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• 5 DailyKos Headlines
• Mar 2, 2021 Morning Digest: These are the top 10 state supreme court battles of the coming cycle The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. Leading Off ● State Supreme Courts: In...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Mar 2, 2021 Abbreviated pundit roundup: The Republican attacks on the right to vote Knowing that they are losing America’s support in the policy marketplace of ideas, Republicans are working feverishly post-election to attack the right to vote. We begin today’s roundup on this issue with analysis from Eugene Robinson at The Washington Post: The Republican Party’s...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Mar 2, 2021 Supreme Court will hear the case that could shred the remains of the Voting Rights Act this week The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a critical challenge to what's left of the Voting Rights Act after the Chief Justice John Roberts' majority decision in 2013 carved out the core of the law. At issue Tuesday are two Arizona laws, one requiring election officials to toss ballots that are cast in...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Mar 2, 2021 New photos could prove Oath Keepers' ‘reaction force’ with weapons just outside Capitol on Jan. 6 A local Virginia news outlet is publishing previously unseen photos taken by staff in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6. The images reportedly show a group of men “loitering near the Marine Corps War Memorial,” with a view of the Capitol building. According to the report, the...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Mar 2, 2021 Biden makes 'almost unprecedented' show of support for union organizing in tweeted video President Joe Biden made a historic statement in favor of workers’ right to organize and against employer intimidation of workers in a video released Sunday evening. “I made it clear when I was running, that my administration’s policy would be to support unions organizing and the right...     5 DailyKos Headlines        more   
• Daily Beast
• Mar 2, 2021 Democrats Are Learning Fast Why Being in Power Can Suck Drew Angerer/GettyIt sounds so easy: Kamala Harris just has to ignore the parliamentarian’s ruling that the minimum wage increase doesn’t belong in the COVID relief bill, and just like that, the minimum wage increase happens. So why don’t these feckless Senate Democrats—and the Senate...     Daily Beast        more   
• Mar 1, 2021 The Only Way Forward Is to Drain the Swamp and Lock Trump and His Gang Up Olivier Douliery/GettyThere’s only one way to restore a cynical and traumatized majority’s faith in the rule of law and the Department of Justice, and that’s to drain the GOP swamp, hold Trump accountable for his numerous crimes, and—to quote from Gladiator—“unleash hell” on his...     Daily Beast        more   
• Mar 1, 2021 Cuomo Was Always New York’s Bad Guy. Here’s Why He Was Finally Exposed. Pacific PressI do sometimes wonder why it took so long.Why is it now, in 2021, that so many people are finally waking up to the reality of Andrew Cuomo? A year ago, he was elevated to the status of hero and myth, so absurdly lauded—the magazine covers, the self-declared Cuomosexuals, the Emmy,...     Daily Beast        more   
• Mar 1, 2021 Teleprompter Trump Is the Most Tired Act in America Joe Raedle/GettyBy Day Three of the CPAC conference, I usually want to die, just because watching all the propaganda and self-aggrandizement is exhausting and also sort of weirdly soul-crushing. But this year there was a kind of anxiety that I’ve never felt, because the former guy or the 45th...     Daily Beast        more   
• Mother Jones Politics
• Mar 2, 2021 Amazon Has Become a Prime Revolving-Door Destination in Washington Everything about Amazon is big. It’s the second-biggest retailer in the world. Its founder, Jeff Bezos, possesses the biggest fortune in the world. And the company has developed a big revolving door in Washington through which government officials and employees whisk and land in well-paying...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Mar 2, 2021 How Inequity Gets Built Into America’s Vaccination System This story was published in partnership with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published. It’s a fact that simply being eligible for a vaccine in...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Mar 1, 2021 Even With the Proposed Wealth Tax, Billionaires Would Get Richer Faster Than Everyone Else On Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Reps. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) and Brendan Boyle (D-Penn.), rolled out a new version of the ultrawealth tax plan she proposed during her 2020 presidential campaign. This seemed inevitable, given that billionaires’ wealth has soared...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Mar 1, 2021 Sheryl Sandberg and Top Facebook Execs Silenced an Enemy of Turkey to Prevent a Hit to the Company’s Business This story was originally published by ProPublica. As Turkey launched a military offensive against Kurdish minorities in neighboring Syria in early 2018, Facebook’s top executives faced a political dilemma. Turkey was demanding the social media giant block Facebook posts from the People’s...     Mother Jones Politics        more   
• Slate
• Mar 2, 2021 Georgia House Passes Very Real Voting Access Rollback Based on Republican Election Fiction Republicans eroded their own trust. Now they’re using it to justify voter suppression.     Slate        more   
• Mar 2, 2021 Help! My Sister Is Secretly Dating a Celebrity and Is Terrified People Will Find Out. His employers only recently allowed her to disclose his identity to her family.     Slate        more   
• Mar 2, 2021 My Otherwise Sweet MIL Has Unbelievably Bad Body Odor Parenting advice on hygiene, therapy, and competitive neighbors.     Slate        more   
• The Nation
• Mar 2, 2021 The US Reaches 500,000 Deaths From the Coronavirus Andrea Arroyo The pandemic is disproportionately impacting communities of color. The post The US Reaches 500,000 Deaths From the Coronavirus appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Mar 2, 2021 Happy 90th Birthday, Mr. Gorbachev Archie Brown Future generations of Russians will surely recognize the magnitude of his achievements and honor the man who broke with an authoritarian and totalitarian past. The post Happy 90th Birthday, Mr. Gorbachev appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Mar 2, 2021 $15 an Hour Is the Compromise John Nichols Biden and the Democrats need to deliver on the wage hike they promised—by any means necessary. Anything less is a moral and political failure. The post $15 an Hour Is the Compromise appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• Mar 2, 2021 Even Blue States Suppress Student Voters Najwa Jamal The ongoing struggle to diminish the student vote in New York’s 19th Congressional District, a purple patch of the Hudson Valley, has echoes nationwide. The post Even Blue States Suppress Student Voters appeared first on The Nation.     The Nation        more   
• The Hill
• Mar 2, 2021 Merck to help make Johnson & Johnson vaccine President Biden will announce Tuesday that Merck will help make Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine, administration officials said, a partnership between rival companies that could help produce more doses.John...     The Hill        more   
• Mar 2, 2021 Journalism watchdog files criminal complaint against Saudi crown prince The journalism watchdog group Reporters without Borders on Monday filed a criminal complaint in Germany against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other officials over the murder of U.S.-based journalist ...     The Hill        more   
• Mar 2, 2021 Media advocacy group: Saudi crown prince committed crimes against humanity in Khashoggi killing A media advocacy group is accusing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of committing crimes against humanity in connection with the 2018 killing of Jamal Khashoggi and the prosecution of other journalists.Report...     The Hill        more   
• Mar 2, 2021 Emissions from energy production rise slightly in December The amount of energy-related carbon dioxide emitted into the world's atmosphere ticked up in December after months of decline during the coronavirus pandemic, according to new research.The International Energy Agen...     The Hill        more   
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