Just 5 percent of vaccinations have gone to Black Americans, despite equity efforts
A POLITICO analysis suggests disadvantaged communities are being bypassed — even in blue states fighting disparities.
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New CDC data shows stark disparities in coronavirus shots
President Joe Biden wants an equitable distribution of the coronavirus vaccine, but preliminary reports showcase just how much ground will need to be made up.
Biden Covid adviser tells providers to stop stockpiling vaccine
Andy Slavitt’s remarks come as the Biden team tries to accelerate the pace of vaccinations and get a better hold on the whereabouts of roughly 19 million doses that were shipped but not yet administered.
Maryland confirms case of Covid-19 variant from South Africa
The news comes after South Carolina announced the first two U.S. cases of the variant Thursday.
The Only Thing I Will Miss About the Trumps: Melania’s Pleasingly Bizarre First Lady Fashion
Four years and two weeks later, I am ready to talk about this.
My Boyfriend’s Expectations for Sex Are Absurd—and I’m Not Sure How to Tell Him
I’ve started to see sex as a chore.
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.
Wall Street shrugs at Washington’s debt pileup
The debt poses no imminent danger to U.S. finances, economists say, so the more pressing concern should be jump-starting the economy.
U.S. jobless claims decline to a still-high 900,000
The government said that 5.1 million Americans are continuing to receive state jobless benefits, down from 5.2 million in the previous week.
Alexei Navalny Faces “Kafkaesque” Charges in Russia for Breaking Parole While in Poison-Induced Coma
Russian authorities have arrested thousands of people during anti-government protests in support of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has been held in jail since returning to Russia on January 17 after recovering in Germany from an attempt on his life in August using the nerve agent Novichok. Navalny has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of being behind the poisoning that nearly killed him.
Trump’s About To Lose A Major Presidential Perk At His Mar-A-Lago Club
…but the former president also got some good news from Palm Beach.
Wednesday Night Owls: A glimpse of the future of work, which isn’t optimistic for big cities
Night Owls is a themed open thread appearing at Daily Kos seven days a week.
Derek Thompson at The Atlantic writes—Superstar Cities Are in Trouble. The past year has offered a glimpse of the nowhere-everywhere future of work, and it isn’t optimistic for big cities.
Some evenings, when pandemic cabin fever reaches critical levels, I relieve my claustrophobia by escaping into the dreamworld of Zillow, the real-estate website.
Viral video: This fitness instructor’s workout background is the Myanmar military coup
A video of a fitness instructor and dancer has gone viral for a reason you wouldn’t expect. While filming a workout routine in front of Myanmar’s parliament, Khing Hnin Wai has gone viral globally for capturing the beginning of the country’s military coup. What’s even more interesting is that she apparently didn’t even know what was unfolding behind her.
Missouri Republican indicted on fraud charges for selling fake COVID-19 stem cell treatments
On Monday, the FBI released a statement about the indictment of an elected Missouri state representative for allegedly being involved in a fraud scheme that involved fake medicine, money, and COVID-19. Patricia “Tricia” Ashton Derges (R-Nixa) is facing a 20-count indictment for her part in promoting and trying to make money off of scared clients looking for a miracle treatment Derges said she could provide to treat COVID-19.
House GOP Keeps Liz Cheney As No. 3 Leader, Stands By Marjorie Taylor Greene
House Republicans overwhelmingly rebuffed a rebellion by hard-right conservatives to toss Rep. Cheney over her vote last month to impeach Trump.
ICE now detaining women at one of nation’s most deadly facilities
A Georgia detention center with the second-highest COVID-19 rate in the nation recently expanded the population of immigrants it detains to include women.
In a statement to Prism, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed that as of Jan. 27, the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, detains 11 women. This is an increase from December when the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Stewart had two women in custody.
Verizon and AT&T cut nearly 100,000 jobs but keep billions in tax breaks
The Republican tax giveaway to the richest people in our country extended into the businesses they owned. Then Majority-Leader Mitch McConnell told everyone that he believed the new jobs and trickling of wealth into society would make the tax cuts “be beyond revenue neutral.” This means that the hit to our country’s collective coffers would be taken up by all the piles of money these businesses and wealthy folks would gift everybody.
Jim Jordan, Amid Pandemic: Cancel Culture ‘Most Dangerous Thing’ Happening Today
Snapping back at the GOP congressman, one critic wrote, “450,000 dead Americans would disagree.
House GOP Leader Condemns Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Conspiracy Rants But Won’t Do More
House Democrats will vote on whether to strip the newly elected lawmaker of her committee assignments after saying they saw “no alternative.
So, When Are the New Stimulus Checks Coming?
There are a lot of bizarre, self-imposed congressional limits that may delay final passage until March.
Marco Rubio Blames Media For Marjorie Taylor Greene And Gets Humiliated
Former congressman Joe Walsh attacked the Florida senator for not “having the decency and the courage to condemn that politician by name.
Vaccine Centers in Cathedrals, Stadiums, and Parking Lots
As more vaccines against COVID-19 become available and distribution keeps ramping up, governments and health-care institutions worldwide have set up centers to deliver as many vaccinations as possible. Gymnasiums, sports venues, and existing clinics have been readied, and early candidates are now passing through. Efforts are already under way in some areas to reach vulnerable populations living in remote regions as well.
Fewer Americans Are Getting COVID-19 Tests
During the early stages of the pandemic, the big story in the United States was testing: The federal government’s initial failure to produce a working test and scale up its production meant that the country struggled for months to keep up with the virus’s spread. In May, the Harvard Global Health Institute estimated that the U.S.
I Agreed to a Threesome and Found Another Woman—but My Husband Is Furious About My One Boundary
I don’t think this is unreasonable.
How Our Relationships Affect What We Eat
In my first serious long-term relationship, my ex hated three things that I loved—salmon, spicy food, and runny egg yolks. Food was often a bone of contention. I was a chef then and found it soul-crushing when my ex chose a Kraft Singles grilled cheese sandwich and a bowl of Campbell’s tomato soup over the many meals I made.
‘I Expected a Bidding War. We Did Not Get That.’
Shaka King’s new film, Judas and the Black Messiah, is both a prestige picture and a pulpy thriller. It’s a biographical portrait of the Illinois Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton (played by Daniel Kaluuya), who by the age of 21 had become a major figure in the national party and founded the Rainbow Coalition movement.
Newtown’s Congresswoman Takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene
Jahana Hayes stood before her history class at John F. Kennedy High School in Waterbury, Connecticut, trying to assuage her students’ fears. Someone had started shooting at an elementary school 18 miles away; Hayes’s students were scrolling through texts and social media, trying to understand what was going on. She tried to keep everyone calm—to put the students first—even as she was still processing what was happening.Just after 9:30 a.m.