Trump admin begins shipping rapid coronavirus tests to states
The first shipments, totaling 6.5 million tests, will be sent this week, and the amount each state receives will be based on population data.
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Trump’s drug card plan sows confusion – even within administration
Top Trump deputies say they can put the plan in place using existing powers. But critics see it as a brazen election year ploy.
U.S. coronavirus case count passes 7 million
The figure, based on a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University, comes just days after the U.S. surpassed 200,000 deaths.
There’s More Than One Way to Reason Why
There’s more than one way to ask why. Look to Russian for an explanation.
Trump is fuzzy on tax policy as Biden goes all in
Trump has raised various ideas in recent months, though his proposals remain much vaguer than during his 2016 presidential campaign.
2020 is the Year Trump Was Worried About
If presidential elections really turn on how the country is doing, there’s a good reason for the incumbent to sweat.
Trump stokes a new threat to Wall Street: Election chaos
“This does have the potential to incite … the metastasizing of social unrest,” said one market strategist.
Internal memo reassured Trudeau that virus’s economic hit would be ‘manageable’
Critics have argued the Trudeau government lacked preparedness or a sense of urgency before the country was hit by the pandemic’s crises.
Fed expects to keep rates near zero through 2023
The central bank shed more light on its pledge not to raise interest rates until prices begin to rise more rapidly.
Chris Cuomo Calls Out Ted Cruz To His Face As Interview Gets Heated In A Hurry
CNN host and Texas senator get loud as segment flies off the rails.
Wednesday Night Owls: GM ordered to repay $28 million in tax breaks for closing auto plant
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
There are lessons here for every city, county, and state that has seen companies take tax credits provided to them in hopes of creating or maintaining jobs and run away, leaving locals to pay the tab.
How one community fridge project went international
By Juliana Clark
Through a combination of outreach efforts and in-kind donations, the New York City-based anarchist network In Our Hearts (IOH) has managed to create a network of over 40 fridges in New York City and New Jersey. The collective has even managed to facilitate the creation of project chapters across the United States and the world. However, when IOH first began its popular outdoor community fridge project, it was “almost by accident.
Texas sheriff and reality show star indicted on charges of evidence tampering
A Texas sheriff who starred on the controversial show Live PD has been indicted and arrested on evidence tampering charges after allegedly destroying video evidence connected to the death of a Black man. A grand jury indicted Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody on Monday on charges of destroying Live PD footage depicting deputies using force on Javier Ambler.
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As Howard Dean would say, voting only gives you a “C” in a democracy. Working hard to get other people out to vote is how we can achieve real results, and that’s what will help get you that “A.
Protecting safe and accessible abortions is even more essential during a pandemic
By Nancy Cardenas Pena
Faced with the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic, Texans looked towards leadership in their state government amidst a combative national dialogue. To many of us, it was clear that Texans needed strong guidance through these difficult times. Instead, the state utilized the pandemic to implement an anti-abortion agenda that left Texans with barriers towards abortion care in clinic settings that haven’t been seen since before Roe V. Wade.
Biden, Trump Continue To Snipe Each Other Off The Debate Stage
Less than 12 hours after the wild debate concluded, Biden called Trump’s behavior in the prime-time confrontation a “a national embarrassment.
‘On the precipice’: How the cratering economy became a second public health crisis
Recovery could take years, with the nation’s most vulnerable enduring the worst of it.
Pennsylvania Republicans Put Election Nightmare Scenario In Motion
A proposal for a Republican-run committee to investigate the election could be the first step to handing the state’s electors to Trump.
Chris Wallace: ‘I’m Just Sad With The Way Last Night Turned Out’
“I’m disappointed for the country, because it could have been a much more useful evening than it turned out to be,” the Fox News host told The New York Times.
The Atlantic Daily: Why Can’t Trump Just Say It?
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.JULIO CORTEZ / APLast night, the president refused to unequivocally condemn white supremacists and militia groups. When pressed, he said that members of the far-right group the Proud Boys should “stand back, and stand by.
My Religious Wife and I Tried Something New in Bed—and Disaster Has Ensued
I think she liked it a little too much.
Dear Care and Feeding: My Child’s Adoptive Mother Is an Alt-Right, Anti-Vaccine Conspiracy Theorist
Parenting advice on adoptive parent politics, motherhood with image issues, and Grandma as teacher.
Trump’s Climate Self-Own
The painting style of Jackson Pollock is called “gestural abstraction,” but before last night’s debate, I never knew that it was also a governing philosophy. The debate featured many decisions from President Donald Trump that were puzzling, to put it mildly. The president constantly interrupted the moderator, Chris Wallace, and he all but jeered his opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, even as Biden discussed the death toll of the coronavirus pandemic.
A Pro-Trump Militant Group Has Recruited Thousands of Police, Soldiers, and Veterans
Photographs by Philip MontgomeryImage above: Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath KeepersStewart Rhodes was living his vision of the future. On television, American cities were burning, while on the internet, rumors warned that antifa bands were coming to terrorize the suburbs. Rhodes was driving around South Texas, getting ready for them. He answered his phone. “Let’s not fuck around,” he said. “We’ve descended into civil war.
The Polarizing Emo Record That Captured Teenage Angst
Wide-eyed and brokenhearted, the greasy-haired Nevada teens of Panic! at the Disco channeled their woes into elaborate, vaudevillian theatrics. (Nigel Crane / Redfern)Before TikTok, SoundCloud, or even YouTube existed, four gawky teenagers from suburban Las Vegas found success by posting their music to an unlikely platform: the Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz’s LiveJournal page.
Therapists Break Down the Debate’s Toxic Communication Patterns
Last night’s presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden started off placidly enough, with each candidate delivering a measured, coherent answer to a question about the current Supreme Court vacancy. That sense of coherence lasted about five minutes.What followed was shambolic—a disorienting, exasperating medley of half-thoughts, interjections, raised voices, and simultaneous monologues broken up occasionally by brief periods of uninterrupted speech.
Republicans Aren’t Happy With Trump’s Debate Performance
“I think he misspoke. I think he should correct it,” Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina said of the president’s refusal to condemn white supremacists.
House panel says drugmakers inflated prices to boost profits and reap bonuses
The Democrat-led reports come just weeks before Election Day, and amid efforts by President Donald Trump to show progress on slashing drug costs.
Kate Aronoff: The Climate Crisis Can’t Take 4 More Years of Trump. We Must Push Biden from the Left
After massive outcry from activists and young voters, debate moderator Chris Wallace questioned President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden about the climate crisis at the first presidential debate. He did not include it in his initial list of debate topics. Kate Aronoff, author and staff writer at The New Republic, says she didn’t expect climate change to come up, but was unsurprised by the responses.