And another day of warnings, strategies, positioning, sex addiction is not an excuse, emergency curfews, changing schooling, challenging Roe, ‘Exam’ schools, and a global shortage of computer chips comes to a close:
“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.” -- Louis Brandeis
Deaths
US: 555,314 (+443)
World: 2,727,438 (+5406)
Cases
US: 30,521,765 (+39,638)
World: 123,851,721 (+421,269)
GOP warns HR 1 could be 'absolutely devastating for Republicans'. H.R. 1, known as the For the People Act, seeks to abolish hurdles to voting, reform the role of money in politics and tighten federal ethics rules. Among the key tenets of the bill to overhaul the nation's election system: allowing for no-excuse mail voting, at least 15 days of early voting, automatic voter registration and restoring voting rights to felons who have completed their prison sentences...But it faces steep opposition from the GOP over its potential implications for future elections, including the 2022 midterms, with some Republicans openly fretting that broader access to voting will harm the party's chances. — And that tells you all you need to know about the current Republican Party.
Why Attacking ‘Cancel Culture’ And ‘Woke’ People Is Becoming The GOP’s New Political Strategy. But there is no agreed-upon definition of “woke” or a formal political organization or movement associated with it. Nor is there an exact definition of what constitutes being “canceled” or a victim of “cancel culture.” However, despite their vagueness, you now see conservative activists and Republican politicians constantly using these terms. That’s because that vagueness is a feature, not a bug. Casting a really wide range of ideas and policies as too woke and anyone who is critical of them as being canceled by out-of-control liberals is becoming an important strategy and tool on the right — in fact, this cancel culture/woke discourse could become the organizing idea of the post-Trump-presidency Republican Party...Talking about identity and racial issues in vague terms like cancel culture and woke is particularly important right now for the GOP. In an increasingly diverse country across a number of dimensions (race, religion, sexual identity, etc.), Republicans need to make their cultural appeals to the party’s more conservative voters more subtext than text to avoid turning off too many Americans who wouldn’t want to vote for candidates or a party they perceive as bigoted. Also, talking about race and identity in this way could help the GOP break away from some of the more controversial elements of former President Donald Trump’s approach, particularly his rhetoric about Mexicans and Muslims during his 2016 campaign, and therefore blunt the notion held by many Americans that the GOP is dominated by racists. — Um, the GOP has shown it is dominated by racists.
Florida's DeSantis positions himself as Trump's heir to the White House. Bashing lockdowns and dissing the press, the GOP governor emerges as a strong potential 2024 hopeful.
Sex researcher weighs in on Atlanta-area shootings: ‘Do not excuse racist crimes as being the result of sex addiction.’ “Racist actions,” he continued, “need to be described as such, not as byproducts of sex addiction. Racism is the story.”
Miami Beach officers shoot pepper balls into spring break crowds to enforce emergency curfew. -- Which was more than what was done to the crowd that raided Congress on January 6.
Miami Beach officials have extended an 8 p.m. curfew for at least another week. The decision followed over 1,000 arrests as unruly spring breakers gathered by the thousands, fought in the streets, destroyed restaurant property and refused to wear masks.
A rapid COVID-19 vaccine rollout backfired in some US states. A surprising new analysis found that states such as South Carolina, Florida and Missouri that raced ahead of others to offer the vaccine to ever-larger groups of people have vaccinated smaller shares of their population than those that moved more slowly and methodically, such as Hawaii and Connecticut.
Tightening of lockdown measures likely as German COVID-19 cases soar. The rate at which Germans are getting infected with the coronavirus has jumped above the level at which authorities say healthcare systems will be overburdened, raising pressure on political leaders to tighten lockdown measures.
Masks and social distancing 'could last years', leading epidemiologist predicts.
COVID-19 changed schooling profoundly — in some ways, for the better. There’s no going back. That is the consensus emerging from education leaders across the country as the nation enters a second year of schooling in a pandemic. A public school district in Arizona is looking to become a service provider for parents who have pulled their children out to home-school them. In Oklahoma, students are having a say in where and when they learn. And educators everywhere are paying closer attention to students’ mental well-being.
Arkansas governor says he signed near-total abortion ban so Supreme Court can decide if it's a 'direct challenge' to Roe. "That was the whole design of the law. It is not constitutional under Supreme Court cases right now," Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, told CNN's Dana Bash.
U.S. Rep. Tom Reed, a Republican from western New York, is accused of rubbing a female lobbyist's back and unhooking her bra, without her consent, at a networking event in a Minneapolis pub in 2017.
White farmers got 97 percent of last year's ag bailout. Now some are mad Black farmers are getting debt relief.
A golden ticket: Efforts to diversify Boston's elite high schools spur hope and outrage. Exam schools loom large as symbols of opportunity and inequality in American public schools. Now, the nation's twin crises are shaking them to their core. “We have the white and Asian parents going to court saying, ‘My child is being discriminated against,’ because Black and Latinx students are finally being given a chance to succeed?” he said. "That’s sad." -- There is no equity in education. That’s by design.
TikTok bans some Myanmar accounts to limit the reach of violent videos. The nature of the videos varies. Some help justify violent responses from the military and police, while others directly threaten protesters with death if they march. Others spread false and hate-fuelled claims, such as unsupported assertions that foreigners and Muslims are manipulating protesters. Many of the videos come from individual accounts and aren't necessarily coordinated, even if they present a common message.
South Dakota's GOP governor rejects signing Republican-backed bill seeking to ban transgender girls from participating in women's high school sports.
Global shortage in computer chips 'reaches crisis point'. Consumers are facing price rises and shortages of products from TVs and mobile phones to cars and games consoles as a global shortage in semiconductors grows. The shortage in chips, the “brain” within every electronic device in the world, has been steadily worsening since last year.
World’s first community of 3D-printed, zero net energy homes set to be built in California.
Researchers put cloth face masks under a microscope. The images are out of this world.
Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.
Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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