Watch President Biden deliver remarks on the united efforts of the free world to support the people of Ukraine, hold Russia accountable for its brutal war, and defend a future that is rooted in democratic principles.
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Building on anti-mask activism, far-right groups pivot from mandates to midterms
“Energized by their fight against government coronavirus restrictions, far-right activists are rallying supporters to engage in politics and show up to vote,” Hannah Allam reports.
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Permanent standard time is better than daylight saving, sleep experts say
Permanent standard time is better than daylight saving, sleep experts say “Sleep experts widely agree with the Senate that the country should abandon its twice-yearly
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Democratic National Committee members push for changes in party to give more money to states
“Dozens of voting members of the Democratic National Committee met Friday to organize a new voting bloc to push for changes to the internal governance of the national party and send more money to state party groups,” The Washington Post’s Michael Scherer reports.
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Here is everything that’s happened with Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters
Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, a Republican accused of compromising sensitive election machine data, was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday. Here’s an explanation of everything that’s happened so far from The Colorado Sun.
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Fitch downgrades Russia’s credit rating amid Ukraine crisis, says default is ‘imminent’
“They can’t get their hands on money or securities or goods or services. They are outcast and they will over the shorter term freeze to death,” financial services veteran George Ball said in comments to The Washington Post.
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What if Congress isn’t hopelessly locked in partisan gridlock? What if it’s getting a lot done?
“According to statistics from the Brookings Institution and CQ Roll Call’s own calculations, the 116th Congress was actually the most productive since the 80th in 1947–48, the farthest back Brookings’ data goes,” Jim Saksa writes for CQ Roll Call.
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SNL mocks Fox, Ingraham, Carlson, and Trump for their pro-Russia propaganda
Watch highlights from the fourteenth episode of SNL’s forty-seventh season, hosted by Oscar Isaac, with Charli XCX as the musical guest, including the Fox Ukraine Cold Open spoofing Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham.
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NPI’s polling adds a little spice to Washington’s 2022 U.S. Senate race
NPI’s February 2022 statewide research poll found Democratic Senator Patty Murray with a narrower advantage over Republican Senator Tiffany Smiley than she enjoyed in our 2021 polling, prompting a contest rating downgrade and driving news coverage.
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“Financial nuclear bomb” falling on Russia as a consequence of Putin’s aggression, ex-Russian central bank governor says
“The war came and the money ran out — the money ran out sooner than the war ended,” said Sergei Aleksashenko.
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SNL dedicates its cold open to Ukraine; John Mulaney joins Five Timers Club
Watch highlights from the thirteen episode of SNL’s forty-seventh season, hosted by John Mulaney, with LCD Soundsystem as the musical guest, including the cold open featuring the Ukrainian Chorus Dumka.
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Democrats, speak to working class discontent
Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg writes: “The Republican threat to America’s constitutional experiment has led me to ask: What is our plan to save it? Here’s mine.”
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Vulnerable to COVID-19, high-risk Americans feel left behind
“Transplant recipients, cancer patients and millions of other Americans with risk factors feel ignored and abandoned as their neighbors, and their government, seek a return to normal,” Amanda Morris and Maggie Astor write.
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Hillary Clinton assails Republicans, rebuts the narrative they’ve been using in Virginia and around the country
“Republicans will claim they’re on the side of parents and family values, but they will do nothing for actual parents … nothing on child care, nothing on paid leave … they’ll ban books but do nothing about guns,” Clinton said.
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Dan Shaughnessy reflects on how the Olympics have become “a big bowl of bad”
“The Beijing Olympics… are a big bowl of bad, unfolding in a country ruled by fear and oppression,” the Boston Globe columnist writes.
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Omicron wave was brutal on kids; hospitalization rates 4X higher than delta’s
“Despite being widely seen as mild, the omicron coronavirus variant has been brutal on children and adolescents—particularly babies and toddlers, who are still ineligible for vaccination,” Beth Mole writes.
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Megadrought in Southwest North America worst in 1,200 years
Megadrought in Southwest North America worst in 1,200 years “The extreme heat and dry conditions of the past few years pushed what was already an
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‘Highly suspect’: Unusual clusters of Miami voters switched to Republican, data show
“According to the Miami Herald’s tally, 5,428 people’s party affiliation changed between the October and January registration files. Many of the changes were concentrated in multi-family residential buildings, often low-income housing, raising questions about whether the changes are part of a targeted effort,” reporters Bianca Padró Ocasio and Claudia Chacin write.
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SNL offers commentary on Russian disinformation in cold open
Watch highlights from the twelfth episode of SNL’s forty-seventh season, hosted by Willem Dafoe, with Katy Perry as the musical guest, including the Russian disinformation cold open.
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Putin is making NATO stronger, whether he starts a war in Ukraine or not
“The Russian leader may have thought NATO was in disarray and the U.S. in retreat, but we’ve already seen it’s quite the opposite,” David Rothkopf writes in a piece for The Daily Beast.
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SNL rips Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, and Candace Owens; Will Forte brings back MacGruber to mock antivaxers
Watch highlights from the eleventh episode of SNL’s forty-seventh season, hosted by SNL alum Will Forte, with Måneskin as the musical guest, including the cold open mocking Fox’s Laura Ingraham, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, and Candace Owens.
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