In the news today: As a conservative conference in Texas welcomes a stream of January 6 seditionists, Trump and Fox News continue to paint those violent would-be topplers of government as patriots while attacking law enforcement officers who defended lawmakers that day. Texas Republicans, meanwhile, are again pushing forward with new voting restrictions.
Right-wing commenters have been up in arms about others pointing out the problem of privilege. After all, they tell us, aren’t all the laws equally enforced? To that, I would like to introduce and contrast a simple case. One, a man uses a suspicious $20 bill and is dead at the heel of an officer.
The day before former President Donald Trump was scheduled to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Sunday, CNN host Jim Acosta delivered the kind of spot-on analysis of Trump that will likely hold true for years to come. “Now there’s something I’d like to address. A couple of weeks ago, I compared Trump’s comeback tour to the circus, full of sideshow acts and clowns,” Acosta said Saturday on CNN Newsroom.
I’m making half of my previous salary, and I’m depressed and embarrassed.
Daily Kos Elections has calculated the 2020 presidential results for every state Senate and state House district in New Mexico, where Democratic primary wins against several conservative state senators removed a huge roadblock for progressives. You can find all of our district-level data nationwide at this bookmarkable permalink.
We’ll start with the 42-member state Senate, where members are elected to four-year terms during presidential cycles.
“They are cheering about someone saying that it’s a good thing for people not to try and save their lives.
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.
In the image above, you get to see the official ice cream truck, paid for by the Democratic National Committee, designed to celebrate July 4th and show that America was back on track.
Adam Kinzinger said that Republican leaders must call out “these absolute clown politicians playing on your vaccine fears for their own selfish gain.
Hervis Rogers, 62, is being charged with illegal voting, officials said Wednesday. Rogers endured seven hours in line waiting to vote in last year’s primary elections.
Richard Branson was hungover on the day the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon in 1969. He had turned 19 two days earlier and had celebrated accordingly. But he was “gripped” as he watched Neil Armstrong on his family’s little black-and-white television, he later wrote in a memoir. He knew then—he was “instantly convinced”—that someday he would go to space himself.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that these vaccines are going to get full approval because of the extraordinary amount of positive data,” he said.
But the nation’s top infectious disease expert did not back a federal mandate.
The woman who has talked about her days on welfare NOW wants benefits to end.
Photograph by Mengwen Caoand I’m thinking of the years I spent sweating
to the choreo of every K-pop song with a decent
dance break, me and the other girls from church,
practically saintly in our diligence as we
rehearsed our isolations and body rolls, winding
and rewinding the tapes, our noses almost
grazing the screen, though in truth I only understood
maybe about half the words, the other half
mostly sounds, which nevertheless sank
into my muscles, pathways laid by so many
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He basically treats her like a second girlfriend.
The deepening split shows how difficult it may be for businesses and schools to require shots.
Parenting advice on breastfeeding, fat phobia, and child development.
They don’t have to act like Republicans to do it.
Chicago, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Miami—who hasn’t been promised a tunnel?
She’s always broke a few days into the month.
Critics say the company drives out grocery stores and exacerbates the problem of food deserts.
He’s only 3 years old.
The decision to greenlight Aduhelm has drawn widespread scrutiny, and came over the objections of independent advisers to the FDA and other experts who said there was little evidence of its effectiveness.
The health agency updated its school guidance to help guide state and local officials as well as administrators prepare for the fall term.
Opinion on the lab leak scenario, once seen as a fringe theory, has shifted dramatically.
“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.
1. Soccer finals Wish the footie fan in your life godspeed. First, the Copa América concludes with an Argentina-Brazil matchup on Saturday. Then Sunday sees England against Italy for the European Championship.The English team is competing for its first major tournament title in more than half a century. At a time when the country’s identity is in flux, the players offer a progressive and inclusive model of Englishness.
I am not from England. I have no family in England. And I have not spent a considerable amount of time on English soil. So my investment in the success of England’s soccer team, at face value, doesn’t make much sense. I cheer as Raheem Sterling glides past a defender; I smile as Bukayo Saka sends the perfect pass to a teammate; I hold my breath with the anticipation of possibility when Jadon Sancho gets anywhere within 25 yards of the opponent’s goal.
The late Janet Malcolm, writing about the Gossip Girl novels for The New Yorker in 2008, delighted in the heartlessness of the teenage characters—their voyeuristic cruelty and the sharp satisfaction they take in the downfall of their peers. What the series understands, Malcolm wrote, is that “children are a pleasure-seeking species, and that adolescence is a delicious last gasp (the light is most golden just before the shadows fall) of rightful selfishness and cluelessness.
