As India is in the midst of a massive Covid-19 outbreak, President Biden announced that the United States will be sending aid in the form of supplies to manufacture the vaccine, funding for vaccine manufacturers and medical equipment. “Just as India sent assistance to the United States as our hospitals …
Read More »House Democrats Introduce Sweeping Expansion of LGBTQ Civil Rights
Congressional Democrats introduced broad legislation that would establish the first federal LGBTQ anti-discrimination protections, called the Equality Act, on Thursday. During his presidential campaign, President Joe Biden promised to prioritize the act’s passage within his first 100 days in office. “In 2021, every American should be treated with respect and …
Read More »Biden: United States Will Have Enough Vaccine Supply for Every American by End of July
President Joe Biden said the United States has now purchased enough coronavirus vaccine to inoculate 300 million Americans by the end of July. While at the National Institutes of Health on Thursday, Biden announced that the U.S. has secured an additional 200 million vaccine doses from pharmaceutical companies Moderna and …
Read More »Biden Administration 'Taking Steps' to Put Harriet Tubman on $20 Bill
The Biden administration is “exploring ways to speed up” the release of new $20 bills bearing the likeness of abolitionist Harriet Tubman, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in a briefing. The bill’s debut had been reportedly slowed by the Trump administration. “The Treasury Department is taking steps to …
Read More »Democrats Have a Plan to Start Rebuilding American Democracy. Can They Get It Done?
WASHINGTON — From the moment President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are sworn in at noon on Wednesday, they will face multiple and intertwined crises. A raging pandemic that has now killed more than 400,000 Americans. A deeply unequal economic crash that has claimed millions of jobs while …
Read More »Graham Warns McConnell: GOP Won't Survive Impeachment
On the same day that the American voters’ voices were actualized, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham warned GOP leadership not to burn their outgoing president if they want to “survive.” Wednesday on Fox, Graham was asked about Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell’s recent remarks that blamed former president Trump for the …
Read More »Jared and Ivanka Aren't Sharing Toilets With People Who've Agreed to Die for Them
The Secret Service who’ve pledged to give their lives to protect Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have for years been instructed not to use any of the seven bathrooms in the Trump/Kushner home. Instead, the Secret Service has spent $100,000 in taxpayer money to rent a $3,000-per-month basement studio apartment …
Read More »'Deeply Disturbing and Alarming': World Leaders Condemn MAGA Insurrection
Amid Trump supporters’ siege on the Capitol building — an invasion that halted the Electoral College vote and forced members of Congress to go into lockdown — world leaders and organizations reacted to the assault on American democracy on social media. “Disgraceful scenes in U.S. Congress,” U.K. Prime Minister Boris …
Read More »Monument Glorifying Civil War Traitor Removed From U.S. Capitol
A monument honoring the traitor Robert E. Lee was removed overnight from the U.S. Capitol. The statue of Lee, who commanded Confederate forces in the rebellion waged to preserve the institution of slavery in the South, had been a fixture in the federal Statuary Hall collection for more than a …
Read More »What You Missed if You Missed the Georgia Senate Debates
Georgians are poised this January to decide the balance of power in the Senate and shape the trajectory of the Biden presidency in a pair of wildly competitive Senate runoff races. On Sunday night in Georgia, three of the four candidates running showed up to debate: Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler …
Read More »