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Judd Legum / Popular Information:
A raw deal  —  The pandemic has been devastating for small businesses, particularly independent restaurants that rely on foot traffic.  Congress created a $350 billion lifeline called the Paycheck Protection Program.  The Paycheck Protection Program allowed small businesses with 500 …
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NBC News:
Shake Shack returning $10 million government loan meant for small businesses  —  With the Paycheck Protection Program already out of money, the burger chain says other restaurateurs need its loan more than it does.  —  Shake Shack, one of several large restaurant chains that got federal loans through …
Discussion: The Week, Bloomberg and Quartz
Randy Garutti / LinkedIn:
Shake Shack is returning its PPP Loan.  Here's why:  —  A letter from Danny Meyer and Randy Garutti  —  On March 27, when both branches of Congress and the White House came to an agreement to provide sweeping financial assistance via the $2.2 trillion CARES Act, many of us in the restaurant industry cheered with a big sigh of relief.
Jonathan O'Connell / Washington Post:
White House, GOP face heat after hotel and restaurant chains helped run small business program dry
Derek Wallbank / Bloomberg:   Shake Shack Will Return Its Entire $10 Million U.S. Government Loan
Alicia Wallace / CNN:
Shake Shack, Ruth's Chris and other chain restaurants got big PPP loans when small businesses couldn't
Discussion: Redstate and New York Times
Zachary Warmbrodt / Politico:
Shake Shack to return small business loan after uproar
Discussion: Raw Story
Michelle Toh / CNN:   Shake Shack returns $10 million emergency loan to the US government
Washington Post:
Pro-gun activists using Facebook groups to push anti-quarantine protests  —  A trio of far-right, pro-gun provocateurs is behind some of the largest Facebook groups calling for anti-quarantine protests around the country, offering the latest illustration that some seemingly organic demonstrations …
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The Philadelphia Inquirer:   The backlash against the quarantine has begun in Pennsylvania, with anti-shutdown rally Monday in Harrisburg
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Stop Airing Trump's Briefings!  —  The media is allowing disinformation to appear as news.  —  Around this time four years ago, the media world was all abuzz over an analysis by mediaQuant, a company that tracks what is known as “earned media” coverage of political candidates.  Earned media is free media.
Michael Kranish / Washington Post:
Brett Giroir, Trump's testing czar, was forced out of a job developing vaccine projects.  Now he's on the hot seat.  —  Brett Giroir, the federal official overseeing coronavirus testing efforts, says that his experience working on vaccine development projects at Texas A&M University helped prepare him for this historic moment.
Discussion: CNN, The Week and Raw Story
James Arkin / Politico:
Democrats' momentum puts Senate majority in play  —  Republicans started this election cycle as heavy favorites to keep their Senate majority, with a lineup of elections mostly in red-tinted states and GOP incumbents favored over a slate of relatively unknown and untested challengers.
Discussion: Raw Story
Tom Boggioni / Raw Story:
White House worried Trump-inspired protests will blow up in his face if attendees are stricken with COVID-19: NYT's Haberman  —  Appearing remotely on CNN's “New Day” New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman claimed that senior officials in Donald Trump's administration …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
A watchdog out of Trump's grasp unleashes wave of coronavirus audits  —  Lawmakers handed President Donald Trump $2 trillion in coronavirus relief — and then left town without activating any of the powerful new oversight tools meant to hold his administration accountable.
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Jasmin Barmore / Detroit News:
5-year-old with rare complication becomes first Michigan child to die of COVID-19  —  A month ago, 5-year-old Skylar Herbert complained to her parents that she had a bad headache.  —  On Sunday, after spending two weeks on a ventilator, the Detroit girl died.
Discussion: Fox News and New York Post
Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
Everyone is in denial about November  —  The 2016 hangover  —  Over the weekend, the hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts read a lot of analysis about what the Trump administration was thinking and doing about reelection.  What all of this analysis had in common was a refusal to acknowledge some brute facts.
George Packer / The Atlantic:
We Are Living in a Failed State  —  When the virus came here, it found a country with serious underlying conditions, and it exploited them ruthlessly.  Chronic ills—a corrupt political class, a sclerotic bureaucracy, a heartless economy, a divided and distracted public—had gone untreated for years.
Discussion: Raw Story
Justin Wise / The Hill:
Trump calls FBI investigators in Russia probe ‘human scum’  —  President Trump on Sunday lashed out at FBI leadership over the origins of the investigation into Russian election interference, calling investigators who led the probe “human scum.”  —  Trump made the remarks during …
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CNN:   Trump won't say whether he will pardon Manafort and Stone, calls FBI investigators ‘human scum’
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's support for right-wing protests just got more ugly and dangerous  —  At bottom, President Trump's ongoing support for right-wing agitators who want to own the libs by throwing off the oppression of policies limiting their own exposure to a deadly pathogen should sound unsettlingly familiar.
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Charlie Warzel / New York Times:   Protesting for the Right to Catch the Coronavirus
Marilynn Marchione / Associated Press:
Reports suggest many have had coronavirus with no symptoms  —  file photo, amid coronavirus concerns, a healthcare worker takes the temperature of a visitor to Essentia Health who was crossing over a skywalk bridge from the adjoining parking deck, in Duluth, Minn. A flood of new research suggests …
Discussion: Associated Press
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump, Head of Government, Leans Into Antigovernment Message  —  With his poll numbers fading after a rally-around-the-leader bump, the president is stoking protests against stay-at-home orders.  —  First he was the self-described “wartime president.”  Then he trumpeted the “total” authority of the federal government.
Bloomberg:
Oil in New York Plunges Below $15 as Storage Sites Fill  — Texan buyers offering as little as $2 a barrel for some crudes  — WTI plummets as much as 22%, though futures expire on Tuesday  —  Oil plunged below $15 a barrel in New York, a fresh 21-year low, as inventories soar …
Helen Branswell / STAT:
The months of magical thinking: As the coronavirus swept over China, some experts were in denial  —  The response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States and other countries has been hobbled by a host of factors, many involving political and regulatory officials.
Houston Chronicle:
Across nation, masks are the latest political, cultural divide  —  Kevin Krannawitter won't wear a mask because he just doesn't think it's necessary, whatever the scientists say.  Marilyn Singleton won't wear one either - and she's a physician - because she says it's un-American for the government to force people to cover their faces.
Nova Scotia / Canadian Press:
RCMP officer among 17 confirmed dead in Nova Scotia killing spree  —  Suspected shooter was killed after being intercepted by officers in Enfield, N.S.  —  RCMP say 17 people are dead, including one of their officers, after a man who at one point wore a police uniform and drove a mock …
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Patrick Cooley / The Columbus Dispatch:
Coronavirus in Ohio: More than 1,800 inmates at Marion Correctional test positive  —  Patrick Cooley Jim Woods The Columbus Dispatch  —  The total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus rose to 11,602 cases on Sunday  —  Coronavirus has overtaken a vast majority of the prison population …
Discussion: The Hill and New York Post
Reuters:
South Koreans return to work, crowd parks, malls as social distancing rules ease  —  Hyonhee Shin, Heekyong Yang  —  SEOUL (Reuters) - South Koreans are returning to work and crowding shopping malls, parks, golf courses and some restaurants as South Korea relaxes social distancing rules amid …
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Idaho GOPer says stay-at-home orders ‘no different’ than sending Jews to extermination camps  —  A Republican state lawmaker compared Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) to Adolf Hitler because she said that stay-at-home orders during the coronavirus pandemic are akin to Nazi extermination camps.
David Catron / The American Spectator:
Democrats Ignore Lockdown Protests At Their Peril  —  The voters will exact a heavy price if the Democrats don't lift the lockdowns soon.  —  YouTube screenshot  —  🔊 Listen to this article  —  In addition to killing thousands of Americans and robbing millions more of their livelihoods …
Discussion: Fox Business
Wall Street Journal:
Coronavirus Testing Hampered by Disarray, Shortages, Backlogs  —  State officials and labs say competition for supplies and questionable results are prolonging the national crisis  —  Amid efforts to expand coronavirus testing, laboratory operators and state health officials are navigating …
Discussion: Raw Story
 
 
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court: Criminal juries must be unanimous to convict
ABC News:
The Note: China comes into uneasy focus in early general-election skirmish
Discussion: Fox News and POLITICUSUSA
Nick Bilton / Vanity Fair:
In the Coronavirus Era, the Force Is Still With Jack Dorsey
Discussion: Althouse
Shannon Watkins / The James G. Martin Center …:
Goodbye Meritocracy, Hello...What?
Discussion: National Review
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Five Million People Need This Lifeline. But It's Gone Broke.
Discussion: ABC News
Associated Press:
Trump says he's close to a deal with Congress on virus aid
Discussion: Redstate, FOX40 and Twitchy
 Earlier Items: 
Aaron Lorenzo / Politico:
The IRS is drowning in unopened tax refund requests amid pandemic
Discussion: National Review
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump money machine overcomes coronavirus in March
Discussion: The Hill
Meredith Deliso / ABC News:
Residents protest coronavirus stay-at-home orders in 5 states
Bernie Sanders / New York Times:
The Foundations of American Society Are Failing Us
Discussion: Common Dreams
CNN:
Piers Morgan says his friend President Trump is ‘failing the American people’
Discussion: The Guardian
Josh Taylor / The Guardian:
Facebook and Google to be forced to share advertising revenue with Australian media companies
Ben Smith / New York Times:
The U.S. Tried to Teach China a Lesson About the Media. It Backfired.