Trump scuttles payroll tax cut for plan to send cash to Americans hurt by pandemic, after handouts to banks, airlines and hotels…--after reporting he tested negative for coronavirus, Trump figured it could kill him politically, now acts like he’s really serious about the pandemic
--7 Bay Area counties ordered to shelter in place, but it’s not martial law
--our daily update, edited by Linda Lewis
--this snarky British video captures the gross negligence of Trump’s response: COVID19 Crisis
--NY Gov. Cuomo demands that Army Corps of Engineers start building emergency medical facilities
--confusion and chaos over today’s primary elections, Ohio postponed just 8 hours before polls were set to open
--Kevin Gosztola amuses with satirical post about voting in Illinois
--in Guardian op-ed, Sam Levine makes the case to lift state restrictions on voting by mail
--Facebook friend and math whiz crunches numbers and puts fatalities seen so far into perspective
--Trumpists on Facebook say media panic is aimed at hurting “our President”
--Brazil’s strongman Bolsonaro demonized Cuban doctors and kicked them out, now is begging for them to return
--Bolsonaro’s magical weekend at Mar-a-Lago was probably to scheme against Venezuela, where US sanctions will continue to kill average people
--in Senate wrangling over extension of FISA law and domestic spying, no Democrats are trying to amend or kill the laws
--Mueller’s showboat indictments of Russian troll farm are dismissed after Russkies used US law to defend themselves, NY Times continues stoking Russiagate
--at The Guardian, Arwa Mahdawi calls Biden’s promise to pick woman VP tokenism
--at Jacobin, Brano Marcetic recaps some of Joe Biden’s lies in Sunday’s debate
--Biden advisor Anita Dunn, who also advised Harvey Weinstein and Trans-Canada, slammed Bernie Sanders as a rude protester
--in follow-up about yesterday’s report on Israeli election mess, IDF general’s son Miko Peled reveals the truth about racism toward Arab List
--corrupt GOP congressman Duncan Hunter gets 11 months in prison for stealing campaign funds
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