The Progressive Wing

There are people who are vulnerable to COVID today bc they couldn't afford treatment for past conditions.
There are people who will die from COVID or who will spread COVID bc they don't go to the doctor due to cost and complexity
Single-payer would have mitigated this. https://t.co/vOf12j3eZU
— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) April 2, 2020

Not gonna fall in line with the DNC so “It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.”

wi61: you know surprises do happen, and Bernie may very well win your state. A lot has radically changed since FL voted.

Believe me orl my fingers are crossed along with everything else

Amazon worker fired for leading walkout protest says: "I started a revolution and I hope it continues. These CEOs, these big bosses that sit on all their millions, they need to do something about it—or if not we're gonna take the power and do it ourselves"https://t.co/KRJJoDcL8t
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) April 2, 2020

I guess the MSM aren’t having Smalls as a guest on their show because of the massive amounts of AD spending in their organizations. This is another reason why Bernie should be president. He is not beholden to any corporate interest.

Meh. pic.twitter.com/HXIZG2rwrY
— melissa CANCEL ALL STUDENT DEBT NOW byrne (@mcbyrne) April 2, 2020

Now Bezos donates millions to food banks, in which Chris Smalls, who was just fired by Amazon, is likely to have to visit to feed himself.

and jeff bezos, the richest man on the planet, was in the meeting. https://t.co/ROAltqEXdu
— mike casca (@cascamike) April 2, 2020

life moves pretty fast… pic.twitter.com/RB9RaFl61e
— mike casca (@cascamike) April 2, 2020

Borg Brain is just trying to make his ugly (and how with that shaved head) self look good.

Why does Lex Luthor come to mind when I see him?

phatkhat

Mr. Smalls sounds pretty damned smart and articulate to me!

Breaking via NBC: The Navy is expected to announce it has relieved Capt. Brett Crozier, who sounded the alarm about an outbreak of COVID-19 aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt and said that sailors need to be quarantined to stop the spread of the virus. https://t.co/8Y8CL45Rsa
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 2, 2020

Their are so many times where I was following orders is the excuse. Well a captain is responsible for the lives under his/her command. So IMHO he did the right thing to get his crew treatment.

BREAKING: A federal judge declined to postpone Wisc's Tuesday election. But 3 big changes (and story TK):
1) Absentee request deadline is tmmw
2) Ballots count if received by 4 p.m. on 4/13
3) Voters can affirm they couldn't get a witness
Full order: https://t.co/qZO1aEsWA0
— Zach Montellaro (@ZachMontellaro) April 2, 2020

Local paper link
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/04/02/wisconsin-election-judge-extends-absentee-voting-but-keeps-vote-date/5112276002/

Okay, young people, GET YOUR BUTTS IN GEAR!

New: The RNC and Wisconsin Republican Party filed an emergency appeal of Conley's order. The filing is linked in my story https://t.co/EXN6U1iC2T
— Zach Montellaro (@ZachMontellaro) April 2, 2020

pb4: this is off topic, but I’m still laughing at that story you posted on la58’s OT about Billy Gibbons canning the MAGA redneck music freak.

ty. gibbons is one cool cat.

not sure if the appeal still stands.

A federal judge did not postpone Wisconsin's Tuesday election but extended deadline to request an absentee ballot until tomorrow, extended the deadline to return them to April 13, and suspended the state requirement to have a witness sign your ballot.
— Molly Beck (@MollyBeck) April 2, 2020

Changed to 8 p.m.
— Molly Beck (@MollyBeck) April 2, 2020

BREAKING: Joe Biden still wants people in Wisconsin to vote in person. "A convention with 10,000 people in an arena..is very different from having people walking into a polling booth…" Says he also supports using "some" mail-ballots. But refuses to support all-mail election.
— Colin Kalmbacher (@colinkalmbacher) April 2, 2020

What’s Biden’s reason for not supporting an all-mail in election?

If you can't win on your ideas and need to depend on low turnout and voter suppression, get out of politics and get another job. https://t.co/gThTlGMEvv
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) April 2, 2020

People Should Not Be Forced to Put Their Lives on the Line to Vote

So the election is, as of publication, going forward—despite the fact that, by a 51-44 margin, the voters say it should be postponed.
Sanders is urging Wisconsin backers to vote by mail. Former vice president Joe Biden, who leads Sanders in polls of likely Wisconsin Democratic primary voters, has so far refused to join the senator in calling for a delay. The Biden camp is simply telling voters to “follow social distancing guidelines to slow the spread of COVID-19.” Prominent Republicans are also urging voters to show up on April 7.
The problem with the message from Biden and the Republicans is that the election is now degenerating into chaos. Poll workers in communities across Wisconsin—where Evers has ordered a statewide “stay-at-home” lockdown—are signaling that they do not feel they will be safe running polling places on Tuesday. That’s led to a dramatic reduction in the number of locations where in-person voting can take place.
In Waukesha, a city of 72,000, only one polling place will open Tuesday. In the state’s largest city, Milwaukee, where only 400 of the needed 1,400 poll workers have signed up, officials plan to reduce the number of polling places from 180 to only 10 or 12.

voter suppression by virus. Welcome to the New World to the New World….

ByeDone showing his true GOPuke/DINO colors.

Torabs

Do we need any further evidence that Biden won’t change a damned thing that’s going on? He’s already bipartisan-ing people to their death.

Torabs

Send that tweet to Biden, Bernie! He is not your friend!

What a fucking self interested absolute douchbag. Fuck this guy. Seriously.
POLL WORKERS ARE DYING RIGHT NOW WHO SHOULD HAVE NEVER BEEN PUT IN THAT POSITION @JOEBIDEN, YOU SELFISH PIECE OF SHIT. https://t.co/Qrn1Gloahn
— Dystopian Vest 🦺 (@DystopianR) April 2, 2020

Just like your state i’m expecting a spike in cases in 4-7 days after the election

Speaks Truth, Senator Tammy Baldwin https://t.co/uThVTZ45TD
— Katrina vandenHeuvel (@KatrinaNation) April 2, 2020

I wish she would endorse Bernie.

Anyone who hasn’t by now has lost a lot of my respect. But she’s always had a centrist streak. At least for the last five years or so it seems

she’d rather retweet Tammy Baldwin.

I think she’s right to speak up about this though. I don’t imagine Ron Johnson would.

del

Johnson oh hell no, Another Wi embarrassment

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-poorer-nyc-neighborhoods-20200402-vm3mmukxojezxbqlmuzfkxxhly-story.html

Who could have guessed?

New Yorkers living in low-income areas of the city’s outer-boroughs are more likely to contract coronavirus, newly released Health Department data suggests.
The data, which compiles the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases by the ZIP codes of the patients, shows the viral outbreak has hit Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island far harder than Manhattan.
A map tabulating the data shows many low-income areas in the outer-boroughs are deep purple — a color category signifying a caseload of at least 306.
In Queens, immigrant-rich neighborhoods like Jackson Heights, Elmhurst and Corona are all deep purple, as are Southeastern parts of Brooklyn, like Brownsville, Flatbush and East New York. Parts of the South Bronx and central Staten Island are also deep purple.
Dr. Mitchell Katz, the CEO of the city’s hospital system, said people tend to live in more cramped environments in the city’s low-income areas, likely worsening the virus’ spread there.
“We know that in Queens, many families, because of poverty, live together in very close quarters,” Katz said. “So that while we are practicing as a city social distancing, you may have multiple families living together in a very small apartment. And so it’s easy to understand why there’s a lot of transmission.”

Donate to Ed Markey, the leftist running for re-election to US Senate in Massachusetts. https://t.co/2i0bxZK4Xj
— Eric J (@EricJafMN) April 2, 2020

RT @aishaismad@twitter.com
You know why Bernie's still running?
Because there's a woman in Wisconsin without health insurance
Because there's a man in Ohio who just got evicted
Because there are families in NY haunted by the sirens of ambulances
— EXrayFuSion 🎃BERNIE OR BUST🎃 (@EXrayFuSion) April 2, 2020

Clips from The View yesterday with Bernie Sanders. I don’t know exactly which order they are supposed to go in, so apologies in advance if they are not sequenced properly.

Jeff Bezos: The richest man in the world.
Amazon: Pays $0 in federal income taxes.
Workers: Unable to get the protection they need.
The greed has got to end. I stand with Amazon workers who are fighting for their rights. https://t.co/TZwTvchLnh
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) April 2, 2020

14 tons of respiratory health material shipped out of U.S. in recent months by a firm owned by private equity outfit Clayton Dubilier & Rice, which isn't responding to questions from @lhfang of @theintercept.
Congress needs to hold hearings.https://t.co/jtHw69ftkq
— David Cay Johnston (@DavidCayJ) April 2, 2020

I’ve been a big fan of Yves Smith and Naked Capitalism for the last few years. That site despises Private Equity companies. They should be outlawed and the CEOs jailed. I agree wholeheartedly.

phatkhat

Private equity firms are killing us.

What % of their wealth American billionaires gave to charity in 2018:
Bezos: 0.1%
D. Koch: 0.1%
C. Koch: 0.5%
Zuckerberg: 0.7%
Bloomberg: 1.5%
Gates: 2.6%
Buffet: 3.9%
It's half of what they gave the year before.
After their tax cuts.
Billionaires will not save us.
— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) April 2, 2020

Giving till it hurts aren’t they…

Compare that the the % that would be taken away by a wealth tax, etc.

And they would still be obscenly rich

@BNeidhardt @mistyrebik Simple argument. https://t.co/BUN02nReYm
— Benny (@Benny05) April 2, 2020