From TPM:
2/ detailed reporting on the federal governments seizures of PPE medical supplies is that no one invovled wants to talk about it. The government doesn’t for obvious reasons. But the purchasers, distributors and importers don’t either because the only upshot is going …
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 21, 2020
4/ When I say ‘victims’ it is important to note, as @JoshKovensky’s piece makes clear, it’s not a black and white story. The dominant theme is less bad acting than confusion and chaos. But as we’ve shown here the administration is using the DPA to seize goods, either …
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 21, 2020
6/ more expect in an Elmore Leonard novel than anything the federal government to be up to during an historic pandemic when tens of thousands of Americans are dying.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 21, 2020
Here's the backstory on fed govt PPE seizures & that wild New England Journal of Medicine article about hospitals having to act like smugglers to get their gear. @chrislhayes @davidfrum @DavidCornDC @marynmck @Laurie_Garrett @sciencecohen @JeremyKonyndyk https://t.co/Wo88OTRbVJ
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 21, 2020
I have come down on the side of that there is no strategic supply, because they sent it to China and never replenished it. So, they are taking these orders and pretending that there’s actually a Federal Stockpile.
Today: Mnuchin gives the go ahead for corporations to use their bailout money for CEO bonuses and stock buybacks.
Also today: https://t.co/xlhOlzE1V6
— Michael Linden (@MichaelSLinden) April 28, 2020
"There is smoking gun evidence that while Donald Trump was telling Americans coronavirus would miraculously disappear, he was being briefed by his intelligence agencies about the pandemic's lethal spread and the threat it posed to American lives" – @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/yvimqWXkGk
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) April 28, 2020
This news from Africa.
Why👏can’t👏we👏get👏this👏$1👏test👏here👏
$1 Testing kits. $60 3D printed ventilators. Third Largest recovery rate in the world and only 2 deaths. https://t.co/2zfPldRHjH
— 💞Zomzi Love💞 (@Zomzilove) April 27, 2020
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https://twitter.com/Kat4Obama/status/1255870688784777217
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https://twitter.com/PalmerReport/status/1255943817301307392
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1255966109142069255
ICAM
https://twitter.com/matthewamiller/status/1255919443751899137
https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1255612096298881025
I heard on cable news that he’s losing it now that polls are showing him behind Biden in states he thought he was winning.
I’m wondering if Trump will stay in if this keeps getting worse and it is very likely to get nothing but worse.
https://twitter.com/NBCLA/status/1255708078663774209
https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/1255633071082217472
Ben Wikler (@benwikler) Tweeted:
For the most in-depth reporting on the plot to purge Wisconsin voters—and the sordid history of purging as a tool of voter suppression—read @AriBerman’s essential piece in @MotherJones: https://t.co/Jkdoy3PoZe https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/1255642999675027458?s=20
-Vanity Fair
The pandemic certainly is exposing a lot of inequities as well as showing us how many people have to live. I have another observation and this goes back to the Democratic debates. To listen to the candidates you would think that there were the billionaires and then the rest of us. That’s hardly true. There are people in this country who have absolutely nothing and we’re finding out there are far more of those than anyone was talking about.
https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1255483234021933059
https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1255672219868581888
https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1255648609967767554
https://twitter.com/eji_org/status/1255660797201694725
https://twitter.com/TORI_ALBERTA/status/1255568852928397313
https://twitter.com/lbarronlopez/status/1255620674783240192
https://youtu.be/gteIciyNYBM
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https://youtu.be/oCWdVGf_p_Y
https://twitter.com/RepRaulGrijalva/status/1255596496310996996
https://twitter.com/Green_Footballs/status/1255589939414269955
How is she acting all new.
Isn’t this what the Lt. Governor of Texas said 6-8 weeks ago?!😒😒
Yeah, Dan Patrick. He tried to make it sound as though older people sacrificing themselves would be voluntary, doing it for the greater good of their grandchildren.
WTF is this?
https://twitter.com/JMVivancoHRW/status/1255580943315804162
https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1255585654668431361
Awe 😍😍🤗
https://youtu.be/qIlZTJnBYe4
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1255297187279446017
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1255567415007539201
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https://youtu.be/wzjI2veI4CY
https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1255531364553756672
https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1255512755953700864
https://twitter.com/etanthomas36/status/1255424775008157696
Yeah, we know.
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1255335380339097601
Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄