LEADS

Was fired State Department Inspector General about to blow open the defining scandal of Trump’s presidency?
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/saudi-arabia-inspector-general-steve-linick-trump-mike-pompeo-20200521.html

The Future of Trump’s ‘America First’ Agenda Hangs on Pompeo’s Scandals
https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/28782/the-future-of-trump-s-america-first-agenda-hangs-on-pompeo-s-scandals

Exclusive: IG Fired Days After Inquiring About Pompeo’s ‘Donor Dinners’
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/exclusive-ig-probed-pompeos-donor-dinners-days-before-firing/

The State Department IG Trump fired should be digging into Saudi Arabia and Yemen
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/state-department-ig-trump-fired-should-be-digging-saudi-arabia-ncna1212441

Pompeo ordered officials to find a way to justify Saudi arms sale being probed by fired watchdog
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/21/politics/pompeo-saudi-arms-sale/index.html

Pompeo Ignored Top Officials’ Warning Against Using Emergency Declaration For Controversial Saudi Arms Sale
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pompeo-ignored-top-officials-warning-against-using-emergency-declaration-for-controversial-saudi-arms-sale

The Pentagon won’t talk about Saudi arms deals at center of Pompeo scandal involving State Department IG
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/21/pentagon-punts-on-questions-about-saudi-arms-deals-in-pompeo-scandal.html

Trump Claimed Arms Sales Would Provide a Massive Jobs Boost. A New Report Shows How Wrong He Was.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/05/trump-jobs-claims-wrong-arms-sales-saudi-arabia/

U.S. plans to sell $180 million in torpedoes to Taiwan, riling China
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-plans-to-sell-180-million-in-torpedoes-to-taiwan-riling-china/

China Dares Trump to Hit Back With Hong Kong Power Grab
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-22/cornered-china-dares-trump-to-hit-back-with-hong-kong-power-grab

China Should Not Provoke the United States
https://amgreatness.com/2020/05/21/china-should-not-provoke-the-united-states/

Hawkishness Toward China Is Fine. But It’s Not a Policy.
https://thedispatch.com/p/hawkishness-toward-china-is-fine

Get Ready For a New Arms Race: Why Nuclear Strategic Stability Won’t Work With China
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/get-ready-new-arms-race-why-nuclear-strategic-stability-won’t-work-china-156676

China Slows Defense Spending Despite Threat of New Cold War With U.S.
https://www.newsweek.com/china-slows-defense-spending-despite-threat-new-cold-war-us-1505914

The Wuhan Hoax: Covid-19 and Trump’s War on the U.S. Intelligence Community
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176704/tomgram%3A_bob_dreyfuss%2C_iraq_redux/

Trump doesn't read his intelligence reports, but looks at the graphs, charts, and tables
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-looks-at-charts-in-intelligence-briefings-2020-5

Trump lashes out at scientists whose findings contradict him
https://apnews.com/30b35bfadcc9e827c81986e86ced4b15

On masks and hydroxychloroquine, as a physician, I know science supports President Trump
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/todaysdebate/2020/05/21/masks-hydroxychloroquine-science-supports-president-donald-trump-editorials-debates/5240786002/

Antimalarial drug touted by President Trump is linked to increased risk of death in coronavirus patients, study says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/05/22/hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-study/

Sales of drug touted by Trump have been soaring
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/22/health/hydroxychloroquine-sales-covid-19-trump-invs/index.html

Trump’s Net Approval Craters By TEN POINTS in Latest Fox News Poll
https://www.mediaite.com/news/trumps-net-approval-craters-by-ten-points-in-latest-fox-news-poll/

Trump: Let’s Face It, Fox News Is Doing Nothing To Get Me Reelected
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2020/05/21/trump-lets-face-fox-news-nothing-get-reelected/

'I tested positively toward negative': Trump talks about coronavirus test results
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/21/coronavirus-trump-says-he-tested-positively-toward-negative/5237644002/

Trump says he won’t close the country if second wave of coronavirus hits
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/21/trump-says-he-wont-close-the-country-if-second-wave-of-coronavirus-hits.html

Florida set to proceed with 70-team youth baseball tournament this weekend
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/499125-florida-set-to-go-ahead-with-70-team-youth-baseball-tournaments-this

Alabama Is Packing Graduation Ceremonies and Overloading ICUs
https://www.thedailybeast.com/alabama-is-packing-graduation-ceremonies-and-overloading-icus

Even where virus accelerates, lockdowns are cracking open
https://apnews.com/d4bf8833e3d67f8c9ad6c495a3e1753f

Sweden's former health chief says the country's coronavirus strategy 'hasn't been the smartest' and it should've spent at least a month locked down
https://www.businessinsider.com/sweden-coronavirus-strategy-hasnt-been-the-smartest-2020-5

Sweden is still nowhere near 'herd immunity,' even though it didn't go into lockdown
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/21/health/sweden-herd-immunity-coronavirus-intl/index.html

Bringing America Back: The promise of herd immunity and more to know
https://abcnews.go.com/US/bringing-america-back-promise-herd-immunity/story?id=70818583

‘Herd immunity’ is impossible without a vaccine
https://spectator.us/herd-immunity-impossible-without-vaccine/

The world needs Covid-19 vaccines. It may also be overestimating their power
https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/22/the-world-needs-covid-19-vaccines-it-may-also-be-overestimating-their-power/

Less Than Two-Thirds of Americans Are 'Very' or 'Somewhat' Interested in COVID-19 Vaccinations
https://reason.com/2020/05/21/less-than-two-thirds-of-americans-are-very-or-somewhat-interested-in-covid-19-vaccinations/

Scientists fear 'Warp Speed' race for coronavirus vaccine is handing ammunition to anti-vaxxers
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/scientists-fear-warp-speed-race-for-coronavirus-vaccine-is-handing-ammunition-to-anti-vaxxers

US Pays $1.2B For 300 Million Doses Of Experimental COVID-19 Vaccines
https://www.ibtimes.com/coronavirus-vaccine-us-pay-12b-300-million-doses-experimental-covid-19-vaccines-2980507

3M billed government $7.63 for 85-cent earplugs. It now has $1 billion COVID contract
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/coronavirus/article242868916.html

“The Costco Model on Steroids”: Massive Corporate Deals Are Making Hospitals’ PPE Shortages Worse
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/05/corporate-deals-making-hospitals-ppe-shortages-worse

Jared Kushner Had One Job: Solve America’s Supply Crisis. He Helped Private Companies Instead.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/05/jared-kushner-had-one-job-solve-americas-supply-crisis-he-helped-private-companies-instead/

In Fink We Trust: BlackRock Is Now ‘Fourth Branch of Government’
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-21/how-larry-fink-s-blackrock-is-helping-the-fed-with-bond-buying

POLITICS and FLEAS

Life at the Trump Tailgate: Spiked Slurpees, Culture Wars and the Coronavirus Hoax
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/05/21/trump-michigan-tailgate-274416

Trump and his plan to win a second term unmasked in Michigan visit
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/22/politics/donald-trump-2020-election-joe-biden-michigan-coronavirus/index.html

Trump says he took mask off at Ford plant because he 'didn't want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it'
https://theweek.com/speedreads/915868/trump-says-took-mask-ford-plant-because-didnt-want-give-press-pleasure-seeing

Trump Praises “Good Bloodlines” of Anti-Semite and Nazi Collaborator Henry Ford
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2020/05/22/trump-praises-good-bloodlines-of-anti-semite-and-nazi-collaborator-henry-ford/

Donald Trump Slammed For Praising ‘Good Bloodlines’ Of Nazi Sympathizer Henry Ford
https://www.inquisitr.com/6067616/trump-good-bloodlines-nazi-ford/

Exclusive: Charlamagne Tha God Reacts to Biden Saying ‘You Ain’t Black’ If You Don’t Support Him Over Trump
https://www.mediaite.com/news/exclusive-charlamagne-tha-god-reacts-to-biden-saying-you-aint-black-if-you-dont-support-him-over-trump/

A longtime expert witness in Monterey County domestic violence trials, Tara Reade is now best known for accusing Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her.
https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/cover/a-longtime-expert-witness-in-monterey-county-domestic-violence-trials-tara-reade-is-now-best/article_8facec76-9ad9-11ea-b634-2b5434f8f12d.html

As Tara Reade’s Expert Witness Credentials Are Questioned, So Are Verdicts
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/us/politics/tara-reade-credentials.html

FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS

U.S. Brags About Health Aid to Africa While Bombing Some of Its Most Vulnerable Nations
https://theintercept.com/2020/05/22/us-africa-aid-coronavirus-somalia-libya/

The US Goes to Bat for Lebanon’s “Butcher of Khiam”
https://www.justsecurity.org/70272/the-us-goes-to-bat-for-lebanons-butcher-of-khiam/

How ‘Jakarta’ Became the Codeword for US-Backed Mass Killing
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/05/18/how-jakarta-became-the-codeword-for-us-backed-mass-killing/

PANDORA'S BOXCUTTER

Welcome Back, Animals!
http://nautil.us/issue/85/reopening/welcome-back-animals

'We've never seen this': wildlife thrives in closed US national parks
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/21/wildlife-national-parks-covid-19-shutdown-death-valley

Dolphins are bringing ashore ‘gifts’ while coronavirus keep humans away
https://nypost.com/2020/05/22/dolphins-bring-ashore-gifts-as-coronavirus-keep-humans-away/

Human Viruses Can Jump into Animals, Too—Sowing the Seeds of Future Epidemics
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-viruses-can-jump-into-animals-too-sowing-the-seeds-of-future-epidemics/

THE MEDIA SCRUM

What Happened to the Shows That Were Supposed to Become the Next ‘Game of Thrones?’
https://www.theringer.com/game-of-thrones/2020/5/22/21266295/the-next-game-of-thrones-his-dark-materials-lord-of-the-rings

Labor of Love: the baby-making reality show you won't believe
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/may/21/labor-of-love-kristin-davis-fox

In a world of chaos, ‘The Masked Singer’ has somehow become our normal
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/05/20/masked-singer-finale-kandi-burruss/

ODDS, ENDS

How the Coronavirus Will Shape a Generation
https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2020/05/19/coronavirus-future-generations/

Generation corona has been handed a life sentence
https://unherd.com/2020/05/generation-corona-has-been-handed-a-life-sentence/

It's Scary to Think About the Future. But What I Know About My Generation Gives Me Hope
https://time.com/5840159/coronavirus-social-media/

As ‘normal’ crumbles, young people are turning their grief into action
https://grist.org/climate/as-normal-crumbles-young-people-are-turning-their-grief-into-action/

How Our Brains Rationalize ‘Normal’
https://www.damemagazine.com/2020/05/20/how-our-brains-rationalize-normal/

Most of the Mind Can’t Tell Fact from Fiction
http://nautil.us/blog/-most-of-the-mind-cant-tell-fact-from-fiction

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