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March 14, 2020

There’s a Giant Hole in Pelosi’s Coronavirus Bill

NY Times Editorial Board The New York Times

The legislation passed by the House doesn’t actually guarantee paid sick leave to most American workers.

March 14, 2020

“Democratic Socialism Is Fighting for Regular Working-Class People”

Mckayla Wilkes Interviewed by Irene Koo Jacobin

Mckayla Wilkes, a candidate for Maryland’s 5th congressional district, talks about her experiences with incarceration, how Bernie Sanders inspired her, and what it means to run a working-class campaign against a corporate-funded incumbent.

March 14, 2020

Government Must Act to Stop Spread of Economic and Financial Consequences of Coronavirus

Damon A. Silvers AFL-CIO

Coronavirus is not only a public health crisis, it is also a shock to the global economy. Working people must demand that government act, or we and our families will pay the price for others’ lack of action, as we so often have in the past.

March 14, 2020

The Coronavirus and the Extraordinary Decisions Facing Italian Doctors

Yascha Mounk The Atlantic

Doctors at one of Italy’s main hospitals talk to CNN’s Ben Wedeman.

Italy now has too many coronavirus patients for each to receive adequate care. So those who are too old to have a high likelihood of recovery, or who have too low a number of “life-years” left even if they should survive, may be left to die.

March 14, 2020

COVID-19: Information Must Drive Global and National Responses to the Epidemic.

Laurie Garrett The Lancet

Doctors with a coronavirus patient in Iran.

The spread of COVID-19 is aided and abetted by misinformation that circumnavigates the planet in microseconds. The only defense against panic is agile, accurate, available counter-information that conveys a consistently science-driven narrative.

March 13, 2020

Friday Nite Videos | March 13, 2020

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Six Key Issues Where Sanders Continues to Fight. Trump’s Coronavirus Address, Blooper Reel Included. Sorry We Missed You | Movie. Italy: Solidarity in Song. Katie Porter Secures Free Coronavirus Testing for All Americans.

Six Key Issues Where Sanders Continues to Fight

March 13, 2020

A defiant Bernie Sanders has rejected pressure to end his presidential bid. Here is a look at where the senator stands on key issues including the economy, the climate crisis, healthcare, immigration and gun control

Trump’s Coronavirus Address, Blooper Reel Included

March 13, 2020

Trump completely failed to ease America’s coronavirus fears, but he did create some unbelievable outtakes

Sorry We Missed You | Movie

March 13, 2020

From director Ken Loach, writer Paul Laverty and the award-winning team behind I, Daniel Blake, comes Sorry We Missed You - a powerful exploration of the contemporary world of work, the gig economy and the challenges faced by one family trying to hold it all together. Full review here.

Italy: Solidarity in Song

March 13, 2020

Every evening at 6pm, Italians are making it a thing across the country where they'll go out on their balconies to sing, play instruments & try to lift each other's spirits while in quarantine ❤️ pic.twitter.com/IlX3Qingzd

— Rabz1710 (@rabz1710) March 13, 2020