How could literally anyone think it’s the right time to yank funding for coronavirus testing sites? What could possibly be a better use of government spending at the moment? It is genuinely mind boggling how callous and incompetent the Trump administration has been. https://t.co/Sed5BxIsFy— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) April 9, 2020
16 million jobs lost... https://www.nbcnews.com/business/ec...ir-job-last-week-n1179611?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
The very Christian values administration: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/...ere-all-alone-in-here-things-are-getting-ugly New Jersey is now the epicenter of the pandemic inside ICE detention, with 16 reported cases across four facilities, with the detention center in Elizabeth the hardest hit. The facility, which holds around 300 people and is operated by private prison giant CoreCivic, was the first to report a case when a member of the medical staff tested positive for COVID-19 last month. ICE detention centers are not prisons — the detainees at this and all other facilities are held solely for civil immigration violations, and although some have criminal records, those are handled separately. ICE therefore has wide discretion to release detainees unilaterally, and for weeks, doctors, lawyers, and advocates have been urging the agency to do just that. But the vast majority of detainees remain locked up. José hasn’t been told by prison officials about the outbreak. He has no way of knowing whether the seven who were pulled from his dorm last week — one of whom had been sleeping in the cot directly next to his, coughing through the night — were the same who later tested positive. “They don’t tell us anything,” he said. “They don’t answer any of our questions.”
Ganando redenciones con Ave Marias ajenos: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ppe-and-ventilators-becomes-patronage-in-trumps-hands
New: US now has four aircraft carriers with crew testing positive for Coronavirus:USS Theodore Roosevelt: 400+USS Ronald Reagan: <15USS Nimitz: small #USS Carl Vinson: 1 - @barbarastarrcnn reporting— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 9, 2020
Would you rather have postal service or cruise ships. One is getting bailed out https://t.co/anREnNWsim— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) April 10, 2020
We've reached the stage of Fox News' coronavirus coverage where primetime hosts call for the removal of public health officials for not sticking to their talking points. https://t.co/dlxVDVKgAJ— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 10, 2020
White House Seeks To Lower Farmworker Pay To Help Agriculture Industry https://t.co/y8n516BTl7— NPR Politics (@nprpolitics) April 10, 2020 Heartless
2,500 Americans died storming the beaches on D-Day. 2,000 Americans died today of COVID-19. But the ratings are good. https://t.co/Zjg0Bid8NC— Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) April 11, 2020
Read the whole thread: And now came the hardest part. President Trump's top medical advisers by late February concluded the time had come for him to call for targeted mitigation efforts, school closures, business shutdowns, etc. Trump reacted angrily. He wanted to wait. Governors were on their own. pic.twitter.com/62EsuwLPRa— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) April 11, 2020
Lots of talk over the past three years about what it means to have an "unconventional" president. By now I think it's clear what the consequences are. https://t.co/QjT9Tqzian pic.twitter.com/qFqr7NVPUi— Eric Geller (@ericgeller) April 11, 2020
President Trump just re-tweeted a post that contains the hashtag #FireFauci.— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) April 12, 2020
I despise those gratitude shows, specially when they cone from people stabbing them in the back: La ley 100 que volvio la salud un negocio y es hija predilecta de Alvaro Uribe ,es la mayor amenaza para #cuidarnuestrosmedicoses .— Ángela María Robledo (@angelamrobledo) April 13, 2020
TRUMP: "When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total. And that's the way it's gotta be. It's total." pic.twitter.com/zIuiBn1Mhw— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 13, 2020
This is Florida's Surgeon General being removed from a #COVID19 briefing by @GovRonDeSantis staff right after saying we'll need to social distance until there is a vaccine. https://t.co/3pBOV7dMP5 pic.twitter.com/czp7dTqfdT— Kevin Cate (@KevinCate) April 13, 2020
Basically Trump's ineptitude costed us 40-80k additional deaths.. But her emails.. New epidemiology estimates that 90% of US death could have been prevented by just acting 2 weeks earlier. The estimated number of deaths falls sharply with earlier interventions - th US delay cost thousands of lives. #COVID19 https://t.co/FdSfUp6cck pic.twitter.com/rpIntyyCww— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) April 15, 2020
Waiting to hear from the Colombian or American government... New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she and her cabinet will take a 20% pay cut for the next six months because of the coronavirus pandemic. https://t.co/v8Gwj2NHJO— CNN (@CNN) April 15, 2020 Oh right... Por qué no empiezan bajando sus altos salarios, bajando sus altas megapensiones y acabando con la corrupción. 😡 #Carrasquilla y su #reformatributaria https://t.co/e3T7fpuDLt— Cindy Santiz Gamarra (@Cindydenuevo) April 13, 2020 If you happen to meet anyone who thinks the Trump administration might not be shitty in every possible way, you could let them know about this: Mnuchin made sure to let banks know they can seize those $1200 checks for debt collection. No bank left behind. No sirree. https://t.co/C622gJsviQ— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) April 15, 2020
For members of the US Congress it is a little more difficult than just taking a pay cut. Their salary is part of the Constitution and would require a bill to pass both chambers of Congress and be signed by the President... and then it would not take effect until the next Congress takes session.
Nothing prevents them from donating a part of their salary... Or all of it, as the President alledgely does...