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Feb 28 2024
Headline Roundup
California Gov. Gavin Newsom Faces Second Recall Effort
California Governor Gavin Newsom is facing another recall effort by conservative activists, who are taking issue with the state’s deficit and Newsom’s handling of issues like homelessness and crime.
The Details: The effort is led by Rescue California, which sent a recall letter to Newsom’s office on Monday. While a previous 2021 recall attempt was unsuccessful, a member of the group
CalMatters Los Angeles Times The BlazeMay 16 2021
Analysis
The new mask guidance relies on an honor system. Do we trust each other enough to make it work?
As soon as Michelle Garrett verified that the new federal mask guidelines were real, she turned to her 14-year-old daughter, who just became eligible for vaccination against the coronavirus this week.
“Do you still need to wear your mask to school tomorrow?” she asked.
Garrett, a writer and communications consultant in Columbus, Ohio, almost didn’t believe the Centers for Disease
Washington PostApr 27 2021
Analysis
Biden’s fake burger ban and the rising culture war over meat
Over the weekend, Republicans accused Joe Biden of trying to ban meat. The claim, which you’ve heard from the likes of Donald Trump Jr. and Texas Gov. Greg Abbot, is that Biden’s climate plan will prohibit Americans from chowing down on burgers in an effort to limit greenhouse gas emissions associated with industrial agriculture. On Fox News this Friday, former Trump economic adviser Larry
VoxJun 22 2020
News
UK Nazi Satanist group should be outlawed, campaigners urge
British neo-Nazi Satanist group should be outlawed by the government as a terrorist organisation, according to a report from anti-racism campaigners.
Hope Not Hate has used its annual State of Hate report to call for the Order of Nine Angles (ONA) to be banned.
The Home Office said the list of proscribed terrorist groups was kept "under review."
Last week two British
BBC NewsJan 18 2021
Opinion
Why Purging Social Media of Extremist Speech Might Not Make Us Safer
It's been a wild week on social media. Twitter and Facebook permanently suspended President Trump following the Capitol riots; Twitter removed 70,000 accounts for allegedly promoting violent and conspiratorial content; Facebook mistakenly locked former congressman Ron Paul out of his account, an incident that demonstrates the perils of overly broad moderation; Apple and Amazon moved to
ReasonAug 10 2021
Opinion
What critical race theory is — and isn’t — and why it belongs in schools
Race is a touchy subject in this country at the most easygoing of times, and these are not the most easygoing of times. The issue is especially fraught as the nation struggles to come to some kind of racial reckoning after the murder of George Floyd, who died under the knee of a white police officer.
It’s not surprising, then, that a renewed call for ethnic studies in public schools has
Los Angeles TimesOct 01 2020
News
California to study reparations for Black residents under new law signed by Gov. Newsom
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law on Wednesday that opens the door to the state paying reparations of some kind to Black Californians, especially those who are descendants of slaves.
The law does not commit to any specific kind of payment. It calls for a nine-member task force that will be asked to make recommendations for how reparations could be provided, such as through compensation or
The Sacramento BeeFeb 15 2021
Analysis
A GOP donor gave $2.5 million for a voter fraud investigation. Now he wants his money back.
Like many Trump supporters, conservative donor Fred Eshelman awoke the day after the presidential election with the suspicion that something wasn’t right. His candidate’s apparent lead in key battleground states had evaporated overnight.
The next day, the North Carolina financier and his advisers reached out to a small conservative nonprofit group in Texas that was seeking to expose
Washington PostOct 22 2020
Opinion
Republicans Were Prepared for Attacks on Barrett’s Religion
In late 2018, after Brian Buescher was nominated to serve as a district judge in Nebraska, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee grilled him over his membership in the Knights of Columbus, suggesting that his Catholic views made him unfit to serve on the bench.
“Were you aware that the Knights of Columbus opposed a woman’s right to choose when you joined the organization?” Senator
National Review (News)Feb 15 2021
Data
Two-Thirds of Americans Not Satisfied With Vaccine Rollout
As the Biden administration begins to grapple with the COVID-19 situation, two-thirds of Americans say they are not satisfied with the way the vaccination process is going in the U.S. This includes 21% who are "very dissatisfied." At the same time, 34% are satisfied, with 4% of them "very satisfied."
Meanwhile, 71% of Americans are now willing to be vaccinated, up from 65% in late
Gallup