And another day of budget packages, Rs blocking cap on insulin costs, a voting-system breach, the FBI didn’t thoroughly investigate Kavanaugh, TX juvenile prison system on brink of collapse, FL parental ‘advisory notices’ over books, and quiet quitting comes to a close:
“The body inside of the mom’s body is not her body. Not her body, not her choice.” — Rep. John Jacob (R)
“Vote like it’s the last time you can…or it may very well be.” -- MI State Senator Mallory McMorrow
Deaths
US: 1,058,738
World: 6,436,492
Cases
US: 93,910,150
World: 589,384,447
Senate Democrats pass budget package, a victory for Biden. Democrats pushed their election-year economic package to Senate passage Sunday, a hard-fought compromise less ambitious than President Joe Biden’s original domestic vision but one that still meets deep-rooted party goals of slowing global warming, moderating pharmaceutical costs and taxing immense corporations.
What's in the Manchin-Schumer deal on climate, health care and taxes.
For a president who so many people believe is failing, Joe Biden sure is suddenly notching up an impressive string of victories. And they’re not minor. In fact, Biden is on a roll when it comes to both domestic and foreign policy.
Republicans block cap on insulin costs for many Americans from Democratic deal. Republican senators on Sunday voted down a cap on the price of insulin in the private market, removing it from Democrats’ sweeping climate and economic package. Democrats had tried to preserve the provision to cap insulin costs at $35 for private insurers, but that vote failed 57-43, with seven Republicans voting with them to keep the insulin cost cap in the bill, three short of what was needed. -- Here is the list of Republicans that blocked the $35 cap.
GOP seeking power over elections in Wisconsin, Minnesota. Wisconsin’s secretary of state has no role in elections, but that could change if Republicans are able to flip the seat this year and pass a law that would empower the office with far more responsibilities. All three GOP candidates competing for the nomination in Tuesday’s primary support the shift and echo former President Donald Trump’s false claims that fraud cost him the 2020 election. If successful, the move would be a bold attempt to shift power to an office Republicans hope to control going into the 2024 presidential election and would represent a reversal from just six years ago when Republicans established the Wisconsin Elections Commission with bipartisan support. In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden won Wisconsin by about 21,000 votes in the presidential race.
Trump-backed Michigan attorney general candidate involved in voting-system breach, documents show. The analysis shows that people working with Matthew DePerno - the Trump-endorsed nominee for the state’s top law-enforcement post - examined a vote tabulator from Richfield Township, a conservative stronghold of 3,600 people in northern Michigan’s Roscommon County...Under state law, it is a felony to seek or provide unauthorized access to voting equipment.
Indiana becomes 1st state to approve abortion ban post Roe. Indiana on Friday became the first state in the nation to approve abortion restrictions since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, as the Republican governor quickly signed a near-total ban on the procedure shortly after lawmakers approved it. The ban, which takes effect Sept. 15, includes some exceptions. Abortions would be permitted in cases of rape and incest, before 10-weeks post-fertilization; to protect the life and physical health of the mother; and if a fetus is diagnosed with a lethal anomaly. Victims of rape and incest would not be required to sign a notarized affidavit attesting to an attack, as had once been proposed. — Let’s be clear. Indiana voters did not approve this. A few white Republicans (mostly men) approved this. Vote them all out of office.
Biden team, Eli Lilly condemn new Indiana abortion ban. The administration of President Joe Biden and one of Indiana’s largest employers have condemned the state’s new ban on abortions, with the White House calling it another extreme attempt by Republicans to trample women’s rights.
The FBI Confirms Its Brett Kavanaugh Investigation Was A Total Sham. Given these allegations—in addition to Kavanaugh’s temperament, which, to put it in terms he can understand, could be best described as “a hothead who just did a 10 Jägerbombs”—it struck many as outrageous for him to be given a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court. That sense of outrage only deepened last year, when we learned that the FBI had received 4,500—4,500!—tips about Kavanaugh, which were referred to the White House, i.e. the organization trying to get the guy confirmed to the Court. And now, the FBI has confirmed that, yeah, it didn’t really feel the need to look into any of those tips, and when it did follow up on some, the White House was making sure it didn’t dig too far…Regardless of whether or not it’s true that the FBI has a policy of taking direction “from the requesting entity,” it would seem that if an individual is up for a job in which he will have the power to affect millions of people’s lives, and has been accused of engaging in horrible acts, the most powerful investigative body in the country should take a more active role.
How Alex Jones helped mainstream conspiracy theories become part of American life. But even if Jones were to go silent and Infowars went out of business tomorrow, the seeds of doubt he so effectively planted are flourishing. "Conspiracy is a permanent part of our political and cultural discourse now," Ryan said. "I think you can say that Alex Jones was an innovator in that." — Alex Jones is a maggot infested steaming pile of shit on a hot and humid day.
Almost 600 Texas youths are trapped in a juvenile prison system on the brink of collapse. Its five lockups are dangerously understaffed, an ongoing problem that worsened dramatically last year when its turnover rate for detention officers hit more than 70%. The state has desperately tried to recruit employees, but most new hires are gone within six months. Teachers and caseworkers routinely work in security roles so the prisons’ nearly 600 youth can get out of their cells to go to the bathroom or take showers. Still, children have reported being left to use water bottles as makeshift toilets.
GOP governors sent buses of migrants to D.C. and NYC — with no plan for what's next. For months now, the governors of Texas and Arizona have been sending charter buses full of migrants and refugees to Washington, D.C.'s Union Station, just a few blocks from the Capitol building. When they disembark, they find neither the local nor federal government there to meet them.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, said on Friday he has started to send buses carrying migrants to New York City in an effort to push responsibility for border crossers to Democratic mayors and U.S. President Joe Biden, a Democrat.
A Florida school district added a parental 'advisory notice' to over 100 books. The notices were added to LGBTQ books, books about race and several literary classics, including Toni Morrison’s “Beloved.” “This Advisory Notice shall serve to inform you that this book has been identified by some community members as unsuitable for students,” the label states. “This book will also be identified in the Destiny system with the same notation. The decision as to whether this book is suitable or unsuitable shall be the decision of the parent(s) who has the right to oversee his/her child’s education consistent with state law.”
Quiet quitting: why doing the bare minimum at work has gone global. “Since the pandemic, people’s relationship with work has been studied in many ways, and the literature typically, across the professions, would argue that, yes, people’s way of relating to their work has changed.”…Enlightened companies are designing jobs that give employees control, pride in their work and a fair wage, but those efforts are undermined by the cost of living crisis, and workers end up feeling shortchanged. “People talk about money, and that’s important,” Weinberg said, “but beyond that, they want to be respected for what they do, and valued in some way.”
Discoveries in Pompeii reveal lives of lower and middle classes. “In the Roman empire, there was an ample chunk of the population that struggled with their social status and for whom daily bread was anything but a given,’’ Zuchtriegel said. “A vulnerable class during political crises and food shortages, but also ambitious about climbing the social ladder.”
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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