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How scammers are exploiting COVID-19

Stacey Wood, Yaniv Hanoch, Marian Liu, David Hengerer

Every epidemic brings with it accompanying grifts. Here’s how scammers think

Grocery stores were packed with big crowds and long lines as latest spike of COVID-19 cases prompted panic buying across the country on March 12, 2020 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)

What's on your disaster grocery list?

Melanie McFarland

You're going to need more than pasta and toilet paper. Here's a strategic list of what to buy in a crisis

Drew Pinsky in "Final Kill" (Cinedigm)

Dr. Drew's fears about porn & COVID-19

Alli Joseph

The addiction medicine therapist appeared on "Salon Talks" to discuss singing, his career, and problems youth face

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Texas senator defends Trump's racism

Matthew Rozsa

"I think China is to blame because (of) the culture where people eat bats, and snakes and dogs"

Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) speaks at the start of a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on the government's response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak on March 5, 2020 in Washington, DC. COVID-19 has taken hold in the United States and national and local governments are rushing to contain the virus and to find a cure. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

GOP senator downplays coronavirus risk

Matthew Rozsa

"We don't shut down our economy because tens of thousands of people die on the highways"

Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, John Cornyn, and Kellyanne Conway (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

Trump's new virus tactic: Full-on racism

Amanda Marcotte

No longer able to write pandemic off as a "hoax," Trump and his supporters exploit crisis in ugliest possible way

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Biden (AP Photo/Salon)

Gabbard endorses Biden as she drops out

Matthew Rozsa

Biden "has a good heart" and is "motivated by his love for our country and the American people," Gabbard says

President Donald Trump speaks as he visits a new section of the border wall with Mexico in Calexico, CA, April 5, 2019. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump visa policy threatens food supply

Igor Derysh

“This threatens our ability to put food on Americans’ tables," the American Farm Bureau says

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Jared forms "shadow" COVID-19 task force

Igor Derysh

"The federal government is not designed to solve all our problems," Kushner says in a rare interview

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Kushner's link to COVID-19 testing site

Alex Henderson - Alternet

“There was once a direct connection between Jared Kushner and Oscar"

Fox's coronavirus hypocrisy, exposed

Fox's coronavirus hypocrisy, exposed

Alex Henderson - Alternet

Of all the shameful things that Fox News has done over the years, its most blatantly irresponsible could be this

Green stethoscope forming a dollar sign with the tube ( Atomic Imagery/Getty Images)

Coronavirus as an index of inequality

Chauncey DeVega

Author of "Dying of Whiteness": Trump's response has been "exactly wrong" for America, but his base doesn't care

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2016 file photo, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. For months Donald Trump has dominated the political scene like no other. But listen to endangered Senate Republicans as they campaign for re-election and you might not even know he exists.  (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

No big deal if coronavirus kills

Matthew Chapman - Raw Story

“Getting coronavirus is not a death sentence except for maybe no more than 3.4 percent of our population"

Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden accompanied by Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. speaks at a primary night election rally in Columbia, S.C., Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Who wants a revolution? Not the media

Julie Hollar - FAIR

Media assures us that Biden's victory means the voters are "centrist." Actual data offers a different picture

Workers stand watch as containers are loaded into a cargo ship at Qingdao Port in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province, Thursday, April 13, 2017. China's export growth accelerated in March in a positive sign for global demand, though import growth cooled. (Chinatopix via AP) (Chinatopix via AP)

COVID-19 is a globalization shock

Andrés Ortega - The Globalist

The coronavirus crisis has become the third great globalization shock of this still relatively new century

President Donald Trump listens to a question during press briefing with the coronavirus task force, at the White House, Wednesday, March 18, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Is Trump delusional or a gaslighter?

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch

Either Trump inhabits an alternate reality or he wants his fans to ignore the facts. Either way, call him out

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Trump's huge gift to China

Matthew Rozsa

China's authoritarian regime is clearly winning the PR war — granted, Trump's bumbling has made that really easy

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listens as US President Donald Trump speaks about Syria in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House in Washington, DC, October 23, 2019. - President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday the United States would be lifting sanctions on Turkey, hailing the success of a ceasefire along its border with Syria."Earlier this morning, the government of Turkey informed my administration that they would be stopping combat and their offensive in Syria and making the ceasefire permanent," he said in a televised address from the White House. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

Pompeo threatens family of ICC staff

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams

The Secretary of Defense lashed out following an ICC report on alleged crimes committed at CIA black sites

In this June 10, 2016 photo provided by the Mayo Clinic, a medical team of about 60 doctors, nurses, anesthesiologists and others at Mayo Clinic gather before performing the first face transplant surgery at their hospital in Rochester, Minn. Mardini and his team devoted more than 50 Saturdays over 3 1/2 years to rehearsing the procedure, using sets of cadaver heads to transplant the face of one to another. They used 3D imaging and virtual surgery to plot out the bony cuts so the donor's face would fit perfectly on Andy Sandness. (Michael Cleary/Mayo Clinic via AP) (AP)

Trump putting health workers in danger

David Cay Johnston - DCReport

Team Trump is openly hostile to the health and welfare of workers on the front lines in containing COVID-19

Farmers warn of labor and food shortages

Farmers warn of labor and food shortages

Jessica Corbett - Common Dreams

As Trump limits guest workers from Mexico amid coronavirus, farmers warn of labor and food shortages

Meghan McCain (Getty/Salon)

McCain predicts Trump will get reelected

Travis Gettys - Raw Story

“I think if the left wants to focus on P.C. labeling this virus, it is a great way to get Trump re-elected"

Tucker Carlson (Courtesy FOX News Channel)

Carlson roots on Trump's racist rhetoric

Matthew Rozsa

Carlson, who once called white supremacy a hoax, showered Trump with praise for using the racist term

Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington in "Little Fires Everywhere" (Hulu)

"Little Fires Everywhere" burns bright

Melanie McFarland

Hulu's new drama sneaks a conversation about false '90s-era liberalism into a premium book club offering

George Conway and Kellyanne Conway (Getty Images/Salon)

Conway spars over COVID-19 slur

Igor Derysh

"You're all so obsessed," the White House counselor told members of the press. "I thought you knew"

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