Covers: Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)

The most famous version of “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)” was by The First Edition which featured Kenny Rogers who passed away this week.

Covers: I Think We’re Alone Now

“I Think We’re Alone Now” was a huge hit for Tommy James and the Shondells in 1967. Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day just covered it.

Dear friends..
While we’ve all been in quarantine I’ve been reflecting on the things that matter the most in my life. Family, friends and of course music. I recorded a cover of @TJSHONDELLS “I think we’re alone now” in my bedroom. https://t.co/a779dWyB1Q pic.twitter.com/FETwIlC7aY
— Green Day (@GreenDay) March 23, 2020

Trump vs. science

He ignores facts. His delayed response has cost us.

Perspective: President Trump must resist his base’s push to prioritize faith over science https://t.co/pQVpKSLQom
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 6, 2020

WaPo: "This portrait of mounting tensions between the president and the scientific community is the result of interviews with 15 senior administration officials, aides, outside advisers and others briefed on internal deliberations…" https://t.co/39qtXcLSNk
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 25, 2020

What did the delayed reaction to coronavirus cost?

Here's one way to measure it, via @SangerNYT @KannoYoungs @AnaSwanson https://t.co/DcnHcErxzc pic.twitter.com/VuocSkHDYj
— Jonathan Cohn (@CitizenCohn) March 25, 2020

Comparisons with the seasonal flu, meanwhile, ignore that coronavirus cases are increasing more rapidly and with a higher mortality rate. https://t.co/7OhhBKPMMm
— Philip Bump (@pbump) March 25, 2020

"This is preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from honestly facing conditions in our country today. This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper."

—FDR, 3/4/1933 https://t.co/CCe02nA3GS
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 25, 2020

This is the mayor in Walton Kentucky and I think we should put him in charge of everything pic.twitter.com/2TQn5649xQ
— Jessica Huseman (@JessicaHuseman) March 26, 2020

The science denialism of President Trump's ultraconservative religious allies has haunted his response to the coronavirus pandemic, says @kathsstewart https://t.co/r6owP7KSDv
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) March 27, 2020

And right wing media does it too https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1243925441272045569?s=21

President Trump has adopted the Christian Right's anti-science position, harming the COVID-19 response. "But this is not the first time Trump has undermined public health to win approval from his religious extremist backers," writes our VP @AlisonMGill1. https://t.co/jLxMJOvhTo
— American Atheists (@AmericanAtheist) March 31, 2020

Covers: The First Cut Is the Deepest

I was unaware of the long history of “The First Cut Is the Deepest”. I know it from the 1976 version by Rod Stewart, recorded years after his finest albums and before he slipped into disco. It was written by Cat Stevens and first recorded by P. P. Arnold in 1967.

Covers: Future Blues

It’s a stretch to call Canned Heat’s 1970 “Future Blues” a cover of Willie Brown’s 1930 song but it certainly incorporated a lot of it, especially the lyrics. If you like the Willie Brown recording, try this album from Yazoo, Masters of the Delta Blues: The Friends of Charlie Patton

Trump fired the Peace Corps

I bet he just used the coronavirus as an excuse. Trump has no interest in helping other countries. He’s not even interested in helping all Americans. He only cares about his cult.

In other times, the firing of the entire peace corps— with no benefits, no place for them to shelter, no protection at all- would have been a national scandal. Now it’ll barely register on this crazy Friday.
— Jeff Greenfield (@greenfield64) March 21, 2020

Typical for the @SecPompeo: ALL current Peace Corps volunteers to be immediately evacuated and fired. Directed to self-quarrantine (e.g. not go to parents' homes) but State provides no assistance once they are off the plane. Don't qualify for unemployment. https://t.co/Yf1dmHHGPq
— David Burbach (@dburbach) March 20, 2020

https://twitter.com/justinhendrix/status/1241082107147030534?s=21

It is such a failure of imagination that the Trump Administration can’t think of something constructive for 7000 talented public servants to do in the middle of a public health crisis.

Firing them is so painfully stupid. It’s all hands on deck time https://t.co/jTePYcfy31
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) March 22, 2020

. @SpeakerPelosi We need a press conference with every member who was a Peace Corps volunteer— starting with @donnashalala — to point out the utter destructive outrage that Trump has recalled all Peace Corps volunteers and fired them. This is simply criminal.
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) March 22, 2020

Trump ignored warnings about the coronavirus

His negligence will kill people and damage the economy.

This isn't only about propaganda. Trump's own advisers told him not to trust that Xi Jingping was giving him an honest picture of the virus in China, at a critical moment when the U.S. could have been mobilizing defenses more quickly. https://t.co/13LKga2yhe pic.twitter.com/bHhRiHCTvC
— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) March 30, 2020

“But Trump’s aides were told to expect a potential pandemic…” https://t.co/ULAxrEd5c9
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 26, 2020

New: U.S. intelligence reports from January and February warned about a likely pandemic. https://t.co/sx2dy0l3nM by me, @gregpmiller, @jdawsey1, @nakashimae, @yabutaleb7
— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) March 21, 2020

This story is chilling. https://t.co/3GnWMIRZDI
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) March 20, 2020

Uh…were the sources of these "classified warnings" about coronavirus the multitude of videos showing mass devastation in China and beyond?! Or the many warnings from medics?! There was tons of reporting. We all knew. On @gaslitnation we did our first corona special in January! https://t.co/H3VViC7TZW
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) March 21, 2020

From February, Democrats tried to get republicans to care https://t.co/Auyp1X8nE6
— Molly Jong-Fast🏡 (@MollyJongFast) March 21, 2020

President Donald Trump ignored reports from US intelligence agencies starting in January that warned of the scale and intensity of the coronavirus outbreak in China, The Washington Post reported Friday. https://t.co/ue7QJOvPrV
— CNN (@CNN) March 21, 2020

As the outbreak spread, Trump ignored warnings from:

HHS
CDC
CIA
DNI
WHO

It took an intervention from Tucker Carlson for him to take the crisis seriously.
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) March 21, 2020

“Ford’s timeline suggested that if the administration had reacted to the acute shortage of ventilators in February, the joint effort between Ford and General Electric might have produced lifesaving equipment sometime in mid- to late April” https://t.co/mnuTJbvPEQ
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) March 25, 2020

Local newspapers were already in trouble. The coronavirus will make the situation worse.

The Plain Dealer had 340 reporters just two decades ago. A headline for our age. pic.twitter.com/TIkeIZENKZ
— Tyler Buchanan (@Tylerjoelb) April 12, 2020

1/ I am struggling for the words. After laying off more than 20 journalists last week — in the middle of this pandemic — this is what The Plain Dealer is doing to the remaining Guild members. https://t.co/U7vNXgkKzR
— Connie Schultz (@ConnieSchultz) April 7, 2020

We cut everybody's salary @dallasnews today. I hate that we had to do it, but I'm grateful that our company found ways to share the burden and invest in the future. Damn, I love these journalists. They'll never stop fighting and I won't either.https://t.co/hN0N9nVdMh
— Just Another Mike Wilson (@mWilstory) April 6, 2020

Support your local newspaper by subscribing to it.

Especially right now, journalists are essential workers. But their jobs are threatened by the very crisis they are covering. Urgent help is needed, and some ideas are offered here. My column: https://t.co/odlFcuI23H
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) March 26, 2020

Two devastating bulletins today from the US news business:

— The Tampa Bay Times, a top-ranked metro paper, is going down to 2 days in print

— Gannett, owner of USA Today and > 200 other dailies, is furloughing most of its staff one week per month.https://t.co/2WUJGAm9Lm
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) March 30, 2020

Journalists have been designated as "essential workers" but the industry as a whole is teetering on the brink of wholesale collapse — in months, not years. https://t.co/2EdgNdAyZB
— T. Christian Miller (@txtianmiller) March 26, 2020

“Among the important steps you should take during this crisis: Wash your hands. Don’t touch your face. And buy a subscription to your local newspaper.” https://t.co/NvItvdunIH
— Luke Broadwater☀️ (@lukebroadwater) March 27, 2020

“We wrote about the local bands, and businesses, and that’s who we depended on for revenue”

Dozens of local papers have stopped publication, or had mass layoffs because coronavirus regulations have shut down their advertisers. My latest for @GuardianUS https://t.co/XizakDVK2H
— Néné (@abene_writes) March 20, 2020

At the Cleveland Plain Dealer, new staff cuts may slice the number of reporters to a shockingly low 14. The newsroom staff (reporters, editors, etc) was more than 300 in the 1990s. My column https://t.co/SKQIG89pTe
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) March 15, 2020

Consider this my gift to the world:

Here are the daily/Sunday circulations of the largest newspapers in the United States — information that is surprisingly difficult to find online!

These are all the papers with daily circulation of at least 75,000: pic.twitter.com/G0WbQiIYTP
— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) March 3, 2020

The shrinking presence of local news may be dividing the country, Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown says, just days after the Herald's owner, McClatchy, filed for bankruptcy, throwing the future of her paper and 29 others across the US into question. https://t.co/fvZVRZjH63
— CNN Business (@CNNBusiness) February 18, 2020

.@Kdoctor says on @ReliableSources that financial investors are soon expected to own 40% of daily newspapers in the U.S. And, he adds, "There are only 20,000 journalists left at daily newspapers," a decrease of 60% in the last 25 years. This is a growing crisis for democracy.
— Alan C. Miller (@alanmillerNLP) February 16, 2020

The future of local newspapers just got bleaker. Here’s why we can’t let them die. – The Washington Post ..the great ⁦@Sulliview⁩ on similar themes https://t.co/PoRxg2J9Fc
— emily bell (@emilybell) February 15, 2020

Way late to this, but it may be even worse than @jbenton points out here. If you take the newsroom headcount at the @nytimes (approx. 1,700), @washingtonpost (approx. 850), and @WSJ (1,000? 1,200?), these three papers employ nearly 1 of every 5 newspaper journalists left in U.S. https://t.co/6cfjPCXwaK
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) February 10, 2020

The contributors to this piece are laid off local journalists. The photographs of them were taken by laid off photographers. Who better to tell the story about the decline in local news. https://t.co/UflwI9MmoY
— Marc Lacey (@marclacey) December 21, 2019

“My routine as a kid was pretty simple. I’d wake up, grab the Cleveland Plain Dealer…I loved the Plain Dealer, but sadly the Plain Dealer is being murdered.”@JRagazzo on the methodical murder of a paper we grew up reading and dreamed of one day joining https://t.co/5GhleeZr4k
— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) April 7, 2020

Lexington Market is closed

Where are the rats going to go?

Coronavirus Closings: Baltimore Public Markets, Lexington Market Closing Thursday Evening https://t.co/zNwwBlEhjb pic.twitter.com/SSQ11BZeAB
— WJZ | CBS Baltimore (@wjz) March 20, 2020

Trump’s business is affected by coronavirus

If he’s as rich as he says he is, we shouldn’t bail him out. Mar-a-Lago should have closed much earlier when they found that people who had been there had coronavirus.

The Trump Organization has laid off or furloughed more than 2,500 people as the coronavirus outbreak has led to extended closures at most of President Trump’s hotels and resorts https://t.co/mbCspwFpXt
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) April 15, 2020

Trump Org dumps 1,500 workers and skips rent payments amid coronavirus https://t.co/mc15M2rpXB
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) April 5, 2020

Trump’s real estate company reportedly talked with @DeutscheBank about postponing payments because of the economic crisis. The public has a right to know if the Trump family is getting special favors & if that influences the President’s financial policies. https://t.co/8bc6rFLm0x
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) April 7, 2020

NEW: @realdonaldtrump’s company has let go 1,500 employees, turned down the lights to save on electricity, and inquired about delaying payments due this month. The latest on their troubles: https://t.co/0WvaHxalmY
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) April 4, 2020

The coronavirus outbreak is costing Trump Organization properties more than a million dollars in lost revenue daily and may have hurt the firm’s chances of earning a record price on the sale of its Washington hotel. https://t.co/ljiMuIdmAE
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) April 3, 2020

Trump’s Company Seeks to Ease Financial Crunch as Coronavirus Takes Toll https://t.co/5Q58sYeljI Really? I mean, really?
— Terry McMillan (@MsTerryMcMillan) April 2, 2020

The Trump Organization has reportedly asked about delaying payments to loans and other financial obligations after the coronavirus pandemic closed most of its resorts, hotels, and golf courses https://t.co/hEiifdyOPj
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 2, 2020

NEW: What happened before @realdonaldtrump called for re-evaluating lockdowns? His company had to close 6 of its top 7 revenue-generating clubs and hotels.https://t.co/KdxodfguO5
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) March 23, 2020

NEW: @realdonaldtrump’s business shutters properties, lays off staff, as coronavirus slams its hotels and clubs. https://t.co/tfapbNudvb
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) March 20, 2020

President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort has closed its doors https://t.co/2uQDzxXT16
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 20, 2020

President Trump owns and profits from 11 hotels and 16 golf resorts.

If his administration gives a bailout to the hotel industry, it will be a bailout for Trump.https://t.co/pA2QNTlesF
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) March 20, 2020

In recent days, the Trump Organization cut staff from hotels in New York and DC, closed Mar-a-Lago, halted new reservations at a Las Vegas hotel and closed golf courses in Los Angeles and Miami ⁦@EricLiptonNYT⁩ ⁦@SteveEder⁩ ⁦@benprotess⁩ https://t.co/ELuqMm9Ku0
— Danielle Ivory (@danielle_ivory) March 21, 2020

Trump’s like “F*ck, I knew I should have brought my coke stash back to DC” @realDonaldTrump

Coronavirus: Trump forced to shut down Mar-a-Lago amid outbreak – Business Insider https://t.co/7GkYYLNmZi
— NoelCaslerComedy (@CaslerNoel) March 20, 2020

Trump's businesses had been struggling long before the pandemichttps://t.co/pA2QNTlesF
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) March 22, 2020

Let's not forget Trump's real estate holdings are in trouble. So are Jared's. What are the lives of millions of people compared to Trump making money? https://t.co/ezpWANwc9d https://t.co/wHolBtljKe https://t.co/F27f0LtgNv
— Craig Unger (@craigunger) March 24, 2020

Trump asks Deutsche Bank for a break on his loan payments. https://t.co/a8ig93chtq
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) April 2, 2020