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has just been busted for DUI. He's a great American.

John Harwood
@JohnJHarwood
2h
Trump's ex-homeland security adviser is pleading publicly for more urgent govt action, calling covid-19 a "fire that threatens to burn out of control" and overwhelm US hospitals in 10 days

VP Pence just opened WH meeting w/health insurance companies by praising Trump's response

Right Wing Watch
@RightWingWatch
1h
Right-wing pastor Andrew Wommack had to cancel an event because some attendees might not have strong enough faith to protect themselves from the coronavirus and if they spread the disease, he'd get blamed.

I'm certainly not going to attend his sermons

Manu Raju
@mkraju
· 20h
Asked Pelosi if she thinks Trump should be tested after his interactions with Doug Collins and Matt Gaetz.
Pelosi: “Tested for what?”
me: coronavirus
Pelosi: “Oh, I thought he should be tested for a long time now."
And she walked off.

Because he is a republican Commie plant?

Well I am a registered Democrat after all.

Michigan usually has open primaries, and people are usually free to vote in whichever primary they want (although they can't vote in both).

I often cross party lines and vote in whatever primary I can make a difference in. Or if the best candidate overall is a Republican I will cross over and vote for them in the primary.

In this case there isn't much of a difference that I could make in either primary. The Republican primary is going to go to Trump no matter what, so there was no point in voting in the Republican primary.


If the Sanders/Biden choice is really between two equally bad choices, then my choice there is pointless as well.

But there is a small chance that Sanders is less-bad on guns.

I considered skipping both primaries and just voting on the local millages. But since there is no way that Sanders could be any worse than Biden on guns, voting for him can't do any harm even if they are equally as bad.

Tierney Sneed
@Tierney_Megan
36m
The failure of Trump to issue an emergency declaration for coronavirus is having very real repercussions. For instance, there's a type of Medicaid waiver that would help WA state relieve the stress on its hospitals, but it can't get it w/o a declaration

The Spectator Index
@spectatorindex
31m
JUST IN: Denmark reports 174 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours

Jake Tapper
@jaketapper
· 1h
A first responder familiar with the situation in the Seattle area tells CNN that seven Kirkland WA Firefighters were swabbed for testing samples that were then sent to the Washington state testing lab — but there was such a bottleneck at the lab, the samples expired.