Will latest coronavirus relief deal pass before Election Day? Rep. Steny Hoyer weighs in.
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer talks to Capitol Hill Video Reporter, Rhonda Colvin, on whether current negotiations are working.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave the White House until Oct 20 to come to an agreement on a bill that can be passed before Election Day. Read more: https://wapo.st/35fFgfj. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
October 20, 2020
WSMIraqyDps
Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Alicia Garza on her book & creating change (Full Stream 10/20)
Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, joins Washington Post Pulitzer Prize-winning senior critic-at-large Robin Givhan to discuss what it means to do the work of organizing a movement and creating change. Join Washington Post Live on Tuesday, Oct. 20 at 2:00 pm ET.
Washington Post Live is the newsroom’s live journalism platform, featuring interviews with top-level government officials, business leaders, cultural influencers and emerging voices on the most pressing issues driving the news cycle nationally and across the globe. From one-on-one, newsmaker interviews to in-depth multi-segment programs, Washington Post Live brings The Post’s newsroom to life on stage. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
October 20, 2020
nqDpH9zL5FA
12 destructive hours of wildfire exposed Oregon's resource crisis
Oregon’s Almeda Fire started as a brush fire on the morning of Sept. 8 and quickly became an urban fire. Strong winds from the east pushed the flames into the cities of Talent and Phoenix, destroying 3,000 structures. The small force of firefighters from the Rogue Valley quickly engaged the blaze, but in a state where more than 10 large fires were already burning, they were on their own. Read more: https://wapo.st/34czjAz. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
October 20, 2020
1XPB95JkVME
Opinion | Trump is fueling a covid-19 anti-vaccine movement, but the problem is far bigger
Distrust in the Trump administration has turned into distrust of science, adding to an already powerful anti-vaccine movement. But infectious-disease epidemiologists Dr. Syra Madad and Dr. Paul Offit, co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine, say even in this muddled information environment, we need to trust the science.
#coronavirus #covidvaccine #antivaccine Read more: https://wapo.st/31lMPQs. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
October 20, 2020
fPA2pFalCk0
Iceland Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir on the coronavirus (Full Stream 10/20)
Iceland Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir speaks with Washington Post foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius about what other countries can learn from the small island nation’s crisis management and how it is preparing to handle the resurgence of the virus in Europe and possible second wave across the globe.
Washington Post Live is the newsroom’s live journalism platform, featuring interviews with top-level government officials, business leaders, cultural influencers and emerging voices on the most pressing issues driving the news cycle nationally and across the globe. From one-on-one, newsmaker interviews to in-depth multi-segment programs, Washington Post Live brings The Post’s newsroom to life on stage. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
October 20, 2020
GQbJm1kuOvg
Tracking COVID-19 with Vaughn Cooper & Vin Gupta (Full Stream 10/19)
U.S health officials are warning Americans to brace for a harsh second wave of COVID-19 this winter. Washington Post Live will talk with Vaughn Cooper, PhD, an evolutionary microbiologist at the University of Pittsburgh, who is leading the way in utilizing cutting-edge technology to track the coronavirus’s genetic code to control the spread. Vin Gupta, MD, a pulmonologist and global health policy expert, will also join the program to examine the outlook on the vaccine race and what lies ahead in 2021. Join Washington Post Live on Monday, Oct. 19 at 11 a.m. ET for conversations moderated by national political reporter Robert Costa.
Washington Post Live is the newsroom’s live journalism platform, featuring interviews with top-level government officials, business leaders, cultural influencers and emerging voices on the most pressing issues driving the news cycle nationally and across the globe. From one-on-one, newsmaker interviews to in-depth multi-segment programs, Washington Post Live brings The Post’s newsroom to life on stage. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
October 19, 2020
98FsD_BrVzY
Google's search evolution from oracle to advertiser
Compare Google search engine results over nearly two decades and a trend emerges: Results are filled with advertising and non-Google results are lower down. Read more: https://wapo.st/3jcr4sv. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
October 19, 2020
5aX3_niSBsg
Democrats slam 'Trump virus response' as president's surrogates defend him
Trump and Biden campaign surrogates traded blame over the administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic on Oct. 18. Read more: https://wapo.st/31l4ZSl. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
October 18, 2020
HcVEfPN0SYU
Jim Carrey, Alec Baldwin put SNL spin on Trump and Biden's simultaneous town hall events
Actors Jim Carrey and Alec Baldwin returned as Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and President Trump on "Saturday Night Live" on Oct. 17. Read more: https://wapo.st/3dKwA4A. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
October 18, 2020
daAe51GNS_c
Trump campaign evades blame after Whitmer plot
Officials for President Trump's campaign were asked about Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) after Trump joined in a chant of "lock her up" at an Oct. 17 rally. Read more: https://wapo.st/2Hdnp0c. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
October 18, 2020
hPnht2j99CQ
In the key state of Pennsylvania, vote counting could stretch beyond election night
In Erie County, Pa. — a swing county in a battleground state — voters and election officials are trying to navigate the challenges of holding an election in the midst of a pandemic. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
October 18, 2020
-oWkRS2epFo
WATCH LIVE: Women's March protests Amy Coney Barrett in D.C.
The Women's March organization expects to draw thousands of protesters to the District, less than a month before the presidential election. The demonstrators oppose President Trump's Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett, framing it as an attack against women's reproductive freedom. Read more: https://wapo.st/3lQWPsE. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
October 17, 2020
DSBl0IOikE4
Comparing the Trump and Biden town halls | The 2020 Fix
The Fix’s Natalie Jennings analyzes the separate town halls held by President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Oct. 15. Read more: https://wapo.st/3j741zc. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
October 16, 2020
BU5OTs1l788
Mobilizing the Vote with Deval Patrick, Zach Carothers & Amy Lee (Full Stream 10/16)
With just weeks until election day, Washington Post Live will host the third virtual event in our partnership with PEN America, “Voting Matters: Mobilizing the Vote,” to spotlight the lawmakers, advocates, and entertainers who are working to get out the vote and encourage young Americans to become more actively involved in democracy. Former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick will discuss his work energizing the Democratic base and mobilizing people to get involved through TogetherFund PAC, a political action committee organized to address the challenges many Americans face including rising health care costs, low wage jobs and limited access to quality education - in turn motivating Americans to be more active citizens.
Zach Carothers, bassist of Portugal. The Man, and Amy Lee of Evanescence, will discuss their bands’ partnership with Headcount, a non-partisan group that stages voter registration drives at concerts, executes fan-based texting campaigns and more. Carothers and Lee will expand on the influence musicians and entertainers have in working to engage first-time voters and encourage young Americans to use their voice in the voting process.Washington Post Live is the newsroom’s live journalism platform, featuring interviews with top-level government officials, business leaders, cultural influencers and emerging voices on the most pressing issues driving the news cycle nationally and across the globe. From one-on-one, newsmaker interviews to in-depth multi-segment programs, Washington Post Live brings The Post’s newsroom to life on stage. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
October 12, 2020
0Okgej9w1ck
First Look with Jonathan Capehart (Full Stream 10/16)
Jonathan Capehart with Ashley Parker, Hugh Hewitt and Ruth Marcus as they discuss the presidential debate.
Washington Post Live is the newsroom’s live journalism platform, featuring interviews with top-level government officials, business leaders, cultural influencers and emerging voices on the most pressing issues driving the news cycle nationally and across the globe. From one-on-one, newsmaker interviews to in-depth multi-segment programs, Washington Post Live brings The Post’s newsroom to life on stage. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
October 12, 2020
ZgqVMMaPqto
Sen. Cruz, Meadows refuse to wear mask for reporters
Both Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows refused to wear masks while answering questions from reporters during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
October 16, 2020
mSgQyCsmwmQ
Biden and Trump's dueling town halls in 3 minutes
President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden appeared at separate town halls on Oct. 15, the night that was supposed to be their second debate. Read more: https://wapo.st/3j741zc. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
October 16, 2020
6CsmEOWss9Q
Moderators press Trump, Biden at dueling town halls
NBC News’ Savannah Guthrie and ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos pressed presidential candidates Donald Trump and Joe Biden with multiple follow-up questions during dueling town hall events on Oct. 15. Read more: https://wapo.st/3j741zc. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
October 15, 2020
9Dt88_12Dec
Fourth day of Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing - 10/15 (FULL LIVE STREAM)
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hear from witnesses on the fourth day of Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings on Oct. 15.
Barrett’s conservative legal views and her closeness to her former boss and mentor, the conservative icon Justice Antonin Scalia, have raised concerns from Democrats that she will push the court further to the right in ways that could be difficult to reverse for years or even decades. Read more: https://wapo.st/33Y6tDR. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
October 14, 2020
B0ReAR3RbwE
National Gallery of Art director Kaywin Feldman on Philip Guston Controversy (Full Stream 10/15)
On Thursday, Oct. 15 at 2:00 p.m. ET, National Gallery of Art director Kaywin Feldman will discuss her decision to postpone the exhibit, the need for more Black curators in museums across the country and the impact calls for racial justice have had on the art world at large.
Washington Post Live is the newsroom’s live journalism platform, featuring interviews with top-level government officials, business leaders, cultural influencers and emerging voices on the most pressing issues driving the news cycle nationally and across the globe. From one-on-one, newsmaker interviews to in-depth multi-segment programs, Washington Post Live brings The Post’s newsroom to life on stage. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
Follow us:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/washingtonpost
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/washingtonpost/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/washingtonpost/
October 12, 2020
tKBivtxy6QA
https://scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/122012251_364830331400036_763006279346969968_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=108&_nc_ohc=_7oVhtjAHVQAX86nZiF&_nc_tp=18&oh=a7b2e99aa2aa45088e927e9bd3467982&oe=5FBABBE6
Oscar-winning actor Jeff Bridges revealed Monday night that he has been diagnosed with lymphoma. “As the Dude would say.. New S**T has come to light,” tweeted Bridges, referring to his beloved stoner character from “The Big Lebowski.” “… Although it is a serious disease, I feel fortunate that I have a great team of doctors and the prognosis is good.” In an emotional note widely shared on social media, the 70-year-old Bridges did not offer further details about his cancer diagnosis other than that he was starting treatment. Bridges was in the middle of working on “The Old Man,” an action-drama series set to premiere next year for FX on Hulu, in which the actor is the star and executive producer. In a joint statement, Hulu, FX, Touchstone Television and FXP said Bridges has their full support as he undergoes treatment. It remains unclear what type of lymphoma Bridges is facing. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hodgkin lymphoma spreads in an orderly manner through lymph nodes and generally becomes more common as people get older. Read more by clicking the link in our bio.
4854
https://scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/121985834_671686820446556_4280304861517601430_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=EUuQpaMH02gAX_krhNF&_nc_tp=18&oh=44397e8b591a397bfe38b47e7d8163d4&oe=5FBA3FD6
A man who has funneled thousands of dollars in donations to President Trump’s campaign warned his employees of layoffs and a bleak future for their company if the president is not reelected. George Daniels, the president of Orlando-based Daniels Manufacturing Corporation, wrote a letter placed in pay stub envelopes that said some employees might lose their jobs if Trump loses the election Nov. 3, WESH 2 News in Orlando reported. “If President Trump and the Republicans win, DMC will hopefully be able to continue operating, more or less as it has been operating lately,” the letter reads. “However, if Biden and the Democrats win, DMC could be forced to begin permanent layoffs, beginning in late 2020 and/or early 2021." In the letter, Daniels informed employees that because of industry-wide reductions in airline travel and civilian aircraft construction, the company is “more dependent than ever before” on military contracts. He then argued that Democrats have historically cut military funding and a Biden victory would lead to lower profits and a need to reduce the workforce. The incident prompted mixed reactions among the employees and raised questions over the appropriateness of the message. It was seen by some workers as an attempt to coerce their votes. Read more by clicking the link in our bio.
12132
https://scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/122030705_124316405866217_8435676845821286890_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=8Ob5nv1ZrAUAX90KkHS&_nc_tp=18&oh=eb776eb94e13f7fd76ffbaef492339d7&oe=5FBA1997
Eric Hale’s childhood was marred by abuse and poverty. His mother struggled with drug addiction, and his stepfather had schizophrenia. “It was a tough cycle,” said Hale, 40, adding that as a child, he had little hope for his future.
After years of struggle, though, he did succeed: Hale was recently named 2021 Texas Teacher of the Year, becoming the first Black man to receive the honor out of the state’s more than 360,000 teachers. “I’m the first to win it, but I’m not the first to deserve it,” he said. Hale teaches first and second grade at David G. Burnet Elementary School in Dallas, where 98 percent of students live below the national poverty line. Hale’s own childhood trauma steeled him, he said, supplying him with the necessary tools to reach out to children living through similar circumstances. Beyond demonstrating significant acts of kindness, Hale has also been mobilizing for the school on a broader scale, raising more than $100,000 — mostly from community members and businesses he approached directly — to repair the school gym after it was destroyed in a tornado. He also secured 16 used laptops for his students to use during the pandemic after reaching out to the Texas A&M University at Commerce in search of spare devices. Hale also created YouTube videos for his students to watch over the summer in the hopes of avoiding a “summer slide” — a decline in reading skills and other academic abilities. Read more by clicking the link in our bio. (Photo via Marcel Rodriguez)
51253
https://scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/121984003_645516846030275_5220807436569757842_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=32cn9kqeRT0AX8yuLWX&_nc_tp=18&oh=f16b9893925ae59aa360fde029f988da&oe=5FB887CC
By the Spring of 2009, George Floyd had been through stints in jail for drug possession since his 20s, spending up to several months at a time behind bars. But Bartlett State Jail in Bartlett, Texas was his first taste of extended time. He was sentenced there after pleading guilty to an armed robbery in Houston in 2007 and would spend nearly two years at the facility. He was one of several men accused of holding a woman at gunpoint and ransacking her home for money and drugs until they realized they had the wrong house and hustled away. Floyd was arrested months later, driving what witnesses had identified as the getaway car. He is the only person who has served time for the incident, records show. The victim says she remembers Floyd’s face, and a police report states that she “tentatively” identified him in a lineup — though the photo lineup techniques investigators used are no longer approved. At Bartlett State Jail, Floyd bunked with a childhood friend who said Floyd long contended that he was innocent of that crime but took a plea deal out of concern that a jury would unfairly judge a man with previous felonies. The Texas prison system’s mission was to end the type of recurrent incarceration that Floyd experienced by rehabilitating inmates and returning them to society with skills that would help them live law-abiding lives. But Floyd’s time in Bartlett State Jail only furthered his downward spiral. Floyd was caught in the grips of America’s tough-on-crime era, with Texas on the bleeding edge. The state’s prison system tripled in size between 1990 and 2000 after voters authorized $1.7 billion in bonds, according to a report by the Justice Policy Institute. By the time Floyd arrived at Bartlett State Jail, the crackdown’s disproportionate effect on Black Texans was glaring. In 2010, Floyd’s last full year in that facility, Black people made up 12 percent of the Texas population — but 32 percent of those in prisons and jails. On the other side of the barbed wire, the Texas towns that housed the facilities prospered. Read more by clicking the link in our bio. #georgefloyd
5830
https://scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/121660247_413179803010128_4986106351505894665_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=z5R4erjG0ToAX86QcZx&_nc_tp=18&oh=820cea90f6a7946010d60d393b5d7fb8&oe=5FB959F4
ExxonMobil wants to get the record straight: The oil producer did not bribe President Trump with campaign donations. The energy giant offered a clarification Monday evening after Trump described a detailed — but strictly theoretical — fundraising call involving the company’s chief executive at a rally in Prescott, Ariz., earlier in the day. “We are aware of the President’s statement regarding a hypothetical call with our CEO,” the company wrote on Twitter, “and just so we’re all clear, it never happened.” Trump first invoked the company’s name onstage while claiming he could raise more money than Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, who in recent months has gained a significant cash lead over the president. “I call the head of Exxon. I don’t know, you know, ‘How are you doing? How’s energy coming? When are you doing the exploration? Oh, you need a couple of permits?'" Trump told supporters. “I say, ‘You know, I’d love [for] you to send me $25 million for the campaign.’ ‘Absolutely sir, why didn’t you ask? Would you like some more?’” This particular scenario is only the latest example of Trump’s jumbled, sometimes joking rally dialect. Yet after the rally, some following along online did not understand exactly where Trump was going with talk of a hypothetical bribery call. Had the president just laid out a textbook case of corruption? Then, ExxonMobil stepped in with its unusual response to the president, denying Trump had offered to greenlight permits in exchange for millions of dollars in campaign contributions. Read more by clicking the link in our bio.
16841
https://scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/122012988_653782912208398_4261751460134390055_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=2FvERBHLK3QAX_jZWgd&_nc_tp=18&oh=8e8bceef9bb67dc0fa4ed824926e9baa&oe=5FB7A927
The editorial board of USA Today endorsed former vice president Joe Biden on Tuesday, marking the first time since the publication was founded in 1982 that it has backed a presidential candidate. “This extraordinary moment in the history of our nation requires an extraordinary response,” the board explained in an editorial. “With his plans, his personnel picks, his experience and his humanity, Joe Biden can help lead the United States out of this morass and into the future. Your vote can help make that happen.” Four years ago, the board urged readers not to vote for Trump, saying he lacked the “temperament, knowledge, steadiness and honesty that America needs from its presidents.” But it stopped short of endorsing Democrat Hillary Clinton. Read more by clicking the link in our bio.
59648
https://scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/122221296_669877320599895_7545188934277273939_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=vq3eeHa_l8UAX__Lctz&_nc_tp=18&oh=d97da9d619da7c16e5ec7157625723bc&oe=5FB90546
Two weeks before Election Day, Black Americans have voted in striking numbers, helping to drive historic levels of early voting as mail ballots have flooded election offices and people have endured huge lines to cast ballots in person across the country. In interviews in 10 states where early voting is underway, Black voters said this year’s presidential election is the most important of their lifetime — some calling it more consequential even than 2008, when those who were old enough went to the polls in record numbers to make Barack Obama the country’s first Black president. They spoke of a sense of urgency to protect the nation’s democracy, and their role in it, which they believe a second Trump term would erode beyond repair. Many said they view the president as a racist who cannot bring himself to disavow white supremacists or the year’s spate of police killings of unarmed Black Americans, and they believe the country is less safe for themselves and their families. Over and over again, Black Americans described their vote this year as much more than a choice between two presidential candidates, but as an urgent stand in the long fight against racial injustice in America, which the year’s events have made clear is not yet over. Read more by clicking the link in our bio.
39561
https://scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/121779779_2820579298220051_2212324222393456216_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=1&_nc_ohc=kBWLPYJV4mEAX8F0Rvb&_nc_tp=18&oh=e3979bf2002ae74b21ce0a1da5f74ef0&oe=5FB9FB90
Former vice president Joe Biden on Monday seized on President Trump’s attacks on Dr. Anthony Fauci, saying in a statement that the president is lashing out at public health experts “instead of laying out a plan to beat this virus or heeding their advice about how we can save lives and get our economy moving again.” “President Trump even criticized me yesterday for listening to the scientists — that’s not an attack, that’s a badge of honor,” Biden said. The former vice president went on to criticize Trump’s leadership, arguing that “all President Trump has done is cower and wallow in self-pity.” “Mr. President, you’re right about one thing: The American people are tired,” he said. “They’re tired of your lies about this virus. They’re tired of watching more Americans die and more people lose their jobs because you refuse to take this pandemic seriously.” Read more by clicking the link in our bio.
50985
https://scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/122012987_361727251703373_369409682436187368_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=109&_nc_ohc=YFfWKwkIIdsAX8sKxHD&_nc_tp=18&oh=0c79cff19c6bcc2b0d384d0b3eecddf8&oe=5FB748FD
A federal judge on Sunday formally struck down a Trump administration attempt to end food stamp benefits for nearly 700,000 unemployed people, blocking as “arbitrary and capricious” the first of three such planned measures to restrict the federal food safety net. In a scathing 67-page opinion, Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell of D.C. condemned the Agriculture Department for failing to justify or even address the impact of the sweeping change on states. The rule “at issue in this litigation radically and abruptly alters decades of regulatory practice, leaving States scrambling and exponentially increasing food insecurity for tens of thousands of Americans,” Howell wrote. Her ruling granted summary judgment to a coalition of 19 states, D.C., New York City and private groups that sued to stop the new rule, finalized in December, to eliminate states’ discretion to waive work requirements in distressed economic areas. Read more by clicking the link in our bio.
44965
https://scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/122022073_370753114336241_7198783149147790442_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=105&_nc_ohc=SSsveB6yzeUAX-y5iD1&_nc_tp=18&oh=ebd929406bd826e56a9d7262ec4bc592&oe=5FB7A507
In the most incarcerated state in the country, Fair Wayne Bryant has known little but prison in his adult life. Since 1997, the 63-year-old Black man has been locked up in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola — the largest maximum-security facility prison in the United States, named in part after the former slave plantation it replaced — for stealing a pair of hedge clippers. On Thursday, he was finally able to walk out. The Louisiana Committee on Parole voted 3-0 last week to grant parole to Bryant, whose stunning case offered a stark illustration of the consequences of the state’s severe laws for repeat offenders. The committee’s decision to release Bryant comes more than two months after the state Supreme Court denied his request to review his life sentence. Most of the seven justices backed that decision over the summer, but the court’s lone Black judge delivered a fiery dissent in response. Chief Justice Bernette Johnson directly connected Bryant’s situation to the “Pig Laws” that had been designed to keep Black people in poverty during Reconstruction. “This case demonstrates their modern manifestation: harsh habitual offender laws that permit a life sentence for a Black man convicted of property crimes,” she wrote. Read more by clicking the link in our bio.
41961
https://scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/121787401_205550947634836_5786939288700798242_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=104&_nc_ohc=6OTfL-XppHAAX9pNhDd&_nc_tp=18&oh=4017f0d2b70b6c5f7bb5e58caa7ed647&oe=5FBAA32C
In a striking interview on “60 Minutes” Sunday, Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, said he was “absolutely not” surprised President Trump contracted the novel coronavirus after watching him flout public health guidelines at a White House event last month. The president and more than a dozen other people who had close contact with him in late September — including many maskless attendees at a Sept. 26 Rose Garden event honoring Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett — tested positive for the novel coronavirus earlier this month. When asked by CBS News chief medical correspondent Jon LaPook if Trump’s covid-19 diagnosis surprised him, Fauci answered, “Absolutely not.” Go to the link in our bio to read more.
31046
https://scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/e35/121675163_128335698729291_1541612093831363208_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent-frx5-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=103&_nc_ohc=yHfImqLWwWgAX9VonLh&_nc_tp=18&oh=a57ae0c19173c091d74ae792e370e42a&oe=5FBA84A5
On what would become one of his final days on Earth, James Wendel Williams heaved his too-thin body to City Hall in defiance of the cancer that had left him largely homebound. He was determined to cast a ballot in the 2020 election. Resolve was not an issue. Neither was indecision. The problem was timing. For months, Williams, 77, had watched the calendar from his home in Birmingham, Mich., a suburb of Detroit, increasingly worried that he would not live long enough to vote. As his health deteriorated with each passing week, he and his family knew it was becoming less and less likely that he would make it to Election Day. They set their sights instead on the first day of early voting, Sept. 24. At times, even that had felt unlikely. Now, with his son and daughter-in-law at his side like guardrails, he took the final steps to the official ballot drop box, intent on placing it in himself. He moved slowly, his face straining from the effort. His son, David, hovered close, in that tentative way sons of elderly parents do — to keep him from falling. Williams flashed a smile after the ballot fell in. A triumph. Go to the link in our bio to read more. (Photo by Nick Hagen for The Washington Post)
86889