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The Dark Side of GoFundMe
Critics say the platform enables fraud and exploits holes in the social safety net.
Trump Set to Execute Brandon Bernard Even as Jurors & Ex-Prosecutor Call for Clemency
President Trump has sent eight people to their deaths so far this year, breaking a 17-year hiatus in federal executions, and plans to execute five more in the final weeks of his administration. On December 10, International Human Rights Day, the federal government is scheduled to kill Brandon Bernard, a Black man who was 18 years old when he was convicted as an accomplice to the murder of a young white couple in Texas.
People’s Vaccine: Calls Grow for Equal Access to Coronavirus Vaccine as Rich Countries Hoard Supply
While the United States, Britain and other wealthy countries race to vaccinate their populations against the coronavirus, a new report finds that as much as 90% of the population in dozens of poorer countries could be forced to wait until at least 2022 because wealthy countries are hoarding so much of the vaccine supply. A growing movement is calling for the development of a people’s vaccine and the suspension of intellectual property rights to expand access. We speak with Dr.
Why Writer Ayad Akhtar Reads Shakespeare Every Day
“If I don’t do that, it’s like not having had my cup of coffee.
We’ll Be Stuck With Trump’s Postmaster General for a While
Louis DeJoy is likely to last well into the Biden administration.
GoFundMe’s “Fast Food Philanthropy”
GoFundMe turned charitable giving into another form of social media.
Why Writer Ayad Akhtar Reads Shakespeare Every Day
“If I don’t do that, it’s like not having had my cup of coffee.
Trump’s health nemesis gets a new starring role: Reversing Trump’s policies
Xavier Becerra, the California attorney general and former House lawmaker, would enter Biden’s HHS without traditional health or management experience – but with immense power to undo Trump’s actions.
We’ll Be Stuck With Trump’s Postmaster General for a While
Louis DeJoy is likely to last well into the Biden administration.
GoFundMe’s “Fast Food Philanthropy”
GoFundMe turned charitable giving into another form of social media.
States defer to health providers on who gets first vaccines
Governors will let providers sort out thorny questions over who should be first in line.
Fauci: U.K. ‘really rushed through that approval’ of Pfizer vaccine
The British government “kind of ran around the corner of the marathon and joined it in the last mile,” he said.
Trump’s health nemesis gets a new starring role: Reversing Trump’s policies
Xavier Becerra, the California attorney general and former House lawmaker, would enter Biden’s HHS without traditional health or management experience – but with immense power to undo Trump’s actions.
States defer to health providers on who gets first vaccines
Governors will let providers sort out thorny questions over who should be first in line.
Fauci: U.K. ‘really rushed through that approval’ of Pfizer vaccine
The British government “kind of ran around the corner of the marathon and joined it in the last mile,” he said.
Biden top economic adviser facing accusations of mismanagement, verbal abuse
A former high-level employee at Heather Boushey’s think tank publicly aired the accusations on Tuesday night.
Biden backs up Tanden as Republicans attack her tweets
“That disqualifies almost every Republican senator and 90 percent of the administration,” the president-elect said of GOP criticism.
How climate change could spark the next home mortgage disaster
Taxpayers are backing more than a trillion dollars in home mortgages, but the agencies buying them are neglecting to consider climate risks.
Deese to be Biden’s top White House economic adviser
Brian Deese is an executive at investment giant BlackRock.
Biden unveils diverse economic team as challenges to economy grow
The president-elect intends to name Cecilia Rouse, Neera Tanden and Wally Adeyemo to senior roles in his administration.
Civil Rights Lawyer Bryan Stevenson Wins “Alternative Nobel” for Work Against Mass Incarceration
Civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative, was one of four human rights defenders to win this year’s Right Livelihood Award on December 3. “I work in a country that has the highest rate of incarceration in the world. I work against a system that treats you better if you’re rich and guilty than if you’re poor and innocent,” he said in accepting the honor.
Tuesday Night Owls: Tracking COVID’s spread among Latinos in a small Colorado community
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
43 DAYS UNTIL JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS TAKE THE OATH OF OFFICE
Markian Hawryluk at Kaiser Health News writes—Tracking COVID’s Spread Inside a Tight-Knit Latino Community:
Early in the pandemic, Ximena Rebolledo León, a registered nurse at Telluride Regional Medical Center in southwestern Colorado, needed to find everyone who’d been in contact with a sick Latino worker
Tuesday Night Owls: Tracking COVID’s spread among Latinos in a small Colorado community
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
43 DAYS UNTIL JOE BIDEN AND KAMALA HARRIS TAKE THE OATH OF OFFICE
Markian Hawryluk at Kaiser Health News writes—Tracking COVID’s Spread Inside a Tight-Knit Latino Community:
Early in the pandemic, Ximena Rebolledo León, a registered nurse at Telluride Regional Medical Center in southwestern Colorado, needed to find everyone who’d been in contact with a sick Latino worker
Judge rips New York officials for disastrous election and orders thousands of votes to be reviewed
In a scathing ruling, a state judge excoriated seven local boards of election for botching the administration of last month’s election in New York’s 22nd Congressional District and ordered officials to fix their many errors, which could result in more than a thousand untallied ballots getting counted.
Last week, Judge Scott DelConte ordered all eight county boards to produce official tallies in the race between Democratic Rep.
Judge rips New York officials for disastrous election and orders thousands of votes to be reviewed
In a scathing ruling, a state judge excoriated seven local boards of election for botching the administration of last month’s election in New York’s 22nd Congressional District and ordered officials to fix their many errors, which could result in more than a thousand untallied ballots getting counted.
Last week, Judge Scott DelConte ordered all eight county boards to produce official tallies in the race between Democratic Rep.