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Inmates at Privately-Run ICE Camp Go on Hunger Strike Amid COVID-19 Outbreak, Deteriorating Conditions

mintpressnews.com - Amidst a COVID-19 outbreak, around 100 detained migrants at a private, for-profit prison in Farmville, VA, have collectively gone on hunger strike, demanding their release on medical and humane groun…

Kushner Puts Himself in Middle of White House’s Chaotic Coronavirus Response

nytimes.com - “There is some kind of communications failure between FEMA and the White House,” said Representative Bennie G. Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.…

Opinion | Putting Jared Kushner In Charge Is Utter Madness

nytimes.com - His forays into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — for which he boasted of reading a whole 25 books — have left the dream of a two-state solution on life support. Michael Koplow of the centrist Israe…

Jared Kushner Said The National Stockpile Wasn't For The States, Contradicting The Stockpile's Website. So The Government Changed The Website - Digg

digg.com - During Thursday's White House coronavirus briefing, Jared Kushner asserted that the strategic national stockpile of medical equipment (ventilators, masks, etc.) was "our stockpile… not supposed to be…

Facing coronavirus pandemic, Trump suspends immigration laws and showcases vision for locked-down border

washingtonpost.com - The flow of people has decreased at the Paso del Norte border bridge between Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and El Paso amid travel restrictions and tighter immigration policies during the coronavirus outbre…

US Leads Global Wave of Nations Stealing, Seizing and Diverting Coronavirus Equipment

mintpressnews.com - There were dramatic scenes at an airport in Shanghai, China, as U.S. agents hijacked a plane full of lifesaving equipment, including 60 million masks, bound for coronavirus-stricken France. While the…

White House scrambles to scoop up medical supplies worldwide, angering Canada, Germany

washingtonpost.com - Donald Trump arrives at Friday's press briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic. (Yuri Gripas/Pool/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock) By Jeanne Whalen, close Jeanne Whalen Reporter covering business around the world…

The Coronavirus Is the World’s Only Superpower

newyorker.com - On Tuesday, the U.N. Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, said the coronavirus pandemic is the greatest challenge that the world has faced since the Second World War. More than a hundred and fifty co…

The Ventilator Business Is Its Own Swamp of Miscreant Corporations | DCReport.org

dcreport.org - Earlier this year, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in South Carolina announced that a company called ResMed had agreed to pay more than $37 million to settle allegations under the False Claims Act that it…

Opinion | What We Pretend to Know About the Coronavirus Could Kill Us

nytimes.com - The anti-vaccination movement is also capitalizing on the pandemic. The New York Times used the analytics tool CrowdTangle to survey 48 prominent anti-vax Instagram accounts and found that video view…

The Coronavirus’s Unique Threat to the South

theatlantic.com - Editor's Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. In a matter of weeks, the coronavirus has gone from a novel, distant threat…

America is Sick

medium.com - A coronavirus is devastating the United States, sweeping from the coasts inward, as it challenges our health workers, our government leaders, and our families. But the virus didn’t break America. The…

Stephen Smith’s Progressive Populist Campaign for West Virginia Governor Has Become a Covid-19 Response Program

theintercept.com - The Smith campaign has created an “adopt-a-voter” program, under which campaign volunteers aim to check in with 100 voters who live near them once a week with information about local coronavirus reso…

What the coronavirus does to your body that makes it so deadly

theconversation.com - COVID-19 is caused by a coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. Coronaviruses belong to a group of viruses that infect animals, from peacocks to whales. They’re named for the bulb-tipped spikes that project f…

How Coronavirus Scammers Hide On Facebook And YouTube - bellingcat

bellingcat.com - On March 16th, 2020, virtually every major social media company released a joint statement on their efforts to curb the spread of disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic. As of the writing of t…

Everything you need to know about making your own face mask

vox.com - For a while, it felt as though every day advice from health professionals was changing about whether most Americans should be wearing face masks to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. The Cen…

'Captain Crozier! Captain Crozier!': Videos show sailors sending off ousted USS Roosevelt commander with cheers

stripes.com - Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism…

Americans are underestimating duration of coronavirus crisis, experts say

statnews.com - Public health experts are increasingly worried that Americans are underestimating how long the coronavirus pandemic will disrupt everyday life in the country, warning that the Trump administration’s …

Experts and Trump’s advisers doubt White House’s 240,000 coronavirus deaths estimate

washingtonpost.com - By William Wan, close William Wan National correspondent covering health, science and news Email EmailBio BioFollow Follow Josh Dawsey, close Josh Dawsey Reporter covering the White House Email Email…

How Coronavirus Disinformation Gets Past Social Media Moderators - bellingcat

bellingcat.com - The COVID-19 pandemic has forced social media companies to take a more active stance against disinformation. The most striking recent example came on March 31, when Facebook, Twitter and YouTube all …

Zoom’s Encryption Is “Not Suited for Secrets” and Has Surprising Links to China, Researchers Discover

theintercept.com - Based on a reading of that blog post and Citizen Lab’s research, here is how Zoom meetings appear to work: When you start a Zoom meeting, the Zoom software running your device fetches a key with whic…

How Big Pharma Is Getting Ready to Blackmail Americans | DCReport.org

dcreport.org - The $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill that Congress hastily passed and Donald Trump signed into law deliberately creates new price gouging opportunities for drug companies. Left out of the relief…

Cuomo orders shift in ventilators to overwhelmed hospitals

apnews.com - NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would order the redistribution of critically needed ventilators. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio called for a national enlistment program for doc…

Erdogan's Idlib Misadventure: Reality Checks and Hard Lessons for Turkey

mintpressnews.com - Even when viewed through the prism of Turkish interests, President Tayyib Erdogan’s escalatory actions in Syria’s Idlib governorate constitute now plainly evident blunder. Refusing to finally abandon…

Insider trading by members of Congress may be difficult to prove

theconversation.com - Recent allegations regarding stock trading by members of Congress in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic have raised calls for the investigation of these politicians for illegal “insider trading.” But…

In states without stay-at-home orders, residents celebrate freedoms

usatoday.com - As of midday Thursday, 90% of the nation — that’s roughly 300 million citizens — was under either a state- or city-mandated shelter-in-place order in an effort to halt the spread of novel coronavirus.

The toilet paper shortage is more complicated than you think

vox.com - There was a time before the coronavirus pandemic when toilet paper was plentiful. Not anymore. Empty or sparsely stocked grocery store shelves are the new normal, and shoppers are left wondering: Whe…

Coronavirus may cause some food shortages, warns government task force

news.yahoo.com - WASHINGTON — The nation could begin to see food shortages for some products if the people working on the supply chain lack personal protective equipment, warns an internal Trump administration docume…

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News digest brought to you by the Doomstead Diner.

Inmates at Privately-Run ICE Camp Go on Hunger Strike Amid COVID-19 Outbreak, Deteriorating Conditions

Kushner Puts Himself in Middle of White House’s Chaotic Coronavirus Response

Opinion | Putting Jared Kushner In Charge Is Utter Madness

Jared Kushner Said The National Stockpile Wasn't For The States, Contradicting The Stockpile's Website. So The Government Changed The Website - Digg

Facing coronavirus pandemic, Trump suspends immigration laws and showcases vision for locked-down border

US Leads Global Wave of Nations Stealing, Seizing and Diverting Coronavirus Equipment

White House scrambles to scoop up medical supplies worldwide, angering Canada, Germany

The Coronavirus Is the World’s Only Superpower

The Ventilator Business Is Its Own Swamp of Miscreant Corporations | DCReport.org

Opinion | What We Pretend to Know About the Coronavirus Could Kill Us

The Coronavirus’s Unique Threat to the South

America is Sick

Stephen Smith’s Progressive Populist Campaign for West Virginia Governor Has Become a Covid-19 Response Program

What the coronavirus does to your body that makes it so deadly

How Coronavirus Scammers Hide On Facebook And YouTube - bellingcat

Everything you need to know about making your own face mask

'Captain Crozier! Captain Crozier!': Videos show sailors sending off ousted USS Roosevelt commander with cheers

Americans are underestimating duration of coronavirus crisis, experts say

Experts and Trump’s advisers doubt White House’s 240,000 coronavirus deaths estimate

How Coronavirus Disinformation Gets Past Social Media Moderators - bellingcat

Zoom’s Encryption Is “Not Suited for Secrets” and Has Surprising Links to China, Researchers Discover

How Big Pharma Is Getting Ready to Blackmail Americans | DCReport.org

Cuomo orders shift in ventilators to overwhelmed hospitals

Erdogan's Idlib Misadventure: Reality Checks and Hard Lessons for Turkey

Insider trading by members of Congress may be difficult to prove

In states without stay-at-home orders, residents celebrate freedoms

The toilet paper shortage is more complicated than you think

Coronavirus may cause some food shortages, warns government task force

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