Human rights advocates say renewed international attention for China during the Winter Olympics should focus on rampant human rights violations occurring across the country. It is incumbent upon the International Olympic Committee to deny countries the bid to host if they violate their citizens’ human rights, says Jules Boykoff, author and former member of the U.S. Olympic soccer team.
The U.S. warns Russia could soon invade Ukraine, as diplomatic talks continue in Moscow and Washington and the U.S. sends more military equipment to Ukraine. We look at the potential of war from the seldom-discussed perspective of citizens of Ukraine. “This Russian brinkmanship is having a devastating effect on the Ukrainian economy, even without an invasion,” says Russian American journalist Masha Gessen, who just returned from reporting in Ukraine.
To users, these vapes are identical. But because of an obscure loophole, they skirt the FDA’s regulatory umbrella.
Licensure doesn’t materially affect the status quo — the licensed vaccine’s formula is identical to that authorized for emergency use.
Medicare will directly pay certain pharmacies and other participating entities.
The new moonshot lands one year into Biden’s presidency, giving the administration a long runaway to steer its progress.
Biden and his top health officials have already begun hinting at an impending “new normal.
State audits could lead to as many as 15 million people, including 6 million children, losing their health insurance, according to one analysis.
The best way to understand a controversial new resolution from the Republican National Committee censuring Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger is not, as some people have suggested, to legitimize the January 6 attack on the Capitol, but as something more primal: Trump service. The resolution hardly changes a thing—the two lawmakers are already personae non gratae in the party—but it seems designed to pacify the angry ochre god-king and his acolytes.
The power of Jackass has always rested with the peanut gallery. Almost every ridiculous, painful stunt Johnny Knoxville and his gang of nimrods have pulled over the past 20-plus years has come with a reliable laugh track: the rest of the ensemble gathered around to watch, doubled over and cackling as someone subjects themselves to unspeakable injury.
“America’s job machine is going stronger than ever,” Biden said at the White House.
The burst of jobs came despite a wave of Omicron inflections that sickened millions of workers, kept many consumers at home and left businesses from restaurants to manufacturers short-staffed.
Congress needs to create a new safety net for such lenders — not let regulators squeeze them out of business.
Inside the White House, there is still optimism: “President Biden was elected to a four-year term, not a one-year term.
The government reported Wednesday that the consumer price index, the most widely watched gauge of inflation, hit a four-decade high in December compared to the previous year.
We go to Chicago, where protests erupted Thursday over the early release of the white ex-police officer Jason Van Dyke, who was convicted of killing a Black 17-year-old named Laquan McDonald in 2014. Van Dyke — who was the first police officer in the United States to be charged with murder for an on-duty shooting — was sentenced to nearly seven years in prison but was freed early for “good behavior” after only serving a little over three years of his sentence.
We speak with Rep. Jamie Raskin about his wife Sarah Bloom Raskin’s grilling by a Senate panel Thursday over her qualifications to be President Biden’s nominee for the top bank regulator, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Republicans argue her past comments on climate change show she could use her position to discourage banks from lending to fossil fuel companies. Raskin said if she was confirmed, she would not be able to take such actions.
As more details emerge about Donald Trump’s role in the deadly January 6 insurrection, we’re joined by Congressmember Jamie Raskin, who serves on the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack and was the lead manager in Trump’s second impeachment trial.
The United Nations warns Afghanistan is “hanging by a thread” as millions in the country suffer from hunger and are at risk of freezing to death during the winter as U.S. sanctions have devastated the economy. We get an update on what is now the world’s largest humanitarian crisis from Jan Egeland, secretary general of the Norwegian Refugee Council.
In a memo to Spotify staff, CEO Daniel Ek apologized for the way the podcast controversy “continues to impact each of you.
“If the Justice Department isn’t tracking this stuff, I don’t know what our Justice Department is for,” Dean told Jim Acosta.
In the news today: If you don’t count the Sunday shows, which were the usual conveyor belt of Republicans brought on to advertise themselves and dodge questions about their support for an attempted coup, it was a slow news day. And we’re not going to count the Sunday shows, because spending each and every weekend helping to promote the agendas of American politicians who have worked for four years to legitimize and cover for partisan crimes is the opposite of news. Enough.
Daily Kos Elections Editor David Nir joined Michelangelo Signorile on his show earlier this week to discuss gerrymandering and offer updates on how map-drawing is going in several states, including updates on court cases Democrats have filed to prevent GOP interference in state maps.
The Democratic Party as a whole, Nir explained, has taken a very strong and clear stance against partisan political gerrymandering.
Trump believed the vice president could overturn the election due to guidance from “many bad advisors,” Marc Short suggested.
At Daily Kos, our goal is to elect and support more and better Democrats. For a long time, it appeared that Rep. Marie Newman met that standard and then some. It’s why many of us supported her when she challenged Chicago machine scion Rep. Dan Lipinski in the Democratic primary for Illinois’s Third Congressional District in 2018.
And former N.J. Gov. Chris Christie accuses Trump of “inciting” Jan. 6 “riot” in bid to “intimidate Mike Pence and the Congress” to “overturn the election.
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When a 35-year-old server from Pittsburgh tried to organize around COVID-19 safety at her job in early January, she was fired for sending “negative texts” to her coworkers. Nicole, who has asked to withhold her last name to protect her identity, had worked at the restaurant for four months and was increasingly frustrated by management’s lack of health considerations for staff.
The real issue is that “Uyghurs are being tortured, and Uyghurs are the victims of human rights violations by the Chinese,” Linda Thomas-Greenfield said.
Welcome back to the weekly Nuts & Bolts Guide to small campaigns. This week, I want us to step back and look at some small and not-so-small campaigns and think about them as businesses.
A woman sits in my armchair and speaks:
We have slain the many gods
they were unreal
the one god in whom we say we believe
is also unbelievable
Humanism keeps the dragon
as a kind of toy
no
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