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Is Oatly Really Eco-Friendly?
The company has taken on some investors that don’t align with its environmentally virtuous image.
GOP sees widening rift over promoting Covid shots
While top Republicans pleaded with people to get vaccinated, others downplayed the threat of a Covid-19 resurgence.
Canada’s vaccine passport won’t come until December, at the earliest
Leaked presentation suggests government is still developing standardized, national record.
NFL: Covid outbreaks among unvaccinated players could mean forfeits
The prospect of canceled football games is a major step toward nudging players to get vaccinated without making it an outright requirement.
Biden administration sends more cash to hard-hit areas as Delta variant surges
The new steps come as new cases and hospitalizations continue to spike while vaccination rates have stalled.
Delta variant sweeps through states that dialed back health powers
Even though Covid hospitalizations and deaths are surging in Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott just barred counties, cities and school districts from requiring masks.
The 2020 Olympics: 7 Sports We’re Watching
Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.That legendary flame is lit. The 2020 Olympics opened a year late in Tokyo, kicking off with a somber and strange ceremony that spoke to this upsetting moment in history. Below, seven writers and editors catch you up on the sports they plan to watch in the coming weeks of competition.
The Haunting, Ambivalent Olympics Opening Ceremony
Five years ago, in the closing ceremony for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the then–prime minister of Japan popped out of a green tube wearing the red hat of the world’s most amusing plumber.
Dear Care and Feeding: My Husband Sexted Me While Our Son Was Using My Phone
Parenting advice on naughty texts, body positivity, and a vaccine pickle.
My Husband Just Caught Me Making Out With My Boss. If Only He Knew What I Was Really Doing.
It’s not what he thinks!
The pandemic drove women out of the workforce. Will they come back?
Their absence could hurt the broader U.S. economy, so policymakers are weighing ways to help them return to work.
Fed’s Powell feels heat from all sides as inflation spikes
Both the Fed and the Biden administration have said rapid price increases are being stoked by temporary factors.
Gasoline is up and GOP sees an easy target: Biden
Americans are hitting the road as strong economic growth pushes up oil prices, and Republicans are trying to pin pump prices on Biden’s energy policies.
Rev. Liz Theoharis of Poor People’s Campaign Arrested in Protest over Voting Rights & Infrastructure
Nearly 100 women from around the United States were arrested outside the Supreme Court as they marked the 173rd anniversary of the first women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls with a protest calling for voting rights and economic justice. We speak with Reverend Liz Theoharis, co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign and one of those who was arrested.
Just Out of Jail, Winona LaDuke Decries Militarized Crackdown on Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline Protests
Nearly 600 water protectors have been arrested during ongoing protests in Minnesota against the construction of the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline at the Shell River, which the partially completed pipeline is set to cross in five places. On Monday, authorities arrested Indigenous leader Winona LaDuke and at least six others. She was just released from jail yesterday and joins us after three nights in jail.
“COVID Games” Begin in a Fearful Japan as Olympic Committee Prioritizes “Profits Over All Else”
As the Summer Olympics begin in Tokyo after the International Olympic Committee pushed forward during a pandemic despite widespread opposition in Japan, we speak with a protester outside the Olympic stadium and former Olympic athlete Jules Boykoff. “The people have been frustrated actually ever since the awarding of the Olympics in 2013,” says Satoko Itani, associate professor of sports, gender and sexuality at Kansai University.
“All We Can Save”: As Climate Disasters Wreck Our Planet, Women Leaders Are Key to Solving the Crisis
As the impacts of the climate emergency continue to be felt around the globe, white men overwhelmingly dominate the airwaves on climate coverage. We speak with co-editors of the new book “All We Can Save,” an anthology of essays by 60 women at the forefront of the climate justice movement. “We are simply not seeing very much climate coverage at all in the mainstream media,” says Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist and co-founder of the Urban Ocean Lab.
Trump Says GOP Lost Senate After His ‘Rigged’ Election Gripes Discouraged Voters
“Republicans said, ‘We’re not going to vote, because this [presidential] election was rigged,’” Trump explained. Dems then won twin Senate seats in Georgia.
Florida Again Leads Nation In Soaring COVID Cases Amid Delta Fears
The state is struggling with lackluster vaccination rates, dropped health protocols and the delta variant uptick as people head indoors to escape the heat.
Florida Again Leads Nation In Soaring COVID Cases Amid Delta Fears
The state is struggling with lackluster vaccination rates, dropped health protocols and the delta variant uptick as people head indoors to escape the heat.
Community Spotlight: Good things happen, sometimes when you least expect it
The Community at the heart of Daily Kos manifests not just in our stories but also in our comments. We build community through our interactions, by asking questions of the group hivemind, seeking problem-solving help, fundraising to support causes and individuals, and by telling our personal stories. We fiercely defend our Community and hold it up as an example of what makes Daily Kos special, even as we gripe about the new site design.
Connect! Unite! Act! Unions make a difference, and you can be a part of that today
Connect! Unite! Act! is a weekly series that seeks to create face-to-face networks in each congressional district. Groups meet regularly to socialize, but also to get out the vote, support candidates, and engage in other local political actions that help our progressive movement grow and exert influence on the powers that be.
Builder Of $30 Million Private Section Of Trump Border Wall Reportedly Looking For Buyers
Maybe think of it more as a “bike path,” the owner of Fisher Sand and Gravel told Bloomberg.
Eric Clapton says he won’t play venues that require COVID-19 vaccinations, because of course he did
I’m old enough to have once thought Eric Clapton was cool. I was never a superfan, but I enjoy some of his stuff. At the very least, he was cool by association because he hung out—and occasionally worked—with The Beatles.
Regardless, he’s a music legend and three-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
Vice President Harris breaks tie to confirm key labor appointee, this week in the war on workers
The National Labor Relations Board has a new general counsel after Vice President Kamala Harris broke a tie in the Senate to confirm Jennifer Abruzzo, 51-50. President Joe Biden fired Donald Trump’s NLRB general counsel, Peter Robb, on Inauguration Day after Robb refused to resign.
The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions also moved forward with two of Biden’s NLRB nominees this week.
Energy Roundup: Iron batteries vs. fossil fuels, nuclear vs. climate change, drought vs. life
Back when I was, unfortunately, working for the world’s largest coal company, employees were regularly made guinea pugs for the various propaganda pitches that the industry concocted to combat clear evidence that fossil fuels were generating enormous harm at all levels. One of those pitches what that coal-powered electricity was the only way to provide energy to Africa. The core of that pitch was simply this: Coal is cheap.
Sen. Rand Paul Told To ‘Get F**ked’ During Virtual Town Hall
Kentuckian Alexis Toon explained on her TikTok that she was invited to the town hall Q&A “so I took the opportunity and ran with it.
The Missing Pieces of Anthony Bourdain
Regardless of whether you loved Anthony Bourdain—and the striking thing is that so many people who had even a spotty acquaintance with him or his work felt like they did—the end of Roadrunner is devastating to watch. Morgan Neville’s new documentary about the chef and TV star runs through two decades of Bourdain’s life onscreen before concluding with present-day scenes of his friends still struggling to parse his death by suicide in 2018, at the age of 61.