Democrats Should Keep Soaking New York and New Jersey on Taxes
They’re considering restoring a tax deduction that once benefited the upper-middle class and rich. Bad idea.
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It’s Never a “Bicycle Accident”
Former NBA player Shawn Bradley was paralyzed after he was struck by a car.
Andrew Cuomo’s Last Big Project Might Be a Train That Goes in the Wrong Direction
A metaphor if you were looking for one.
Will at-home abortions make Roe v. Wade obsolete?
Pressure mounts on Biden to approve telemedicine for the use of abortion pills.
Fed sees U.S. economic growth surging to 6.5 percent this year
Central bank officials now expect the unemployment rate to drop to 4.5 percent by the end of 2021.
Treasury secretary minimizes risk of inflation caused by Covid relief package
Janet Yellen said the greater risk was not strengthening the economy as it recovers from the impact of the pandemic.
Former Stockton Mayor Tubbs joins Newsom as economic adviser
He is best known for his work on a Stockton pilot project that provided $500 a month to a small group of low-income residents.
Biden’s ‘Morning in America’ moment sparks a furious debate
Another massive injection of federal cash could ignite the economy like never before. It also could drive up inflation and burst market bubbles, creating new headaches in an otherwise positive outlook.
U.S. adds a strong 379,000 jobs in hopeful sign for economy
The February gain marked a sharp pickup from the 166,000 jobs that were added in January.
“The Sum of Us”: Heather McGhee on How Racism Undercuts the American Dream for Everyone
Amid a national reckoning with structural racism and the dangers of white supremacy, author Heather McGhee’s new book details how racism in the United States hurts not just people of color but also white people. In “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together,” McGhee details how zero-sum thinking has worsened inequality and robbed people of all stripes of the public goods and support they need to thrive.
“Jim Crow in New Clothes”: In First Senate Speech, Raphael Warnock Slams GOP Assault on Voting Rights
Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock, whose election in January helped bring the chamber under Democratic control, used his first speech on the floor of the Senate this week to assail Republican efforts to restrict voting rights.
Israel’s ‘Totally Crooked’ Prime Minister
Today, Israel will hold its fourth election in two years. This is a sign not of democracy on steroids, but instead of acute dysfunction, a semipermanent paralysis brought about, strangely, by the extreme stability of Israeli voting patterns: Neither the incumbent, Benjamin Netanyahu, nor his various opponents have been able to change enough minds to build a durable parliamentary majority.
News Roundup: Sedition regains corporate sponsors; Rep. Tom Reed won’t run again
In today’s news, the House hears arguments for Washington, D.C., statehood, a House Republican announced he would no longer run for reelection after accusations of sexual assault, and some corporate promises to distance themselves from politicians who voted to overturn election results are turning out to have some big, big loopholes.
April 1 deadline: Want to thank first-time voters who helped us win in Georgia & Virginia?
Voting rights are under attack by Republicans all across the country—especially in states like Georgia, where first-time Democratic voters were the margin of victory.
And now there is something you can do to help urge these voters to hang in there and remind them how crucial they were in the last election and what the stakes are going forward.
False prophet who called for military coup against Biden: We’re actually trying to stop a coup
Some of the most deplorable of the deplorables have made it clear that they have dropped all pretense of democracy. That’s the only way to describe the talk among some rabidly pro-Trump “prophets” who have foretold that Trump will return to power.
One of the most outrageous examples of this comes from Johnny Enlow, a pastor in Atlanta, Georgia.
Biden administration frets J&J may miss vaccine goal
The full tranche of vaccine Johnson & Johnson committed in February to delivering may not be ready to ship until the third week of April.
NY Times ‘exposé’ of police misconduct at BLM protests: 38 paragraphs without a word about racism
How do you write a report about police tactics in response to protests over police racism without ever mentioning racism in your report?
There was just “insufficient training,” we’re told. The police “mishandled” the response. There were “major law enforcement agencies across the country” in total “disarray.”
That’s all it was. Really.
How Joe Biden Got His Cabinet Confirmed
Despite a narrow Democratic majority in the Senate, all of the administration’s Cabinet secretaries are in office.
Texas Democrat will retire from House seat that moved hard to the right in 2022
In a surprise, Democratic Rep. Filemón Vela said Monday that he would not seek a sixth term in Texas’ 34th Congressional District, a heavily Latino seat that snapped hard to the right last year. Vela is the second Democratic House member to announce his retirement following Arizona Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, who made her 2022 plans known earlier this month.
Sidney Powell Says ‘No Reasonable Person’ Would Believe Her Election Fraud Lies
Trump’s campaign lawyer baselessly claimed that Dominion Voting Systems machines were rigged to weigh Biden votes more heavily than Trump votes.
Democratic Senators Plot Path Forward On Raising Minimum Wage
Top Senate Democrats will huddle on Tuesday in an attempt to unify around a path toward hiking the federal minimum wage.
AstraZeneca struggles to rebuild confidence in vaccine after PR blunders
It’s not clear that the vaccine’s strong results, which could clear the way for the U.S. to allow emergency use of the shot, will shore up global opinion.
America Is Now in the Hands of the Vaccine Hesitant
It’s official: America’s vaccine-supply crunch is over. The U.S. has ordered, optioned, or procured enough doses to immunize every single member of the population more than five times over, and all adults will be eligible for the shots by May 1. In other words, after months of careful rationing and distribution snafus, we’ve finally hit a new phase of the pandemic endgame: vaccines galore.
GOP Senator Slammed For Criticizing Biden’s ‘Humane Treatment Of Immigrants’
“Imagine thinking it’s a bad thing to want to treat all humans humanely,” one Twitter user noted.
The Orthodox Jews Trying to Make Marjorie Taylor Greene Kosher
Despite her support for QAnon and rants about Rothschild space lasers, some supporters still think the congresswoman is good for the Jews.
Trump Endorses Jody Hice To Run Against Raffensperger For Georgia Secretary Of State
Brad Raffensperger refused to commit election fraud and “find” more Trump votes after Trump lost the state in 2020.
You Recovered From COVID-19. Now Your Coffee Smells Like Sewage.
Ruby Martinez was eating a banana when she noticed the nothingness. She chewed but tasted no sweetness. She sniffed but got none of the fruit’s redolent musk. “I started freaking out,” she says. She smelled a bottle of perfume. Nothing. She ate a pickle. Still nothing.That was in June. Since then, her senses of smell and taste have started to come back—but intermittently and in strange ways.
Why Is Tower Records Coming Back Now, of All Times?
It’s trying to offer something Amazon and Spotify can’t.