In the early days of the presidential campaign in 2019, long before the pandemic and the George Floyd protests and the insurrection at the Capitol, President Joe Biden praised two former senators, both of whom were ardent segregationists. He cited his relationships with Mississippi’s James Eastland and Georgia’s Herman Talmadge as proof of his ability to get along with his political and ideological opponents.
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“A victory for animals.” That’s what philosopher Peter Singer, a luminary of the animal protection movement, called it last week when Utah’s Governor Spencer Cox signed into law Bill 147, which mandates that all eggs produced in Utah be produced by cage-free chickens by 2025. With the law, Utah joins eight other states, including California, Colorado, and Massachusetts, that have gone cage-free in recent years. “This is a particularly exciting moment for us,” the Humane Society of the United States... Читать дальше...
In the new docuseries Dancing With the Devil: The Art of Starting Over, which airs on Demi Lovato’s YouTube channel today and precedes the release of her new album on April 2, the singer and actor recounts her narrow survival of her adolescence and young adulthood. This is the former child star’s bid for control of her reputation following a near-fatal drug overdose in 2018, which caused multiple strokes, a heart attack, and brain damage that continues to affect her vision. Her friends also appear... Читать дальше...
In a sleepy virtual hearing on Monday, New Jersey Democrat Frank Pallone—chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee—introduced former Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz as the first witness to talk about his sprawling infrastructure proposal, the LIFT America Act. As Moniz declared in a standard disclosure prior to the hearing, he also serves on the board of Southern Company, a vertically integrated for-profit electric utility. Pallone, in turn, has gotten $12,500 worth of campaign contributions... Читать дальше...
One of the more surprising resignation letters in recent history was published on the day of President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Posted on Telegram by Ron Watkins, a website administrator who emerged as a major force in the disinformation campaign around Dominion Voting Systems and the false narrative of a stolen election, the letter was shockingly tepid for a trollish, Trump-supporting info-warrior. It read: “We gave it our all.… We have a new president sworn in and it is our responsibility as citizens to respect the Constitution. Читать дальше...
When Ana Sharp Williamson came home from her honeymoon in the summer of 2019, she moved in with her husband and began the process of deciding which church they should go to. She didn’t want to go to her childhood church, so decided to go to his until they found the right fit. It was only 15 minutes away from their home in Independence, Missouri.
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The exit of an editor in chief at Teen Vogue isn’t the kind of thing that usually gets international media pickup, but the brief tenure of Alexi McCammond—whose hiring and resignation at the magazine took place within the span of a month—is an almost lab-perfect story for right-wing churn. Fox News declared, “Even Anna Wintour couldn’t save Alexi McCammond from cancel culture,” and the Daily Mail published paparazzi shots of the 27-year-old with a headline announcing she had been spotted outside... Читать дальше...
