Hello, Daily Kos Community, and welcome back to Daily Kos Week in Action! This series from the Daily Kos Activism team shares the issues we’re tackling each week and gets your feedback on where we might focus our future efforts.
This week, we’re highlighting the postal service’s efforts to deliver COVID-19 tests to the American people. We continue our commemoration of Black History Month by advocating for D.
by Sravya Tadepalli
This article was originally published at Prism
Disability advocates in California have given their blessing to proposed legislation that would curb the power of conservators and promote less restrictive alternatives to conservatorships. Conservatorship abuse gained a national spotlight when singer-songwriter Britney Spears fought to be released from a 13-year conservatorship that allowed her father to have full control over her person and assets.
Residents complain of constant air horn blasts, harassment, assault by truckers opposed to COVID-19 vaccines. “This is a siege,” said Ottawa’s police chief.
Let me explain something about my carpentry skills: As a young kid, I was required in eighth grade to go through “Shop” class, where we worked with power tools and learned everything there was to know about being a good “young man.” Girls took Home Economics and boys, Shop. We were not given a choice in the matter. My goodness do I wish I could have swapped, because I had no ability, at all, to work a power tool.
by Natasha Ishak
This article was originally published at Prism
Last week, Justice Stephen Breyer surprised the public by announcing his retirement, paving a path for President Joe Biden to pick a liberal replacement to fill the retiring jurist’s seat on the Supreme Court. The president had repeatedly stated he would nominate a Black woman to the court during his presidential campaign and reaffirmed his pledge to do so.
Los Angeles. Philadelphia. Tallahassee. Starbucks workers are moving to unionize all across the country following two union victories out of three elections held in Buffalo in late 2021. They’re getting some great community support—if you’re ordering at Starbucks, especially one where there’s a union effort, you can join in by giving your name as “union strong” or another pro-worker message.
The video was released hours after the GOP said Capitol rioters were engaging in “legitimate political discourse.
The Jan. 6 committee has not yet subpoenaed the Ohio congressman as part of its investigation into the deadly attack.
The best way to understand a controversial new resolution from the Republican National Committee censuring Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger is not, as some people have suggested, to legitimize the January 6 attack on the Capitol, but as something more primal: Trump service. The resolution hardly changes a thing—the two lawmakers are already personae non gratae in the party—but it seems designed to pacify the angry ochre god-king and his acolytes.
What constitutes diversity has changed over time, but presidents always looked to balance the Supreme Court to reflect the broader nation.
The power of Jackass has always rested with the peanut gallery. Almost every ridiculous, painful stunt Johnny Knoxville and his gang of nimrods have pulled over the past 20-plus years has come with a reliable laugh track: the rest of the ensemble gathered around to watch, doubled over and cackling as someone subjects themselves to unspeakable injury.
Sign up for Charlie’s newsletter, Galaxy Brain, here.Here is my confession: I’m traumatized by a David Letterman clip. It’s from November 1995, and Letterman’s guest is a young, bespectacled Bill Gates. The video starts with a question from the legendary late-night host: “What about this internet thing?” he asks.
Bernie Moreno should have been a contender. Instead, he has dropped out of the race for Ohio’s Senate seat after spending millions of his own money and never reaching even fifth place in polls of the Republican primary. It’s a story with a lesson, a very sad lesson.Moreno, age 54, declared last year for the seat now held by Ohio Republican Rob Portman.
One day in January 2020, a team of experts from Beijing arrived in Wuhan, China, to investigate the origins and assess the scale of an outbreak of a mysterious virus. At least 60 people in Wuhan had already fallen ill. Troublingly, cases had begun to surface in Thailand and Japan.The same day, Chinese President Xi Jinping departed from Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, where he had met with the country’s leaders.
Medicare will directly pay certain pharmacies and other participating entities.
The new moonshot lands one year into Biden’s presidency, giving the administration a long runaway to steer its progress.
Biden and his top health officials have already begun hinting at an impending “new normal.
State audits could lead to as many as 15 million people, including 6 million children, losing their health insurance, according to one analysis.
Congress needs to create a new safety net for such lenders — not let regulators squeeze them out of business.
Inside the White House, there is still optimism: “President Biden was elected to a four-year term, not a one-year term.
The government reported Wednesday that the consumer price index, the most widely watched gauge of inflation, hit a four-decade high in December compared to the previous year.
The United Nations warns Afghanistan is “hanging by a thread” as millions in the country suffer from hunger and are at risk of freezing to death during the winter as U.S. sanctions have devastated the economy. We get an update on what is now the world’s largest humanitarian crisis from Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council.
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin urged the former vice president to “wake up” when it comes to the former president.
The newspaper’s editorial board burst the bubble on the Missouri GOP senator’s presidential aspirations, slamming him as “grossly unfit” for office.
Trump accused Pence of being an “automatic conveyor belt” for ‘Old Crow Mitch McConnell’ to get Joe Biden elected in odd statement.
Trump and others “engaged in a concerted effort to … direct rally participants to storm the Capitol, enter the grounds, ‘fight like hell,’” argues the Jan. 6 case brief.
The Capitol riot was “mob violence,” not “legitimate political discourse,” as the Republican National Committee claims, said GOP Sen. Ben Sasse.
It is Friday! This week has been filled with a mixture of ennui and anticipation for less ennui. The flashiest battles going on right now seem to be between the Republican Party and the Republican Party. While the Liz Cheney establishment wing of the GOP diminishes, they still have one ace card—the MAGA wing of the party probably broke at least a million laws.
The first concert I ever saw was Prince in Washington, D.C. in 1984. I snuck out of my house and joined up with four of my closest girlfriends. Terrified for my little preteen life, we gathered together in a small group to protect ourselves from the massive and sexually charged crowd, but that night I became a lifelong Prince fan.
Truthfully, I fell in love with the Purple One with the Dirty Mind album.
Can anyone still say with a straight face that Donald Trump wasn’t trying to illegally overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election? Everything he did from Nov. 3, 2020 to Jan.