March 25, 2020

number expected tomorrow... 3.4 million unemployment claims in one week...large # in history

'This Chart, Holy Sh*t': Analysis Shows More Workers Filed for Unemployment Last Week Than Any Other

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/24/chart-holy-sht-analysis-shows-more-workers-filed-unemployment-last-week-any-other-us

https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1242458627421552640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1242458627421552640&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.commondreams.org%2Fnews%2F2020%2F03%2F24%2Fchart-holy-sht-analysis-shows-more-workers-filed-unemployment-last-week-any-other-us

March 25, 2020

Democrat won't help Trump supporting buddy pay his rent

** WWDUD*** What would DU do?

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An old university buddy of mine that I once thought was a good person became an extreme Trump supporter and started calling me libtard and a snowflake three years ago, at which time I stopped talking to him, just called me and asked if I could help him pay the rent...


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I said: Mike, there were immigrants with us at university and I was one of them. You betrayed us and millions of others as well as POC when you started supporting this racist. I helped you before I realized who you really are. If I help you now, I am endorsing your views. I can't

https://twitter.com/essenviews/status/1242894429653880837

March 25, 2020

best website for coronavirus tracking

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

it changes throughout the day

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

March 25, 2020

Top chef dies after c19 diagnosis

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/floyd-cardoz-chef-obit-coronavirus/index.html

World-renowned chef Floyd Cardoz died Wednesday in New Jersey at age 59. Cardoz had tested positive for coronavirus.

March 25, 2020

Americans' Revulsion for Trump Is Underappreciated.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/the-democrats-dont-understand-their-own-strength/608611/

Americans’ Revulsion for Trump Is Underappreciated
As Democrats fret about their own prospects, many fail to recognize the president’s fundamental weakness.

The release on Friday of an ABC News/Ipsos poll indicating that 55 percent of Americans approved of Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus—12 points higher than the previous week—prompted another round of fatalistic chatter in certain quarters of the political establishment. Shocked by Trump’s victory in 2016, some left-leaning commentators and rank-and-file Democrats alike have been steeling themselves for his reelection in 2020, noting that most presidents win second terms; that, at least before the pandemic, the economy was humming along; and more recently that, during moments of national disaster, Americans tend to rally around the leader they have.


But these nuggets of conventional political wisdom obscure something fundamental—something that even Democrats have trouble seeing: The United States is in revolt against Donald Trump, and the likely Democratic nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden, already holds a daunting lead over Trump in the battleground states that will decide the 2020 election. By way of disclosure, I am a Democratic pollster; for professional and personal reasons alike, I want Democratic candidates to succeed. But no matter what, I also want candidates and party operatives to base decisions—such as where and how to campaign—on an accurate view of the political landscape. At the moment, Democrats are underestimating their own strength and misperceiving the sources of it.

Every time Americans have gone to the polls since Trump took office, they have pushed back hard against him. The blue wave that began in state elections in 2017 grew bigger in the 2018 midterms and bigger yet in 2019. Trump focused the Republican Party’s whole 2018 congressional campaign on immigrant caravans and the border wall, and he lost. Trump held rallies in support of the Republican gubernatorial candidates on the last nights before elections in the deep-red states of Kentucky and Louisiana, and they lost. The GOP losses right through the end of 2019 were produced by dramatic, growing gains for Democrats in the nation’s suburbs. Democrats took total control of the Virginia legislature, where the party held on to all the suburban seats it had flipped two years earlier and gained six more.

Even so, a CBS News poll taken late last month found that 65 percent of Americans and more than a third of Democrats believed that Trump would win reelection. Trump has been confidently stalking Democrats, holding exuberant rallies in each of the early caucus and primary states.

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Trump has nationalized our politics around himself and his job performance, and that has created a nine-point headwind for the Republican Party. While the pessimists obsess over any of Trump’s most favorable polls, particularly in the Electoral College battleground states, Trump has never raised his approval rating above the low 40s in FiveThirtyEight’s average of public polls; 52 to 53 percent disapprove of his performance in office. And that remains true during the current crisis.


Trump has improved his numbers with the evangelical Christians, Tea Party supporters, and observant Catholics who make up the core of his Republican Party, but it is a diminished party. The percentage of people identifying as Republican since Trump took office has dropped from 39 to 36 percent, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. Trump has pushed moderates out of the party, and those moderates are changing their voting patterns accordingly. Fully 5 percent of the voters in the South Carolina Democratic primary had previously voted in the state’s Republican primary. In Michigan, Republican strategists tried to make sense of the 56 percent increase in Democratic turnout in Livingston County, a white, college-educated, upper-class community that Trump won by 30 points. Republicans are shedding voters.

Why don’t supposedly savvy people see the revolt that’s happening before their very eyes?.

March 25, 2020

dont flush improvised toilet tissue says wastewater management officials. put in trash

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Because-of-TP-shortage-people-are-using-wipes-15154769.php

Thanks to people hoarding toilet paper during the coronavirus pandemic, some Californians have completely run out of bathroom tissue.

So what do they do when nature calls? They improvise.

And that, communities are discovering, can cause problems. Big, stinky, overflowing problems.

In Redding, Calif., wastewater management officials said someone apparently used shredded T-shirts as a toilet paper substitute, according to the Redding Searchlight.

While the soiled rags evidently passed through the sewer line of the person’s residence, they snagged on pumps at a lift station on one of city’s sewer lines. If workers hadn’t taken quick action to clear the clog, a dangerous brown spill might have occurred.

Meanwhile, Napa Sanitation District officials posted a picture Monday on Facebook of hundreds of flushed wet wipes captured by a single screen at the district’s pump station in Napa. The district reminded people to flush only toilet paper and human waste down the toilet.

“Remember to never flush wipes, paper towels, or tissues because they clog the pipes! Throw all wipes and other materials in the trash can!” the post read.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Because-of-TP-shortage-people-are-using-wipes-15154769.php

March 25, 2020

Americans are still struggling to get back to US

Americans stranded in Peru because of the coronavirus pandemic have begun organizing among themselves to share information and vent their mounting frustration over the Trump administration’s efforts to catch up with a backlog of U.S. citizens trapped overseas.

About 2,700 Americans who have faced difficulty leaving Peru have joined together, sharing names and contact details on a spreadsheet that has been provided to U.S. lawmakers and the State Department.

In one instance, the shared list even was used when the child of one member suffered a seizure, prompting a neurologist in the group to advise the parent on medications available locally.

“We are being held hostage here, and we don’t know by whom or why,” said Michael Katz, 66, of Katonah, N.Y. Mr. Katz and his partner, 65-year-old Rita Lenda, are stranded in Cusco. “The State Department is completely useless and totally incompetent.”

Mr. Katz and Ms. Lenda are among 13,500 Americans the State Department estimates have sought help through a government travel-registration system after the pandemic closed borders and canceled flights. Officials said the overall number of stranded travelers could range into the tens of thousands, including those who haven’t registered.


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State Department officials said later Tuesday that at least 40 flights are scheduled within the next six days to return an estimated 3,400 U.S. citizens to American soil from countries around the world. Officials acknowledged the frustration, but said the delays are largely attributable to the system established by the Peruvian government.

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Peruvian officials said while the crisis has limited the country’s flight capacity, they don’t know why the Americans haven’t sent more planes. An official at the Foreign Ministry said it was now working to get Americans and other foreigners stuck in Peru back home.

“We are in a crisis,” the official said. “We are just opening up to get people out and bring our people back.”

U.S.-bound flights are expected for Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, the official said. The flights, overseen by the U.S. government, will arrive and take off from an air force base near Lima’s airport.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/americans-stranded-abroad-fume-over-the-long-wait-to-come-home-11585091082

March 25, 2020

There has been a coronavirus outbreak aboard a deployed US Navy aircraft carrier

https://twitter.com/LesaRobertson20/status/1242593411397541891

https://www.businessinsider.com/sailors-aboard-a-us-navy-aircraft-carrier-have-the-coronavirus-2020-3

March 25, 2020

yes, it's petty and there are more important topics.. but his makeup!!

he's so vain yet he walks around in public like that. take a sponge... blend it into the white areas.

https://twitter.com/HondoResists/status/1242567441097601024

March 25, 2020

Will We Have an America Without Restaurants?

Will We Have an America Without Restaurants?
If businesses like ours don’t get help from Washington, more than 10 million Americans could lose their jobs.

By Andrew Carmellini, Tom Colicchio, Danny Meyer, Missy Robbins, Marcus Samuelsson and Adam Saper
The authors are chefs and restaurant owners in New York City.

March 24, 2020, 1:16 p.m. ET

America is in the weeds right now. Desperately sick people, including some of our friends, are packing emergency rooms with a mysterious new virus. The economy is entering what looks like a new depression. Some say unemployment could be as high as 30 percent.

Given this situation, the plight of restaurants might seem like a frivolous concern. Americans might reasonably ask: Why should we worry about the independent restaurant industry when we’re worried about how to pay rent?

The reason to care is not just because we feed America and feed it well. It’s because independent restaurants employ more than 10 million people. And our fear is that these jobs may well disappear for good.

Over the past two weeks, tens of thousands of restaurants have closed across the country. New York City alone has roughly 26,000 restaurants — and nearly all of them have now shut down.


In other industries, deep-pocketed companies are able to keep workers on the payroll even when there’s no money coming in. Independent restaurants don’t have that luxury. We don’t have shareholders or the ability to bank money for a rainy day when things are good.

Here’s how the economics work: 90 percent of the money that independent restaurants earn goes straight back out to pay employees, vendors and rent. This is true for mom-and-pop corner restaurants and for the fanciest places in town: Whether your server wears a flannel shirt or a fancy suit, your favorite restaurant is primarily in the business of giving a whole lot of people a paycheck.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/opinion/coronavirus-restaurants-danny-meyer.html