The Chronicle of Higher Education is compiling a list college and universities that are requiring vaccination for at least some students and faculty for the coming school year.
See if you can see a pattern.
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s resignation came after more than a week of bad news, starting with a damning report from the state attorney general’s office that detailed his sexual harassment of 11 women, some of whom worked in his office. An executive assistant to Cuomo, Brittany Commisso, filed a criminal complaint against him with the Albany County sheriff’s office. The state Legislature readied impeachment proceedings. Continue reading “Complicity And Silence Around Sexual Harassment Are Common. Cuomo And His Protectors Were A Textbook Example”
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My second grader’s almond-shaped brown eyes widened over the doubled-up N95 and cloth masks I’d instructed her and her older sister to wear that day. There, in the foyer of her school, stood her unmasked principal, greeting the hundreds of families who were flocking to a July 29 open house. Continue reading “My Kids’ School Won’t Reinstate Masks Despite A Recent Surge In COVID Cases. Here’s What I Chose To Do.”
A billion-dollar Sword of Damocles continues to hang over the heads of some of Donald Trump’s closest allies.
Continue reading “Judge Greenlights Dominion’s $1.3B Lawsuits Against Rudy, Powell, MyPillow Guy”
House and Senate committees are getting a clearer picture of the depth and breadth of former President Trump’s campaign to enlist the Justice Department in his effort to overturn the results of last year’s election.
Continue reading “More Alarming Details Emerge About The Extent Of The Coup Campaign At DOJ”
As we’ve discussed a number of times, Republican leaders made a clear decision over the winter of 2020-21 to embrace and cater to anti-vax, anti-mandate sentiment to supercharge their midterm election odds. I’ve seen some debate over whether GOP elites convinced GOP voters or GOP voters dragged along the elites. I think it’s a bit of both but mainly a non-issue. Unsurprisingly, elected officials and voters in a political party tend to think in similar ways. They decided to become the anti-vax party and thus helped usher in the fourth COVID wave.
But something happened on the way to the party: the Delta variant.
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things.
The Census Bureau will release its redistricting data today, kicking off the inevitable fight over partisan gerrymandering ahead of the 2022 elections.
The Texas House sergeant-at-arms on Wednesday delivered civil arrest warrants to the legislative offices of the 52 Democrats who ran from the state to stall Republicans’ anti-voting legislation. House Speaker Dade Phelan (R) had signed the warrants the day before.
House sergeant at arms just delivered a warrant for Ina Minjarez at her Capitol office. They’re walking around to the offices of all 52 House Dems with warrants delivering them now. #txlege pic.twitter.com/cYtF6CDO60
— Morgan O'Hanlon (@mcohanlon) August 11, 2021
This is them serving that arrest warrant at Houston @RepThierry146’s office at the Capitol. @KHOU pic.twitter.com/plabRDxxHR
— Janelle Bludau (@JanelleKHOU) August 11, 2021
TODAY: The House Sergeant-at-Arms is delivering the civil arrest warrants to the offices of House Democrats still breaking quorum. This is when he walked into Rep. @Senfronia4Texas’ office. She wasn’t there, but one of her staffers was. @KXAN_News #txlege pic.twitter.com/tmXJmDO0BZ
— Maggie Glynn (@maggie_glynn1) August 11, 2021
This Washington Post story gets into how an onslaught of threats sparked by Trump’s lies about the election has election workers scared for their safety, and many are thinking about quitting before 2024.
Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL): "People are gonna look back and they say, 'You know what, Florida stood by its kids.'"
(Florida currently has the highest rate of children hospitalized with COVID in the U.S.) pic.twitter.com/Jntq3uUr3z
— The Recount (@therecount) August 11, 2021
New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), who’s gearing up to take the reins once accused sexual harasser Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) leaves office in less than two weeks, promises that “no one will ever describe my administration as a toxic work environment” and that she would get rid of any “unethical” Cuomo staffers.
“At the end of my term, whenever it ends, no one will ever describe my administration as a ‘toxic’ work environment,” New York Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul says regarding AG report against Gov. Andrew Cuomo. https://t.co/070yJ4GKze pic.twitter.com/PNhfxC9d1X
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) August 11, 2021
By the way, Times Union editor Casey Seiler in Albany notes that there’s a dam ready to break now that the governor’s on his way out:
Do you people have any idea how many stories about @NYGovCuomo are going to come out once he loses the vast retaliatory powers of the Executive Chamber?
— Casey Seiler (@CaseySeiler) August 11, 2021
More than 45 candidates have crawled to Trump’s properties in the months after he left office, according to analysis by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a government watchdog group.
“The Insurrectionists in the Boardroom” – Insider
Ex-Human Health and Services secretary Alex Azar has been given a plum adjunct professor gig at the University of Miami.
During a 2018 interview, Rudy Giuliani told investigators from the Justice Department inspector general’s office that it’s normal to lie in electoral politics, saying twice that “you could throw a fake.” The interview was part of the inspector general’s investigation into whether Giuliani had been getting leaks from the FBI on James Comey’s Clinton email probe.
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Multiple local county school boards and superintendents have been pushing back against state-level Republican bans on school mask requirements as students prepare to return to their classrooms in the fall.
Meanwhile, Republicans’ war on masks has led to a pressure cooker situation where school board meetings looking at mask policies have been disrupted by furious anti-mask protesters who shout down board members and health officials in attendance.
The bubbling tension serves as an illustration of the depth of the U.S.’s vaccine divide — a place where public health best-practice meets outrage over personal freedom, as the Delta variant rips through under-vaccinated communities and the half-vaccinated country heads into what could be a deadly fall.
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The Biden administration reportedly sent 200 ventilators and 100 nasal oxygen kits to the state of Florida this week as the state sees an unprecedented spike in COVID-19 cases. As we’ve reported, the number of people hospitalized with the virus increased by 1,173 just in the last two days — putting the total number of confirmed hospitalizations in the Sunshine state at 14,787.
But Gov. Ron DeSantis claims he didn’t ask the feds for the life-saving equipment.
