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New York Times:
Coronavirus Live Updates: Trump Administration Models Predict Near Doubling of Daily Death Toll by June — Tensions between Washington and Beijing escalated. The Supreme Court heard a case remotely for the first time. J. Crew filed for bankruptcy protection.
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Jason Koebler / VICE:
Amazon VP Resigns, Calls Company ‘Chickenshit’ for Firing Protesting Workers — Tim Bray, a well known senior engineer and Vice President at Amazon has “quit in dismay” because Amazon has been “firing whistleblowers who were making noise about warehouse employees frightened of Covid-19.”
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Mediaite, The Verge, The Week and Quartz, more at Techmeme »
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Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon engineer quits after he ‘snapped’ when the company fired workers who called for coronavirus protections — Tim Bray, a senior engineer at Amazon, resigned on May 1 over concerns about the company's decision to fire workers who were outspoken critics of its labor practices.
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Financial Times
Nicole Hong / New York Times:
3 Hospital Workers Gave Out Masks. Weeks Later, They All Were Dead. — The coronavirus has taken a steep toll on the often-invisible army of employees who keep New York hospitals running. — They did not treat patients, but Wayne Edwards, Derik Braswell and Priscilla Carrow held …
Kate Irby / Fresno Bee:
Devin Nunes' lawyer facing prospect of sanctions after two recent, rare court warnings — The attorney representing Rep. Devin Nunes in six lawsuits has received two recent, rare warnings from judges that raise the prospect of courts sanctioning him. — People and organizations that Nunes' attorney …
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Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
Smart or Lucky? How Florida Dodged the Worst of Coronavirus — Even though it's too early to draw clear conclusions, and the virus could flare again, there are lessons from its approach — MIAMI—When the coronavirus pandemic swept toward Florida, public-health professionals nationally warned …
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New York Times:
What Joe Biden Needs to Do to Beat Trump — To win, he has to find a way to get beyond the basement tapes and project himself into our ever more digital world. — Mr. Axelrod was the senior strategist for President Barack Obama's campaigns in 2008 and 2012; Mr. Plouffe was Mr. Obama's campaign manager in 2008.
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Raw Story
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Axelrod says Reade allegation never came up during 2008 Biden vetting
Axelrod says Reade allegation never came up during 2008 Biden vetting
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New York Times:
Why Biden's Choice of Running Mate Has Momentous Implications — Joe Biden has hinted that he might serve only one term if he wins. That would set up a woman as the front-runner for 2024 and perhaps define the Democratic agenda for the next decade. — WASHINGTON — For decades …
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Washington Monthly, National Review, NBC News, Vanity Fair and MSNBC
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Calvin Woodward / Associated Press:
AP FACT CHECK: Trump cites a Biden apology but none offered
AP FACT CHECK: Trump cites a Biden apology but none offered
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Breitbart
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Indivisible, the progressive group never keen on Biden, endorses the former VP
Indivisible, the progressive group never keen on Biden, endorses the former VP
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POLITICUSUSA and The Hill
Annie Lowrey / The Atlantic:
The Bridge to the Post-pandemic World Is Collapsing — Outside of Boston, a marketing company is struggling to figure out how to cover its bills. In Indiana, a dance studio is waiting on three emergency-loan applications. In Baltimore, a deli is closed and desperate for help.
Lyz Lenz / Washington Post:
Biden should step aside. We can't sacrifice another woman for political gain. — The Democrats should drop Biden for the same reason the GOP should have dropped Kavanaugh. — It's a story we know all too well. A woman says a politician hurt her. He abused her. She's coming forward now.
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
For the 5th time in two weeks, Trump tweaks projected death toll — When a president finds it necessary to revise a projected death toll five times in 13 days, there's a problem. — Two weeks ago today, Donald Trump said he believed the overall American death toll from the coronavirus could be as low as 50,000 people.
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NBC News, Patterico's Pontifications and POLITICUSUSA
Alexander Nazaryan / Yahoo News:
How the coronavirus undid Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — There was the time Gov. Ron DeSantis showed up at a coronavirus press conference in — a solitary rubber glove, proceeding to repeatedly touch his face with the other, ungloved hand. And there was the time he went through heroic struggles in
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CNN
Kristin Myers / Yahoo Finance:
Reopening states will cause 233,000 more people to die from coronavirus, according to Wharton model — New data from the University of Pennsylvania suggests that relaxing lockdowns across U.S. cities and states could have serious consequences for the country's
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Raw Story and The Intellectualist
Washington Post:
Before pandemic, Trump's stockpile chief put focus on biodefense. An old client benefited. — After Robert Kadlec was confirmed as President Trump's top official for public health preparedness in 2017, he began pressing to increase government stocks of a smallpox vaccine.
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Raw Story
Associated Press:
Ex-Green Beret Claims He Led Failed Raid Into Venezuela in Attempt to Overthrow Maduro — (CARACAS, Venezuela) — A former Green Beret has taken responsibility for what he claimed was a failed attack Sunday aimed at overthrowing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and that the socialist government said ended with eight dead.
Bryan Walsh / Axios:
Why Congress is lagging on remote voting amid the coronavirus pandemic — Legislatures around the world have been experimenting with remote deliberation during the pandemic, but Congress still insists on in-person voting. — Why it matters: With social distancing rules in place …
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The Hill and One America News Network
Will Stewart / Daily Mail:
THIRD Russian doctor plunges from Covid hospital window: Medic, 37, is now fighting for life... just days after warning of PPE shortages and being forced to work despite being infected — A third Russian doctor has plunged from a hospital window after complaining about medics facing intolerable coronavirus pressures.
Lesley Stahl / CBS News:
Lesley Stahl shares her personal battle with coronavirus — “After two weeks at home in bed, weak, fighting pneumonia, and really scared, I went to the hospital. I found an overworked, nearly overwhelmed staff.” — One of the rules of journalism is “Don't become part of the story.”
Public Policy Polling:
Iowa Races Closely Matched — PPP's newest Iowa poll finds that both the Senate race and the Presidential race in the state have tightened since the winter. — In the Senate race Joni Ernst leads Theresa Greenfield just 43-42, an indication that Iowa could make for another tough hold …
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The Hill and Political Wire
Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Trump says he's been treated worse than Lincoln by the press — President Trump on Sunday complained that he has been treated worse by the media than any previous president, including Abraham Lincoln. — Trump defended his frequent clashes with the press during a Fox News virtual town hall …
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Talking Points Memo, The Federalist, HuffPost, Raw Story and Breitbart
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Lincoln got better press treatment, Trump claims, as he ups pandemic death estimate
Lincoln got better press treatment, Trump claims, as he ups pandemic death estimate
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Fox News
William Wan / Washington Post:
The coronavirus pandemic is pushing America into a mental health crisis — Anxiety and depression are rising. The U.S. is ill-prepared, with some clinics already on the brink of collapse. — Three months into the coronavirus pandemic, America is on the verge of another health crisis …
Fox News:
Justice Thomas asks rare question during Supreme Court oral arguments, in teleconference session — Famously quiet Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday asked two questions during the court's remote oral arguments, marking just his third time speaking during the sessions in over a decade.
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Althouse
Ewan Palmer / Newsweek:
San Diego man wears KKK hood to supermarket after county orders public to wear face masks — Officials have condemned a man in California who was pictured wearing a makeshift Ku Klux Klan hood while shopping at a supermarket. — Pictures of the man wearing a white hood similar to one worn …
Jason Sattler / USA Today:
What Republicans don't get: Donald Trump is our biggest obstacle to coronavirus recovery — Trump puts his own interests above the well-being of the country and limits the coronavirus response by his addictions to adulation and political gain. — Small groups of protesters egged on by the president …
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Raw Story
Neil Irwin / New York Times:
How Bailout Backlash and Moral Hazard Outrage Could Endanger the Economy — People are increasingly focusing not on preventing a depression but on which recipients of federal rescue are morally worthy. — The United States economy is in free fall, with tens of millions of people unemployed …