Biden administration prepares to end monkeypox emergency declaration
Health officials may allow the declaration to expire, even as they keep their mpox response in place.
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Expiration Dates Are Meaningless
For refrigerators across America, the passing of Thanksgiving promises a major purge. The good stuff is the first to go: the mashed potatoes, the buttery remains of stuffing, breakfast-worthy cold pie. But what’s that in the distance, huddled gloomily behind the leftovers? There lie the marginalized relics of pre-Thanksgiving grocery runs. Heavy cream, a few days past its sell-by date. A desolate bag of spinach whose label says it went bad on Sunday.
The State of Free Speech
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Bernie Sanders Mocks GOP Senators Who Claim To Care About Rail Workers
The Vermont senator said it’s “hard” to understand how Republicans can be a working-class party if they don’t support paid sick leave.
Ode to the French Baguette
I remember you, baguette. I made thousands of you.That’s one of the nice things about being a baker (which I was, for a few glorious years): You’re as ancient as Egypt, but you’re also Andy Warhol in an apron, mass-producing your art object. Baguettes in glowing dozens, repeating editions and series of baguettes, out of the great oven and onto the metal rack.
How Should We Deal With High-Profile Anti-Semites?
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Instagram Is Over
Earlier this fall, while riding the subway, I overheard two friends doing some reconnaissance ahead of a party. They were young and cool—intimidatingly so, dressed in the requisite New York all black, with a dash of Y2K revival—and trying to figure out how to find a mutual acquaintance online.“Does she have Instagram?” one asked, before adding with a laugh: “Does anybody?”“I don’t even have it on my phone anymore,” the other confessed.
Democrats Now Have Access To 6 Years Of Donald Trump’s Tax Returns
The Treasury Department complied with a request for the former president’s tax returns after a three-year legal battle.
Meet Puerto Rican Journalist Bianca Graulau, Featured in Viral Bad Bunny Video on Injustices in PR
Puerto Rico’s financial oversight board has voted to extend a contract with LUMA Energy — the private U.S.-Canadian corporation that took over the island’s power grid and is widely denounced by residents on the island for its inconsistent service and high prices. The privatization of Puerto Rico’s power grid, supported by an unelected board appointed by the U.S.
Striking Univ. of California Grad Students Speak Out on Nation’s Largest-Ever Higher Education Strike
The largest higher education strike in U.S. history has entered its third week in an effort to secure livable wages, more child care benefits, expanded family leave and other demands. Some 48,000 academic workers at all 10 University of California campuses are on strike, including teaching assistants, postdoctoral scholars, graduate student researchers, tutors and fellows.
“Enough Is Enough”: Rail Workers Decry Biden’s Push to Impose Strike-Breaking Labor Deal
President Biden is pushing Congress to block a pending nationwide rail strike and push through a contract deal that includes no sick days and is opposed by four of the 12 rail unions. Biden’s latest request is an attempt to “legislate us basically back to work, before we’ve even had a chance to strike,” says locomotive engineer and Railroad Workers United organizer Ron Kaminkow.
‘A complete about face’: Some Republicans change tune on Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion
The latest round of Medicaid expansion negotiations comes as states prepare for the eventual end of the Covid-19 public health emergency, and as nearly a third of rural hospitals are at risk of closure.
Fauci on Covid lab leak theory: ‘I have a completely open mind’
He also criticized China’s Covid-19 response as “shutdowns without a seeming purpose.
Facing virus trifecta, health officials project cautious optimism
“I think we’re going to see a lot more people getting vaccinated in the upcoming weeks. This is why we’re launching the campaign we are right now,” said Ashish Jha, the coordinator of the White House’s Covid-19 response.
Georgia high court reinstates ban on abortions after 6 weeks
The Georgia Supreme Court Wednesday reinstated the state’s ban on abortions after roughly six weeks of pregnancy.
The next abortion fight could be over wastewater regulation
Abortion opponents plan to use environmental laws to curb access to pills used to terminate an early pregnancy.
WHO to rename monkeypox as ‘MPOX’
Move comes amid White House pressure on the global health organization to move quickly to reduce stigma around the virus’ name.
Fed jacks up rates again but Powell hints it might slow down
Inflation has cooled only slightly and job growth remains strong.
Voters remain gloomy despite recent economic gains
A new POLITICO-Morning Consult poll suggests voters’ views of the economy are baked in.
U.S. economy returned to growth last quarter, expanding 2.6 percent
Housing investment, though, plunged at a 26 percent annual pace, hammered by surging mortgage rates.
More voters trust Republicans on economy as interest in midterms hits high, polls say
According to an NBC News poll released Sunday, 70 percent of registered voters expressed interest in the upcoming election as a “9” or “10” on a 10-point scale.
“A Forgotten Conflict”: Sahrawi Activists Slam Moroccan Greenwashing Amid Western Sahara Occupation
As climate Sahrawi activists in occupied Western Sahara accuse Morocco of greenwashing, the Spanish Film Academy, the Spanish equivalent to the Oscars, has just given its social justice award to the Western Sahara International Film Festival and its film school. We feature our interview at the U.N.
GOP Sen. Cynthia Lummis Gives Moving Speech In Support Of Same-Sex Marriage Protections
The Wyoming senator faced a backlash from social conservatives over her vote for legislation codifying protections for same-sex and interracial marriages.
Trump Says He Had ‘Never Heard’ Of White Nationalist Nick Fuentes Before Dinner
“I had no idea what his views were, and they weren’t expressed at the table,” the former president said.
Sen. Cotton says if Apple deplatforms Twitter, it’s because Apple’s CEO is ‘envious’ of Musk
Apple CEO Tim Apple—that’s what Donald Trump calls him, and Donald Failing Real Estate Company is always right—does pretty well for himself. The chief executive formerly known as Tim Cook made almost $99 million last year, and he’s the top decision-maker at the most valuable company on the planet.
A Gay Man Is Behind Tucker Carlson’s Hate-Filled Agenda, LGBTQ Journalist Writes
A gay man helped craft and disseminate the “horrendous demonization against his own community,” Michelangelo Signorile reported.
RNC commissions panel filled with Trump allies to investigate what went wrong in midterms
The Republican National Committee announced this week it plans to set up a team of advisers to review the party’s midterm performance following the anticipated “red wave” that never materialized. According to Politico, the team of advisors would help guide the party’s strategy.
This is actually a good idea. Any party should examine its performance following an election, whether they win or lose.
Trump Dinner With Kanye West, Nick Fuentes, Was Intended To Make Ex-Prez ‘Miserable’
Far-right agitator Milo Yiannopoulos said he planned the meeting “to show Trump the kind of talent that he’s missing out on.
Arizona Republicans refusing to certify votes might actually turn red seats blue
On Monday, following delay after delay, the MAGA-controlled Cochise County, Arizona, board of elections missed its deadline to certify 47,000-plus (mostly conservative) votes. The move was seen by most as pure political theater from a deep-red county which has swallowed the Big Lie election denialism hook, line, and sinker. Like all political theater, this will cost taxpayers money.
We’ve gotta talk about copaganda
Depending on the news source you’ve followed on a very big and disturbing new case out of Riverside, California, it might be unclear to you whether or not Austin Edwards—the 28-year-old cop who allegedly catfished a teenager before killing her family—was an active officer of the law at the time of the crime.