Social media ‘micro-influencers’ join effort to get America vaccinated
Health care leaders are relying on social media and local doctors and nurses to battle vaccine skepticism, especially in hard-hit minority communities.
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Biden administration readies battle plan as Covid variants reach the U.S.
Biden’s quest to beat back the pandemic is at a critical juncture.
Johnson & Johnson vaccine is 66% effective in global study
The one-shot vaccine provides “complete protection against COVID-related hospitalization and death,” the company says.
Forgive Me for Not Celebrating the Quirky Second Daughter Landing a Modeling Contract
Armpit hair and tattoos are not revolutionary.
Dear Care and Feeding: My Therapist Insists My Great-Grandmother’s Spankings Were Abuse. I’m Not So Sure.
Parenting advice on abuse disagreements, gift inequality, and birthday disappointment.
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.
30 Things Donald Trump Did as President You Might Have Missed
Trump’s presidency may be best remembered for its cataclysmic end. But his four years as president also changed real American policy in lasting ways, just more quietly. We asked POLITICO’s best-in-class policy reporters to recap some of the ways Trump changed the country while in office, for better or worse.
U.S. loses 140,000 jobs in first monthly loss since spring
At the same time, the unemployment rate stayed at 6.7%, the first time it hasn’t fallen since April.
My Name is Pauli Murray: New Film on Black Queer Legal Pioneer Who Inspired RBG & Thurgood Marshall
We spend the hour looking at the life of one of the most pivotal figures in the history of struggle for gender equality and racial justice, Pauli Murray, whose story is told in the new documentary “My Name Is Pauli Murray,” premiering at the Sundance Film Festival.
Exposed: Proud Boys Hate Group Leader Enrique Tarrio Was “Prolific” FBI & Police Informant
We speak with Reuters investigative journalist Aram Roston, who has revealed a leader of the extremist hate group the Proud Boys, which played a key role in the Capitol riot on January 6, has a prolific history of cooperating with law enforcement. Court records show Enrique Tarrio was an FBI and police informant in Florida who went undercover in multiple drug and illegal gambling investigations after he was arrested in 2012.
Share the Technology: Experts Say We Must End Big Pharma Monopoly on COVID Vaccine Supply & Price
As rich countries race to roll out their vaccination programs, leaders in the Global South and global health advocates are increasingly decrying vaccine hoarding that has pushed poorer countries to the back of the line during the pandemic. Some rich countries have secured enough COVID-19 vaccines to inoculate their populations several times over, while poorer countries struggle to secure enough doses, almost certainly prolonging the pandemic by months or even years.
Dr. Peter Hotez: “Globalized Anti-Science Movement” Threatens Pandemic Response & Public Health
The Biden administration has vowed to increase the rate of vaccinations as COVID-19 continues to spread uncontrollably across the entire U.S., with 90,000 people predicted to die in the next four weeks. President Biden announced plans to acquire another 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech and is devising ways to allow retired nurses and doctors to administer vaccines. Dr.
Trump Names 2 Lawyers To Impeachment Defense Team
David Schoen and Bruce Castor issued statements through Trump’s office saying that they were honored to take the job.
Sunday Night Owls: Julian Brave Noisecat on covering Indigenous issues from a Native perspective
Night Owls is a themed open thread appearing at Daily Kos seven days a week.
Julian Brave Noisecat was raised in Oakland, California, but he spent a lot of time in his younger years with his Secwepemc and St’at’imc First Nations relations in British Columbia where he is a member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq’escen.
For Marjorie Taylor Greene, ‘Politics Trumps Truth,’ Mother Of Parkland Victim Says
“Her statement is clear because here I am with you and she’s not,” Linda Beigel Schulman, whose son, Scott, died in the 2018 attack, said.
This Kentucky seat may be the Trumpiest congressional district in America
Our project to calculate the 2020 presidential results for all 435 congressional districts nationwide hits Kentucky. You can find our detailed calculations here, a large-size map of the results here, and our permanent, bookmarkable link for all 435 districts here.
Donald Trump won the Bluegrass State 62-36, which was pretty similar to his 63-33 performance in 2016, and he once again carried five of Kentucky’s six congressional districts.
I’ve Finally Found the Answer to My Small Penis—and It Terrifies Me
The rush of this is overwhelming.
Trump’s biggest advocate for election fraud refuses audit of her own election after major error
Not many people can name the chair of their state’s political party, much less the chair of another state’s. Yet Kelli Ward, a perennial losing Senate candidate, is well known across the land as the chair of the Arizona Republican Party—and that’s not a good thing. Kelli Ward was wacky before the GOP plunged into QAnon town, at one time just a conspiracy-laden, fringe joke.
Nuts & Bolts: Inside the Democratic Party: Can you build a social media monster?
It’s another Sunday, so for those who tune in, welcome to another discussion of the Nuts & Bolts of a Democratic campaign. If you’ve missed out, you can catch up any time: Just visit our group or follow the Nuts & Bolts Guide. Every week I try to tackle issues I’ve been asked about. With the help of other campaign workers and notes, we address how to improve and build better campaigns, or explain issues that impact our party.
Republicans propose ‘bipartisan’ gutting of planned COVID-19 response, but Democrats aren’t biting
A counterproposal by ten supposedly “moderate” Republican senators that would reduce COVID-19 pandemic emergency funding to a fraction of what’s being proposed by Democrats is landing with a wet thud today, despite the ten Republicans framing their effort around alleged “bipartisan” cooperation. That’s not a surprise; it’s difficult to believe the proposal, led by the perpetually concerned Sen. Susan Collins and including Sens.
GOP Senator Calls For ‘Strong Response’ To Marjorie Taylor Greene Rhetoric
Ohio’s Rob Portman suggested stripping the House lawmaker of her committee assignments over her disturbing past social media activity.
Report Details Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Lincoln Project Co-Founder
Republican campaign adviser John Weaver tried to exploit his position for sexual favors, according to the New York Times report.
Law Firm Ad Touting Biden Brother’s Political Connections Raises Ethics Questions
The Florida-based business boasted that one of its senior advisers — Frank Biden — is a brother of the president.
Saturday Night Live Is Over It
Saturday Night Live returned last night after a six-week hiatus, ready to tackle a turbulent period that included the insurrection at the Capitol, the inauguration of Joe Biden, and the second impeachment of Donald Trump—the kind of chaotic political fodder that’s been a mainstay of the show for the past four years.
The Other Tiger
Jorge Luis Borges was a poet, but he was also a dreamer of wild fiction, a thoughtful essayist, and—in all of his works—a philosopher. He was always pulling at the threads of perspective and reality, questioning his own point of view. In “The Other Tiger,” he marvels at the power of the creature in his mind’s eye, envisioned with such detail that he writes about the bony structure / that quivers under the glowing skin.
Dear Care and Feeding: Can I Opt Out of Mom Friends and Playground Chit-Chat?
Parenting advice on mom friends, pregnancy, and gender reveal parties.
The Colleges That Took the Pandemic Seriously
Until vaccines against COVID-19 are available to all, the public will need two things: a reason for hope and a vision of how to live more safely and productively in the meantime. For both, Americans can look to the examples set by a number of colleges and universities—a surprising turn, perhaps, given the widespread anxieties that these institutions’ reopening in the fall created.