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Trump Vetoes Measure Demanding Congressional Approval for Iran Conflict

Michael Crowley at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 14 minutes ago

The president said the resolution was an “insulting” move to limit his powers as commander in chief.

Read Trump the U.S. constitution.
Congress can pass such a resolution.
His veto can be overridden.

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Trump’s New Message: Time to Move On to the Economic Recovery

Peter Baker at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 hours ago

The president’s cure-can’t-be-worse-than-the-disease logic is clear: As bad as the virus may be, the cost of the virtual national lockdown has grown too high.

Trump does not have the required power.

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‘I’m Sure for American Women, This Is Frustrating’

Lisa Lerer at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 2 hours ago

We spoke to the chief executive of Time’s Up about Joe Biden, Tara Reade and what this moment says about how the country thinks about sexual misconduct.

Biden is the presumptive candidate we have.

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Small Businesses Counting on Loan Forgiveness Could Be Stuck With Debt

Alan Rappeport and Emily Flitter at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 4 hours ago

Business owners who took out loans under the Paycheck Protection Program thought converting them to grants would be easy. It’s not.

The Trump administration gives money to rich Republicans.

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Online Retailers Spend Millions on Ads Backing Postal Service Bailout

Nicholas Fandos at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 4 hours ago

The coalition, which includes Amazon, plans to pour $2 million into ads opposing President Trump’s call for higher package delivery rates and pressing for Congress to help the service.

The postal service is an agency of the federal government.

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As Hunger Swells, Food Stamps Become a Partisan Flash Point

Jason DeParle at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 5 hours ago

Democrats are seeking to raise benefits as research shows a rise in food insecurity without modern precedent amid the pandemic. But Republicans have balked at a long-term expansion of the program.

The supply chain is breaking down.  Soon former wage earners will begin to starve.

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Supreme Court Divided Over Obamacare’s Contraceptive Mandate

Adam Liptak at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 8 hours ago

The justices considered whether the Trump administration may allow employers to refuse to provide free insurance coverage for birth control on religious or moral grounds.

Religion and its police function morality are individual choices.
Government is a social choice.
Each child is an individual woman's choice.

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‘Becoming’ Review: Michelle Obama’s Lesson in Staying on Script

Lovia Gyarkye at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 8 hours ago

This Netflix documentary shows a familiar, albeit more carefree, former first lady.

I am still learning.

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Coronavirus Masks and Testing Kits: Firm Set Up by G.O.P. Operatives Under Scrutiny

Kenneth P. Vogel at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 8 hours ago

Blue Flame Medical boasted that it could acquire masks, testing kits and other equipment to respond to the pandemic. State and local governments paid up — and are still waiting for delivery.

Failure to deliver on contracts is bankruptcy.

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Firm Set Up by G.O.P. Operatives Under Scrutiny Over Virus Contracts

Kenneth P. Vogel at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 9 hours ago

Blue Flame Medical boasted that it could acquire masks, testing kits and other equipment to respond to the pandemic. State and local governments paid up — and are still waiting for delivery.

Fraud is both bankruptcy  and possible prison.

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May 6th US Covid Data

Ian Welsh at Ian Welsh - 10 hours ago

Our benefactor writes: We’ve crossed 70,000 deaths. The spate of re-openings will likely lead to an increase of new cases and deaths over the next month. This is forecast by U.S. leadership, even as they proceed. Those of us in sane states should proceed with extreme caution. I ran the numbers on the states to
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The mortality rate was 5.9% yesterday.

https://www.ianwelsh.net/may-7th-us-covid-data/

The mortality rate is 6.0% today.

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Biden Leads Trump in First Poll to Address Sexual Assault Allegation

Giovanni Russonello and Maggie Astor at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 10 hours ago

In the first national survey asking voters about the allegations, Joe Biden widened his lead over President Trump in a head-to-head matchup that has continued to grow in the last couple of months.

Doubt is not rejection for rational people.

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Betsy DeVos Completes Sexual Assault Rules

Erica L. Green at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 10 hours ago

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos released final regulations for schools dealing with sexual misconduct, giving them the force of law for the first time and bolstering due-process rights.

"Words fail me.
Stand by for gestures!"

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Obama Says G.O.P.’s Biden Inquiry Promotes ‘Russian Disinformation’

Reid J. Epstein at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 10 hours ago

The letter came in response to a November request from two Republican senators seeking Obama administration meeting records related to Ukrainian officials.

Obama is probably correct.
The Trump administration

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On Politics: Dissolving the Coronavirus Task Force

Giovanni Russonello at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 15 hours ago

Questions about the role of science in the federal response: This is your morning tip sheet.

I am told that the Coronavirus task force will not disolve.

Trump does not know how to get out.

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Trump Pushes Young Republicans Away. Abortion Pulls Them Back.

Maggie Astor at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 17 hours ago

On everything from climate change to marijuana, the generational divide that is evident among Democrats is no less present on the other side of the aisle. It’s just less visible.

Children learn to dissemble and hide.

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Loeffler Got Lucrative Parting Gift From Public Company en Route to the Senate

Nicholas Fandos and David Enrich at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 17 hours ago

The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, which her husband runs, changed compensation terms to give Kelly Loeffler, a top executive, awards worth millions of dollars as she left for Congress.

"An honest politician stays bought"

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The Dunning-Kruger Affect

Eric Anderson at Ian Welsh - 17 hours ago

Affect: noun (a-fekt): a set of observable manifestations of a subjectively experienced emotion. Benjamin Franklin popularized the phrase “time is money” circa 1748 in his essay “Advice to a Young Tradesman.” Never since have so few words of advice been accepted so wholeheartedly, while simultaneously being so pervasively destructive. You see, Ben embodied what once […]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

I can make no counter argument.

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How Kushner’s Volunteer Force Led a Fumbling Hunt for Medical Supplies

Nicholas Confessore, Andrew Jacobs, Jodi Kantor, Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Luis Ferré-Sadurní at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 23 hours ago

Young, inexperienced workers scrambled to sort through tips on equipment desperately needed to fight the coronavirus while warehouses ran bare and doctors made their own gear.

There were no uncommitted U.S. suppliers.
They were conned.

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Who is Rick Bright? The Coronavirus Whistle-Blower Who Said The Trump Administration Steered Contracts to Cronies

Sheryl Gay Stolberg at NYT > U.S. > Politics - 1 day ago

Rick Bright, the ousted chief of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency, said he was pressured to steer millions of dollars to the clients of a well-connected consultant.

Rick Bright is shafted.

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