What It’s Like to Be a Flight Attendant Amid an “Unprecedented” Surge in Passengers Misbehaving
A flight attendant on how stir-crazy passengers are behaving.
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On Top of Everything Else, the Pandemic Messed With Our Morals
Throughout the pandemic, people have had to make impossibly tough decisions. Kathleen Turner, a 52-year-old intensive-care nurse in San Francisco, has been haunted by hers. Since COVID-19 patients started overwhelming her hospital last spring, she has had to give patients sedatives knowing they would likely have lasting negative health consequences, and systematically deny relatives a chance to say goodbye to dying loved ones.
I Can’t Seem to Do the One Move My Wife Really Wants During Sex
She has a suggestion for how to make it work, but I’m not sure it will.
Dear Care and Feeding: Should We Tell Our Neighbors We’re Responsible Gun Owners?
Parenting advice on gun ownership, fatherhood, and pushy in-laws.
Everything Is Overcomplicated
Many Americans woke up this morning to discover that some of the most popular sites on the web were down. CNN, The New York Times, Reddit—even The Atlantic—all suffered issues. Was it a coordinated cyberattack? Something to do with Amazon Web Services? No, it was because of Fastly. As NPR explained, Fastly “provides vital but obscure behind-the-scenes cloud computing services to many of the web’s high profile sites.
The Logic of the Filing Cabinet Is Everywhere
Seventeen years ago, just as the periodic cicadas were getting ready to arrive in droves in the eastern United States, Google announced Gmail, an exciting new email service. It had three key features: search, making it easy to find emails; storage, with what was then a mind-blowing 1 gigabyte; and speed, with emails threaded into conversations that ostensibly eliminated the need for cumbersome folders. Today, as the cicadas have seemingly taken over parts of the eastern U.S.
Socialist Teacher Takes Lead in Peruvian Election as Nation Reels from Pandemic & Political Crisis
We get an update from Peru, where socialist candidate Pedro Castillo has pulled ahead of his right-wing rival Keiko Fujimori in the country’s presidential election on Sunday. Castillo is the son of peasant farmers, and a union leader who led a nationwide teachers’ strike in 2017. Fujimori is the daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, who is in prison for human rights abuses and corruption.
“Do Not Come”: VP Harris Sends Anti-Migrant Message in Guatemala, Visits Mexico Amid Deadly Election
In her first foreign trip as vice president, Kamala Harris is in Mexico City to meet with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador after first visiting Guatemala to meet with President Alejandro Giammattei. Harris is tasked by President Joe Biden with stemming the flow of Central American migrants fleeing corruption, violence and poverty, even after the two campaigned on allowing more migrants to apply for asylum along the U.S.
“Not Having It”: Winona LaDuke on Mass Protest by Water Protectors to Halt Line 3 Pipeline in Minnesota
In the largest act of civil disobedience to date to halt the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline, more than 100 water protectors led by Indigenous women have been arrested in Minnesota.
Help! If I Hear Another Co-Worker’s Kid on a Work Call, I’m Going to Lose It.
My co-workers are refusing to come back to the office and it’s getting ridiculous.
I Struggle to Pay Our Bills. My Husband Just Bought His Dream Car.
He says he just can’t afford to help more.
My Son’s Wife Thinks We’re Still Paying for Her Kids’ Fancy School After She Divorces Him
She’s delusional, but it’s straining my relationship with my son.
The Problem With Free Transit
A growing movement wants to scrap bus and subway fares. That’s not what riders need most.
U.S. senators promise vaccines for Taiwan amid dispute with China
“I’m here to tell you that the United States will not let you stand alone,” Tammy Duckworth said.
The partisan divide in vaccinations is starker than you realize
The effort to reach the unvaccinated has become the latest political fault line in the Covid response.
Attacks on Fauci grow more intense, personal and conspiratorial
Conservatives are amplifying attacks on Fauci after the release of his emails. And they’re fundraising off of it too.
My Husband Just Told Me About His Secret Sex Life. I’m Perplexed—and Turned On.
It began four months ago.
Biden’s back door to wage hikes
Income growth has been relatively strong, particularly in the last couple of months, despite disappointing overall job growth.
Bargain hunters pounce as Trump condo prices hit decade lows
It’s a stunning reversal for a brand that once lured the rich and famous willing to pay a premium to live in a building with Trump’s gilded name on it.
‘Hard to love it’: Modest job gains leave lingering doubts about recovery
The figure will provide some relief to the White House after the April report, but it’s well short of the pace predicted by many economists earlier this year.
Biden’s budget blowout predicts years of Obama-level tepid growth
Some analysts suggested that the administration is essentially admitting that its proposed surge in federal spending won’t actually boost the economy much at all.
A Biden-friendly economist is creating a big headache for president’s spending plans
The study adds fuel to an intense national debate about what is behind a suspected worker shortage and what policy changes are needed to accelerate Americans’ return to work as the pandemic subsides.
Biden’s Justice Department Is Still Working To Defend Trump In Rape Case Defamation Suit
The new administration argued in a brief that the former president is allowed immunity in writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against him.
News Roundup: The Senate remains paralyzed; Trump returns to stoke new hoaxes and delusions
In the news today: Joe Manchin, still. As Republicans nationwide continue to tighten voting restrictions and grant themselves new powers to reject vote totals, the Senate remains seemingly incapable of mounting a response—any response. Pants or no pants, new Donald Trump appearances seem to support the fears of his closest (anonymous) supporters: The man is both in the throes of delusion and a singular threat to this nation’s democracy.
Nearly 120 organizations urge Biden admin to extend temporary protections for Somali immigrants
Nearly 120 local and national organizations, including African Communities Together and U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, are calling for an 18-month extension and redesignation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Somalia.
Native American tribe reacquires island off of Maine stolen more than 100 years ago
As Daily Kos has covered, Indigenous folks continue to face discrimination, oppression, and overall lack of autonomy both globally and specifically in the United States. There is a long, painful history of abuse toward Native folks—take, for example, the recently discovered remains of 215 Indigenous children at a residential school in Canada—as well as systemic issues, like lack of access to clean water and poverty, that face folks today.
Groups applaud end of ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy, urge second chance for asylum-seekers denied relief
The Biden administration has formally ended the previous administration’s anti-asylum Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) policy, which forced tens of thousands of asylum-seekers and their families to wait for their U.S. immigration court dates in dangerous regions of Mexico for as long as two years, the Associated Press (AP) reports.
‘A Lot Of Anxiety’ For Democrats As Biden Agenda Stalls
The party’s progressive wing is growing increasingly restless as campaign promises go undone.
Unemployment aid cutoffs show who has the ear of Republican governors—and it’s not regular people
Republican governors don’t need a personal reason to cut off $300 a week in added unemployment aid for 4 million people. Making life harder for people struggling to get by is the Republican way. But some of the Republican governors who’ve announced they’re opting their states out of the federal unemployment supplement do have that personal reason, in the form of business interests.
West Virginia Gov.