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New York Times:
How Kushner's Volunteer Force Led a Fumbling Hunt for Medical Supplies  —  Roughly a dozen young, inexperienced workers were assembled to sort through tips on masks, gloves and other equipment.  Warehouses were running bare, and doctors fighting the coronavirus were forced to make their own protective gear.
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The Daily Beast:
Kushner's Screwed Up His COVID Jobs—Now He's Got an Even Bigger One  —  Operation Warp Speed is certainly ambitious.  But Trump's own advisers say it's overly so, even with his son-in-law involved.  —  Already under fire for his role atop a shadow task force aiding the administration's response …
Karen Tumulty / Washington Post:
Save us all from Jared Kushner
Discussion: Raw Story
Washington Post:
Trump order to paint border wall black could drive up cost $500 million or more  —  President Trump is once more pushing to have his border wall painted black, a design change that is projected to add at least $500 million in costs, according to government contracting estimates obtained by The Washington Post.
Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Byron York's Daily Memo: EXCLUSIVE - DNI to Schiff: The transcripts are ready to release  —  Welcome to Byron York's Daily Memo newsletter.  —  Was this email forwarded to you?  Sign up here to receive the newsletter.  —  EXCLUSIVE — DNI TO SCHIFF: THE TRANSCRIPTS ARE READY TO RELEASE.
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Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller:   Grenell To Schiff: Release The Secret Russia Probe Transcripts Or I Will
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
The problem with Biden's pledge of a black woman Supreme Court justice  —  There are few black women serving on the federal judiciary, and none younger than age 67 in appeals courts, the usual stepping stone to the high court.  —  WASHINGTON — Joe Biden has promised that if elected president …
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Associated Press:
Supreme Court set to hear Obamacare case argued by phone
Discussion: Politico
Monmouth University Polling Institute:
Voters Divided on Alleged Biden Assault  —  Half the electorate consider voting by mail this year  —  West Long Branch, NJ - Recent headlines may have dented Joe Biden's favorability rating ever so slightly but he has actually widened his national lead over Donald Trump in the race for president.
Discussion: Forbes, Political Wire, Axios and The Hill
Claire Galofaro / Associated Press:
'It's gone haywire': When COVID-19 arrived in rural America  —  DAWSON, Ga. (AP) — The reverend approached the makeshift pulpit and asked the Lord to help him make some sense of the scene before him: two caskets, side by side, in a small-town cemetery busier now than ever before.
Discussion: Eschaton
Politico:
Trump touted reopening.  Privately, his team sounded alarms.  —  President Donald Trump boasted on May 1 that his success in responding to the coronavirus pandemic has made ventilator, test kit and mask shortages a thing of the past, and that much of the country is ready to quickly send people back to work.
Discussion: Daily Kos, The Week and Raw Story
Nathaniel Lash / New York Times:
Don't Be Fooled by America's Flattening Curve  —  Here is America's coronavirus curve: the number of newly reported cases each day.  The curve has started declining moderately from the peak in early April.  —  But that's not the whole story.  Separate the region around New York City and the picture becomes far less rosy.
Discussion: Mother Jones, Axios and Unfogged
Josh Israel / The American Independent:
GOP lawmakers cheer Texas salon owner for violating stay-at-home order  —  Republican officials across the country have urged reopening businesses despite public health experts' advice that doing so too quickly will result in more cases of the virus.  —  Republican elected officials are rushing …
Discussion: Redstate
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Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman says evidence suggests coronavirus was not man-made or released from lab  —  The Pentagon's top uniformed official on Tuesday maintained that available evidence indicates the virus that has caused a global pandemic was natural and not man-made or released purposely from a Chinese lab.
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Laura Kelly / The Hill:
Pompeo defends Wuhan lab claims in combative press conference
Kurt Bardella / USA Today:
Coronavirus and xenophobia: ‘Blame China’ is Trump's 2020 version of ‘Build the wall’  —  Joe Biden and Democrats won't beat Trump on substance, qualifications and details.  They must be as aggressive, vicious and consistent as Republicans.  —  In 2016, Donald Trump fueled …
Discussion: Raw Story
S.E. Cupp / New York Daily News:
The president is not well: The umpteenth reminders of Trump's mental state and the consequences  —  Every parent has warily confronted the hypothetical question: What would you do if you suspected your child was unwell?  —  Not physically, but emotionally unwell, or mentally unstable?
Discussion: Raw Story and NB Blog
Kyle Mantyla / Right Wing Watch:
Ann Vandersteel Reported That Comey, Brennan, Clapper, and Their ‘Minions’ Would All Be Arrested by May 5  —  During last Thursday's episode of her “Steel Truth” program, right-wing QAnon conspiracy theorist Ann Vandersteel claimed that one of her sources, who she said had never been wrong …
Rachel Leingang / Arizona Republic:
State health department tells university COVID-19 modeling team to stop work, limits data access  —  The Arizona Department of Health Services told a team of university experts working on COVID-19 modeling to “pause” its work, an email from a department leader shows.
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Texas governor slammed after being caught on hot mic admitting his reopen order will worsen the pandemic  —  BREAKING: As @GovAbbott reopens the state in the midst of a rising infection and death rate, leaked audio from a call with Texas Legislators reveals that he knows reopening puts …
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New York Times:
What Is the Real Coronavirus Toll in Each State?  —  As the coronavirus pandemic cuts through the country, it is leaving behind large numbers of deaths that surpass those of recent history.  A New York Times analysis of state data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Nicholas Johnston / Axios:
Where the virus is spreading fastest  —  In addition to keeping an eye on the tragic, and climbing, numbers of total coronavirus cases and deaths across the U.S., it's important to watch how those trends are playing out over time at the state level.  —  Why it matters: Rising, or falling …
Discussion: Breitbart
Ernest Luning / Colorado Politics:
New Colorado poll shows Hickenlooper widening double-digit lead over Gardner  —  Former Gov. John Hickenlooper leads U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner by 18 percentage points in Colorado's U.S. Senate race, according to a poll from Colorado firms released Wednesday.  —  The Keating-Onsight-Melanson poll …
wabe.org:
Kemp Warns Of Growing Outbreak Stressing Northeast Georgia  —  Gov. Brian Kemp warned on Tuesday that a growing coronavirus outbreak is stressing resources in northeast Georgia.  —  Kemp has moved aggressively to allow businesses to reopen even though infections are on the rise in some areas of the state.
Discussion: Raw Story
Leander Schaerlaeckens / Slate:
Was Donald Trump Good at Baseball?  —  The president has long claimed he could have gone pro.  We looked into it.  —  In President Donald Trump's memory, he was a high school baseball star.  —  “I was supposed to be a pro baseball player,” Donald Trump wrote in 2004.
Discussion: Bloomberg, The Daily Beast and HuffPost
New York Times:
Loeffler Got Lucrative Parting Gift From Public Company en Route to the Senate  —  The parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, which her husband runs, changed compensation terms to give Kelly Loeffler, a top executive, awards worth millions of dollars as she left for Congress.
Jon Ralston / The Nevada Independent:
Poll: Sisolak looks strong despite shutdown; Biden has small lead over Trump  —  Clark County Commissioner and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Steve Sisolak checks in to vote at Kenny Guinn Middle School in the primary election on Tuesday, June 12, 2018.  (Jeff Scheid/The Nevada Independent)
Aaron Rupar / Vox:
Trump's trainwreck ABC interview illustrated why he rarely strays from Fox News  —  President Trump tours a Honeywell plant in Phoenix, Arizona, on May 5.  Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images  —  “I'll be honest, uh, I have a lot of things going on,” Trump said, trying to explain his lack of coronavirus preparation.
WPIX:
Health workers that volunteered to come to NY during pandemic have to pay state income tax: Cuomo  —  NEW YORK — Health care workers that came to New York to help fight the coronavirus pandemic at its epicenter will have to pay state taxes, according to the governor.  —  He addressed the issues Tuesday at a news conference.
Discussion: STUMP and The Daily Caller
Washington Post:
Justice Department investigates Blue Flame Medical after claims it failed to provide masks to Maryland, California  —  The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation in to Blue Flame Medical, a firm created by two well-connected Republican operatives who started selling covid-19 supplies …
Zoom Blog:
Zoom Adds Board Member H.R. McMaster and Head of Global Public Policy and Government Relations Jonathan Kallmer to Leadership Team  —  Zoom announced today that it has appointed Lieutenant General Herbert Raymond “H.R.” McMaster as an independent director on Zoom's Board of Directors …
Discussion: Politico
HuffPost:
Win Or Lose, Trump's Top Campaign Aides Are Raking In The Cash  —  His campaign chief bought a waterfront house with a yearly tax bill higher than the average Floridian's annual income, a $400,000 boat, a Ferrari, condos and more.  —  WASHINGTON ― The bad news for President Donald Trump …
Discussion: Raw Story
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Another Left-Wing Attempt to Shut Down Free Speech  —  Chad Richison is a billionaire who lives in Oklahoma.  A liberal, he often weighs in on political issues.  On March 22, he wrote an open letter to Oklahoma's Governor, Kevin Stitt, calling on him to impose a harsh shutdown order.
Connor Richards / www.heraldextra.com:
2 Utah County businesses told staff to ignore COVID-19 guidelines, resulting in 68 positive cases  —  Nearly half of the employees of a Utah County business tested positive for COVID-19 after the business instructed employees to not follow quarantine guidelines and required staff …
Discussion: Raw Story
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
What's Behind South Korea's COVID-19 Exceptionalism?  —  Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers.  Find the collection here.  —  On February 16, a Sunday, a 61-year-old woman with a fever entered the Shincheonji Church of Jesus in Daegu, South Korea.
Tyler Olson / Fox News:
Trump administration faces backlash over talk of winding down coronavirus task force  —  Democrats were quick to condemn the Trump administration Tuesday following comments from Vice President Mike Pence that the White House is in talks to potentially wind down its coronavirus task force …
Discussion: ABC News, Politico and WBRZ
LAist:
Democrats Say Black Voters Are Being Disenfranchised In The Special Election To Replace Katie Hill In Congress  —  Our news is free on LAist.  To make sure you get our coverage: Sign up for our daily newsletters.  To support our non-profit public service journalism: Donate Now.
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
I usually ignore all Trump's tweets.  Not this one.  —  To preserve what passes for my mental health, I avoid as much as possible President Trump's Twitter habits.  Some theorize that his feed is a sort of cat toy that he dangles in front of the media to distract us from his agenda.
Ben Makuch / VICE:
Captured American Mercenary Appears to Be Really Into Qanon  —  Judging by the social media followings of one of the captured, Trump-connected American mercenaries who attempted a bizarre and spectacularly failed coup in Venezuela, he was highly interested in the QAnon conspiracy theory.
Discussion: Reuters
Rick Wilson / The Daily Beast:
Trump Can't Handle the Truth, and We Just Proved It  —  The Gipper was an avatar of America's dreams; The Donald's brand is American weakness and decline, and the preposterous idea that he alone can fix it.  —  BEAST INSIDE  —  Like most of you, I didn't start Monday wondering what it would feel …
 
 
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Kadia Goba / BuzzFeed News:
The Coronavirus Is Killing People Of Color At Outsized Rates. …
Bloomberg:
American Meat Workers Are Starting to Quit With Plants Reopening
NBC News:
Betsy DeVos releases final changes to campus sexual assault policies
Discussion: Axios, New York Times and FIRE
Katy Stech Ferek / Wall Street Journal:
Law Firms Gear Up for Expected Jump in Bankruptcies Triggered by Coronavirus
Sujatha Gidla / New York Times:
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Renée DiResta / The Atlantic:
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Ian Millhiser / Vox:
The Supreme Court weighs whether to make the Electoral College even less democratic
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Christian Schneider / The Bulwark:
The Novel Coronavirus Praises The Plan to Reopen America
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The White House waves a white flag in fight against coronavirus
Liberty Street Economics:
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Discussion: VICE
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
A massive drop in car sales sparks new push in Congress to aid the auto industry
Discussion: New York Post
Washington Post:
Live updates: Trump admits reopening states may cost lives, as U.S. death toll surpasses 70,000
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
This nursing home disaster is on you, Gov. Cuomo
Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
How ‘Never Trumpers’ Crashed The Democratic Party