Those same Republicans are being remarkably quiet today about Obamacare. It was a daily subject for them from when negotiations on the bill began in 2009 until the 2018 election. They took literally hundreds of votes in the House to repeal parts of or the entirety of the law. When they won the White House…
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Greg Abbott slows down reopening in Texas as COVID-19 cases continue to rise
No matter how many times it’s made clear, politicians don’t seem to get the delayed connection between actions taken to address COVID-19 and the people lining up for hospital beds. Following exposure, it can take 2-14 days before the first symptom of the disease appears. It can take another ten days or longer for those…
COVID-19 has now hit one of ICE’s migrant family jails, just as advocates warned would happen
CBS News reported that the confirmed cases Karnes were revealed by an independent inspector who said the families were “stable, asymptomatic, and remain housed in medical isolation rooms,” but as has been seen in adult detention facilities, ”noted that not all staff complied with the policy of wearing face masks and that social distancing was not always enforced,…
Sonia Sotomayor was the lone justice to point out Trump’s racist history in his move to end DACA
In his legal analysis Thursday, Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern wrote that Chief Justice John Roberts didn’t join the court’s four liberal justices “because his heart bleeds for young immigrants who faced banishment to a foreign country,” but “because the Trump administration bungled every step of its attempted repeal, hoping the courts would ignore its sloppy,…
Trump says his ‘biggest risk’ is … mail-in voting
Trump wants to make it hard to vote, in a country where Black and Latino voters already face much longer wait times than white voters, and during a pandemic that makes waiting not just tiresome and a burden for workers and parents but an active health risk. Trump also wavered on the question of whether he’d accept…
This Juneteenth, we must remember the movement for Black liberation is far from over
Black folks in America have been told that a rising tide lifts all boats and that swift changes are not only improbable, but impossible. We are simultaneously being taught the lie that America is a democracy built by “revolutionaries” who changed the system with war and uncivil disobedience. This contradiction is why a sustained, nonapathetic…
Bunker Boy is not going to be happy about this new Biden campaign video
A new video from the Biden campaign is hitting Donald Trump where it hurts: in the ego. “Deer in the headlights, Part Two” hits Trump as “Too scared to face the people. Too weak to lead.” The video focuses on Trump’s response to the protests following the police killing of George Floyd. “The nation marches for…
A rigged pro-Trump poll was supposed to deliver him some desperately needed good news. Oops
Anyway, after that embarrassment, Trump was surely giddily awaiting something fantastic from an outlet that was clearly willing to do just about anything to earn his affections. Even Fox News delivers down the line polling that, frankly, has not been anywhere near flattering for Trump as of late. Thursday afternoon OAN dropped its poll along with…
Confederate statues aren’t the only targets as protesters take on monuments to hate and mass murder
In the U.S., while 100 Confederate monuments were removed after the racist mass murder of worshippers in Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, there are still 700 standing. Historian Karen Cox told The Washington Post that 30 have been built in the past two decades. But while some Southern states are moving to protect their monuments to slavery…
As police riots spread around the country, support for Black Lives Matter continues to surge
When we first publicly rolled out our Black Lives Matter tracking poll on Wednesday, support stood at 49%, opposition at 24%, and the “meh” response was at 25%. Now opposition remains at around the same level, but more of the “meh” has shifted to support. White support has gone from 41% on Wednesday to 44% today, continuing…