Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

The willow is too close to the house.

Humiliatingly small and eclipsed by the derision of millions.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

We still have time to mess this up!

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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update (International) – Thursday/Friday, April 9/10

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  1. 1.

    Amir Khalid

    Well of course the lockdown here was going to be extended. It’s quite obviously too soon to ease it; indeed, given the need to avoid triggering another wave of infections I expect it to last at least through Ramadhan and quite likely into Haj season.

    Malaysia’s worldometer numbers for today. 118 new cases, running total 4,346; three deaths, running total 70. The DG of Health seems quite confident that national measures have been effective so far. For three days now there have been more recovered Covid-19 patients discharged from hospital than new diagnoses. That seems a positive sign.

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    Sloane Ranger

    Pick for Britain. Government to ask students and furloughed workers to pick harvest because no seasonal workers available.

    Will these volunteers be paid or is it going to be sold as a patriotic duty? If paid, will it be at the rate foreign seasonal workers got or a rate British people would expect for such hard, back breaking work?

    Will they be given PPE?

    Either way, fresh produce is going to be more expensive.

    Welcome to this foretaste of post Brexit Britain.

  5. 5.

    mrmoshpotato

    @Sloane Ranger: It was necessary to keep the island from sinking, but one fat Polish plumber too many and…

    (That was Russell Howard’s mocking take on Brexit if I recall.)

  6. 6.

    YY_Sima Qian

    The reason for lock down of Suifenhe, as I alluded to in previous days: 2497 Chinese nationals have crossed from Russia into China at the border crossing from 3/21 to 4/9, all having flown from Moscow to Vladivostok. Over that same span, there have been 151 confirmed cases and 148 asymptomatic cases among them. That is a 12% infection rate! That is an indication of the extent of the epidemic in Russia, particularly the European part.

    The article on recent developments in Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan. All three had seen a stream of importations from Wuhan in late Jan., an indirect indication of the rapidly escalating epidemic there. The stream shut off from early Feb., with China shutting down Wuhan, then Hubei Province, then much of the rest of China. All three places were proactive and fairly rigorous in restricting travel from the then epicenter, screening, and contact tracing. However, all three were late in recognizing the danger from new outbreaks in Europe and the US (and later, the Middle East and Latin America), and did not screen or restrict travelers/returnees as early as they did with Mainland China.

    Taiwan is different from Singapore and Hong Kong, in that the spike in importation has not led to a corresponding spike in domestic cases, even though mandatory self-quarantine of visitors/returnees was not implemented until later, and there have been several instances of people violating quarantine to go socializing in crowded spaces. Some people in Taiwan (admittedly sympathetic to the opposition and suspicious of the ruling party) have been skeptical of the official case count. How could there not have been a single significant cluster, when social distancing has been limited until recently, and the percentage of domestic cases that cannot traced to the source of transmission has been uncomfortably high. Like Japan, and unlike South Korea, Taiwan has been very restrictive in testing, and the testing rate is low. On the other hand, there is no sign of stressed hospitals or upsurge of pneumonia patients, which would indicate an uncontrolled outbreak. For now, there is little reason to doubt the official numbers (at least inaccuracies are probably not due to intentional deception), but the situation bears watching.

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    hells littlest angel

    the graph/Great Wave of Kanagawa tweet gave me a good long bellylaugh. Thanks!

  8. 8.

    RoonieRoo

    I really wonder is there is a possible future where countries that get the virus well controlled ban the entrance of people from countries that were lax, do not have testing and not as good control.  In other words, I find a dark amusement in a world where Americans are banned from flying in to other countries, especially if the nightmare of re-electing the orange shitgibbon comes to pass.

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