Inside Louisiana’s battle to control the Delta variant
Eighteen months into the pandemic, Louisiana and more than 20 other states are still trying to fill key gaps in data while fighting the most aggressive version yet of the virus.
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Biden’s top-down booster plan sparks anger at FDA
Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock sent a memo Tuesday evening to vaccine regulators, reiterating her support as frustration over the process spreads within their ranks.
Dear Care and Feeding: My Periodic Retreats From My Family Are Making My Kid Upset
Parenting advice on upsetting retreats, unfair fundraisers, and a homophobic household.
A Shocking New Speech Has Plunged Mormons Into Another Furious Battle Over Gay Rights
Last year, I decided to try Utah again. Then came last week.
What It Was Like Evacuating New Orleans This Time
I’ve long relied on the hurricane evacuation adage “Cat 1 or 2, see it through; Cat 3 or more, hit the door.
I Found a Condom Wrapper at My Boyfriend’s Place—Should I Buy His Weird Explanation?
Do guys really do this?
Biden hails ‘strong’ economic recovery despite disappointing jobs numbers
Biden laid blame for the sluggish growth of U.S. jobs on the “impact of the Delta variant” of the coronavirus.
Powell walks high wire as Fed plans to ease support for Biden’s economy
Central bank chief seeks to avoid market turmoil as president weighs tapping him for a second term.
U.S. jobless claims near pandemic low as economy strengthens
Thursday’s report from the Labor Department showed that jobless claims fell to 375,000 from 387,000 the previous week.
House Dem campaign chief warns the majority at risk without message reboot
“We’re not trying to hide this,” the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s executive director said.
Biden’s economic gains come with newer worries about the future
Some economists have already begun to ease back on forecasts for the rest of this year.
“On the Kill Floors”: Essential Workers in Meatpacking Plants Still Lack Safety & COVID Protections
Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, we look at the experiences of meatpacking workers during the pandemic and beyond. Dulce Castañeda, a founding member of Children of Smithfield, a Nebraska-based grassroots advocacy group led by the children and family members of meatpacking workers, says conditions in the meatpacking plants during the pandemic remained as usual.
A CIA Drone Analyst Apologizes to the People of Afghanistan
As the United States ends a 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, a former intelligence analyst for the CIA’s drone program offers an apology to the people of Afghanistan “from not only myself, but from the rest of our society as Americans.
Dirty Work: Eyal Press on Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
Ahead of Labor Day, we speak with journalist and sociologist Eyal Press about his new book, “Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America.” Press profiles workers like prison guards and oil workers — people who make their livelihoods by doing “unethical activity that society depends on and tacitly condones but doesn’t want to hear too much” about, he says.
A Plea for Help from New Orleans: Curfew & Cops Are Not Aid for the Poor After Ida, Says Malik Rahim
As the death toll from the remnants of Hurricane Ida in the northeastern United States climbs to 46, President Biden is visiting New Orleans, which is under curfew enforced by police and the National Guard as most of the city remains in the dark amid sweltering temperatures.
Trump Gripes About Losing Ungrateful Catholic, Jewish Voters On Call With Religious Advisers
“I’m very optimistic we’re going to be back,” Trump told members of his new National Faith Advisory Board as he apparently prepares to make another run.
Community Spotlight: Tuning in to Daily Kos’ many metamorphoses
Rescue Rangers have read every story published by Community members every day for the past 15 years. We’ve seen Daily Kos staff come and go, while authors we’ve promoted have become Rangers, Featured Writers, and members of the Community Contributors Team. We’ve worked through six iterations of user interfaces presented by different tech teams, haggled over by Community members, and adopted.
15 Miami-Dade Public School Staff Members Die Of COVID In Just 10 Days
“It’s a tremendous loss,” said one education official of the death of a 30-year teacher.
Bogus school would have never conned way onto ESPN if Ohio had any kind of oversight
In case you missed it, the latest entry in the debate over charter schools involves Bishop Sycamore, a supposed charter school in Columbus, Ohio, that wrangled a nationally televised game on ESPN by claiming it had a roster full of Division I recruits. However, questions started cropping up when ESPN’s own announcers revealed that no one from Bishop Sycamore appeared in any national databases.
What’s new at Daily Kos? Highlights and updates from the month of August
August is typically a slower month here, but Daily Kos actually saw a rise in engagement in July and then again in August this year. There was plenty to cover and discuss with the delta variant spiking, Afghanistan and the many issues surrounding the ending of a 20-year war, and Hurricane Ida and its aftermath. We had a lot of stories about deaths of notable anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers, which have been occurring at a record pace.
Anti-critical race theory efforts put unique pressures on BIPOC teachers
by Umme Hoque
This story was originally published at Prism.
The battle over how schools teach students about the roles of slavery, racism, and other forms of oppression in American history and life may be ideological, but the consequences are real and growing—particularly for teachers of color.
Mary Trump Rips ‘Fascist’ Uncle, Assumes He Doesn’t Even Know What That Means
The former president is the “least intellectually curious person I’ve ever met,” says Donald Trump’s niece in scathing new attack.
Bette Midler Calls For Sex Strike In Wake Of Radical Texas Abortion Crackdown
The proposed action evokes Lysistrata, a play from ancient Athens where the women of Greece denied men sex until they ended a war.
After school orders quarantine, a father and his friends threaten principal, zip ties in hand
Among the many weapons of choice carried by the domestic terrorists who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, one of the more common was the ordinary nylon zip tie. In addition to their well-understood industrial uses, these flexible, non-yielding fasteners are also commonly used by law enforcement as restraints.
Since they have a perfectly innocent utility, carrying them can hardly be considered a crime under normal circumstances.
Pete Buttigieg And Husband Chasten Welcome Twins
The transportation secretary and former presidential candidate said he was “delighted” to become a father.
The Strange, Sudden Silence of Conservative Abortion Foes
Few political issues inflame passions so much as abortion. The issues of a woman’s right to bodily autonomy (for abortion-rights advocates) and the sanctity of life (for their opponents) are so elemental that scant room exists for compromise, conciliation, or cool analysis.Yet something strange has happened since a new Texas law that practically bans abortion after six weeks went into effect this week, with the passive assent of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Satanic Temple Floats Devilishly Clever Strategy To Dodge Texas Abortion Law
“We will not be cowed into silence by an unjust law,” declared the temple, which links reproductive freedom to religious freedom.
A Film About the Impossible Job of Valuating Lives
What is the value of a human life? This is the question with which the lawyer Kenneth Feinberg (played by Michael Keaton) opens the new Netflix film Worth, stressing to his students that he’s not posing it as a philosophical query. He is a high-powered mediator who assesses damages in cases involving unexpected, large-scale death—such as lawsuits involving Agent Orange or, in the case of this film, the September 11 attacks.
Help! My Friend Made Me a Godparent, Then Reneged When I Refused to Be a Nanny for Free.
Should I warn my replacement of the job requirements?
Your Phone Is Your Private Space
Privacy is a set of curtains drawn across the windows of our lives. And technology companies are moths that will chew through more of the fabric every year if we let them, and especially if we encourage them.An American who stores accumulated photographs in a spare bedroom or attic or self-storage space correctly presumes that those albums of visual keepsakes are off-limits to other people.