Russian Intelligence Cultivated Donald Trump for Decades, Says Former KGB Agent
And the Kremlin was delighted with the results, former KGB major Yuri Shvets tells The Guardian.
And the Kremlin was delighted with the results, former KGB major Yuri Shvets tells The Guardian.
Night Owls is a themed open thread appearing at Daily Kos seven days a week.
Brett Wilkins at Common Dreams writes—New Report From Rep. Katie Porter Reveals How Big Pharma Pursues ‘Killer Profits’ at the Expense of Americans’ Health. “It’s time we reevaluate the standards for approving these mergers. It’s time we pass legislation to lower drug prices.
Our project to calculate the 2020 presidential results for all 435 congressional districts nationwide goes to Tennessee, which once again was one of Donald Trump’s strongest states. 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.
Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier, both South Carolina lawyers, have left the defense team in what one person described as a “mutual decision.
In the early 2000s while writing her book, The Farmworkers’ Journey, which explores the farmworkers’ binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California, Dr. Ann López said she remembers having an epiphany at her computer. “Surely if the American public knew how farmworkers were treated, they wouldn’t tolerate this horrific abuse, right?” Sadly, this remains to be seen.
It’s difficult to sue for defamation, but “our lawyers are telling us that Rudy is well across the line, so we’re thrilled about this,” said co-founder Steve Schmidt.
Welcome to my weekly feature covering ways us activists can lead healthier lives. For a full explanation check out the inaugural edition here, but in short, most of us do a terrible job of taking care of our minds and bodies. This is a science-based exploration of how to change that, so we can be around for many years of fruitful activism.
I was a sullen, tortured teenager, bitter and angry at the world, as teens often are.
Jen Ellis is partnering with the Vermont Teddy Bear Company to create a mitten line, with some of the proceeds going to Make-A-Wish Vermont.
Six people are dead after a liquid nitrogen leak at a Georgia poultry plant and 11 others were hospitalized, with at least three in critical condition. Two of the people killed were Mexican citizens, and those injured included at least four firefighters.
“When leaked into the air, liquid nitrogen vaporizes into an odorless gas that’s capable of displacing oxygen,” the Associated Press explains.
Martin Holsome, a city councilman running for governor, is part of a growing group of Republicans embracing right-wing extremism and cheering the Capitol riot.
The news comes after South Carolina announced the first two U.S. cases of the variant Thursday.
Photographs by Arlene Mejorado and Carlos ChavarríaWhen Antonietta Zuñiga woke up to smoke pouring through her bedroom window, everything she had learned about how to care for her grandson completely left her mind. It was November 2019, in the Los Angeles County city of Pico Rivera. Antonietta’s grandson, Carlos Zuñiga Jr., is schizophrenic; she had the number for ACCESS, L.A. County’s mental-health hotline, taped to her fridge for moments precisely like these.
The CDC’s new order goes further than an executive order signed by President Joe Biden last week.
Jack Robinson / Hulton Archive / GettyBefore a concert one night in 1968, shortly prior to recording the song that would launch her into superstardom, Tina Turner swallowed sleeping pills and lay down to die. “People backstage noticed something was very wrong with me and rushed me to the hospital, which saved my life,” she writes in her book Happiness Becomes You, published in the fall. “At first I was disappointed when I woke up and realized I was still alive.
Health care leaders are relying on social media and local doctors and nurses to battle vaccine skepticism, especially in hard-hit minority communities.
A white mob stormed government offices in an effort to overthrow the duly elected leadership, overwhelming the local police and killing several officers in a violent clash.This description is not only of the insurrection in Washington, D.C., on January 6, but of the Battle of Liberty Place in New Orleans, on September 14, 1874.
The U.S. government almost never jumps at its first chance to confront an emerging monopoly. But regulators have a long history of getting it right the second time. Standard Oil controlled America’s petroleum market for years before the Justice Department sued the company under the Sherman Antitrust Act; the federal government helped enshrine AT&T’s telephone monopoly for decades before deciding to break up “Ma Bell.
“Living in China is confusing now,” the novelist Yan Lianke said, “because it can feel like being in North Korea and the United States at the same time.” I recall smiling and nodding when he made the remark, during a roundtable discussion at Duke University’s campus outside Shanghai three years ago. In one brief sentence, he captured just how special and strange China can seem—a country that has both gulags and Gap stores.
There’s something called the “Byrd Bath.
You can, in fact, call for “unity” and pursue policies that Republicans don’t like.
The mixed results came on the same day that the United States announced it had found its first Covid-19 cases linked to the South African variant.
Public health officials in South Carolina said they identified two cases on Thursday.
The report adds a new layer to the criticism Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has faced over the state’s handling of Covid-19 in long-term care facilities.
“I don’t think a lot of people who are into consensual cannibalism would have a foot taco.
Some students are worried about increased exposure. Others are just desperate for human connection.
“There’s nothing more important to the economy now than people getting vaccinated,” Jerome Powell said.