For Republicans, 2021 Is The Year To Target Trans Kids
Dozens of states have introduced bills to limit medical care to transgender youth or keep trans kids from playing on school sports teams.
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp Vows ‘Fight’ After MLB Pulls All-Star Game Over Voting Law
The Republican governor alleged Major League Baseball had “caved to fear and lies from liberal activists” in its decision to yank its July game out of Atlanta.
Donald Trump’s Latest Election Rant Concludes With ‘Other Than That, Happy Easter’
Five months later, the former president still isn’t over the 2020 election. He does wish you a fine Easter weekend, though.
‘The Narrative Is, “You Can’t Get Ahead”’
Ndona Muboyayi wants to improve the education that public-school children, including her son and daughter, receive in Evanston, Illinois, where her mother’s family history goes back five generations.
Pharmacies score customer data in vaccine effort. Some are crying foul.
Pharmacy chains hope information from vaccine seekers could translate to new business, while privacy watchdogs are calling for restrictions on the data.
When America Couldn’t Bring Back Our Girls
In 2014, three months after Boko Haram militants kidnapped 276 girls from a school in the northeastern Nigerian town of Chibok, a photo landed on a bank of monitors in the CIA’s Abuja station, a group of sealed drop-ceiling rooms concealed behind the blast-proof walls of the United States embassy.The picture was the spy agency’s best clue in months as to the location of the Chibok girls.
L.A. Cleared One of Its Largest Homeless Encampments. Is It the Start of a Crackdown?
Activists fear the police-enforced closure will inspire similar actions across the city.
What Was VW Thinking With Its “Voltswagen” Prank?
After its diesel fraud, the carmaker tries lying to reporters about its electrical vehicle marketing.
The Past Year Has Been a Small Nightmare of Recurring Charges
It’s time to see if you can cancel your gym membership
FDA allows Moderna to put more coronavirus vaccine doses in each vial
This change that will likely allow the company to speed up the pace of its shipments.
Emergent admits to manufacturing issues with J&J vaccine
The acknowledgment came one day after reports revealed a production mistake that affected 15 million doses.
White House knew more than a week ago of J&J contractor vaccine-supply problems
Workers at Emergent BioSolutions ruined 15 million doses by mixing ingredients from two Covid-19 vaccines together.
Whistleblower says FDA minimized safety risks at Merck vaccine plant
The facility in Durham, N.C., is set to help produce Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine.
‘Crazy things happen’: Biden’s next spending spree fuels a fight over risks
The president’s team is preparing a $3 trillion spending proposal to power through Congress. They’re betting markets and the economy will cooperate long enough to pass it.
Black workers, hammered by pandemic, now being left behind in recovery
Structural inequities in the U.S. labor market that have affected Black and Hispanic workers’ ability to advance out of low-paying jobs, as well as discrimination in hiring practices, are also likely having an effect.
Fed sees U.S. economic growth surging to 6.5 percent this year
Central bank officials now expect the unemployment rate to drop to 4.5 percent by the end of 2021.
Treasury secretary minimizes risk of inflation caused by Covid relief package
Janet Yellen said the greater risk was not strengthening the economy as it recovers from the impact of the pandemic.
News Roundup: Florida floodgaetz open; GOP war on LGBTQ kids, immigrant kids, yoga kids?
A lot of news comes down the pipe during a Friday, even in a post-incompetent administration. Much of this news is positive as our competent administration works to help hundreds of millions of Americans adversely affected by the previous administration. Some of this news is negative as the Republican Party’s lack of popular policy ideas means their entire identity is based on the belief that we should not be a democracy.
The floodgaetz are open: Matt Gaetz growing scandal is a threat to the whole GOP
The prospect of Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz being hoisted by his own “family values” petard is certainly enticing.
Citing fear of Hindu indoctrination, Alabama GOP block efforts to lift 28-year-old yoga ban
Did you know that for 28 years, Alabama has had a ban on teaching yoga in the Yellowhammer State? Well, it’s true. Since 1993, the Alabama board of education has blocked yoga, hypnosis, and meditation from public schools. According to Newsweek, the state’s guidelines explain it this way: “The State Board of Education specifically prohibits the use of hypnosis and dissociative mental states.
Officers pepper-sprayed ICE detainees who peacefully protested lack of PPE, DHS watchdog says
In the earliest weeks of the novel coronavirus pandemic last year, people jailed at a private immigration prison in Arizona held a peaceful protest over the lack of sufficient personal protective equipment (PPE) provided to detainees. The facility responded to their pleas by violently deploying chemical agents at them, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Inspector General said in a new report released Thursday.
Seven Texas officers fired (and 1 resigns) after 26-year-old dies in jail cell
On March 14, Marvin D. Scott III, a 26-year-old Black man, was arrested at a Texas mall for misdemeanor possession of marijuana—less than two ounces. A few hours later, Scott was dead inside of a Collins County, Texas, jail cell—restrained in a bed, with a spit hood over his face.
Joe Biden Picked a Good Time to Become President
The opportunity for a competent administration to do something historic was helped by timing, weather, and, yes, Trump.
Republican Lawmakers Introduce Hundreds Of Bills To Restrict Voting Rights Nationwide
In several states, including Georgia, attempts to suppress the vote have already become law.
Ted Cruz Responds to John Boehner’s ‘Go F**k Yourself’ With A ‘Mean Girls’ GIF
The Texas Republican had a very high school reaction to a rogue moment in the former House speaker’s audiobook.
The Threat That COVID-19 Poses Now
After more than a year of pandemic, after months of an aggressive vaccination campaign, the United States should finally be better positioned to protect itself against the coronavirus. Nearly all of our long-term-care residents are vaccinated. Tens of millions of other people have been vaccinated, and tens of millions more have some level of immunity from previous infection.
Florida Man
Florida man, Florida man,
great head of hair, studio tan,
if I were hitching in the Everglades
and you pulled up, I’d be afraid.I wouldn’t climb into your minivan,
your swampmobile, O Florida man.
I’d wait for a ride with an honest trucker.
Anyone but you, you sleazy fucker.