A Mini Compendium of Recent Things That Have Caught My Eye or Stirred My Soul

Since the coronavirus crisis started, there certainly has been plenty of fodder out there in the political arena, and creative folks out there are rising to the challenge of helping to filter and interpret it all for the millions or even billions of people who are thirsting for information and some kind of clarity.

I certainly have been combing the Internet and scrolling through screen after screen of Facebook to keep on top of things, mostly just for the sake of self-preservation. I wanted to somewhat randomly share some of the things I've come across in my virtual travels of late. Favorites include Dangerous Minds, TYT-The Young Turks, and Beau of the Fifth Column, among others.

Dangerous Minds does some great work...with just a hint of irony:

I WANT YOU... to die working at Jamba Juice so the Dow Jones can increase by .3%

American Deaths by Disaster, Per President, as Reinterpreted by the Whitehouse and Fox News

TYT (The Young Turks) provides a strongly progressive perspective:
This is my go-to source for news analysis, and news anchor Ana Kasparian had a fiery speech on Friday, April 9, in response to a segment on CNBC. In this segment, someone, Chamath Palihapitiya, CEO of Social Capital and an ex-Facebook exec, finally said that billionaires who make bad investments shouldn't be bailed out, they should be washed out, and that the people who really need to be bailed out here are the people on Main Street who barely had enough money to survive before the coronavirus. Check it out:

CEO Dumbfounds CNBC Host

Beau of the Fifth Column has just a (few) thought(s) worth hearing:
Beau has become a bit of a guru for me in many, albeit not all, ways. He's extremely thoughtful and well read and does his research, but also presents himself as a backwoodsy man of the people who knows what life is like for regular folks, because he's one too. He had some great ideas recently about how tumultuous times present an opportunity for us to change things for the better. Have a listen:

Let's talk about unfinished dreams and MLK....

Avi Schiffmann's nCoV2019.live:

I learned of this high school student's project via Democracy Now in their segment "Meet 17-Year-Old Avi Schiffmann Who Runs Coronavirus Tracking Website Used by 40+ Million Globally." He provides a super-straightforward summary of what's happening vis coronavirus around the world, and I check it every day to say just how "great" a job Trump is doing in his heroic attempts to Make America Great Again (MAGA). For example...

Hey, he really did make America great again!

World Covid-19 Stats as of 9:57 a.m. on 2020-04-13

We have the BEST number of confirmed cases

AND the BEST number of dead people!