04 November 19
Elizabeth Warren's Plan Is a Massive Win for the Medicare for All Movement
Ady Barkan, The Intercept
Barkan writes: "The plan that Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren just released is an enormous win for us. It will help persuade our friends and families and neighbors to support Medicare for All, and in the not-too-distant future, to convince Congress too."
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Acting White House budget director Russell Vought speaks on the transparency of federal guidance and enforcement. (photo: Jabin Botsford/WP)
Ady Barkan, The Intercept
Barkan writes: "The plan that Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren just released is an enormous win for us. It will help persuade our friends and families and neighbors to support Medicare for All, and in the not-too-distant future, to convince Congress too."
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Acting White House budget director Russell Vought speaks on the transparency of federal guidance and enforcement. (photo: Jabin Botsford/WP)
Mulvaney Allies to Try to Stonewall Democrats' Impeachment Inquiry
Rachael Bade, Josh Dawsey and Erica Werner, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Budget chief and other top aides will attempt to create a firewall after other senior officials gave testimony that questioned Trump's motivations."
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Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman. (photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
Rachael Bade, Josh Dawsey and Erica Werner, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Budget chief and other top aides will attempt to create a firewall after other senior officials gave testimony that questioned Trump's motivations."
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Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman. (photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images)
Trump Threatens to Expose Information on Vindman
Audrey McNamara, The Daily Beast
McNamara writes: "Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to threaten to expose information on Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the decorated veteran who reportedly testified that the president omitted certain key words and phrases from the White House's memo of the Ukraine phone call at the center of an impeachment inquiry."
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Audrey McNamara, The Daily Beast
McNamara writes: "Donald Trump on Sunday appeared to threaten to expose information on Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the decorated veteran who reportedly testified that the president omitted certain key words and phrases from the White House's memo of the Ukraine phone call at the center of an impeachment inquiry."
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MORPH from the series Sweetie & Hansom, 2015. (photo: New Republic)
Moving Beyond Misogyny: Why Do They Hate Us?
Liza Featherstone, The New Republic
Featherstone writes: "The banner of anti-misogyny has proved politically limited even in its ability to nail the worst perpetrators."
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Liza Featherstone, The New Republic
Featherstone writes: "The banner of anti-misogyny has proved politically limited even in its ability to nail the worst perpetrators."
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An image from the The Greensboro Massacre. (photo: Greensboro News and Record)
The Massacre That Spawned the Alt-Right
Shaun Assael and Peter Keating, Politico
Excerpt: "Forty years ago, a gang of Klansmen and Nazis murdered five communists in broad daylight. America has never been the same."
Shaun Assael and Peter Keating, Politico
Excerpt: "Forty years ago, a gang of Klansmen and Nazis murdered five communists in broad daylight. America has never been the same."
Before Greensboro, America’s most lurid extremists largely operated in separate, mutually distrustful spheres. Greensboro was the place where the farthest-right groups of white supremacy learned to kill together. After November 3, 1979, it was suddenly possible to imagine Confederate flags flying alongside swastikas in Charlottesville. Or a teenager like Dylann Roof hoarding Nazi drawings as well as a Klan hood in his bedroom while he plotted mass murder.
Today, white nationalism is closer to the mainstream of American politics than ever before. The far right’s fears about “replacement” of the white race and outsider “invasions” have become standard tropes at conservative media outlets, and its anger is routinely stoked by the president of the United States. At the same time, right-wing violence is on the rise: Far-right terrorists accounted for the overwhelming majority of extremist murders in the U.S. last year, according to a January report by the Anti-Defamation League.
The seeds for this iteration of white supremacy were planted 40 years ago in Greensboro, when the white wedding of Klansmen and Nazis launched a new, pan-right extremism—a toxic brew of virulent racism, anti-government rhetoric, apocalyptic fearmongering and paramilitary tactics. And this extremism has proven more durable than anyone then could imagine.
Monica Toro Lisciandro, left, with her partner, Natalia Dick. (photo: Monica Toro Lisciandro)
Florida Teacher Condemns 'Hypocrisy' of School That Fired Her for Being Gay
Richard Luscombe, Guardian UK
Luscombe writes: "A Florida teacher has attacked the 'hypocrisy' of a private Christian school that fired her for being gay, then insisted she stick around to teach one more class after giving her a lecture about the sin of homosexuality."
Richard Luscombe, Guardian UK
Luscombe writes: "A Florida teacher has attacked the 'hypocrisy' of a private Christian school that fired her for being gay, then insisted she stick around to teach one more class after giving her a lecture about the sin of homosexuality."
EXCERPT:
“We live in a moment when the supreme court has ruled definitively in support of marriage equality but, where there are no local protections against discrimination, people can put a picture of their legal married partner, their husband or wife, on their desk and be fired for it.
“Or, in the case of Monica, go to a Pride event and stand with their community, and come into work the next day and be told that they’re immoral and lose their livelihoods because of it.”
Saunders said his group has been trying for years to get protections for LBGTQ workers through Florida’s Republican-controlled legislature, and would try again next year.
According to Step Up for Students, a state-approved not-for-profit group, 118 of Covenant Christian’s 283 enrolled students have their tuition fees of up to $7,734 annually met by Florida’s tax credit scholarship program. Additionally, the school also accepts taxpayer-funded scholarships from two other state programs, potentially worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
“The legislature could act tomorrow and say that if you are a private religious school receiving public education dollars it’s illegal for you to discriminate against teachers and students,” Saunders said.
Spraying chemicals on rice crop in Japan. (photo: Stockbyte/Getty Images)
Japanese Fisheries Collapsed Due to Pesticides, New Research Says
Jordan Davidson, EcoWatch
Davidson writes: "Scientists announced today that pesticide use on rice fields led to the collapse of a nearby fishery in Lake Shinji, Japan, according to a new study published in the journal Science."
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Jordan Davidson, EcoWatch
Davidson writes: "Scientists announced today that pesticide use on rice fields led to the collapse of a nearby fishery in Lake Shinji, Japan, according to a new study published in the journal Science."
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