Biden meets with top FDA candidate
President Joe Biden spoke Friday with Robert Califf, in the clearest sign yet he’s poised to nominate Califf to run the Food and Drug Administration.
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CDC gives green light to Moderna, J&J boosters plus mix-and-match strategy
The advisory committee endorsed the FDA’s decision to authorize a Moderna booster for people 65 and older and for all adults who either have underlying conditions or work in high-risk settings.
Insurers look to make Dems’ latest pay-for plan politically toxic
Industry-allied groups have spent $2.6 million on television advertisements opposing cuts to Medicare Advantage since the spring.
Texas asks Supreme Court to let its abortion ban stand
The Justice Department this week asked the Supreme Court to take emergency action that would block Texas’ abortion ban from being enforced while litigation over its constitutionality goes forward.
The Atlantic Daily: January 6 Isn’t Going Away
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Certain moments in history leave long shadows. The January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is sure to be one of them, even though the fallout is far from settled. Not even a year has passed, and already we are seeing glimpses of its disturbing cultural legacy.
Opinion | How Corporations Keep Their Own Workers in Debt
Too many employers are imposing crippling debt on workers. Biden can do something about it.
The political peril that Biden didn’t see coming
The current inflation spike now appears to be on track to persist deep into 2022.
Opinion | What the Supply Chain Crisis Reveals About American Infrastructure
Politicians like to argue in favor of more infrastructure — and more spending on it. But we can use the capacity we already have in much smarter ways.
Wall Street’s wild party in jeopardy as Fed threatens aid cutoff
The central bank plans to begin yanking back assistance to the economy as early as next month, and many Fed officials are open to increasing interest rates next year.
Public Citizen Blasts Pfizer for Putting Corporate Profit Over Increasing Access to COVID Vaccines
A damning new report shows that one of the leading COVID-19 vaccine makers appears to have played a role in restricting access to those very vaccines. The report, “Pfizer’s Power,” published this week by the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, examines Pfizer’s contracts with the United States, United Kingdom, European Commission, Albania, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Dominican Republic and Peru.
Sen. Joe Manchin’s Opposition to Biden Agenda Backed by History of Putting Corporations Over People
As President Biden negotiates the final size and scope of the Build Back Better Act with fellow Democrats, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has emerged as a major hurdle to his agenda. The conservative Democrat and his family would potentially profit from his opposition to the key planks of the bill, including green energy investment and raising corporate taxes to pay for the package.
How Kyrsten Sinema, Once a Socialist, Is Now Obstructing the Democrats’ Progressive Platform
President Biden acknowledged Thursday his Build Back Better agenda is in jeopardy due to two Senate Democrats: Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. Both senators have pushed Biden to slash in half his $3.5 trillion proposal that would be spent over 10 years to vastly expand the safety net and combat the climate crisis. We take an in-depth look at the two lawmakers, starting with Sinema.
As Murder Trial Begins in Ahmaud Arbery’s Killing, Family Worries About Impartiality of Jurors
We go to Brunswick, Georgia, for an update as jury selection began this week in the trial of three white men who fatally shot 25-year-old unarmed man Ahmaud Arbery while he was out for a jog last year. Gregory McMichael and his son Travis McMichael claim they were attempting a “citizen’s arrest” of Arbery last February when they pursued him in their pickup truck.
Army ‘Psy Ops’ Expert Part Of Trump Team ‘Command Center’ To Overturn Vote: Report
Plots to subvert the will of American voters were discussed in a “war room” at the Willard in downtown Washington, D.C., reports The Washington Post.
Coding Org Seeking ‘Legal Counsel’ After Trump Venture Appears To Violate Terms
A software project dedicated to community ownership and public accessibility runs into Donald Trump’s “Truth Social” media efforts.
Community Spotlight: When Community goes far beyond the internet
Give it up for DrLori. For the last eight months, in true community spirit, she’s split the weekly Community Spotlight diary with Besame. She’s stepping back from this aspect of the Rescue Rangers, but will continue—along with the rest of us—reading everything posted by Community writers here at Daily Kos.
We often toss around the word “Community” as it relates to our activities at Daily Kos.
‘Makes me want to throw up’: Investor bails after learning funds would go to Trump social network
The latest news from Bizarro World is that Donald Trump is finally starting his own social media company—and it’s named TRUTH Social. Because while irony is long dead, that doesn’t mean Trump can’t beat it in the head with a shovel a few more times just to watch its corpse jiggle.
Sure, some people are still eager to invest their money with Donald Trump. And some kids still stick their tongues to flagpoles every winter.
What do Tucker Carlson’s fans sound like? Rep. Swalwell releases voicemail threats to show us
California Rep. Eric Swalwell, like many Democratic officials, has been the target of right-wing media personalities like Tucker Carlson—largely because he is consistently vocal about GOP malfeasance and hypocrisy. On Thursday, Rep. Swalwell posted a voicemail message he received filled with hate, invective, racism, homophobia, and wishes for his torture and death.
‘Law And Order’ GOP ‘Coddles Criminals’ Like Steve Bannon, Accuses Scathing Editorial
Voting against holding Bannon in criminal contempt was the latest in a series of examples of the GOP “siding with criminality,” charged the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board.
Connect! Unite! Act! We all make errors
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No one is perfect—not even close. We all make mistakes.
Ill Lawmaker Makes Florida Surgeon General Leave Her Office For Not Wearing Mask
“I told him I have a serious medical condition,” recounted state Sen. Tina Polsky, who has been diagnosed with breast cancer.
Latina Equal Pay Day brought a litany of dismal statistics, this week in the war on workers
Latina Equal Pay Day fell on Oct.21 this year. That’s the day when, starting on Jan. 1, 2020, Latina women have finally been paid what white men were paid in 2020 alone. It followed Black Women’s Equal Pay Day on August 3 and Equal Pay Day (averaging all women) on March 24. Latinas are paid 57 cents for every dollar paid to white men, and have to work an extra 294 days to earn the same amount of money.
Deal On Biden’s $2T Plan Edges Closer; Harris Is `Confident’
“I am confident, frankly ― not only optimistic, but I am confident that we will reach a deal,” Vice President Kamala Harris said.
The Real Scandal About Ivermectin
Ivermectin is an antiparasitic drug, and a very good one. If you are infected with the roundworms that cause river blindness or the parasitic mites that cause scabies, it is wonderfully effective. It is cheap; it is accessible; and its discoverers won the Nobel Prize in 2015. It has also been widely promoted as a coronavirus prophylactic and treatment.
How Public Health Took Part in Its Own Downfall
There was a time, at the start of the 20th century, when the field of public health was stronger and more ambitious. A mixed group of physicians, scientists, industrialists, and social activists all saw themselves “as part of this giant social-reform effort that was going to transform the health of the nation,” David Rosner, a public-health historian at Columbia University, told me.
College Admissions Are Still Unfair
This week Amherst College announced that it was ending the use of legacy preferences in its admissions process. Its president, Biddy Martin, acknowledged that providing an advantage to applicants who are the children of alumni “inadvertently limits educational opportunity.” When incredibly wealthy, highly selective colleges such as Amherst (endowment: $3.
Where Did 7 Million Workers Go?
The U.S. economy right now is a little bit like Dune.Not Frank Herbert’s magisterial sci-fi epic novel, or Denis Villeneuve’s new and reportedly sumptuous film adaptation. I mean David Lynch’s infamously bewildering 1984 movie version, which is remembered mostly for being a semi-glorious mess. Like that space oddity, today’s economy is too strange to neatly categorize as “clearly great” or “obviously terrible.
CDC gives green light to Moderna, J&J boosters plus mix-and-match strategy
The advisory committee endorsed the FDA’s decision to authorize a Moderna booster for people 65 and older and for all adults who either have underlying conditions or work in high-risk settings.
Insurers look to make Dems’ latest pay-for plan politically toxic
Industry-allied groups have spent $2.6 million on television advertisements opposing cuts to Medicare Advantage since the spring.
Texas asks Supreme Court to let its abortion ban stand
The Justice Department this week asked the Supreme Court to take emergency action that would block Texas’ abortion ban from being enforced while litigation over its constitutionality goes forward.