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'Unacceptable': Dems Fume After Trump Announces Plan to Refuse Congressional Oversight of Corporate Bailout Funds

President Donald Trump hands out pens to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (L) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (C) after signing the CARES act, a $2 trillion rescue package to provide economic relief amid the coronavirus outbreak, at the Oval Office of the White House on March 27, 2020. (Photo: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

800,000 Doctors to Trump: Heed Expert Warnings and End Dangerous Campaign Against Social Distancing

Julia Conley, staff writer

Certified Registered Nurses Kimberly Scheider, left, and Debbie Jessell, right, walk up to a patient's car before starting the test at Penn State Health St. Joseph where they are conducting drive through coronavirus / COVID-19 testing and have taken extra precautions regarding entry to the hospital, in Bern Township, PA Friday afternoon March 27, 2020.(Photo: Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

"We need your leadership in supporting science-based recommendations on social distancing that can slow the virus."

'Far More to Do,' Say Progressives After House Approves and Trump Signs Corporate-Friendly Coronavirus Relief Act

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (C) and Representatives Kevin McCarthy (L) and Steny Hoyer show the bill to the press after the House passed a $2 trillion stimulus bill, on March 27, 2020, at the US Capitol in Washington, DC - The House approved by a voice vote a $2.2 trillion rescue package, the largest economic stimulus package in American history, to aid a US economy and health care system battered by the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo: Alex Edelman/AFP/Getty Images)

"The clock has already started on a fourth bill and we expect and demand that...

Cell Phone Tracking Analysis Shows Where Florida Springbreakers and New Yorkers Fleeing Coronavirus Went to Next

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Data from location accuracy company X-Mode tracking cell phones from spring breakers shows how the coronavirus could have spread from just one beach.

"First thing you should note is the importance of social distancing. The second...

'Without Us, Instacart Will Grind to a Halt': Delivery Workers Threaten Strike Over Hazard Pay, Safety Measures Amid Outbreak

'Amazon Putting Lives of Workers at Risk': Omar and Sanders Press Bezos on Alarming Lack of Coronavirus Protections

'There Should Be Shame': Watch Ocasio-Cortez Excoriate GOP Over Massive Corporate Bailouts in Coronavirus Bill

'Holy Crap This Is Insane': Citing Coronavirus Pandemic, EPA Indefinitely Suspends Environmental Rules

Weeks After Saying 'I Shook Hands With Everybody' at Hospital, Boris Johnson Tests Positive for Coronavirus

Set to Approve $4.5 Trillion to Bail Out Corporations, Trump Objects to $1 Billion Price Tag for 80,000 Ventilators

With US Now Epicenter of Global Pandemic, Hospitals Forced to Consider 'Do Not Resuscitate' Orders for Patients

'We Need Medicare for All': Massive Coronavirus Job Losses Expose Obvious Failure of Employer-Based Insurance

Top CDC Official: Staggering Spike in New York 'Just a Preview' of What's Coming Elsewhere

'Era of Blank Checks for Corporations Needs to End': House Dems Urged to Remove $500 Billion Mnuchin-Controlled Slush Fund

'World Leaders Seem in Denial': Demands for Radical Global Action on Coronavirus as Virtual G20 Summit Ends With Vague Promises

'Another Attempted Coup': US Rebuked for 'Absurd' Drug Trafficking Charges Against Venezuela's Maduro

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An Illustrated Compendium of Trump's Very Best Remarks About COVID-19

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Release Prisoners Now to Slow Coronavirus' Spread

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Cease and Desist

As Trump's lies and boasts and deadly fictions mount with the virus - we now have a record 82,404 cases - so does the urge to shut him up. A Seattle public radio station has stopped airing daily briefings that "offer no public benefit," and other media are cutting back and fact-checking. Still, the atrocities keep coming: Trump just sicced his goons on TV stations showing a Democratic ad that (accurately) cites his murderous lies, arguing it's "false" and "misleading." Because, priorities.