ELEPHANT NEWS ~ SEPTEMBER 2021

• Texas male maskhole charged with biting hospital security guard’s thumb to the bone
  
• Lauren Boebert really wants to impeach Biden, but she should have hired a proofreader first
  
• Biden tells Trump to pound sand on his executive privilege claim in Jan. 6 probe
  
• Daily Kos is $51,057 away from our monthly goal. Can you chip in $5 now to help us close the books on September?
  
• Cartoon: The haunting of the White House
  
• The documents are revealing their ‘electors swap’ scheme
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: He wasn’t going to do anything Fauci said, not even wear a head dildo
  
• Republicans continue to vote against American families and workers. Chip in $1 to each of these six Senate Democratic nominee funds right now. We can flip each and every one of these seats in 2022.
  
• Mob rule is overtaking America, driven by the collapse of the Republican Party
  
• Robert Kagan offers a terrifying treatise on Trump and the future of the nation
  
• My mother in law is about to take horse paste, here’s why I can’t stop her
  
• Sign and send the petition: Fund the Build Back Better Act by making corporations pay their fair share.
  
• Rep. Karen Bass reportedly will enter 2022 open seat race for mayor of Los Angeles
  
• Newly obtained emails show Trump administration ignored pandemic in favor of the Big Lie
  
• What’s the main reason millennials give for not yet buying a home? You need just one guess
  
• We’re so close! Make these historic investments in our people and country!
  
• Indefensible Bulk: Steve Bannon needs to be behind bars
  
• The supply chain is way more complex than you think it is and it’s way more messed up than you know
  
• I can’t wait for the midterms, and I said this before Texas went full fascist
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: The failed California recall and state-level attacks on reproductive freedom
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Right-wing Iowa school board candidate abruptly withdraws. Guess why?
  
• Republican Florida senator hoping to bring back OG diseases like polio, mumps, measles
  
• Anti-vaxx couple dies of virus days after claiming they survived pandemic despite being unvaccinated

• Anti-vaxx couple dies of virus days after claiming they survived pandemic despite being unvaccinated
  
• Cartoon: Vaccine mandates
  
• Cartoon: The cycle of wingnuttery
  
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• So your religion doesn’t allow the COVID-19 vaccine? Here are some other medications you can’t take
  
• Trump demands Georgia name ‘true winner’ of 2020 election in bizarre letter
  
• Another day, another revelation of Matt Gaetz doing something sketchy
  
• Republican representative sued after deadly hit-and-run, called high-powered buddy instead of cops
  
• Texas now has the most restrictive abortion law in the country. Please chip in $3 to support groups still working to protect access to abortion care for all Texans.
  
• Ted Cruz makes the mistake of asking a law expert which voter ID laws are racist on live TV
  
• Unvaccinated TikTokers embrace eugenicist fascism of Potter fantasy by identifying as ‘pureblood’
  
• Santa Claus is about to drop a bomb on Biden
  
• Trump actively working to bury McConnell, midterms be damned
  
• Sign the petition: Expand Medicare in Budget Reconciliation
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: This one wishes vaccinated people would stop shedding
  
• Texas abortion opponents are upset someone is taking advantage of their bounty hunter law
  
• I’m skipping my first Covid-19 funeral
  
• Eric Trump whines to Fox News about getting ‘subpoena after subpoena after subpoena’
  
• Sign and send the petition: Fund the Build Back Better Act by making corporations pay their fair share.
  
• Mike Flynn warns the world of dark forces putting vaccines in your salad dressing
  
• ‘Every node of this supply chain is maxed out,’ and the consequences could hit you at home
  
• Right-wing Iowa school board candidate abruptly withdraws. Guess why?
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: The failed California recall and state-level attacks on reproductive freedom

• Republican Florida senator hoping to bring back OG diseases like polio, mumps, measles
  
• Trump is claiming executive privilege to prevent Biden from releasing documents. Trump will lose
  
• Leaked Arizona fraudit report confirms Biden’s win, but Republicans aren’t giving up on the Big Lie
  
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• The Daily Show went to an anti-mask rally so you don’t have to. Here’s what happened
  
• Texas Republicans bow to Trump’s fraudit demands right as Arizona GOP makes a mockery of itself
  
• First subpoenas from Jan. 6 committee go straight to core group who helped organize insurrection
  
• U.S. falls to last place in vaccination among G-7 nations, pays a price in human lives
  
• Texas now has the most restrictive abortion law in the country. Please chip in $3 to support groups still working to protect access to abortion care for all Texans.
  
• Cartoon: ‘Merican freedom air
  
• Pillow Man claims Alabama election was hacked, is harshly rebuked by GOP secretary of state
  
• Texas abortion vigilante law draws a copycat in Florida
  
• ‘Do your job and deliver for the people of Arizona,’ DACA recipient tells Sinema, Kelly
  
• We’re so close! Make these historic investments in our people and country!
  
• Why the 2022 race for mayor could upend politics in ‘the capital of Silicon Valley’
  
• Nearly one in four people in the U.S. still struggle with food insecurity, poll shows
  
• When will America break free from the clutches of the grifters?
  
• Senate Republicans are ready to force another government shutdown if it makes trouble for Democrats
  
• Sign the petition: Expand Medicare in Budget Reconciliation
  
• Lawmakers call on DOJ to implement hate crimes law after three men robbed 70 Asian women
  
• Amid ongoing pandemic, Texas Republicans once again focus on discriminating against trans youth
  
• ICE faces continued calls to release detained immigrants rather than dangerously moving them around
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: The failed California recall and state-level attacks on reproductive freedom
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Anti-vaxx couple dies of virus days after claiming they survived pandemic despite being unvaccinated
  
• Santa Claus is about to drop a bomb on Biden
  
• Texas abortion opponents are upset someone is taking advantage of their bounty hunter law

• Right-wing Iowa school board candidate abruptly withdraws. Guess why?
  
• Republican representative sued after deadly hit-and-run, called high-powered buddy instead of cops
  
• Ted Cruz makes the mistake of asking a law expert which voter ID laws are racist on live TV
  
• Daily Kos is $84,614 away from our monthly goal. Can you chip in $5 now to help us close the books on September?
  
• Board votes not to renew contract of Black principal initially targeted for photos with white wife
  
• Who’s the ‘stupidest’ Trump of them all? According to Mary Trump, it’s Junior
  
• Cartoon: Great Scientists of the 21st Century
  
• ‘Guilty for all three defendants’: Former prosecutor shares hoped-for verdict after Arbery’s death
  
• Texas now has the most restrictive abortion law in the country. Please chip in $3 to support groups still working to protect access to abortion care for all Texans.
  
• Lauren Boebert reportedly used campaign funds to cover more than $6,000 of rent and utilities
  
• Federal judge rules against DeSantis ban on so-called sanctuary cities, noting hate group ties
  
• This one quote shows how out of touch Mitch McConnell is with the GOP base
  
• Judge calls ‘Sheriff’ patch man donned for Capitol insurrection ‘outrageous’
  
• Sign and send the petition: Urge your senators to pandemic-proof the planet
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Smuggling ivermectin into a hospital full of ‘crisis actors’
  
• Conservatism is dead, say conservatives, because America is ‘rotten to the core’
  
• After passing mask mandate, school board threatened by angry parents: ‘We’re coming to your house!’
  
• If Republicans block debt ceiling increase, ‘No one would be spared’ from economic disaster
  
• We’re so close! Make these historic investments in our people and country!
  
• Biden White House prepares to turn over Trump documents to House Select Committee on Jan. 6
  
• Trump’s slate of election fraud pushers could spell disaster for the GOP in 2022
  
• As Angela Merkel leaves the scene, the left is poised to succeed her in Sunday’s election
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: The failed California recall and state-level attacks on reproductive freedom
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Anti-vaxx couple dies of virus days after claiming they survived pandemic despite being unvaccinated
  
• Santa Claus is about to drop a bomb on Biden
  
• Texas abortion opponents are upset someone is taking advantage of their bounty hunter law

• Santa Claus is about to drop a bomb on Biden
  
• Trump actively working to bury McConnell, midterms be damned
  
• Another day, another revelation of Matt Gaetz doing something sketchy
  
• Daily Kos is $147,714 away from our monthly goal. Can you chip in $5 now to help us close the books on September?
  
• McCloskeys aim guns at peaceful protesters and win pardons, but accountability could be coming
  
• ‘Court cannot sit idly by’ when judge turns ‘court of law into a Skinner Box’: Texas appeal opinion
  
• Republican states Florida, Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia have dozens of dead teachers and staff
  
• Cartoon: Capital offense
  
• Mitch McConnell has been perfectly honest about his intentions: Stop President Biden on every issue. Chip in $1 to each of these six Senate Democratic nominee funds to beat Republicans and expand our Senate majority in 2022.
  
• Conservatives are killing themselves with COVID, and no, it’s not our fault
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Freedom to be racist, antisemitic, and no longer alive
  
• ‘This is a disgrace’: Advocates slam Biden admin’s appeal of ruling that dealt blow to Title 42
  
• Former Republican senator ejected in 2018 wave announces bid for Nevada governor
  
• Sign the petition to Congress: Expand the Supreme Court by four seats with the Judiciary Act of 2021.
  
• Doctor defies restrictive Texas abortion law, says in op-ed he ‘had a duty of care’
  
• Amid surge of kids with COVID-19, Pfizer offers a ray of hope with vaccine news
  
• Border Patrol agents on horseback attacked Haitian immigrants with what look like ‘whips’
  
• Portland protest pipe-bombing case moves forward when FBI becomes involved, witness steps up
  
• Sign and send a petition to Congress: Rep. Madison Cawthorn invoked the insurrectionists and continues to stoke violence. He must be expelled.
  
• In immigration ruling, Senate parliamentarian makes clear where she stands: With Mitch McConnell
  
• Supreme Court plans its next step in officially overturning Roe v. Wade
  
• ‘Humanitarian crisis on the island’: Lawmakers call on Biden admin to halt Haitian deportations
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Infrastructure, Texas, and Elie Mystal talks about the future of Roe v. Wade
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Anti-vaxx couple dies of virus days after claiming they survived pandemic despite being unvaccinated
  
• So your religion doesn’t allow the COVID-19 vaccine? Here are some other medications you can’t take
  
• Eric Trump whines to Fox News about getting ‘subpoena after subpoena after subpoena’

• Eric Trump whines to Fox News about getting ‘subpoena after subpoena after subpoena’
  
• Cartoon: The cycle of wingnuttery
  
• I’m skipping my first Covid-19 funeral
  
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• White high school teacher suspended for reportedly using racial slur during classroom discussion
  
• New Poll shows Abbott’s hard right turn is unpopular, Matthew McConaughey leads him by 9 points
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Unvaccinated, unafraid, unbelievable
  
• Daily Kos has identified six Senate seats that could flip from red to blue in 2022. I’m asking you to donate $1 to each of these six Senate Democratic nominee funds right now.
  
• Leading evangelical & rabid Trumper, Robert Jeffress, comes out in favor of COVID vaccination.
  
• Alaska Airlines banned a rude anti-mask lawmaker. Now she’s whining that she can’t do her job
  
• ‘This week feels like an important return on his commitment’: Merrick Garland not too shabby
  
• Sign the petition: Expand Medicare in Budget Reconciliation
  
• Indiana county rejects $3 million health grant after COVID-19 conspiracy theories sway council vote
  
• Election conspiracy theorist picks up Trump backing for Michigan attorney general
  
• Watch Mississippi governor give the oddest defense for his COVID-19 incompetency
  
• Sign the petition: Demand Congress investigate and subpoena Big Oil companies over their deception on climate change
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: A peek inside their bizarro alternate universe (a closed Facebook group)
  
• As Trump plays kingmaker nationwide, GOP 2022 electoral outlook worsens
  
• Deplorables think ‘Justice for J6’ rally is a false flag
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Infrastructure, Texas, and Elie Mystal talks about the future of Roe v. Wade
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Viral video: Navy sailor assaulted at pizza parlor by Karen who calls him ‘disgusting’
  
• Republicans in absolute freak out over ‘Death Panels’
  
• Yet another Republican-created crisis; yet another demand that the rest of America bail them out

• Yet another Republican-created crisis; yet another demand that the rest of America bail them out
  
• Veronica Wolski, anti-masker with COVID-19 who QAnon demanded be treated with ivermectin, dies
  
• Illinois family slams unvaccinated people in obituary for fully vaccinated mom
  
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• Psaki lit into Fox News-like reporter. Florida won’t get larger share of antibodies. Get vaccinated
  
• Hawaii is out of oxygen
  
• Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is just trolling us at this point
  
• Republicans continue to vote against American families and workers. Chip in $1 to each of these six Senate Democratic nominee funds right now. We can flip each and every one of these seats in 2022.
  
• Tennessee pediatrician “fires” patients who refuse COVID-19 vaccination.
  
• Yet another anti-vax, homophobic local right wing radio host has quit breathing due to COVID
  
• Cartoon: Mooooo!
  
• Sign and send a petition to Congress: Rep. Madison Cawthorn invoked the insurrectionists and continues to stoke violence. He must be expelled.
  
• “Misinformation killed her” -friend of 29 year-old Kentucky bride to never be, dead due to Covid
  
• Cartoon: A word from the governor
  
• Alabama man has heart attack, 43 full hospitals turn him down, finds one 200 miles away, he dies there.
  
• Sign the petition: Stop shutoff and cancel debt for water, power, and broadband services
  
• Rudy Giuliani gives bizarre speech at dinner meant to honor September 11 victims
  
• Something just hit Jupiter
  
• “The clots were the size of pancakes” — Texas embalmer opens up about Covid horrors.
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Elie Mystal is back on The Brief to talk about the Texas anti-abortion law, and how we can fight it
  
• This sentiment by Michael Moore on Joe Biden is one I hope more progressives share
  
• Republicans in absolute freak out over “Death Panels.”
  
• One ring to rule them all: How Steve Bannon’s daily podcast is running the entire GOP agenda

• Inspiration4 is another space tourism venture, but it’s not like the ones we’ve seen before
  
• Army vet posts pictures showing Rep. Cawthorn may have had a hidden dagger at school board meeting
  
• Cartoon: More Q-Nuts – It’s Climate Change, Charlie Brown!
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Elie Mystal is back on The Brief to talk about the Texas anti-abortion law, and how we can fight it
  
• Preliminary election results set the stage for historic race for mayor of Boston
  
• Hawaii is out of oxygen
  
• Something just hit Jupiter
  
• My 20-year-old daughter is now one of the 1 in 4 female victims of domestic violence
  
• After failed Larry Nassar investigation, Sen. Whitehouse questions FBI probe of Kavanaugh
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: A terrifying blow-by-blow recap of a COVID illness
  
• New polling shows voters responding to Biden’s aggressive vaccine push
  
• Sign the petition: Demand Congress investigate and subpoena Big Oil companies over their deception on climate change
  
• New Hampshire Republican lawmaker leaves party, joins Democrats after GOP’s anti-vax rally
  
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• Sign the petition: Polluters must pay to help clean up the mess they caused. Support the Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act
  
• Republicans demand the debt ceiling be raised … and promise to block Democratic attempts to do so
  
• Illinois family slams unvaccinated people in obituary for fully vaccinated mom
  
• Capitol police officer reportedly disclosed information on lawmakers’ secure location on Jan. 6
  
• California recall wrap up and lots of FP
  
• A day that lives in infamy
  
• Daily Kos has identified six Senate seats that could flip from red to blue in 2022. I’m asking you to donate $1 to each of these six Senate Democratic nominee funds right now.
  
• Attorney ‘can’t say for certain’ if ICE retaliated against detainees, but it sure damn looks like it
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Rudy Giuliani gives bizarre speech at dinner meant to honor September 11 victims
  
• “The clots were the size of pancakes”-Texas embalmer opens up about Covid horrors.
  
• This sentiment by Michael Moore on Joe Biden is one I hope more progressives share

• Reagan used reconciliation to put America on a 40-year road to ruin. Biden can start the repairs
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Infrastructure, Texas, and Elie Mystal talks about the future of Roe v. Wade
  
• ‘Exit TX’: Republicans’ extreme politics send Texas-based tech companies into crisis mode
  
• Black family hangs photos of white neighbors and appraisal comes back nearly $100,000 higher
  
• How Texas’ abortion law ‘traps’ pregnant teenagers
  
• Mike Pence didn’t stand up to Trump, he tried ‘over and over’ to find a way to reverse the election
  
• Move over ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, anti-vaxxers are now gargling Betadine
  
• Sign the petition: Reproductive healthcare access is under attack — pass the Women’s Health Protection Act NOW to protect our bodies and rights.
  
• Northern Idaho hospitals allowed to save beds and ventilators for those ‘most likely to survive’
  
• Three women export Texas crazy to New York, assault hostess over Covid vaccine requirement
  
• Biden walking a political tightrope to usher through his $3.5 trillion legacy
  
• Viral video: Navy sailor assaulted at pizza parlor by Karen who calls him ‘disgusting’
  
• Court orders Biden admin to stop deporting families under Stephen Miller-pushed Title 42 policy
  
• As conspiracism-inspired violence takes its toll on a regular basis, its terroristic effects sink in
  
• Cops drag Black mom from car, take photos with her child as ‘propaganda.’ Now they’re paying her $2M
  
• Shocking report sheds light on gross human rights violations faced by women at Georgia ICE site
  
• Another dispatch from a California polling place
  
• Capitol braces for Saturday far-right ‘Justice for J6’ protest, but the threat is more diffuse now
  
• Sign the petition: Tell Congress producers must take responsibility for recycling, not taxpayers
  
• Rural NY hospital pauses maternity services after six workers refuse vaccination
  
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ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Something just hit Jupiter
  
• Rudy Giuliani gives bizarre speech at dinner meant to honor September 11 victims
  
• “The clots were the size of pancakes”-Texas embalmer opens up about Covid horrors.

• Yet another anti-vax, homophobic local right wing radio host has quit breathing due to COVID
  
• Yet another Republican-created crisis; yet another demand that the rest of America bail them out
  
• Cartoon: Mooooo!
  
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• Sit down for this one. Three Illinois maps: Covid rates, 2020 election results, and voting trends say it all
  
• Woodward book: Former VP Dan Quayle may have helped save our democracy in talks with Pence
  
• California Gov. Gavin Newsom defeats recall vote in a landslide
  
• Mitch McConnell has been perfectly honest about his intentions: Stop President Biden on every issue. Chip in $1 to each of these six Senate Democratic nominee funds to beat Republicans and expand our Senate majority in 2022.
  
• California Gov. Gavin Newsom turns back recall effort by wide margin
  
• My experience as a poll worker in the California recall
  
• California votes while the GOP continues to attack democracy
  
• Sign and send a petition to Congress: Rep. Madison Cawthorn invoked the insurrectionists and continues to stoke violence. He must be expelled.
  
• Milley feared Trump was going to start a war so he could stay in power
  
• Okay, we crushed the California recall, now can we fix the screwed-up recall provision?
  
• Hospitals in several states are full, and hospitals in other states are filling with the overflow
  
• Sign and send a petition to Congress: Fix our broken health care system!
  
• The Supreme Court effectively overturns Roe. Can Democrats get electoral revenge?
  
• Parliamentarian has requested more information regarding immigration proposal, Senate Democrats say
  
• ‘This is the year’: House Judiciary advances proposal creating pathway to citizenship for millions
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Infrastructure, Texas, and Elie Mystal talks about the future of Roe v. Wade
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Rudy Giuliani gives bizarre speech at dinner meant to honor September 11 victims
  
• “The clots were the size of pancakes”-Texas embalmer opens up about Covid horrors.
  
• This sentiment by Michael Moore on Joe Biden is one I hope more progressives share

Advocates urge swift protections for Afghan children who arrived without a parent Senate Democrats introduce revised voting rights bill with backing of both Sens. Manchin and Warnock Trump’s weird rant praising Robert E. Lee is about changing history Nearly half of openly LGBTQ+ adults say they’ve faced workplace discrimination Unvaccinated are 5 times more likely to be infected, and 11 times more likely to die from COVID-19 How warped are Trump-loving, white supremacist Christian nationalists? Enough to idolize the Taliban Missouri teacher resigns after school district ordered him to remove Pride flag from classroom When a military member wears their religion on their sleeve – literally Review of religious exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine mandate – few are legitimate Six officers accused of ending up on wrong side of attempted coup are shielded from public eye ‘Is it enough to stand passively near violence?’: Judge strikes down DeSantis’ anti-protest law World Bank report on climate crisis breaks down worst-case scenario, and we all need to read it Texas governor seems to think crime can be solved with ‘better parenting,’ God, and discrimination Nursing homes overdiagnose schizophrenia to get away with drugging patients, says new investigation With our freedom to vote under relentless attack, it’s more important than ever to fight back. Contribute $5 to grassroots efforts to protect voting rights. Sign and send the petition: Expand the Supreme Court to protect and expand abortion access

• The vaccination mandates are good policy and good politics
  
• ‘Major win for the immigrant justice movement’: New Jersey county says its ending ICE contract
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Infrastructure, Texas, and Elie Mystal talks about the future of Roe v. Wade
  
• ‘Is it enough to stand passively near violence?’: Judge strikes down DeSantis’ anti-protest law
  
• Greg Abbott apparently thinks crime can be solved with ‘better parenting,’ God, and discrimination
  
• In another racist rant, Brian Kilmeade says Biden should ‘yell at Black Americans’ to get vaccinated
  
• Neo-Nazi ‘on patrol’ near DNC building in D.C. arrested by Capitol Police on weapons charges
  
• Cartoon: End of the Roe
  
• Some thoughts on my time here
  
• The score is currently 245 – 9, and Trump is winning
  
• Veronica Wolski, anti-masker with COVID-19 who QAnon demanded be treated with ivermectin, dies
  
• Sign the petition: Fix the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
  
• Biden’s aggressive vaccination push appeals to silent majority of Americans while Republicans yell
  
• Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett is just trolling us at this point
  
• trump makes it clear that G. W. Bush was indeed comparing right-wing extremists with 9/11 terrorists
  
• Anti-vaxxer Chronicles: ‘Faith over fear’
  
• Join us for tonight’s liveblog of California’s recall election
  
• Idaho Republicans sent their state into pandemic crisis. Now it’s spreading over state borders
  
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• This sentiment by Michael Moore on Joe Biden is one I hope more progressives share
  
• Sign the petition to President Biden: Focus on saving the USPS. This MUST be your first step
  
• Republicans continue to vote against American families and workers. Chip in $1 to each of these six Senate Democratic nominee funds right now. We can flip each and every one of these seats in 2022.
  
• Kapow! NASA scientist obliterates the meme of Net Zero by 2050 and fossil fuel enablers that push it
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• “The clots were the size of pancakes”-Texas embalmer opens up about Covid horrors.
  
• Rudy Giuliani gives bizarre speech at dinner meant to honor September 11 victims
  
• Cartoon: A word from the governor

• “The clots were the size of pancakes” — Texas embalmer opens up about Covid horrors.
  
• Tennessee pediatrician “fires” patients who refuse COVID-19 vaccination.
  
• Alabama man has heart attack, 43 full hospitals turn him down, finds one 200 miles away, he dies there.
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Big Kentucky rally starring Pillow Man and Mike Flynn promised 10,000 attendees. It drew … 300
  
• Jan. 6 insurrectionist wants ankle bracelet removed because it embarrasses him in front of clients
  
• Robert Kennedy Jr. strikes out twice in early California legal skirmishes versus Daily Kos
  
• Daily Kos has identified six Senate seats that could flip from red to blue in 2022. I’m asking you to donate $1 to each of these six Senate Democratic nominee funds right now.
  
• Anti-semitism and victim’s support for Joe Biden believed to be motives for lawyer’s murder
  
• Cartoon: Texas vigilantes
  
• George Bush compares Jan 6 insurrectionists to 9/11 hijackers, as “children of the same foul spirit”
  
• Sign the petition to President Biden: Focus on saving the USPS. This MUST be your first step
  
• Fascism: Republicans’ anti-democracy hoax now supported by a majority of Republican voters
  
• Even in red states, colleges gravitate to requiring vaccines and masks
  
• “When you hear Bernie talking about policy, that’s important.” The case for talking to red America.
  
• Sign the petition: Expand Medicare in Budget Reconciliation
  
• ‘A loud family discussion’: Democrats stake out their positions on $3.5 trillion budget bill
  
• “A simple actuarial analysis.”
  
• Theme songs: Meet the Black music and musicians who serenade us from the small screen
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Infrastructure, Texas, and Elie Mystal talks about the future of Roe v. Wade
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• NY deputy mayor arrested after raid turns up ‘arsenal’ of weapons and fake IDs
  
• Missouri teacher resigns after school district ordered him to remove Pride flag from classroom
  
• When a military member wears their religion on their sleeve – literally
  

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• Rudy Giuliani gives bizarre speech at dinner meant to honor September 11 victims
  
• One ring to rule them all: How Steve Bannon’s daily podcast is running the entire GOP agenda
  
• Cartoon: A word from the governor
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Six officers accused of ending up on wrong side of attempted coup are shielded from public eye
  
• Anti-vaxx chronicles: The Cowboy Code wasn’t a bad idea
  
• ‘The Storm is Upon Us’: Deep dive into the QAnon rabbit hole is essential reading
  
• Daily Kos has identified six Senate seats that could flip from red to blue in 2022. I’m asking you to donate $1 to each of these six Senate Democratic nominee funds right now.
  
• Republicans vow to prolong the COVID-19 pandemic as long as possible
  
• ‘He looks better than our president’: Yes, Fox News complimented dictator Kim Jong Un
  
• Republicans have always wanted to re-fight the Civil War. Well, here’s their chance
  
• Sign the petition to President Biden: Focus on saving the USPS. This MUST be your first step
  
• ‘Have at it’: Biden’s aggressive vaccine push sets up perfect contrast with radicalized GOP for 2022
  
• Unvaccinated are 5 times more likely to be infected, and 11 times more likely to die from COVID-19
  
• Companies are lying about whether their products can be recycled. California’s putting a stop to it
  
• Sign the petition: Expand Medicare in Budget Reconciliation
  
• How warped are Trump-loving, white supremacist Christian nationalists? Enough to idolize the Taliban
  
• Federal government opens civil rights investigation into Florida’s mask bans
  
• 10 ways the recall of Gov. Gavin Newsom could change California
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Infrastructure, Texas, and Elie Mystal talks about the future of Roe v. Wade
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• NY deputy mayor arrested after raid turns up ‘arsenal’ of weapons and fake IDs
  
• Missouri teacher resigns after school district ordered him to remove Pride flag from classroom
  
• When a military member wears their religion on their sleeve – literally

• Lawsuit alleges high-profile GOP operative child sex trafficking ‘ringmaster’
  
• Lara Logan’s descent into madness
  
• Pillow Man’s latest gaffe could put Dominion lawsuit on ‘downhill slope’ to success: expert
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• NY deputy mayor arrested after raid turns up ‘arsenal’ of weapons and fake IDs
  
• There is an antibody treatment that stops every COVID-19 variant—and possibly all future variants
  
• Farmworkers invited all 100 senators to work alongside them for one day. These two accepted
  
• Thousands of families in Louisiana and Mississippi are still without power, drinkable water, medical supplies, and other basic necessities. Chip in $3 to support Hurricane Ida relief efforts.
  
• ‘He’s running a con’: As Trump Tower tenants ‘implode,’ the property continues to suck up MAGA cash
  
• Patriot Prayer, Proud Boys force lockdowns in three public schools in Washington. No charges filed.
  
• Former Trump press secretary who ‘knows where the bodies are buried’ is working on a tell-all book
  
• Sign and send the petition to Congress: Extend the eviction moratorium!
  
• Texas dad drops his pants at school board meeting to make a point about wearing masks
  
• A shooting in Olympia: Proud Boys went hunting ‘antifa’ in streets, ending with Toese wounded
  
• CNN: Melania really doesn’t want her husband to run for president again
  
• Sign the petition: Demand Congress investigate and subpoena Big Oil companies over their deception on climate change
  
• Florida councilman who called pandemic ‘lie’ hospitalized with COVID-19
  
• MSNBC unearths clip of Joe Manchin calling for up to $4 trillion in infrastructure spending
  
• Teacher removed from classroom after video joking about pledging allegiance to Pride flag went viral
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Infrastructure, Texas, and Elie Mystal talks about the future of Roe v. Wade

• Missouri teacher resigns after school district ordered him to remove Pride flag from classroom
  
• When a military member wears their religion on their sleeve – literally
  
• Former Georgia prosecutor charged for ‘showing favor and affection’ to Ahmaud Arbery killers
  
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• Garland connects all the dots for Supreme Court on precedent in Texas abortion ban suit
  
• GOP heads explode because Biden might defeat Covid
  
• Nation’s second largest school district to make COVID-19 vaccination mandatory for students over 12
  
• Thousands of families in Louisiana and Mississippi are still without power, drinkable water, medical supplies, and other basic necessities. Chip in $3 to support Hurricane Ida relief efforts.
  
• President Joe Biden is bolder, tougher, and more audacious than anyone—left or right—anticipated
  
• Extremist candidate urges ‘strong men’ to flood school board meeting. Sheriffs will be there instead
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: The grim reality of a slow COVID death
  
• Sign the petition: Fix the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
  
• When Proud Boys show up at local school protests, they’re following a larger far-right blueprint
  
• Democratic swing-state poll finds overwhelming support for Biden’s employer vaccine mandate
  
• Fort Bliss camp for children is facing yet another whistleblower complaint over abusive conditions
  
• Sign and send the petition to Congress: Extend the eviction moratorium!
  
• No version of Remain in Mexico ‘can ever be legal, safe, or humane,’ advocates tell Biden admin
  
• Advocates urge swift protections for Afghan children who arrived without a parent
  
• Food insecurity did not increase in the pandemic, proof that we can afford to save the country
  
• Listen to How Did We Get Here, a new Daily Kos podcast: The biggest misconceptions surrounding bankruptcy and student debt
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Proud Boys’ violence spirals in Olympia as street hunt for ‘antifa’ culminates with Toese shooting
  
• Farmworkers invited all 100 senators to work alongside them for one day. These two accepted
  
• He smeared Dr. Fauci and called the pandemic a ‘lie.’ Now this Florida lawmaker is hospitalized

• NY deputy mayor arrested after raid turns up ‘arsenal’ of weapons and fake IDs
  
• Former Trump press secretary who ‘knows where the bodies are buried’ is working on a tell-all book
  
• MSNBC unearths clip of Joe Manchin calling for up to $4 trillion in infrastructure spending
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• AOC’s language about abortion infuriated conservatives, but progressives need this message too
  
• Actions meet consequences as woman who coughed on grocery shoppers loses a very, very good job
  
• Trump’s unqualified propaganda fountains furious after being purged from military academy positions
  
• Texas now has the most restrictive abortion law in the country. Please chip in $3 to support groups still working to protect access to abortion care for all Texans.
  
• Conservatives are losing their minds about this vaccine mandate thing and it’s sort of funny
  
• Cartoon: Lawsuit Vigilantes: Not Just For Texas Anymore!
  
• Scott Walker’s former no. 2 launches bid to avenge his loss
  
• Sign the petition: Demand Congress investigate and subpoena Big Oil companies over their deception on climate change
  
• Channeling anger of the vaccinated, Biden unveils sweeping plan to beat back the pandemic
  
• Biden calls for increase in solar power. The New York Times calls for increase in negative framing
  
• Biden laces into public officials and the unvaccinated
  
• Sign the petition: Stop the “shadow docket”. Expand the Supreme Court with the Judiciary Act of 2021.
  
• Congress plays the deficit peacock game, creating winners and losers in health care
  
• Biden takes on anti-vaxxers, Republican governors with vaccine mandates, help for schools
  
• As parliamentarian hears immigration arguments, Senate Democrats should remember they’re in charge
  
• Listen to How Did We Get Here, a new Daily Kos podcast: The biggest misconceptions surrounding bankruptcy and student debt
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Proud Boys’ violence spirals in Olympia as street hunt for ‘antifa’ culminates with Toese shooting
  
• Farmworkers invited all 100 senators to work alongside them for one day. These two accepted
  
• He smeared Dr. Fauci and called the pandemic a ‘lie.’ Now this Florida lawmaker is hospitalized

• A shooting in Olympia: Proud Boys went hunting ‘antifa’ in streets, ending with Toese wounded
  
• Farmworkers invited all 100 senators to work alongside them for one day. These two accepted
  
• Florida councilman who called pandemic ‘lie’ hospitalized with COVID-19
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Trump’s Miami resort to host a who’s who of suspected sex traffickers and pardoned criminals
  
• Jen Psaki has thoughts on Greg Abbott’s ‘eliminate rape’ defense of abortion ban
  
• Ron DeSantis: ‘I don’t know why the masks have politics around it’
  
• Majority say Biden’s policies haven’t helped them. $1,400 stimulus checks are surprised to hear it
  
• Texas now has the most restrictive abortion law in the country. Please chip in $3 to support groups still working to protect access to abortion care for all Texans.
  
• Cartoon: The Quorum
  
• One in five houses is bought by someone who never moves in, real estate firm says
  
• When bad things happen, that’s tragedy. When people knowingly cause them to happen, that’s evil
  
• Possessing fake vaccine cards is a federal crime, but even police officers are selling them
  
• Sign the petition: Polluters must pay to help clean up the mess they caused. Support the Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act
  
• Fox News has been setting up a State Big Lie should GOP lose California recall race
  
• Biden approval plummets—to ‘still better than anything Trump could attain in nearly 4 years’ levels
  
• Former Sen. Adlai Stevenson III, the scion of a prominent political Illinois family, dies at age 90
  
• Pelosi, key committee chair blow off Manchin’s posturing, move forward on Biden agenda
  
• Tell congress: Raise the full $3.5 trillion for President Biden’s Build Back Better Act by making the rich and corporations pay their fair share
  
• ‘Years of work on the ground made this happen’: Immigrants finally moved from notorious ICE facility
  
• The wealthiest 1% have robbed the nation with $7 trillion in tax evasion over the last 10 years
  
• NY AG Tish James forms a coalition to fight discrimination against Puerto Rico and other territories
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Infrastructure, Texas, and Elie Mystal talks about the future of Roe v. Wade
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Pillow Man’s latest gaffe could put Dominion lawsuit on ‘downhill slope’ to success
  
• There is an antibody treatment that stops every COVID-19 variant—and possibly all future variants
  
• Texas dad drops his pants at school board meeting to make a point about wearing masks

• ‘The male is king, the male is supreme, and women should know that.’
  
• Principal targeted for photos of him kissing white wife put on paid leave over critical race theory
  
• This chilling campaign ad from 2020 will soon be the reality in every Republican-dominated state
  
• Our basic human right to access abortion care is under attack. Contribute $5 to abortion funds providing financial and practical support to people seeking abortion care in hostile states.
  
• Garland warns Texans not to take their new SCOTUS-approved vigilante rights too far
  
• ‘Gee, that’s suspicious—Black people shopping in Beverly Hills,’ attorney mocks police force
  
• After school orders quarantine, a father and his friends threaten principal, zip ties in hand
  
• Sign and send the petition: Expand the Supreme Court to protect and expand abortion access
  
• One in five houses is bought by someone who never moves in, real estate firm says
  
• No masks? Check. No vaccines? Check. No remote classes? Check. Public education ended? In progress
  
• Texas anti-choice activist admits bounty hunter law is a way for men to control women in their lives
  
• Sign and send the petition to your US Senator: Abortion access is on the line — don’t let the filibuster strip our rights!
  
• From memes to bots, TikTok users are determined to crash Texas’ new anti-abortion vigilante site
  
• Bodily autonomy
  
• Unpacking the Texas ruling: Things are likely to get worse
  
• The unemployment insurance system shuts out BIPOC workers. Here’s how to fix it
  
• Private colleges aren’t the only places leaving students with serious student loan debt—I would know
  
• Here’s what you can do to support Afghan refugees and help those experiencing the ongoing crisis

• Pillow Man’s latest gaffe could put Dominion lawsuit on ‘downhill slope’ to success: expert
  
• Lawsuit alleges high-profile GOP operative child sex trafficking ‘ringmaster’
  
• Teacher removed from classroom after video joking about pledging allegiance to Pride flag went viral
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Cartoon: Vigilante justice
  
• Serial sex crime defender Jim Jordan has thoughts on what counts as ‘American’
  
• Judge in Ohio reverses decision of his colleague that ordered hospital to administer Ivermectin
  
• Here’s another reason that you should be extraordinarily happy that you got a COVID-19 vaccine
  
• Thousands of families in Louisiana and Mississippi are still without power, drinkable water, medical supplies, and other basic necessities. Chip in $3 to support Hurricane Ida relief efforts.
  
• Kevin McCarthy can’t stop lying about Jan. 6. Liz Cheney ain’t having it
  
• Garland warns Texans not to take their new SCOTUS-approved vigilante rights too far
  
• Anti-vaxx Chronicles: ‘I refuse to believe anything different’
  
• ‘Vast majority of agency’ purged emails and texts after George Floyd protests
  
• Sign the petition: Polluters must pay to help clean up the mess they caused. Support the Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act
  
• Texas governor bizarrely vows to ‘eliminate rape’ in barely coherent defense of abortion ban
  
• No masks? Check. No vaccines? Check. No remote classes? Check. Public education ended? In progress
  
• Pelosi basically tells Manchin to shove it on hitting ‘pause’ on the $3.5 trillion budget bill
  
• Trump endorses primary foe to longtime Michigan congressman who voted for impeachment
  
• Sign the petition: Stop the “shadow docket”. Expand the Supreme Court with the Judiciary Act of 2021.
  
• A pandemic in a pandemic: Domestic violence calls increase nationwide amid COVID-19
  
• Just one reason why you need to go follow United Farm Workers on Twitter today
  
• On my way to being a first-time homebuyer in Georgia: Here’s how I won the contract in a wild market
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Infrastructure, Texas, and Elie Mystal talks about the future of Roe v. Wade
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• There is an antibody treatment that stops every COVID-19 variant—and possibly all future variants
  
• Texas dad drops his pants at school board meeting to make a point about wearing masks
  
• ‘He’s running a con’: As Trump Tower tenants ‘implode,’ the property continues to suck up MAGA cash

Daily Kos Recommended Texas dad drops his pants at school board meeting to make a point about wearing masks CNN: Melania really doesn’t want her husband to run for president again Patriot Prayer, Proud Boys force lockdowns in three public schools in Washington. No charges filed. Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today. How was the Ken who accosted an MSNBC reporter not in jail for releasing poison gas in 2017? Planned Parenthood gets a win against Texas anti-choice law while (some) companies vow to fight back MyPillow Guy issues Trump-like threat against Salon reporter, calls him ‘enemy of our country’ Republicans continue to vote against American families and workers. Chip in $1 to each of these six Senate Democratic nominee funds right now. We can flip each and every one of these seats in 2022. Anti-vaxx Chronicles: The blood of Christ versus COVID-19 Biden offers possible path against Texas abortion bounty hunter law Cartoon: Another trip to parallel Earth Sign the petition: Texas has launched an unprecedented attack on abortion. Show your support as we continue our fight Bogus school would have never conned way onto ESPN if Ohio had any kind of oversight BIPOC workers grapple with public anger over masks How old television reruns scarred a generation: Part 2 Sign the petition: Demand Congress investigate and subpoena Big Oil companies over their deception on climate change Incoming brain drain in Texas? 2/3s of college grads do not want to work in places with abortion ban The policy cupboard is bare, so Trump Republicans are running on nothing except lies and hate As the world reopens, remember: No one cares about your diet Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Jon Soltz of VoteVets on the withdrawal from Afghanistan ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far: Arnold Schwarzenegger loses sponsorship for calling out anti-maskers Another conservative media personality has died of COVID-19 after hating on vaccines We warned you. We warned the country. Hillary warned all of us. It’s past time to suit up or shut up

• There is an antibody treatment that stops every COVID-19 variant—and possibly all future variants
  
• ‘He’s running a con’: As Trump Tower tenants ‘implode,’ the property continues to suck up MAGA cash
  
• Lara Logan’s descent into madness
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Texas’ anti-choice whistleblower site is getting bounced from its web-hosting service
  
• The most-cited study promoting ivermectin may have been completely fabricated
  
• Bette Midler calls for a solution to oppressive abortion bans right out of 411 BC: Lysistrata
  
• Republicans continue to vote against American families and workers. Chip in $1 to each of these six Senate Democratic nominee funds right now. We can flip each and every one of these seats in 2022.
  
• White privilege was the wind beneath the wings of shows like ‘Seinfeld’ and ‘Friends’
  
• Oklahoma hospitals overwhelmed with horse paste eaters, leaving gunshot victims to wait
  
• Republicans have always wanted to re-fight the Civil War; Well, here’s their chance
  
• Sign the petition: Demand Congress investigate and subpoena Big Oil companies over their deception on climate change
  
• After school orders quarantine, a father and his friends threaten principal, zip ties in hand
  
• How old television reruns scarred a generation
  
• Cartoon: Welcome back to school
  
• Sign the petition: Texas has launched an unprecedented attack on abortion. Show your support as we continue our fight
  
• Will American Corporations stand up to Texas’s hideous abortion law? A few just did.
  
• A brief dispatch from the rural COVID front line
  
• Dear traditional media: Stop repeating forced birthers’ lies about basic biology
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Jon Soltz of VoteVets on the withdrawal from Afghanistan
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Arnold Schwarzenegger loses sponsorship for calling out anti-maskers
  
• Another conservative media personality has died of COVID-19 after hating on vaccines
  
• We warned you. We warned the country. Hillary warned all of us. It’s past time to suit up or shut up

• Another conservative media personality has died of COVID-19 after hating on vaccines
  
• Jen Psaki lays waste to ‘genius reporter’ suggesting an uninformed option out of Afghanistan…
  
• Anti-vaxxers shut down Georgia vaccination event
  
• Sabotage in the White House: How Trump successfully orchestrated Biden’s ‘incompetence’
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Liberty University bucked vaccine and mask requirements, now entire campus is in quarantine
  
• Remington subpoenas five dead children’s report cards in Sandy Hook families’ lawsuit
  
• Former GOP governor startles Kansas by ending campaign against Democratic successor
  
• Texas man who argued ‘masks aren’t going to save you’ contracts COVID-19, no longer breathes on own
  
• Daily Kos has identified six Senate seats that could flip from red to blue in 2022. I’m asking you to donate $1 to each of these six Senate Democratic nominee funds right now.
  
• Sen. Ron Johnson secretly recorded telling a constituent the truth about the Big Lie
  
• Texas school district closes after second teacher dies from COVID-19 in one week
  
• Politico: Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz begged Trump to call off violent crowd during Jan. 6 insurrection
  
• Rudy Giuliani did an interview to counter his declining reputation, but confirmed it instead
  
• Sign the petition: Make Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter ban permanent
  
• Days after anti-mask KC restaurant owner declared ‘we won,’ her husband is hospitalized with ‘COVAD’
  
• Louisiana Republican parts ways with Trump on infrastructure bill after devastation of Hurricane Ida
  
• Candace Owens gets hypocritical after being refused for COVID-19 screening
  
• Sign and send the petition to Congress: Extend the eviction moratorium!
  
• Joe Rogan has COVID-19. Let there be horse paste.
  
• Greg Abbott’s despicable executive order targeting migrants continues to face defeat in court
  
• We warned you. We warned the country. Hillary warned all of us. It’s past time to suit up or shut up
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Jon Soltz of VoteVets on the withdrawal from Afghanistan

• ‘We’ve been working so hard for this’: New York City domestic workers win vital protections
  
• Texas anti-choice activist admits bounty hunter law is a way for men to control women in their lives
  
• Mitch McConnell has been perfectly honest about his intentions: Stop President Biden on every issue. Chip in $1 to each of these six Senate Democratic nominee funds to beat Republicans and expand our Senate majority in 2022.
  
• After overt attempt at obstruction, ‘They should already have an arrest warrant for Kevin McCarthy’
  
• Sign the petition: Texas has launched an unprecedented attack on abortion. Show your support as we continue our fight
  
• Sign the petition: Demand answers from Big Oil
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Abortion allows us to determine our own futures
  
• Cartoon: ‘Vaccine Passports’ are really just ‘I-Won’t-Kill-You Cards’
  
• Sad! Right-wing ‘undercover’ disinformation group Project Veritas underwater after Ida hits New York
  
• Trump led a fascist purge of his Republican Party. Now his base is finishing what he started
  
• Arnold Schwarzenegger loses sponsorship for calling out anti-maskers
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Jon Soltz of VoteVets on the withdrawal from Afghanistan
  
• Lying to police suspects is banned in several countries. Why is it still legal in the U.S.?
  
• Ron DeSantis is going back to court to endanger children even though no one wins, not even DeSantis
  
• Delta put the brakes on job creation in August, with hospitality flat after months of growth
  
• Caught in a lie, twice: Jim Jordan claims he never said what two separate videos show him saying
  
• Biden taunts Trump as he tells the billionaires and the 1% it’s time to pay up. Hold him to it.
  
• I first met him in the eight grade
  
• Seven Black men posthumously pardoned. Some were ‘unable to read the confessions they signed’
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Sen. Ron Johnson secretly recorded telling a constituent the truth about the Big Lie
  
• Louisiana Republican parts ways with Trump on infrastructure bill after devastation of Hurricane Ida
  
• Joe Rogan has COVID-19. Let there be horse paste.

• We warned you. We warned the country. Hillary warned all of us. It’s past time to suit up or shut up
  
• Remington subpoenas five dead children’s report cards in Sandy Hook families’ lawsuit
  
• Candace Owens gets hypocritical after being refused for COVID-19 screening
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• This chilling campaign ad from 2020 will soon be the reality in every Republican-dominated state
  
• AMA warns against taking ivermectin for COVID-19, but snake venom may hold a promising treatment
  
• The data is out. It is true. Republicans are killing their own voters. And it is deadly!
  
• Our new Florida data shows Biden won just 38% of Florida House seats
  
• Daily Kos has identified six Senate seats that could flip from red to blue in 2022. I’m asking you to donate $1 to each of these six Senate Democratic nominee funds right now.
  
• Liz Cheney’s elevation to vice chair of the Jan. 6 panel makes her an even bigger thorn for McCarthy
  
• ‘Gee, that’s suspicious—Black people shopping in Beverly Hills,’ attorney mocks police force
  
• As Republicans advance their goal of ending abortion, Democrats see a political game changer
  
• Anti-vaxx chronicles: Basic parenting instincts are short-circuited, leaving 3 kids motherless
  
• Sign the petition: Make Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter ban permanent
  
• Cartoon: The History of Doug, Part 3
  
• Congress and Biden must answer Justice Kagan’s extraordinary call to action and expand the Court
  
• Over 100 groups say reinstatement of Remain in Mexico in any form ‘would be a travesty’
  
• From memes to bots, TikTok users are determined to crash Texas’ new anti-abortion vigilante site
  
• Sign and send the petition to Congress: Extend the eviction moratorium!
  
• Andy Biggs wants to make support for Jan. 6 insurgency a requirement for being a Republican
  
• So much for the free market: Florida to fine private businesses that require proof of vaccination
  
• Tri-state area infrastructure can’t handle climate change. Videos and photos of flooding prove it
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Jon Soltz of VoteVets on the withdrawal from Afghanistan
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Sen. Ron Johnson secretly recorded telling a constituent the truth about the Big Lie
  
• Louisiana Republican parts ways with Trump on infrastructure bill after devastation of Hurricane Ida
  
• Joe Rogan has COVID-19. Let there be horse paste.

• Joe Rogan has COVID-19. Let there be horse paste.
  
• Days after anti-mask KC restaurant owner declared ‘we won,’ her husband is hospitalized with ‘COVAD’
  
• Texas school district closes after second teacher dies from COVID-19 in one week
  
• Daily Kos relies on thousands of grassroots donations to make ends meet. Please support independent, progressive media by starting a monthly recurring donation of $3 today.
  
• Anti-vaxx chronicles: ‘Let us die … and y’all can defund the police’
  
• Woman uses forged vaccination card to travel to Hawaii, is arrested after misspelling ‘Moderna’
  
• Police issue arrest warrant for man who harassed MSNBC reporter Shaquille Brewster during broadcast
  
• Sotomayor and Kagan blast conservative Supreme Court majority in dissents on Texas abortion law
  
• Republicans continue to vote against American families and workers. Chip in $1 to each of these six Senate Democratic nominee funds right now. We can flip each and every one of these seats in 2022.
  
• Kevin McCarthy is terrified that the truth will come out about his Jan. 6 phone call to Trump
  
• Cartoon: Unproven concoctions
  
• Thanks, Susan Collins, for this Supreme Court. Let her be the cautionary tale for Sinema
  
• ‘Do you ever hear yourself and think that it sounds ridiculous?’ Sidney Powell meets her match
  
• Sign the petition: Fix the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
  
• McConnell ‘prays’ for Manchin, Sinema to help him defeat Biden
  
• Republican congressman threatened U.S. embassy staff to help him sneak into Afghanistan
  
• In 5-4 vote, Supreme Court refuses to block Texas’ six-week abortion ban from taking effect
  
• Sign the petition: Make the Child Tax Credit permanent through budget reconciliation
  
• Murder trial in Ahmaud Arbery case is not about Arbery’s past, judge rules in vital decision
  
• Top Oregon Democrat launches bid to become nation’s first lesbian governor
  
• Detained immigrants asked to be kept safe in the pandemic, but they got pepper-sprayed instead
  
• Listen to The Brief, a Daily Kos podcast: Jon Soltz of VoteVets on the withdrawal from Afghanistan
  

ICYMI: Here are the top stories of the week so far:

• Sen. Ron Johnson secretly recorded telling a constituent the truth about the Big Lie
  
• Louisiana Republican parts ways with Trump on infrastructure bill after devastation of Hurricane Ida
  
• Texas man who argued ‘masks aren’t going to save you’ contracts COVID-19, no longer breathes on own