It’s Time: Dr. Fauci Needs to Stand Up to Trump
Gripas Yuri/Abaca via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Hmmm: There is no evidence that Trump could tell a lie so false and dangerous that Dr. Fauci wouldn’t immediately leap to defend it as a reasonable way of giving Americans hope.https://t.co/Xz5m5QKDgq — Susan Simpson (@TheViewFromLL2) March 27,…
“An Open License to Pollute”: The EPA Has Halted Enforcement Due to COVID-19
Ron Sachs/CNP via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.In a wildly cynical turn of events, the Environmental Protection Agency has decided to broadly waive environmental law because of the coronavirus pandemic. On Thursday, the EPA’s head of enforcement Susan Bodine sent a letter to “All Governmental and…
Grocery Clerks Are Now Emergency Personnel in Several States. California’s Workers Want In.
A stock clerk wearing gloves refills empty shelves at Whole Foods in Santa Barbara, California.Amy Katz/ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.While more than half the country’s population is now under shelter-in-place orders to fight the spread of the coronavirus, grocery and pharmacy workers are still reporting…
Self-Quarantine Orders Meet the Right-Wing Militia Movement
Ammon Bundy Kelsey Grey/Idaho Statesman via AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.It was only a matter of time before efforts to contain the coronavirus bumped up against the Sagebrush Rebellion. Yesterday, Idaho‘s Republican governor Brad Little issued a self-isolate order closing all nonessential businesses in the…
FBI Arrests Trump-Loving Entrepreneur for Selling Fake Coronavirus Cure
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.The Federal Bureau of Investigation has made its first coronavirus-related fraud arrest. On Wednesday evening, the US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced that the FBI had arrested 53-year-old Keith Middlebrook for selling a “patent-pending cure” and treatment for…
Democrats Took a Terrible Coronavirus Bill and Made It Pretty Damn Good
Stefani Reynolds/CNP via ZUMA For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.A week ago Republicans introduced the first version of their coronavirus rescue bill. Here’s what Democrats have gotten added to it since then: Vastly expanded unemployment benefits through June for anyone who’s lost income due to COVID-19. $100…