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Apr 27 2022
Analysis
Biden’s Plan to Punish the Responsible
On the menu today: President Biden is on the verge of rewriting a longstanding social contract by deciding that taxpayers should repay significant portions of student loans, instead of the borrowers who took out those loans and received the education. The biggest beneficiaries would be white Americans under the age of 40 who have graduate degrees and live in high-income, majority-white
National Review (News)
May 22 2021
Analysis
Fox News completely ignores the police killing of Ronald Greene
On Wednesday, The Associated Press published a story containing police body-camera video clips from May 2019 of Louisiana State troopers beating a Black man, Ronald Greene, who then died from his injuries. Fox News has given no coverage to this major civil-rights story, MSNBC has covered it for nearly 40 minutes, and CNN has covered it for nearly three hours.
The incident has been the
Media Matters
Feb 16 2022
Analysis
Nice raise. Too bad about inflation.
You got a raise last year or switched jobs to get one. Congratulations! You’re one of the many Americans who saw their paychecks get bigger. Unfortunately, unless your wages or salary grew much higher than the national average of 4.5 percent last year, inflation likely canceled it out. That means that while you might be making more money, you can buy less stuff with it.
That’s bad news
Vox
Jul 16 2021
News
These Photos Show The Devastation Of The Floods In Germany That Have Killed Over 100 People
More than 100 people have been killed by floods in Germany after extreme rainfall caused rivers to overflow in the western part of the country on Thursday, and the toll is expected to increase as the floodwaters recede.
Dozens have also been killed in neighboring Belgium and the Netherlands.
Rescue operations are ongoing as hundreds of people are still listed as missing, although
BuzzFeed News
Apr 06 2021
News
Slain Officer Will Lie In Honor In The Capitol Rotunda
The police officer killed during an attack at the Capitol Friday will lie in honor in the Capitol’s Rotunda on April 13, according to a statement.
William “Billy” Evans died on April 2 after Noah Green rammed his car into a Capitol checkpoint, killing Evans and injuring another officer, the Associated Press reported. Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California and Senate Majority
The Daily Caller
Nov 16 2021
Analysis
How you could see cleaner air and water with Biden’s new infrastructure law
President Joe Biden signed into law on Monday a bipartisan infrastructure bill that includes $350 billion to address long-ignored environmental threats. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act is the largest sum in recent memory directed at cleaning up pollution, from replacing lead pipes to capping methane-spewing oil wells.
The funding could make a serious dent in air and water
Vox
Apr 21 2021
News
Ma’Khia Bryant: Columbus police release bodycam footage of officer’s fatal shooting of teen
Police in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday night released bodycam footage showing an officer’s fatal shooting of a 16-year-old girl earlier in the day.
The truncated video begins at the moment the officer exits his vehicle and encounters the teen, who appears to be armed with a knife, chasing a girl outside a home.
The girl who was being chased falls on the lawn in front of the cop.
New York Post (News)
Oct 23 2021
News
A Union Scandal Landed Hundreds of NYPD Officers on a Secret Watchlist. That Hasn’t Stopped Some From Jeopardizing Cases.
One judge said she believed the testimony of a Bronx defendant’s 64-year-old mother more than that of the two New York City police officers who arrested him.
Another said she didn’t buy the testimony of an officer and his colleagues, concluding that they had stopped a car not because they’d seen its occupants break any laws but because it was driven by “three young men of color.”
ProPublica
Jun 11 2020
Analysis
Cancel Cancel Culture
The vanguard of the revolution has set its beady-eyed gaze on . . . Paw Patrol.
Paw Patrol, a children’s cartoon about doggie do-gooders, has as one of its principal characters a German shepherd called Chase, who is a police officer. (A police officer in an imaginary universe in which dogs have full-time jobs, drive cars, and wear jaunty caps.) According to the New York Times, which
National Review (News)
Jan 28 2021
News
General Motors plans to exclusively offer electric vehicles by 2035
General Motors wants to end production of all diesel- and gasoline-powered cars, trucks and SUVs by 2035 and shift its entire new fleet to electric vehicles as part of a broader plan to become carbon neutral by 2040, the company said Thursday.
The company plans to use 100% renewable energy to power its U.S. facilities by 2030 and global facilities by 2035 — five years ahead of a
CNBC