In the news today: A Senate parliamentarian ruling appears to sharply limit new reconciliation options, giving Republicans a boost in their efforts to block new infrastructure spending. 100 scholars issue a public warning that Republican actions are putting the nation’s democracy at dire risk. And Joe Biden singles out two Democratic senators who continue to protect a Senate tradition long used to sabotage civil and voting rights.
Here's some of what you may have missed:
• Biden, Schumer hamstrung on infrastructure by new ruling from parliamentarian
• Biden slams Manchin and Sinema for holding up voting rights legislation
• One hundred scholars submit a dire warning about the future of American democracy
• Tulsa wasn't the first or last time Black people were massacred and erased from American history
• Donald Trump's blog is dead, because it was exactly what Trump wanted, and no one was reading it
From the community:
• COVID Breakthrough Deaths in Context
• The Filibuster is a Dead Man Walking
Here's some of what you may have missed:
• Biden, Schumer hamstrung on infrastructure by new ruling from parliamentarian
• Biden slams Manchin and Sinema for holding up voting rights legislation
• One hundred scholars submit a dire warning about the future of American democracy
• Tulsa wasn't the first or last time Black people were massacred and erased from American history
• Donald Trump's blog is dead, because it was exactly what Trump wanted, and no one was reading it
From the community:
• COVID Breakthrough Deaths in Context
• The Filibuster is a Dead Man Walking