We look at how the House of Representative voted Friday to decriminalize marijuana at the federal level and “address the devastating injustices caused by the War on Drugs,” as voters in Arizona and New Jersey approved ballot measures in November that legalize the possession and use of recreational marijuana for adults aged 21 and up.
Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft scored a major victory with the passage of Proposition 22 in California, and worker rights advocates fear they will push similar measures in other states. Prop 22 will exempt companies in the so-called gig economy from having to classify their workers in the state as employees rather than as independent contractors.
A Black mother who was attacked by a horde of Philadelphia police officers is speaking out about the harrowing experience. Rickia Young was driving an SUV with her 2-year-old son and teenage nephew on October 27 as the city was engulfed in protest over the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr. earlier that day. Officers descended on the vehicle, broke its windows, assaulted and arrested her and separated her from her child.
How to live your life without always worrying about the end.
“If I don’t do that, it’s like not having had my cup of coffee.
Louis DeJoy is likely to last well into the Biden administration.
GoFundMe turned charitable giving into another form of social media.
Governors will let providers sort out thorny questions over who should be first in line.
The British government “kind of ran around the corner of the marathon and joined it in the last mile,” he said.
Marcella Nunez-Smith has been selected for a top role focused on health disparities
New Mexico’s governor is no longer the favorite to lead the department at the center of Biden’s pandemic response.
A former high-level employee at Heather Boushey’s think tank publicly aired the accusations on Tuesday night.
“That disqualifies almost every Republican senator and 90 percent of the administration,” the president-elect said of GOP criticism.
Taxpayers are backing more than a trillion dollars in home mortgages, but the agencies buying them are neglecting to consider climate risks.
Brian Deese is an executive at investment giant BlackRock.
The president-elect intends to name Cecilia Rouse, Neera Tanden and Wally Adeyemo to senior roles in his administration.
We continue our conversation with medical anthropologist Dr. Paul Farmer, whose new book, “Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds,” tells the story of his efforts to fight Ebola in 2014 and how the history of slavery, colonialism and violence in West Africa exacerbated the outbreak. “Care for Ebola is not rocket science,” says Dr. Farmer, who notes that doctors know how to treat sick patients.
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
44 days until Joe Biden is sworn into office.
Jessica Corbett at Common Dreams writes—Citing ‘Historic Abuse’ of Judicial Process, Over 1,500 Attorneys Call for Sanction of Trump Campaign’s Legal Team.
Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla has vowed to keep the company’s COVID-19 vaccine development “out of politics.
Our project to calculate the 2020 presidential results for all 435 congressional districts nationwide heads to Michigan, which returned to the Democratic column after another competitive race. You can find our complete data set here, which we’re updating continuously as the precinct-level election returns we need for our calculations become available.
After supporting Donald Trump 47.6-47.
Antwion “Busta” Ball, 43, was the kind of teacher who altered the course of his students’ lives. “He told Black boys you can be somebody,” his sister, Shavone Ball, told The Baltimore Sun. “He told them, once you have an education, it can’t be taken away.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency isn’t spending its final weeks under the Trump administration releasing detained people—including children and their families—as an emergency health measure amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, but instead issuing a subpoena attempting to force BuzzFeed News to reveal its confidential sources. Priorities.
After a 23-year-old Black man was killed outside of his home in Ohio by a veteran SWAT deputy, local activists are questioning what really happened that led to the incident. The man killed, identified as Casey Goodson Jr., was neither a suspect nor the focus of any investigation, according to Buzzfeed News.
Officers were said to be looking for a suspect nearby when Goodson drove by, said Peter Tobin, the U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio, on Friday at a press conference.
Four neo-Nazis arrested on gun charges wanted to spark a race war, prosecutors said, and their potential targets included Black Lives Matter protesters.
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.
The ousted data scientist has accused the state of asking her to censor and alter public-facing coronavirus data.
The COVID-19 treatment has since been shown to be more than 90% effective. Widespread rollouts of the Pfizer drug begin this week in the U.K.
