Monthly Archives: May 2020

Brazilian Hospitals “Near Collapse” As COVID Surges

The BBC reports: The mayor of Brazil’s largest city, São Paulo, has said its health system could collapse as demand grows for emergency beds to deal with coronavirus cases. Bruno Covas said the city’s public hospitals had reached 90% capacity and could run out of space in two weeks. He accused those who flouted lockdown rules of playing “Russian roulette” …

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Trump’s Vaccine Czar Has $10M Stake In Vaccine Stock

CNBC reports: Moderna’s closely watched early-stage human trial for a coronavirus vaccine produced Covid-19 antibodies in all 45 participants, the biotech company announced Monday. Each participant was assigned to receive a 25 microgram, 100 mcg or 250 mcg dose at both vaccinations, with 15 people in each dose group. Study participants received two doses of the potential vaccine via intramuscular …

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Fired IG Was Probing Pompeo’s “Misuse” Of Staffer

NBC News reports: A Democrat aide told NBC news the inspector general “was looking into the Secretary’s misuse of a political appointee at the Department to perform personal tasks for himself and Mrs. Pompeo.” Pompeo is married to Susan Pompeo, who’s been known to travel with the Secretary of State and was listed as “Special Assistant to the Secretary of …

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Elon Musk Tells Followers To “Take The Red Pill”

Business Insider reports: The co-creator of “The Matrix” has slammed Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump for tweeting the “red pill” phrase that has its origins in the movie series. Tesla CEO Musk tweeted “Take the red pill” accompanied with a red rose emoji on Sunday, and soon after was quote-tweeted by Trump with the reply: “Taken!” Movie director Lilly Wachowski …

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Trump Targets Susan Collins In Whistleblower Rant

The Washington Post reports: After former top vaccine official Rick Bright maintained Sunday that the federal government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been slow and chaotic, President Trump responded in a late-night tweetstorm, saying that whistleblowers like Bright are “causing great injustice and harm” to the nation. In an interview with “60 Minutes,” Bright, the former director of the …

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CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Deadline Hollywood reports: Italy’s cinemas will get back to business from June 15, the government announced Saturday as it outlined an overall easing of lockdown protocols in what was the initial epicenter of the European continent’s coronavirus outbreak. As with other markets that are beginning to lift restrictions on moviegoing, there will be social distancing measures in place including staggered …

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GOP Reps To Trump: “Not Another Dime For WHO”

Axios reports: President Trump is leaning toward preserving his total funding cut for the World Health Organization after being on the brink of announcing he’d restore partial funding, according to three sources familiar with the situation. A fourth source, a senior administration official, cautioned that the decision-making was fluid and was still subject to change. Behind the scenes: Trump spent …

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NYC Urgent Care Chain: Free Tests For The Uninsured

The New York Daily News reports: CityMD will provide free coronavirus tests to uninsured New Yorkers as part of a partnership with the city aimed at getting tens of thousands of people tested every day, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday. The urgent care company is offering testing at each of its 123 walk-in sites in the area, Hizzoner said, …

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Tony Perkins: Dems Are Using COVID To “Rig Elections”

Via press release from hate group leader Tony Perkins: Just when you thought you’d heard everything, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi piped-up and said that the corona relief bill is a “momentous opportunity” for Congress to save the lives and livelihoods of the American people and even save “our democracy.” If she hadn’t said this, I don’t think anyone could have …

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Space Force Dedicates First Launch To COVID Victims

NBC News reports: The U.S. Space Force launched a secret mission space plane into the stars Sunday morning, dedicating the flight to front-line workers and victims during the coronavirus pandemic. A rocket was used to carry the X-37B, a remote-operated space plane that uses solar power, which will orbit the Earth while carrying experiments into space. The Cape Canaveral launch …

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Trump Calls Obama “Grossly Incompetent” [VIDEO]

The Guardian reports: Donald Trump has given his first public response to Barack Obama’s criticism of the current administration’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is rare for a former president to rebuke a successor, but Obama did so during an online speech to graduates yesterday, although he did not name Trump. “More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally …

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Euro Leaders: Don’t Wait To Be Saved By A Vaccine

The Associated Press reports: In separate, stark warnings, two major European leaders have bluntly told their citizens that the world needs to adapt to living with the coronavirus and cannot wait to be saved by the development of a vaccine. The comments by Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson came as nations around the world …

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Fox Host: Open And Let The Chips Fall Where They May

“Do I think everyone will be responsible? No. Do I think you’re going to prevent that? No, because you’re not going to be able to keep people inside forever. It’s not possible. It’s not feasible. “So at some point you’re going to have to open up and you’re going to have to let the chips fall where they may, as …

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Fox Host: Obama’s “Not All That Articulate” [VIDEO]

“Time and time again he talks like a typical leftist. ‘The people in charge.’ You know who’s in charge? The people who elected supposedly public servants, yet these Democrat governors and people like Barack Obama feel, no, we’re in charge, we’re the experts, and Donald Trump’s got it all wrong. It’s amazing. “And by the way, Barack Obama’s not all …

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Court Boots Branch Covidian’s Lawsuit Against Gov

The Baton Rouge Advocate reports: A federal judge has rejected Central pastor Tony Spell’s lawsuit claiming that the stay-at-home order Gov. John Bel Edwards implemented to stop the spread of the coronavirus was unconstitutional. Meanwhile, Spell, who drew international attention for defying the order by continuing to hold services at Life Tabernacle Church, has been released from house arrest. Spell …

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Collins Very Concerned About Latest Watchdog Firing

Cox Media reports: Republican Sen. Mitt Romney on Saturday denounced President Donald Trump’s firings of internal government oversight officials, calling it a “threat to accountable democracy.” Romney’s comments came in response to Trump’s Friday firing of State Department Inspector General Steve Linick — the latest in a series of dismissals of independent government watchdogs that have come in the wake …

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REPORT: Thiel Has “Ghosted” On Trump Over COVID

The Daily Beast reports: One person in [Peter] Thiel’s circle tells The Daily Beast that Thiel has been “shit-talking” Trump over what he views as the president’s hamfisted and botched handling of the pandemic that has resulted in a stalled economy, massive job losses, and a U.S. death toll approaching 90,000. Another person familiar with Thiel’s recent griping said that …

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Navarro Mocks Obama As “Joe Biden’s Press Secretary”

We should be so lucky: White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said Sunday that he was “glad Mr. Obama has a new job as Joe Biden’s press secretary.” The comment came after ABC’s George Stephanopoulos asked Navarro to respond to the former president saying during a commencement address that things are “screwed up” because leaders are doing “what feels good, …

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HHS Sec: We’ve Seen No Spikes In Reopened Areas

Reuters reports: Authorities are not seeing spikes in coronavirus cases in places that are reopening but are seeing increases in some areas that remain closed, U.S. health secretary Alex Azar said on Sunday. “We are seeing that in places that are opening; we’re not seeing this spike in cases,” Azar said on CNN’s “State of the Union” program. “We still …

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Progressives Unite: Stop House Candidate Ruben Diaz

Gay City News reports: Nearly a dozen national political groups — including LGBTQ, women’s rights, Latinx, and Jewish organizations — are uniting to send a clear message to residents of the 15th Congressional District in the South Bronx: Do not vote for anti-LGBTQ Bronx City Councilmember Ruben Diaz, Sr. Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the LGBTQ Victory Fund, NARAL Pro-Choice America, …

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