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The ‘Red Dawn’ Emails: 8 Key Exchanges on the Faltering Response to the Coronavirus

Eric Lipton at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 3 hours ago

Experts inside and outside the government identified the threat early on and sought to raise alarms even as President Trump was moving slowly. Read some of what they had to say among themselves at critical moments.

This is a damning report.

Trump is a national enemy.

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Ruth B. Mandel, a Voice for Women in Politics, Dies at 81

Katharine Q. Seelye at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 4 hours ago

Her experience fleeing the Nazis on the doomed “Voyage of the Damned” underpinned her faith in democracy as head of the Eagleton Institute of Politics.

People grow old and die.
Books on active topics are much harder to kill.
Organizations combine with books toward effecting change.

The U.S. should accept refugees.
The franchise was just the first step.

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Five Takeaways on What Trump Knew as the Virus Spread

Michael D. Shear at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 4 hours ago

An examination by The New York Times reveals that there were warnings from the intelligence community, national security aides and government health officials — even as the president played down the crisis.

The blame for the leadership failure rests with the Republican party and its leader Donald Trump.

Emergency supplies and procedures were not available.

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April 11th US Covid Data

Ian Welsh at Ian Welsh - 9 hours ago

The chart has been changed a bit to allow it to fit cleanly. Bars every two days and a stacked graph. In terms of accuracy, from April 1st to 5th, New York pulled 1,125 dead people out of houses. That is eight times more than normal, so we can assume that 984 are people who […]

These seem to be good national statistics.

Social separation with physical separation slows COVID-19.

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Open Thread

Ian Welsh at Ian Welsh - 9 hours ago

Please use the comments here for topics unrelated to recent posts: so stuff unrelated to Covid or the US Democratic primary.

Sooner is better.     As soon as you can is best.

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He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus

Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger, Maggie Haberman, Michael D. Shear, Mark Mazzetti and Julian E. Barnes at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 10 hours ago

An examination reveals the president was warned about the potential for a pandemic but that internal divisions, lack of planning and his faith in his own instincts led to a halting response.

Trump does not pay attention.

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‘Not as Wisconsin Nice as We Used to Be’: The Divisions in Dairyland

Dionne Searcey at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 17 hours ago

Keeping the polls open in a pandemic is just one example of the state pushing political partisanship to the extreme.

No numbers yet.  Biden won in Alaska.

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Biden and Cuomo: Friends, Allies and Supporting Players No Longer

Alexander Burns at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 17 hours ago

A personal friendship has grown into a crucial political alliance as the two men have emerged as pillars of the Democratic Party in a national crisis.

"Pillars of the Democratic party"

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How the Virus Crisis Could Help a Red-State Democrat Stay in Office

Trip Gabriel at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 19 hours ago

In North Carolina, where the governor’s race is tight, and New Hampshire, where a Republican seeks re-election in a blue-trending state, incumbents could benefit from newfound star power.

Being effective usually gets people reelected.

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Torn Over Reopening Economy, Trump Says He Faces ‘Biggest Decision I’ve Ever Had to Make’

Peter Baker, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Alan Rappeport at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago

The president suggested he wanted to move soon, but he also promised to listen to public health officials cautioning against relaxing restrictions prematurely.

Trump is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.
He has painted himself into a corner.

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White House Attacks Voice of America

Elizabeth Williamson at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago

A White House website this week lodged a highly unusual barrage against the Voice of America, a media voice nominally run by the Trump administration.

The V.O.A. is not heard in the U.S.
Another country must be objecting.

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Endorsing Trump’s Firing of Inspector General, Barr Paints Distorted Picture

Charlie Savage at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago

The attorney general misstated key facts in explaining the dismissed official’s handling of the whistle-blower complaint that prompted impeachment.

Inspector generals only report.
The deep state must have collapsed.

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China Hawks in Congress See an Opportunity in Coronavirus

Catie Edmondson at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago

Lawmakers who have long lobbied for the United States to be tougher on China are using the pandemic to press for punitive measures against Beijing.

These China hawks are deceiving themselves.

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Trump Delays Food Stamp Cuts

Lola Fadulu at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago

Under heavy criticism for pressing for food stamp cuts during an economic meltdown, the Trump administration now says it will hold off during the national emergency.

Starving children do not look good.

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April 10th US Covid Data

Ian Welsh at Ian Welsh - 1 day ago

Our benefactor writes: We seem to be settled in for a while. The exponential curve is flattening, but until the headlines stop announcing more cases and deaths every day, the pressure to stay at home will remain. We’re one day past what was predicted to be the peak. Tomorrow, I will change the bar chart […]

Going up.

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Trust in Trump’s Virus Response Is Falling. What Does It Mean for November?

Giovanni Russonello at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago

Polls suggest that faith in the president to handle the outbreak has slipped among some crucial voting blocs in the general election.

There is no certainty.

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Does Vote-by-Mail Favor Democrats? No. It’s a False Argument by Trump.

Reid J. Epstein and Stephanie Saul at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago

Even some Republican officials, disagreeing with president, say that vote-by-mail has not hurt the G.O.P. in elections.

There is very little strategic thinking in Trump.

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New Trump Attack Ad Falsely Suggests Former Washington Governor Is Chinese

Nick Corasaniti, Jeremy W. Peters and Annie Karni at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago

The ad, which calls Joe Biden soft on China and falsely suggests a former governor of Washington is Chinese, shows that President Trump plans to continue exploiting racial discord in his re-election bid.

The Trump administration has trouble with birth certificates.

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Barr Defends Trump’s Dismissal of Intelligence Watchdog

Katie Benner at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago

The president’s political enemies could face prosecution, Attorney General William P. Barr said in an interview on Fox News.

Kinks Destroyer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRpAANsoG8I&list=RDwRpAANsoG8I&start_radio=1&t=0

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Virus Throws Millions More Out of Work, and Washington Struggles to Keep Pace

Jim Tankersley at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 days ago

Federal efforts to keep businesses operating and workers employed have so far failed to stop the bleeding as the coronavirus tears through the economy in devastating ways.

20,000,000 unemployed.


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