Breaking: The Biden administration extends the coronavirus public health emergency for another 90 days. This allows a range of health benefits for some of the most vulnerable Americans during the pandemic- including access to coronavirus tests and telehealth services.
As usual mofos: Republican lawmakers called on the administration in February to stop extending the emergency, which was first declared by the Trump administration, saying that its continuation at a time when the crisis was ebbing amounted to government overreach. #CovidIsntOver
Ukraine's deputy PM urges residents of the eastern regions of Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk to evacuate as fears grow that Russia will intensify attacks there “It has to be done now because later the people will be under fire and face the threat of death," says Iryna Vereshchuk.
The war. What is more opposite to music? The silence of ruined cities and killed people. Our children draw swooping rockets, not shooting stars. Over 400 children have been injured and 153 children died. And we’ll never seem them drawing.
Our parents are happy to wake up in the morning. In bomb shelters, but alive. Our loved ones don’t know if we will be together again. The war doesn’t let us choose who survives and who stays in eternal silence,” he said.
Will Biden get any lift for this? Economy added 431,000 jobs in March as COVID fades but inflation soars; Unemployment rate fell to 3.6% usatoday.com/story/money/20… via @USATODAY
Same story. Two wildly different takes. #BidenBoom
Here’s a new government site to find your way w/everything #COVID from masks, to tests to vaccines, in your community. Posting this as my city, #NYC, is seeing a surge in Omicron BA.2- too many people are either infected themselves or know folks who are. covid.gov
“I was expressing the moral outrage that I feel, and I make no apologies for it,” President Biden told reporters at the White House yesterday. He was rejecting criticism from all corners about the potential diplomatic consequences of his words in Warsaw. Focus on what PUTIN does.
“People like this shouldn't be ruling countries but they do,” he said at another point. “The fact they do doesn't mean I can't express my outrage about it.”
“The only war that's worse than one intended is one that's unintended,” said Biden. “The last thing I want to do is engage in a land war or a nuclear war with Russia.”