Why So Many Drivers Are Ramming Into Protesters
Extremists have celebrated attacks like these for years. But there’s even more to the story.
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The Reason Starbucks Is Closing 400 Stores
The pandemic made it impossible for customers to hang out there—but they already weren’t.
Why virtual care will outlast the pandemic
With millions of people suddenly video chatting their doctors, there’s pressure on Washington to make telehealth a permanent option.
Trump finalizes rollback of LGBTQ patient protections
Advocates panned the new rules, which were released on the 4th anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting.
CDC warns against large gatherings as Trump plans campaign rallies
The CDC also recommended attendees wear masks if an event includes chanting or singing.
American Indian tribes thwarted in efforts to get coronavirus data
The CDC has turned down tribal epidemiologists’ requests for data that it’s making freely available to states.
My Daughter Stopped Talking to Me. Here’s How I Got Her Back.
When the best thing for you is to walk away.
Help! My White Friend Is Lying About Being Pushed by a Cop at a Protest.
I don’t feel right about letting this slide.
How the Government Can Lose a Criminal Case and Punish a Defendant Anyway
A look at the use of acquitted and uncharged conduct in federal sentencing.
Why CrossFit’s Leader Didn’t Have a Chance of Surviving the Social Workouts of Our Day
How a collision between libertarianism, pandemic, and protests brought down the leader of the fitness juggernaut CrossFit.
Fed sees need for more small business aid, citing ‘acute risks’ to survival
The central bank signaled that it would keep interest rates low through 2022.
Fed’s dire outlook: GDP seen shrinking by 6.5 percent this year
The country’s unemployment rate will drop to 9.3 percent by the end of the year, according to the Fed’s forecasts.
Social distancing will suppress recovery despite emergency aid, CBO chief says
States grappling with budget shortfalls are slowly reopening and lifting stay-at-home orders.
Angela Davis: Dems & GOP Tied to Corporate Capitalism, But We Must Vote So Trump Is “Forever Ousted”
“Neither party represents the future that we need in this country — both parties remain connected to corporate capitalism,” Angela Davis says of the 2020 election. “We’re going to have to translate some of the passion that has characterized these demonstrations into work within the electoral arena, recognizing that the electoral arena is not the best place for the expression of radical politics.
Angela Davis Slams Trump Rally in Tulsa, Massacre Site, on Juneteenth Celebration of End of Slavery
President Trump will resume holding indoor campaign events starting with a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 19, a day known as Juneteenth, that celebrates African Americans’ liberation from slavery. The rally also falls on the 99th anniversary of the Tulsa race riots, one of the worst acts of racial violence in U.S. history, in which white residents killed hundreds of their African American neighbors.
Angela Davis: Toppling of Confederate Statues Reflects Reckoning with Slavery & Historical Racism
The destruction and removal of racist monuments in cities across the United States during recent weeks is part of an overdue reckoning with “historical racisms that have brought us to the point where we are today,” Angela Davis says. “Racism should have been immediately confronted in the aftermath of the end of slavery.
Uprising & Abolition: Angela Davis on Movement Building, “Defund the Police” & Where We Go from Here
The uprising against police brutality and anti-Black racism continues to sweep across the United States and countries around the world, forcing a reckoning in the halls of power and on the streets. The mass protests following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25 have dramatically shifted public opinion on policing and systemic racism, as “defund the police” becomes a rallying cry of the movement.
Trump Tweet Mocking ‘Unpresidential’ Obama Walk Resurfaces After Ramp Incident
Another old tweet comes back to haunt the president after he tried to defend his slow and tentative walk down a ramp at West Point.
Trump Tweet Mocking ‘Unpresidential’ Obama Walk Resurfaces After Ramp Incident
Another old tweet comes back to haunt the president after he tried to defend his slow and tentative walk down a ramp at West Point.
Police Video Shows Rayshard Brooks Sobriety Test Quickly Turning Deadly
The officer who shot and killed Brooks was fired and another placed on administrative duty. His death has prompted renewed protests over police brutality.
Cuomo Warns He May Reverse Reopenings After New York Gets 25,000 Complaints
“We have never received more complaints in a shorter period of time,” the governor said as some states see surges in coronavirus infections.
Immigrants stage a hunger strike for Black lives inside ICE detention facility
By Jack Herrera
As they watched the news on TV in late May, the men in locked in Unit C of the Mesa Verde immigrant detention center in Bakersfield, California, began to see the same images as the rest of the world: cops across the United States beating protestors, reports detailing the police homicide of Breonna Taylor, and the horrific footage of a Minneapolis police officer suffocating George Floyd to death.
Ben Carson Tells U.S. To ‘Grow Up’ Over Racist Gripes; Stacey Abrams Calls Him ‘Infantile’
“We’ve reached a point in our society where we dissect everything and try to ascribe some nefarious notion to it,” the HUD secretary groused.
Nuts & Bolts: Inside a Democratic campaign. The power of endorsements
It’s another Sunday, so for those who tune in, welcome to a diary discussing 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.
‘Everybody hates the police right now’: 7 Minneapolis cops quit amid George Floyd protests
Seven Minneapolis police officers have quit and more than six additional officers are in the process of quitting after calls to defund police and disband the department left them feeling unsupported, according to the Star Tribune. Deputy chief Henry Halvorson wrote in an e-mail the Star Tribune obtained that he’s heard “second-hand information” that officers “separated with the city without completing paperwork.
Damage at home, damage abroad: What Trump is doing to the U.S. image around the world
George Floyd was not the first unarmed Black person to die at the hands, so to speak, of a police officer. We already know he won’t be the last (say his name: Jamel Floyd). The death of George Floyd, along with similarly unjust killings that recently took the lives of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, sparked protests that rightly focused the attention of our country and the world on systemic racism, white supremacy, and police violence in America.
‘What you can do is rebuild’: Rep. Ilhan Omar on calls to dismantle Minneapolis Police Department
On Sunday, Rep. Ilhan Omar appeared on CNN’s State of the Union and spoke with host Jake Tapper about the movement to defund the police and specifically, calls to dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department, which Minneapolis city council members voted to begin the process of replacing with a community-led initiative. In speaking to Tapper, Omar summed it up simply, saying, “You can’t really reform a department that is rotten to the root—what you can do is rebuild.
White House Adviser: No ‘Transparency’ Promise Ever Made Over Billions In Loans
Larry Kudlow contradicted a promise made by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to disclose the companies that received billions in coronavirus relief loans.