Coronavirus data has already disappeared after Trump administration shifted control from CDC
But Ryan Panchadsaram, who helps run a data-tracking site called Covid Exit Strategy, said that when he tried to collect the data from the CDC on Tuesday, it had disappeared.
When reached for comment Thursday by CNBC, HHS spokesman Michael Caputo said in a statement that the CDC was directed to make the data available again.
https://www.covidexitstrategy.org/
Representatives of the CDC did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment. Later in the day, the CDC restored the site’s previous dashboards with data through Tuesday, saying: “This file will not be updated after July 14, 2020 and includes data from April 1 to July 14.”
https://www.cdc.gov/nhsn/covid19/report-patient-impact.html#anchor_1594393649
NPR Let The US Attorney General Tell A Falsehood On The Air
"He was talking about very specific things and they were nuts," Charles Stewart, MIT political science professor and director of the Election Data and Science Lab, said of Barr's suggestions that ballots could be stolen from mailboxes and counterfeited on a large scale. "I felt it was such a ridiculous set of claims because he clearly didn't know what he was talking about."
Game show host retweeted by Trump deletes his account after announcing his son has coronavirus
Almost one-third of Florida children tested are positive for the coronavirus
The state’s outbreak continues to surge as new data reveal children may be more impacted than previously thought.
Florida health officials have identified a troubling trend; approximately 31 percent, or one-third, of children in Florida tested for COVID-19 yield positive results, according to the Sun Sentinel.
State data indicates that out of 54,022 Florida children tested, 31.1 percent have returned positive results on average. This is higher than the statewide positivity rate, which reads in at about 11 percent.
'Florida is just fine:' GOP state lawmaker stuns Keilar with this claim
Florida Republican state lawmaker Rep. Anthony Sabatini, who has filed numerous lawsuits to prevent mask mandates in his state, tells CNN's Brianna Keilar that his state is doing just fine despite data showing Florida is a hotspot for coronavirus.
State Representative, District #32 Florida | Captain, Florida Army National Guard | UF: BA ‘12 JD ‘17
https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/details.aspx?MemberId=4725&LegislativeTermId
- Officer, Florida Army National Guard
https://twitter.com/i/events/1283824500652380160 Supreme Court allows Florida to require ex-felons to repay fees before being allowed to register to vote
In a 6-3 vote the US Supreme Court declined to change Florida's voting rule that would allow convicted felons in the state to vote if they haven't paid all their court fees, fines and restitution.
https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen de-motivational speaker / I tested positively toward negative
Chrissy Teigen Goes Private on Twitter After Blocking a Million Users and Deleting 60,000 Tweets
"Welcome to my club. Exclusive to 13 million!"
'Worried for my family': Chrissy Teigen blocks 1M Twitter accounts linking her to Jeffrey Epstein
In another tweet, she continued: "When pedo ghislaine (Maxwell) sings like a canary (if she doesn’t die) and we have nothing to do with this, I know for a fact it won’t go away. They’ll just think of another excuse. It is extremely disheartening. I don’t know how to stop this. i don’t think anyone quite gets it."
Teigen revealed that she has used a Twitter block chain which enables her to block followers of a certain account in order to protect her family.
‘I have block chained over one million people, ONE MILLION people today and I am still flooded with sick psychopaths,’ she wrote. ‘So please, spare me the “just ignore them, they’re just trolls”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxrNnSJC65k Bill Nye Drops Mask Science On Tucker Carlson's 'Weird Claim' | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCs8OZLnr88/ Watch comedian Karan Menon (@thekaranmenon) perfectly debunk the ‘All Lives Matter’ argument
https://popular.info/p/kelly-loeffler-is-running-against Kelly Loeffler is running against Black Lives Matter. These corporations are supporting her campaign.
Supreme Court deals blow to felons in Florida seeking to regain the right to vote
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Thursday to overturn a federal appeals court’s decision that blocked some Florida felons’ eligibility to participate in elections — a major blow to efforts to restore voting rights to as many as 1.4 million people in the battleground state.
Paul Smith, a lawyer with the Campaign Legal Center, said he was “deeply disappointed” with the decision.
A Second Coronavirus Death Surge Is Coming
There was always a logical explanation for why cases rose through the end of June while deaths did not.
Some previous vaccines “not only didn’t confer protection, but actually helped the virus invade the cell, because it was incomplete in terms of its immunogenic properties,” Frazier said. “So we have to be very careful.”
Hegar wins primary against Royce West, will challenge Cornyn for US Senate
With all polling locations reporting Wednesday morning, Hegar was leading West by 4 percentage points, according to unofficial returns. Hegar declared victory late Tuesday night, and West conceded Wednesday morning.
"I am humbled by the support we have received from all across the state, and am confident we have a decisive victory," Hegar said in a Tuesday night statement when she had a similar margin with most locations reporting. "Together, we are mounting a Texas-sized winning campaign that will take down Sen. [John] Cornyn and deliver real results on health care, racial justice, economic opportunity, climate change, immigration and gun violence."
West, who was aiming to become Texas' first Black U.S. senator, conceded in a statement Wednesday morning noting the "historic" nature of his campaign and the massive financial disadvantage he faced. West also congratulated Hegar, with whom tensions spiked in the runoff's last couple weeks.
Video shows protesters get shipment of bats before Brooklyn Bridge brawl
Police sources said the bats were delivered so the anti-cop activists could confront a “unity” rally proceeding over the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan.
The unity rally included clergy, law enforcement and community activists.
It’s unclear if the City Hall protesters used the bats in the wild Brooklyn Bridge brawl between opposing protesters. But at least one was recovered after the dust settled, police sources said.
In all, four cops, including Chief of Department Terence Monahan — the NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed officer — and one civilian were injured in the clash, sources said.
Maskless Starbucks ‘Karen’ wants half of $100K raised for barista who wouldn’t serve her
Amber Lynn Gilles complained about the worker in a Facebook post last month, posting a picture of the man in one of the coffee giant’s San Diego locations who denied her service for not following the county’s coronavirus guidelines.
Gilles asked for the chiropractor to not be named, and the practitioner declined to discuss Gilles when the outlet reached out for comment.
She defended using a note from a chiropractor for a breathing-related condition because “They are dedicated to providing non-invasive personalized care and treatment. They are real doctors.”
Gilles said she was not remorseful at all for her post and that she has started her own GoFundMe to raise money for legal fees should she decide to sue.
“I feel like I need the apology,” she told KGTV. “I’ve been discriminated against, I’m the one who’s sick.”
Trump Favorability Drops Among White College-Educated Americans
President Donald Trump’s favorability continues to trend downward. Less than four in ten (38%) Americans hold favorable views of Trump and nearly six in ten (59%) view him unfavorably. Trump’s current favorability is not significantly different from May (41% favorable, 55% unfavorable) or April (42% favorable, 54% unfavorable), but it is substantially down from his high point in March (49% favorable, 46% unfavorable). The current numbers are slightly lower than his 2019 average (41% favorable, 55% unfavorable), but again, the difference is not statistically significant.
The Trump campaign app is tapping a "gold mine" of data about Americans
And the data collected from Trump's app can be poured into an information ecosystem designed to replace the Facebook features — since disabled — that made the 2016 Cambridge Analytica scandal possible, according to a former executive for the firm that developed the app.
A list of these names and phone numbers is especially useful when cross-referenced with data collected from other sources, said Jacob Gursky, a University of Texas at Austin researcher who analyzed the apps with fellow researcher Samuel Wooley. The pair called the Trump app "a voter surveillance tool of extraordinary power" in an article in the MIT Technology Review.
The Trump app was developed by a company called Phunware, which has a significant stockpile of data to work with. Phunware says on its website that it has the ability to collect data from more than one billion active mobile devices per month. The campaign and Phunware did not reply to questions about whether the campaign's data is matched with Phunware's data.
The Myth of Trump as a Centrist Dealmaker
From vaunted negotiator to feckless ideologue.
A teen led a Black Lives Matter protest in his small town. A cross was burned in his yard.
How Facebook Handles Climate Disinformation
Critics say a company policy that exempts opinion articles from fact-checking amounts to a huge loophole for climate change deniers.
Liberty University sues New York Times for defamation over coronavirus coverage
Falwell told the Sinclair Broadcasting show “America This Week” with Eric Bolling on Wednesday that the university will donate any money it is awarded to charities fighting the pandemic.
We Reviewed Police Tactics Seen in Nearly 400 Protest Videos. Here’s What We Found.
We asked experts to watch videos showing officers using tear gas, pepper balls and explosives on protesters. Police actions often escalated confrontations.
by Talia Buford, Lucas Waldron, Moiz Syed, Al Shaw, July 16,
A fight over nude swimming marks return of pre-coronavirus banalities in Europe
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/fox-35-investigates-florida-department-of-health-says-some-labs-have-not-reported-negative-covid-19-results.amp?__twitter_impression=true
Anti-Trump Republican consultant drops foreign agent contract to fight Russia sanctions
by Jerry Dunleavy, Justice Department Reporter | | May 16, 2019
Weaver said on Twitter Thursday he has dropped of his contract with Russia-owned nuclear energy company Tenam Corporation, which is part of the Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation. Weaver had registered as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act in order to lobby against any possible new sanctions by the U.S. against Russia.
U.S. Party Preferences Have Swung Sharply Toward Democrats
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Since January, Americans' party preferences have shifted dramatically in the Democratic Party's direction. What had been a two-percentage-point Republican advantage in U.S. party identification and leaning has become an 11-point Democratic advantage, with more of that movement reflecting a loss in Republican identification and leaning (down eight points) than a gain in Democratic identification and leaning (up five points).
Currently, half of U.S. adults identify as Democrats (32%) or are independents who lean toward the Democratic Party (18%). Meanwhile, 39% identify as Republicans (26%) or are Republican leaners (13%).
Georgia governor bans local governments from issuing mask mandates
https://www.axios.com/georgia-masks-kemp-coronavirus-order-472cb563-62ec-4778-bf79-292e7a89144f.html
Georgia gov. explicitly voids mask orders in 15 localities
Team Trump is conducting a series of stringent ‘loyalty tests’ to gauge who is ‘MAGA enough’ for his administration: report
Coronavirus cases shut down Florida’s emergency operations center
NEW YORK COULD THROW OUT 1 IN 5 MAIL-IN BALLOTS IN ONE DISTRICT, DISPROPORTIONATELY HITTING BROOKLYN
A 1-in-5 disenfranchisement rate is far too high for a developed democracy, but the rate was worse in the Brooklyn part of the district, where the rejection rate in the staff review was a staggering 28 percent, according to an analysis of the documents. Across the city, nearly 400,000 absentee ballots were cast, meaning Cuomo’s handling of the election could throw out some 100,000 votes. That’s roughly the number California disqualified, a number considered scandalously high though it represented just 1.5 percent of mail ballots.
https://gothamist.com/news/cuomo-administration-silent-problem-could-spoil-thousands-absentee-ballots
Return mail that is postage-paid, like a ballot, is generally not postmarked — the mark is used to make sure a stamp isn’t re-used, but since there’s no stamp, the postal service doesn’t need to mark it — but postal service employees are instructed to postmark ballots so that they can comply with the state rules. Still, sometimes a clerk forgets, and sometimes an entire post office forgets for days. Something like that appears to have happened in Brooklyn.
Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets
Officers from the U.S. Marshals Special Operations Group and Customs and Border Protection’s BORTAC, have been sent to Portland to protect federal property during the recent protests against racism and police brutality.
But interviews conducted by OPB show officers are also detaining people on Portland streets who aren’t near federal property, nor is it clear that all of the people being arrested have engaged in criminal activity. Demonstrators like O’Shea and Pettibone said they think they were targeted by federal officers for simply wearing black clothing in the area of the demonstration.
Pettibone said he was put into a cell. Soon after, two officers came in to read him his Miranda rights. They didn’t tell him why he was being arrested. He said they asked him if he wanted to waive his rights and answer some questions, but Pettibone declined and said he wanted a lawyer. The interview was terminated, and about 90 minutes later he was released. He said he did not receive any paperwork, citation or record of his arrest.
USA Today: Navarro’s anti-Fauci column didn’t meet standards
The newspaper on Wednesday evening also ran a fact-check story by Washington reporter Ledyard King examining five of Navarro’s claims.
Fact check: Peter Navarro's claims about Dr. Anthony Fauci are misleading, lack context
July 15
https://twitter.com/Alyssafarah/status/1283377019183603720 The Peter Navarro op-ed didn’t go through normal White House clearance processes and is the opinion of Peter alone. @realDonaldTrump values the expertise of the medical professionals advising his Administration.
Donald Trump muzzling Dr. Anthony Fauci amid COVID-19 would be hazardous
NIAID chief is an annoying truth bomb that keeps going off in the president's garden party of falsehoods and blame shifting: Our view
The Editorial BoardUSA TODAY
July 14
The Navarro piece was solicited so as to provide editorial content balancing this view.
USA Today Still Won’t Explain the Slur in Peter Navarro’s Fauci-Bashing Op-Ed
The term "China virus" was a big honking clue to why that piece was such a bad idea
But you don’t need to look at James Bennet’s ouster at the New York Times to understand why this type of thinking is so wobbly today. It’s similar to what tripped up NPR when it interviewed Attorney General Bill Barr: the term “China virus” is a small, smelly part of a political operation that views Trump’s reelection as the paramount issue facing the United States of America in 2020. It’s used by people who have offered few sustained plans to battle a pandemic that’s killed more than 130,000 Americans but who can still find time to take shots at experts. USA Today could have cut the calumny when it first got a whiff—or, if it felt it was imperative to include it, linked to its own story about how terms like “Chinese virus” are part of a pattern of harassment Asian Americans began to experience as the pandemic first steamrolled the US.
I searched in Nexis and was able to find only one other appearance of the term “China virus” in USA Today since January 31: A May article that quoted a Trump administration official who claimed during a TV appearance that lockdown would “kill many more people than the China virus ever would.” The official’s name? Peter Navarro.
‘It was like being preyed upon’: Portland protesters say federal officers in unmarked vans are detaining them
https://twitter.com/search?q=%22Operation%20Grant%22&src=trend_click Operation Grant is RVAT and Project Lincoln organizing and marketing to Ohio voters
Operation Grant seeks to stop President Trump’s re-election in Ohio: John Weaver and Bill Kristol
“We are now in the midst of trying times when every one must be for or against his country, and show his colors too, by his every act. Whatever may have been my political opinions before, I have one sentiment now. There are but two parties, traitors and patriots and I want hereafter to be ranked with the latter.”
Media are just plain lying about Kayleigh McEnany 'science' quote
by Becket Adams, Commentary Writer | | July 16, 2020
“The president has said, unmistakably, that he wants schools to open. And I was just in the [Oval Office] talking to him about that. And when he says ‘open,’ he means, ‘open in full’ – kids being able to attend each and every day at their school,” she told reporters at a White House press briefing.
“The science should not stand in the way of this,” McEnany continued. “And as Dr. Scott Atlas, and I thought this was a good quote, [said], ‘Of course we can do it. Everyone else in the western world, our peer nations, are doing it. We are the outlier here.’ The science is very clear on this that, for instance, you look at the [Journal of the American Medical Association] pediatric study of 46 pediatric hospitals in North America that said the risk of critical illness from COVID is far less for children than that of seasonal flu.”
The White House press secretary concluded, “The science is on our side here. We encourage for localities and states to just simply follow the science. Open our schools.”
State of New York State History
Republicans versus Trumpicans: A New York State Case Study
January 5, 2020
This is about NY politics. Shift in districts, slow strangulation of GOP, etc.
The Myth of Trump as a Centrist Dealmaker
From vaunted negotiator to feckless ideologue.
These liberal elites and Never Trumpers saw him from day one as a demagogic extremist, preying on racial animus, and throwing in with the seedier elements of the far right like Steve Bannon. But many of the (white) voters out in the rest of America who supported him in 2016 didn’t see him quite this way. They knew that he had taken a hard line on some issues like immigration. But they also saw the host of The Apprentice, a businessman outside the political system. They noticed he was willing to buck the Republicans on certain unpopular ideological totems like cutting Social Security or supporting “forever wars.” To many of those who ended up voting for him, it was Trump who was the moderating figure while Cruz (in the primary) and Clinton (in the general) were on the extremes.
New Covid-19 study, despite flaws, adds to case against hydroxychloroquine
July 16
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-4207
Three high-quality randomized controlled studies, the gold standard in evaluating medicines, have been stopped because hydroxychloroquine was providing no benefit at all for patients. Results from one, the RECOVERY study run by U.K. researchers, were released on a preprint server Wednesday and show that not only was there no statistically significant difference between the arms of the trial, the patients on hydroxychloroquine tended to do worse.
But proponents, including Navarro, have argued that the drug needs to be used earlier in the disease. The Minnesota study represents the first test of using the drug among patients who have not been hospitalized.
Out of View: After Public Outcry, CDC Adds Hospital Data Back to Its Website — for Now
Hospitalization data is important to understanding the coronavirus’s spread and impact. But after the Trump administration changed its reporting rules, the CDC removed the data from its site, and only added it back after a public outcry.
by Charles Ornstein July 16, 3:38 p.m. EDT
Trump Is Donating Ventilators to Countries That Don’t Need or Can’t Use Them
Nearly 8,000 ventilators are destined for foreign countries as part of Trump’s plan to make the U.S. “king of ventilators.” But public health experts worry the machines are crowding out more urgently needed aid.
by Yeganeh Torbati July 15, 12:51 p.m. EDT
White House officials have pushed the U.S. Agency for International Development to purchase thousands of the expensive devices from U.S. companies and donate them abroad, according to internal documents, emails seen by or described to ProPublica and interviews with officials. One USAID official recently referred to the project in an internal email as “the POTUS donation of ventilators,” using an acronym for president of the United States.
Photographer Offers Glimpse Into WH Press Secretary’s Binder During Press Briefing
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