Alaska GOP Leaders Endorse Challenger To US Sen. Murkowski
Sen. Lisa Murkowski has been one of the Republican party’s most outspoken critics of former President Donald Trump.
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Community Spotlight: One man led an inspired response when hate hit town
When teenagers harassed a local Asian American business owner recently, the incident snagged my attention and not just due to the despicable act itself. Observers claimed the police chose to not take action because the kids were minors (and white, my critical mind added, recalling past city police abuses like this and this). I felt angry and frustrated with the kids, city officials, and my own helplessness to fix the problem.
Democratic Lawmakers Consider Fleeing Texas To Prevent New Voter Suppression Measures
Texas Democrats steel for new fight against measures that could become some of the most restrictive voting laws in America.
CPAC has become the place Republicans go to sit around the campfire and scare themselves sillier
How can we be sure that we’ve drifted into the Worst Possible Timeline? Because it’s always CPAC. Not content with one event in 2021, the Conservative Political Action Conference is on again, with CPAC Part 2, Eclectic Bugaboos now underway in Dallas.
Once upon a time, the History Channel actually had shows about history. The Science Channel had shows that tried to explain science.
Calif. Venue Reportedly Boots Matt Gaetz’s, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s America First Rally
“As soon as we found out who the speakers were we immediately canceled it,” the venue manager told the Orange County Register.
Connect! Unite! Act! Show some love for our animal friends
Connect! Unite! Act! is a weekly series that seeks to create face-to-face networks in each congressional district. Groups meet regularly to socialize, but also to get out the vote, support candidates, and engage in other local political actions that help our progressive movement grow and exert influence on the powers that be.
Nevada hospitality workers get ‘right to return,’ this week in the war on workers
Nevada’s “right to return” law has gone into effect, requiring employers to rehire many hospitality workers laid off during the pandemic to their original jobs, or equivalents, as those jobs become available again. Workers will get 24 hours to decide whether to accept a job, and must be available to start within five days.
Education that uses advocacy and social justice offers more possibilities for incarcerated students
This story was originally published at Prism.
Accessing education can be endlessly challenging for those who are currently or formerly incarcerated. For those inside, coursework is often provided through partnerships with surrounding colleges and universities, but issues ranging from constant facility transfers to ineligibility for tuition loans can make completing one’s studies unfeasible.
Tears, Politics And Money: School Boards Become Battle Zones
School board elections that were once uncontested have drawn slates of candidates galvanized by one issue or another.
The Arms Race for Weather Lovers Has Begun
The weather, often derided as a mundane conversation topic of last resort, has actually been a prolific source of entertainment. Natural disasters drive big-budget blockbusters. Solar power fuels Lorde’s latest single. Double rainbows produced a lasting meme. But is the weather worthy of an entire streaming service?Fox certainly thinks so. This fall, the network is set to launch Fox Weather, a platform for meteorology programming 24/7, rain or shine.
Help! My Future In-Laws Believe Our Wedding Is “Sinful.”
Is it worth waiting for them to come around?
Plugging Obamacare’s biggest hole poses dilemma for Democrats
Lawmakers can’t agree on how to extend coverage to millions in red states refusing Medicaid expansion.
The Rise of Anti-history
In June, Marjorie Taylor Greene visited the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. The visit was, by her own account, revelatory. Earlier in the spring, the Georgia member of the U.S. House compared Food City, a grocery chain that identified vaccinated employees on their name tags, to the Nazis, who forced Jews to wear Stars of David. A few days later, she compared Democrats to Nazis.Now she was contrite. “When you make a mistake, you should own it.
Murders Are Skyrocketing. Here’s How Democrats Should Respond.
They don’t have to act like Republicans to do it.
Elon Musk’s Tunnels Never Go Anywhere
Chicago, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Miami—who hasn’t been promised a tunnel?
My Wife Spends Her Money on Hair and Nails, Leaving Me to Pay for Our Expenses
She’s always broke a few days into the month.
The Hidden Costs of Dollar General
Critics say the company drives out grocery stores and exacerbates the problem of food deserts.
My Cat Needs $2,000 Dental Surgery. Should I Spend the Money to Keep Him Alive?
He’s only 3 years old.
Calls mount on FDA to formally endorse Covid vaccines as Delta surges
“I don’t think there’s anything that can move the needle more in the U.S.,” said Eric Topol, a professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research, about the unvaccinated who are eligible to get the shot.
HHS chief says his vaccine comments are being taken ‘wildly out of context’
Republicans balked after Secretary Xavier Becerra said it was “absolutely the government’s business” to know which Americans have been vaccinated.
I Just Tried to Have My First Post-COVID Sex, and I Have a Big Problem
I don’t know how I did this before.
Help! Our Stepchildren Dated and Had a Nasty Breakup.
Now my daughter refuses to come to family gatherings.
Ask a Teacher: Is Public or Private School Better for My Child?
What environment is best for my daughter?
Gasoline is up and GOP sees an easy target: Biden
Americans are hitting the road as strong economic growth pushes up oil prices, and Republicans are trying to pin pump prices on Biden’s energy policies.
A ‘humble’ Fed ramps up inflation forecast as prices jump
Fed Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank still expects rising inflation to subside in the coming months but underscored that he will be watching the data to see if that’s wrong.
Soaring prices draw both shrugs and screaming in Washington
A continued inflation spike could make it a lot harder for the president to push through trillions of dollars in additional federal spending.
“Police State Without the State”: Palestinian Authority Faces Protests over Critic’s Death in Custody
We look at growing opposition to the Palestinian Authority after the killing of a prominent activist, Nizar Banat, a vocal critic of the ruling body who died in PA custody after security forces violently arrested him at his home. Banat’s killing has sparked protests calling for President Mahmoud Abbas to step down. “The Palestinian Authority now is acting like a police state without the state,” says Palestinian writer Mariam Barghouti.
News roundup: Allies, liars, backtracking, screwing over women, and fixing tech
Today in the news: Calls coming to get our allies from Afghanistan out as soon as possible. Republicans and their media allies can’t stop lying about vaccines. Toyota finally reversed its despicable decision to donate money to elected insurrectionists. Texas restricted abortion … and then some. President Biden continues to take actions to help American workers.
Donald Trump Reportedly Fed Up With ‘Annoying’ Kimberly Guilfoyle
Trump is angry his son’s girlfriend is capitalizing on family connections to back controversial GOP Senate candidate Eric Greitens in Missouri, Politico reports.
Schumer bows to necessity, warns that August recess could be cut short
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wants infrastructure. He wants it bad enough that he’s threatening the Senate’s August recess. “We have already made excellent progress towards our goals of rebuilding our nation’s infrastructure, confronting the threat of climate change, and investing in American families,” he wrote in a letter to Senate Democrats Friday.