Tag: Coronavirus
#Cancelrent: Tenants demand rent relief & organize strikes as unemployment surges...
Tenants around the country are calling for immediate rent cancellation. Some are planning to “rent strike.”
Taxpayers paid millions to design a low-cost ventilator for a pandemic....
As coronavirus sweeps the globe, there is not a single Trilogy Evo Universal ventilator — developed with government funds — in the U.S. stockpile.
Public health first
The richest nation in the world surely has enough resources to keep its people safe at home for as long as it takes.
The future may be female but the pandemic is patriarchal
I hope that the rest of us become attached to less polluted air and lower carbon emissions. I hope that we learn to value the lives of women.
We have met the enemy and it’s a tiny virus
Hundreds of billions of bucks for arms, nothing for hospital beds, medical tests, masks and ventilators.
With bills due April 1, more than 400,000 demand Congress freeze...
Calls for a nationwide rent moratorium have surged in recent days as the economic fallout from the coronavirus shows no sign of abating.
The coronavirus crash could be worse than the republican great depression...
If we succeed in rebooting American manufacturing through the measures used by Hamilton (and emulated by China over the past 30 years), our recovery from this crisis could mark a new dawn for the American middle class.
DOJ investigating lawmakers’ stock dumps ahead of coronavirus market crash
At least one lawmaker affected by the probe is Republican Sen. Richard Bur, who unloaded up to $1.7 million in stocks.
Having it easy in the beginning, tough in the end
How my dad predicted the decline of America...
Does recklessly killing citizens endanger Trump re-election?
The question for the next six months: Will the damage from Trump’s past, present and future crimes against humanity make him less electable?
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Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy
The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
States settle antitrust suit over $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
Critics say a force-majeure clause and a company-appointed editorial board leave the settlement's protections easy to escape.
White House cancels $810 million in congressional spending days before fiscal year ends
Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, a Republican, called the pocket rescission unlawful, and the House is out of session until after the November election.
Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?
New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.
The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...
If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?