The Taliban are already restricting women’s rights in Afghanistan — just a month since they overran the capital of Kabul — by blocking female students from returning to schools and universities, and telling many women workers to stay home.
As the Delta variant continues to surge across the United States, so too has the housing and eviction crisis, with more than 11 million households now behind on rent. Most of those evicted are Black or Latinx, and the majority are single women with children. We speak with a single mother and a high school student who have faced eviction and went to Washington, D.C.
Criticism is growing of AUKUS, a new trilateral military partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States that the countries say is needed to counter China’s growing power in the Indo-Pacific region. As part of the agreement, the U.S. has agreed to help Australia build a fleet of nuclear-powered submarines, replacing a previous deal Australia had with France.
The Wyoming Republican said colleagues in her party have whispered support but won’t come forward publicly.
In the news today: Donald Trump was back on the rally trail this weekend, delivering a steady stream of absurd and dangerous lies to an adoring (and gullible) Georgia crowd. He also really hates Republican Gov. Brian Kemp for not overthrowing democracy in the state last November to declare Trump the winner.
Elsewhere, former police officer Derek Chauvin has filed an expected appeal asking that his murder conviction be overturned.
Gov. Greg Abbott’s crackdown bans abortions after six weeks even in cases of rape, and he refuses to commit to changing the law for assault survivors.
Multiple media outlets reported Friday that Democratic Rep. Karen Bass has decided to run for mayor of Los Angeles next year, with Politico adding that one of its reporters overheard the California congresswoman telling someone over the phone, “I’m going to officially announce a run for mayor.
The Republican congresswoman, whose sister is married to a woman, said her previous views were “misguided.
by Cirien Saadeh
This story was originally published at Prism.
Voters in Minneapolis will soon be able to vote on a brand-new system for public safety. The Minnesota Supreme Court recently announced that the Yes4Minneapolis charter amendment, which would replace the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) with a multifunctional Department of Public Safety, could be included on the November 2021 city ballot.
“Ours is not a movement dependent on any one person,” the former head of the Education Department said.
Welcome back to the weekly Nuts & Bolts Guide to small campaigns. Every week I try to tackle issues I’ve been asked about. With the help of other campaign workers and notes, we address how to improve and build better campaigns or explain issues that impact our party.
Looking at issues beyond campaigns, we have to start looking at how the Democratic Party itself is impacted by shifts in population and the locations of that population in the United States.
It’s not just about the sex.
This story was originally published at Prism.
During his presidency, Donald Trump targeted some of the most vulnerable immigrant communities in the United States—including populations that were granted temporary protected status by the federal government because they came from countries afflicted by natural disasters, war, and other dangerous conditions. This included Liberians.
The Biden administration last week announced that a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine will be available to parts of the population.
“Well, they should be looking at that,” the former president said at the Georgia rally.
Waking, you’re delighted: “Oh!” A
long, loud cry. But the dog’s not there.
You were dreaming. I woke looking
at the hands you said were beautiful.
All this dead-end summer, the hours
at the end of the day debriding hope,
the hours in the morning asking fear
to stay beside us. These are the years
beyond perfection, the days the coneflowers
rock from side to side like particles
suspended in the drying early Front Range air.
Her actions have always seemed desperate to me.
In April, when I received my second Moderna shot, America was on a roll. Adjusted for population, the United States had distributed more COVID-19 vaccines per capita than any country but Israel, Chile, the United Kingdom, and a smattering of small nations and islands. With a surge of doses, we could have been No. 1 in the world.Five months later, the U.S. is no longer in the top five in national vaccine rates. We’re not in the top 10, or the top 20, or top 30.
Parenting advice on pets, breastfeeding, and parental support.
If you’ve turned on any cable-news channel or opened any newspaper or magazine since most of Afghanistan fell to the Taliban last month, you can see a clear narrative emerging: The terrorists are returning, and they will attack us.
In an Oval Office meeting with House progressives last week, Joe Biden made a joke about how much had changed in his long career: “I used to be called a moderate,” the president mused. He was, at that moment, trying to mediate a Democratic Party struggle between the left-wing lawmakers sitting before him and the moderates he had hosted a few hours earlier. When the meeting ended, Biden pulled aside Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington State.
Beijing concluded it was an energy sucking money laundering tool, among other things.
Business owners and conservatives insisted on yanking away benefits. If it wasn’t productive, then it was just cruel.
He’s too sick to live independently and too toxic to let him move in.
The GOP is risking the full faith and credit of the United States to score points. Democrats don’t have to play the game.
He denies it, but I don’t believe him.
Staff described a summer marked by demands to digest complex data in record time as the government raced to update policies in the face of Delta.
“We have the tools to beat Covid if we come together as a country and use the tools we have,” Biden said.
“It is my job to recognize where our actions can have the greatest impact,” Rochelle Walensky said.
The final step in the process will come when CDC Director Rochelle Walensky approves the CDC advisory panel’s recommendations.