Twitter has once again broadened its rapidly-growing set of rules specific to the Chinese virus, this time banning statements that cause “harmful activity,” with a specific focus on posts about 5G network infrastructure.
In an update to its list of coronavirus-specific rules made yesterday, Twitter said it would ban any “unverified” claims that “incite people to action.”
28 Million Mail-In Ballots Went Missing in Last Four Elections | RealClearPolitics
"Between 2012 and 2018, 28.3 million mail-in ballots remain unaccounted for, according to data from the federal Election Assistance Commission. The missing ballots amount to nearly one in five of all absentee ballots and ballots mailed to voters residing in states that do elections exclusively by mail.
States and local authorities simply have no idea what happened to these ballots since they were mailed – and the figure of 28 million missing ballots is likely even higher because some areas in the country, notably Chicago, did not respond to the federal agency’s survey questions.
This figure does not include ballots that were spoiled, undeliverable, or came back for any reason... Read all.
These Aerial And Satellite Photos Of An Airport Absolutely Stuffed With Airliners Are Nuts - The Drive: "Southern California Logistics Airport (VCV) in Victorville, California...is best known for is for being a place where operators and manufacturers can store airliners where they'll be dry and safe. So, when COVID-19 swept the planet and airlines needed space to store their soon to be mothballed fleets, VCV was at the top of their lists..." Read all.
400 cancers a week being missed because people are not getting hospital treatment.
"A professor at King’s College London has warned that there will be more excess cancer deaths over the next 5 years than the number of people who die from coronavirus in the UK due to the disruption caused by the coronavirus lockdown, which is preventing cancer victims from getting treatment. ...Many people are avoiding hospitals, partly due to fear of coronavirus and partly due to the NHS implying that people should stay away so as not to burden doctors and nurses. This means that routine cancer screenings have all but stopped and there will be a massive backlog once normality resumes...
Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty also said that social distancing measures will have to remain in place until a vaccine is available, something that could take more than a year.
A graph also shows that, when population differences are factored in, Sweden, which hasn’t imposed any mandatory lockdown measures, has virtually the same death rate as England, which has been under lockdown for over a month...
Donald Trump Jr. blasted the media on Thursday for “acting like we can’t open up until COVID is eliminated,” when “that may never happen.”
“Self quarantining & shutting down businesses was done to FLATTEN the curve not to eliminate COVID,” Don Jr. tweeted. “We needed time to prepare for increased hospitalization & obtain PPE.”
First, we reported on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The darling of the "just left of Marx" camp, in an interview with Vice, stated that once the economic lockdowns are lifted, Americans should simply refuse to go back to work.
Here's what she said: "When we have this discussion about 'going back' or 'reopening,' I think a lot of people should just say, 'No. We're not going back to that. We're not going back to 70 hour weeks just so we could put food on the table and not even feel any semblance of security in our lives.'"
...Back to what?
To the greatest and most prosperous economic times humans have ever known.
The highest wages and the lowest unemployment for all groups.
...That's one way of being an American.
Next, we reported on factory workers at a company called Braskem America in Pennsylvania. More than 40 employees made the collective decision in March to leave their families and live at the factory for 28 days, where they would eat, sleep, and take turns working 12-hour shifts to produce protective equipment for healthcare workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic. They clocked out yesterday after their month-long shift.
I couldn't help but notice that every one of these workers appears to be male (extremely problematic lack of gender equity!).
And may I hazard a guess that most of these men were raised to be men.
They lived in a factory.
For a month.
Doing factory work in 12-hour shifts.
They agreed on it unanimously. ...That's another way of being an American. Two different ways of being an American, and two different ways of being a human being... READ ALL!
Anti-lockdown protesters came to Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s front door Thursday as the embattled state leader talked about extending her stay-at-home order into May.
The protesters called their action “Operation Queen’s Castle” and included a photograph of Whitmer with a crown superimposed on her head, Detroit’s FOX 2 reported.
Former CIA officer and National Security Council Chief of Staff Fred Fleitz said Wednesday that former CIA Director John Brennan ignored intelligence that Russian President Vladimir Putin actually wanted Hillary Clinton to win the the 2016 presidential election.
Bachman--@ElonBachman-Official New York policy encouraged infectious COVID-19 patients to be sent back to nursing homes. Reminder: about half of COVID-19 deaths have been nursing home patients
michael--@Realronmexico99-43% of NJ deaths involve nursing homes. In my county, 20% of all cases and a whopping 54% of all deaths are from these homes. In my small town we have 17 dead in one of these facilities.
Acting Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell shut down the recent attempt of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) to control the director's staffing decisions, sending the congressman a letter reminding him of the separation between the legislative and executive branches of government.
States Made Risky Bets with Pensions. Now They Want a Bailout.
"...Democratic leaders in those states are pushing the federal government for billions in funding to shore up underfunded public pensions. Democrats in Congress have made bailouts for state and local governments a major priority for the next round of coronavirus stimulus, even allowing a major small business loan program to run dry...
Some states now seeking bailouts are in part covering for more than a decade of economic mismanagement, having chased increasingly risky investments to fund generous benefits at low up-front costs.
Bailouts would allow states to dodge hard questions about the viability of excessively generous public pensions.
...Andrew Biggs, a pension expert at the American Enterprise Institute, told the Washington Free Beacon that a bailout for Illinois could break the dam of federal funding:
"If Illinois got money, then everybody's going to ask for it, because all of these pensions have some level of funding problems. I think this is the feeler to see what happens."... Read all.
It sure looks like the New York Times got played by the former HHS expert who says his firing was 'retaliation':
"Former Department of Health and Human Services vaccine expert Rick Bright says he was sacked this week because he heroically "pressed for rigorous vetting" of the malaria drug touted by President Trump as a possible treatment for the coronavirus, the New York Times reports. Politico, however, tells a different story.
Bright’s firing was a long time coming, dating back almost a year.
And not only did Bright praise the White House’s push for the drug that his attorneys now claim he opposed, but he was also instrumental in acquiring it for the Trump administration.
So, whom to believe?
On the one hand, there is the New York Times, whose report is based on a letter authored by Bright, an anonymous source who claims the former HHS official was pressured “to rush access” to hydroxychloroquine, and Bright’s attorneys, who say his firing was "retaliation, plain and simple.” His attorneys, by the way, are the same ones who represented Christine Blasey Ford during the Senate nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Read all!
Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal (Wash.) admitted that she and her progressive colleagues have been blocking legislation aimed at providing relief to small business workers in order to hold on to political leverage.
The congresswoman made the comments during a virtual news conference Monday with fellow progressive lawmakers and activists, in which they pushed for illegal immigrants to be included in the next round of coronavirus relief, among other Congressional Progressive Caucus priorities.
"Televangelist Jim Bakker said he’s been cut off by credit card companies after he was accused of selling a fake coronavirus cure and asked viewers to send cash or checks or he may have to file for bankruptcy.
“You can’t use credit cards if you do give to our ministry at this time because there’s a situation,” Bakker said on his show this week.
...Bakker was criticized for selling his “Silver Solution” as a cure for COVID-19 in February and the state of Missouri sued the televangelist last month, accusing him of lying to consumers, The Kansas City Star reports.
...“SOS, save our station, save our ship, help us stay on the air,” he said this week.
“We’re asking people to give an offering, and we need a miracle.”... Read all.
Health records showed that 94% of the 5,700 patients in the Northwell Health system — which has had the most patients in the country during the pandemic — had at least one disease other than COVID-19, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association. 88% had more than one ailment on top of coronavirus.
DISGUSTING: MI Governor Whitmer Sends Letter To Front Line Healthcare Workers Accusing Them Of Racism...Even If They Don’t Realize It "In her efforts to put herself at the top of Joe Biden’s list of VP candidates, Michigan’s Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer has been working on making herself famous by imposing the most draconian measures on her citizens of any governor in America. ...The letter accused all Michigan health care workers, who are literally putting their lives on the line every day during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic of being racists—even if they don’t know they are. In her letter, Dr. Khaldunis offered suggestions about how racist health care providers can address their “implicit biases.”
Dr. Joneigh Khaldunis and Governor Gretchen Whitmer
"...The purpose of this letter is to make sure you are aware of our current understanding of how this disease is impacting racial and ethnic minorities, and alert you to ways you can address this in your current practice.
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Cases and Deaths
...The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has identified alarming racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 cases and deaths. ... Research has also shown that, once care is accessed, both implicit and explicit bias by healthcare providers contributes to health care disparities. One of the factors associated with implicit bias is how we are socialized. We all have implicit biases and the difficulty is that we don’t realize that we have them – assumptions about individuals and groups can cause medical providers to not use a patient’s individual circumstances or objective data to guide clinical management. Explicit biases include those that are more explicitly racist, that may also not be fully recognized... You can read the entire document here.
28 Million Mail-In Ballots Went Missing in Last Four Elections | RealClearPolitics
These Aerial And Satellite Photos Of An Airport Absolutely Stuffed With Airliners Are Nuts - The Drive:
Nolte: Donald Trump Jr. Blasts Media for 'Acting like We Can't Open Up Until COVID Is Eliminated':
Opinion: 2 different ways of being an American; 2 different ways of being a human being | Disrn
Former NSC Chief Of Staff: John Brennan Buried Evidence That Putin Actually Favored Hillary In 2016 | The Daily Caller:
Democrats in Congress have made bailouts for state and local governments a major priority for the next round of coronavirus stimulus, even allowing a major small business loan program to run dry...
Democrats in Congress have made bailouts for state and local governments a major priority for the next round of coronavirus stimulus, even allowing a major small business loan program to run dry...
Politico, however, tells a different story. 
Progressive Democrat admits on video to blocking money for workers in order to gain political 'leverage.' It didn't work. - TheBlaze:
"Televangelist Jim Bakker said he’s been cut off by credit card companies after he was accused of selling a fake coronavirus cure and asked viewers to send cash or checks or he may have to file for bankruptcy.
