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December 1, 2020

'It's Just A Total Mess.': HHS Botches Takeover Of Covid-19 Data - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC



Laurie Garrett, health policy analyst, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the HHS takeover of the CDC's Covid-19 data was so poorly handled that health officials are now without a crucial tool for understanding trends in the spread of the virus and the needs of hospitals and medical workers. Aired on 12/1/2020.


December 1, 2020

Trump's Covid-19 Failures Miss Key Lessons From 1918 Pandemic - The Beat With Ari Melber - MSNBC



As the U.S. faces a surging second wave of the coronavirus and breakthroughs for a vaccine, the history of the 1918 pandemic offers key lessons for the crucial period ahead. MSNBC’s Ari Melber cites doctors and historians in a special report on parallels and contrasts between the two pandemics as the coronavirus pandemic rages across the globe. (This is a short excerpt of a longer special report.) Aired on 11/30/2020.




December 1, 2020

Trump Tries to Prove He Is Fitter Than Biden by Playing Fetch with Pence on White House Lawn

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In an attempt to demonstrate that he is in better physical condition than President-elect Joe Biden, Donald J. Trump spent part of Monday morning playing fetch with Mike Pence on the White House lawn.

The press corps was invited to the event, at which Trump, seated on a golf cart, hurled tennis ball after tennis ball at his Vice-President, who obediently retrieved them.

At one point in the demonstration, Pence paused to praise his boss’s “amazing stamina.”

“Mr. President, I always knew that your mental acuity was beyond compare, but I must say that your physical strength and endurance are nothing short of miraculous,” Pence said.

“I can’t hear you with that tennis ball in your mouth,” Trump replied.

After half an hour of fetching, Pence became winded and was replaced by Senator Lindsey Graham.


Short article, no more at link: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-tries-to-prove-he-is-fitter-than-biden-by-playing-fetch-with-pence-on-white-house-lawn




December 1, 2020

The Daily Social Distancing Show: Trump's 100 Most Tremendous Scandals



Whittled down from a list of 35,000, here are Donald Trump’s 100 Most Tremendous Scandals.


December 1, 2020

The Daily Social Distancing Show: Count On It - What Is The Monetary Cost Of Climate Change?



In the newest Count On It, Dulcé Sloan examines the economics of ignoring climate change and an idea for making the biggest polluters pay.


December 1, 2020

The Daily Social Distancing Show: Trump Makes Immigration Harder & Iranian Nuclear Scientist Killed



Trump creates a citizenship test that even he can't pass, expands the ways the federal government can execute you, and possibly encourages Israel to assassinate Iran’s top nuclear scientist.


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