Engel went through a competitive nomination fight in 2000, but he was routinely reelected over the following 18 years. In 2018, Engel turned back a self-funding opponent by a wide 74-16 margin, and he became chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee the following year after his party returned to the majority. However, the seat…
Federal court orders Trump admin to accept new DACA applications following Supreme Court ruling
Daily Kos Staff Friday July 17, 2020 · 10:22 AM PDT 2020/07/17 · 10:22 A federal court has ordered the Trump administration to comply with the Supreme Court’s decision last month on DACA and fully reopen the program to new applicants. The court’s ruling finding the administration had illegally ended the program was certified on Monday, yet…
Professionals are altering the way they treat addiction and mental illness during the pandemic
At smaller treatment centers like Pride Institute in Minnesota, it’s more or less business as usual. With three locations specializing in addiction care for LGBTQ+ individuals, they’re following CDC guidelines, but also are taking extra precautions to ensure the safety of their patients and staff. Temperatures are taken at the door. Newly admitted patients are…
Trump botched the pandemic response six ways to Sunday. Now it’s crippling his reelection
The demographic shifts in the polling also suggest that Trump is alienating a variety of groups, instead of simply alienating the same ones in greater numbers. Both men and women now equally disapprove of Trump’s response at 66% and 67%, respectively, with men registering a double-digit increase in disapproval since last month. Trump’s approvals on…
Domestic terrorism database of the Trump years shows how the radical right has gone on a rampage
The numbers show the stark increase during Trump’s presidency: The 87 people killed by far-right terrorists over the first three Trump years—145 if we include the 58 killed in the October 2017 shooting rampage in Las Vegas—far outstrip the 17 killed by Islamists or the four killed by left-wing extremists. That’s, conservatively, 87 deaths in…
‘We don’t see color,’ Trump supporters say as they tell their kids to fear Black Lives Matter
Racial colorblindness was big with the Trump supporters—as it remains with too many liberals. But here’s a great example of how flawed that ideology is, coming from a man who said of protesters that “I don’t think they even understand what they want.” Why doesn’t he think protesters know what they want? “Because black lives…
Trump and Pence are fine with their evangelical base dying, so long as the photo ops continue
Politico cites what is now the most infamous superspreader event: an Oregon church responsible for 258 new COVID-19 cases after Memorial Day weekend services. We have been seeing—and experts have been warning—that some behaviors are more dangerous than others during the pandemic. Prolonged indoor contact is dangerous. Heavy breathing, as comes with exercise, is dangerous. Singing, as…
Five times white privilege failed to save these racists in aftermath of George Floyd’s death
1. William Beasley, a white San Francisco man, was fired from his job at the technology services company APEX Systems June 25 when viral video showed him blocking a Latino resident from entering his own apartment building, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “We have concluded our internal review of the incident with one of our internal employees,” Beasley’s former…
Have fun with this, Senate Republicans: Trump tells SCOTUS it was your idea to dismantle the ACA
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…
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…