Dr. Fauci Says Fox News’ Jesse Watters Should Be Fired Over ‘Kill Shot’ Remark
“The guy should be fired on the spot,” the infectious disease expert said, though he accurately predicted that Watters would not be held accountable.
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Joe Manchin Said Constituent Complained Of ‘Crackhead Daughter’ Wasting Child Tax Credit
The senator’s dislike of the child tax credit helped tank the entire Build Back Better Act.
‘Stop It Now’: Biden Rebukes Cable News, Social Media For COVID Vaccine Lies
“These companies and personalities are making money by peddling lies… that can kill their own customers and their own supporters,” he said.
Coal Miners Union To Joe Manchin: Support Build Back Better
The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) said the Build Back Better Act would provide benefits to coal miners in West Virginia.
Scott Perry Says He’s Refusing To Comply With Jan. 6 Investigation
The Pennsylvania lawmaker is the first sitting member of Congress the committee has summoned.
Fauci on What COVID Could Look Like One Year From Now
It was bad enough that the Omicron variant shattered hopes of a normal holiday season, or at least what passes for normal in year two of the pandemic. Now it feels like we’re fated to live with COVID-19 in perpetuity, forever worried that when one variant fades, another will quickly take its place, that we’ll never, once and for all, throw out our face masks.Anthony Fauci is more upbeat.
The Matrix Resurrections Is a Self-Aware Sequel
The Matrix was set at the end of history. Released in 1999, the Wachowskis’ sci-fi film painted a quotidian picture of the late 20th century: The protagonist, Thomas Anderson (played by Keanu Reeves), lived in a bland-looking megacity where he worked a dull cubicle job and pondered the hopeless future that many feared at the end of the millennium.
When’s the Last Time You Felt Truly Happy?
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Happiness, and the pursuit of it, is elemental to the experience of being human.
“Shut Down Those Tanks”: Anger Grows in Hawaii After U.S. Navy Fuel Site Contaminates Water
The United States Navy is facing growing calls to permanently shut down one of their fuel storage facilities in Hawaii after a petroleum leak contaminated the water supply that serves over 90,000 families around the naval base of Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu.
Gabriel Boric Win in Chile Is “Huge Victory” for Social Movements That Fought Off Far-Right Threat
Former student activist and leftist Gabriel Boric will become Chile’s youngest president after easily defeating the far-right candidate José Antonio Kast with over 55% of the vote. Boric has vowed to fight for progressive social reforms and overhaul the neoliberal economic policies left by the U.S.-backed dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.
5 Years for a Retweet: Egyptian Rights Activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah Sentenced by Emergency Court
An emergency court in Egypt has sentenced leading human rights activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah to an additional five years in prison on the charge of “spreading false news undermining national security” for sharing a post on Twitter.
The Absurdity of Renting a Car Will No Longer Be Tolerated
What do you expect will happen when you walk into a rental-car office? Do you think you’ll turn over your credit card and your driver’s license, and walk out with the keys to at least generally the type of car you’ve reserved, having agreed to at least roughly the fee that you were quoted? Or do you picture something else?“I’m expecting chaos,” says the comedian Caleb Hearon, who travels semi-frequently for work.
Biden expanding testing and reinforcing hospitals in face of Omicron
The initiatives come as Omicron blankets the U.S. and amount to a redeployment of emergency defenses seen last year.
Colorado governor supports redefining what it means to be fully vaccinated
Jared Polis also said the unvaccinated are “often victims of misinformation.
Health spending growth more than doubled in first year of pandemic
Nearly the entire increase came from the burst of federal spending as the government mobilized to contain the spread of the virus.
Fed clears path for multiple rate hikes during election year as prices surge
The Fed plans to cease its bond buys entirely by March, rather than its earlier target of June to give itself room to begin raising interest rates as early as the second quarter of next year.
Inflation accelerates at lightning pace in new setback for Biden
Costs for key goods and services soared 0.8 percent for the month and 6.8 percent for the year, the highest since 1982, the Labor Department reported Friday.
Opinion | How the Return to Office Work Is Impoverishing the Middle Class
The middle class is facing serious economic hardship with little of the workplace flexibility now afforded to the well-off. Here’s how employers — and government — can help.
Powell: Fed may pull back economic support more quickly as prices spike
Powell’s comment came after the Fed already announced earlier this month that it would slow the pace at which it buys U.S. government debt and mortgage-backed securities.
Bipartisanship at Whose Expense? Sen. Raphael Warnock Calls to End Filibuster, Pass Voting Rights Acts
Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia implored conservative members of his party to stop obstructing voting rights legislation in a powerful speech on the floor of the Senate Tuesday. While Warnock did not name Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, the two have come out against doing away with the filibuster in order to allow Democrats to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
Democrats Try To ‘Build Back’ After Manchin Tanks $2 Trillion Bill
Democrats are scrambling to pick up the pieces after the West Virginia Democrat effectively tanked the initiative.
News Roundup: Manchin doesn’t trust poor people, Trump sues to hide his grifting, and more
In the news today: It’s being reported that the real reason Sen. Joe Manchin is single-handedly destroying the Build Back Better plan is because he doesn’t trust poor people not to use drugs. On the bright side, this means Democrats can—and should—tell him to pound sand. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is in panic mode as he sues New York Attorney General Letitia James for investigating all his grifting.
Eric Trump says God made Daddy president in 2016, took a break in 2020, and will help again in 2024
I have a deep, visceral mistrust for anyone who says God is on their side. When has Providence ever sorted winners and losers like this? Didn’t we learn better from the bloody Crusades? Or centuries of ruinous sectarian violence? Or Tim Tebow’s NFL career?
Of course, these days we’re meant to believe that God is on the side of the vast majority of the people unnecessarily dying of COVID-19—because that’s what they keep claiming.
Sports Leagues Are Showing Us Just How Bad Omicron Could Get
This article was updated at 11:39 p.m. ET on December 20, 2021.Just a few minutes before tip-off on Wednesday, March 11, 2020, the PA announcer for the Oklahoma City Thunder broke the news to the gathered fans: That night’s NBA game between the Thunder and the visiting Utah Jazz was canceled “due to unforeseen circumstances.” A Jazz player, it would soon come out, had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
NASCAR driver ‘Let’s Go, Brandon’ Brown says he isn’t political, but won’t indict his chanting fans
Famed NASCAR driver Brandon Brown hasn’t gotten a lot of sleep lately. Not since his name has been at the center of a conservative Republican rallying cry, “Let’s Go, Brandon!” meaning, f**k Joe Biden.
The whole “Let’s Go, Brandon” hubbub began on Oct. 2 when Brown gave an interview to NBC Sports at the Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama, after he won his first NASCAR victory.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Uses Racial Slur To Tout Diversity Of GOP
The Georgia Republican used the term “yellow people” while refuting accusations her party is racist.
Hundreds of Virginia high school students protest after Muslim girl is allegedly attacked at school
More than 350 students from Fairfax High School in Virginia walked out in protest Thursday to show their solidarity with a student who was allegedly attacked in an Islamophobic incident. According to a Change.org petition, a Black Muslim student, identified as Ekran Mohammad, was allegedly harassed by a group of boys, who threw her onto a desk and removed her hijab on Tuesday.
Omicron now the dominant Covid strain in U.S., CDC says
The White House has urged vaccinations and booster shots to combat the new variant.
Jan. 6 Committee Seeks First Interview With Sitting Member Of Congress
The panel investigating the Capitol insurrection has requested an interview with Rep. Scott Perry, a Republican from Pennsylvania.
Alaska’s anti-vaxx mayor turns off city’s water fluoridation for hours, later learns it’s illegal
The devoutly anti-science mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, was forced to admit to turning off the fluoridation of the city’s water supply Tuesday, after learning it was a violation of municipal code. Once again, this is why you don’t vote for someone with no experience governing and who is also a conspiracy theorist.