Hello, Friday! As we go into the weekend, we still have millions of arms that need millions of vaccines, so if you know anyone who hasn’t set up appointment yet, nag them! Last year at this time, Donald Trump was suggesting we bleach our innards to rid ourselves of the COVID-19 virus! That’s a real thing that happened! Ron Johnson is still 100% pure disappointment.
For over a decade, Daily Kos activism has engaged our readers via email to sign petitions, call their elected officials, write constituent letters, attend events, and work to get out the vote.
In the past three years, however, we have moved beyond email to also send text messages—which you can opt in to receive when you sign any one of our petitions.
I grew up in Wisconsin, so I happen to know there are thousands of Ron Johnsons haunting various backwater dairyland redoubts, oafishly sounding out exotic menu items like “jalapeño poppers” at supper clubs, ordering one brandy Old-Fashioned after another, and dribbling chunky rivulets of tartar sauce down their chins onto musty, antediluvian wool suits as they race against each other to see who can fully transform into giant ambulant pee stains before the&nb
After “Anglo Saxon” dust-up, Greene will headline event in Florida featuring “conspiracy theorists and election deniers,” noted local newspaper.
In the summer of 2017, the newly elected Donald Trump and Wisconsin’s soon-to-be-former governor Scott Walker announced the big deal that only Republican leadership could strike: Foxconn was coming to build manufacturing infrastructure in the Badger state! The promise to the American public was that this would mean more than 13,000 new jobs building LCD screens.
Democratic Rep. Mondaire Jones rips the Arkansas Republican’s “well-rounded” dog whistle in arguing against D.C. statehood.
Amid hysterical claims that wolves are driving ranchers out of business, Idaho’s Republican state Senate this week approved legislation that would enable hired contractors to exterminate up to 90% of the state’s wild wolf population. The bill, if signed (as expected) by GOP Gov. Brad Little would end tag limits on wolves and allow year-round trapping on private land.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki further stoked those fears on Thursday when she listed health care as separate from the forthcoming infrastructure pitch.
There’s a lobbying war over how HHS implements new protections shielding patients from large, unexpected medical bills.
This article contains spoilers through the entirety of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and Avengers: Endgame.Superlative television should always know what it wants to be, and on that front, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has felt more like Marvel’s exercise in trying things out than a series with a fully realized sense of self.
“To the best of our knowledge, this is a historical first for the White House,” said the head of the National Association of the Deaf.
Democratic state Sens. Troy Carter and Karen Carter Peterson are competing to fill Louisiana’s only safely Democratic House seat in a special election.
The original false account of George Floyd’s murder challenges old habits of journalism.
Parenting advice on diverse friendship, unwanted pregnancy, and sibling rivalry.
At the LGBTQ senior community where John James lives in Philadelphia, residents keep busy with trips to the garden or—before the pandemic—screenings of Strangers on a Train in the rec room. James does not care for any of that right now. Each morning, he combs through medical-research databases and downloads every paper he can find on COVID-19 treatments, scribbling notes about the parts that stand out. Most days, he reads papers at his desk until 1 a.m.
The Wisconsin Republican, who is up for reelection in 2022, questioned the “big push” to get everyone vaccinated.
Federal health officials will add warnings about potential blood-clot risks to fact sheets for health care providers and vaccine recipients.
Are there any guys out there like this?
Losing your umpteenth bidding war just might radicalize you.
This is not the year to skimp on Teacher Appreciation Week.
A post-pandemic discussion question: You get home from work on a Friday night and change into sweatpants. It’s been an exhausting week. A text message comes in. Your good friend wants to know if you’d like to meet up last minute for a drink, which is something that’s safe to do again. You’d love to catch up, but you’re pretty tired.
The author Brontez Purnell’s short story “Early Retirement” focuses on Antonio, a struggling actor who is unfulfilled by his job. One night, Antonio drinks too much and blacks out in the middle of a performance, experiencing a “cool and complete dissociation onstage.” He is booted from the cast the next day.Purnell’s story illustrates a common experience of disillusionment in modern-day work culture.
As President Biden convenes a major climate summit, we speak with two leading climate activists from Africa about the “climate debt” rich countries owe the Global South and the major emissions cuts still needed in order to avert the worst effects of the planetary emergency.
We look at the link between migration and the climate emergency, which studies have estimated could displace over 200 million people by 2050, including many in Central American countries such as Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. Last year, two hurricanes, Iota and Eta, devastated the region and forced thousands to flee north.
The White House convened a virtual summit on the climate crisis this week, with 40 leaders representing the world’s major economies pledging cuts to greenhouse gas emissions. President Joe Biden said the U.S. would cut its emissions by at least 50% below 2005 levels by the end of the decade — nearly double the target set by the Obama administration six years ago. Biden’s pledge fulfills “a basic requirement of the U.S.
Mourners gathered in Minnesota Thursday for the funeral of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man who was shot dead by a white police officer during a traffic stop in the Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center. Daunte’s mother, Katie Wright, fought back tears as she remembered her son. “When he walked in the room, he lit up the room. He was a brother, a jokester, and he was loved by so many. He’s going to be so missed.” We air excerpts of Wright’s funeral service.
The company is targeting one of news organizations’ weak points.
In a system designed to suppress turnout, he just might be the low-turnout candidate.
The marijuana movement has never been closer to its goal.
The pandemic dream of transforming abandoned downtowns into flourishing residential neighborhoods.