“So Shower Heads, You Take a Shower, the Water Doesn’t Come Out. You Wanna Wash Your Hands, the Water Doesn’t Come Out…Dishwashers, You Didn’t Have Any Water…In Most Places of the Country, Water Is Not a Problem. They Don’t Know What Do With It. It’s Called Rain,” Says Trump
Trump: So shower heads, you take a shower, the water doesn’t come out. You wanna wash your hands, the water doesn’t come out… Dishwashers you didn’t have any water… In most places of the country, water is not a problem. They don’t know what do with it. It’s called rain pic.twitter.com/rx96mCFsae — Acyn Torabi (@Acyn)…
A Grab Bag of Goodness
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Roll the dice, flip a coin, form a single-file line to the left, keep 6 feet apart, fix your face masks (over your mouth and nose—it’s not a chin guard), and apply hand sanitizer before partaking in the good-news grab bag that…
Trump Takes Charge of COVID-19 Data
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The Trump White House has ordered that all COVID-19 data going forward should be filtered through the Trump White House before we’re allowed to see it: I had hoped it was a glitch, but no…The @CDCgov hospital capacity dashboard has gone dark.…
Coronavirus Growth in Western Countries: July 15 Update
Here’s the coronavirus death toll through July 15. The US mortality rate was back up a little bit. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here. The Public Health Agency of Sweden is here.
Republican Gov. Larry Hogan Slams Trump’s Coronavirus Response
Andrew Harnik/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In a blistering op-ed published in the Washington Post Thursday, Larry Hogan, the Republican governor of Maryland, blasted the Trump administration’s failure to recognize the threat the coronavirus posed to the United States or to formulate an adequate plan to combat it.…
He Was Praised on the Senate Floor as a Model DACA Recipient. Now He’s in Detention—With COVID-19.
Mother Jones illustration; courtesy of Sylvia Baldenegro For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Carlos Martinez was one of the first people in Arizona to get DACA back in 2012. He was literally a poster child for the program: In 2012 and again in 2015, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.)…