Marjorie Taylor Greene Gets Reality Check: ‘Commie’ Infrastructure Funds Built Highways
“Eisenhower’s interstate system should be torn up or else the commies will be able to conveniently drive! Red Dawn in real life,” mocked Rep. Adam Kinzinger.
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Louie Gohmert hints that climate action would force us all to brush our teeth with bark
How the hell did Republican Louie Gohmert of Texas ever become a member of the House of Representatives? Did he collect the most Froot Loops box tops in his district? Did our reptilian alien overlords take a sudden liking to him halfway through eating his brain? Did he run against a seagull crapping in a bag of Ruffles?
I really want to know, because something here just isn’t right.
Trump Ally Roger Stone Issues Threat To Ron DeSantis If He Tries Running For President
Stone says he’ll challenge DeSantis for governor to siphon off votes and ruin his chances — unless he “pledges” not to run for president, especially against Trump.
Students of color in junior colleges are set up for inequities
by Juliana Clark
This story was originally published at Prism.
From an early age, Joel Velasquez knew that Texas A&M University was his dream school, drawn by the university’s sizable student population, traditions, and leadership opportunities.
Striking health care workers in Buffalo have a tentative deal, this week in the war on workers
Around 2,000 health care workers at South Buffalo Mercy Hospital have been on strike since Oct. 1. Now, they have a tentative agreement and picket lines are suspended while the workers vote whether to ratify the contract.
Pete Buttigieg’s Baby Son Gus Is Back Home From The Hospital After Week On A Ventilator
While Tucker Carlson was making homophobic jokes about Buttigieg’s parental leave on national TV, the family was dealing with a health crisis.
Biden’s Vaccine Rule Temporarily Blocked By Appeals Court
A panel of three judges, including two Trump appointees, said the rule requiring vaccination or testing for large workplaces may have “grave statutory and constitutional issues.
Populism Always Sounds Great in the Abstract
“I go on this great republican principle,” James Madison said in 1788, “that the people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom. Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation.”The notion that a virtuous people will select virtuous representatives to exercise their judgment is at the core of the American experiment.
Biden Hails Infrastructure Win As ‘Monumental Step Forward’
“Finally, infrastructure week,” Joe Biden said after Congress passed the $1 trillion package.
What Collective Narcissism Does to Society
In 2005, the psychologist Agnieszka Golec de Zavala was researching extremist groups, trying to understand what leads people to commit acts of terrorist violence.
Republicans Are Grabbing Power Because SCOTUS Said Go for It
This week, Republicans in the North Carolina General Assembly approved new maps for electing state legislators and U.S. representatives. The results are what you’d expect for a red state: Of the 14 U.S. House districts, including a new seat added after the latest census, Republicans can expect to win nine, 10, or perhaps 11; they can also expect strong and possibly veto-proof majorities in the state legislature.The problem is that North Carolina isn’t really a red state.
Investors sour on cannabis after Democrats fail to help industry
Plummeting stock prices and lack of federal action has soured investors
The Casteism I See in America
Indians and Indian Americans are often held up as a “model minority” in the United States. Members of this community are more likely to be highly educated and to have health insurance, make more money, work in more senior positions, and have lower rates of poverty than both the average immigrant and the average American.
CDC endorses first Covid-19 vaccine for kids 5-11
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky quickly endorsed the use of shots, which could become available as early as Wednesday.
Pregnant people were shut out of Covid vaccine trials — with disastrous results
Only about 34 percent of pregnant adults are fully vaccinated and more than 200 have died of the virus, according to the CDC.
Covid-19’s global death toll tops 5M
The death toll is about equal to the populations of Los Angeles and San Francisco combined.
5 questions when the Supreme Court takes up the Texas abortion law
Though the Court split 5-4 in declining to block the unique ban before it took effect in September, the justices now have before them evidence of the sweeping impact it’s had.
Powell is rolling back Fed aid to the economy. Here’s what comes next.
The long-awaited move signals both optimism about the pace of job growth and wariness about price surges that have pushed inflation up to its highest level in decades.
The Fed is ready to rein in its aid. Market tremors are already emerging.
Weaker-than-projected economic growth in the last quarter, a jobs slowdown and supply chain snags that are likely to continue into next year are sending warning signs for the economy.
Trouble ahead for Dems: A barrage of attacks over the economy
It’s not just Republicans who are assigning responsibility to the administration for the rocky economic recovery, polls show.
U.S. economy slowed to a 2% rate last quarter in face of Covid
Thursday’s report from the Commerce Department estimated that the nation’s gross domestic product declined sharply from the 6%-plus annual growth rates of each of the previous two quarters.
How Democrats Got Desperate
The progressives blinked.For months, the feisty left flank of the House Democratic Caucus insisted it would not provide the votes to pass Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package until the Senate first approved the rest of the president’s economic agenda.
House Passes Infrastructure Bill, Postpones Vote On Build Back Better
A deal negotiated by moderate and progressive Democrats led to major progress on Joe Biden’s legislative agenda. But they still have a long way to go.
How Democrats Got Desperate
The progressives blinked.For months, the feisty left flank of the House Democratic Caucus insisted it would not provide the votes to pass President Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package until the Senate first approved the rest of the president’s economic agenda.
News Roundup: Biden’s DOJ sues Texas; Florida’s DeSantis is a coward; Biden’s infrastructure plan
It is Friday. It has been another week filled with names like Manchin and Sinema, along with words like “conservative” and “blame.” But we are on the precipice of having our government accomplishing something! It has been a tough week for progressives and the centrist discourse that the traditional media promotes, and has always promoted, is once again searching for surface-level answers to poorly thought out questions about our country’s deepest concerns.
White mom hires attorney after Southwest Airlines crew said she was trafficking biracial daughter
When will people learn that families come in all different colors? Well, someone needs to start by teaching Southwest Airlines employees before a major misstep evolves into a major lawsuit.
The most recent gaffe by the airline took place a month ago when Mary MacCarthy, who is white, boarded a plane in San Jose, California, with her 10-year-old biracial daughter Moira MacCarthy to attend a funeral.
‘No more debt beyond our lifetime’ NYC taxi drivers score crucial medallion bailout victory
After weeks of striking and 15 days without food, New York City’s taxi drivers were served a crucial victory as Mayor Bill de Blasio finally agreed to a debt restructuring plan building off an initial program that already eliminated $21.4 million of debt for individual drivers who took out loans to secure their medallions.
Immigrants go through hell trying to access legal help while in ICE detention—and it’s on purpose
When detained immigrants are able to access legal help and gain representation, they are up to 10 times more likely to be able to stay in the U.S., the Vera Institute of Justice said earlier this year. “Lawyers make a big difference.” Maybe that’s one reason why Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials have consistently set up roadblocks that make just trying to get a lawyer on the phone outright impossible.
Trans teen sues Tennessee over discriminatory anti-trans sports bill that’s keeping him on sidelines
As Daily Kos has continued to cover, Republicans have been more than happy to jump into anti-trans hate as a way to distract people from their failures in office. While some state-level legislation has died in committee, some has made its way through both the statehouse and senate and made it all the way to the governor—and some, sadly, has even been signed into law by Republicans.
Former Justice Dept. Lawyer Jeffrey Clark Cuts Jan. 6 Deposition Short
The former assistant attorney said he would not answer questions based on Trump’s assertions of executive privilege.