Here Are GOP Senators’ Excuses For Blowing Off Trump’s Impeachment Trial
“Welcome to the stupidest week in the Senate,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer, who, like literally everyone, witnessed the ex-president incite a deadly insurrection.
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Judas and the Black Messiah Is an American Tragedy
Judas and the Black Messiah begins with William O’Neal (played by Lakeith Stanfield) getting ready for the only TV interview he ever gave about his role in the death of the Black Panthers leader Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya). O’Neal appears sweaty and uncomfortable.
The Best Vibrators for First-Timers, According to Experts
Sexologists on vibrators particularly well-suited to beginners.
How a ‘False Flag’ Cry Has Divided Republicans in Oregon
In the view of the Oregon Republican Party, what transpired on January 6 was not an insurrection and the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol were not supporters of Donald Trump. Rather, the uprising that the world witnessed that day was a “false flag.” Its aim, according to the party, was to discredit Trump and “advance the Democrat goal of seizing total power, in a frightening parallel to the February 1933 burning of the German Reichstag.
Beef Up Your Home Workouts With These Resistance Bands, Now on Sale
The Letsfit resistance bands are now $8, or 33 percent off the regular price.
CDC: Double-masking helps reduce exposure to the coronavirus
Medical procedure masks don’t always provide robust protection alone because air can leak around their edges.
An Emotional Framework for Understanding the End of the Pandemic
GETTY / ARSH RAZIUDDIN / THE ATLANTICMy earliest memories are connected by a sense of fear without the threat of harm. I remember being frightened by news stories, dark basements, and even a painting by a family friend. I was an imaginative kid, and these memories are ones of invented dread: A tabloid photo of a burning building once shook me up for a week, though I had never even seen a fire. In part, these made-up fears were the result of a lucky, protected childhood.
“Four Hundred Souls”: Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha Blain on History of African America from 1619 to Now
As the U.S. deals with the aftermath of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, we speak with Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha Blain, co-editors of a new book that situates the white supremacists who rallied around Trump in the longer arc of U.S. history.
Historians Say “Decades of Medical Racism” Led to Unequal COVID Impact on Black & Latinx People
Historians Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha Blain dedicate their new book, “Four Hundred Souls,” to the “Black lives lost to COVID-19.” They put the content of their book in the context of the disparate impact of the pandemic on the African American community in the United States. “This has been in the making for decades.
Ibram X. Kendi & Keisha Blain on Impeachment, White Supremacist Violence & Holding Trump Accountable
As the impeachment trial of Donald Trump proceeds, we speak with two historians about the importance of accountability for the January 6 insurrection and white supremacist attacks in the United States. The scenes of violence at the U.S. Capitol were “familiar” to Black people, says Ibram X. Kendi, author, professor and founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.
“This Cannot Be the Future of America”: Rep. Jamie Raskin Gives Moving Account of Capitol Attack
Congressmember Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the lead Democratic impeachment manager in former President Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, closed the first day of proceedings in the Senate with an emotional speech describing the terror of the January 6 Capitol attack. “All around me people were calling their wives and their husbands, their loved ones, to say goodbye,” said Raskin.
Watch: Dramatic Video of Capitol Attack & Trump’s Incitement Kicks Off Impeachment Trial in Senate
The Senate has voted 56 to 44 to proceed with the impeachment trial of Donald Trump for inciting the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Six Republicans joined Democrats in rejecting arguments from Trump’s defense team that it is unconstitutional for a former president to face an impeachment trial. Trump is the first president to ever be impeached twice and the first to be tried after leaving office.
My Mother Tricks My 3-Year-Old Into Telling Her About My Personal Life
Parenting advice on talkative toddlers, baby broadcasts, and pandemic pain.
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.
Democrats push temporary Obamacare expansion in Covid bill
The bill, which the Ways and Means Committee will mark up later this week, would fully subsidize ACA coverage for people earning up to 150 percent of the federal poverty level and those on unemployment insurance.
If We Want to Defeat Covid, We Need to Boost Medicaid
States often reduce Medicaid benefits during economic downturns. Doing that now could prolong the pandemic.
Help! My Partner Says I’m Being Creepy When I Peer Into People’s Homes.
Am I doing anything intrinsically wrong?
‘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.
Rep. Cori Bush Denounces White Supremacist Violence from the Capitol Insurrection to Ferguson
With former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial set to begin in the Senate this week, we feature the speech Democratic Congressmember Cori Bush of Missouri made Thursday on the floor of the House of Representatives to demand accountability for the attack on the U.S. Capitol. “On January 3, we stood together to swear our oath to office, to the Constitution. We swore to defend it against all enemies foreign and domestic,” Bush said.
Tuesday Night Owls: The case for providing guaranteed income to foster kids aging out of the system
Night Owls is a themed open thread appearing at Daily Kos seven days a week.
Mark Courtney and Shanta Trivedi at The Appeal write—The Case for Providing Guaranteed Income to Kids Aging out of Foster Care:
More and more in America, young adults rely on their parents and other relatives for housing and financial support well into their 20s.
$1.9 trillion is a lot, and Democrats intend to ensure all Americans realize what that money does
President Biden knows exactly what happened to President Obama, and he’s not going to let it happen again.
President Barack Obama is now universally credited, even by Republicans, for pulling this country back from the precipice of an economic catastrophe that would have been nothing short of a second Great Depression.
Trump apologist and right-wing radio host ordered to pay lawyers’ fees in defamation suit
Back in December of 2018, after a series of cancellations on Second Amendment platform NRATV, the axe came for right-wing Trump apologist Dan Bongino. The first reporting on the matter came from news outlet The Daily Beast and was accompanied by the headline: “Dan Bongino out at NRATV – BONGI-NO-MORE.
Harvard Law Review makes history with election of its first Muslim president
In another first for Muslim Americans nationwide, the Harvard Law Review, a prestigious law school journal, has named a Muslim as president for the first time in its 134-year history. According to Reuters, Hassaan Shahawy, an Egyptian American from Los Angeles, will join others who held the noteworthy position—including former president Barack Obama, who was the first Black president for both the review journal and the nation.