Tulsi Gabbard And Tucker Carlson Featured In Stunning Exchange On Russian TV
A state TV host said the former presidential candidate was a Russian agent, according to Russian media analyst Julia Davis.
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Biden May Release 1 Million Barrels Of Oil A Day To Combat High Gas Prices: Reports
The draw on the reserves could last for as long as 180 days as prices remain stratospheric at the pump.
Ukraine update: More setbacks for Russia as Ukrainian defense finds its footing
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke with President Joe Biden again today as Biden confirmed another $500 million in aid would be headed for the country, while peace talks between Russia and Ukraine continue to go nowhere.
Why hasn’t the Justice Department indicted Mark Meadows nearly four months after contempt vote?
The House voted to hold Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress back in December. But the Justice Department has not yet taken action on that criminal referral, and members of the Jan. 6 select committee are getting irritated. The committee only has so much time to investigate a violent insurrection, given that it is a midterm election year, and yet the Justice Department, under Attorney General Merrick Garland, does not appear to consider this an urgent issue.
Politico wakes up to the fact that, yes, Trump’s baggage poses a problem for the GOP in 2022
Politico Playbook is a little late to the game on something we’ve been discussing for months here at Daily Kos: Donald Trump’s political handiwork in the midterms could help sink GOP chances of regaining control of Congress.
As Playbook notes, the Republican Party outperformed in House races in 2020 due to Trump’s heavy draw among the MAGA faithful in rural areas.
Father and son hospitalized after intervening in attack on Asian woman
As calls for support and justice for the rising number anti-Asian hate crimes nationwide increase, some people are stepping up and going beyond being bystanders. A father and his son are being called heroes after stopping an Asian woman, 61-year-old Hee Chen, from being robbed outside of their pizzeria in Queens, New York. The two were stabbed as a result and are now recovering at the hospital.
Republicans begin to abandon debates, just as they’ve abandoned moderates (and common sense)
There was a time, not long ago, when I would have argued that much of what ails our politics could be made better by forcing candidates into a lot more debates.
Biden Is a Wild Card in the Russia-Ukraine War, Too
This is an edition of Up for Debate, a newsletter by Conor Friedersdorf. On Wednesdays, he rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Every Friday, he publishes some thoughtful replies. Sign up for the newsletter here.Question of the WeekThe Oscars were this week, so let’s talk about cinema.
DeSantis Won A Battle On LGBTQ Issues, But Conservatives May Still Lose The War
Public opinion on issues like same-sex marriage have moved in a progressive direction, and there’s no reason to think that’s going to change.
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey Signs Bills Limiting Abortion, Trans Rights
The measures will outlaw abortion after 15 weeks if the U.S. Supreme Court allows it, prohibit gender confirmation surgery for minors and ban transgender girls from playing on girls and women’s sports teams.
Talking About Cocaine And Orgies Is The GOP’s Red Line
Rep. Madison Cawthorn got a talking-to from Republican leaders for comments about certain unnamed officials that they dubbed “exaggerated.
Trump Is a Flat Circle
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend,” the ancient proverb goes. Less known is the Trump corollary: Even when my friend’s enemy is also an alleged war criminal and my country’s geopolitical enemy. It’s harder and harder to be shocked by Donald Trump, but asking Russia’s leader to interfere in American politics to help him, in the midst of a brutal and illegal war condemned by most of the world, might just do it.
Biden praised his new Covid czar as ‘perfect.’ Not everyone is convinced.
Ashish Jha takes over the Covid task force at a point of transition in the pandemic fight.
When You No Longer Recognize Your Home Country
Yevhenii Monastyrskyi was an undergraduate at the University of Luhansk, in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, when war broke out in 2014. One day, on his way home from a coffee shop with friends, he says, they were approached by Russian soldiers in an SUV. Without much explanation, Monastyrskyi told me, he and his friends were detained in the basement of a local government building.
The Left’s Climate Playbook Is Already Outdated
In the United States, the philosophy behind many of the most important progressive climate proposals of the past few years—such as the Green New Deal and Joe Biden’s climate plan—was premised on three ideas. Each was rooted in a diagnosis of the 2010s economy—and each, unfortunately, is looking more and more out of date.First, each plan almost universally assumed that the American economy remained bruised from the Great Recession.
How Europe’s Anti-Migrant Policies Gave Rise to “Absolutely Horrific” Refugee Prisons in Libya
Western countries have opened their doors to millions of Ukrainians fleeing the war in their homeland, presenting a model of how refugees should be welcomed. But their experience stands in stark contrast to how African refugees are treated when attempting to reach Europe to escape war, hunger and despair.
U.S. Prepares to Arrest Surge of Migrants at Southern Border as It Welcomes 100,000 Ukrainian Refugees
As the U.S. says it will welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion, immigration officials say they’re preparing for a surge of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border as it ends the Trump-era pandemic restriction Title 42 in response to humanitarian outcry. We speak with Guerline Jozef of the Haitian Bridge Alliance about how Haitian refugees are treated, and with award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa about the Haitians she met in a migrant caravan.
Is a Peace Deal Near? Ukraine Won’t Join NATO in Return for Russian Withdrawal, Security Guarantees
The United Nations says more than 4 million refugees have now fled Ukraine as Russia’s invasion nears its sixth week. Russia announced plans Tuesday to “fundamentally” cut back military operations near Kyiv and the city of Chernihiv, but Ukrainian officials say Russian forces continue to carry out strikes in or near both cities.
The Law of Falling Bodies
where M is the mass of my brother’s body
falling after he pulled the trigger.
And here we are, bound to Earth’s pull
downward. His knees hit the floor first.
I rose quickly from my bed, knowing
the distance was too great, like those dreams
where you run and run
but the space just keeps expanding.
This fall is a short vertical distance,
with little resistance now, the time
for resistance is over.
Moderna ‘happy’ with results from its kids vaccine trial, but is it enough for the FDA?
The company met its study goals, but experts are split over whether the data will be sufficient for the Food and Drug Administration.
U.S. global Covid work will ‘grind to a halt’ without more cash
With a more than $4 billion request stalled in Congress, USAID officials are now forced to plan for the possibility that their funding will run dry in the next few months.
Much of Shanghai locked down as mass Covid-19 testing begins
China has continued to pursue a “zero-Covid” strategy.
Biden’s mounting midterm threat: Inflation angst outweighing historic job growth
White House officials deny any sense of panic over the economy or their midterm chances.
Democrats want to crack down on Wall Street. Guess who’s getting in the way.
The administration’s difficulties in getting bank cop nominees through a Democratic-controlled Senate underscore the fault lines within the party over how to approach financial regulation.
Opinion | When It Comes to Inflation, Our Focus Should Be On the Cost of Housing
The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates — but Congress has a chance to bring real relief.
U.S. inflation soared 7.9 percent in past year, a fresh 40-year high
The increase reported by the Labor Department reflected the 12 months ending in February and didn’t include most of the oil and gas price increases that followed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb.
Russia oil shock looms over Fed inflation fight
The Fed is already expected to begin a campaign of interest rate increases next month in a bid to remove its support for economic growth amid a blistering job market and rapidly rising prices.
Jamaica Moves to Become a Republic as Calls Grow for Slavery Reparations Following U.K. Royal Visit
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have just finished a weeklong visit to former British colonies in the Caribbean. Their trip comes after Barbados cut ties to the monarchy and became a republic last year. During the so-called charm offensive to the British Commonwealth countries, the royals were met with protests calling for reparations for slavery.
Ukraine Update: Russia announces tactical retreats near Kyiv as Ukrainian counterattacks close in
Today’s most significant news is the announcement from Russia that they intend to pull back from some areas near Kyiv, allegedly as a magnanimous gesture. We can say with near certainty that Putin’s generals aren’t doing it out of goodwill.
Ukraine update: How did Kherson fall so quickly? Betrayal looks like a good bet
With Russians conceding their humiliating loss at the Battle for Kyiv, there is a massive artillery barrage to cover for … something. A retreat? A reconfiguration? We don’t know. Lots of fog of war right now, and we can’t trust anything Russia claims. Look at NASA FIRMS satellite imagery of the region:
NASA FIRMS satellite image 3/29/2022
Remember, not every red dot here is combat-related fire.