasted days they could have used to start developing a vaccine because they were assured by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that a […]

On Saturday, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner excoriated President Donald Trump’s mismanagement of the national health care system on Twitter — and called on elected leaders to “stop letting Trump kill Americans.” Trump’s mixture of incompetence and exploitation for political purposes of our national health emergency is costing lives. The most pressing question at this […]

The idea that pandemic-related economic insecurity might spur a general strike has been trending among pundits and the public in the past week. Such a labor action, which would imply a complete shutdown of all industries as all workers cease showing up to work, would be historically unprecedented, a prominent historian told Salon. This article […]

On CNN Saturday, national security analyst Samantha Vinograd laid into President Donald Trump for firing intelligence community inspector general Michael Atkinson. “Trump has decimated his own intelligence to date, and now he’s continuing that pet project at a moment when, arguably, we need more, not fewer, competent professionals on board,” said Vinograd. “This is an […]

In a piece for Politico Magazine, historian Joshua Zeitz compared the brain trust at the top of Donald Trump’s administration with the people President Franklin Delano Roosevelt brought in to pull the United States out of the Great Depression and found a large gap when it comes to experience and competency. Using the current economic […]

On Friday evening, President Donald Trump stunned observers by announcing he would be dismissing Michael Atkinson, the intelligence community inspector general who first relayed the whistleblower complaint about Trump’s phone call with the president of Ukraine. Daniel Goldman, a national security advisor for the House Intelligence Committee, slammed the decision on Saturday, calling it “pure […]

Britain’s main opposition Labour Party named Keir Starmer, a former director of public prosecutions who opposed the country’s exit from the European Union, as its leader on Saturday. Starmer, who has tried to carry the socialist supporters of outgoing leader Jeremy Corbyn while also keeping more centrist Labour members on board, beat Rebecca Long-Bailey, an […]

What does British Prime Minister Boris Johnson have in common with virtual happy hour celebrants and thousands of students around the world? All use the Zoom videoconferencing application to get together while staying apart during the deadly coronavirus pandemic. But amid its newfound fame, the Silicon Valley-based company has come under stepped-up scrutiny over how […]

According to Politico, President Donald Trump’s decision not to reopen the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges, and to instead pay hospitals to treat uninsured coronavirus patients, blindsided not just insurance companies, but his own health officials — and left everyone scrambling to implement his orders. “The rollout of the new hospital pay program capped […]