The trigger alert is serious, if abusive threatening language from a male abuser might trigger a response, be advised.

These are the words of a rapist in the middle of a crime, as calm as ever as he begins an attack.

I chills me to hear this, yet there's so much at stake I feel he needs to be called on this and every other instance.

Weijia Jiang will, I hope, go for the jugular in future pressers, if they let her back in.

Trump in his most natural abusive state:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1252303767069962241

Edited to add, deliberately blocking traffic is not a legal form of protest, even in normal times.
I hope every single city that sees this activity sends law enforcement out and/or passes ordinances with fines for obstructing traffic, which I expect is already a citation in most jurisdictions.

Original post below:

I hope local law enforcement is preparing for these, found via Facebook posts.
Check your Nextdoor and other sources, notify police if you care to.
In my county, these people could be cited for being out without justification against a public order to shelter in place.



Reopen Missouri Rally - April 21st at 12:00pm Jefferson City at the state capitol. "Attendees should only display American flags, state of Missouri flags or non partisan signs"

Reopen California Rally - April 20th at 12:00pm Sacramento at the capitol

Rally for Virginia - April 24th at 12:00pm in Richmond at the capitol

Operation Gridlock Kansas - April 23rd at 12:00pm Topeka, state Capitol

Operation Gridlock Pennsylvania - April 20th at 12:00pm Harrisburg at the capitol

Operation Gridlock Denver - April 19th at 1:00pm Capitol Hill

Operation Gridlock Annapolis/Maryland - April 19th at 2:00pm at the capitol

Operation Gridlock Arizona - April 19th at 12:00pm Phoenix capitol

Operation Gridlock Illinois - April 19th at 1:00pm Springfield capitol

Free Florida rally - April 18th at 2:00pm Tallahassee capitol (on foot and in vehicle)

Operation Gridlock Los Angeles - April 21st at 11:30am Los Angeles city hall

You fucking liar.

Link to start video at the right moment, he will be asked why he added his name to the checks:

Move the player to the 54:12 point in the timeline.

&feature=youtu.be&t=3252

Source: San Diego Union Tribune

By ANDREW DYER
APRIL 14, 202011:35 AM

Four sailors on the San-Diego based aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt are in the hospital with COVID-19, the Navy said Tuesday. One is in intensive care.

The hospital admissions come the day after a member of the crew died of complications of the virus after four days in the ICU. The Defense department has not released the name of the sailor.

The Navy also said Tuesday that 589 of the Roosevelt’s crew have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. More than 4,000 of the crew have moved moved off the ship into housing on Guam, either in private homes or hotels.

The San Diego-based carrier has a total crew of roughly 4,845 service members, including its embarked air wing and command staff.




Read more: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/military/story/2020-04-14/almost-600-theodore-roosevelt-sailors-in-hospital-with-covid-19

These Common Household Products Can Destroy the Novel Coronavirus

CR shows you how to use them and tells you which products to stay away from.



Yes to soap/water, isopropyl alcohol, bleach, hydrogen peroxide.
No to homemade hand sanitizer, vodka, distilled white vinegar, and tea tree oil.

Please read the full article here, no pay wall:

https://www.consumerreports.org/cleaning/common-household-products-that-can-destroy-novel-coronavirus/

Trump Has Emergency Powers We Aren’t Allowed to Know About

Given that they could make their first appearance in the coronavirus crisis, Congress should insist on having full access to them.

By Elizabeth Goitein and Andrew Boyle
Ms. Goitein and Mr. Boyle work at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

April 10, 2020

The past few weeks have given Americans a crash course in the powers that federal, state and local governments wield during emergencies. We’ve seen businesses closed down, citizens quarantined and travel restricted. When President Trump declared emergencies on March 13 under both the Stafford Act and the National Emergencies Act, he boasted, “I have the right to do a lot of things that people don’t even know about.”

The president is right. Some of the most potent emergency powers at his disposal are likely ones we can’t know about, because they are not contained in any publicly available laws. Instead, they are set forth in classified documents known as “presidential emergency action documents.”

These documents consist of draft proclamations, executive orders and proposals for legislation that can be quickly deployed to assert broad presidential authority in a range of worst-case scenarios. They are one of the government’s best-kept secrets. No presidential emergency action document has ever been released or even leaked. And it appears that none has ever been invoked.

Given the real possibility that these documents could make their first appearance in the coronavirus crisis, Congress should insist on having full access to them to ensure that they are consistent with the Constitution and basic principles of democracy.



https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/opinion/trump-coronavirus-emergency-powers.html

Oh Thank God: Trump Appoints Ivanka and Jared to Council to Reopen America

Pop quiz time! An unprecedented pandemic has killed more than 118,000 people worldwide and infected more than 1.9 million. The U.S. just surpassed Italy as the country with the highest number of deaths. As a result of people necessarily being told to stay home, i.e. the only way at this point to slow the spread, the economy is in shambles. Almost 17 million Americans have filed for unemployment, with some predicting that 20 million will be out of work by the end of the month. Economists believe the chance of a recession within the next twelve months is 100%, with many saying the country is already in one. You, as president, are in charge of said country. What do you do? If you’re Donald J. Trump, you (1) resist mass testing or really any semblance of a plan for developing virus-tracking measures that could, in theory, help some parts of the population safely return to work, and (2) appoint your idiot daughter and son-in-law to your economic task force, because scarily, in a family of certifiable morons, they’re considered the smart ones.

Yes, the latest disturbing development in our national (and global) nightmare is the news that Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner will be on the White House’s council to reopen America. While the duo needs no introduction at this point, for those not entirely clear what their qualifications are to sit on this council, they include, in the case of Ivanka: a failed clothing line, a knack for not knowing how words work, the inability to obtain a top secret security clearance without President Daddy demanding it, and a grasp of the current situation so strong that she thinks quarantined parents have time to take up new instruments and brush up on Greek and Roman mythology. And what does the Boy Prince of New Jersey bring to the table? With a CV as long as his, it’s hard to hit on all of his accomplishments, but some of the highlights include: paying more than $1 billion for an aging skyscraper on the eve of the financial crisis, a career as a slumlord, convincing his father-in-law to keep the 2019 shutdown going based on a delusional bet that he could convince Nancy Pelosi to pay for the border wall, and, of course, telling the president the coronavirus was not a “health reality.”



NB, not a single health expert on this panel.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-council-to-reopen-america

Upon reading articles that suggest many potential Covid deaths are not being counted but that an increase in demand at funeral homes, etc., exceeds the reported numbers of Covid fatalities, I'm struck by the conundrum:

Unless the number of tests available is adequate to test both the living and the dead, should we focus these on the living and put questionable fatalities aside, or somehow split the number of test kits?



This dilemma is brought to you by Trump and the Republican Party.

NB: Inspired by this thread: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213273046

And by this report: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/10/upshot/coronavirus-deaths-new-york-city.html

And by this video: https://vp.nyt.com/video/2020/04/10/85977_1_10vid-Hart-Island_wg_720p.mp4