Today’s news features another pandemic-ignoring spring break in Florida. It also featured a heavy helping of the newest media obsession, another “crisis” on the southern border of the sort that conservatives discover with clockwork regularity and media outlets desperate for both sides rhetoric promote with an eagerness that comes very close to outright groveling.
On Tuesday, eight people were shot and killed and one more was injured in a string of murders at three separate spa businesses in Georgia. Four people were killed at Young’s Asian Massage in Acworth and four more people were killed at Gold Spa and Aromatherapy Spa in Atlanta. The suspect is 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, who has reportedly confessed to the murders.
Miami Beach declared a 72-hour state of emergency on Saturday after viral video of bustling spring break crowds highlighted Gov. Ron DeSantis’ repeated failures to protect Florida residents during the coronavirus pandemic. Days before the curfew went into effect at 8 p.m., the governor made clear his priority in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Thursday.
“Thanks for nothing,” the host said after a dispute in which her guest told her there were “very few” facts on her show.
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.
When progressive activist Melissa Byrne wanted to push President-elect Joe Biden on cancelling student debt, she bought full-page ads in the print edition of Delaware’s The News Journal, which was delivered daily to Biden’s home during the transition.
“Good Morning President-elect Biden,” the ad began in giant bold type.
“We are rebuilding the system as we address the needs of vulnerable children who arrive at our borders,” said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Republican Julia Letlow has been elected to a seat previously won by her late husband, who died from coronavirus-related complications in December and was never seated.
After several weeks of earthquakes, an eruption began about 25 miles from Reykjavik, Iceland, as Fagradalsfjall volcano began spewing lava into a small valley on March 19. Collected below, some early images from the event.
The American Rescue Plan will surely transform American lives.
Parenting advice on parental love, hobbies, and lying to your children.
there’s two ways to be a Mexican writer
that we’ve discovered so far.you can be the Mexican writer who writes about tortillas
or you can be the Mexican writer who writes about croissants
instead of the tortillas on their plate.(can you be a Mexican writer if you’re allergic to corn?)there’s two ways to be a Mexican writer that are true
& tested. you can write about migration
or you can write about migration.
The filibuster is in trouble. President Joe Biden has come out in favor of reforming it, and Democrats in the Senate are weighing alternatives. But the strongest sign that its days are numbered is that the Republican leader Mitch McConnell is threatening Armageddon if the other party touches it. No one presently—or perhaps ever—in the Senate has practiced the dark art of obstruction as relentlessly as the current minority leader.
Early in the first episode of Q: Into the Storm, the filmmaker Cullen Hoback makes a confession. “QAnon creeps into your thoughts,” he says, describing how years of investigating the false conspiracy theory that a cabal of powerful elites is engaging in ritualistic child abuse has warped his thinking. “It changes the lens with which you see the world.” Hoback can’t see the number 17 without thinking of its corresponding letter in the alphabet, Q.
Thursday night’s very public dustup between United States and Chinese officials in Anchorage, Alaska, during the Biden administration’s first official meeting with China, may have seemed like a debacle, but the exchange was actually a necessary step to a more stable relationship between the two countries.
As the president once put it: Come on!
They’re considering restoring a tax deduction that once benefited the upper-middle class and rich. Bad idea.
Former NBA player Shawn Bradley was paralyzed after he was struck by a car.
A metaphor if you were looking for one.
Going back to in-person learning—with a twist.
The new guidance says three feet of separation is safe — if everyone is wearing a mask.
The announcement comes after the Supreme Court agreed to review the legality of the Trump policy change.
“I don’t think that would make sense for Floridians,” the Florida governor says.
This week marks one year since Murphy ordered the shuttering of all school buildings in New Jersey due to the spread of the coronavirus.
The film’s official title is Zack Snyder’s Justice League. So when Zack Snyder popped up on the video screen during an HBO Max–hosted virtual watch party last night, the fans went wild—as wild as they could in a chat box, anyway. “This movie is a masterpiece,” a commenter wrote before the film started playing. “Zack I respect you so much,” another gushed.
In the summer of 2020, the Trump administration followed through on a promise it had made a year earlier. It would, after a 17-year hiatus, resume federal executions. That original announcement detailed plans to execute five people on death row; by the end of the Trump presidency, the number had ballooned to 13—more executions than in the previous 67 years combined.
My mother’s name is Tin Swe Thant. She was born just outside the former capital of Burma (now known as Myanmar), in a humid city on the delta of the Irrawaddy River called Rangoon (now known as Yangon). Names are always changing for the Burmese, and that includes our own names: My mother grew up during the sunset of British colonialism and attended English schools, where she was not allowed to be called Tin Swe Thant, but was instead required to have a Western “school name.
But a culture that infantilizes transmasculinity refuses to treat him like one.
The past year has turned wedding planners into unofficial health experts and therapists for their clients—the ones who haven’t already eloped, that is.
Our health reporter wades through the options.