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There Is No Escapism From America’s Current Crises
In an empty arena, the seats a ghost’s playground, the floors shiny and robbed of traffic, everything is plain and naked and disturbingly honest. And in that absence is a lesson about what we think we should see.If you had found yourself wanting to watch the NBA playoffs the night of August 26, live from the league’s quarantine “bubble” in Florida, this was the reality you faced. Emptiness, confusion, and signs of corporate sponsorship.
Trump’s Eviction Moratorium Is Only a Stopgap Measure
The government still isn’t doing nearly enough to stop an eviction crisis.
Beware, Outdoor Diners: There’s Already a Heat-Lamp Shortage
Restaurants know the only way they’ll survive the winter is to somehow function alfresco.
It’s All on Western Massachusetts to Give Democrats a Chance at Health Care Reform
If they want to meaningfully expand coverage, they should boot Rep. Richard Neal.
Contact tracing foiled by conspiracy theories, lack of federal messaging
A total of 14 states and New York City supplied POLITICO contact tracing results showing widespread public reluctance to participate in disease tracking.
HHS secretary insists no politics at play in coronavirus vaccine race
Alex Azar’s remarks come as three vaccine candidates have entered late-stage Phase 3 clinical trials.
Trump pivots to narrow coronavirus testing strategy as election looms
The White House pivot amounts to a tacit admission that the administration’s months-long containment effort has failed.
‘That’s certainly not my approach’: Fauci rejects pursuing herd immunity
“We certainly are not wanting to wait back and just let people get infected,” he said.
Why Does My Kid’s Online School Still Start at 7:50 in the Freaking Morning?
It didn’t have to be this way.
It Was One Thing When My Son Wanted to Wear Princess Dresses. Why Does a Girl’s Swimsuit Feel Different?
Plus, getting a clingy preteen off your back.
Trump’s rebound story meets mounting bankruptcies
It won’t exactly be an October surprise, but it could still be a shock: a wave of business failures hitting during the campaign season.
Trudeau’s plan to revive Canada — and his political future
Canada’s prime minister is building a Covid-19 recovery plan he hopes will “change the future” — and turn the page for his Liberal Party.
Trump tries to dance around a devastating backdrop
Despite unemployment above 10 percent and millions of jobs vaporized, Trump is running on his economic record before the pandemic.
Economy hurting after Congress fails to act on stimulus
“When you have $60 billion less going to families,” former U.S. Treasury economist Ernie Tedeschi told POLITICO, “that means that there’s going to be something close to that less in spending.
Unemployment Isn’t Too High — Regular Wages Are Too Low
In the debate over Covid-19 relief, Congress is worried about the wrong problem.
Healing Needs to Happen: Kenosha Native Rep. Mark Pocan on Trump’s Visit & the U.S. “Policing Problem”
As Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden heads to Kenosha, Wisconsin, to meet with the family of Jacob Blake, we speak with Congressmember Mark Pocan, who was born and raised in Kenosha. “Clearly, what happened — someone shot in the back seven times, close range, in front of their children, by the police — was another example of the policing problem we have in this country,” Pocan says.
The Trump campaign is broke
It’s been no secret that the Trump campaign is a cesspool of nepotism and corruption. It’s also telling that while the Biden campaign triumphantly announced a record-shattering $365 million haul for August, the Trump campaign has been notably silent.
And then there was that most telling of tells—the Trump campaign going dark during its convention week, pulling all TV advertising from the airwaves.
Trump campaign doctors photo of Biden in Facebook ad, trying to make him look older
It’s a close race between Donald Trump and Facebook for which is most dangerous to America’s political and social systems. Combined, they’re a disaster. The Trump campaign, in conjunction with Trump’s denials of having had a series of mini-strokes (which no media organization had reported), has been running Facebook ads that have doctored images of Joe Biden, in which he’s made to look older.
White House Orders End Of ‘Un-American’ Racial Sensitivity Training At Federal Agencies
Contracts for training that mention “white privilege” must be canceled immediately, demands memo forwarding orders from the president.
In prisons, reproductive abuse and coercion are the norm
This story is part of Prism’s series on incarceration as gendered violence. Read the rest of the series here.
By Briana Perry
Jails and prisons were designed as sites of reproductive coercion.
Women’s divergence from what is narrowly considered appropriate gender performance under patriarchy, particularly around sex and reproduction, has been the foundational basis for their “criminality.
Fox Is So Rattled By Trump Military Story That It Confirms, Debunks, Then Reconfirms It
The blow from the Trump-supporting cable news operation hits particularly hard.
‘DHS has acted no better than the Russian authorities’: ICE targets Russian asylum-seeker and critic
Gregory Duralev has been seeking asylum in the United States since 2016 after exposing corruption in Russia’s economy. It’s no exaggeration to say that this could be a matter of life or death, when critics of the Russian government continue to die “mysteriously.
Trump has promised a COVID-19 vaccine ‘soon’ since February, so you know he’ll do the wrong thing
Before getting to the latest in the concern over Donald Trump’s attempt to turn everything about a public health crisis into a political football, it seems appropriate to give out a state-level special achievement award. Because Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey has managed something very, very … special.
The rate of testing in Alabama was down this week. The rate of testing in Alabama was down the week before. The rate of testing in Alabama was down the week before that.
Trump Calls Story On Anti-Military Comments A ‘Hoax,’ Slams McCain
“I say what I say,” the president replied when asked if he regretted denigrating John McCain’s military service.
Trump Losing The Military Vote, A Traditional Republican Bloc
His pardons of war criminals, desire to deploy active-duty troops to quell civil unrest and unwillingness to confront Vladimir Putin on bounties are all factors.
Trump contradicts health officials, says ‘probably’ a Covid-19 vaccine in October
While three vaccine developers have entered the final stages of trials, phase III, the studies take months and enroll tens of thousands of people.
GOP Candidate Who Touts QAnon Posts Photo Seemingly Threatening Democrats With Rifle
Marjorie Taylor Greene, a House candidate in Georgia, calls for supporters to “go on the offense against these socialists.
The Books Briefing: Imagining Black Futures
The death of Chadwick Boseman last week revealed the ability of art to imagine new, daring possibilities for the future. In his roles as T’Challa, Jackie Robinson, and James Brown, Boseman expertly portrayed Black icons and heroes, providing visions of hope by embodying individuals who challenged power narratives. That is, in many ways, the core of Afrofuturism, a tradition represented in a long line of books written by Black writers such as Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany.
The Highly Contingent, Deeply Uncertain Case for Economic Optimism
The new jobs numbers were a mixed bag.