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“Band-Aid Over a Bullet Wound”: Housing Advocates Welcome CDC Eviction Moratorium But Say It’s Not Enough

Despite a new two-month moratorium on evictions issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, millions of people in the U.S. are still at risk of losing their homes as landlords in some states fight back against the measure. The new CDC moratorium is “a band-aid over a bullet wound,” says Tara Raghuveer, director of KC Tenants, a tenants’ rights organization in Kansas City. “This is a very small step. It’s the bare minimum.

News Roundup: Cuomo resigns; Senate passes infrastructure bill; Texas in pandemic crisis

In the news today: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced he would resign rather than fight a likely impeachment vote by state lawmakers. The Senate finally, at long last, passed its $1 trillion version of a “bipartisan” infrastructure bill; it now faces rocky prospects in the House, where Democrats intend to pass a far more ambitious climate and modernization-centered version. Still aggressively blocking pandemic safety mandates within his state, Texas Gov.

Fox intoxicates its audience with news that Black Olympians celebrated their gold with booze

For a network that’s been huffing Donald Trump’s underpants nonstop for the past five years, this is pretty rich.

For some reason, Fox News decided it was newsworthy—and perhaps somewhat untoward—for a group of gold medal Olympians to throw back a few bevvies in the wake of their victories. They were “drunk,” according to Fox’s eyeball-grabbing headline.

Republicans really, really don’t want you to blame them if your kids can’t go back to school

Fox News is very upset. Because, on Thursday, MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace went there:

“If kids aren’t in school, it’s because Republicans didn’t get vaccinated and Republican governors stood in the way of mask mandates that would make it possible,” Wallace said.

While calling Wallace a “flack” and “one of the most fanatically anti-GOP voices on MSNBC,” Fox conspicuously omitted any factual rebuttal to her statements.

Officials investigate ‘serious breach’ in election security at MAGA-supporting CO clerk’s office

Republican operatives are spending their time in the minority ginning up more confusion and bogus anti-democracy conspiracies. The GOP in Arizona are running an excruciatingly incoherent and at times farcical recount of ballots. While it has been called an audit by the people creating theatrics around it, most experts see it as something more akin to dangerous experimental theater. The danger is what it represents for our democracy.

More than year into pandemic, domestic workers continue to face joblessness, housing insecurity

Domestic workers continue to struggle with joblessness more than a year into the novel coronavirus pandemic, new findings reveal. The survey, conducted by La Alianza for National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) Labs, reached Spanish-speaking domestic workers over the course of July and found that nearly 30% of respondents reported a week with zero hours worked that month. That number increased compared to findings from May and June.

The Sad Irony of Andrew Cuomo’s ‘Love Gov’ Persona

On Etsy and similar sites, you can purchase a mug bearing the smiling face of Andrew Cuomo and the coinage that summarized his fandom: Cuomosexual. You can buy a prayer candle featuring the New York governor in a beatific pose. Or a throw pillow. Or one of many T-shirts, some bearing images of him, one featuring a list:
☐ Single.
☐ Taken.
☑️  Mentally Dating Andrew Cuomo.
The objects read as relics of a time both recent and removed. They also read as mistaken.

Why Cuomo Finally Resigned

Until Andrew Cuomo actually uttered the words “step aside” shortly after noon today, the prospect that he might resign seemed hard to fathom.

Delta Is Bad News for Kids

Two and a half weeks ago, as the next school year approached, a pediatric cardiologist from Louisiana headed into the Georgia mountains with her husband, their three young children, and their extended family. It was, in many ways, a fairly pandemic-sanctioned vacation: All nine adults in attendance were fully vaccinated. The group spent most of the trip outdoors, biking, swimming, and hiking.