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I got my TRUMP check. Now I know what it feels like to be a lazy dumbocrat. #Trump2020
https://twitter.com/BrentTerhune/status/1250579611714543618
Russia Says It Will Accept Trump's Offer Of Ventilators To Treat Coronavirus
Source: TPM/AP
MOSCOW — The Kremlin says Russia will gratefully accept U.S. President Donald Trump’s offer to provide ventilators for coronavirus patients.
Trump said Wednesday the U.S. was ready to send ventilators to Russia, saying “they’re having a hard time in Moscow. We’re going to help them.” He added the U.S. also stands ready to provide ventilators to other countries, including Italy, Spain and France.
President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov hailed Trump’s offer as “very positive,” saying in Thursday’s call with reporters that “Russia will certainly accept the kind offer if necessary.”
Russia has registered 27,938 coronavirus cases and 232 deaths. Officials have scrambled to secure ventilators and other essential supplies amid an exponential growth in infections.
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/russia-trump-ventilators-coronavirus
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1250796456409169921
Hamptons bicyclist files police report after verbal confrontation with CNN's Chris Cuomo: report
The Long Island bicyclist, a 65-year-old man who only identified himself as David, told the Post he decided to file a police report to document the alleged incident in case he feels "that this guy’s a threat to me."
The bicyclist told the Post he's lived in East Hampton for most of his life.
David said the verbal confrontation occurred after he saw Cuomo outside on Sunday.
"I just looked and said, ‘Is that Chris Cuomo? Isn’t he supposed to be quarantined?'” David said after one of the two women there approached him. "I said to him, ‘Your brother is the coronavirus czar, and you’re not even following his rules — unnecessary travel.'"
"'Who the hell are you?! I can do what I want!' He just ranted, screaming, ‘I’ll find out who you are!’" Cuomo responded, according to David.
"He said, ‘This is not the end of this. You’ll deal with this later. We will meet again.’ If that’s not a threat, I don’t know what is," David added.
Cuomo talked about the back-and-forth on his SiriusXM program, "Let's Get After It," on Monday while explaining that being a public figure prevents him from firing back at people talking "bullshit" to him.
"I want to be able to tell you to go to hell, to shut your mouth," Cuomo said. "I don’t get that doing what I do for a living, me being able to tell you to shut your mouth or I will do you the way you guys do each other."
“I don’t want some jackass, loser, fat-tire biker being able to pull over and get in my space and talk bullshit to me, I don’t want to hear it,” he added.
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/492907-hamptons-bicyclist-files-police-report-after-verbal-confrontation-with-cnns?__twitter_impression=true&__twitter_impression=true
Whoa, calm down Chris.
Ivanka Trump, Disregarding Federal Guidelines, Travels to N.J. for Passover
Source: NYT
WASHINGTON — Ivanka Trump, President Trump’s eldest daughter and a senior White House adviser, has positioned herself as one of the leaders of the administration’s economic relief efforts and one of its most vocal advocates of social distancing.
“Those lucky enough to be in a position to stay at home, please, please do so,” Ms. Trump said in a video she posted online, encouraging Americans to follow federal guidelines about social distancing, which suggests that people stay at least six feet apart. “Each and every one of us plays a role in slowing the spread.”
But Ms. Trump herself has not followed the federal guidelines advising against discretionary travel, leaving Washington for another one of her family’s homes, even as she has publicly thanked people for self-quarantining. And effective April 1, the city of Washington issued a stay-at-home order for all residents unless they are performing essential activities.
Ms. Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, who is also a senior White House adviser, traveled with their three children to the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in New Jersey to celebrate the first night of Passover this month, according to two people with knowledge of their travel plans, even as seders across the country were canceled and families gathered remotely over apps like Zoom.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/us/politics/coronavirus-ivanka-trump.html?smid=tw-share
Appeals court refuses to block Michigan redistricting panel
A voter-approved 2018 amendment to the state constitution took redistricting out of the hands of state lawmakers and placed it with a 13-member commission whose four Republicans, four Democrats and five independents will be selected at random among applicants. It was a bid to curtail gerrymandering in a state where the GOP has had one of the largest partisan legislative advantages in the country after controlling the once-a-decade process in 2011.
Current and former partisan elected officials, candidates and their family members are among those barred from getting a commission seat — a restriction that was challenged by the Michigan Republican Party, GOP legislators and others. They also said there is no reliable way to verify the panel’s political makeup.
But the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 3-0 ruling, upheld a lower judge’s decision to not grant a preliminary injunction.
https://www.wxyz.com/news/appeals-court-refuses-to-block-michigan-redistricting-panel
Rep. Katie Porter: Staffing companies backed by private equity are, cutting physician pay, lying...
cutting physician pay,
lying about doing it, and
retaliating against clinicians who speak up.
@SenWarren and I are calling out those who put profit margins ahead of our frontline healthcare workers.
https://twitter.com/RepKatiePorter/status/1250524828274249728
Lauren Duca: I was on CNN with Kayleigh McEnany after the 2017 Women's March. In the elevator...
I was stunned by our interaction. She spewed anti-choice rhetoric in the Women’s March segment, and then acted as if we’d just gotten brunch together.
Kayleigh McEnany is willing to say absolutely anything to get ahead, and apparently Satan has her on speed dial.
https://twitter.com/laurenduca/status/1250494800920444930
Totally not surprised.
Meet Ted & Ed, Two Giant Teddy Bears That Are Bringing Positivity To Their Entire Neighborhood...
Meet Ted and Ed, also known as The Moor Bears. From vacuuming the grass to washing the car, the two plushies are doing it all. Sometimes, they can also be seen taking breaks from all the hard work. Their go-to activities to enjoy themselves include chilling with some fish & chips, playing musical instruments, and a quick game of golf. Continue scrolling and check out what these rascals have been doing in the last 20 days!
https://www.boredpanda.com/creative-outdoors-decorations-moor-bears/?cexp_id=27567&cexp_var=68&_f=featured
This is going to be one of the iconic images of the pandemic, from photographer @todseelie:
Homeless Americans sleeping in taped squares in a parking lot, while the Las Vegas strip, full of empty hotel rooms, shimmers behind them.
https://theguardian.com/world/2020/apr
https://twitter.com/loisbeckett/status/1250212407802081280
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