Nancy Pelosi Went on Fox News and Said Trump Deserves an F on Coronavirus Testing
Andrew Harnik/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Sunday, in her first appearance on Fox News since 2017, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi indicated that a new $400 billion relief bill could come “soon” but also slammed President Donald Trump’s “weak” response to the coronavirus pandemic for failing…
Which States Are Fighting COVID-19 Most Effectively?
Do we really need to shut down restaurants? Or is this a countermeasure with low value at fighting COVID-19?Kevin Drum For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Reader SL forwarded to me an interesting estimate of how well each state is doing controlling the spread of COVID-19. I’m a…
Trump Asks if Muslims Will Get Special Treatment in Coronavirus Lockdowns
April 17, 2020, Washington, District of Columbia, USA: United States President Donald J. Trump speaks during a press briefing with members of the coronavirus task force in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on April 17, 2020 in Washington, DC (Credit Image: © Oliver Contreras/CNP via ZUMA Wire) For indispensable reporting on…
At Least 20 People Have COVID-19 at One ICE Jail. Those Inside Say Many More Are Sick.
Immigration detainees sit in a yard at the Winn Correctional Center, a for-profit prison in Louisiana run by LaSalle Corrections, in September.Gerald Herbert/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.On Friday evening, a Guatemalan man told me he spent three nights last week in solitary confinement at an ICE detention…
Quarantine Project #1 Part 1: Sitting On My Butt Taking Pictures
A few days ago Marian told me she had seen an oriole in our front yard. An oriole? Aren’t those from Baltimore or something? Sure enough, though, it turns out there are loads of different kinds of orioles, including many that populate the western US. I had just never seen one before. So I got…
Trump Advisor Compares Conservative Anti-Quarantine Protesters to Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks is fingerprinted in Montgomery, Alabama in 1956.Gene Herrick/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Egged on by well-funded political activists, Fox News, and President Donald Trump himself, protesters convened on state capitals in Michigan, Minnesota, and other states this week to demand an end to extreme…