Florida detention facility's terrible human rights record gets even worse
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A number of people were hospitalized after falling ill from carbon monoxide poisoning at a Florida detention facility that was criticized just weeks ago for its routine use of toxic chemicals. Miami New Times reports that four immigrants and&nb
Justice Department files second voting lawsuit against Texas in less than a month over redistricting
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In less than a month, the Justice Department has filed its second lawsuit against Texas’ voting practices, specifically its redistricting maps. The complaint was announced on Monday along with a press conference in which Attorney General Merrick Garland con
Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Hero daughter fights to save her parents from COVID misinformation
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Facebook is a menace. COVID-19 is a menace. Conservatism is a cesspool. Together, those three ingredients have created a toxic stew of malevolent death and devastation. We can talk about all those things in the abstract, look at the numbers and statistics, an
Gillibrand leads fight to overhaul military justice, but 'a handful of powerful men' are in the way
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A major overhaul of how the military prosecutes many types of crimes has the support of a majority of members of Congress—even clearing the Senate’s 60-vote filibuster threshold. But it’s likely to be dramatically scaled back in the $768 billi
Rep. Devin Nunes announces he's moooooooooving on from Congress
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Republican Rep. Devin Nunes of California took time away from suing parody Twitter accounts to leak a rumor that he will not seek another elected position after 2022. First, KMJ NOW reported Nunes would be retiring from Congress after 2022. Then, Fo
Alabama Power picks lazy, dangerous method to close coal ash pond filled with carcinogens
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An Alabama fossil fuel plant plans to close its coal ash pond and use a controversial “cap-in-place” method to prevent its carcinogenic contents from contaminating the surrounding environment. Alabama Power’s James M. Barry Electric Generatin
Last week was a truly horrible week for asylum-seekers and U.S. asylum law
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Last week was a truly horrible week for asylum-seekers. On Thursday, the Biden administration announced it had reached an agreement with the Mexican government to restart Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), more commonly known as Remain in Mexico. This follow
Schumer pushes to finish Build Back Better while Republicans, Manchin, and Sinema balk
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer informed Senate Democrats Monday that it’s full steam ahead on passing Build Back Better in the next two weeks. ”[O]ur goal in the Senate is to pass the legislation before Christmas and get it to the presiden
Texas realtor and convicted insurrectionist looks forward to prison as weight-loss and yoga retreat
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Jenna Ryan, the insurrectionist who flew in on a charted private jet in order to participate in an act of treason at our nation’s Capitol building on Jan. 6, is going to jail soon. You may remember Ryan as the Texas MAGA real estate broker who sai
Former neighbor previously contacted child services regarding Michigan shooter and parents
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Information about the Oxford High School shooter in Michigan continues to surface as conversations about gun violence in schools are in high gear across the country, with experts, parents, school faculty and lawmakers alike discussing ways thi
Get ready for GOP slings and arrows in Georgia—Perdue is primarying Gov. Kemp at Trump's behest
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Donald Trump is the gift that keeps on giving to Georgia Democrats. Trump’s incessant whining about nonexistent 2020 election fraud helped depress GOP turnout in the January Senate runoffs and create an opening for two Democrats to claim the seats.
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'I deserve citizenship': DACA recipient makes power plea for relief in new ad
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A young undocumented immigrant is making a powerful and heart-wrenching plea for permanent relief in a new ad set to run on major networks in the coming weeks.
Miryam, a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient, says that since chil
Government is funded, so on to the next Republican-caused crisis: The debt ceiling
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The government is funded as of last Thursday despite ridiculous Republican tricks, leaving Congress to get on with the next bunch of ridiculous antics, like raising or suspending the debt limit in the next eight days. The Treasury Department says th
‘He was dangerous and they gave him a weapon’: More warning signs connected to Michigan shooter
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Information about the Oxford High School shooter in Michigan continues to surface as conversations about gun violence in schools are in high gear across the country, with experts, parents, school faculty and lawmakers alike discussing ways thi
Out of the government shutdown frying pan, into the debt ceiling fire for this week in Congress
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The government is funded as of last Thursday despite ridiculous Republican tricks, leaving Congress to get on with the next bunch of ridiculous antics, like raising or suspending the debt limit in the next eight days. The Treasury Department says th
'I am tired of being afraid': DACA recipient makes powerful plea for immigration relief in new ad
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A young undocumented immigrant is making a powerful and heart-wrenching plea for permanent relief in a new ad set to run on major networks in the coming weeks.
Miryam, a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient, says that since chil
Feds bust dozens in 'modern-day slavery' operation, migrant held at gunpoint on Georgia farms
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After three years and the efforts of a multi-agency investigation, dozens of victims of human trafficking are free from the fetters of “modern-day slavery” on South Georgia farms.
The over 100 victims were smuggled from Mexico, Guatemala, and Hondu
Republican leaders have gotten their wish: Their own base is now dying from COVID-19
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We've long known that the national COVID-19 pandemic has been transforming into a predominantly Republican disease, with infections in Republican-voting, Republican-governed counties far outstripping those in less Republican regions. We also know that anti-ma
Former D.C. National Guard official accuses Army general of 'outright perjury' over Jan. 6
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A former D.C. National Guard official blasted the Pentagon inspector general’s report on the military’s response to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol and directly accused two top generals of lying about their role in the delays deploying the Nati
COVID-19 death rates are now several times higher in Republican counties than Democratic ones
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We've long known that the national COVID-19 pandemic has been transforming into a predominantly Republican disease, with infections in Republican-voting, Republican-governed counties far outstripping those in less Republican regions. We also know that anti-ma
Morning Digest: Washington court accepts redistricting board's new maps, even though they came late
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Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Omicron, SCOTUS and media reluctance to face GOP anti-democratic forces
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NY Times:
Vaccine demand grows in the U.S. and so do wait times.
Many vaccination clinics and local officials are reporting long lines and delays in booking vaccination appointments recently, the product of expanded eligibility on booster shots and fears o
News Roundup: Omicron, Tucker, and Marjorie (sigh) Taylor Greene, yet again
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In the news today: The omicron variant of COVID-19. Tucker Carlson's dangerous demonization of supposed enemies apparently is something for the cameras, because in his personal life? Different story. And Marjorie Taylor Greene continues to make the nation wor
For Muslim eco-activists, protesting the L3 Minnesota pipeline is a religious responsibility
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by Tasmiha Khan
This story was originally published at Prism.
Coverage of the fight against climate change in the U.S. often ignores the efforts of Muslim activists, for whom caring for the environment is a religious obligation. However, Muslims have be
KosAbility: Internalized ableism is a consequence of an ableist society. Let's dismantle both
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Ableism is pervasive in society, accepted as normal and “how things are,” because too many people are oblivious to the myriad ways systemic ableism determines how we build out human spaces and interact. Even if you aren’t d
Nuts & Bolts—Inside a Democratic campaign: It's okay to be human
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Welcome back to the weekly Nuts & Bolts Guide to small campaigns. I’ve written about rest in campaigns and why I think it is important. Today I want to talk about rest and ease, and what both can offer potential voters when candidates embrace
Trump may self-publish memoir to prevent 'humiliation' of getting smaller advance than Obama
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After normal presidents stop presidenting, they’re typically deluged with offers from major publishing houses for the right to release their memoirs. But judging from the blowback The Wall Street Journal received after publishing Donald Trump’s recen
What went wrong in America’s record-low refugee admissions? Not just Trump
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by Aysha Khan
This article was originally published at Prism.
The Biden White House has ended its first fiscal year with a stunning new record: admitting the lowest number of refugees to the U.S. ever since the Refugee Act passed in 1980.
Refugee advoc
Rep. Eric Swalwell reminds us who really has the right to complain when it comes to COVID-19
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Even though I’m not a parent (you can thank me later, nonexistent kids who were never forced to explain my Igloo cooler-sized head and piquant yeti musk to your friends and classmates), I feel every bit of this mini-Twitter thread from Rep. Eric Swalwe
How the right corrupted the idea of 'freedom' to promote its racist agenda
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As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded we’ve heard an awful lot from the right—a near-constant refrain, in fact—about their “freedom.” The word itself has become a shibboleth, wielded like a bludgeon against any attempts to rein in the virus: Vaccin
Forget horse paste. Anti-vaxxers are now literally eating dirt to stay healthy
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What else might people do to prevent COVID-19—aside from taking a free, safe, effective, FDA-approved vaccine? Horse paste was all the rage for a while. Bleach injections never really took off, despite the ocher abomination’s imprimatur. Oh, I k
Afghan refugees call for a clearer path to citizenship
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by Alexandra Martinez
This article was originally published at Prism
When humanitarian parole passed the House of Representatives last month as part of President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better package, it was a tentative win for organizers working wit
Debt collectors can now slide into your DMs as Trump social media rule takes effect
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During the Trump administration, amongst all of the many terrible things being done in order to line the wealthiest Americans’ pockets at the expense of the rest of us, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed new rules as an update to the 40-
Marjorie Taylor Greene wonders why we never closed schools or businesses because of cancer
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Oh, what fresh hell is this? The last I checked, this aimless tangle of glitching neurons held a seat in the U.S. Congress. If we can’t actually administer IQ tests as a prerequisite for serving in the House of Representatives, can we at least biopsy their
Reproductive rights advocates sound alarm after Supreme Court hears Mississippi abortion case
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by Alexandra Martinez
This article was originally published at Prism
The landmark U.S. abortion rights case Roe v. Wade is in jeopardy. The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center Wednesday morning, and reproductiv
He put the R in rock 'n' roll: Remembering Little Richard
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As the end of 2021 draws near, I have been thinking about jazz and soul musicians we lost this year While browsing through the memorial tribute I wrote in 2020, which was headed with this photo, I realized that I have never featured Richard Wayne Pe
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Paul Krugman of The New York Times says that Republicans are “actively working to make the country ungovernable.”
To some extent it surely reflects a coldly cynical political calculation. Voters tend to blame whichever p
Community Spotlight: Woo-hoo (and farewell)! Rescued stories now live on the front page
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The technical experts who keep Daily Kos humming take a lot of flak from us, but they do listen to Community gripes, devise solutions, and then implement them. Tonight, let’s shout our gratitude and appreciation for their efforts, which often occur wit
Georgia election workers sue Gateway Pundit over false accusations of election fraud
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When Infowars and Alex Jones were slapped with a default judgment for their years-long smearing of the Sandy Hook families in October, I believed that it would likely have the effect of putting them out of business. Now it looks like another deplora
Ready to resist and not sure where to start? Our new activism roundup is here for you
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