Help! The Neighbor Kids Tore Up My Garden. Now Their Mom Says I’m a Bigot.
I don’t want her to spoil my relationship with my other neighbors, but people keep asking me about it.
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How Revolutions Happen
Three months ago, a global pandemic and a sudden economic crisis looked grave enough to suggest that something—if not a revolution, then at least the stirrings of a revolutionary era—was under way. Since then, the revolt against the pre-coronavirus status quo has only gained force. Crowds chanting “Black lives matter” and “Enough is enough” have marched all across the country.
The Latest Catastrophe at the VA
On a warm November day in 2017, Representative Mark Takano, a California Democrat, met with a whistleblower who had serious concerns about the 270-bed Veterans Affairs facility in Loma Linda. Later that day, Takano took a tour of the hospital, and was shocked by what he saw. Grime encrusted the water fountains; the floors of the operating room were noticeably dirty.
Du Bois Gave Voice to Pain and Promise
W. E. B. Du Bois was torn between hope and rage. Following the First World War, challenges to colonialism in Africa and Asia, revolutionary labor movements, demands for women’s rights and universal suffrage, and the growth of what would become the modern Black freedom struggle portended a new, radical future. However, the harsh realities of imperial conquest, capitalist exploitation, the subordination of women, and horrific racial violence remained firmly intact. Black people fought back.
Democrats Are Finally Picking the Right Fight Over Unemployment Benefits
They can’t trust the GOP not to sabotage efforts to help Americans, so they’re trying to do something about it.
Expanding Medicaid Makes Financial Sense. Plus, Voters Love It.
They’re even voting for it in Oklahoma.
Senators concerned about Covid-19 vaccine price controls
Senators questioned top Trump public health officials at a Thursday hearing on vaccine pricing.
Outside experts could decide who gets Covid vaccines first, NIH chief says
Federal officials may defer to the National Academy of Medicine.
Supreme Court sidesteps abortion cases, shortly after striking Louisiana restrictions
Chief Justice John Roberts’ vote with the court’s liberal judges to overturn the Louisiana law wasn’t the win for abortion rights advocates that many assumed.
America’s told-you-so moment: How we botched the reopening
The resurgence of Covid-19 was preventable, but the country’s rush to end shutdowns triggered disaster.
Testing czar says coronavirus surge is straining testing capacity
“It is absolutely correct that some labs across the country are reaching or near capacity,” Giroir said Wednesday.
Can You Reprogram a Kid Who Thinks He Must Pee Immediately After Drinking Water?
Plus: How to best support a pre-teen who recently came out to his parents as trans.
Looking for a Low-Stakes Summer Lawn Game? Grab This Horseshoe Set, Now on Sale.
Champion Sports’ model is now almost 25 percent off.
Help! My Wife Threatens to “End It All” Whenever I Ask Her to Get a Job.
She has $100,000 in loans from a master’s program that kicked her out.
Treasury decides to stick with July 15 tax deadline
An extension would give taxpayers until Oct. 15 to file their returns, though they would still have to pay what they owe by July 15.
Top White House economist set to depart amid coronavirus recession
The acting chair of the CEA will leave Trump without another senior economist as discussions start about a new economic aid package.
‘It’s going to be a slow slog’: Economists knock down hopes of quick rebound
“We have a long road ahead of us to get those people back to work,” Jerome Powell said earlier this week.
Powell’s warning on pandemic clashes with Trump’s upbeat tweets
“Significant uncertainty remains about the timing and strength of the recovery,” Powell said.
Kudlow says $600 additional unemployment checks will end in July
He said that “almost all businesses” understand the $600 additional benefit is “a disincentive.
Did the Army Ignore a Soldier’s Murder? Questions Mount over Vanessa Guillén Disappearance
The U.S. Army says it has a suspect in custody in connection with the disappearance of Vanessa Guillén, a missing 20-year-old Fort Hood soldier whose family says her remains were likely found in a shallow grave near the Texas Army base. A second suspect in the case — a soldier who the Guillén family lawyer named as Aaron Robinson — killed himself in Killeen, Texas, as officers approached.
Barbara Ransby on the Biden Problem: Social Movements Must Defeat Trump & Also Hold Dems Accountable
Amid a mass uprising against racism and state violence, social movements are not just fighting hostility and backlash from President Trump, but also dealing with a “Biden problem,” according to historian, author and activist Barbara Ransby. “I think it’s fair to say that Joe Biden is not our dream candidate, by any means,” she says. “We should be critical of Joe Biden. We should be ready to hold Joe Biden accountable come January.
Maskless Trump Rails Against ‘Left-Wing Mob’ As Coronavirus Crisis Spirals
There was no social distancing — and few masks — in the Mount Rushmore crowd as the president ignored the public health crisis consuming the country.
AT&T argues being misleading about data plans isn’t misleading because reporters caught them
One of the grand tricks the telecom industry was able to achieve by getting its henchman, Ajit Pai, into the majority chairman position in the FCC was to kill net neutrality protections. The most special part of this was Pai’s argument that the FCC did not have the power to enforce, and should not have the power to enforce, any regulations on the telecommunications landscape.
‘No one should be forgotten or left to die’: ICE detainees plead for release in handwritten letters
The judge from an ongoing lawsuit demanding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) release detainees amid the novel coronavirus pandemic has made public pages of handwritten letters from immigrants detained at a number of Florida facilities, who in their own heart-wrenching words say they fear for their lives under ICE’s watch.
Before Pence visit, 5 members of megachurch choir had tested positive for COVID-19
Only days ago, Trump’s Vice President Mike Pence attended a rally in a Dallas, Texas, megachurch packed with over 2,000 people.
‘Get the f–k back!’ Michigan woman shown on video threatening Black mom with pistol
A white Michigan woman who reportedly bumped into a Black teen was shown on viral video pulling out a pistol on the child’s mother in an encounter Wednesday evening that led to assault charges for the armed woman and a man she was with. The encounter began when the child identified by The Detroit News as Makayla Green asked the woman to apologize for bumping into her outside of a Chipotle restaurant about 40 miles northwest of Detroit in Orion Township.
Cheers and Jeers: July 4, 1776 Edition
Still the best history lesson on the founding of our country I’ve seen. In fact, it’s certified “100% Texas School Board approved”:
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Our annual posting of the original Cheers and Jeers from July 4, 1776—discovered gathering dust and mold behind some rotten drywall at the farm of Phinneas Pawpatch on July 5, 1776—starts below the ye olde folde.
4 Aurora Police Officers Out After Photo Reenacting Chokehold Of Elijah McClain
“They don’t deserve to wear a badge anymore,” Aurora’s interim Police Chief Vanessa Wilson said.