Trump Loses Lead Impeachment Lawyers A Week Before Trial
Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier, both South Carolina lawyers, have left the defense team in what one person described as a “mutual decision.
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Farmworker advocate tackles food insecurity in Central California’s Oaxacan community
In the early 2000s while writing her book, The Farmworkers’ Journey, which explores the farmworkers’ binational circuit that stretches from the west central Mexico countryside to central California, Dr. Ann López said she remembers having an epiphany at her computer. “Surely if the American public knew how farmworkers were treated, they wouldn’t tolerate this horrific abuse, right?” Sadly, this remains to be seen.
Lincoln Project Threatens Lawsuit After Rudy Giuliani Falsely Links Group To Capitol Riot
It’s difficult to sue for defamation, but “our lawyers are telling us that Rudy is well across the line, so we’re thrilled about this,” said co-founder Steve Schmidt.
Wellness for Activists: The amazing (science-backed) benefits of practicing kindness
Welcome to my weekly feature covering ways us activists can lead healthier lives. For a full explanation check out the inaugural edition here, but in short, most of us do a terrible job of taking care of our minds and bodies. This is a science-based exploration of how to change that, so we can be around for many years of fruitful activism.
I was a sullen, tortured teenager, bitter and angry at the world, as teens often are.
Creator Of ‘Bernie’ Mittens Partners With Vermont Teddy Bear Maker
Jen Ellis is partnering with the Vermont Teddy Bear Company to create a mitten line, with some of the proceeds going to Make-A-Wish Vermont.
Six dead in Georgia poultry plant liquid nitrogen leak, this week in the war on workers
Six people are dead after a liquid nitrogen leak at a Georgia poultry plant and 11 others were hospitalized, with at least three in critical condition. Two of the people killed were Mexican citizens, and those injured included at least four firefighters.
“When leaked into the air, liquid nitrogen vaporizes into an odorless gas that’s capable of displacing oxygen,” the Associated Press explains.
Texas City Councilman Posted Photo Of Noose After Insurrection, Saying ‘Let ‘Em Hang’
Martin Holsome, a city councilman running for governor, is part of a growing group of Republicans embracing right-wing extremism and cheering the Capitol riot.
Maryland confirms case of Covid-19 variant from South Africa
The news comes after South Carolina announced the first two U.S. cases of the variant Thursday.
They Called for Help. They’d Always Regret It.
Photographs by Arlene Mejorado and Carlos ChavarríaWhen Antonietta Zuñiga woke up to smoke pouring through her bedroom window, everything she had learned about how to care for her grandson completely left her mind. It was November 2019, in the Los Angeles County city of Pico Rivera. Antonietta’s grandson, Carlos Zuñiga Jr., is schizophrenic; she had the number for ACCESS, L.A. County’s mental-health hotline, taped to her fridge for moments precisely like these.
CDC issues rule requiring travelers to wear face masks
The CDC’s new order goes further than an executive order signed by President Joe Biden last week.
The Explosive Song That Liberated Tina Turner
Jack Robinson / Hulton Archive / GettyBefore a concert one night in 1968, shortly prior to recording the song that would launch her into superstardom, Tina Turner swallowed sleeping pills and lay down to die. “People backstage noticed something was very wrong with me and rushed me to the hospital, which saved my life,” she writes in her book Happiness Becomes You, published in the fall. “At first I was disappointed when I woke up and realized I was still alive.
Social media ‘micro-influencers’ join effort to get America vaccinated
Health care leaders are relying on social media and local doctors and nurses to battle vaccine skepticism, especially in hard-hit minority communities.
Only Accountability Will Allow the U.S. to Move Forward
A white mob stormed government offices in an effort to overthrow the duly elected leadership, overwhelming the local police and killing several officers in a violent clash.This description is not only of the insurrection in Washington, D.C., on January 6, but of the Battle of Liberty Place in New Orleans, on September 14, 1874.
The Government Didn’t Foresee How Facebook Would Behave
The U.S. government almost never jumps at its first chance to confront an emerging monopoly. But regulators have a long history of getting it right the second time. Standard Oil controlled America’s petroleum market for years before the Justice Department sued the company under the Sherman Antitrust Act; the federal government helped enshrine AT&T’s telephone monopoly for decades before deciding to break up “Ma Bell.
Why Are There No Biographies of Xi Jinping?
“Living in China is confusing now,” the novelist Yan Lianke said, “because it can feel like being in North Korea and the United States at the same time.” I recall smiling and nodding when he made the remark, during a roundtable discussion at Duke University’s campus outside Shanghai three years ago. In one brief sentence, he captured just how special and strange China can seem—a country that has both gulags and Gap stores.
Everything You Need to Know About Reconciliation, the Tool Democrats Need to Govern
There’s something called the “Byrd Bath.
The GOP Is Complaining That Joe Biden Is Being “Divisive” by Governing Like a Democrat
You can, in fact, call for “unity” and pursue policies that Republicans don’t like.
Novavax says its Covid-19 vaccine is 89 percent effective, but less so against South African variant
The mixed results came on the same day that the United States announced it had found its first Covid-19 cases linked to the South African variant.
First known cases of Covid variant from South Africa identified in the U.S.
Public health officials in South Carolina said they identified two cases on Thursday.
New York undercounted nursing home deaths by as much 50 percent, report finds
The report adds a new layer to the criticism Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo has faced over the state’s handling of Covid-19 in long-term care facilities.
The Ethical Human Cannibals of the World Would Like the Armie Hammer News Cycle to End, Too
“I don’t think a lot of people who are into consensual cannibalism would have a foot taco.
“Anxiety’s Been off the Chart”: A School Counselor on How Kids Feel About Going Back to In-Person Learning
Some students are worried about increased exposure. Others are just desperate for human connection.
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.
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.