COVID-19 Test Delivery Leaves Out Houseless and Multigenerational Households
This piece was first published by Prism. The Biden administration launched a new website this month. program Four COVID-19 rapid test kits will be delivered to each household for people who have an address in the country. Advocates for the program claim it will deliver 500 million tests. However, it disadvantages multigenerational households and houseless […]
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Manchin Got Huge Donation From GOP Billionaire After Tanking Build Back Better
After he announced in December he would not be supporting President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act, Sen. Joe Manchin’s political action committee received the maximum allowable contribution from billionaire Republican donor Ken Langone. The Hill reported late Friday that the wealthy investor, who supported former President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, gave $5,000 to Manchin’s […]
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Many “Parent” Groups Opposing Masks and CRT Are Actually Driven by Dark Money
Thousands of events take place across the U.S. annually in the last week of January for “School Choice Week,” organized by a self-described “nonpartisan, nonpolitical public awareness effort” group. In truth, National School Choice Week — which has been taking place every year since 2011 — has been bankrolledRight-wing special interestsLocal events in the area […]
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I Safely Self-Managed My Abortion. More People Deserve That Option.
Ohio’s health care providers launched a new website in January. challengeTo block a new abortion restriction that was enacted in December 2021 and threatens to close down clinics across the state. The bill, which is based on misinformation, seeks to place medically unnecessary restrictions and limit the number of health care facilities that can offer […]
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Trump Admin Engaged in “Unprecedented” Actions Over 2020 Census, Documents Show
The Brennan Center has records pertaining to a lawsuitThe federal Freedom of Information Act documents reveal that the Trump administration tried to interfere with the 2020 Census in multiple ways. They went further than anyone knew, but were met with stiff resistance by career Census Bureau officials on many fronts. It was the legitimacy and […]
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Warren Calls for Increased Funding for the IRS, Which Has Been Gutted by GOP
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) is leading a call for increased funding for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), which is anticipating a “frustrating season” for taxpayers due to underfunding issues brought on by Republicans and corporate interests. Warren, Senator Jeff Merkley (D. Oregon) and 13 additional senators sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen this […]
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Pittsburgh Bridge Collapses the Same Day as Biden Infrastructure Talk in City
Friday, the same day as President Joe Biden planned to deliver a speech in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on improving the nation’s infrastructureA two-lane bridge in the center of the city collapsed, causing at least ten injuries. The collapse took place just before 7:00 am local. happened on Forbes AvenueOfficials call it an important city thoroughfare. Although […]
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Georgia Mail Ballot Restrictions Disenfranchised 45 Times More Voters Last Year
Due to a voter suppression law that was passedBy Republicans in Georgia last year, the rate of voters in the state who didn’t vote after having mail-in ballot applications rejected increased 45-fold, according to a new analysis by Mother Jones. During Georgia’s municipal elections in 2021, mail-in ballot applications were rejected at a rate that […]
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It’s Not Government’s Job to ‘Root Out’ Misinformation
After being asked by MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski about the alleged misinformation spread by the popular “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast and Facebook users, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy responded with a homily about how “we” must “root out” misleading speech. “We” don’t have to do any such thing. Government officials have no role in dictating appropriate […]
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Will We Ever Eradicate the Cancer of Identity Politics?
Monday saw the U.S. Supreme Court grant a writ of certiorari to two cases involving affirmative action, Students for Fair Admissions against Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions against University of North Carolina. The cases will be jointly argued during the next Supreme Court term, and they place directly in their crosshairs the court’s […]
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