With Trump MIA, Senate Republicans Go It Alone On Police Reform Efforts
Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) is taking the lead in crafting a bill to address police practices following the death of George Floyd.
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Defund the Police Gets Its Anthem
When a security officer named Julius Locklear grabbed Johnniqua Charles earlier this year outside of a South Carolina strip club, the confrontation became a concert. In a video filmed on the scene, Charles repeatedly asks why Locklear is holding her without reason. Then, with a wiggle and a shimmy, she starts singing, “You about to lose yo job, because you’re detaining me for nothing!” At one point, she tells the camera to make sure to “get this dance.
How to Get a Job During a Pandemic, According to a LinkedIn Insider
Think about how to help the person you’re trying to network with, rather than helping yourself.
The $7,000 Covid test: Why states are stepping in to shield consumers
One national insurer was billed $6,946 for a coronavirus test in Texas, according to claims data reviewed by POLITICO.
Brazil stops publishing its coronavirus death toll
Jair Bolsonaro’s government has come under fire for information that has been seen as “fanciful or manipulated.
Coronavirus drugmakers’ latest tactics: Science by press release
Pharmaceutical companies are using the media to tout treatments that are still under review.
Withdrawn drug study adds more politics, distrust to coronavirus science
Hydroxychloroquine retraction stirs partisan response.
What Happened With Today’s Shocking Jobs Report?
Defying economists’ expectations, unemployment fell in May and the economy added 2.5 million jobs.
States prod nursing homes to take more Covid-19 patients
Offered vastly higher reimbursements, many substandard facilities are jumping at the chance to accept sick residents.
This Is the Summer to Become a Bike Enthusiast
Everything you need to know about bike helmets, locks, lights, and more.
Minneapolis Had This Coming
Photographs by Wing Young HuieBack in the late 1990s, the photographer and Minnesota native Wing Young Huie started an ambitious project to love malls.) Instead, only Kmart showed up. And Kmart had a list of demands, the biggest being closing off Nicollet Avenue. They severed south Minneapolis from downtown just to maintain big-box-store standards.This was the neighborhood I grew up in, and in my mind, that Kmart has looked worn down since the day it opened.
Amid Protests & Pandemic, 200+ Unhoused People Sheltering in Minneapolis Hotel Now Face Eviction
We go to Minneapolis, where the community has taken over a Sheraton hotel to provide shelter to more than 200 unhoused people amid protests and the pandemic. Now they face eviction. “Using hotels for emergency housing is an obvious answer,” says Rosemary Fister, community organizer. “They are largely vacant as we enter an economic depression in the midst of a global pandemic.
“Essential Labor, Expendable Lives”: Mass Transit Workers Worry About Safety as NYC Begins to Reopen
As New York City begins to partially reopen, we look at what it means for the nation’s largest public transportation system. “It’s a very stressful and dangerous situation,” says Seth Rosenberg, a subway operator, shop steward with the Transport Workers Union Local 100 and a member of a small coalition of transit workers called Local 100 Fightback. “The safety measures are not in place to protect transit workers or riders.
DACA Recipients “Want to Be in the Streets Building Solidarity” But ICE Arrests 3 at Phoenix Protest
Immigration agents are facing accusations of targeting protesters who are recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA. Police in Phoenix, Arizona, arrested community activist Máxima Guerrero as she was leaving a protest on May 30 with a group of legal observers. She was one of three DACA recipients arrested over that weekend in Phoenix.
Immigration Agents Target People at Police Brutality Protests, Including a U.S. Citizen Military Vet
As protests against police brutality continue nationwide, immigrant rights advocates are sounding the alarm over the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at some of the demonstrations. A viral video showed a group of ICE agents working with the New York City Police Department to detain a protester at a George Floyd rally in New York City last week, and advocates say agents held the man on the ground as they pointed three guns at him and handcuffed and searched him.
Yet Another Week of Trump Failing to Be an Actual Authoritarian
Last week began with one of the ugliest—and potentially most dangerous—spectacles of Donald Trump’s presidency: the nation’s leader, having declared himself “your president of law and order,” striding across a park violently cleared of peaceful protesters by police firing chemical irritants.Within a week, however, the Trump administration’s response to the nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd had devolved into a bleak farce.
Victoria’s Secret Has Only Itself to Blame
After years of scandal and declining sales, the iconic brand is struggling to survive the coronavirus.
Dear Care and Feeding: Do I Have to Share My Birth Plan With My Opinionated In-Laws?
Parenting advice on overbearing in-laws, breastfeeding, and body autonomy.
How the U.S. economic response could change as people go back to work
Despite the drop in the unemployment rate in May, many economists feel further aid is needed.
Trump declares victory amid turmoil
Surprisingly positive jobs numbers had the president ebullient on Friday, gleeful that the upswing indicated America’s ills were on the mend.
States move cautiously in contending with huge budget gaps
Many wait to see what Congress will do before committing to tax hikes, big spending cuts
Why Politics Keeps Tanking a Bailout Idea That Works
Nobody in Congress likes to give other politicians money. But the track record shows that writing checks directly to states could keep the recession from becoming way worse.
Guardsman Told Barr Protest Was Peaceful Before Violent Attack, Lawmaker Says
The attorney general has insisted that the White House crowd was violent before he ordered an aggressive clearing of the area where Trump staged a photo-op.
Monday Night Owls: Lawmakers call on Trump to forget about new nuclear weapons tests
Night Owls, a themed open thread, appears at Daily Kos seven days a week
Andrea Germanos writes—80 Lawmakers Demand Trump Ditch Any Thought of Resuming ‘Dangerously Provocative’ Nuclear Tests:
A group of 80 Democratic federal lawmakers on Monday called on President Donald Trump to drop his reported consideration of atomic bomb nuclear testing, calling it an “awful” and “dangerously provocative” proposal that could give rise to “a n
Trump’s ‘Space Force’ keeps providing unintentional humor
Donald Trump is all about branding and he’s been very in love with his whole “Space Force” plan. But somehow those two things didn’t come together competently enough for the Department of Defense to edge out Netflix when it came to global trademarks for the term “Space Force.