The Trump administration is determined to steal everything it can for the rich in the COVID-19 crisis, and do it in secret. Last week, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin decided that information about which businesses are getting taxpayer-funded loans and how much they are getting is going to be kept secret. Turns out, that’s just the start of it.
“We don’t know why he chose Tulsa, but we can’t see any way that his visit will be good for the city,” says the Tulsa World editorial board.
The state representative for Tulsa told HuffPost that the president’s record shows a visit would be a bad idea.
About half of all facilities have yet to be inspected for procedures to stop the spread of coronavirus.
Associated Press1. The Supreme Court ruled that a 1964 civil-rights law protects gay and transgender employees from workplace discrimination.Today’s ruling hinged on the Court’s interpretation of a three-letter word in the Civil Rights Act of 1964—sex. As Todd S. Purdum recounted last year, the word’s inclusion in that bill was somewhat of a fluke: A segregationist member of the House proposed adding it, in what was seen as an attempt to sink the legislation.2.
One Twitter user took the president’s logic to its extreme and suggested, “If you stopped charging people with murder you’d have no murder convictions.
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His work is funny and dark and very, very gay.
Extremists have celebrated attacks like these for years. But there’s even more to the story.
The pandemic made it impossible for customers to hang out there—but they already weren’t.
The Trump administration is leaving big gaps in race and ethnicity information.
With millions of people suddenly video chatting their doctors, there’s pressure on Washington to make telehealth a permanent option.
He said that “almost all businesses” understand the $600 additional benefit is “a disincentive.
Advocates panned the new rules, which were released on the 4th anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting.
The central bank signaled that it would keep interest rates low through 2022.
Parenting advice on single parenting, old moms, and talking about race.
The country’s unemployment rate will drop to 9.3 percent by the end of the year, according to the Fed’s forecasts.
States grappling with budget shortfalls are slowly reopening and lifting stay-at-home orders.
He says it would “look bad,” because he’s in academia.
He says it would “look bad,” because he’s in academia.
Protesters held “I AM A MAN” and “END RACISM” signs Monday outside of the Georgia Capitol where a large crowd marched to demand justice after yet another Black man was shot and killed at the hands of a white police officer.
On Saturday, the American embassy in Seoul, South Korea, hung a large “BLACK LIVES MATTER” banner from their building in support of “fellow Americans grieving and peacefully protesting to demand positive change.”
That banner is now gone again, after Donald Trump and Secretary of State Michael Pompeo learned of its presence. According to Time, both were “displeased” with the display.
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Our Civiqs daily tracking poll spanning three years showed America just how successful and powerful the Black Lives Matter protests have been in radically and rapidly shifting public opinion in favor of dramatic changes to the status quo. It’s no surprise, then, that it received front-page treatment at The New York Times as well as coverage in dozens of media outlets including MSNBC, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Politico, and the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
I never mentioned it to the other participant.
I never mentioned it to the other participant.
When sex discrimination was originally added to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, its introduction reportedly drew a round of howls in the lower chamber of the U.S. Congress. Based on several reports, Representative Howard W. Smith, a Virginia Democrat who opposed the bill, added it as a floor amendment to weaken and potentially kill support for the bill.
The original text of the legislation banned employment based on race, creed, religion, or color.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has revoked its emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine, the unproven coronavirus treatment Donald Trump repeatedly boosted and even (said he) took himself. That emergency use authorization came under pressure from Trump, with whistleblower Dr. Rick Bright saying he was removed from his job for pushing back. Trump owns the promotion of this risky treatment at official levels.
