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As Trump tries to shut down the legal paths for whistleblowers, it increases the chances we'll see very detailed accounts of precisely what warnings the Intelligence Community -- and others in government -- gave Trump about COVID-19.

It may or may not be the Federal government's job to stand on street corners testing, but that is what he promised, and that is what Jared Kushner has utterly failed to deliver. 

A seeming millennium ago, last Tuesday, DOJ's Inspector General released a Management Advisory Memo describing the interim results of its effort to assess whether problems identified in Carter Page's FISA application were unique, or reflected…

Emptywheel Music Trash Talk is an idea long discussed, but the time may have come. Listen, this would be a kind of dead period anyway. Get ready to get live, get ready to rip up this juke joint. Fill the hills with the sound of live music.

The projections Trump is relying on (even while falsely pretending his recommendations match the model) say Michigan's initial COVID crisis will peak in less than a week. That's not what the state is saying.

Trump is trying to explain New York's huge death toll from COVID-19 by claiming they got a late start in their response. But New York has always been -- and remains -- far ahead of what Trump has done. 

This is the first of two posts about misinformation and disinformation using research information about the disease COVID-19 and the underlying virus SARS-CoV-2.

Two weeks ago, Maryland's Governor Larry Hogan asked President Trump to set up a federal COVID testing site to make sure that critical federal workers could ensure they weren't infecting their colleagues. Yesterday, along with issuing a stay-at-home order, Hogan repeated that request.

Kansas Gov Laura Kelly (D) issused a statewide "Stay at Home" order yesterday, and beyond the impact on corralling the COVID-19 epidemic, it also is forcing some in the Kansas GOP to straddle a very nasty fence, like US Representative Roger Marshall.

Tourists, visiting missionaries, grieving friends and relatives of a long-standing community member. These are the ties that link rural communities across the country to a global network of virus. Not only don't their local healthcare facilities have the resources to treat this disease, but residents are more likely to be older, in ill health, and lack health insurance.