Today's Liberal News
Angry About Trump’s $750 Tax Bill? Then Let’s Fix the IRS.
The wealthy no longer fear the taxman. Democrats finally have an opening to fix that.
There’s More Than One Way to Reason Why
There’s more than one way to ask why. Look to Russian for an explanation.
David Cay Johnston: Trump Deserves to Be Jailed, But System Is Set Up to Let Rich Avoid Paying Taxes
Ahead of the first of three presidential debates between President Trump and Joe Biden, we speak with David Cay Johnston, founder and editor-in-chief of DCReport.org, who says the bombshell New York Times report on Trump’s taxes highlights the existence of “two income tax systems, separate and unequal.” The Times reports that Trump paid no federal income tax in 10 of the past 15 years and just $750 in 2016 and 2017.
Philly Activists Reclaim 50 Vacant Houses, Creating a Model for Organizing as Mass Evictions Loom
In a historic victory for unhoused people, Philadelphia city officials agreed to hand over 50 vacant homes to a community land trust, following months of organizing and protest encampments. We hear from one of the organizers and speak to Philadelphia-based Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, who has written extensively about housing insecurity and says the direct actions there are applicable across the U.S.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Breonna Taylor’s Rigged Case Further Erodes Legitimacy of U.S. Institutions
Historian Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor says the Breonna Taylor case is contributing to an “unfolding dynamic of radicalization” in the United States as people see repeated cases of police misconduct go unpunished. A grand jury recently declined to charge any of the officers involved in the 26-year-old EMT’s killing for her death.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: We Must Rethink Our Society, from Policing to the Supreme Court
As President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden face off in the first presidential debate in Cleveland, we speak to author and academic Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, who says the multiple crises facing the United States are not getting enough attention leading up to the November election.
I Can’t Stop Thinking About This Murder in My Small Town
What a prolific hit man can teach us about our obsession with true crime.
Dear Care and Feeding: Will I Regret Having Only One Child?
Parenting advice on only children, friendship breakups, and parenting differences.
The Collateral Damage of Airbnb’s COVID Refund Policy
“Four houses fully booked for months—every single one of them canceled. … I banked everything on this.
Critic Charles Finch on Reading Hundreds of Books a Year
For book reviews, for research, and even for fun.
Donald Trump’s Scheme to Bribe Seniors With $200 Gift Cards Is Not Obviously Legal
Everyone sees what this is: The president using public money to sway voters before an election.
Trump’s drug card plan sows confusion – even within administration
Top Trump deputies say they can put the plan in place using existing powers. But critics see it as a brazen election year ploy.
U.S. coronavirus case count passes 7 million
The figure, based on a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University, comes just days after the U.S. surpassed 200,000 deaths.
How Trump is undermining his own vaccine race
Operation Warp Speed is the administration’s best attempt at fighting coronavirus, experts say, but White House meddling has caused public confidence to plummet.
Dear Care and Feeding: I Don’t Have Kids, but I Really Think I Can Solve My Friend’s Parenting Problems
Parenting advice on temper tantrums, in-laws, and positive parenting.
My Husband Never Listens to Me. Can a Hostage Negotiator Help?
Contrary to popular belief, you can be assertive without being aggressive.
Trump is fuzzy on tax policy as Biden goes all in
Trump has raised various ideas in recent months, though his proposals remain much vaguer than during his 2016 presidential campaign.
2020 is the Year Trump Was Worried About
If presidential elections really turn on how the country is doing, there’s a good reason for the incumbent to sweat.
Trump stokes a new threat to Wall Street: Election chaos
“This does have the potential to incite … the metastasizing of social unrest,” said one market strategist.
Internal memo reassured Trudeau that virus’s economic hit would be ‘manageable’
Critics have argued the Trudeau government lacked preparedness or a sense of urgency before the country was hit by the pandemic’s crises.
Fed expects to keep rates near zero through 2023
The central bank shed more light on its pledge not to raise interest rates until prices begin to rise more rapidly.
Monday Night Owls: Nearly 80% of U.S. wealth owned by millionaires and billionaires
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
Kenny Stancil at Common Dreams writes—Analysis Shows Nearly 80% of US Household Wealth Owned by Millionaires and Billionaires:
In an analysis of 2019 government data released Monday, policy analyst and blogger Matt Bruenig found that last year, millionaires and billionaires owned 79.2% of all household wealth in the United States despite constituting just under 12% of the population.
NYC food vendors demand more permits and an end to police harassment
Maria Marín migrated to the United States two decades ago. The 47-year-old left her home of Veracruz, Mexico, seeking safety and better opportunities. Back then, her oldest daughter was only 7 months old, she says. For the past 17 years, Marín has been a street vendor in Bushwick, Brooklyn, a predominantly working-class and low-income, immigrant, and Latinx neighborhood.
‘A horror show’: House members detail abuses against women at Georgia immigration prison
Top House Democrats who on Saturday inspected the immigration prison where women who were horrifically operated on without their consent have been detained called the Georgia facility “a horror show,” and said that officials forbade them from bringing in their own phones to record personal testimonies from detainees. Legislators shared everything they learned from the women immediately following the visit anyway.
California fire season has been a nightmare, and it’s not over
Greetings from Northern California, where we just had a weekend of warm, dry weather—which means we are vulnerable to disastrous wildfires.
Indeed, a new fire just started on Sunday in Santa Rosa, only about an hour north of where I live. And we are all nervously eyeing what may happen next.
This has been the worst season for wildfires on the West Coast, ever. Climate change is here, and the effects will get worse.
Witnesses recall NYPD officers unmasked ‘screaming in people’s faces’ as they arrested protesters
Nationwide protests have continued for months in efforts to spread awareness of consistent police brutality and racial injustice in the country. Following the heartbreaking grand jury decision to not pursue charges against the cops who killed Breonna Taylor, protests erupted across the country this week. While an overwhelming majority of these protests are peaceful, police-initiated violence on demonstrators and bystanders of these movements continue to be shared on social media.