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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Lightnin Slim

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Hey! Good Evening!

This evening's music features swamp blues guitarist Otis "Lightnin' Slim" Hicks. Enjoy!

^{Lightnin Slim - Just Made Twenty One}

“Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe; and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell.”

-- Voltaire

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News and Opinion

Wall Street feasts on death

Not since the 1930s has the United States experienced a crisis on its soil that has had such a devastating impact on the social well-being of the American people. Images showing mass graves being dug in New York City, body bags piling up in Detroit hospitals, and endless lines of cars with drivers waiting to collect food to feed their families will be remembered like the Depression-era photos of Dorothea Lange. Tens of millions of Americans are without an income and lack sufficient savings to cover their mortgages and rent, insurance premiums, interest on outstanding loans, and other inescapable daily, weekly and monthly expenses. More than 16 million people have filed unemployment claims. It will take weeks, if not months, before their jobless checks arrive. The promised payment of $1,200 that was supposedly part of the CARES bill passed last month by Congress has shown up in very few bank accounts. ...

And yet, in the midst of this immense crisis, there is one small segment of society that has richly prospered during this time of troubles. ...

Since March 23, two numbers have risen in tandem: COVID-19 deaths and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (along with other major markets' averages such as the S&P and NASDAQ). ...

By Monday, April 6, the number of COVID-19 deaths reached 10,895. The Dow closed at 22,679. By April 9, the death toll had climbed to 16,712. The Dow closed at 23,319. And yesterday, as the number of dead went beyond the staggering 26,000 mark, the investors and speculators joyfully watched the Dow gain another 569 points and close at 23,935. Let the reader pause over these numbers. Since March 23, the COVID-19 pandemic has claimed, according to official statistics, more than 25,000 lives in the United States. During the same period, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has risen more than 30 percent. ...

Yesterday morning, the International Monetary Fund issued a report titled, “The Great Lockdown: Worst Economic Depression Since the Great Depression.” ... Clearly, it is not current economic projections that have fueled the euphoria on Wall Street; and it is highly unlikely, as the global contraction grows ever more severe, that the current rally can be sustained. But for the time being, the euphoria is being driven by the trillions of dollars of free and unsupervised money that is being provided by the Federal Reserve; and by the expectation that the crisis will provide the corporate-financial oligarchy within the United States as well as in Europe with an opportunity to restructure the capitalist economy and class relationships in a manner that facilitates the accelerated transfer of wealth into the coffers of the capitalist class.

Keiser Report | The Fed Can’t Print a Supply Chain

Unemployment claims surpass 22 million

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos grows fortune by $24bn amid coronavirus pandemic

The Amazon CEO and entrepreneur, Jeff Bezos, has grown his vast fortune by a further $24bn so far during the coronavirus pandemic, a roughly 20% increase over the last four months to $138b.

Bezos owns an 11% stake in the company and has been the world’s richest person since 2017.

A surge in demand has driven the business to near peak holiday season levels, with households on virtual lockdown and many millions staying indoors. Amazon’s share price rose by 5.3% to reach a record high on Tuesday.

As the US’s coronavirus outbreak first spread, Bezos saved himself from larger losses by selling a large portion of his shares. He then benefited from the best three-day stock market rally since 1933. The late rally helped Amazon’s share price to recover almost all of its losses in March. ...

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Bezos is one of the few billionaires to have seen an increase to his net worth since the beginning of 2020.

Amazon to close French warehouses over coronavirus concerns

Amazon has ordered the temporary closure of all six of its French distribution centres, one day after a French court ruled it was not doing enough to protect its workers in the country amid the coronavirus pandemic. The online giant said in a statement that “this week, we are requesting employees of our distribution centres to stay at home. In the longer term, we will evaluate the impact of that [court] decision for them and our French logistic network”.

Amazon’s French warehouses are to be shut down for five days from Thursday to carry out a deep clean and to “take all the necessary measures to guarantee the health and safety of staff”, the company said.

Management said the 10,000 full- and part-time staff would continue to be paid. ...

Amazon insisted that it is providing adequate security measures for staff, noting the implementation of temperature checks and mask distribution. ... But the court found Amazon didn’t do enough to enforce social distancing, to ensure that turnstiles and locker rooms were virus-free, or to increase cleaning of its warehouses. Unions say one worker infected with the virus is in intensive care.

Brazil congress demands Jair Bolsonaro release results of his Covid-19 tests

Brazil’s congress has given President Jair Bolsonaro an ultimatum to release the results of his coronavirus tests within 30 days, amid widespread speculation that he has been infected with Covid-19.

“Brazil needs the truth! Was the president infected?” said the motion proposed by the leftist congressman Rogério Correa and agreed by leaders of the chamber of deputies.

The motion noted that 23 people who accompanied Bolsonaro on a visit to the US in March had since tested positive. Several of them attended a dinner at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.

Since then, Bolsonaro has refused to share the outcome of two coronavirus tests he underwent – even refusing a freedom of information act request – leading to widespread speculation that he had contracted some form of Covid-19. ...

“If it shows he had the disease it shows how irresponsible his behaviour was and how he put these people’s lives at risk,” said Maurício Santoro, a professor of international relations at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. “It creates a whole political discussion about truth and transparency.”

Pandemic Is a Portal: Arundhati Roy on COVID-19 in India, Imagining Another World & Fighting for It

Merkel announces plans to reopen schools and shops in Germany

Conservative politicians vying for the leadership of Angela Merkel’s party argued over a timetable to exit the nationwide lockdown as the German chancellor announced plans to partially reopen schools and shops in the coming weeks.

Hailing latest figures indicating a slowing down of the infection rate as a “fragile intermediate success”, Merkel said on Wednesday evening that teaching at schools across the country would start again from 4 May, initially for students in their final years of primary or secondary school.

Hairdressing salons will also be allowed to reopen on 4 May if they take special steps to guarantee customers’ hygiene. Shops of up to 800 square metres in size, as well as bookshops, bike stores and car dealerships, will open again from this coming Monday.

Social distancing measures will remain in place until 3 May and large cultural events, such as concerts and beer festivals, will remain banned until the end of August.

Merkel “urgently recommended” people to wear protective masks on public transport and while shopping, but stopped short of making them mandatory. “We have achieved something that wasn’t guaranteed,” the chancellor said. “Our health system has kept running”.

However, under Germany’s federalised system the closure and reopening of schools and nurseries falls under the jurisdiction of the states or Länder, meaning any concerted exit strategy envisioned by Merkel requires a consensus among the 16 state premiers, which has been hard to achieve.

Trump threatens to adjourn Congress to push through nominees

President Donald Trump is threatening to invoke a never-before-used authority to push through dozens of executive-branch nominees while Congress remains out of Washington because of the coronavirus crisis. The move would almost certainly set off a legal battle between the White House and Congress over the limits of presidential power.

Complaining that the Senate Democrats are using so-called "pro forma sessions" to prevent him from making recess appointments, Trump threatened to formally adjourn Congress and install his nominees without a vote. Those nominees could potentially serve though the end of 2021.

Trump said the coronavirus pandemic has brought into stark relief the Senate's failure to approve a large number of his nominees, and he cited unprecedented "obstruction" by Democrats more than three years into his term as the reason for potentially opening this new front in his many legal battles with Congress.

"If they don't act on getting these people approved — we need them anyway — but we especially need now because of the pandemic, we are going to do something ... I prefer not to do but I should do and I will do if I have to," Trump said at Wednesday's news conference. "They've been warned, and they're being warned right now," Trump added. "We'll probably be challenged in court, and we'll see who wins." ...

Under the Constitution, presidents have the authority to adjourn Congress but only under limited and very specific circumstances. Article II, Section 3 to the Constitution states that the president "may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper."

No president has every used this authority, and if Trump did, Democrats — and even some Republicans — would strongly object.

Trump's OSHA Rebuked for 'Sitting on Its Ass' as Covid-19 Infections and Deaths Surge Among Frontline Workers

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration—an agency overseen by Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia—is under fire for failing to uphold its core responsibility to protect workers as the number of frontline employees infected by the novel coronavirus across the U.S. continues to surge, producing what one observer described as "the biggest workplace catastrophe ever to hit the nation's healthcare workers."

An analysis released Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that more than 9,200 healthcare workers have tested positive for Covid-19 and 27 have died as of April 9. "This is likely an underestimation," the CDC acknowledged.

The Washington Post reported Sunday that grocery store workers—who, like healthcare industry employees, have been deemed essential amid the pandemic—have also been hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak.

"At least 41 grocery workers have died so far," the Post reported. "They include a Trader Joe's employee in New York, a Safeway worker in Seattle, a pair of Walmart associates near Chicago, and four Kroger employees in Michigan, as well as employees at meatpacking plants and food processing facilities around the country. Thousands more have tested positive for the virus." ...

As the devastating impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on frontline workers becomes clearer by the day, critics—including some of the agency's former employees—have increasingly trained their ire on OSHA for refusing to take action to ensure safe and sanitary job conditions. OSHA is currently headed by Loren Sweatt, an appointee of President Donald Trump.

Jordan Barab, who served as deputy assistant secretary at OSHA from 2009-2017, ripped the agency on Tuesday for "sitting on its ass" as workers continue to be infected and killed by Covid-19.

In an interview on CNN Tuesday night, former OSHA chief David Michaels said he would give the agency an "F" grade for its performance during the coronavirus crisis.

"OSHA is simply missing in action in handling this epidemic," Michaels said. "OSHA has been invisible in this whole response."

Indictment of Trump and a Warning: 90% of US Coronavirus Deaths Could Have Been Prevented With Swifter Action

New research published Wednesday revealed that the vast majority, as much as 90%, of U.S. deaths from the coronavirus outbreak could have been avoided if strict social distancing measures were imposed just two weeks earlier—the latest damning rebuke of President Donald Trump's mismanagement of the crisis and a warning to those still skeptical of the restrictions.

Britta Jewell and Nicholas Jewell, epidemiologists at Imperial College and University of California, Berkeley, wrote in a New York Times op-ed that an estimated 90% of deaths from the coronavirus may have been avoided if the U.S. government had called for schools to close and Americans to avoid gatherings of more than 10 people by March 2, when 11 people in the U.S. had died of the disease.

Instead, the White House waited until March 16 to do so. After the social distancing order, the number of cases and deaths began to rise rapidly across the country, now topping 26,000 just a month later.

Ordering Americans to stay home as much as possible and calling for businesses to close even one week later, the epidemiologists estimate, would have cut deaths by about 60%, the epidemiologists said.

In addition to the late response by the Trump administration, which is now pushing to reopen state and city economies as soon as possible, governors and mayors have taken action to slow the spread of the coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, at different rates—with eight states still refusing to implement social-distancing rules.

'It could have been averted': How 92 residents at a San Francisco homeless shelter got Covid-19

More than 90 residents and 10 staff members at San Francisco’s largest homeless shelter have tested positive for coronavirus, in a development that homeless advocates say was both predictable and preventable amid massive policy failures. The outbreak at the MSC South shelter is believed to be the largest reported outbreak in a single shelter in the country. The spike caused a single 12% surge in positive cases in the city, illustrating the magnitude of the crisis in a region that so far has weathered the coronavirus storm well. ...

The outbreak at the MSC South shelter follows weeks of warnings from advocates and local lawmakers that the thousands of people living on San Francisco’s streets or in overcrowded shelters could do little to protect themselves from the virus or help prevent its spread, with calls for the mayor, London Breed, to move the city’s more than 8,000 homeless residents into vacant hotel rooms growing louder each day.

“This [outbreak] was totally preventable and totally predictable,” said Chris Herring, a sociology doctoral candidate at UC Berkeley who works with the Coalition on Homelessness. Before the coronavirus outbreak, MSC South typically housed 340 people a night, with 200 beds for men only in an open-floor set-up on the second floor. Bunk beds stood about two feet apart, with no partitions, and there was just one hallway of bathrooms to share among everyone. “It was definitely ripe for viral spread, in terms of the designs and the density and the amount of people there,” said Herring, who had spent time at MSC South during his research. ...

To improve social distancing at the shelters, the facilities stopped receiving new residents and the city resolved to move some shelter residents to other new emergency congregate shelters, including the Moscone Center – a large conference center downtown known for its tech gatherings. Breed maintained that providing every single homeless individual in the city with a hotel room was simply impossible. On 6 April, the city announced the two first positive cases at MSC South. The city had to rethink its plan for new shelters when photos leaked showing the arrangements at Moscone: thin mats on the floor, divided into physically distanced cells by masking tape. The mayor admitted that authorities had moved 19 individuals from MSC South to Moscone Center before realizing that they had contact with the two positive cases. ...

By 10 April, the number of positive cases at MSC South had risen to 70, and on Monday it had jumped another 21. In addition, the city has been unable to determine exactly how many of the 987 cases and 15 deaths are of homeless residents. In addition to the 92 MSC South residents and one other shelter resident, Colfax noted that 20% of all Covid-related hospitalizations at Zuckerberg San Francisco general hospital, the city’s safety-net medical facility, were of homeless individuals.

San Francisco Is Opening 8,000 Hotel Rooms to Handle Its Coronavirus ‘Explosion’ Among the Homeless

San Francisco lawmakers just ordered that the city secure more than 8,000 hotel rooms for the city’s homeless population to better protect them from the coronavirus pandemic.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors — which has repeatedly expressed frustration with Mayor London Breed’s approach to housing issues during the pandemic — unanimously approved the emergency ordinance Tuesday. The rooms, which the mayor has less than two weeks to reserve, can also be taken up by frontline workers.

San Francisco has already relocated hundreds of homeless people to hotel rooms and contracted thousands more. But advocates and lawmakers argue the criteria to get a room has been far too limited — favoring those who had tested positive for COVID-19, the elderly, and immunocompromised — and far too slow. More than 8,000 homeless people primarily sleep outdoors in San Francisco and typically only get a warm bed if they choose to stay at a crowded shelter, where social distancing isn’t possible. The city’s largest shelter is also currently experiencing an outbreak.

“This is the public health disaster we have warned about every day for the last month. It was entirely avoidable, but the Mayor was more interested in being tough with homeless people than preventing this explosion in COVID-19 cases. The results are tragic,” Supervisor Dean Preston, said in a tweet Friday, when it was announced that 68 homeless people at the shelter had tested positive.

Preston even personally funded hotel rooms for the homeless himself.

100+ Lawmakers Demand Moratorium on Utility Shutoffs to Ensure Access to Services 'Essential to Survive' During Coronavirus Crisis

Over 100 federal lawmakers on Wednesday demanded a nationwide moratorium on utility shutoffs with a letter to congressional leadership demanding the freeze be part of the next coronavirus relief package to ensure Americans have access to services that are "essential to survive during this health crisis."

Spearheaded by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Reps. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), Brenda Lawrence (D-Mich.), Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), the letter addresses not only water but other utility services including electricity, heating, telecommunications, and internet—all "especially critically" amid the coronavirus pandemic. 

The call comes as over 16 million Americans have been thrown out of work in recent weeks, the need for continued public health measures to stem the spread of coronavirus means many workplaces remain closed, and millions of people are still waiting for their one-time $1,200 stimulus checks. ...

Demands in the letter include a pause on utility shutoffs "for at least six months beyond the end date of the national state of emergency," reconnection for those who've already had services cut off, and an erasure of late fees for low-wealth families through the six-month period.

The Mental Health Dimensions of the Coronavirus Pandemic and Isolation Measures, with Andrew Solomon and Johann Hari

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Krystal Ball: Previewing the hellish future of a Biden administration

Krystal and Saagar: David Sirota tells the truth about Bernie campaign weakness, gets trashed for it

Wall Street Titans Finance Democratic Primary Challenger to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Wall Street titans are financing a direct challenge to firebrand progressive lawmaker Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the New York primary on June 23.

Disclosures show that at least two dozen finance industry professionals, including several prominent private equity executives and investment bankers, made early donations to Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, a former CNBC contributor who is challenging Ocasio-Cortez. Caruso-Cabrera was a registered Republican until a few years ago and authored a 2010 book advocating for several conservative positions, including an end to Medicare and Social Security, which she called “pyramid schemes.”

The donors include Glenn Hutchins, the billionaire co-founder of Silver Lake Partners; James Passin of Firebird Capital; Bruce Schnitzer of Wand Partners; Jeffrey Rosen of Lazard; and Bradley Seaman, managing partner of Parallel49 Equity. ...

The Caruso-Cabrera campaign announced last week that it had collected nearly $1 million in fundraising over the first quarter of this year. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which is funded by anonymous corporate donations and has spent tens of millions of dollars electing congressional Republicans, also said recently that it would mobilize business interests in support of Caruso-Cabrera.

AOC: “Legitimate To Talk About Allegations Against Biden.”

Krystal and Saagar: Warren abandons last principles to endorse Biden's Wall Street ties

Elizabeth Warren endorses Joe Biden for president as Democrats unite

Elizabeth Warren has endorsed Joe Biden, the third major endorsement for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in as many days as the party comes together in the run-up to the November general election.

Warren exited the race last month after a disappointing showing on Super Tuesday, where she finished third in primary voting in her home state of Massachusetts. As other former rivals quickly aligned behind Biden, most notably Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg, Warren waited, declining to immediately throw her support behind him or Bernie Sanders, an ideological ally. ...

In her endorsement, Warren sought notes of unity, assuring liberal supporters that Biden is listening.

“When you disagree, he’ll listen – not just listen, but really hear you,” she said. “And treat you with respect, no matter where you’re coming from. And he has shown throughout this campaign that when you come with new facts or a good argument, he’s not too afraid or too proud to be persuaded.”

Saagar Enjeti: Media erases never Biden movement in blatant coverup

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Scientists confirm dramatic melting of Greenland ice sheet

There was a dramatic melting of Greenland’s ice sheet in the summer of 2019, researchers have confirmed, in a study that reveals the loss was largely down to a persistent zone of high pressure over the region. The ice sheet melted at a near record rate in 2019, and much faster than the average of previous decades. Figures have suggested that in July alone surface ice declined by 197 gigatonnes – equivalent to about 80 million Olympic swimming pools.

Now experts have examined the level of melting in more detail, revealing what drove it. Crucially, the team note, the high pressure conditions lasted for 63 of the 92 summer days in 2019, compared with an average of just 28 days between 1981 and 2010. A similar situation was seen in 2012, a record bad year for melting of the ice sheet.

The team say the climate models of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have not taken into account such unusual conditions. If such high pressure zones become a regular annual feature, future melting could be twice as high as currently predicted, a result that could have serious consequences for sea level rise.

“This melt event is a good alarm signal that we urgently need to change our way of living to hold [back] global warming because it is likely that the IPCC projections could be too optimistic for [the] Arctic,” said Dr Xavier Fettweis, co-author of the research from the University of Liege, adding that the atmospheric conditions were unlikely to be down to natural climatic variability and could be driven by global heating.

Amid Calls for a People's Bailout, Fed's Corporate Debt-Buying Could Mean Billion-Dollar Big Oil Bailout

As calls for a People's Bailout in response to the coronavirus pandemic continue to grow across the United States, a new analysis warns that the country's Big Oil companies "stand to reap yet another billion dollar bailout" thanks to the Federal Reserve's plans to buy up to $750 billion in corporate debt.

The analysis (pdf), released Wednesday by the advocacy group Friends of the Earth (FOE), explains that this expected bailout for polluters relates to a controversial $500 billion corporate slush fund included in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act that Congress passed in March.

According to FOE's report, The Big Oil Money Pit:

Of that amount, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin enjoys direct control over a comparatively small $46 billion reserved for aviation and industries deemed essential to "national security." But the remaining $454 billion went to the Federal Reserve, which will use the money to implement emergency lending programs for corporations and municipalities. Secretary Mnuchin must approve these lending programs and wields considerable power over their design, but the money itself will move through the Fed.

After weeks of unprecedented human suffering and an ongoing failure to support frontline workers, the Fed announced on April 9, 2020 how it would spend the first $195 billion of the slush fund. A full $75 billion would go to buy corporate debt. But because the Fed can leverage money appropriated by Congress, the real size of this program is $750 billion. Considering that a majority of the money from the first stimulus [is] still unspent, there is plenty of room for this program to grow.

FOE found that the fossil fuel giants ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Conoco "are together eligible for a maximum $19.4 billion in benefits, based on their credit ratings and outstanding long-term debt."

NEW ANALYSIS: Trump’s admin just announced a $750 billion corporate slush fund -- money that will enrich oil execs who don’t need it, while those on the frontlines of coronavirus continue to struggle.#PeopleNotPollutershttps://t.co/0Cf3pPsT6u

— Friends of the Earth (@foe_us) April 15, 2020

The Fed has hired BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, to administer part of its debt-buying efforts related to the pandemic. "As BlackRock begins purchasing 'high yield' exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to bolster corporate debt markets," FOE warns, "energy companies (predominantly oil and gas) stand to benefit disproportionately as the largest single issuer of junk bonds, at 11% of the entire U.S. market."

"Pure Baloney": Zoologist Debunks Trump's COVID-19 Origin Theory, Explains Animal-Human Transmission

Pandemic shines harsh light on Trump's failure to protect pangolins

For more than five years, wildlife conservationists in the US have been clamoring for the government to provide Endangered Species Act protections to pangolins, a group of imperiled ant-eating mammals that are widely, and often illicitly, trafficked for their scales and meat. The Trump administration, however, has refused to act and that refusal has suddenly taken on grave new implications.

Earlier this year, scientists in China identified pangolins, along with bats, as one of the possible animal hosts involved in the transmission of the deadly coronavirus from wildlife to humans.

Although there is still much uncertainty about the nature of the disease’s emergence, the unwillingness of the Trump administration, and the Obama administration before it, to provide legal protections to pangolins, and other species, has intensified scrutiny of America’s faltering role in international wildlife conservation efforts. Scientists and advocates say these are essential to preventing the kind of pandemic currently sweeping the globe.

Though no pangolins live in the US, an endangered species designation could make additional funding available to preserve the species, bolster efforts to crack down on illegal trade and send a powerful signal to the international community that the animals ought to be protected.

Like HIV, Sars and Ebola before it, the coronavirus that is wreaking devastation worldwide is a zoonotic disease, meaning that it spilled over from animals to humans. ... What scientists know for certain is that the emergence of such zoonotic diseases occurs when humans disrupt healthy ecosystems, invade wildlife habitat, and trade and traffic in wild animals, whether bats, pangolins, birds, rodents or civets, a type of cat-like mammal that is often illegally trafficked and played a role in transmitting Sars to humans in the early 2000s.

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Also of Interest

Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.

#NeverBiden Isn’t “Privileged”, Supporting The Status Quo Is

Israel's little-known support for Haftar's war in Libya

COVID-19: Coronavirus Meets the Israeli Occupation

US and Israel team up to thwart war crimes probes

As Virus Spreads in Federal Prisons, People Inside Describe Chaos, While Families Are Left in the Dark

Pandemic Doesn’t Stop Corporate Media From Crusading Against Universal Healthcare

A Strange Timeline at JPMorgan Chase Includes a Meeting with Fed Chair Jay Powell

The Really Really Yucky Airlines Bailout

Planned obsolescence: the outrage of our electronic waste mountain

Jimmy Dore: More Democrats Say They Won’t Vote Biden

Famed economist Thomas Piketty urges Biden to adopt Sanders, Warren plans

Nina Turner reveals whether she will serve as Biden's Vice President

Rachel Bovard: Big tech wants to track you during pandemic, but data is unsecure in China

Trump campaign: Joe Biden's record on China will doom him in general election

Krystal and Saagar: Warren columnist dismisses Joe Biden #MeToo, Katie Halper destroys her

Krystal and Saagar: Pelosi's SHOCKING let them eat cake moment

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A Little Night Music

Lightnin Slim - Mean Ole Lonesome Train

Lightnin' Slim - Woke Up Feelin' Bad

Wild Bill Phillips & Lightnin' Slim - Paper In My Shoe

Lightning Slim and His Guitar - Rock Me Mama

Lightnin' Slim ft. Lazy Lester - Feelin' Awful Blue

Lightnin Slim - Nothing But The Devil

Schoolboy Cleve w/Lightnin Slim - Strange Letter Blues

Lightnin' Slim - She's My Crazy Little Baby

Lightnin Slim - My Babe

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