The Paycheck Protection Program Was a Flop
It helped the wrong businesses, saved too few jobs, and failed to stem an economic nightmare with no end in sight.
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Congress Should Extend Unemployment Benefits for an Extra Three Weeks While Republicans Get Their Act Together
The GOP tried and failed to do its homework the night before it was due.
Why It’s Still So Tough to Find Disinfectant Wipes
Too few materials, too many coronavirus outbreaks, and a never-ending canister shortage.
Sinclair to delay segment featuring ‘Plandemic’ conspiracy theory
The report sparked an immediate outcry on social media, where the video has been largely banned on Facebook and YouTube.
Chris Christie cashes in on coronavirus lobbying
The former New Jersey governor has earned $240,000 lobbying the Trump administration on the pandemic
Commission still talking to vax companies, while U.S., U.K. secure deals
This news comes after the U.S. announced earlier in the day that it had secured up to 600 million doses of a vaccine created by BioNTech and Pfizer.
Republican governors of Indiana and Ohio issue mask mandates, joining more than half of U.S. states
The announcements come a day after President Donald Trump threw his support behind facial coverings to help stop the spread of coronavirus.
Help! My Husband’s Female Colleague Volunteered to Manage His Email.
I don’t want her to see our personal information, and I don’t love that he won’t handle this task himself.
Why Planned Parenthood Has Been Reluctant to Confront Its Founder’s Troubling History
“It hands the appearance of victory to the wrong people,” a former board member said.
Even if School Kids Survive COVID-19, They Won’t Be Spared “Contagion Guilt”
Anyone rushing the reopening of schools needs to consider the emotional cost to kids of infecting family and friends.
I Work Rides at the Reopened Disney World. The People Here Right Now Are, Uh, Interesting.
Instead of wearing all-day smiles, I tell people to fix their masks.
40 million Americans face student loan cliff
Unless Congress or the administration intervenes, monthly loan payments paused due to the pandemic will come due for tens of millions of borrowers.
How the Child Care Crisis Will Distort the Economy for a Generation
The economic toll of the collapse of the child system will be felt for 20-30 years, says Betsey Stevenson.
‘Oil on the inequality fire’: How slashing jobless aid could widen the wealth gap
Congress appears poised to dramatically reduce a federal program that has been providing an extra $600 per week for jobless workers since the spring.
Housing market defies expectations amid economic turmoil
Some areas of housing are actually doing better than they were before the coronavirus began sweeping the U.S.
Trump shifts messaging: Coronavirus ‘will get worse before it gets better’
In the first such briefing in three months, the president acknowledged the real scope of the pandemic’s impact in the U.S.
Noam Chomsky: Trump Is Using Pandemic to Enrich Billionaires as Millions Lose Work & Face Eviction
As millions of people in the U.S. lose work and face eviction due to the economic crisis brought on by the pandemic, the 1% have seen a massive increase to their wealth, with Amazon founder and world’s richest person Jeff Bezos recently adding an estimated $13 billion to his net worth in a single day. World-renowned political dissident Noam Chomsky says the corporate windfall is yet more evidence that the U.S. is run “essentially by the corporate sector” for its own profits.
“Man. Woman. Camera. Person. TV.”: Noam Chomsky Responds to Trump Bragging He Aced a Dementia Test
Is the United States being run by a madman? “What can you say about a person who, before speaking before an adoring crowd, raises his eyes to heaven and calls himself the chosen one?” says Noam Chomsky, responding to President Trump’s boast that he aced a mental acuity test.
Noam Chomsky on Trump’s Troop Surge to Democratic Cities & Whether He’ll Leave Office if He Loses
“President Trump is desperate,” says world-renowned dissident Professor Noam Chomsky in an extended interview that begins with President Trump’s vow to send a “surge” of federal agents into major Democrat-run cities across the United States. “His entire attention is this one issue on his mind: that’s the election. He has to cover up for the fact he is personally responsible for killing tens of thousands of Americans.
Watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fire Back on House Floor After Rep. Yoho Calls Her An “F’ing Bitch”
We bring you Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s full address from the floor of the House when she excoriated her Republican colleague, Rep. Ted Yoho of Florida, after he verbally attacked her earlier in the week on the steps of the Capitol and used a sexist slur overheard by a reporter, calling her a “fucking bitch,” then issued a non-apology from the House floor. “My mother got to see Mr.
Sen. Tom Cotton Calls Slavery Nation’s ‘Necessary Evil’ In Shocking Interview
Slavery “was the necessary evil upon which the union was built,” the Arkansas senator said in an interview.
We’re Daily Kos Elections. Of course we have data on New Hampshire’s Executive Council
Last cycle, Democrats took a 3-2 majority on the New Hampshire Executive Council, a powerful body unique to the Granite State, and they’re fighting to keep control this fall. Daily Kos Elections is out with new data, which was crunched for us by elections analyst Bill Coningsby, of the 2016 presidential and 2018 gubernatorial results for all five districts. You can find our overview here, as well as the results broken down by county for 2016 and 2018.
No honor among thieves: Trump’s campaign is leaving vulnerable House Republicans out to dry
There’s been little good news of late, so here’s something to enjoy: the travails of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who’s been scrambling to gather money for the National Republican Congressional Committee to help save House Republicans from what’s looking to be another thrashing in the November elections.
Trump Says He’ll Skip Yankees Pitch Because Of His ‘Strong Focus On The China Virus’
Change of heart follows a weekend of golf and after two Yankees players knelt during the national anthem at a stadium in Washington.
Nuts & Bolts: Inside the Democratic Party—the impact of rural voters
It’s another Sunday, so for those who tune in, welcome to a diary discussing the Nuts & Bolts of a Democratic campaign. If you’ve missed out, you can catch up any time: Just visit our group or follow the Nuts & Bolts Guide. Every week I try to tackle issues I’ve been asked about. With the help of other campaign workers and notes, we address how to improve and build better campaigns, or explain issues that impact our party.
Trump has time to golf as states report more than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths for fifth day straight
The United States’ coronavirus death toll exceeded 1,000 for five days straight last week, but who could possibly expect President Donald Trump to sacrifice a day of golfing because of a deadly pandemic? No one who’s been paying attention to the commander-in-chief’s priorities, which seem to align with bashing liberal state leaders, tweeting about his competitor in the 2020 election, and the heavy-hitter, getting re-elected.
Two students test positive for COVID-19 after taking ACT in Oklahoma
Amid conversations to reopen schools nationwide, healthcare experts are desperately urging individuals to wear masks as the novel coronavirus continues to spread across the U.S. Failing to realize the severity of the situation some individuals, including parents, are eager to send their children to schools without protective gear amid increasing cases of COVID-19.
Trump Admin Official Defends Coronavirus Testing Despite Widespread Lab Delays
Admiral Brett Giroir, who’s leading Trump’s testing protocols, tried to paint a rosy picture of nationwide testing efforts, which are severely lacking in hard-hit cities.
The Unprecedented Bravery of Olivia de Havilland
Olivia de Havilland was the last great living female star of the movies’ golden age, in the 1930s and ’40s. She died today at 104 at her home in Paris, and her radiant visage and sinuous voice will haunt audiences for at least another century, whether as Errol Flynn’s blushing Maid Marian in The Adventures of Robin Hood, or as her old friend Bette Davis’s scheming foil in the Grand Guignol of Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte.
White Supremacy Shaped American Christianity, Researcher Says
Racist theology is deeply embedded in the DNA of white Christian churches, influencing even their theology on salvation, PRRI founder Robert Jones argues in a new book.