Twitter Suspends Anti-Extremist Accounts After They’re Flagged By … Extremists: Report
Far-right users launched a “coordinated and malicious” attack to exploit a new Twitter privacy rule, according to The Washington Post.
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Joe Biden’s ‘Vaccine Mandate’ Has An Alternative: Weekly Tests
But the testing option won’t be fun, and maybe that’s the idea.
Ire over pharmacy middlemen fuels lobbying blitz
The effort to paint pharmacy benefit managers as villains has sparked a multimillion-dollar campaign to influence Democrats.
Omicron complicates puzzle over at-home Covid pill
Independent advisers to the FDA endorsed the pill, molnupiravir, in an unusually tight 13-10 vote this week after airing concerns about its low efficacy rate and potential safety risks to pregnant people.
Tucker Carlson Is Completing the Work That Trump Began
Earlier this week, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson, the host of the top-rated news show on cable, rose in defense of the right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.“Jones is often mocked for his flamboyance,” Carlson said, “but the truth is he has been a far better guide to reality in recent years—in other words, a far better journalist—than, say, NBC News national-security correspondent Ken Dilanian or Margaret Brennan of CBS.
Biden seeks to require private health plans to pay for at-home Covid tests
The change represents the core of a ramped-up effort to encourage more widespread testing.
5 takeaways from the Supreme Court showdown over abortion
Many players during Wednesday’s arguments appeared concerned that this case could exacerbate the public‘s perception the court is politically motivated.
Omicron wave: How to do travel restrictions right this time
The American public loves bans on foreigners, but public health experts say they’re often a blunt and ineffective tool.
Powell: Fed may pull back economic support more quickly as prices spike
Powell’s comment came after the Fed already announced earlier this month that it would slow the pace at which it buys U.S. government debt and mortgage-backed securities.
Why Biden picked Powell
In the end, President Joe Biden did what many close to him expected: He took a longer-than-anticipated amount of time to arrive at a reasonable, moderate decision that thrilled few but carried limited risk.
Raimondo: Commerce ‘war room’ seeing improvements on supply chain woes
The Commerce secretary said in an interview that the Biden administration sees trading partners in Asia as part of the solution.
Opinion | Don’t Learn the Wrong Lesson on Inflation
Aggressive action to deliver pandemic relief was the right call — and withdrawing support now would only hurt American workers.
Biden’s war on inflation is a battle to change human behavior
The president needs people to overcome a new set of fears and direct their purchases into the areas of the service economy hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic.
As France Honors Black Artist Josephine Baker, Far-Right Pundit Éric Zemmour Launches Presidential Bid
On the same day France celebrated the induction of American-born singer and civil rights activist Josephine Baker into the Pantheon, far-right xenophobic writer and pundit Éric Zemmour announced he will run for president of France in the upcoming April 2022 election. Many have pointed out the contradiction in these opposing events, even in President Emmanuel Macron’s speech that painted Baker as a model of colorblind unity, when in reality she was outspoken about racial justice.
Dear traditional media: Do better by all of us on Build Back Better
A large group of advocacy organizations has penned an open letter to “Reporters, Editors, Producers, and Anchors” pleading with them to actually try to inform the public about the Build Back Better plan. They are very polite about it, acknowledging that it’s a difficult thing to do.
Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Joe Biden is dead and played by actor and nurses are actually deadly witches
Facebook is a menace. COVID-19 is a menace. Conservatism is a cesspool. Together, those three ingredients have created a toxic stew of malevolent death and devastation. We can talk about all those things in the abstract, look at the numbers and statistics, and catch the occasional whiff of seditionist right-wing rhetoric.
Earth Matters: Manchin helped kill reform of 1872 mining law that harms people and costs billions
Manchin wreckEd latest move to reform 150-YEAR-OLD MINING LAW
Sen. Joe Manchin III has got a lot of reasons for that smile.
In the last year of his first term as president, Ulysses S. Grant signed the 1872 Mining Law that set modest rules for individuals and corporations to stake mineral claims on land never before in private hands. That is, land snatched at gunpoint from Indigenous peoples.
Omicron is popping up everywhere, but the big problem in the U.S. remains the delta variant
Over the last few days, the COVID-19 news has been dominated by concern over the omicron variant. Scientists are worried by the number of changes to the virus, including changes to the critical spike protein. Health officials around the world are nervous because a majority of the planet is still surfing the delta wave, and the idea of something worse coming along at this moment is genuinely terrifying.
Black parents see a problem with how race is taught in schools, but it’s not CRT
The whole “critical race theory” uproar is really about stripping schools of any teaching about racism or the contributions of Black people and other people of color to U.S. history, rolling back any tenuous progress made at teaching those important subjects in recent years. And, go figure, Black parents are noticing and taking issue with that—but, of course, their voices are getting much less amplification.
Now Trump Backer Lin Wood Says It’s ‘Likely’ QAnon Is A ‘Deep State Operation’
“I worship Jesus. Not Q,” the former QAnon follower and lawyer to Kyle Rittenhouse wrote.
Democratic Socialists Decline To Expel Rep. Jamaal Bowman Over Israel Stances
Bowman, a New York Democrat, met with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in November. The visit angered members of the DSA political group.
Ocasio-Cortez Slams Top Democrats For Not Punishing Boebert For Islamophobic Remarks
“It’s embarrassing that there is any hesitation on this,” the congresswoman said, demanding that House leaders strip the Republican of committee assignments.
Ammon Bundy Tells Court His Bid For Governor Should Count As Community Service
The anti-government extremist was sentenced to 40 hours of community service on a trespassing charge after tying himself to a chair at the Idaho Legislature.
Biden’s free at-home test promise could come with added costs
“We should not think for a minute that this is some sort of magic bullet that is going to get us to universally free and accessible testing,” said a Georgetown health policy expert.
‘Obscene’ GOP Blockade Stalls Dozens Of Biden Nominees
The dilatory tactics have frustrated Democrats and bolstered proponents’ case for Senate rules reform.
Enes Kanter Freedom Is Letting Himself Be Used
The NBA player Enes Freedom is showing the danger of attracting the wrong kind of supporters.Formerly Enes Kanter, the 29-year-old Boston Celtics center took a new surname when he became an American citizen on Monday.
Adele’s 30 and the Year of the Breakup Album
For most everyone, 2021 has been a long and lonely year. Pop stars, it seems, are no exception. Although music about heartbreak has been around for as long as there’s been music, this past year’s charts have looked particularly lovelorn.Pop music has been a months-long opera of celebrity splits. We went from Olivia Rodrigo’s world-conquering “Drivers License” in January to Adele’s new album, 30, which she’s said is about “divorce, babe, divorce.
Joe Biden’s Year Was Ruined. Whose Fault Is That?
Sign up for Derek’s newsletter here.Imagine it’s November 2020, and I offer you the following vision of Joe Biden’s first year in office:Stocks will soar. Consumer-spending growth will set land-speed records, and the president will oversee the best labor market of this young century. Coming off a flash-freeze recession, the U.S. unemployment rate will dip under 5 percent, lower than it was in every month of 2016. Blessedly, pay is rising fastest for low-wage workers.
Office Holiday Parties Really Might Never Be the Same
For companies with the cash to go all out on a holiday party, the ideal spot might look something like Freehold. The industrial-chic venue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is equipped with everything an urban Millennial could want: It has a coffee shop, a lounge, a courtyard with twinkly lights, and a Ping-Pong table. The last holiday party I went to in the Before Times was there.
Comics Made Them Friends. Their Friendship Made Great Comics.
Each installment of “The Friendship Files” features a conversation between The Atlantic’s Julie Beck and two or more friends, exploring the history and significance of their relationship.This week she talks with three artists and one writer, who all work on titles for DC Comics, about their collaboration on the page and their friendship off of it.