'Chilling reminder': Multiple historically Black universities under lockdown after receiving threats - ABC News

Multiple historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are on lockdown after receiving potential threats on Thursday, including Alabama State University, Virginia State University, Hampton University in Virginia, Southern University in Louisiana, and Clark Atlanta University in Georgia…

https://abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-hbcus-lockdown-after-receiving-threats-amid-rising/story

 

Michigan utility aided sabotage of Covid lockdown policies, documents reveal

The "revelatory" emails illuminate how DTE "deploys dark money in Michigan", said Karlee Weinmann, research and communications manager with the utility industry watchdog Energy and Policy Institute. The group detailed the emails in a new report... 

The donations show DTE "has power and wields influence over parts of people's lives that they don't want DTE to have influence over", said Eli Day, communications director for the We the People Action Fund, which has been involved in utility affordability campaigns.  

Donations like this are made through dark money channels because companies know their political donations would generate blowback, Day added. 

"Ordinary people who are outraged can have a real impact and change their lives for the better, and DTE is terrified of that," he said…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/michigan-covid-lockdown-dte-energy

 

MTG Gets Caught LYING On The House Floor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q46-Ltf9A7M

Group aiming to sabotage Whitmer’s Covid policies funded by dark money

The revelation of DTE's involvement underscores the need to rein in the monopoly utility's political spending, Reyes said. 

"It's hard to see DTE's dark money contributions as anything but toxic to democracy," he added...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jan/10/gretchen-whitmer-michigan-covid-policies-dark-money

Fauci's comment about lockdowns, vaccination twisted out of context - PolitiFact

…Fauci did not indicate at any point that lockdowns should be used as a tool of coercion, as the post implies…

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/apr/22/facebook-posts/fauci-didnt-say-lockdowns-are-useful-forcing-vacci/

CDC director advises Michigan Gov Whitmer to shut down the state | TheHill

...More than 50,000 new COVID-19 cases have been reported in Michigan over the last seven days...

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/547725-cdc-director-advises-michigan-to-close-down-amid

Packed crowds and euphoric leaders: Australia revels in Covid-free days

...Across the rest of the country the virus has almost entirely receded from view. Strict border closures between states have cut families off from one another and caused an ongoing political stand-off, but they have also meant that in states such as Tasmania and Western Australia, life has almost returned to a pre-Covid state...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/15/packed-crowds-and-euphoric-leaders-australia-revels-in-covid-free-days

Michigan men charged in cases related to alleged kidnapping of Governor Whitmer attended multiple anti-lockdown protests, photos and videos show - The Washington Post

On April 30, outside the Michigan Capitol, protesters gathered to demand that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer end the business closures and other measures she had imposed to slow the transmission of the coronavirus. Speaker after speaker denounced the Democratic governor. One Republican congressional candidate told protesters they were “the tip of the spear” in the fight against tyranny. Another aspiring official said that by supporting conservative candidates they could “slap Gretchen Whitmer right across the face.” In the crowd that day, according to photos and videos, were Adam Fox and at least five others who are now charged in the plot to kidnap Whitmer or, in related cases, providing material support for a planned terrorist act.....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/11/01/michigan-kidnapping-plot-coronavirus-lockdown-whitmer/

Trump Distorts WHO’s Lockdown Comments - FactCheck.org

At campaign rallies and in tweets, President Donald Trump falsely said the World Health Organization changed its position and “admitted that Donald Trump was right” about lockdowns. But the agency has said no such thing.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/10/trump-distorts-whos-lockdown-comments/

Shutdowns prevented 60 million coronavirus infections in the U.S., study finds - The Washington Post

Shutdown orders prevented about 60 million novel coronavirus infections in the United States and 285 million in China, according to a research study published Monday that examined how stay-at-home orders and other restrictions limited the spread of the contagion. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/06/08/shutdowns-prevented-60-million-coronavirus-infections-us-study-finds/

Trump reveals a striking divide with his reaction to armed lockdown protesters vs George Floyd protesters – Raw Story

President Donald Trump reacted in remarkably different ways to protests at the start and end of May. When predominantly white demonstrators carried military-style rifles to the Michigan Statehouse to protest Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s stay-at-home orders, the president urged her to give in to their demands to reopen the state as the coronavirus pandemic raged. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/05/trump-reveals-a-striking-divide-with-his-reaction-to-armed-lockdown-protesters-vs-george-floyd-protesters/

Hank Kunneman Says Christians Cannot Allow the 'Anti-Christ' Party to Defeat Trump - RWW News

Right-wing pastor Hank Kunneman says Christians must vote to reelect Trump because the "anti-Christ" party wants to murder babies and shut down churches.
https://youtu.be/TMGjaiEg_r4

Trump’s war on reality just got a lot more dangerous - The Washington Post

Trump is prioritizing the creation of an illusion of normalcy over actually getting it done....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/05/26/trumps-war-reality-just-got-lot-more-dangerous/

Stay-at-home orders saved hundreds of thousands, report finds | TheHill

A new analysis says nearly 250,000 people in the nation's 30 largest cities are alive today because of strict stay-at-home orders issued by local and state governments. The report, from the Urban Health Collaborative at the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University, found the stay-at-home orders likely reduced the number of coronavirus deaths by 232,878 and prevented 2.1 million people from requiring hospitalization.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/498303-stay-at-home-orders-saved-hundreds-of-thousands-report-finds

NY Barber Tests Positive for COVID-19 After Defying Lockdown | Time

A barber in Kingston, N.Y., continued to cut hair after stay-at-home orders were implemented in the state to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Now, he has tested positive for COVID-19 and health officials are alerting those who may have visited his shop. ...
https://time.com/5837829/new-york-barber-covid-19/

There Are Sensible Ways to Reopen. Then There's the US's Way | Time

This brutal spring, the U.S. faces two great crises. Over the past 14 weeks, 84,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. That’s 28 times the death toll of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, more than the U.S. combat deaths in the Vietnam War, and one-quarter of the total global casualties from the coronavirus pandemic. ....
https://time.com/5836607/reopening-risks-coronavirus/

GOP senator blocks resolution calling for CDC guidelines to be released | TheHill

GOP Sen. Mike Braun (Ind.) on Wednesday blocked a resolution calling for the release of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) guidance on reopening businesses....
The CDC guidance, according to the AP, calls for national coordination that would give communities a step-by-step guide for how to reopen shuttered sectors and lift social distancing restrictions....
https://thehill.com/homenews/coronavirus-report/497531-gop-senator-blocks-resolution-calling-for-cdc-guidelines-to-be

White House Shelved CDC Warnings of Second Virus Surge After Reopening, Says Report

The White House shelved a warning from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that coronavirus cases will likely resurge after states reopen, according to a document seen by the Associated Press. The 63-page document offers previously unpublished guidance to help officials decide when to shut facilities down again during future outbreaks of COVID-19. The White House has used parts of the CDC guidance, but has reportedly set aside large sections that appear to be very important.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-shelved-cdc-warnings-of-second-virus-surge-after-reopening-says-report

Dr. Fauci Patiently Shuts Down Rand Paul for Minimizing Virus Fears

Fauci also referenced the idea that the virus could “disappear”—something President Trump raised as recently as last week. “That’s just not going to happen,” Fauci said. https://www.thedailybeast.com/dr-fauci-patiently-shuts-down-rand-paul-for-minimizing-virus-fears

How to Create a Pandemic Depression - NYTimes

Opening the economy too soon can backfire, badly. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/11/opinion/coronavirus-depression.html