Новости за 31.08.2022

The room in San Jose, California, went quiet when Perla Hernandez spoke about the trials she’d faced working at a Burger King in Campbell, near the southernmost edge of Silicon Valley. One afternoon, she said through a translator, she heard two people yelling in front of her restaurant. When she went outside to see what was happening, one of the men pulled a machete and raised it over his head to strike the other person. The sight was especially terrifying for Hernandez, as it invoked a childhood... Читать дальше...

Last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that had sailed through a legislature controlled by a supermajority of his fellow Democrats. He then got immediately to work lying his ass off about why he had rebuked his colleagues in this fashion: “While I have long supported the cutting edge of harm reduction strategies,” he wrote, “I am acutely concerned about the operations of safe injection sites without strong, engaged local leadership and well-documented, vetted, and thoughtful... Читать дальше...

A weird thing about President Biden’s student loan relief order last week is that the debate surrounding it is mostly about the policy itself. A few commentators and elected officials have questioned the order’s legality, to be sure. But a considerably greater portion of the debate instead revolves around the policy’s perceived merits or drawbacks. For once, legal and constitutional concerns have taken a back seat to centrists hawking about inflation and Republicans accusing the administration of offering freebies to layabouts. Читать дальше...

Cheri Thompson was working at the flower shop when I called to talk about Seeley Lake’s sewer situation. “I call it The Conflict,” Thompson said. Seeley Lake, a rural blue-collar community in northwest Montana with just over 1,500 inhabitants, has been split in two by a seemingly pedestrian plumbing dispute that’s become a microcosm of a nationwide water crisis.

In the past few months, a select group of Republicans received glossy booklets from Florida Senator Rick Scott, who currently serves as the chairman of the GOP’s Senate campaign arm. The 15-page pamphlet is a glossy articulation of Scott’s policy stances, which extend beyond the 2022 campaign trail to touch on immigration, “color blind equality,” religious liberty, “America First,” and “economy/growth.” It is, essentially, a rehash of Scott’s February “11 point plan to rescue America,” which on... Читать дальше...