Новости за 25.01.2023

One day after Twitter brought back Nazi, white nationalist, and Taliban fan Nick Fuentes to its platform, the company was compelled to ban him; Fuentes spent his inaugural evening back on Twitter proclaiming his “love” for Hitler, talking about the Unabomber’s “salient point,” and tweeting antisemitic conspiracies about Jews secretly controlling Western governments.

Was Saturday’s mass shooting at a dance studio in Monterey Park, California, which left 11 people dead, under-covered by an uninterested media? From a historical perspective, mass shootings now occur with such frequency in the United States that they tend to fade from view with a rapidity that’s alarming in hindsight—and too often, the reason is that coverage of one mass-casualty event gets displaced by coverage of a second, following hard upon. That’s what happened in this instance, in fact: On Monday... Читать дальше...

“God. Guns. Gas stoves,” tweeted Republican Congressman Jim Jordan last week. A suggestion on January 9 from Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka that gas stoves might be regulated, due to recent research on health risks, had launched a fierce culture war, with conservatives anointing the methane-leaking appliances as icons of American liberty. “If the maniacs in the White House come for my gas stove,” tweeted Jordan’s congressional colleague Ronny Jackson, “they can pry it from... Читать дальше...

In the midst of this winter’s so-called “tripledemic” of flu, Covid, and RSV, millions of workers will face a dismal dilemma: show up to work sick or spend the day off wrangling the American medical system in all its high co-pay glory. For these workers, there is no third option of simply staying home to rest and recover.

When Arizona Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema was at Davos high-fiving Senator Joe Manchin over their mutual vow to protect the filibuster, she may have actually given Congressman Ruben Gallego a boost. Gallego was days away from announcing his candidacy for Sinema’s seat as a Democrat. The Arizona congressman knew Sinema’s appearance at the World Economic Forum cavorting with the neoliberal overclass only helped his case.

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is under fire for his comments about Jamal Khashoggi, the The Washington Post journalist who was brutally murdered by agents of the Saudi Arabian regime in 2018.