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A professor in Qatar was the first to spot the propaganda accounts praising Putin and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
This week saw two winning union votes with big margins and special significance. Workers who’d been organizing at a Manhattan REI store voted to unionize by an 88 to 14 margin. REI has 170 stores, and as we watch Starbucks stores unionizing—with three out of four that have voted so far having voted yes, the most recent one by a big margin—you have to wonder what supposedly progressive retail or food service chain is next.
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Experts have warned that a no-fly zone would amount to a U.S. declaration of war against nuclear-armed Russia.
Trump is largely alone in his sustained praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin as “smart,” an assessment he reiterated last week during speeches to donors.
In the past 30 years, two Westerns have won Best Picture at the Academy Awards and both redefined that most American of genres. When Clint Eastwood’s brutally revisionist Unforgiven won in 1993, it marked a turning point for films that had long idealized frontier violence. The Coen brothers’ No Country for Old Men then won in 2008, defining modern Westerns beyond the typical 19th-century setting.
What seemed like an eternity ended at 13. I decided that was the appropriate age to swap my fat pigtails out for a fantastic, fluffy ’fro. In lieu of a debutante cotillion or other social ritual, the coming-out of my hair would mark my transition from girl to teenager. An afro, my afro, would also serve as a talisman of acceptance—indisputable evidence that, no matter my light-skinned flesh nor the thousand shades of blond in my thick hair, I was Black.
Last month, as Delta Flight 1580 made its way from Utah to Oregon, Michael Demarre approached one of the plane’s emergency-exit doors. He removed the door’s plastic covering, a federal report of the events alleges, and tugged at the handle that would release its hatch. A nearby flight attendant, realizing what he was doing, stopped him. Fellow passengers spent the rest of the flight watching him to ensure that he remained in his seat.
This article contains spoilers for Love Is Blind Season 2. If you’ve never seen an episode of Love Is Blind, the best way I can describe the viewing experience is this: It feels like a television producer read a Wikipedia description of the Stanford prison experiment and decided that all it needed was a little romance.
In recent years, the subject of language has been prominent on American movie-award stages. In 2020, Lee Isaac Chung’s gorgeous family drama Minari was controversially nominated for best foreign-language film at the Golden Globes despite being in both English and Korean and dealing with the very American experiences of isolation and immigration.
A recall of infant formula tied to two deaths came five months after the agency learned of the first hospitalized child, raising questions about the pace of the government’s investigation.
The White House on Thursday called the GOP attempt to terminate the pandemic emergency declaration “a reckless and costly mistake.
The majority opinion pointed to “the importance of ensuring that States have a fair opportunity to defend their laws in federal court.
The new ask raises questions about when the White House will have to come back to Congress for more.
The strategy represents a major milestone for the president after a first year consumed by the pandemic.
Over the last several days, as many as 520,000 people have fled Ukraine, according to the United Nations.
The Fed is already expected to begin a campaign of interest rate increases next month in a bid to remove its support for economic growth amid a blistering job market and rapidly rising prices.
“America’s job machine is going stronger than ever,” Biden said at the White House.
The burst of jobs came despite a wave of Omicron inflections that sickened millions of workers, kept many consumers at home and left businesses from restaurants to manufacturers short-staffed.
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.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned that if a Third World War were to take place, it would be a nuclear war. His comments come just days after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s nuclear forces on high alert and after Russian nuclear submarines set sail for tests in waters near Norway. Meanwhile, voters in Belarus have approved a referendum opening the door for Russia to station nuclear weapons in Belarusian territory, and Russia has called on the U.S.
Trump’s former vice president also urged Republicans to move on from the 2020 election in a speech to donors in New Orleans.
The Trump-adoring Florida Republican’s baseless claim was quickly chopped down.
George Will highlighted the former president’s waning power in a blistering new column for The Washington Post.
“I think that the whole idea was to intimidate Congress, and I think that was wrong,” the former attorney general added in an NBC interview.
Trump seriously considered replacing the acting attorney general with a supporter who had a plan to try to throw out 2020 election results.
It is Friday. The relentless pace of the invasion of Ukraine is brutal. Calls from Ukrainians for the U.S. and NATO allies to enact a no-fly zone have been tempting to some but don’t change the nature of the problems on the ground. In fact, they may only exacerbate what is already an intolerable and inhumane situation.
More than 1 million Ukrainians have fled their war-torn country as of this writing, with many more displaced within the country’s borders. They are living without access to clean water, electricity, food, and other essential items. Some are seeking refuge from the Russian shelling in makeshift bomb shelters, like train stations.
In the past week, Daily Kos readers and activists have raised more than $850,000 for four charities helping the people of Ukraine.