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What Miami Can Give Techies That San Francisco Can’t
Warm weather, low taxes, and a mayor ready to nurse their grievances about Bay Area liberalism.
Biden administration to buy 200 million more doses of Covid vaccine
The administration will ship out at least 10 million doses a week under the new strategy.
States taking back Covid shots unused by nursing homes
Under pressure to speed up vaccinations, states are holding back or redirecting doses earmarked for long-term care facilities.
New virus variants threaten Biden’s pandemic plans
The government is already collaborating with Moderna to develop vaccine booster shots aimed at strains first identified in South Africa and the United Kingdom.
Biden sets sights on 1.5 million vaccinations a day
The president said he was hopeful about ramping up capacity, as parts of the country start to bump up against limitations on how many shots they can administer.
Fauci: U.K. coronavirus variant leads to worse infections
The CDC has predicted the U.K. variant could become the dominant strain of the disease in the U.S. as early as March.
You Can Help Claudia Conway Most by Leaving Her Alone
The disturbing abuse allegations do not deputize strangers online.
My Husband Has Declared Our Favorite “Adult” Genre Is Now Off-Limits
I appreciate where he’s coming from, but I want to stay creative and giddy about sex.
Help! My Wife Spent Our Entire Life Savings in the Last Three Months.
I had put a little aside every month for various projects and vehicle upgrades, and it’s all gone.
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.
30 Things Donald Trump Did as President You Might Have Missed
Trump’s presidency may be best remembered for its cataclysmic end. But his four years as president also changed real American policy in lasting ways, just more quietly. We asked POLITICO’s best-in-class policy reporters to recap some of the ways Trump changed the country while in office, for better or worse.
U.S. loses 140,000 jobs in first monthly loss since spring
At the same time, the unemployment rate stayed at 6.7%, the first time it hasn’t fallen since April.
Inequality Virus: Pandemic Widens Wealth Gap for Women, People of Color as Billionaire Profits Soar
As the wealth of U.S. billionaires soars by over a trillion dollars during the pandemic, Oxfam is warning COVID-19 could lead to the biggest increase in global inequality on record. A new Oxfam report finds it could take more than a decade for poor people to recover from the health and economic crisis, and urges governments to take immediate action.
The Permanent Colony
Tam Tak-chi has spent much of the past two decades talking. First as a popular radio host, then as a prodemocracy activist, Tam had opinions, many of them, and cared little about holding them back. So it was not entirely surprising—perhaps even expected in Hong Kong’s rapidly atrophying space for dissent—that his words eventually drew the ire of authorities. Early one September morning last year, Tam was arrested at his home.
Wednesday Night Owls: Antiwar Democrats laud President Biden for arms sales freeze on Saudis and UAE
Night Owls is a themed open thread appearing at Daily Kos seven days a week.
West Virginia’s oldest river becomes America’s newest national park
Despite some of the beautiful landscapes and great outdoors West Virginia is known for, the state wasn’t home to a national park until last year. Last December, Congress passed a bill that declared the opening of America’s 63rd national park in West Virginia. The move redesignated West Virginia’s New River Gorge from a national river to a federally protected tourist destination: New River Gorge National Park and Preserve.
The pro-sedition movement gears up for their annual conference. Who will show up?
The annual Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC, has always been a dumpster fire—a place devoted to hoaxes, paranoias, and the mainstreaming of radical far-right extremism into suit-and-tie “conservatism.” But this year’s affair looks like it will be a dumpster fire inside another dumpster fire.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau set to come back even stronger after Trump sabotage
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the poster child of good government, somehow survived four years of direct and concentrated assault and is poised to rebuild and get to work saving people’s economic lives again.
President Biden tapped Rohit Chopra to lead the agency.
FBI Arrests Prolific Racist Twitter Troll ‘Ricky Vaughn’ For 2016 Election Interference
HuffPost can also identify three anonymous co-conspirators named in the federal indictment unsealed Wednesday.
South Dakota Republican is back with yet another anti-trans bill, this time about birth certificates
If you’ve heard of Republican lawmaker Rep. Fred Deutsch, a legislator who represents South Dakota’s Florence district, it’s likely because of his considerable history of pushing anti-trans legislations. As Daily Kos has covered in the past, Deutsch has pushed a bill that would have punished physicians for providing gender-affirming treatments to transgender and nonbinary youth.
Fauci On Trump Team Using Him In Ad: ‘What Is This Bulls**t That You People Are Doing?’
Speaking with The Atlantic, Anthony Fauci described the Trump White House as a “surrealistic experience” run by a man who was “not interested in the outbreak.
Elizabeth Warren Smacks Wall Street ‘Casino’-Goers Amid GameStop Kerfuffle
“For years,” the senator said, Wall Street investors have “treated the stock market like their own personal casino while everyone else pays the price.
Biden Ousts White House ‘Spin Doctor’ Who Treated Trump For COVID-19
Dr. Sean Conley issued conflicting statements about Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis last fall. He’s been replaced by Biden’s longtime physician, Dr. Kevin O’Connor.
Federal Judges Are Retiring Now That Joe Biden Will Pick Their Replacements
It’s not just Democrat-appointed judges, either.
The Literary Origins of Netflix’s Latest Smash Hit
Before Arsène Lupin was the inspiration for an out-of-nowhere Netflix smash hit, projected to be watched by 70 million subscribers, the character was a French literary legend, a gentleman thief with the moral code of Robin Hood, the wits of Sherlock Holmes, and the anti-aristocratic instincts of Robespierre.
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.
The Dogs Trained to Sniff Out COVID-19
Promising early results from several studies have encouraged researchers around the world to develop and expand canine programs that may screen people for COVID-19 infection at places like airports, hospitals, or sports venues. While these early experiments appear to demonstrate high levels of accuracy by the sniffer dogs, researchers also caution that peer-review processes and larger-scale studies are still needed.