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ByHelaine Olen
Opinion writer
April 3, 2020 at 3:50 PM EDT
When I spoke with Suzanne Geisler on Thursday, she still didn’t know what she was going to do about health insurance. Geisler, 60, is an educational consultant who conducts presentations on environmental topics for schoolchildren. She lost all her bookings when the Ohio schools closed d…[Read more]

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers called Friday for the Republican-controlled Legislature to meet in special session to move Wisconsin to an all-mail presidential primary amid fears that voters and poll workers would be exposed to the coronavirus during Tuesday’s election.
Evers wants the session to begin Saturday. He asked lawmakers to take up bills t…[Read more]

The American of Federation of Teachers (AFT) is by no means alone among labor unions in endorsing Biden as the Democratic Party’s nominee for president. Nor is the AFT’s endorsement, an action taken by its Executive Council, unique in its failure to adopt a system of one member, one vote, as did unions like the National Union of Health Wor…[Read more]

Nearly one-quarter of Hawaii’s workers applied for unemployment benefits last month as social distancing measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus socked the economy.
The state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations said 160,929 unemployment claims were filed during March. Of those, 10,495 were duplicates.
The state’s labor force has…[Read more]

Joe Biden isn’t worried about disappointed Bernie Sanders supporters not voting for him in the general election.

“If I’m the nominee, I’m confident Bernie will push his supporters to support me, just as I would if it were reversed,” the former vice president told donors late Thursday. “He’s poured his heart and soul into this. He’s made some si…[Read more]

WASHINGTON – Videos posted on social media showed a huge send-off for Navy Capt. Brett Crozier, the commander of an aircraft carrier who was ousted Thursday after sending a letter pleading with Navy leadership to protect his crew from the spreading coronavirus.
One video from the Facebook account of Michael Washington shows hundreds of service mem…[Read more]

AS THE coronavirus pandemic upends most aspects of everyday living across the country, political campaigns have abandoned in-person events and transitioned to virtual town halls in efforts to keep their bids afloat. In West Virginia, Stephen Smith, a 40-year-old community organizer running a movement-based campaign for governor, is attempting…[Read more]

by JEFFREY ST. CLAIR

CLR James: “When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.”

+ Is it possible for an entire country to win a Darwin Award?

+ At the onset of a pandemic outbreak of a virus that viciously attacks the lungs of humans, the…[Read more]

A counterintuitive thing about crises is that they can make very complex issues become very simple, very fast. Physics, for example, is very complex. But when someone throws a brick at your head, you duck. Simple. Likewise, providing health care to an entire country is very complex. But when there is a global pandemic that threatens to kill…[Read more]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/02/opinions/you-have-a-lot-to-be-proud-of-senator-sanders-axelrod/

Not really worth your time to read, if you ask me. He is trying the ‘Nice Job, Good Try’ approach here. Fuck that Shit.

Oh, and somebody must have decided to catapult the propaganda this week

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There was a poignant scene chronicled by the New York Post recently in which hundreds of New Yorkers rushed out to take pictures of the USNS Comfort arriving in New York Harbor. Americans rightly love their military, and finally their leaders have given them a mission that will avail their own nation. I’ll bet the medical personnel aboard the C…[Read more]