Happy birthday to Joe Williams, 'The Emperor of the Blues'
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The month of December is chock-full of Black musicians’ birthdays and Dec. 12 is no exception, bringing birthday wishes to vocalist Dionne Warwick, drummers Tony Williams, Sheila E. and Michael Carvin, and saxophonist Grover Washington, Jr. B
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Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist, writes for The New York Times that we are now living through a “boring apocalypse.”
In a poll of Americans conducted from Dec. 3 to Dec. 6, almost all — 94 percent — had h
News Roundup: December tornadoes devastate; a 2022 prescription for the president
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The weekend is off to a very bad start. Friday night saw a horrific and unusual storm system that led to at least 30 tornadoes in six states, including one three-hour monstrosity that traveled over 200 miles through four states, leaving behind
Rep. Schiff reminds GOP colleague that Trump-Russia collusion was all too real
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Contrary to Donald Trump’s usual attempts to pulverize reality into an unrecognizable heap of dust he can power-snort directly into his fib-pickled brain, the Trump-Russia investigation was neither a witch hunt nor a hoax.
For one thing, Robert Muelle
Daily Kos Week in Action: Veterans, striking workers, democracy, and climate change
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Hello Daily Kos Community, and welcome to this new series by the Daily Kos Activism team! Each week, we’ll check in to share the issues we’re working on and get feedback on where you think we should focus our future efforts.
One of th
Twitter has a new CEO. What does that mean for harassment on the platform?
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by Reina Sultan
This article was originally published at Prism
Last week, Twitter CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey announced that he would be stepping down as the company’s CEO. In the post, Dorsey also named Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal as his s
Buffalo Starbucks workers win historic union vote, this week in the war on workers
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Starbucks workers in Buffalo made history this week by becoming the first in the U.S. to unionize at a corporate-operated store. Union representation elections were held at three Buffalo-area Starbucks stores, with three different results. Workers at th
Connect! Unite! Act! I love bad holiday movies. How about you?
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Connect! Unite! Act! is a weekly series that seeks to create face-to-face networks in each congressional district. Groups meet regularly to socialize, get out the vote, support candidates, and engage in other local political actions that help our progressive
South Carolina lawmaker indicted on multiple charges including providing child with alcohol
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Underage drinking is illegal, you’d think a lawmaker would know that, but to some, it doesn’t matter. A South Carolina lawmaker has been indicted on multiple charges after he allegedly tried to use his power to influence an investigation and provided a mi
This Maine city is 90% white, but now it's led by a Black Somali American mayor
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These last two years have been historic in terms of political representation. Across the country, Americans elected firsts to local, state, and federal seats. Our country’s leadership is slowly making its way to reflecting the diversity of its populati
Organizers in Ahmaud Arbery’s community celebrate guilty verdict and fight for systemic change
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by Neesha Powell-Ingabire
This article was originally published at Prism
I’ll never forget where I was when the first plane hit the World Trade Center: in a classroom at my high school in Brunswick, Georgia, a few feet away from a redheaded boy named
If Biden really wants to save America, he must devote 2022 to rallying around voting rights
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When Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign in spring of 2019, he laid out the stakes for the 2020 election in what was arguably one of the most inspired moments of his candidacy.
«Charlottesville, Virginia, was home to the author of one of
U.S. military member calls on Congress: 'Honor my service by not deporting my family'
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Cesar Vargas is doing his part by defending the nation as a member of the U.S. Armed Forces. He’s now asking federal legislators to do their part and defend his undocumented loved ones.
“I was undocumented,” he says in a digital ad. “T
U.S. finally ends support for overseas projects featuring coal power plants
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In the United States, the use of coal as a source of electricity has tumbled. As recently as 2008, coal created over half the electricity consumed in the country, but by 2020 that percentage had dropped to just 19%. That decline is continuing as across the na
A terrible night of storms brings destruction and death across the central U.S.
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On Saturday morning, many parts of the central United States are reporting temperatures over 30 degrees cooler than they stood on Friday afternoon. On Friday night, the energy of that difference was released in a series of severe storms that blasted cities an
Confirmed: The media is setting a gloom-and-doom tone on the economy
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The United States, along with much of the rest of the world, has been through rocky economic times thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. We’re traumatized and uncertain about the future and not sure where the economy is headed and whether we can trust any g
Steven Donziger finally released from prison, will serve remainder of sentence at home
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Human rights attorney Steven Donziger, who’s spent his career working on behalf of marginalized communities, has finally been released from prison. Donziger announced the good news on Thursday that he would finish out the remainder his six-month s
Voting Rights Roundup: Top North Carolina court halts filing, a sign it could block GOP gerrymanders
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● North Carolina: In a major sign that it is likely to eventually block Republicans' newly enacted congressional and legislative gerrymanders in a pair of pending cases, North Carolina's Democratic-leaning Supreme Court temporarily stayed candi
Abbreviated pundit roundup: Get your booster, protect your republic from subversion
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Colorado Sun:
The data are in: Coloradans who get a COVID vaccine booster are nearly 50 times less likely to be hospitalized
Coloradans who received a booster shot were 2.4 times less likely to test positive for COVID-19 than people who had been fully vacc
News Roundup: Fox holds Fellini-style War on Christmas telethon; Trump takes loss
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Hello Friday folks. It has been a tense week. There has been some good news, but unfortunately, what has been broken is very hard to piece back together again. That includes the Supreme Court, our infrastructure, and the environment. Raise a glass to Supreme
Conservatives want to ban abortion, while Build Back Better addresses the reasons people have them
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Democrats are not necessarily pro-abortion: they are pro-choice and believe that abortion should be safe and legal. President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better bill supports that by including provisions that could help reduce unwanted pregnancies by expand
Reddit and TikTok users clog job postings after Kellogg readies to replace striking union workers
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Kellogg workers began striking outside of production plants in four cities (Battle Creek, Michigan.; Omaha, Nebraska; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and Memphis, Tennessee) back in early October. About 1,400 employees initially walked out of work after Kellogg and
Court rejects GEO Group’s effort to reduce settlement won by immigrants forced to work for $1 a day
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There are few greater pleasures in life than watching GEO Group continue to lose in court. The private prison profiteer had sought to greatly reduce, and even throw out, the millions of dollars a federal jury had awarded to detained immigr
Top law firms have donated nearly $500,000 to the pro-sedition lawmakers they said they'd shut out
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In Rolling Stone, Andy Kroll reports that the pledges the nation's top law firms took—you know, those promises to stop funding Republican lawmakers who allied themselves on Jan. 6 with a seditious attempt to topple government?—have by and large
Trump's Big Lie takes another hit in Wisconsin, but Republicans just won't care
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Republicans have yet to find any evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 elections, but by gawd they keep trying, embracing failure with one state “audit” after another. The latest, an outside effort by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty co
Right-winger seems nothing short of delighted about outcry over his anti-trans picture book
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Thanks to Republicans who are absolutely desperate to stoke hysteria and stow hate by any means necessary, trans youth, who are already marginalized, face an ongoing battle for basic rights. Republicans are pushing legislation to stop trans youth from partici
Tucker thinks Jan. 6 rioter ‘RedFace45’ is ’agent provocateur,’ but in fact he’s well-known Trumpite
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Ever since a mob of pro-Trump fanatics attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Republicans and their propagandists have been frantically engaged in a gaslighting campaign to convince the public that it didn’t see what it watched unfold that day, primarily by c
David Perdue gets his election-conspiracy crazy on to woo Trump voters
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It took newly announced Georgia GOP gubernatorial candidate David Perdue less than one week to dive straight down the 2020 election conspiracy rabbit hole in search of Trump’s cultists.
After publicly asserting that he would cheat for Donald Trump at any
Jan. 6 select committee subpoenas six more people, including a Trump White House staffer
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The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has issued six new subpoenas, more evidence that it is not sitting around waiting for contempt convictions against the Trump loyalists who have defied its subpoenas.
Anti-vaxx Chronicles: COVID long-hauler changes his tune, becomes champion pro-vaxxer
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This series documents stories from the Herman Cain Awards subreddit. tracking the COVID mis- and disinformation on Facebook that is leading to so many deaths. Today’s cautionary tale is a rare hero—antivaxxer who is working hard to make amends.
Chief Justice John Roberts inadvertently makes the case for Supreme Court expansion
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Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision giving Texas abortion providers a narrow path to challenge th law was not a victory for abortion providers. It was not a victory for all the people in Texas who might get pregnant in the coming months. It
'Our City, Our Vote': NYC lawmakers pass bill giving noncitizens right to vote in local elections
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In a win for immigrants nationwide, the New York City Council voted Thursday to approve legislation that would expand the voting rights of hundreds of legal noncitizens, allowing them to partake in local elections. Easily approved by the council and advocacy
Florida man Gaetz and bag of bigotry Bannon want 4,000 ‘shock troops’ to end Democracy
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Florida GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz appeared on Steve Bannon’s podcast War Room on Thursday to rant about enlisting “4,000 shock troops” to attack their political enemies and regain control of the federal government if one-term former Presid
Trump's meddling in North Carolina's GOP Senate primary inflames Republican contest
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To some extent, Democrats’ chances of holding the Senate and perhaps even expanding on their majority will rise and fall on how brutal the GOP primaries get. That's where the endorsement of Donald Trump, which inevitably pushes every race to greater ex
Conservatives fret: Why are young liberals so intolerant of plague-spreading democracy killers?
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This poll has given conservatives a real sad.
xNearly a quarter of college students wouldn't be friends with someone who voted for the other presidential candidate — with Democrats far more likely to dismiss people than Republicans — according to n
Youngkin too inept to realize he can't pull Virginia out of carbon initiative on his own
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Virginia governor-elect Glenn Youngkin is ready to pull the plug on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). Speaking at the annual Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce meeting, the Republican said he was tired of the so-called carbon tax being p
If Democrats want to win on Build Back Better, they need to make it work for people faster
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The latest NPR/Marist poll, not to mention their very own recent experience, should make Democratic lawmakers and President Joe Biden reconsider their approach to Build Back Better (BBB) and the programs in it that will be most popular. Right now, just 4
NYPD says while hate crimes rose by 100% in 2020, anti-Asian incidents jumped 361%
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It’s no surprise that hate crimes are increasing at alarming rates across the country. Reports throughout the year have consistently noted increases in faith-, race-, and identity-based crimes nationwide. According to data compiled by the FBI, the highest l
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is running for Senate. Killing Missourians is his platform
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On Thursday, a startling announcement appeared on Facebook: “This is to inform you that the Laclede County [Missouri] Health Department has been forced to cease all COVID-19 related work at the current time. This includes: case investigations, con
