Trump responds to Fox host with call to end isolation, Mitch McConnell tries to jam corporate bailouts on Democrats…--Trump tunes out experts who advise longer isolation, protecting corporations and the rich at expense of poor Americans
--McConnell’s idea of compromise is Dem capitulation, and so far the minority is holding firm in opposing bailouts with no rules, token payments to average Americans
--our Covid 19 daily update, compiled by Linda Lewis
--another report says corona virus wasn’t developed in a lab
--as some Americans ignore isolation orders, Italian mayors are yelling at their citizens to go home
--in the height of irony, Trump officials consider opening Obamacare enrollment, as California has done
--some confusion as Grand Princess passengers due to be released from “quarantine” this week
--many Americans are rightly concerned that responses to the pandemic will rollback more constitutional rights, and may lead to martial law
--in conversation with Bill Moyers, Supreme Court analyst Dahlia Lithwick shows concern
--in op-ed, Oxford student Samuel Miller McDonald offers strong argument against authoritarian measure
--Moon of Alabama dings intel agencies which failed to warn of pandemic as they pushed out more Russian meddling alarms
--listener Colleen McGuire is upset by Senators’ insider trading, but notes that it’s mostly legal, and reporting systems have been made toothless
--PBC notes that Dem leaders knew of the pandemic risk when they revved up the Block Bernie machinery in late February and propped up Joe Biden
--in premature obit for Sanders campaign, NY Times mixes valid criticism with magical explanations for Biden’s sudden rise
--Kevin Gosztola reveals the GOP and corporate Dems who funded stop Bernie PAC, and Lee Fang shows that Warren’s superPAC got 96% of donations from a rich woman in Silicon Valley
--one of the debates in the White House now is about squeezing Iran even more
--San Francisco journalist Tim Redmond says the 1% should pay for corporate bailouts
--after torching the whole town of Paradise, PG&E pleads guilty, pays fine
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