Rep. Mo Brooks Says We Need Our Guns So We Can ‘Take Back’ The Nation
The lawmaker doesn’t believe the government is legitimate because of his fantasy that Donald Trump was “robbed” of his victory.
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News Roundup: Biden arrives in Uvalde as Republicans again vow to protect guns over children
President Joe Biden arrived in Uvalde, Texas today to pay his respects to the victims of the latest school shooting that didn’t have to happen. This time, 19 grade school students and two teachers died.
Ukraine update: As Russia presses in on Severodonetsk, other areas are open to counterattack
The list of NATO equipment headed into Ukraine continues to grow. On Sunday, it was reported that Poland is dispatching 18 AHS Krab self-propelled howitzers, which followed reports on Saturday that—though not an official part of any announced assistance package—the U.S. was sending an unknown number of self-propelled 155mm M109 howitzers.
Fox News Anchor Pleads For Gun Control: ‘Prayers Are Not Enough’
“We have to do something. We’ve got to get the lawmakers to do something,” Arthel Neville said.
Prankster Trolls NRA Head Wayne LaPierre To His Face In Front Of All His Pals
What first seemed like praise quickly turned uncomfortable for the NRA boss.
Insurance agency bails on LGBTQ book program thanks to conservative backlash
All young people attending school have had their worlds fundamentally altered during the COVID-19 pandemic. While some students are back in the in-person classroom—and even some without face masks—plenty of students are still in virtual or hybrid classrooms. Some people are homeschooled or learning on the road with their families.
CNN’s Jim Acosta Confronts NRA Board Member: ‘Isn’t This Blood On Your Hands?’
The Republican judge repeatedly dodged questions and insisted “I’m not the one that pulled the trigger.
Nuts & Bolts—Inside a Democratic campaign: responsibilities and pitfalls of protecting your seat
Welcome back to another entry into the Nuts & Bolts series! Each week I try to document information that comes from campaign managers, field directors, staff, and anyone else involved in campaigns all over the country. With the help of their input as well as our own community I’ve worked to maintain this guide for nearly a decade.
Black activist calls for Democrats to demolish Republicans ‘from the top of the ticket on down’
In the days before primary election results started to trickle in on Tuesday, Black leaders reminded Democrats, particularly those in Georgia, of a message that holds true despite GOP tactics to undermine Georgians: Our votes still matter.
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Photograph by Stephen DiRadoSitting on the porch of the house
the father doesn’t remember is his own,
the daughter confides to the father
that her love for him has become
a trapped animal. The father, almost deaf,
doesn’t hear the daughter. In the daughter’s
humid periphery, the father becomes
a younger version of himself.
Airlines’ Premium-Economy Trick
Let’s say you receive an unexpected financial windfall. What’s the first thing you’re spending money on? If it’s a lavish vacation—how are you getting there? Americans top the list of consumers who say they’re interested in private travel, so there’s a clue. Many of us would prefer to opt out of the commercial-flight experience, but the odds of hailing a private jet are lottery-long for anyone not in the 1 percent.
How to Think About Personal Risk When COVID Case Data Can’t Be Trusted
Coronavirus cases are up more than 25 percent in the United States over the past two weeks—and those are just the ones we know about. Experts warn that the true size of the current outbreak could be 10, or even 14, times worse than the official counts suggest.Take Hawaii, for example.
A Holocaust Survivor’s Secret Sadness
In my earliest memories of my mother, I see her braiding the challah for our Friday-night meal, cutting and laying sheets of strudel dough across the dining-room table, feeding the goose she kept in the attic of our home in Kassa, Hungary, for her decadent foie gras. But I also remember her sorrow—for the mother she’d lost when she was only 9, and also, I sensed, for the woman she herself had become.
CMS turning attention to hospitals with Covid outbreaks
The nation’s hospital regulator is probing hospitals where patients were likely infected with Covid after a record spike in transmission this year.
Demand for monkeypox vaccine grows in U.S., European countries as virus cases climb
Governments warn against panicking, but they are planning for the worst outcome.
Pfizer, BioNTech report 80 percent efficacy of Covid-19 vaccine for youngest children
The companies plan to finish submitting data to the Food and Drug Administration this week.
State Democrats, abortion-rights activists ‘incredibly frustrated’ with federal inaction
Democratic inaction at the federal level could complicate the party’s efforts to run this fall as champions of reproductive rights.
Health official on monkeypox: ‘I feel like this is a virus we understand’
Ashish Jha said he doesn’t expect monkeypox will become a particularly big threat.
China’s fragility feeds the doom-mongers in Davos
Fêted at the World Economic Forum in 2017, Xi Jinping is now accused of torpedoing the global economy with his disastrous Zero Covid strategy.
RIP Davos Man, long live globalization
Open markets aren’t what they used to be. A more complicated, more regional economic system is reshaping the global order.
U.S. economy is in a ‘period of transition,’ White House economic adviser says
Despite high inflation, the U.S. is “moving from the strongest economic recovery in modern history to what can be a period of more stable and resilient growth,” Brian Deese said.
U.S. inflation hit 8.3% last month but slows from 40-year high
On a month-to-month basis, prices rose 0.3% from March to April, a still-elevated rate but the smallest increase in eight months.
Fed set to launch fresh assault on inflation in new era for economy
Rates this year could reach their highest levels since before the 2008 Wall Street crash if surging prices continue.
Report from the Donbas: Shelling Intensifies in Severodonetsk as Russia Moves to Capture Key City
Heavy fighting is continuing in eastern Ukraine as Russia attempts to seize the entire Donbas region, where fighting began in 2014. We speak to independent journalist Billy Nessen, who just left the city of Severodonetsk, where Russian shelling has exponentially increased. He says a possible Russian capture of Severodonetsk would be a “big propaganda victory for Russia,” but predicts that Ukrainians are not yet at the point where they are willing to concede.
“Doubling Down”: How Minneapolis Elites Worked to Stop Police Reform After George Floyd’s Murder
Wednesday marked two years since George Floyd was murdered by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, setting off worldwide protests against police violence. But has anything in Minneapolis changed? We spoke with longtime local activist Robin Wonsley Worlobah, who is also now Minneapolis’s first Black democratic socialist city councilmember.
“Trigger Points”: Author Mark Follman on How to Stop Mass Shootings Through Community Prevention
Shortly before the massacres in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, we spoke with author and journalist Mark Follman about the epidemic of mass shootings in the United States. Follman is the author of the new book “Trigger Points: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America,” in which he closely examines how a community-based prevention method called “behavior threat assessment” can help prevent mass shootings.
Patrick Cockburn Warns the West’s “Triumphalism” in Ukraine Could Prolong Conflict Indefinitely
As fighting continues in Ukraine, we speak with journalist Patrick Cockburn, who says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is peddling a “vague triumphalism” which is “obscuring just how dangerous and how bad the situation has become.” His recent CounterPunch piece is headlined “London and Washington are Being Propelled by Hubris — Just as Putin was.
Ted Cruz’s Lame ‘Door Solution’ To School Shootings Ripped As ‘Boldly Ignorant’
There’s still the problem of a shooter armed with an assault rifle walking through that door.
Ukraine Update: Western artillery is already impacting the Battle of Donbas, and more is on the way
Ramzan Kadyrov, the warlord chieftain of Chechnya and a staunch Vladimir Putin ally, has claimed total and complete Russian control of Severodonetsk. He claimed full control of Mariupol about two dozen times (no exaggeration) before Russia actually, finally, expelled all Ukrainian defenders. In other words, he’s full of shit.
So the fight continues as Ukraine reinforces the city, while observers scratch their heads in confusion.
People of color will pay the steepest price if abortion is banned
By Minerva Canto by Capital & Main
For many people of color, Roe v. Wade was always in jeopardy.
Fresno resident Amalia Moreno wasn’t surprised when she heard that the Supreme Court had prepared a ruling that would overturn the landmark court case guaranteeing abortion rights.