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David Byrne - "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" [Live from Austin, TX]
Marco Lopez
David Byrne - "I Wanna Dance With Somebody" [Live from Austin, TX] youtu.be/izx8J6U7xzo via @YouTube
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The Right Constitutional Philosophy for This Moment
Conservatives ought to move past originalism and explore a more moral framework for interpreting America’s founding documents.
Marco Lopez
There’s a lot of alarming stuff in here, but notice first that, as addressed to conservative originalists, it presupposes that the public justification for their view (that only originalism is democratically legitimate) was always offered in bad faith.
17h
Reality Has Endorsed Bernie Sanders
The coronavirus crisis is laying bare the brutality of an economy organized around production for the sake of profit and not human need.
Marco Lopez
“When Katrina struck the Gulf and the floodwaters tore through New Orleans, plunging its population into a carnival of misery, it did not turn the region into a 3rd World; it revealed one. [G]rueling poverty rose to the surface like a bruise to our skin.”
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The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration
Richard Epstein, a professor at N.Y.U. School of Law, discusses two articles he wrote, on the Hoover Institution Web site, entitled “Coronavirus Perspective” and “Coronavirus Overreaction,” and his views of the pandemic.
DC activists raise the alarm about the danger of a COVID-19 outbreak among detained people
On March 14, nearly two months after the first reported case of the new coronavirus in the United States, activist Taylar Nuevelle went to the DC Superior Court to watch room C-10. There, new detainees are processed after being arrested by DC’s Metro
Marco Lopez
DC activists raise the alarm about the danger of a COVID-19 outbreak among detained people @dclinenews
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How Covid-19 immunity testing can help people get back to work
We need to find out who has the antibodies to the virus.
What Do We Do With Feelings Now That They Don’t Matter Anymore?
Sarah Miller thinks about climate change and other current horrors, and what it’s like just being sad forever.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Updated Student Loan Repayment Plans
Dear Graduate:
The U.S. Department of Education under Betsy DeVos takes education seriously. That’s why we’ve teamed up with various incompetent or...
Mystery In Wuhan: Recovered Coronavirus Patients Test Negative ... Then Positive
NPR interviewed four residents of Wuhan who contracted the virus, recovered — but then had a re-test that turned positive. What does that mean for China's recovery from COVID-19?
Marco Lopez
Some Recovered Coronavirus Patients In Wuhan Are Testing Positive Again : Goats and Soda
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Why the U.S. Is So Behind on Coronavirus Testing
Bureaucracy, equipment shortages, an unwillingness to share, and failed leadership doomed the American response to COVID-19.
How the Pandemic Will End
The U.S. may end up with the worst Covid-19 outbreak in the industrialized world. This is how it’s going to play out.
Marco Lopez
“tests have been slow to arrive bc of 5 shortages: trained administrators; masks for them; nasopharyngeal swabs for collecting viral samples; extraction kits for pulling the virus’s genetic material out of the samples; & chemical reagents in those kits”
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Desperate Hospitals May Put Two Patients on One Ventilator. That’s Risky.
Facing a ventilator shortage, doctors are considering using one machine for multiple patients in respiratory failure. But it’s at best a stopgap and can injure the lungs.
Marco Lopez
Desperate Hospitals May Put Two Patients on One Ventilator. That’s Risky. — ProPublica
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You're Wrong About: D.C. Snipers Part 4 on Apple Podcasts
Show You're Wrong About, Ep D.C. Snipers Part 4 - Mar 23, 2020
Marco Lopez
During the course of the shootings, police pulled over the blue Caprice and ran its plates NINE TIMES
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A New York Police Officer Was Caught on Camera Apparently Planting Marijuana in a Car — for the Second Time
Body camera footage shows a Staten Island cop planting marijuana in a car. The NYPD previously cleared the officer of wrongdoing in a similar case.
A Medical Worker Describes Terrifying Lung Failure From COVID-19 — Even in His Young Patients
“It first struck me how different it was when I saw my first coronavirus patient go bad. I was like, Holy shit, this is not the flu. Watching this relatively young guy, gasping for air, pink frothy secretions coming out of his tube.”
Marco Lopez
“Your risk of mortality increases every day that you spend on a ventilator. The high pressures from high vent settings is pushing air into the lung and can overinflate and destroy the alveoli.”
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Texas upholds sentence for woman who didn’t know she was ineligible to vote
Crystal Mason was previously sentenced to five years in prison for a mistaken vote that was not counted
Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance
What the Next 18 Months Can Look Like, if Leaders Buy Us Time
Marco Lopez
A hopeful project: shutting down more thoroughly now CAN earn us a bearably quick return to normal
11d
Fired public defenders sue, alleging Montgomery County retaliated for bail practice criticism
Former Chief Defender Dean Beer and Deputy Chief Public Defender Keisha Hudson accused the county of firing them for blowing the whistle, which they said violated their First Amendment rights.
Marco Lopez
Fired public defenders sue, alleging Montgomery County retaliated for bail practice criticism inquirer.com/news/montgomer… via @phillyinquirer
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Scientists warn we may need to live with social distancing for a year or more
Researchers say we face a horrible choice: practice social distancing for months or a year, or let hundreds of thousands die.
How Coronavirus Can Bring Down Zombie Companies — and the Economy
This once-in-a-century pandemic is hitting a world economy saddled with record levels of debt.