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11:10 PM ET, April 6, 2020

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Paul Szoldra / SoundCloud:

Acting SECNAV Modley criticizing Capt. Crozier to sailors onboard USS Theodore Roosevelt — Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly reportedly made an unhinged speech to the crew members of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, in which he lashed out at former Capt. Brett E. Crozier and told sailors to stop complaining and do their jobs.

Discussion: Defense One, War on the Rocks and The Daily Caller

Jeff Schogol / Task & Purpose:

Acting Navy Secretary blasts USS Roosevelt captain as ‘too naive or too stupid’ in leaked speech to ship's crew — Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly reportedly made an unhinged speech to the crew members of the USS Theodore Roosevelt, in which he lashed out at former Capt. Brett E. Crozier …

CNN:

Acting Navy secretary apologizes for calling ousted aircraft carrier captain ‘stupid’ in address to ship's crew — (CNN)Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly apologized Monday night for calling the now-ousted commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt “stupid” in an address to the ship's crew Monday morning.

Discussion: San Francisco Chronicle, Axios, Task & Purpose, The Daily Caller, ABC News, Just The News, Raw Story, Talking Points Memo, The National Interest, HuffPost, Mediaite, Daily Kos, Patterico's Pontifications, Politico, Washington Post and Balloon Juice

Emily Goodin / Daily Mail:

‘Shut the F*** up’: What one sailor shouted when Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly flew to Guam and told fired aircraft carrier's captain's crew their hero ‘was too naive or too stupid to be a commanding officer’ — Thomas Modly, President Trump's acting Navy secretary …

Discussion: The Daily Caller, The Hill and USNI News

Louis Casiano / Fox News:
Acting Navy secretary's USS Theodore Roosevelt speech triggers lawmakers' calls for his firing

Discussion: Breitbart, The Hill, Redstate and U.S. Senator Tim Kaine …

New York Times: Acting Navy Secretary Slams Fired Captain as ‘Stupid’

New York Times: How a Ship's Coronavirus Outbreak Became a Moral Crisis for the Military

Washington Post:

Wisconsin Supreme Court blocks order by governor to stop Tuesday's elections in state's latest whipsaw — BREAKING: The decision by the court came hours after Gov. Tony Evers (D) issued an executive order suspending in-person voting, citing the intensifying health threat of the coronavirus pandemic.

Discussion: Vox, Axios, The Hill, Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Mother Jones

Politico:

Wisconsin Supreme Court overturns governor, orders Tuesday elections to proceed — Wisconsin's state Supreme Court blocked Gov. Tony Evers' late executive order postponing in-person voting in Tuesday's elections, meaning the state's presidential primary and hundreds of local elections …

Discussion: ABC News, The Atlantic, The Hill, Reason, National Review, Mediaite, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, FiveThirtyEight, New York Post, RightWisconsin and Fox News

Tucker Higgins / CNBC: Supreme Court votes 5-4 to halt order extending absentee ballot deadline in Wisconsin

New York Times:
Wisconsin Election Fight Heralds a National Battle Over Virus-Era Voting

Discussion: Fox News, The Hill and Common Dreams

Scott Lemieux / Lawyers, Guns & Money:
Roberts Gang Attacks the Right To Vote Again

Discussion: NBC News and electionlawblog.org

Robert Barnes / Washington Post:
Supreme Court splits along ideological lines in Wisconsin ballot case

Discussion: Politico

Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court's disturbing order to effectively disenfranchise thousands of Wisconsin voters

Discussion: Slate, Gizmodo, CNN and Daily Kos

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issues order shutting down Tuesday's election

Discussion: SCOTUSblog, State of Wisconsin, The Gateway Pundit, electionlawblog.org, Daily Kos, Sludge, HuffPost, Common Dreams, VICE, IJR, FiveThirtyEight, Fox News and Althouse

John Kruzel / The Hill:
Supreme Court blocks Wisconsin from extending absentee voting deadline

Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Townhall, HuffPost, Washington Post and Just The News

The Hill:
Wisconsin Supreme Court blocks governor's effort to delay election

Discussion: Jacobin, Washington Post and IJR

New York Times:

Trump's Aggressive Advocacy of Malaria Drug for Treating Coronavirus Divides Medical Community — While Dr. Anthony Fauci has urged caution in using hydroxychloroquine, some doctors are prescribing it to patients who have the virus despite the fact it has never been tested for it.

Discussion: CNN, Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, Raw Story, ABC News, Rolling Stone, Newsweek, HuffPost, The Hill, Vanity Fair, The Independent, NBC News and The Week

Politico:

Trump's ‘Hail Mary’ drug push rattles his health team — Top health officials are increasingly unsettled by President Donald Trump's continued championing of an unproven drug in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, even as some of the president's political and policy advisers and outside allies cheer him on.

Discussion: Raw Story, CNN and The American Independent

Donald Shaw / Sludge:

Pharma-Funded Group Tied to a Top Trump Donor Is Promoting Malaria Drug to the President — Founded by one of Trump's top donors, the Job Creators Network has been pushing Trump to approve the use of hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19. — EDITED BY

Discussion: CNN, The Daily Beast, The Daily Signal, The Mahablog, Raw Story, The Nation, STAT, Common Dreams, RakeBack, Washington Post and Washington Free Beacon

James Hamblin / The Atlantic:
Why Does the President Keep Pushing a Malaria Drug?

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Media Matters for America, Raw Story and The Week

Lisa Du / Bloomberg:
Half the U.S. Supply of Trump-Touted Virus Drug Now Cut Off

Discussion: National Review, CNN, Raw Story and Vanity Fair

BBC:

Coronavirus: Boris Johnson moved to intensive care as symptoms worsen — Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved to intensive care in hospital after his coronavirus symptoms “worsened”, Downing Street has said. — A spokesman said he was moved on the advice of his medical team and was receiving “excellent care”.

Discussion: The Daily Beast, Politico, Sky News, Foreign Policy, TheJournal.ie, The Gateway Pundit, New York Times, Common Dreams, PJ Media Home, Vox, Just The News, NPR, РБК and Quartz

New York Times:
Boris Johnson Moved to Intensive Care; Foreign Minister Deputized

Discussion: Vanity Fair, BBC and Deseret News

Gregg Re / Fox News:
Trump ‘saddened’ over Boris Johnson's coronavirus condition, offers ‘help’ of ‘brilliant’ companies

Discussion: Politico and One America News Network

Associated Press:
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved to intensive care

Discussion: Twitchy

Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in intensive care after coronavirus symptoms worsen

Discussion: The National Interest

Abha Bhattarai / Washington Post:

Grocery workers are beginning to die of coronavirus — At least four people - who had worked at Walmart, Trader Joe's and Giant - have died from covid-19 in recent days — Major supermarket chains are beginning to report their first coronavirus-related employee deaths …

Paul Egan / Detroit Free Press:

Detroit rep says hydroxychloroquine, Trump helped save her life amid COVID-19 fight — LANSING - A Democratic state representative from Detroit is crediting hydroxychloroquine — and Republican President Donald Trump who touted the drug — for saving her in her battle with the coronavirus.

Discussion: Fox News, Redstate, The Gateway Pundit, New York Post, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, American Greatness, Big League Politics and Instapundit

Janine Puhak / Fox News:

Quarantine cravings: Uber Eats reveals most popular takeout orders in America — French fries and miso soup just might be the new bread and butter of the coronavirus pandemic, according to Uber Eats. — Uber's food delivery service said that orders in the U.S. and Canada have increased …

Liam Stack / New York Times:

Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Including Crypt, Will Become a Hospital — The Manhattan church, the largest Gothic cathedral in the world, will be able to care for at least 200 patients during the coronavirus outbreak. — The vast interior of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine …

Discussion: The Hill

YouTube:

Alyssa Milano explains silence on Joe Biden allegation … Alyssa Milano tells Andy why she's staying quiet about the sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden. — Hear Andy Cohen Live every Monday & Wednesday at 10amET/7am PT, only on Radio Andy. SiriusXM 102, and anytime on the SiriusXM app.

Discussion: Spectator USA, Breitbart, Townhall, Redstate, Mediaite, The Daily Caller, Washington Times and Twitchy

Maggie Haberman / New York Times:

Trade Adviser Warned White House in January of Risks of a Pandemic — A memo from Peter Navarro said failure to contain a coronavirus outbreak could lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths and trillions of dollars in economic losses. It is the most direct warning known to have circulated …

Paula Dwyer / Bloomberg:

Gasping for Air, Delusional and All Alone: One Survivor's Story — Shivering under two blankets in flannel pajamas and a ski cap — A frightening, frustrating odyssey with a happy ending — I wasn't scared. Until I started gasping for breath. — I took deep gulps, trying desperately to get some air.

Tia Mitchell / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:

David Perdue's stock trading saw an uptick as coronavirus took hold — U.S. Sen. David Perdue's financial portfolio saw heavy trading during the month of March, a period during which Congress passed three different spending bills to address the spread of COVID-19 and the markets took a turn for the worse.

Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos

STAT:

Martin Shkreli is trying to use the coronavirus pandemic to get out of prison — Martin Shkreli, currently serving a seven-year sentence for securities fraud, has a pitch to authorities: Let me out of prison and I'll help stop the novel coronavirus. — The disgraced biotech entrepreneur is asking for a …

Discussion: Law & Crime

Washington Post:

America's most influential coronavirus model just revised its estimates downward. But not every model agrees. — A leading forecasting model used by the White House to chart the coronavirus pandemic predicted Monday that the United States may need fewer hospital beds …

Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:

Inspector general shows Trump administration is doing a terrible job — The inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services issued a report on Monday that paints a dismal picture of the response to the coronavirus. The findings are from the period of March 23 to March 27 …

Greg Sargent / Washington Post:

Trump vs. Biden on coronavirus: The timeline is utterly damning — We're now learning that President Trump's efforts to promote an anti-malarial drug for use against the coronavirus is causing internal administration tensions. Anthony Fauci, the administration's own leading expert …

Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos

Eddie S. Glaude Jr / Washington Post:

The pandemic will pass. Our grief will endure. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is chair of the department of African American studies at Princeton University. — Americans have been told to brace themselves for difficult days ahead. The numbers are uncertain, but mass death is at our doorstep.