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‘Clearly not healthy’: Markets are giddy about reopening — and that’s the problem
Investors are pumping up bubbles across markets, with excitement growing about more stimulus and widespread vaccinations.
Even a Conservative Analysis Shows the $15 Minimum Wage Does More Good Than Harm
The Congressional Budget Office’s scoring of the proposed wage hike looks bad—because it was designed to be.
Forget Warm Weather and Low Taxes. Americans Are Moving to Be Near Family.
What happens if a pandemic-era trend sticks around?
When Piggly Wiggly Tried to Stick It to Wall Street
A century before GameStop, a stock market outsider took on short sellers. It was a spectacle and a disaster.
Larry Summers Has Some Weird Fears About the Biden Relief Plan
He doesn’t fully spell out why he thinks Congress shouldn’t spend too much, because that would undermine his weird point.
Biden administration to begin shipping vaccines to health centers
The program’s launch comes as White House officials are trying to address inequities in the nation’s vaccination push.
Democratic lawmakers push FDA to lift restrictions on abortion pill
The group notes that the FDA suspended in-person requirements for many other drugs during the pandemic, including opioids.
‘The Democratic version of John McCain’
As the critical swing vote in a 50-50 Senate, Joe Manchin has emerged as the most powerful man in Washington.
U.S. backs Okonjo-Iweala, first woman and African, to head WTO
The decision breaks with the Trump administration’s opposition to Okonjo-Iweala and brings the U.S. in line with much of the rest of the world.
Economy will return to pre-pandemic level this year, CBO predicts
Employment levels, however, will not fully recover until 2024.
Biden confronts the limits of his executive power
Without help from Congress, he has few options to turn the U.S. economy around.
Fed’s Powell warns U.S. economy ‘long way from a full recovery’
“There’s nothing more important to the economy now than people getting vaccinated,” Jerome Powell said.
Trump’s Tweet Attacking Pence Came Right After Learning His VP’s Life Was In Danger
A statement from Sen. Tommy Tuberville shows Trump turned his mob against Pence minutes after hearing his vice president had to be hustled from the Senate.
Lawmakers, local health officials decry California’s confusing Covid vaccination rules
Gov. Gavin Newsom last month abruptly announced the state would play a bigger role in California’s vaccination drive.
Wednesday Night Owls: Young activists shift the focus to ‘intersectional environmentalism’
Night Owls is a themed open thread appearing at Daily Kos seven days a week.
Cameron Oglesby at Grist writes—The generational rift over ‘intersectional environmentalism’
New eras are often marked by changes in language.
Whereas the Trump administration was calling natural gas “molecules of freedom,” the Biden administration has gone all-in on “environmental justice.
After General Motors poked fun of Norway in Super Bowl ad, Norway painfully hits back
The Super Bowl is usually good for one thing: talking about the big commercial campaigns that are launched and shown during the night. Sometimes the halftime show is worth a watch, and sometimes the game itself is interesting.
Gabe Ortiz with Michelangelo Signorile on immigration: ‘ICE is testing the Biden administration’
Daily Kos senior staff writer Gabe Ortiz, a national expert on immigration and Latino issues, recently joined Michelangelo Signorile on his eponymous SiriusXM show to talk about undoing the damage Donald Trump inflicted on immigrant communities, how the Department of Homeland Security has been transformed, and what’s at stake with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Maine hospital gave scarce COVID-19 vaccinations to out-of-state consultants there to bust a union
Union-busters who traveled from other states to fight a union organizing drive at a Maine hospital got an extra-special bonus from hospital management: COVID-19 vaccinations. State officials are calling out MaineHealth over that violation of state vaccination policy and basic decency.
Anti-trans bill reaches House Judiciary Committee in red state and the public hearing is emotional
The nation is still facing the novel coronavirus, Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial is underway, and more than 400,00 Americans have died already due to COVID-19. In all of this, a slew of states have found time to push anti-trans legislation. Now, Alabama’s state legislator is considering a fiercely transphobic bill, HB 1 and SB 1, that would make it a felony for physicians to provide transgender youth with gender-affirming medical care.
There Is No Defense—Only Complicity
To understand what was at issue in the impeachment proceedings today, it helps to look at a video released yesterday by Senator Marco Rubio.Few Republican officials have more reason to hate former President Donald Trump than the defeated rival Trump so memorably nicknamed “Liddle Marco.” Trump brutally bullied Rubio throughout the presidential primary campaign in 2015 and 2016. Over the five years since, Trump imposed one humiliation after another upon Rubio.
Biden’s challenge: Creating enough tests and sequencing to track the virus
The U.S. still struggles with basic public health measures a year into the coronavirus outbreak.
Live With How to Do It Columnists Rich and Stoya
Slate’s sex advice columnists are here for all your Valentine’s Day conundrums.
Juan Williams Accuses Fox News Co-Hosts Of ‘Ignoring’ Impeachment Trial
“You don’t want to deal with the news!” Williams shouted after “The Five” segment devolved into a yelling match.
Larry Flynt, The Porn King Who Founded Hustler, Dies At 78
The controversial figure, who was portrayed by Woody Harrelson in “The People vs. Larry Flynt,” was one of the biggest names in adult entertainment.
My Unusual Kink May Kill Me—but the Real Problem Is Finding Someone to Do It
How would you bring this up?
Shocking New Capitol Security Footage Shows How Close Rioters Came To Lawmakers
The video, released by the impeachment managers, provides a new perspective on the violence that unfolded at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Biden admin asks SCOTUS to uphold Obamacare, reversing Trump support for lawsuit
The move will likely have little impact on the outcome of the case, which the justices heard one week after Election Day and could decide on soon.
A Million-Dollar Pardon Offer at the Trump Hotel
Updated on February 10, 2021 at 6:16 p.m. ETSoon after the November election, a business colleague of Donald Trump’s close ally Corey Lewandowski offered a whistleblower and convicted ex-banker an expensive deal: In exchange for a $300,000 fee up front—plus another $1 million if successful—the two men would push the then-president for a pardon, according to the ex-banker and an associate who heard the pitch.