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    Here's how the Kushner family is cashing in on the coronavirus

    Sarah Okeson, DCReport @ RawStory
    March 15, 2020

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    Sarah Okeson, DCReport @ RawStory

    The Kushner family is trying to cash in on the pandemic that could kill millions of us.


    Oscar Health, the health insurance company co-founded by Jared Kushner’s younger brother, announced Friday that it has launched a testing center locator for COVID-19 in the United States with more than 100 centers. The company is also offering a risk assessment survey and talking to a doctor online.

    The coronavirus is predicted to kill anywhere from almost 500,000 Americans in the next year to more than 5 million. At least 62 people in the United States had died by Sunday, and 3,130 people in our country have tested positive for the virus.

    Team Trump announced Saturday that Trump tested negative for the virus despite presiding over a coronavirus hot zone at Mar-a-Lago. Testing efforts have been marked by delays and dysfunction with just a few thousand people tested during the weeks health experts say the virus has been spreading across our country.

    Trump reportedly tried to woo a German company working on a cure for the coronavirus to move to the U.S. and make a vaccine only for the United States.

    Joshua Kushner, Jared Kushner’s younger brother, co-founded Oscar Health in 2012. His co-founders are Mario Schlosser, the company CEO, and Harvard Business School classmate Kevin Nazemi who left the company in 2015.

    Jared Kushner has become increasingly involved in Team Trump’s response to the pandemic, helping write Trump’s half-baked Oval Office speech on the disease. The Kushner brothers co-founded Cadre, a real-estate investing start-up.

    Oscar Health was criticized in 2018 for selling health insurance in Ohio through the Affordable Care Act with a deductible of $15,800. The company sold health insurance under the Affordable Care Act in 15 states for 2020.

    Billionaire Peter Thiel, a Trump supporter who co-founded Pay Pal, invested millions in Oscar Health through his Founders Fund. Joshua Kushner’s father-in-law is New York doctor Kurt Kloss who turned to his Facebook group of emergency room doctors for advice to pass onto Team Trump about how best to handle the pandemic.

    Oscar Health lost $110 million in 2019, almost double the $57 million the company lost in 2018.

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    Do you approve of Biden's presidency so far?

    'He did it!': Why a surprisingly bold move from Biden is winning big cheers from the left

    Alex Henderson, AlterNet
    March 01, 2021

    In Alabama — a deeply Republican state known for its anti-union right-to-work laws — Amazon employees are voting on whether or not to organize a union. And President Joe Biden offered support for the push Sunday night in a pro-union video that many progressives and labor advocates are applauding.

    Workers in Alabama – and all across America – are voting on whether to organize a union in their workplace. It’s a… https://t.co/aNdHmYyFUb
    — President Biden (@President Biden)1614560506.0

    In the video, Biden declared, "I've long said that America wasn't built by Wall Street. It was built by the middle class, and unions built the middle class. Unions put power in the hands of workers. They level the playing field. They give you a stronger voice for your health, your safety, higher wages protections from radical discrimination and sexual harassment. Unions lift up workers, union and non-union."

    Although Biden didn't specially mention Amazon by name, the president mentioned "workers in Alabama" and stressed that workers who want to unionize shouldn't be intimidated by management.

    "Let me be really clear: It's not up to me to decide whether anyone should join a union," Biden said in his video. "But let me be even more clear: It's not up to an employer to decide that either. The choice to join a union is up to the workers full-stop. Full stop. Today and over the next few days and weeks, workers in Alabama and all across America are voting on whether or not to organize a union in their workplace. This is vitally important."

    The Democratic president went onto say, "There should be no intimidation, no coercion, no threats, no anti-union propaganda. No supervisor should confront employees about their union preferences. You know, every worker should have a free and fair choice to join a union. The law guarantees that choice."

    Here are some responses to Biden's video:









    Republican facing ethics probe -- 'substantial reason to believe' he misused campaign funds: report

    Bob Brigham
    March 01, 2021

    The Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) found there is "substantial reason to believe" Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-MS) converted campaign funds for his personal use, The Washington Post reported Monday.

    The OCE released a 47-page report on its initial investigation.

    "The probe was prompted by a complaint last March from the nonprofit Campaign Legal Center, which accused Palazzo of using his campaign contributions as a 'personal slush fund through which he paid 'himself and his spouse nearly $200,000,' including $60,000 in rent to his own farm," the newspaper reported. "In its report, the OCE said that it had found 'limited evidence of campaign use of the property, especially to justify $60,000.00 in rent and thousands of dollars of additional charges to maintain the home and improve its marketability."

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    Maskless Trump supporter turned in by his own family for being inside the Capitol during riot: report

    Bob Brigham
    March 01, 2021

    The FBI and federal prosecutors continue to make progress identifying people who were inside the U.S. Capitol during the fatal January 6th insurrection.

    "Federal authorities had help identifying the pony-tailed man wearing a 'Keep America Great' sweatshirt who popped up in numerous photographs inside the U.S. Capitol. Grayson Sherrill's family turned him in," the Charlotte Observer reported Monday.

    "A newly unsealed complaint charges Sherrill with three felonies: knowingly entering and remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; knowingly engaging in disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted area; and violent and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds," the newspaper reported. "A series of photographs included in the federal complaint against him shows a dark-haired, pony-tailed man wearing jeans, combat boots and a red Trump sweatshirt moving through the Capitol carrying either a rod or cane-like object."

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