Good morning. 
Tuesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 59. Sunrise is 5:34 AM and sunset 8:07 PM, for 14h 32m 32s of daytime. The moon is new with 0.1% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Public Works Committee meets via audiovisual conferencing at 6 PM.
On this day in 1990, Lithuania declares independence from the Soviet Union.
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Molly Beck reports Speaker Robin Vos, Assembly official denied immunocompromised lawmaker’s request to work virtually during COVID pandemic:
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, and the Legislature’s human resources director, Amanda Jorgenson, have rejected requests from Rep. Jodi Emerson, D-Eau Claire, to participate in floor sessions and committee hearings from her office.
The requests were made by Emerson and her doctor to reduce Emerson’s risk of contracting the virus until she became fully vaccinated because of a medication she takes to suppress her immune system to manage an autoimmune disease Emerson was diagnosed with years ago.
“As you are aware, COVID-19 is not an airborne transmitted disease,” Jorgenson wrote to Emerson on April 4 rejecting the request. “Therefore, protection for you is based on limiting particulate exposure.”
Jorgenson and Vos offered Emerson a portable plexiglass barrier instead.
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Patrick Remington, a former CDC epidemiologist and director of the Preventive Medicine Residency Program at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, agreed.
“I don’t know what research they are reading. But COVID-19 can clearly be transmitted via airborne spread,” Remington said. “It might not be the predominant mode of transmission, but it is clearly able to be transmitted via small particles through the air.”
James Downie writes of The big myth about Cheney, Trump and the GOP:
The reason there’s no battle is that while Cheney, Hogan and others want to argue that their vision of the Republican Party competes with Trump’s, that’s simply not the case. I’ve written previously that the GOP is still Trump’s GOP. But the reverse is also true: Trump’s GOP is the GOP as it’s ever been.
Others have noted that the distance between Cheney’s GOP and Trump’s GOP is far smaller than she’d admit. As the New York Times’s Maureen Dowd notes in a new column, Cheney’s father, Richard B. Cheney, as vice president, “spread fear, propaganda and warped intelligence” to push the United States into the disastrous Iraq War, while encouraging President George W. Bush to shred the Constitution in expanding presidential and surveillance powers. And long before Trump became president, Liz Cheney was reluctant to criticize birtherism, only describing it on CNN as “people [being] uncomfortable with having for the first time ever, I think, a president who seems so reluctant to defend the nation overseas.”
AJ Vicens and Ali Breland report How HBO Helped the Guy Hosting QAnon Dodge a Serious Accusation:
Over the course of his new six episode HBO documentary, Into The Storm, filmmaker Cullen Hoback exhaustively details the intrigue and shadowy players involved in the QAnon conspiracy theory. As CNN’s Brian Lowry explains, “Hoback appears determined not to leave any stones unturned.”
The documentary is comprehensive and does flip a lot of stones. Hoback leverages sustained access to key players in the QAnon movement to tell a story about one of the most consequential disinformation operations of the Trump era. He does, however, pass on overturning one rather large stone: chief Q-enabler Jim Watkins’ history of running an internet company that has profited off child porn themes. The omission deprives HBO’s audience of key information on Watkins’ past, especially given his prominent role in movement seeking vengeance against a supposed cabal of elite liberal pedophiles.