Updated at 5:45 p.m. on February 11, 2021.The social-media celebrity JoJo Siwa has built an empire by dressing in sparkly rainbow outfits while chattering about individuality and self-acceptance. But when she wanted the world to know that she was queer, she let Lady Gaga do the talking. In a TikTok last month, the 17-year-old Siwa filmed herself grinning and lip-synching to Gaga’s 2011 hit “Born This Way.
Indian farmworkers are continuing to take to the streets to demand Prime Minister Narendra Modi repeal three highly contested agricultural laws. Farmworkers say the laws, which seek to deregulate markets and allow large corporations to set prices, threaten their livelihoods. Dozens have died since the start of the protests, with many deaths caused by the harsh winter as tens of thousands of farmers have camped out in the cold on the outskirts of New Delhi and other parts of the country.
Anne Feeney, the legendary Pittsburgh folk singer-songwriter and self-described rabble-rouser, has died of COVID at age 69. Her death comes a decade after she joined in the Wisconsin uprising against a draconian anti-union bill and “sang its solidarity song,” remembers The Nation’s John Nichols, who covered the protests and is based in Madison.
Democratic House impeachment managers laid out their case against former President Donald Trump on the second day of the Senate trial, releasing shocking video from inside the Capitol during the January 6 insurrection. The footage shows violent Trump supporters were just 58 steps away from lawmakers’ offices.
On the second day of former President Trump’s second impeachment trial, House impeachment managers presented detailed documentation of the events leading up to the January 6 insurrection and shared dramatic new footage of the violence as it unfolded.
I don’t want to out her, but I can’t keep this from my dad.
I want to make this transition back to school as easy as possible.
Downtowns won’t recover from the pandemic anytime soon. Public transportation must look elsewhere.
We still have several months of socializing outside. Get yourself some sexy mittens.
Investors are pumping up bubbles across markets, with excitement growing about more stimulus and widespread vaccinations.
The Congressional Budget Office’s scoring of the proposed wage hike looks bad—because it was designed to be.
What happens if a pandemic-era trend sticks around?
A century before GameStop, a stock market outsider took on short sellers. It was a spectacle and a disaster.
He doesn’t fully spell out why he thinks Congress shouldn’t spend too much, because that would undermine his weird point.
The program’s launch comes as White House officials are trying to address inequities in the nation’s vaccination push.
The group notes that the FDA suspended in-person requirements for many other drugs during the pandemic, including opioids.
As the critical swing vote in a 50-50 Senate, Joe Manchin has emerged as the most powerful man in Washington.
The decision breaks with the Trump administration’s opposition to Okonjo-Iweala and brings the U.S. in line with much of the rest of the world.
Employment levels, however, will not fully recover until 2024.
Without help from Congress, he has few options to turn the U.S. economy around.
“There’s nothing more important to the economy now than people getting vaccinated,” Jerome Powell said.
A statement from Sen. Tommy Tuberville shows Trump turned his mob against Pence minutes after hearing his vice president had to be hustled from the Senate.
Gov. Gavin Newsom last month abruptly announced the state would play a bigger role in California’s vaccination drive.
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Cameron Oglesby at Grist writes—The generational rift over ‘intersectional environmentalism’
New eras are often marked by changes in language.
Whereas the Trump administration was calling natural gas “molecules of freedom,” the Biden administration has gone all-in on “environmental justice.
The Super Bowl is usually good for one thing: talking about the big commercial campaigns that are launched and shown during the night. Sometimes the halftime show is worth a watch, and sometimes the game itself is interesting.
Daily Kos senior staff writer Gabe Ortiz, a national expert on immigration and Latino issues, recently joined Michelangelo Signorile on his eponymous SiriusXM show to talk about undoing the damage Donald Trump inflicted on immigrant communities, how the Department of Homeland Security has been transformed, and what’s at stake with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Union-busters who traveled from other states to fight a union organizing drive at a Maine hospital got an extra-special bonus from hospital management: COVID-19 vaccinations. State officials are calling out MaineHealth over that violation of state vaccination policy and basic decency.
The nation is still facing the novel coronavirus, Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial is underway, and more than 400,00 Americans have died already due to COVID-19. In all of this, a slew of states have found time to push anti-trans legislation. Now, Alabama’s state legislator is considering a fiercely transphobic bill, HB 1 and SB 1, that would make it a felony for physicians to provide transgender youth with gender-affirming medical care.
To understand what was at issue in the impeachment proceedings today, it helps to look at a video released yesterday by Senator Marco Rubio.Few Republican officials have more reason to hate former President Donald Trump than the defeated rival Trump so memorably nicknamed “Liddle Marco.” Trump brutally bullied Rubio throughout the presidential primary campaign in 2015 and 2016. Over the five years since, Trump imposed one humiliation after another upon Rubio.
