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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
With cooler temperatures comes a Covid surge: new US cases top 83,000, the most in a single day since the pandemic began. About 800 Americans are dying each day, and almost a quarter million have died so far. There is no vaccine and no cure. This new surge is hitting rural America especially hard.
NPR
THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS
U.S. Coronavirus Cases
Surpass Summer Peak And Are Climbing
Higher Fast
OCTOBER 27, 2020 • 10:14 AM ET
By Will Stone
Chart showing latest surge is biggest yet
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
Oct 19, 2020 The US death toll passes 220,000. Trump says America is over the pandemic and repeatedly attacks Dr. Anthony Fauci. “People are tired of Covid. People are saying, ‘Whatever, just leave us alone.’ People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots," Trump says.
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
The NYT reveals that in July, Trump aides blocked the CDC from issuing a mandate requiring face masks on flights, buses, trains and subways, and in airports, train stations and taxis. www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/h...
nytimes.com
White House Blocked C.D.C. From Requiring Masks on Public Transportation (Published 2020)
The order would have mandated that both passengers and employees wear face coverings on planes, trains, buses and subways and in airports, stations and depots.
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
After three days of experimental antiviral drugs unavailable to most Americans, Trump leaves the hospital to return to the White House. He takes the unusual route of climbing the stairs of the White House South Portico where he theatrically removes his mask, waving, saluting and giving thumbs-up.
Trump on the Truman Balcony, removing his mask for the cameras
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Amid cable TV chatter of transferring power to Mike Pence, Trump shocks doctors by briefly leaving the hospital so his motorcade can drive slowly by a handful of flag waving supporters as he waves. He is accused of endangering the lives of the two Secret Service agents with him.
Trump wearing a black facemask waving from his carTrump waves from the backseat. A Secret Service driver and agent in the front seat wear facemasksA handful of Trump supporters waving flags outside Walter Reed
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
At Walter Reed, Trump begins taking the antiviral drug remdesivir. His blood oxygen dangerously low, he is also receiving dexamethasone, a steroid given to the most critically ill patients. Notably, he is not treated with hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin, the quack cures he urged on his fans.
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
Oct 2 2020 In a 1 am tweet, Trump announces he has Covid, which has now killed 200,000 Americans. All campaign events are canceled a month before the election. Trump is admitted to the Walter Reed military hospital where he is given experimental drugs. His staff conceals that he lies close to death.
Donald J. Trump o @realDonaldTrump

Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for
COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!

12:54 AM • 10/2/20 From EarthAP

Trump, stricken by COVID-19, flown to military hospital
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
What the business news looks like Oct 1, 2020: 26.5 million Americans are unemployed - 837,000 lost their jobs just last week as Disney laid off 28,000 theme park employees, Allstate cut 3,800 positions, and American and United Airlines newly furloughed 30,000 people.
washingtonpost.com
Layoffs still piling up as jobless claims remain stubbornly high
Airlines, theme parks, and insurance and petroleum companies all announced layoffs in recent days, as economists continue to warn about more job loss ahead.
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Trump and Biden meet in Cleveland for a Fox News debate. Trump mocks Biden for frequently wearing a mask. He does not reveal that he and his wife had tested positive for Covid three days before the debate, where his wife and children all removed their masks contrary to venue rules.
The Trump children - Eric, Ivanka, Tiffany, and Jr - sitting unmasked next to Rudy Giuliani and some other guy, who are wearing face masks.
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 26/09/2024
My apologies. I jumped the gun on this: it was Sept 26
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
Trump packs the White House Rose Garden to announce he is naming conservative Amy Coney Barrett to replace the trailblazing Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. It is later called a superspreader event: a dozen people in the unmasked crowd, including Trump and the First Lady, caught COVID.
NYT graphic showing the people later diagnosed with Covid-19 and where they were standing. The list includes Trump, his wife, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former top Trump aide Kellyanne Conway, Republican Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Mike Lee of Utah, University of Notre Dame President John Jenkins and a White House journalist.
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 15/09/2024
Visiting the California wildfires, Trump scoffs at officials worrying about global warming. Trump: "It'll start getting cooler. You just watch." Wade Crowfoot, secretary of the California Natural Resources Agency: "I wish science agreed with you." Trump: "I don't think science knows, actually."
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'It will start getting cooler' | President Trump responds to combating climate change in fires | RAW
YouTube video by ABC10
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Sept 2020 - Unemployment rate: 7.9% - Americans out of work: 12.6 million - Dow close sept 12: 27,534 - Tank of gas: $2.21 - Inflation rate: 0.5% Sept 2024 - Unemployment rate: 4.2% - Americans out of work: 1.8 million - Dow close sept 12: 42,096 - Tank of gas: $3.2 - Inflation rate: 2.5%
From the NYT 9/11 2024

That argument had been what Mr.
Trump's advisers had coached him to say in a handful of debate preparation sessions that they had studiously avoid calling debate preparation sessions, preferring to describe them as "policy time." They had hoped he would look directly at the camera and ask voters if they were better off now than they were four years ago.
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
Several hundred former aides to President George W. Bush and Sen. John McCain announce they are endorsing the Democrat, Joe Biden, for president over the Republican incumbent. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
nbcnews.com
Hundreds of former aides to George W. Bush, John McCain endorse Biden for president
The endorsements, which come as Trump prepares to accept his party's nomination, are the latest in a string of Republican statements supporting Biden.
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
Aug 20, 2020 Trump's former chief strategist is arrested by the feds for ripping off Trump fans who donated $25 million to a bogus "build the wall" effort. Steve Bannon is taken into custody off the coast of Connecticut when agents board a yacht owned by Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui.
Bannon and Guo Wengui aboard the yacht in happier times.Guo Wengui's yacht, the Lady May, which was boarded by the coast guard and federal agents who arrested Bannon.Trump and Bannon
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 14/08/2024
Aug 13, 2020 For the first time in months, fewer than 1 million people lost their jobs in the previous week. This is hailed as great news.
U.S. ECONOMY
Weekly
Unemployment
Claims Drop Below One Million for First Time Since
March
Number of people collecting unemployment benefits through regular state programs also fell at the beginning of August<CNBC
• WATCH
LIVE
ECONOMY
U.S. weekly jobless claims fall to 963,000, first time below 1 million since mid-March
PUBLISHED THU, AUG 13 2020 8:30 AM EDT
UPDATED THU, AUG 13 2020 12:29 PM EDT
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
In a strange pandemic VP announcement, candidate Joe Biden introduces Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate in an empty hall - no cheering crowds, no waving signs. Keeping to health precautions at a time when 1,200 Americans are dying each day, the new ticket does not even raise clasped hands.
abc NEWS
Biden and Harris make 1st appearance as historic Democratic ticket
"America is crying out for leadership," Harris said at the event in Wilmington.Joe and Jill Biden standing 15 feet away from Kamala Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff in a mostly-empty high school gym in Wilmington Del.Tweet from Joe Biden showing him and Harris clasping hands joyfully with the caption "let's go win this"politics
| Live TV
Harris makes case against Trump in first speech as Biden's running mate
By Eric Bradner, CNN
Updated 8:06 PM EDT, Wed August 12, 2020
Kamala Harris takes aim at Trump in first ca...
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 12/08/2024
Conflated total deaths with daily deaths, sorry. Posting corrected version now.
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 04/08/2024
With 1,000 Americans dying each day, Trump sits down with Axios reporter Jonathan Swan to claim the virus is "under control." Swan pushes back strongly, causing a sensation. Clips of the reporter's baffled expressions as Trump says outlandish things go viral. Swan will win an Emmy for the interview.
youtu.be
The Trump Interview That Broke The Internet
Previous interviewers of President Trump have been applauded for asking tough questions, but the interview by Axios’ Jonathan Swan caused a sensation. What s...
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 20/07/2024
Amid BLM protests in Portland, Trump's Department of Homeland Security begins snatching protesters off the street into unmarked vans filled with officers in camo. The Oregon AG sues DHS for violating the civil rights of its citizens but a federal judge throws out the case. A warning for the future?
Forbes: Trump-Ordered
Federal Agents Are Reportedly Pulling
Protesters Into
Unmarked Vehicles, Drawing OutrageSlate: 
Judge Rejects Oregon's Bid to Stop Federal Agents in Unmarked Cars Arresting Protesters
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 20/07/2024
This exchange on Fox News Sunday, six months before the Jan 6 Trump mob tried to stop the 2020 election verification: Chris Wallace: "Can you give a direct answer that you will accept the election result?" Trump: "I have to see. I'm not just going to say yes. I'm not going to say no."
axios.com
Trump declines to say he'll accept results of election: "I have to see"
"I'm not a good loser. I don't like to lose. I don't lose too often."
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 12/07/2024
In a glaring example of corruption, Trump commutes the 3-year sentence for Roger Stone, his loyal dirty-trickster who was convicted of obstruction, lying and threatening witnesses in connection with Wikileaks targeting the Clinton campaign to help Trump win in 2016. www.justice.gov/pardon/page/...
N≥CNBC
• WATCH
LIVE
POLITICS
President Donald
Trump commutes ally Roger Stone's prison sentenceMitt Romney @MittRomney
Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president.
9:06 AM • 7/11/20
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 07/07/2024
July 7, 2020 As the pandemic continues to rage, Trump announces the United States is withdrawing from the World Health Organization. Candidate Joe Biden promises to immediately reverse this if elected. (He did, in his first hours in office.)
biden retweets story reporting Trump administration formally withdraws the US from the WHO, adding:  "Americans are safer when America is engaged in strengthening global health. On my first day as President, I will rejoin the @WHO and restore our leadership on the world stage."
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 05/07/2024
Kanye West tweets he's running for president, three months before the 2020 election. Elon Musk responds "you have my full support!"
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 04/07/2024
In a baleful 4th of July speech to a crowd of about 3,700 people at Mount Rushmore, Trump rails against Democrats and warns that “angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders, deface our most sacred memorials and unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities.”
Trump and his wife with a lot of flags in South Dakota. She used to appear with him sometimes when she was First Lady.
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 26/06/2024
Bars in Texas and Florida - states that had declared victory over the virus and reopened their businesses - are abruptly ordered closed down amid huge spikes in infections. The virus, which initially hit worst in the Northeast, is now surging across the South and West. There is still no vaccine.
L NBC NEWS
WATCH NOW
CORONAVIRUS
Texas and Florida close bars after explosion of
COVID-19 cases
Florida reported 8,942 new coronavirus cases Friday, shattering the previous record set days ago.• politico.com
CORONAVIRUS
Texas, Florida governors order bars closed, impose new restrictions as cases surge
The actions by the close allies of President Trump came as the White House downplayed the spikes as "hot spots."
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 26/06/2024
Amid an increasingly deadly pandemic and an economic crisis - and while offering no alternative health plan - the Trump administration formally calls on the Supreme Court to strike down the Affordable Care Act. At least 20 million Americans face losing their health insurance.
abcNEWS

Amid pandemic,
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to overturn Obamacare
The justices will hear oral arguments as soon as October.
By Devin Dwyer
June 26, 2020, • 6 minNPR 

Obamacare Must 'Fall,' Trump Administration
Tells Supreme Court
JUNE 26, 2020 • 5:00 AM ET
By Mark Katkov
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Brunhilde2525 @brunhilde2525.bsky.social · 20/06/2024
Go through this thread. Remember what an upside down clownworld it was. I’ve blocked out so much of those years. All respect to BTS’s ARMY.
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 20/06/2024
June 20, 2020 Donald Trump holds his first big rally since March, aiming to restart his lagging campaign with a supercharged crowd. It does not go as planned. A memorable debacle on several levels, it will mark the lowest point of his 2020 campaign.
Trump Rally Fizzles as Attendance Falls Short of Campaign's Expectations
President Trump's attempt to revive his re-election bid sputtered badly as he traveled to Tulsa for his first mass rally in months but found a small crowd and delivered a disjointed speech.Herman Cain, in the crowd, no one wearing masks. He would test positive for the virus almost immediately and die a month later.A photo of a single Trump supporter sitting in a sea of empty blue seats in the upper stories of the arena.amp.theguardian.com
Donald Trump
'Everybody hurts':
Trump's sad 'walk of shame' after Tulsa rally delights critics
Video of Trump disembarking Marine One after lower than expected turnout as his campaign rally has been captioned narrated and set to music in memes
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 16/06/2024
June 15, 2020 The FDA revokes its emergency authorization of the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which is championed by right wingers, including the president, as a covid-19 cure. The FDA says it was found to have no effect on the virus and may cause "serious cardiac adverse events." 1/3
fda.gov
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Revokes Emergency Use Authorization for Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine
COVID-19 Update: FDA Revokes Emergency Use Authorization
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 13/06/2024
On a sunny Sunday, Trump gives the commencement address at West Point. On his way out, he walks slowly and gingerly down a ramp - a moment of minor interest until Trump, stung by jokes about it online, tweets and makes it into a news story that leads to days of questions about his age and health.
Trump mincing his way down a ramp, pursing his lips with the effortTrump tweet:
The ramp that I descended after my West Point Commencement speech was very long & steep, had no handrail and, most importantly, was very slippery. The last thing I was going to do is "fall" for the Fake News to have fun with. Final ten feet I ran down to level ground. Momentum!A bunch of headlines from various news organizations about ramp gate.
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 11/06/2024
Trump announces he will restart his campaign rallies - on hold since March - in Tulsa on June 19. The announcement is met with dismay in a nation convulsed by the George Floyd murder as Tulsa was the site of a notorious 1921 racial massacre and Juneteenth marks the end of slavery in the US.
politico.com
Trump to resume campaign rallies with June 19 event in Tulsa
The president did not mention safety precautions or restrictions for the upcoming events, which have been on hold because of coronavirus.
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 04/06/2024
Ahead of new protests expected in DC after 9 days of nationwide demonstrations over the police murder of George Floyd, massive new fortifications of chain link and concrete go up around the White House to protect the president. His foes continue to mock him for hiding in a bunker a few days earlier.
A cop stands before a tall chain link fence which now encloses the regular White House fence.
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 02/06/2024
June 2, 2020 Though nobody believes it, Trump tweets a true thing.
Donald J. Trump o
@realDonaldTrump • Follow
Vaccines are coming along really well.
Likewise therapeutics. Moving faster than anticipated. Good news ahead (in many ways)!
10:32 AM • Jun 2, 2020
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 01/06/2024
June 1, 2020 In one of the most notorious days of the Trump presidency, police suddenly advanced on peaceful protesters in Lafayette Park across from the White House, clearing them away with batons, flash-bangs and tear gas. Trump then strode through the park and held up a bible for photographers.
NATIONAL
Peaceful Protesters
Tear-Gassed To Clear Way For Trump Church
Photo-Op
JUNE 1, 2020 • 11:50 PM ET
By Tom Gjelten
POLICE
選PUCE
Police gather to remove demonstrators from the area around Lafayette Park and the White House before
President Trump's walk to St. John's Church.
Alex Brandon/APTrump holding up a bible outside St John's church. He did not pray or otherwise pay respects.Erin Schaff/The New York Times
How Trump's Idea for a Photo Op Led to Havoc in a Park
When the history of the Trump presidency is written, the clash with protesters that preceded President Trump's walk across Lafayette Square may be remembered as one of its defining moments.As Trump Calls Protesters
'Terrorists, Tear Gas Clears a Path for His Walk to a Church
In a Rose Garden speech shaded with anger, President Trump threatened to send the American military to states where governors could not bring under control the protests over police brutality.
Audio: Trump Calls Protesters
'Terrorists' in Talk With Governors
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
As protests over the police murder of George Floyd convulse the nation, the White House briefly goes on lockdown when demonstrators mass outside. When it is later reported that the Secret Service rushed Trump to the bunker underneath the complex, he claims he was just inspecting it. Gift link
nytimes.com
As Protests and Violence Spill Over, Trump Shrinks Back (Published 2020)
The president spent Sunday out of sight, berating opponents on Twitter, even as some of his campaign advisers were recommending that he deliver a televised address to an anxious nation.
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 29/05/2024
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
nbcnews.com
Trump warns 'when looting starts, shooting starts' as fires burn in Minneapolis
"These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let that happen," President Donald Trump tweeted after three days of looting and fires.
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
May 27, 2020 A furious Trump threatens to shut down Twitter after it applies its first fact check to one of his tweets predicting the election will be stolen via forged mail-in ballots. He accuses Twitter of "interfering in the 2020 election" and vows to "strongly regulate, or close them down."
@realDonaldTrump
There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone.....

*Get the facts about mail-in ballots*

8:17 AM - May 26, 2020 • Twitter for iPhone@realDonaldTrump

@Twitter is now interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election. They are saying my statement on Mail-In Ballots, which will lead to massive corruption and fraud, is incorrect, based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and the Amazon Washington Post....
7:40 PM • 5/26/20 From Earth@realDonaldTrump

Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can't let a more sophisticated version of that....

happen again. Just like we can't let large scale Mail-In Ballots take root in our Country. It would be a free for all on cheating, forgery and the theft of Ballots.
Whoever cheated the most would win.
Likewise, Social Media. Clean up your act, NOW!!!!
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 25/05/2024
www.history.com/this-day-in-...
history.com
George Floyd is killed by a police officer, igniting historic protests
On the evening of May 25, 2020, white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kills George Floyd, a Black man, by kneeling on his neck for almost 10 minutes. The death, recorded by bystanders, touche...
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
The New York Times marks a grim milestone with a front page bearing not a single image: just names, one after the other.
NYT banner headline: US DEATHS NEAR 100,000: AN INCALCULABLE LOSS over a stark list of thousands of names
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 22/05/2024
Another 2.4 million Americans lost their jobs in the last week, bringing the total unemployed to over 38 million, the worst crisis since the Depression. However the rate of layoffs is slowing as states begin to loosen health restrictions newslink.mba.org/mba-newslink...
newslink.mba.org
Labor Dept. Reports 2.4 Million New Jobless Claims; Total Now 38.6 Million - MBA Newslink
Another 2.4 million Americans filed initial jobless claims last week, the Labor Department reported yesterday, bringing to 38.6 million workers who have applied for unemployment assistance since the c...
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
Trump refuses to host the traditional unveiling of the former president's portrait at the White House or hang the painting. All previous modern presidents have invited their predecessor (or their widow) to a bipartisan ceremony. www.businessinsider.com/trump-refusi...
businessinsider.com
Trump is refusing to unveil Obama's portrait at the White House, breaking a 40-year tradition
Trump and Obama have perhaps the most contentious relationship of any current and former presidents in modern US history.
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 19/05/2024
The drug maker Moderna announces that a vaccine tested on a handful of people appears to be safe - and working. It is the first flicker of hope in a long time. Moderna says if more trials continue to be so positive, a vaccine could be available for widespread use as early as the end of the year.
reuters.com
Coronavirus vaccine from Moderna appears safe, shows promise in data from 8 people
Moderna Inc's experimental COVID-19 vaccine, the first to be tested in the United States, produced protective antibodies in a small group of healthy volunteers, according to very early data released by the biotech company on Monday.
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 19/05/2024
Trump says he's taking hydroxychloroquine to avoid Covid-19. The malaria drug is touted by right wing "influencers" even as studies show it doesn't help and may hurt the heart. "I've heard a lot of good stories," Trump says. In 2024, it is estimated 17,000 people died from hydroxychloroquine misuse.
nbcnews.com
Trump says he’s taking unproven drug hydroxychloroquine to prevent coronavirus
The antimalarial drug is unproven as a treatment for the coronavirus, and the FDA has warned against its use outside hospital settings.
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
By request of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Trump fires State Dept watchdog Steve Linick, who, it later turns out, has five open investigations, including Pompeo bypassing Congress to sell $8 billion in arms to Saudi Arabia and Pompeo's wife using staff to walk the dog and send holiday cards.
CNN
I pOlitics
Live TV
Fired State Department
watchdog was conducting 5 probes into potential wrongdoing
By Nicole Gaouette, Kylie Atwood, Jennifer Hansler and Zachary Cohen, CNN
Updated 7:28 PM EDT, Wed June 10, 2020Mike Pompeo
Watchdog was investigating Pompeo for arms deal and staff misuse before firing
State department inspector general Steve Linick was reportedly close to finishing his report before his dismissal on Friday
Julian Borger in Washington
Mon 18 May 2020 16.00 EDT• NBC NEWS • WATCH NOW
POLITICS NEWS
Fired State Department watchdog was probing whether Pompeo made staffer walk his dog, pick up laundry
Congressional officials are trying to determine whether other investigations into
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were underway.Report: Jets owner Woody Johnson investigated for alleged racist, sexist comments
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 16/05/2024
Trump announces Operation Warp Speed, a massive government project to rush a COVID vaccine to the public. "We'd love to see if we can do it prior to the end of the year," Trump says. Most medical experts caution this is unrealistically soon. The first Pfizer vaccine will be approved Dec 11.
Trump unveils 'warp-speed' effort to create coronavirus vaccine by year's end
'Operation Warp Speed' to attempt rapid vaccine development
Bullish Trump says: 'Vaccine or no vaccine, we're back'
Coronavirus - live US updates
Live global updates

David Smith in Washington
Sat 16 May 2020 11.55 EDT
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 12/05/2024
The Washington Post publishes a story on the high approval numbers for state governors fighting against the virus. Governors pushing to reopen early are less popular. All are more popular than the president, who is peeved by the story. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/man...
Approval of how governors are handling the coronavirus outbreak varies throughout states
Q: Do you approve or disapprove of the way each of the following is handling the coronavirus outbreak...Your state's governor?

APPROVE
DISAPPROVE
State governors overall 71% 27%
Ohio
86 14
New York
81 18
California
79 20
Virginia
78 21
New Jersey
77 23
North Carolina
74 25
Michigan
72 25
Pennsylvania
72 27
Illinois
71 27
Florida
60 38
Texas
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Georgia
39 61
Note: "No opinion" not shown.
Source: April 27-May 4, 2020, Washington Post-Ipsos poll of 8,086 U.S. adults overall, with a margin of sampling error of +/- 1 percentage point.
Sample sizes for individual states here range from 219 to 962, with error margins ranging from 3.5 to 7.5 points.Donald J. Trump tweet 
Remember this, every Governor who has sky high approval on their handling of the Coronavirus, and I am happy for them all, could in no way have gotten those numbers, or had that success, without me and the Federal Governments help. From Ventilators to Testing, we made it happen!
7:56 AM • 5/12/20
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 12/05/2024
In a much-anticipated (because the White House had barred him from speaking to the Democratic-run House) appearance before the Senate Health Committee, Dr Anthony Fauci warns against reopening schools and businesses too soon. 1/2 abcnews.go.com/Politics/cor...
abcnews.go.com
Coronavirus government response updates: Fauci testifies consequences of reopening too soon could be 'really serious'
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, warned senators Tuesday that if states reopened too soon, the "consequences could be really serious."
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Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social · 12/05/2024
The White House tries to hide a report from its own coronavirus task force showing that after the initial outbreaks concentrated in blue states, cases are starting to rise in red states. Someone leaks the report. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
nbcnews.com
Unreleased White House report has coronavirus rates spiking in heartland
Trump's claim that cases are falling everywhere is contradicted by his own task force's report, obtained by NBC News, showing the virus spreading far from the coasts.
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