It’s been a quiet Easter Sunday, but news still happens. Here’s some of what you may have missed.
• ‘I’ve decided to ‘identify’ as Chinese’: Mike Huckabee tweets disgusting ignorance
• Boehner let the vitriol fly during ‘wine-soaked’ recording of audiobook. One target was Ted Cruz
• We’re still fighting 53 years after Martin Luther King Jr.
Yesterday, Right Wing Watch flagged a video in which Mike Lindell told Steve Bannon that he was about to introduce a lawsuit that would all but assure Donald Trump would be back in office by the end of the summer. Dollars to donuts it’s based on some of the same lies that not only got the MyPillow Guy booted from Twitter, but have him staring down the barrel of a billion-dollar lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems.
On this day 53 years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot in 1968 outside the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis. His children, other activists, and the scores of people the civil rights leader impacted took to social media on Sunday to honor his legacy and bring attention to the continued fight for equality today. Bernice King, the youngest child of Martin Luther King Jr and the chief executive of the Martin Luther King Jr.
Please tell me what to put where.
It’s another Sunday, so for those who tune in, welcome to another discussion of the Nuts & Bolts of a Democratic campaign. If you’ve missed out, you can catch up any time: Just visit our group or follow the Nuts & Bolts Guide. Every week I try to tackle issues I’ve been asked about. With the help of other campaign workers and notes, we address how to improve and build better campaigns, or explain issues that impact our party.
I’ve spent most of my life no more than 20 minutes from the border of South Carolina. But there are times when the distance between my home in Charlotte and the South Carolina line feels more like two different worlds. One of those times came in February, when Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill that had the effect of banning almost all abortions in South Carolina.
The bill, which can be read in full here, is the latest attempt at a “heartbeat bill.
Who’s afraid of Daniel Kaluuya? According to the actor, that would be the British monarchy. “I’m Black and I’m British,” he explained in his opening monologue during last night’s Saturday Night Live. “Basically I’m what the Royal Family was worried the baby would look like.
“We need to educate folks,” Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said.
“We are going to have to respond somehow,” Michael Osterholm said.
Advice about marriage, polyamory, and more.
This year’s celebrations took on a different tone than usual.
He recognizes that investing in the “care economy” can lift incomes and unleash productivity, just like traditional infrastructure projects do.
Democrats’ big reform bill contains 300 pages expanding voting rights that were written by the late civil rights leader.
A few weeks ago, my partially vaccinated partner and my wholly unvaccinated self got an invitation to a group dinner, held unmasked and indoors. There’d be Thai food for 10, we were promised, and two über-immunized hosts, more than two weeks out from their last Moderna doses. And what about everyone else? I asked. Would they be fully vaccinated, too?Well, came the response. Not really. Some would be, some wouldn’t.
Carl Phillips, the former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, has often described poetry as a way to wrestle with ambiguity—to attempt to contain it. “Poetry is a form of control,” he once said. So Phillips chooses subjects—love, power, freedom, grief—that are particularly hard to grasp.
Parenting advice on future stepchildren, introverts, and quality reading.
Paul Piff just landed on Park Place. I own it. “Shit,” he says.I also own three railroads, a couple of high-rent monopolies, and a smattering of random properties. Piff is low on cash. He’s toast.We’re playing Monopoly on a sunny pre-pandemic afternoon in Piff’s modest office at UC Irvine. The 39-year-old psychology professor is an expert on how differences in wealth and status affect people’s values and behavior.
The opportunity for a competent administration to do something historic was helped by timing, weather, and, yes, Trump.
“We’ve already been f—ing smoking weed the whole time.
Activists fear the police-enforced closure will inspire similar actions across the city.
After its diesel fraud, the carmaker tries lying to reporters about its electrical vehicle marketing.
It’s time to see if you can cancel your gym membership
This change that will likely allow the company to speed up the pace of its shipments.
The acknowledgment came one day after reports revealed a production mistake that affected 15 million doses.
Workers at Emergent BioSolutions ruined 15 million doses by mixing ingredients from two Covid-19 vaccines together.
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.Today, the CDC updated its domestic travel guidance to say that fully vaccinated people can travel safely—but that doesn’t mean the agency is recommending it. Why is that? We called up Katherine, a staff writer who is covering the vaccine rollout, to find out.
After more than a year of pandemic, after months of an aggressive vaccination campaign, the United States should finally be better positioned to protect itself against the coronavirus. Nearly all of our long-term-care residents are vaccinated. Tens of millions of other people have been vaccinated, and tens of millions more have some level of immunity from previous infection.
Florida man, Florida man,
great head of hair, studio tan,
if I were hitching in the Everglades
and you pulled up, I’d be afraid.I wouldn’t climb into your minivan,
your swampmobile, O Florida man.
I’d wait for a ride with an honest trucker.
Anyone but you, you sleazy fucker.
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