Covers: Heartaches by the Number

“Heartaches by the Number” was most popular in the 1959 version by Guy Michell. Modern artists like Dwight Yoakam and Rosanne Cash have kept it alive.

Stop airing Trump’s lies

No. 3 trending topic in America is #BoycottTrumpPressConferences on Twitter.

Do you find @realDonaldTrump’s press conferences about #coronavirus effective or ineffective? Useful info or his new rally?

Should TV networks continue to air these press conferences? #COVID19
— AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) March 29, 2020

Interesting point made on #AMJoy just now by Carol Simpson. The trump propaganda-fests @ 5 pm each day are timed to preempt local news. People aren’t hearing how the virus is affecting their communities. Local stations must cease airing trump’s lies.
— Eric Slater (@ericsslater) March 29, 2020

Can we all agree to boycott & not air these “briefings” now please? pic.twitter.com/JATMoT00kg
— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) March 29, 2020

Stop treating his crazy outbursts as serious and start explaining that the real, constructive work is achieved despite him, not because of him. It would help if the media chose not to cover live his news conferences, which are founts of misinformation. https://t.co/7V3O9v8U9a
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) March 29, 2020

Repeating for the umpteenth time his lies about inheriting a broken system and having no ammunition. In front of millions of people. Unchallenged again. Stop televising these lies! And if you do insist on televising, run the fact check on the screen while he is lying!
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) March 29, 2020

Buster Keaton’s The Cameraman

The Cameraman was Keaton’s first film for MGM and his last great feature. After that, MGM ruined his career by placing him in bad films. He had much less control than when he made features independently.

This tweet shows film locations:

The Cameraman – Buster Keaton films an elaborate tracking shot drenched by rain sprinklers keeping pace with the car, on the narrow Santa Monica Pier, past buildings standing today. More cool photos – time travel back for a look – https://t.co/n1lVF2DRjX pic.twitter.com/M4rzwfhxae
— John Bengtson (@silentechoes57) March 29, 2020

The Criterion Collection will issue it on Blu-ray in June 2020.

Keaton at an empty Yankee Stadium

Covers: Wall of Death

Richard Thompson’s “Wall of Death” was the last song on Shoot Out the Lights (1982), the last album he recorded with his then wife Linda. He has continued to perform it solo. R.E.M. covered it on a Thompson tribute album in 1994.

The lost month

The federal government’s testing failures cost the US a month in preparing for and fighting the spread of COVID. Mammoth investigation by NYT team > https://t.co/9fPzI1AecC
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 28, 2020

Just left the Administration briefing on Coronavirus. Bottom line: they aren't taking this seriously enough.

Notably, no request for ANY emergency funding, which is a big mistake. Local health systems need supplies, training, screening staff etc. And they need it now.
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) February 5, 2020

"In 2018, the Trump admin fired the government’s entire pandemic response chain of command, including the WH management infrastructure. In numerous phone calls/emails with key agencies the only consistent response I encountered was distressed confusion." https://t.co/1PM8QZqqDb
— Denise Tate (@stateof_tate) February 5, 2020

From @gtconway3d and @carriecordero: What did Trump and Congress know about the coronavirus, and when did they know it? https://t.co/OF9H6uXgJe
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) March 25, 2020

Trump denies oversight for the fund to help businesses

1) Why should he oppose oversight if the money is being spent properly?

2) Did congressional Republicans know he would do this when they negotiated with the Democrats? Why didn’t Democrats expect this since it’s consistent with Trump’s previous behavior?

3) This will drag out in the courts if that’s how Democrats take that route. Meanwhile, the money will have been spent.

4) Just another example of Trump’s contempt for the law. He acts like he’s a dictator.

The signing statement threatens to undermine the authority and independence of this new IG. The Senate should extract a commitment from the nominee that Congress will be promptly notified of any Presidential/Administration interference or obstruction. https://t.co/5rxS3b3YoG
— Michael R. Bromwich (@mrbromwich) March 28, 2020

What the GOP did by allowing Trump to reneg on hard-fought provisions at his will is ensure that their word will never be taken seriously again. That’s cool if they are always in the majority. But what if they aren’t? 🤔

Live by the sword, die by the sword.

That is all.
— Pam Keith (@PamKeithFL) March 28, 2020

Welp. Schumer and pelosi look, um, silly for trusting Mnuchin https://t.co/jabQxvDDHo
— Sam Stein (@samstein) March 27, 2020

This great dive by @TimKMak outlines the new Pandemic Response Accountability Committee in the $2 trillion coronavirus package.

In a signing statement, Trump is already trying to weaken that oversight, citing alleged "constitutional concerns." Thread. https://t.co/yc5vTBVyF6
— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) March 27, 2020

Trump, whose admin stopped an inspector general from telling Congress about Ukraine whistleblower complaint, says he can override the new law requiring IG for the $500 billion virus corporate relief fund from disclosing if Mnuchin blocks info about the $$$ https://t.co/71aMKf1MTJ
— Charlie Savage (@charlie_savage) March 28, 2020

Most obvious outcome and congressional Democratic leaders couldn’t see it. It’s astounding. https://t.co/ljMoUldgpN
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) March 28, 2020

Exactly! A signing statement is just a note saying "I will fight you." And what does Trump want to fight over? He says he wants to to fight to keep Congress and regular Americans from knowing about fraud, waste and abuse in implementing the bailout. Congress must fight back! https://t.co/85463Vziat
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) March 28, 2020

Cuomo says Trump didn’t speak to him about a quarantine

I believe Cuomo. Trump lies all the time.

Pres. Trump says he is considering "enforceable quarantine" for New York, parts of New Jersey and Connecticut.

“I don’t even know what that means. I don’t know how that could be legally enforceable,” Gov. Cuomo says. “I don’t even like the sound of it.” https://t.co/xcgxJtxnBK
— Breaking News (@BreakingNews) March 28, 2020

Cuomo denies speaking to Trump about possible NY quarantine, as President just claimed.

Cuomo: “I don’t even know what that means”
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) March 28, 2020

Gov. Cuomo says he has no idea what Trump is talking about. He has no idea how this would be legally enforceable.

President Trump said he is thinking about a possible “short term, two week” quarantine for “New York, probably New Jersey and certain parts of Connecticut.”
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) March 28, 2020

There it is. He's pushing a bullshit line that "a lot of New Yorkers are going down" to Florida, which is why FL is having an outbreak. Same bullshit De Santis pushed. They think they can bullshit away culpability for their failures by blaming it on NY. https://t.co/r4OCO0QaAZ
— Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85) March 28, 2020

As President Trump weighs a possible quarantine for the New York area, Gov. Andrew Cuomo says "I don't think it's legal": "I don't believe that any federal administration could be serious about a physical lockdown … I don't think the American people would stand for it" pic.twitter.com/YM9IXb7iZC
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 28, 2020