Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
Laurel Emanuel (Lumbee) as told to Nick Martin (Sappony) at The New Republic says How I Found My Voice as the Only Native Student in My Class:
I’m a senior this year at a high school in Wake County, which is the largest public school district in North Carolina. I’m also a member of the Lumbee Tribe.
With Election Day three weeks away, we’re rolling out our newest tool to help keep tabs on the large playing field that will determine control of the House: a spreadsheet that sums up the independent expenditures made prior to Monday by the four largest outside groups involved in House races. With this data, you can see which contests the major players think are competitive, and how much money they’ve devoted to each one, so far.
Here’s a short reminder that the U.S. Postal Service is being headed up by a corrupt lackey of Donald Trump, a man who has spent lavishly on Republicans in order to buy his post. His previous, probably illegal fundraising has already raised eyebrows, as has his donations to Donald Trump’s campaigns.
On Monday, Sept. 21, days before Indigenous People’s Day and Domestic Violence Awareness Month, the House passed the Not Invisible Act and Savanna’s Act, sending the two bills addressing the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit people (MMIWG2S) crisis to the White House for Trump to sign into law.
Republicans in California have reached a new low: They’re setting up fake ballot drop boxes, labeling them as “official,” and promoting them on social media in the hopes that voters will be deceived into using them. And even after officials said they’re illegal and ordered them to be taken down, the GOP is refusing to remove them.
Critics advised Sen. John Kennedy there’s an easy way to avoid that name.
The infectious disease expert also told CNN it would be “outrageous” if the campaign decided to feature him in another ad suggesting his endorsement.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee today in a fuchsia dress and pearls, listening quietly as Republican senators depicted her as the ideal modern feminist. “How do you and your husband manage two, full-time professional careers and, at the same time, take care of your large family?” Senator John Cornyn of Texas wanted to know.
A Monday tweet from the president suggested the “lamestream media” is covering up for bad habits by Biden.
Gisele Barreto Fetterman, who was born in Brazil, said the troubling incident began in the checkout line of a local grocery store.
Over the past week, ultra-Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn have engaged in anti-mask, anti-shutdown protests. It may be tempting to see these protests as the product of communities that are at odds with the dominant culture, adamantly refusing to comply with American behavioral and social norms, but that gets the story precisely backwards. The protests are profoundly American.
After the state GOP defended its use of makeshift ballot drop boxes falsely labeled “official,” authorities issued a cease-and-desist order.
They involve the classroom.
As 14 states and more than 130 cities across the U.S. celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day in place of Columbus Day, we go to Arizona, where Indigenous communities are leading resistance against the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall near a sacred spring inside the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
Charles Allen, whose father Eugene Allen worked as a butler at the White House for 34 years, says President Trump’s reckless actions following his COVID-19 hospitalization are threatening the health of the domestic staff at the White House. “As my dad used to say, they were the little people that made it possible for the big people to do what they did,” he says.
President Trump’s return to the White House and defiant mask removal despite still being treated for COVID-19 has threatened the health of the mostly older, Black and Brown household staff, says domestic worker advocate Ai-jen Poo, senior adviser to Care in Action. “These are essential workers who have been keeping him and his family safe and caring for them, and he showed a complete and utter disregard for their health and safety,” she says.
Amid fears of eviction and not being able to pay for food, a group of Bronx tenants saw only one option: to go on rent strike.
Buzz Aldrin remembers feeling “buoyant” and “full of goose pimples” when he stepped onto the moon in 1969, becoming the second person to touch the surface of another world. The view was magnificent.The first thing he did was examine the ground beneath his boots. “I immediately looked down at my feet and became intrigued with the peculiar properties of the lunar dust,” the Apollo astronaut recalled in one of his memoirs.
Ben Sasse is worried. With 22 days to go before the election, the Nebraska senator and his colleagues are about to begin a showdown over the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, which he likened to the deadly 19th-century feuds between the Hatfields and the McCoys.
Editor’s Note: Every Monday, Lori Gottlieb answers questions from readers about their problems, big and small. Have a question? Email her at dear.therapist@theatlantic.com. Dear Therapist,Six years ago, my retired husband and I moved to be close to our grandkids, and three years ago, our daughter’s family and ours bought houses with adjoining backyards. My husband was the “manny” four days a week until each child was old enough to go to preschool a couple of days a week.
Parenting advice on clothing sizes, constant corrections, and problematic gifts.
A horrific mistake and an infectious disease law in Italy are robbing some families of their grief.
Either way, it’s an opportunity for Democrats.
Before Trump blew up negotiations, the White House proposed a $1.6 trillion relief bill. Democrats should offer to take it.
A menstruation-themed red is the latest cross-branded stunt color to dilute a once-vibrant brand.
The campaign by Pfizer comes amid growing scrutiny of the CEO’s predictions that the company will know this month whether it has a viable vaccine.
As officials debate how to get Trump’s name on the cards, health officials warn of a taxpayer-funded boondoggle to bolster president’s flagging poll numbers.
He added that a vaccine likely won’t be widely available until next summer or fall.
