Wednesday Reads
Posted: March 18, 2020 | Author: Minkoff Minx | Filed under: just because |26 CommentsIllustration by Barry Blitt
Well, it is official…people will risk death or #Covid19 to vote against Bernie Sanders.
In the midst of a dangerous contagious Corona virus outbreak literally shutdown America, people feel like defeating Bernie Sanders is the most important duty in America right now.
People rather get sick than have him, let that sink in right now…
Wipe the floor with him Biden.
— 👑 Black Professor 👑 (@Wonderbitch82) March 18, 2020
It's official: more Democrats voted in Florida in 2020 than in 2016, despite the coronavirus: https://t.co/46WWlkoULz
— Alex Daugherty (@alextdaugherty) March 18, 2020
In another big night for Joe Biden, the former veep sweeps Florida, Illinois, and Arizona https://t.co/OKXZUL3BIc
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) March 18, 2020
Joe Biden is now on track to win every Florida county by double digits. Bernie Sanders wasn't competitive in a single county! Can you imagine how badly Sanders would have gotten blown out in the general election if he were the nominee?
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) March 18, 2020
More people voted in the Florida primary in 2020 than in 2016. https://t.co/wkjCC2gnkJ
— Ronald Klain (@RonaldKlain) March 18, 2020
It was a good night for real dems:
.@Marie4Congress beat Lipinkski. An anti-choice, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ Democrat is done. So too should any acceptance of these oppressive views in the party. So proud to have supported Marie this cycle and last. @NARAL members are crying tears of happiness tonight. #IL03 https://t.co/qhhEhEWQHE
— ilyse hogue (@ilyseh) March 18, 2020
Why is no one on my TV talking about Marie Newman winning? Or maybe I missed it? https://t.co/BbaERwgOh0
— Joan Walsh (@joanwalsh) March 18, 2020
Joe Biden won Florida's Democratic primary Tuesday night with help from his core constituency: voters age 45 and older, black voters and voters who identify as moderate or conservative. https://t.co/Kbu156x82l
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 18, 2020
Just checking in on how the left is doi…OMG…*backs out slowly* pic.twitter.com/0uRM3u2AUL
— staying home stan account (@Convolutedname) March 17, 2020
.@PatBagley explains how the #coronavirus can spread using pennies. https://t.co/7scyZTiDyy
— The Salt Lake Tribune (@sltrib) March 18, 2020
Here are a few things to go crazy about:
BREAKING: Confirmed cases of new coronavirus top 200,000 worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University tally. https://t.co/xcvT79F91x
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 18, 2020
Trump turned down WHO test kits for corona because the Kushners own Oscar Health, the company that has now been given the contact to supply the tests. Though Jareds name was on the company as co owner, with his brother Joshua, it has now been removed.
https://t.co/hCft92y3lz— 💖Amelia Sees It All💖 (@AmeliaHouchins) March 18, 2020
This is how behind the U.S. is in coronavirus testinghttps://t.co/b3uofYfkfD
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 17, 2020
UPDATE: US now has more than 6,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and more than 100 deaths as a result of the disease.https://t.co/i1olKJtFhM
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 18, 2020
We just hit 6,000 cases of COVID-19.
BUT what matters is rate of growth. Those numbers:
Day 1: 15 cases.
Next 25 days: Grew to 1,000
Next 3 days: 2,000
Next 3 days: 3000
Next day: 4,000
Next 20 hrs: 5,000
Next 5 hours: 6,000Get it?
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 17, 2020
279 new cases in 12 hours in NYC https://t.co/l4mjXgxt3y
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) March 18, 2020
View this post on InstagramThis is for all the healthcare workers out there. THANK YOU! #healthcare #nurses #coronavirus
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What. This cannot be. A ventilator maker could increase production by 500% but the USG hasn’t put in an order. No order, no ramp up of production. OMG. https://t.co/ooO0gNgiBh
— Max Bergmann (@maxbergmann) March 17, 2020
Even FEMA is awaiting orders from the administration.https://t.co/2voJAUXBB2 pic.twitter.com/t3OOKZAwDW
— Eric Umansky (@ericuman) March 18, 2020
Mnuchin warns senators of 20% unemployment without coronavirus stimulus https://t.co/A6Up3bKG66 pic.twitter.com/miaCaAcMjP
— Reuters (@Reuters) March 18, 2020
View this post on Instagram#voteblue2020 #bluewave2020 #votejoe2020 #joebiden2020 #sinmiedovotoazul #sisepuede
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You should read this thread and then grab a drink. #COVID2019 https://t.co/qqGUjfkH1Q
— Imani Gandy ☄️🌍🔥 (@AngryBlackLady) March 18, 2020
Seriously…you should probably grab a drink first.
Here is the original tweet to that thread:
We can now read the Imperial College report on COVID-19 that led to the extreme measures we've seen in the US this week. Read it; it's terrifying. I'll offer a summary in this thread; please correct me if I've gotten it wrong.https://t.co/AwE2cHIbeJ
— Jeremy C. Young (@jeremycyoung) March 17, 2020
This is a perfect spot.
Run this over and over through November. pic.twitter.com/M0Kt43mDf5
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) March 18, 2020
Feds’ 100-page coronavirus plan warns it will ‘last 18 months’ and cause ‘CRITICAL SHORTAGES’: report
The document was marked, “For Official Use Only // Not For Public Distribution or Release.”#MOG☘️#StayAtHome https://t.co/PvDtDeI5J0
— Michael O'Grady (@mog7546) March 18, 2020
This is without testing. https://t.co/RZ9VX0664o
— Wajahat "Please Stay Home If You Can" Ali (@WajahatAli) March 18, 2020
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The Senate coronavirus bill vote will be delayed after Republican Sen. Rand Paul pushed a doomed amendment.https://t.co/CcAHuzB6yW
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 18, 2020
This is not good: #Coronavirus information from credible sources like the CDC and Canadian government is getting flagged as spam and removed from Facebook due to an apparent glitch in the system.
I will update as new information becomes available:https://t.co/PIqPjfPr9M
— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) March 18, 2020
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And then…
Canada and the United States are finalizing a deal to close their shared border to non-essential travel — an extraordinary measure designed to slow the spread of COVID-19. https://t.co/w7yUsvo9m1 @CBCKatie @CochraneCBC
— CBC News (@CBCNews) March 18, 2020
And this…
This is what every state should be doing. https://t.co/a1o9FUzUXt
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) March 18, 2020
Big news for my hometown football team last night:
Why Tom Brady is headed to Tampa Bay and the Bucs https://t.co/NWrwiQhJlU
— Rick Stroud (@NFLSTROUD) March 18, 2020
More on Tom Brady being expected to sign with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers:https://t.co/OSYgrTuBNh
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) March 18, 2020
Those two links are for the Patriots fans.
And lastly:
At some point in the future, our kids or grandkids are going to look at us and ask “how the fuck did that happen?” And we’re going to have to say “3 million fewer of us somehow were so stupid to elect a known grifter and sex predator as President, and he fucked it all up. Sorry.”
— Ben Jackson (@DadoftheDecade) March 18, 2020
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This is an open thread.
Please stay healthy…
Thanks, JJ! You too.
Lots of great info in this post.
Yes, indeed! I love the Mary with the Earth icon and Sita washing all her hands!
Love the expression on her face 😆
“Yeah. Seemed like a good idea at the time. More arms, more ways to hold things, easier to get a bookshelf up, … and now this.”
you too!!!
Hope everyone is doing well. I have practice at staying put and tend to be a hermit anyway – but I can imagine how frustrating this is for young and active people.
I would like to see a thorough investigation of that Oscar Health contract. How is that legal? They are holding up testing for Jared Kushner to make money?
Bernie still in the race – providing a fine example for his equally stubborn supporters, who will stay home in Nov ensuring we get Dump for another 4 years. But keep traveling around Bernie – shake lots of hands. Lots and lots of hands.
She posted later that it isn’t true according Bernie’s staffers.
THx, i was watching the back an d forth but didn’t catch her correction
President being racist on national TV again. Wtf is with this racist “Chinese Virus” act? Can’t they stop him from spreading this racist shit ever? The Chinese own the manufacturing sector for Hospital Respirator production. I can only imagine what they could do to extend his trade wars by stopping shipments of them to the USA.
Trump has done such a bigly fantastic, terrific job responding to this virus, I think we owe it to him to name the virus after him.”Trump Virus” has a nice ring to it. Of course, there’s no money in it for him, but it would be an incredible honor, no?
“Trump virus” certainly tells us it’s ugly and heartless.
The naked callousness of this man.
Awww!
Sanders reminds me of someone ….
Gov. Newsom called us a nation state, is giving daily briefings, took time to thank everyone, and talked about critical shortages. CA put in place a rainy day fund after the Great Recession, so we have it to use. They have set up an info website. Unemployment claims have jumped from 2000 a day to 80,000 a day. Newsom says to prepare for the kids to be out of school till fall. Solano County went into “shelter in place” mode, joining six (seven?) other counties, and I’m glad I started an emergency pantry a few years ago, though I earlier had planned to get 25-50 lbs sugar to do some canning and that disappeared overnight. Hubbie’s second cataract surgery was canceled the day it was due, so he going to walk around one eyed for a while. They took the lens out of one side of his glasses, cause the first surgery went well. Now he comes home from walking the dog with one side out and the other transition dark. Right now I’m grateful we get Medicare. This is going to be a long road. https://covid19.ca.gov
Oh, and though there are 598 confirmed cases in CA and I think,12,000 tested, we don’t know the real number because there aren’t enough chemicals yet to process the tests.
There are plenty of actual nation states *way* smaller than California.
I’m glad we’re (finally!, way too late!) starting to address this thng. We get to find out if late really is better than never. Horrible field experiment going on where we can contrast outcomes in FL, TX vs. CA.
All of us here: this thing better pass us all by!
Bernie lost Tulsi? I guess she’s decided he’ll never be Prez so no point trying to be his Veep.
He still has Elizabeth Warren, apparently. She hasn’t endorsed Biden even though Bernie has no path to the nomination.