I Agreed to a Threesome and Found Another Woman—but My Husband Is Furious About My One Boundary
I don’t think this is unreasonable.
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How Our Relationships Affect What We Eat
In my first serious long-term relationship, my ex hated three things that I loved—salmon, spicy food, and runny egg yolks. Food was often a bone of contention. I was a chef then and found it soul-crushing when my ex chose a Kraft Singles grilled cheese sandwich and a bowl of Campbell’s tomato soup over the many meals I made.
‘I Expected a Bidding War. We Did Not Get That.’
Shaka King’s new film, Judas and the Black Messiah, is both a prestige picture and a pulpy thriller. It’s a biographical portrait of the Illinois Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton (played by Daniel Kaluuya), who by the age of 21 had become a major figure in the national party and founded the Rainbow Coalition movement.
Newtown’s Congresswoman Takes on Marjorie Taylor Greene
Jahana Hayes stood before her history class at John F. Kennedy High School in Waterbury, Connecticut, trying to assuage her students’ fears. Someone had started shooting at an elementary school 18 miles away; Hayes’s students were scrolling through texts and social media, trying to understand what was going on. She tried to keep everyone calm—to put the students first—even as she was still processing what was happening.Just after 9:30 a.m.
Jeff Bezos to Quit as CEO, But Amazon’s “Predatory Business Model” Will Continue Unless Lawmakers Act
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has announced he will step down as CEO and move into a new role as executive chairman later this year, giving up the reins after nearly three decades during which he grew Amazon from an online book retailer into a sprawling business empire and became one of the world’s richest people in the process.
Immigration Advocates Welcome New “Tone” But Urge Biden Admin for More Concrete Change
Hundreds have been deported in the last week, even as President Biden signed several executive orders Tuesday to undo the Trump administration’s hard-line anti-immigration policies.
A Coup in Burma: Did Military Seize Power to Avoid ICC Prosecution for Rohingya Genocide?
We speak with a Burmese dissident about the military coup underway in Burma as de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been arrested. The coup unfolded hours before lawmakers were to take their seats in the opening of parliament, following a November election in which Aung San Suu Kyi’s party won over 80% of the contested seats in the Burmese parliament and the military made unsubstantiated claims of fraud.
Dear Care and Feeding: My Teen Is Writing Erotic Fan Fiction. Should I Make Them Stop?
Parenting advice on fan fiction discoveries, playground discipline, and unexpected pregnancies.
Somehow WeWork—WeWork!—Is on the Cusp of Thriving
The troubled startup was primed to fail in a pandemic. Here’s how it survived.
Everything You Need to Know About Reconciliation, the Tool Democrats Need to Govern
There’s something called the “Byrd Bath.
The GOP Is Complaining That Joe Biden Is Being “Divisive” by Governing Like a Democrat
You can, in fact, call for “unity” and pursue policies that Republicans don’t like.
Just 5 percent of vaccinations have gone to Black Americans, despite equity efforts
A POLITICO analysis suggests disadvantaged communities are being bypassed — even in blue states fighting disparities.
New CDC data shows stark disparities in coronavirus shots
President Joe Biden wants an equitable distribution of the coronavirus vaccine, but preliminary reports showcase just how much ground will need to be made up.
Biden Covid adviser tells providers to stop stockpiling vaccine
Andy Slavitt’s remarks come as the Biden team tries to accelerate the pace of vaccinations and get a better hold on the whereabouts of roughly 19 million doses that were shipped but not yet administered.
Maryland confirms case of Covid-19 variant from South Africa
The news comes after South Carolina announced the first two U.S. cases of the variant Thursday.
Economy will return to pre-pandemic level this year, CBO predicts
Employment levels, however, will not fully recover until 2024.
Biden confronts the limits of his executive power
Without help from Congress, he has few options to turn the U.S. economy around.
Fed’s Powell warns U.S. economy ‘long way from a full recovery’
“There’s nothing more important to the economy now than people getting vaccinated,” Jerome Powell said.
Wall Street shrugs at Washington’s debt pileup
The debt poses no imminent danger to U.S. finances, economists say, so the more pressing concern should be jump-starting the economy.
U.S. jobless claims decline to a still-high 900,000
The government said that 5.1 million Americans are continuing to receive state jobless benefits, down from 5.2 million in the previous week.
“Judas and the Black Messiah” Director Shaka King on Fred Hampton, the Black Panthers & COINTELPRO
A highly anticipated new feature film, “Judas and the Black Messiah,” tells the story of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton and William O’Neal, the FBI informant who infiltrated the Illinois Black Panther Party to collect information that ultimately led to Hampton’s killing in 1969 by law enforcement officers.
McCarthy Meets With Rep. Greene While GOP Faces Cheney Decision
Republicans are wrestling over how to handle a bipartisan outcry against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and how to handle Rep. Liz Cheney, who voted to impeach Trump.
Tuesday Night Owls: Rep. Sarbanes’ H.R. 1 bill would implement vote-by-mail and other voting reforms
Night Owls is a themed open thread appearing at Daily Kos seven days a week.
Eric Cortallessa at The Washington Monthly writes—How to Get Vote-by-Mail Reform to Biden’s Desk. A powerful House bill faces long odds in the Senate. Here’s what Democrats should fight for—and what they can compromise on:
After the 2020 election, America’s electoral infrastructure is in a weird place.
On World Hijab Day, here are 5 reasons Muslim women choose to wear the headscarf
Each year on Feb. 1, millions of Muslim women across the world share not only pictures of themselves in the hijab, but why they choose to wear it. The hijab, a headscarf worn by women who practice Islam, is often seen in the Western world as a symbol of oppression. In order to combat this narrative and highlight the resilience and strength behind the hijab, World Hijab Day was created in 2013 to foster religious tolerance.
Resist the urge to stereotype insurrectionists; they’re more likely to be your neighbors than not
In the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, it may be tempting to seek some sort of solace in the fact that the actual number of rioters was comparatively small. That those who participated included members of prominent far-right, neo-Nazis, and militia groups who had been well-primed in advance for such an event.
Kerry Eleveld on SiriusXM with John Fugelsang: Biden to help ‘equalize things for so many Americans’
Daily Kos senior political writer Kerry Eleveld recently joined John Fugelsang on his SiriusXM show “Tell Me Everything” to talk about Joe Biden’s priorities, what this new administration has already done for the LGBTQ community, and the future of the Republican Party.