Back in the days of now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s contentious Senate confirmation, the Washington Post killed a story that could’ve exposed a striking example of Kavanaugh’s public disingenuousness.
New Data Source
Here is a new source of COVID data I want to share with you: outbreak.info. There are a lot of these sites and I try to dig into just who is running them and what standards they’re using for their data. This one appears to be the work of a team headed up by Andrew Su at the Scripps Research Center Institute in La Jolla. A lot of the data is what you find at other great sites like The COVID Tracking Project, the Johns Hopkins data site, etc. But this is a team specializing in bioinformatics. So they’ve worked on creating uniform formats for COVID data so the data can be efficiently and accurately meshed together – so the data can talk to each other.
As COVID Cases Surge Across US, Cuomo May Pause Part Of NYC’s Reopening
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) on Monday signaled that the Phase III reopening process in New York City may not include indoor dining.
The potential pause on moving toward indoor dining comes after Florida and Texas both closed down bars late last week amid surging COVID-19 infections in the two states. Continue reading “As COVID Cases Surge Across US, Cuomo May Pause Part Of NYC’s Reopening”
Dem Leader Bars GOPers Who Refuse To Wear Masks From Joining Committee Meetings
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC), who also serves as the chair of the House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis, warned ranking member Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) on Monday that Republicans who refused to wear facial coverings during committee sessions would not be allowed to participate.
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Sure Looks Like Sacha Baron Cohen Got A Right-Wing Rally To Do A Racist Sing-Along
The comedian and prankster Sacha Baron Cohen appears to have duped a right-wing group this weekend, leading to a racist sing-along that got some in the crowd chanting lines such as “sushi eaters, what’re we gonna do? Inject them with the Wuhan flu.”
Standing Athwart The Revolution
All that stands between us and a conservative revolution on the Supreme Court is one John Glover Roberts, Jr.
Bonnie And Clyde
TPM Reader MD writes in with his personal account of the St. Louis protest that featured the gun-waving Bonnie and Clyde in front of their “Midwestern palazzo”:
Trump just re-tweeted images of the gun-toting St. Louis couple, so this seems destined to become a national obsession. Might as well send you my two cents.
I was in St. Louis last night. In fact, I attended the protest. Let me give you a play-by-play.
WH Says Trump Retweeted ‘White Power’ Video To Stand With ‘Demonized’ Supporters
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Monday defended President Trump’s now-deleted retweet of a video showing a supporter in Florida chanting “white power.” Continue reading “WH Says Trump Retweeted ‘White Power’ Video To Stand With ‘Demonized’ Supporters”
Clean AF
We interrupt our regular programming for an unsolicited testimonial from TPM Reader JD:
Pelosi Demands Full Congressional Briefing On Russian Bounty Scheme
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is calling on the Trump administration to brief the full House of Representatives on intelligence reports that Russia offered to pay members of the Taliban to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
“The Administration’s disturbing silence and inaction endanger the lives of our troops and our coalition partners,” Pelosi wrote in a letter to Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and CIA Director Gina Haspel on Monday. “The President’s refusal to stand up to the Russians also jeopardizes lives in the region, as the Afghan government and the United States are engaged in critical peace negotiations with the Taliban.”
The letter comes after Pelosi admonished the president on Sunday for acquiescing to the Russian government, following a New York Times report that Russia had secretly offered bounties to Taliban fighters to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
The report said that Trump was briefed on the finding, and that the White House’s National Security Council had discussed the matter at an interagency meeting in late March.
“Just as I have said to the president: With him, all roads lead to Putin,” Pelosi said on Sunday, referring to Trump’s relationship with the Russian president Vladimir Putin. “I don’t know what the Russians have on the president, politically, personally, or financially.”
Twenty Americans were killed in combat in Afghanistan in 2019, but the Times said it was not clear which killings had been linked to the scheme.
President Trump has denied allegations that the report was shared with him, calling it “possibly another fabricated Russia Hoax” in a tweet late Sunday.