“It Feels Like There’s No Winning”: One Teacher on the Struggles of This School Year
And why it feels like no one is advocating for educators.
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How Quickly Can a Girl Go Viral on TikTok?
A girl sits alone on an ugly couch, stroking a plastic fish and mouthing the words to Jason Derulo’s “Ridin’ Solo.” Her eyes are bloodshot. She puts on sunglasses to cover them up, just as Derulo says he does in the song.This video, uploaded to TikTok in July, has more than 11.4 million views. It was posted by @mooptopia, who emerged from nowhere at the beginning of July and has since become an unexpected star. She now has 2.
Dear Care and Feeding: Can I Date Someone Who Wants Nothing to Do With My Kids?
Parenting advice on girlfriend hate, birthday parades, and prejudiced wedding guests.
Trump admin unveils plan for distributing coronavirus vaccines
The push to vaccinate Americans comes as health agencies have faced outsized pressure from President Donald Trump and his political appointees.
Coffee Rust Is Going to Ruin Your Morning
In the southern corner of Guatemala, outside the tiny mountain town of San Pedro Yepocapa, Elmer Gabriel’s coffee plants ought to be leafed-out and gleaming. It is a week before Christmas, the heart of the coffee-harvesting season, and if his bushes were healthy, they would look like holiday trees hung with ornaments, studded with bright-red coffee cherries. But in a long row that stretches down the side of his steeply sloped field, the plants are twiggy and withered.
Noura Erakat: Trump’s Bahrain-UAE-Israel Deal Won’t Advance Palestinian Peace & Will Up Repression
As the Trump administration celebrates deals establishing diplomatic ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, we speak with Palestinian American legal scholar Noura Erakat, who says Trump’s “peace” agreements are a sham.
Mychal Denzel Smith on Breonna Taylor, Defunding Police, Systemic Racism & His Trump-Era Depression
Journalist and author Mychal Denzel Smith joins us for a wide-ranging discussion on the uprising against racist police, the upcoming presidential election and why he says a Biden win won’t cure his Trump-era depression, and his new book, “Stakes Is High: Life after the American Dream.
Continue to Say Her Name: Breonna Taylor’s Family Wants Cops Arrested After Historic $12M Settlement
The city of Louisville, Kentucky, will pay a historic $12 million settlement to the family of Breonna Taylor, more than six months after police shot and killed the 26-year-old Black emergency room technician in her own apartment and Taylor became a household name as part of the nationwide uprising in defense of Black lives. It is one of the largest payouts ever for a police killing of a Black person in the U.S.
Help! I Constantly Think About Abandoning My Disabled Spouse.
Now that he’s dependent on me, I fantasize about running away all the time.
Our Last Chance to Save Music Venues Is Right Now
Thanks to a poorly designed relief effort and a never-ending pandemic, they might be the most screwed businesses of the coronavirus era.
How a Costume Designer Dressed Two Seth Rogens in American Pickle
Two costumes, two time periods, one lovable comedic actor.
There Are Two Oregons, and They’re Both on Fire
Will an unprecedented emergency finally heal the state’s factions?
White House blocks Navarro from testifying to House panel about ventilator deal
Michael Purpura, deputy counsel to President Donald Trump, wrote to Krishnamoorthi on Sept. 9 that the White House would not make Navarro available.
CDC: Testing for STDs plummeted during pandemic
Many sexual health clinics closed their doors or cut back services when the coronavirus began spreading widely in February.
Dem probe: Trump administration ignored NIH evidence on fetal tissue
The lawmakers are still investigating whether potential coronavirus treatments have been hampered by the administration’s posture.
Anti-inflammatory drug may shorten Covid-19 recovery time
Eli Lilly said it planned to discuss with regulators the possible emergency use of baricitinib for hospitalized Covid-19 patients.
25 years wiped out in 25 weeks: Pandemic sets the world back decades
Progress on global health and the worldwide economy has regressed, Gates Foundation report finds.
Trump and Pence try a messaging reboot on economic recovery
After months of setbacks amid Covid-19, the White House used Labor Day to focus on worker resilience and tout pre-pandemic conditions.
‘A tale of 2 recessions’: As rich Americans get richer, the bottom half struggles
The trend is on track to exacerbate dramatic wealth and income gaps in the U.S., where divides are already wider than any other nation in the G-7.
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.
“Trump Is Criminality Personified”: Rev. William Barber on Protecting the Vote & Mobilizing the Poor
With less than two months before November, the Poor People’s Campaign has launched a push to register tens of millions of poor and low-income voters, who could decide the fate of the election. “Voting is power unleashed,” says Rev. Dr. William Barber, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign and president of Repairers of the Breach.
Trump Blames Biden, Who Isn’t President, For Not Instituting Mask Mandate
“To be clear: I am not currently president,” Biden wrote moments later. “But if you chip in now, we can change that.
Tuesday Night Owls. Study: Richest 1% has snatched $50 trillion from bottom 90% in past four decades
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week.
At CommonDreams, Brett Wilkins writes—’$2.5 Trillion Theft’: Study Shows Richest 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From Bottom 90% in Recent Decades:
New research published Monday found that the top 1% of U.S.
‘Let Me Finish My Question’: Voter Confronts Trump Over Efforts To Undermine Obamacare
The moment highlighted Trump’s efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which protects those with preexisting conditions.
Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into John Bolton over his anti-Trump book
Donald Trump is good for literature. Actually … that’s overstating it. A lot. But Trump is certainly good for publishers, and for dramatic titles. In one-word titles alone, it’s possible to build a pretty decent description of Trump using Rage, Unhinged, Disloyal, Fear, Hoax. You certainly don’t have to go to Insane Clown President, but … that’s also not a bad description.
Senators Introduce Last-Minute, Bipartisan Bill To Prevent A Census Disaster
They want to give the Census Bureau more time to finish the 2020 count, which is being rushed and is leaving communities of color behind.
Utah anti-mask rally goes viral after attendees spout conspiracies and comparisons to George Floyd
As health experts continue to encourage mask-wearing across the country, some anti-maskers just won’t give up. They have been refusing to wear masks since the start of the pandemic, despite research supporting that masks significantly prevent the spread of COVID-19. In Utah, maskless demonstrators have crowded city sidewalks and school-related meetings to protest mask mandates in and out of schools.
Democrats roll out enhanced online voting portal to get out all the votes
Democrats, as usual, want to make sure that every eligible person is registered and able to vote in November’s general election, and they’ve beefed up their online tool, called I Will Vote, to make that simpler and safer for voters around the country. The site is also available in Spanish.