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brooklynite's JournalThe TOP fundraiser among ALL Senate candidates (Incumbent and Challenger) is.....
Mark Kelly, Democrat from Arizona ($20 M), $2 M more than Mitch McConnell...
We've never backed a Democrat for president. But Trump must be defeated.
Washington PostReed Galen
Steve Schmidt
John Weaver
Rick Wilson
This November, Americans will cast their most consequential votes since Abraham Lincoln’s reelection in 1864. We confront a constellation of crises: a public health emergency not seen in a century, an economic collapse set to rival the Great Depression, and a world where American leadership is absent and dangers rise in the vacuum.
Today, the United States is beset with a president who was unprepared for the burden of the presidency and who has made plain his deficits in leadership, management, intelligence and morality.
When we founded the Lincoln Project, we did so with a clear mission: to defeat President Trump in November. Publicly supporting a Democratic nominee for president is a first for all of us. We are in extraordinary times, and we have chosen to put country over party — and former vice president Joe Biden is the candidate who we believe will do the same.
Biden is now the presumptive Democratic nominee and he has our support. Biden has the experience, the attributes and the character to defeat Trump this fall. Unlike Trump, for whom the presidency is just one more opportunity to perfect his narcissism and self-aggrandizement, Biden sees public service as an opportunity to do right by the American people and a privilege to do so.
Trump Wanted a Radio Show, but He Didn't Want to Compete With Limbaugh
Source: New York Times
On a Saturday in early March, Donald J. Trump, clad in a baseball cap, strode into the Situation Room for a meeting with the coronavirus task force. He didn’t stop by the group’s daily meetings often, but he had an idea he was eager to share: He wanted to start a White House talk radio show.
At the time, the virus was rapidly spreading across the country, and Mr. Trump would soon announce a ban on European travel. A talk radio show, Mr. Trump excitedly explained, would allow him to quell Americans’ fears and answer their questions about the pandemic directly, according to three White House officials who heard the pitch. There would be no screening, he said, just an open line for people to call and engage one-on-one with the president.
But that Saturday, almost as suddenly as he proposed it, the president outlined one reason he would not be moving forward with it: He did not want to compete with Rush Limbaugh.
No one in the room was sure how to respond, two of the officials said. Someone suggested hosting the show in the mornings or on weekends, to steer clear of the conservative radio host’s schedule. But Mr. Trump shook his head, saying he envisioned his show as two hours a day, every day. And were it not for Mr. Limbaugh, and the risk of encroaching on his territory, he reiterated, he would do it.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/15/us/trump-radio-show-rush-limbaugh.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
This afternoon (3:00 PM Eastern): Virtual Town Hall with Joe Biden
Join Joe Biden for a virtual town hall with individuals working on the frontline of the Coronavirus crisis. Tune in at joebiden.com/live
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Coronavirus destroys lungs. But doctors are finding its damage in kidneys, hearts and elsewhere.
Source: Washington Post
The new coronavirus kills by inflaming and clogging the tiny air sacs in the lungs, choking off the body’s oxygen supply until it shuts down the organs essential for life.
But clinicians around the world are seeing evidence that suggests the virus also may be causing heart inflammation, acute kidney disease, neurological malfunction, blood clots, intestinal damage and liver problems. That development has complicated treatment for the most severe cases of covid-19, the illness caused by the virus, and makes the course of recovery less certain, they said.
The prevalence of these effects is too great to attribute them solely to the “cytokine storm,” a powerful immune-system response that attacks the body, causing severe damage, doctors and researchers said.
Almost half the people hospitalized because of covid-19 have blood or protein in their urine, indicating early damage to their kidneys, said Alan Kliger, a Yale University School of Medicine nephrologist who co-chairs a task force assisting dialysis patients who have covid-19.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/coronavirus-destroys-lungs-but-doctors-are-finding-its-damage-in-kidneys-hearts-and-elsewhere/2020/04/14/7ff71ee0-7db1-11ea-a3ee-13e1ae0a3571_story.html
South Koreans head to polls despite coronavirus outbreak
Source: CNN
Millions of South Koreans are expected to cast their vote in Wednesday's parliamentary election for the 300 members of the National Assembly in an election that is seen as a mid-term referendum for the country's President Moon Jae-in and his party.
More than a quarter of the country's 44 million voters cast their ballot early -- a record proportion of early voters.
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As of 3 p.m. local time, 56.5% of registered voters had cast their ballot -- including those who voted early. That's 10 percentage points higher than the proportion who had voted at same time in the last parliamentary election in 2016.
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At Seoul's Samseon-dong polling station, stickers on the ground outside indicated where voters should stand so that they are spaced at least one meter (three feet) apart from one another as they queue up to cast their ballot. At the door, voters are handed masks and gloves and a polling station officer takes their temperature. Anyone with a temperature of more than 37.5 degrees Celsius (99.5 degrees Farenheit) is required to vote in a special booth. While all polling booths are regularly disinfected.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/15/asia/south-korea-election-intl-hnk/index.html
Musicians streaming free concerts during lockdown...
Melissa Etheridge
Wednesday, April 15th, 2020
6:00 PM EDT
https://www.bandsintown.com/e/102214620?trigger=notify_me&came_from=21&utm_medium=email&utm_source=fan_weekly&utm_campaign=notify_me_livestream
Pearl Jam
Saturday, April 18th, 2020
8:00 PM EDT
https://www.bandsintown.com/e/102225003?trigger=notify_me&came_from=21&utm_medium=email&utm_source=fan_weekly&utm_campaign=notify_me_livestream
Snow Patrol
Thursday, April 16th, 2020
3:00 PM EDT
https://www.bandsintown.com/e/102226582?trigger=notify_me&came_from=21&utm_medium=email&utm_source=fan_weekly&utm_campaign=notify_me_livestream
All Together Now - An Online Concert for the City of L.A. (Jeff Bridges, Smokey Robinson, Paris and Kathy Hilton, Carole King, Mike Love, Paul Rodgers, Melissa Manchester, Joe Bonamassa, Mary Wilson, Peter Asher, Steve Lukather, Lisa Loeb, Vonda Shepard)
Saturday, April 25th, 2020
5:00 PM EDT
https://www.bandsintown.com/e/102228530-vonda-shepard-at-live-stream?came_from=21&utm_medium=web&utm_source=artist_page&utm_campaign=ticket_rsvp
(Max Boot) Republicans who don't like Trump have no excuses: Endorse Biden
Washington PostIt is hard to imagine a better one-sentence encapsulation of why he must be defeated. Trump’s failures have made us the world capital of the coronavirus, with more than three times as many deaths in New York City (pop. 8.3 million) as in all of Germany (pop. 83 million). Having dodged responsibility for fighting the coronavirus (“I don’t take responsibility at all”), Trump now claims dictatorial powers to determine when social distancing ends. If he wins another term, he is likely to put not only a lot of Americans but also American democracy itself into the ICU.
If Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) were the Democratic nominee, the choice would be a difficult one. I would still have voted for Sanders, but a lot of my fellow former Republicans wouldn’t have. Now that Joe Biden is going to be the Democratic nominee, the choice is easy
Trump would like to depict the election as border security vs. open borders, capitalism vs. socialism, prosperity vs. economic ruin. But that will be hard to do now that the economy is already ruined and the Democratic nominee is no socialist. Biden’s pending nomination brings the real choice into stark relief: competence vs. incompetence, facts vs. conspiracy theories, moderation vs. extremism, inclusion vs. division, empathy vs. narcissism.
Tonight's RUN FOR SOMETHING Panel Discussion
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AP Interview: Sanders says opposing Biden is 'irresponsible'
Source: AP News
Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that it would be “irresponsible” for his loyalists not to support Joe Biden, warning that progressives who “sit on their hands” in the months ahead would simply enable President Donald Trump’s reelection.
And lest there be any question, the 78-year-old Vermont senator confirmed that “it’s probably a very fair assumption” that he would not run for president again. He added, with a laugh: “One can’t predict the future.”
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He seemed to distance himself from his campaign’s former national press secretary, Briahna Joy Gray, when asked about her recent statement on social media refusing to endorse Biden.
“She is my former press secretary — not on the payroll,” Sanders noted. A spokesman later clarified that all campaign staffers were no longer on the payroll as of Tuesday, though they will get a severance check in May.
Read more: https://apnews.com/a1bfb62e37fe34e09ff123a58a1329fa
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