Monthly Archives: April 2020

Approval Of Trump’s COVID Response Sinks 10 Points

Just in from Emerson College Polling: A new Emerson College Polling national poll finds President Trump’s approval rating at 41% approval, with 50% disapproval. This indicates a 5 point swing in both directions since March, when his approval was 46% approval, 45% disapproval. Approval of the Presidents’ handling of the coronavirus is at 39% approval, a 10 point drop from …

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Amash Forms Exploratory Presidential Committee

Axios reports: Rep. Justin Amash (I-Mich.) announced on Tuesday night that he has “launched an exploratory committee” to seek the Libertarian Party’s 2020 nomination for a possible third-party presidential run. Amash gained notoriety last year when he came out as the lone House Republican to support the impeachment of President Trump following the publication of the Mueller report. He later …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Billboard Magazine reports: When World of Wonder announced that RuPaul’s DragCon in Los Angeles had been canceled for the first time in the franchise’s history, fans of Drag Race were heartbroken. But lucky for them, the event is still taking place — just with some new, social-distancing-friendly caveats. On Monday (April 27), World of Wonder announced the first-ever edition of …

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Four Arrested At #ReOpenNC Protest, Husband Of Organizer Shouts “Nazi” And “Little Piggies” At Cops

The Raleigh News & Observer reports: Hundreds of protesters crowded into downtown Raleigh on Tuesday for a third week of rallying aimed at reversing Gov. Roy Cooper’s stay-home order for North Carolina. Four protesters, including ReOpenNC leader Ashley Smith, were arrested when they stepped onto the sidewalk outside the governor’s mansion on Blount Street, violating police instructions. Protesters gathered around …

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Smaller Casinos Eligible For SBA Funds After Lobbying

The Washington Post reports: Casinos with fewer than 500 employees are eligible to receive loans from a new pot of $310 billion in small-business funding that was released Monday, a rule change that could help casinos hire back workers but was opposed by anti-gambling advocates. For nearly 25 years, companies that made more than one-third of their revenue from gambling …

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Pentagon To Award Purple Hearts To Troops Whose Traumatic Brain Injuries Were Shrugged Off By Trump

CNN reports: Dozens of US military personnel are expected to receive Purple Hearts in recognition of traumatic brain injuries they suffered in a January Iranian missile attack in Iraq, according to three US defense officials. The officials describe the decision as extremely sensitive because of the attention the issue received after President Donald Trump dismissed the injuries as “not very …

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GEORGIA: Two Men Poisoned By Drinking Cleaners

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Two people in Georgia drank liquid cleaning products over the weekend in misguided attempts to ward off COVID-19, according to the Georgia Poison Center. Both men had histories of psychiatric problems and are expected to recover. The poison center’s director, Gaylord Lopez, said he did not know if the men guzzled the chemicals because they heard …

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Cultists Protest While NJ Governor Delivers Death Tally

The New York Times reports: Governor Philip D. Murphy said on Tuesday that the state had recorded another 402 coronavirus-related deaths, as dozens gathered in Trenton to protest the social-distancing measures the state enacted to contain the spread of the virus. The number was the highest the state has reported on one day, but Mr. Murphy said it included some …

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Trump: No COVID Aid For States With Sanctuary Cities

Bloomberg News reports: President Donald Trump indicated he wouldn’t allow federal aid for states facing budget deficits from the coronavirus outbreak unless they take action against “sanctuary cities” — municipalities that prevent their police from cooperating with immigration authorities. “We would want certain things” as part of a deal with House Democrats to aid states, he said at a White …

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Pence Defends Flouting Mask Policy: I’ve Been Tested

The Hill reports: Vice President Pence on Tuesday defended his decision not to wear a face covering during a visit to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, despite the facility’s policy requiring all visitors to have one. The vice president said he was following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines, which say face coverings are intended to prevent those …

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NEW YORK: Former GOP State Senate Majority Leader Released From Prison After Contracting Coronavirus

The New York Daily News reports: Former state Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos was released from from an upstate prison Tuesday into home confinement after contracting coronavirus. A federal prosecutor and Skelos’s defense team confirmed the crooked Nassau County pol walked out of FCI Otisville. Ten staff and two inmates at the facility have tested positive for the virus, according …

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TODAY: The Sixteenth Blogiversary Of Joe.My.God.

Today marks the sixteenth blogiversary of this here website thingy. Counting this one, we’re at 96,465 posts over 16 years, the last twelve of which have been without a day off. As I’ve said on this day every year, whether I am insanely committed or am insane and should be committed – that is entirely your call. Most of my …

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Baton Rouge Paper: Lock Up Branch Covidian Pastor

From the editorial board of the Baton Rouge Advocate: The Rev. Tony Spell’s services, during a highly contagious outbreak of a deadly disease, make the church a tabernacle of death. The many summonses and misdemeanor counts — few of the clergy are accused of trying to use a church bus to run down a protester outside services — have failed …

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Surveillance Firm Loses Utah Deal Over CEO’s KKK Past

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: The Utah Attorney General’s Office will suspend use of a massive surveillance system after a news report showed that the founder of the company behind the effort was once an active participant in a white supremacist group and was involved in the shooting of a synagogue. Damien Patton, who helped launch and now leads the …

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Mike Pence Flouts Mask Policy During Mayo Clinic Visit

The Daily Beast reports: Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday refused to wear a mask during his visit to Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic, which requires all staff, patients, and visitors to wear a face covering while at the medical center. In a since-deleted tweet, the Mayo Clinic called out the veep, saying it “had informed @VP of the masking policy prior …

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Trump Camp Reacts To Hillary’s Biden Endorsement With Video Ridiculing Her Collapse At 9/11 Memorial

Word of Hillary Clinton’s coming endorsement of Joe Biden leaked out a couple of hours ago, giving the Trump campaign time to prepare a video which ridicules the time in 2016 that she appeared to collapse in the New York heat after attending an hours-long 9/11 memorial service in downtown Manhattan. As you will surely recall, the Trump campaign had …

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Hillary Clinton Endorses Biden: Imagine When We Have A Real President, Not A Man Who “Plays One On TV”

The Associated Press reports: Hillary Clinton, the first woman to become a major party’s presidential nominee, endorsed Joe Biden’s White House bid on Tuesday, continuing Democrats’ efforts to coalesce around the former vice president as he takes on President Donald Trump. Clinton made her announcement during a Biden campaign town hall to discuss the coronavirus and its effect on women. …

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AFA Defends Trump On Disinfectants: He’s Not Crazy, He Knows So Many More Things Than Those Reporters

Jared Holt reports at Right Wing Watch: “Ironically, it occurred to me that often when the president says something like that and they quickly accuse him—‘He’s crazy! He’s out of his mind! How could he say that?’—often, well let’s see, it just turns out to be true,” [AFA radio host Sandy] Rios said. ​Rios then attempted to back up Trump’s …

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Military Air Teams Perform NYC Area Flyovers [VIDEO]

The New Jersey Advance reports: The U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the U.S. Air Force’s Thunderbirds performed a flyover of New York City today. The flight began at noon near the George Washington Bridge. The fighter jets flew in formation over Newark, New Jersey before heading back over Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. After that, the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds crossed …

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Kansas Man Drank Cleaner After Trump’s Comments

The Associated Press reports: A man drank a highly-toxic cleaning product over the weekend after President Trump wondered about the prospect of using disinfectants to treat coronavirus during a White House briefing last week, health officials said. Since Trump mentioned Thursday that researchers were looking at the effects of disinfectants on the virus and wondered aloud if they could be …

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