In the news today: As of this writing, the Senate had not yet voted on the creation of an independent probe into the January 6 insurrection—a probe that Republicans are promising to filibuster, and one that several of the voting Republican senators would likely be asked to testify in. “Bipartisan” infrastructure plans continue to go nowhere.
This is the fourth in a series of interviews with Democratic candidates for statewide office in Virginia.
I don’t think I have to remind anyone here what 2017 was like for those of us in the Netroots. I’d argue the majority of us immediately understood the systemic threat represented by Donald Trump and became determined to do whatever it took to keep our democracy alive.
There is perhaps no better example of that than Virginia in 2017.
When I was a younger man, I would walk through the store and laugh as the tabloids featured stories about “Bat Boy” and “Devil Child,” or stories about Bill Clinton being a secret alien, Ronald Reagan having been cloned, or George Bush Sr. conducting his own military runs in planes during the Gulf War. The Weekly World News and all the garbage fodder of the time period represented a more laid back era when people would laugh at the madness.
Happy almost-Memorial Day!
The unofficial start of summer is nigh (technically it doesn’t start until the solstice on June 20), but if you think that means Republicans are hitting pause on their awful statehouse antics, I’ve got some bad news for you.
This story was originally published at Prism.
By Kailea Frederick
For many, myself included, 2016 was a pivotal year. In a moment that will be forever marked in our minds, the rise at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) created a resurgence in the modern-day Indigenous people’s movements.
“If Trump doesn’t run, I’m sure I could defeat whatever remains of Joe Biden by 2024,” the Florida congressman told the New York Post.
Gov. Brad Little’s office said he was not informed that his second-in-command would be making the proclamation.
Now that Jim’s “Quite Possibly Wonderful Summer” is coming to fruition, a lot of listeners have been considering the present and future. Can you go to a tango festival? What should parents be watching for? And why, exactly, is the surgeon general wearing that uniform? Hit play for answers and a short history lesson from Ruth Fairbanks, a listener and history professor, in conversation with hosts James Hamblin and Maeve Higgins.
The FBI asked for help IDing a man who sprayed cops with a fire extinguisher. But police body camera footage shows Nicholas Brockhoff naming himself.
Get ready for HQ2, uh, part two.
Yes, as in the 2002 feature starring Vin Diesel.
There were how many diamonds on the ring? The groom has been married how many times?
“Some people have no shame,” the president joked.
With 165 million people and counting inoculated in the United States, vaccines have, at long last, tamped the pandemic’s blaze down to a relative smolder in this part of the world. But the protection that vaccines offer is more like a coat of flame retardant than an impenetrable firewall. SARS-CoV-2 can, very rarely, still set up shop in people who are more than two weeks out from their last COVID-19 shot.These rare breakthroughs, as I’ve written before, are no cause for alarm.
I tried to sic my doctor on him, but she declined to get involved.
A “bootstraps” approach to life’s challenges can’t be all there is.
Bowen the goldendoodle is never home alone. When he first came home as a puppy, last June, his parents were working remotely because of the pandemic. If they try to leave their Boston apartment for even a few minutes now, he makes his unhappiness audible. “He’s whining and barking, and we just don’t want to upset the neighbors,” Jon Canario told me. So they don’t. Wherever they go, he goes. Wherever he can’t go, they don’t go.
Businesses can continue to require customers and employees to wear coverings, the governor said.
President Joe Biden has ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to investigate the origins of COVID-19 as new questions are being raised over whether an accidental leak from a Chinese virology lab is to blame for the pandemic. The Wall Street Journal reports three employees of the Wuhan Institute of Virology fell ill with COVID-like symptoms in the autumn of 2019 and were hospitalized in November of that year, before the first recorded case of COVID-19.
Pressure is growing on organizers to cancel the Tokyo Olympics as Japan struggles to contain a fourth wave of COVID-19 cases. The games, which were delayed by a year due to the pandemic, are scheduled to begin July 23 even though less than 3% of the Japanese population has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, one of the lowest rates in the developed world. Jules Boykoff, author and former Olympic athlete who played for the U.S.
Omitting traditional anti-abortion provisions from his budget proposal could be his strongest statement yet on the issue.
Joe Biden says the pickup truck is fast. It’s heavy, too.
He rode a roller coaster! He ate a burger for breakfast! His rival is under investigation!
The finding could pave the way for the shot to become the second authorized in the U.S. for use in teens.
Japan has experienced a surge in coronavirus cases.
More than 200,000 people have sought reimbursement of up to $9,000 per family for Covid-19-related funeral expenses.
The bard of the ’60s wasn’t gay, but his art made a huge difference for those who were.
