Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Tag: Covid-19 pandemic

Trump advisers privately warned GOP donors about COVID-19 in February while...

There is a discrepancy between Trump's cheerful public messaging to Americans in February and the less optimistic information that White House officials shared simultaneously with GOP donors.

Watch: One family’s tragic Covid-19 story shows why voting matters

Vote like your life depends on it because someone you love could be the next COVID-19 tragedy.

The long haul

Or living through pandemic-plus...

“Don’t be afraid of Covid”: Trump removes mask & fuels misinformation...

“I stood out front. I led. Nobody that’s a leader would not do what I did. And I know there’s a risk, there’s a danger, but that’s OK.”

Trump’s COVID: Empathy for the world’s least empathetic person?

Out of respect. He’s a human being. And he’s our president.

As Trump scorned COVID-19 precautions, climate deniers echoed and expanded that...

Trump isn’t the only politician who’s urged inaction on both climate and COVID.

Amazon reveals nearly 20,000 employees have contracted the coronavirus

Meanwhile, the company's profits have soared as demand for online shopping increased during the pandemic.

Just after declaring ‘end of the pandemic is in sight,’ Trump...

A spokesperson for the French government said Trump’s diagnosis “demonstrates that the virus spares no one, including those who have shown skepticism.”

Parents and teachers nationwide join together demanding Congress pass $250 billion...

“When the coronavirus pandemic began, parents, teachers, and child care providers stepped up.”

Medicating isolation

Drug use in the COVID-19 moment.

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Nearly all plant-based meat alternatives Contain mycotoxins

The researchers found that 100 percent of the plant-based meat substitutes contained at least one of 19 different types of mycotoxins, often showing high "co-occurrence" (multiple toxins in a single product).

Supreme Court rulings and new Southern maps intensify battle over Black voting power before...

A series of redistricting fights in Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia is reshaping the struggle over voting rights and congressional control as critics warn that recent Supreme Court decisions are accelerating the erosion of protections for Black voters.

The electric car is the only winner in the latest Iran war

The Hormuz Choke Point and the Twilight of Petroleum.

Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...

What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?

Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?

The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.