Today's Liberal News
Dems pressure White House to change economic message
Democrats are loving the Biden economy. They’re less certain about his economic message.
Major business group, GOP blames Biden for UAW strike
The United Auto Workers announced a strike at three plants — one each at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis — overnight.
Kaiser Permanente Workers Give Update from Picket Line in Largest Healthcare Strike in History
In the largest strike of healthcare workers in U.S. history, 75,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers across the country walked off the job this week, seeking higher pay, better staffing, improvements in their pension plans and other benefits.
300+ More Sex Abuse Survivors Sue Columbia U. & Jailed OB-GYN Robert Hadden
We speak to the attorney suing Columbia University and its affiliated hospitals on behalf of some 300 more patients who say they were sexually assaulted by former Columbia University obstetrician Robert Hadden over two decades while Columbia shielded the sexual predator. Anthony T. DiPietro filed a new lawsuit against the university and its affiliated hospitals earlier this week. “Columbia knew from the beginning,” DiPietro says of Hadden’s abuse and its subsequent cover-up.
Medical Students & Survivors Demand Columbia U. Notify All Patients of Jailed OB-GYN Sex Abuse Record
On Wednesday, hundreds of medical students and sexual assault survivors of former university obstetrician Robert Hadden protested at Columbia University’s campus calling for accountability during the inauguration ceremony of the university’s first woman president.
As Fraud Trial Gets Underway, Trump Tries to Provoke Judge to Jail Him: David Cay Johnston
We get an update on Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial with Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter David Cay Johnston. New York Attorney General Letitia James is seeking to fine Trump $250 million and is asking for a permanent ban on Trump family members running a business in New York. The outcome of the trial could put the future of the Trump Organization in jeopardy.
Woman, Life, Freedom: Narges Mohammadi, Imprisoned Iranian Activist, Awarded 2023 Nobel Peace Prize
Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for her work fighting against women’s oppression in Iran. Mohammadi will not be able to personally receive the prize because she is currently incarcerated in Iran for her protest activities.
Geraldo Rivera Gives CNN An Unfiltered Response To Trump’s Latest ‘Vile’ Comment
The former Fox News host cursed live on air and claimed it was “a personal embarrassment” that he’d been friends with the former president for so long.
Cory Booker Recounts Harrowing Moment As Hamas Attack On Israel Began
The senator was in Israel for a summit, saying Sunday he was “angered” and “heartbroken” by the ongoing conflict.
19 Members Of Same Family Killed By Israeli Airstrike In Gaza Refugee Camp
Nasser Abu Quta lost much of his family in an instant when an Israeli airstrike blew up his home in a crowded refugee camp.
Is Israel at War With Iran?
The October 7 attacks on Israel by the Palestinian terror groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad are being compared to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor. In fact, with more than 600 Israelis dead at the time of this writing, the proportional death toll is several times higher than that of 9/11, and the factor of surprise is arguably greater than at Pearl Harbor.But 9/11 and Pearl Harbor weren’t just tragic attacks. They were casus belli for seismic wars.
A Shocked and Frazzled Collective Mind
I will never forget that mild, golden early-October day almost exactly 50 years ago: the jarring sound of the sirens that tore into the otherworldly silence of Yom Kippur, the day of atonement; the ultra-Orthodox men, still wrapped in their snow-white High Holiday robes and fringed prayer shawls, riding on army jeeps that drove them to their volunteer positions in hospitals and military morgues—an inconceivable sight.
Matt Gaetz More Than Willing To Lose Job Over Speaker McCarthy’s Ouster
While Gaetz said the idea of Republicans calling for his removal was “crazy,” he told “Meet The Press” that defending his constituents would be worth it.
A Message From Iran
The Hamas attack against Israel is not only a massive Israeli intelligence and military (as well as a U.S. intelligence) failure, but also a dramatic success for Iran’s axis of resistance from Yemen to Gaza. The highly choreographed, multipronged, day-long operation and incursion into Israel itself, involving the use of motorized paragliders and drones and the taking of hostages, required months of planning and training that only Iran and Hezbollah could have provided.
Five Observations About the War in Israel
Yesterday, Hamas launched a multifront attack that shocked Israel, infiltrating the Gaza border by land, sea, and air. The attack took place on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, nearly 50 years to the day after an Arab coalition’s surprise attack on Israel—the last assault of this scale—spurred the Yom Kippur War in 1973.More than 600 Israelis have been killed, according to local reports.
Fentanyl’s toll has this Republican reaching out to Democrats
Michael McCaul’s family has felt the pain of the drug overdose crisis first hand
Brett Kavanaugh Finds Himself At The Center Of The Supreme Court’s Big Cases This Term
The justice’s concurrences in major decisions on abortion, gun rights and voting rights will be tested.
Rauschenberg & Johns
You clear your throat & spit into the sink.
Downstairs, a frothing fills my canvas
like the sea. A need once met
& met again. The fleetingness of meeting
given way. Each day, the paper on the stoop
ripe for the taking, for the making into something
better than the news. On the record player,
something bluesy, not too sweet. On the hot plate,
eggs. We’ve got one fridge between us. One decent suit.
One roof.
The real story on Europe’s transgender debate
Europeans are reconsidering standards of care, but aren’t nearly as hostile to treatment as many Republicans in the U.S.
Pharmacies begin dispensing abortion pills
A handful of pharmacies are offering the pills 10 months after the Biden administration allowed them to do so.
Why health care experts are so concerned about fishing boats
The slew of cases has alarmed legal experts, patient advocates and former health officials from both parties who say the consequences for the health care system — from drugmakers to nurses to patients — could be dire.
Science vs. ‘wokeism’: The growing tensions between the doctors’ lobby and the GOP
The discord threatens gridlock on bills affecting how doctors practice and how much they are paid.
Court denies bid to halt Medicare drug price talks
The decision preserves the Biden administration’s power to begin haggling with drug companies over the prices of 10 medications.
Liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rejects GOP Call To Recuse On Redistricting Cases
A newly elected liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice has declined to recuse herself from a pair of redistricting lawsuits.
Dems pressure White House to change economic message
Democrats are loving the Biden economy. They’re less certain about his economic message.
Major business group, GOP blames Biden for UAW strike
The United Auto Workers announced a strike at three plants — one each at Ford, General Motors and Stellantis — overnight.
Kaiser Permanente Workers Give Update from Picket Line in Largest Healthcare Strike in History
In the largest strike of healthcare workers in U.S. history, 75,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers across the country walked off the job this week, seeking higher pay, better staffing, improvements in their pension plans and other benefits.
300+ More Sex Abuse Survivors Sue Columbia U. & Jailed OB-GYN Robert Hadden
We speak to the attorney suing Columbia University and its affiliated hospitals on behalf of some 300 more patients who say they were sexually assaulted by former Columbia University obstetrician Robert Hadden over two decades while Columbia shielded the sexual predator. Anthony T. DiPietro filed a new lawsuit against the university and its affiliated hospitals earlier this week. “Columbia knew from the beginning,” DiPietro says of Hadden’s abuse and its subsequent cover-up.