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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Trump Hasn’t Given Up on Divide and Conquer

It worked for him before, but will the rising racial liberalism of white Democrats counter the rising racial conservatism of white Republicans? Is that even the right way to frame the question?

Gilead Claims ‘Positive Data’ to Come From N.I.H. Trial of Remdesivir – The New York Times “More Trump HYPE-leak”

President Trump is expected to discuss the findings at a White House briefing later today. In the past, Mr. Trump has hailed remdesivir as a potential “game changer,” despite spotty evidence. The brief announcement by Gilead read: “We understand that the trial has met its primary endpoint and that N.I.A.I.D. will provide detailed information at an upcoming briefing.”

even as a new study reported that the drug offered no benefit to severely ill patients in China.

Trading in the company’s stock was halted before the market opened. The news drove stocks higher, and the S&P 500 rose about 2 percent in early trading,

How One Ex-Googler Managed to Buy Millions of PPE From China for US Hospitals – Mother Jones

“I have never done anything like this before,” Mosberger-Tang says. “I never imagined doing this before. But the federal government is not doing what it is supposed to be doing. It should be coordinating procurement and distribution. It should be negotiating with China and bringing the PPE over. I have spoken to dozens of local organizations trying to do what we’re doing.”

Source: How One Ex-Googler Managed to Buy Millions of PPE From China for US Hospitals – Mother Jones

Trump suggests coronavirus funding for states could be tied to sanctuary city policies | TheHill -Grrrrr!

President Trump on Tuesday suggested that federal assistance to states financially impacted by the coronavirus outbreak could be tied to whether so-called sanctuary cities make adjustments to their immigration policies.

Source: Trump suggests coronavirus funding for states could be tied to sanctuary city policies | TheHill

Open Thread | More About the Criminal Enterprise — 3CHICSPOLITICO

From TPM: 2/ detailed reporting on the federal governments seizures of PPE medical supplies is that no one invovled wants to talk about it. The government doesn’t for obvious reasons. But the purchasers, distributors and importers don’t either because the only upshot is going … — Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 21, 2020 4/ When […]

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In the Shadows of Men: Fear — NadiaHarhash

FEAR Fear is our worst enemy. It never tires of plaguing us. It even coerces some of us to our deaths. People’s beliefs about death govern the way they live their lives. They believe in false notions about what death will bring, and this can cause them to devalue life. Living under years of occupation…

via In the Shadows of Men: Fear — NadiaHarhash

While the Palestinians are in Quarantine fighting poverty and Corona… the PA amends bonus and retirement laws to its high rank officials – NadiaHarhash

While the palestinian population is busied in surviving Covid with the official government spokesperson prose, quranic verses,and selected jokes, the PA was busy amending the bonus and retirement law for the benefit of its officials.   In the most recent sermon of the Palestinian prime minister, he told us about the difficult situation and the…
— Read on nadiaharhash.com/2020/04/28/while-the-palestinians-are-in-quarantine-fighting-poverty-and-corona-the-pa-amends-bonus-and-retirement-laws-to-its-high-rank-officials/

‘A phantom plague’: America’s Bible Belt played down the pandemic and even cashed in. Now dozens of pastors are dead | The Independent

Dozens of pastors across the Bible Belt have succumbed to coronavirus after churches and televangelists played down the pandemic and actively encouraged churchgoers to flout self-distancing guidelines.  As many as 30 church leaders from the nation’s largest African American Pentecostal denomination have now been confirmed to have died in the outbreak, as members defied public
— Read on www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/bible-belt-us-coronavirus-pandemic-pastors-church-a9481226.html