Next week, the current moratorium on evictions enacted by the federal government is set to expire. It’s been more than a year since the policy went into effect, and public housing advocates are eager to see it extended yet again. Meanwhile, as we’ve discussed here in the past, many landlords, particularly the small business, mom

In case you’ve forgotten some of the knee-jerk responses to the Boulder shooting, let me remind you. Here’s a Deadspin editor bringing up a “white man with an AR-15” and a USA Today editor replying “It’s always an angry white man. Always.” (She was fired over that tweet.) “Activist, feminist, author” How she reacted when

I missed this when it first aired a few weeks ago but I owe it to you now, as I’ve complained before about TV news not covering these reunions. Good work here by ABC to showcase the chief social benefit of the vaccine, especially knowing how reluctant the expert class is to encourage socializing under

Reuters is reporting that the Chinese air force sent another incursion of military aircraft near the island of Taiwan today. This has become a somewhat routine occurrence lately but today was a bit different because of the size of the incursion. Twenty Chinese military aircraft entered Taiwan’s air defence identification zone on Friday, in the

When authorities in Boulder, Colorado named the supermarket shooter this week, there were a whole lot of people on the left who had egg on their face. That’s because many had wrongly assumed the shooter must be white. I wrote an entire post based on a Twitter thread just collecting some of the many blue

Jazz wrote about this mystery on Tuesday and now print media is sniffing around it too. On March 2, Greg Abbott announced that he would lift the state’s mask mandate and reopen most businesses at 100 percent capacity on March 10. That seemed rash at the time given the spread of more contagious variants across

The American Rescue Plan was jammed through on a single-party vote. It was supposed to be a relief package in relation to the coronavirus pandemic. We all know what happened. Republicans objected to all the pork and unrelated issues addressed at the expense of the American taxpayer. An item inside the bill is one that

Back in December Democrat Rita Hart decided to appeal her 6-vote loss in the Iowa-2 race directly to the House of Representatives. Hart claimed there wasn’t time to try to settle the issue in state court. Instead, she wanted to hand the decision over to Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi agreed to seat the certified winner of

As I described yesterday, San Francisco School Board Vice President Alison Collins is under a lot of pressure to resign over some tweets she wrote about Asian parents and students back in 2016. Today the LA Times editorial board joins the chorus of people calling for Collins to bow out. The LA Times isn’t the

Today, Gallup CEO Jim Clifton published a short blog post highlighting some survey results about potential migration. There are 33 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. Roughly 450 million adults live in the region. Gallup asked them if they would like to move to another country permanently if they could. A whopping 27% said

Prince Harry is on a roll. In the course of two days, two announcements have been made of new employment opportunities for the Duke of Sussex. A Silicon Valley startup has hired Harry as its chief impact officer. The second announcement comes from the Aspen Institute where he’ll be joining a six-month commission aimed at

Noteworthy, but not surprising. Frank Luntz’s recent focus group of vaccine-skeptical Republicans also found the participants unswayed by Trump’s support for the vaccines. Their objections to vaccination weren’t ideological, it turned out. They were wary for more mundane reasons, like suspecting that the vaccines were “rushed” and misunderstanding how they worked. Having a doctor answer

They’re not the first states to open up eligibility to everyone 16 and over — Alaska, West Virginia, and Mississippi are already doing that — but together Texas and Georgia account for 40 million people, more than a tenth of the U.S. population. And Texas is the second-most populous state, of course, behind only California.

The death of ‘Jeopardy!’ show host Alex Trebek left some big shoes to fill for those charged with finding his replacement. The struggle is exemplified by the number of guest hosts that have been chosen to keep the popular game show going until a permanent host is decided upon. The guest hosts fill in for

As Ed pointed out this morning, authorities have named the suspect in the Boulder, Colorado supermarket shooting. Ahmad al-Issa is apparently a foreign national and a believer in Islam but as Ed also noted, it’s looking like he may have some longer term mental issues. Heavy found some Facebook posts from 2019 in which he’s

An odd, even shocking turn here from an up-and-comer who’s clearly angling to run for president in 2024 if Trump doesn’t. Remember that Trump himself recently flagged the unfairness of trans women competing against biological women in his speech at CPAC. Republican state legislatures have taken up the issue too, passing a raft of bills

Governor Abbott appeared on Fox and Friends Monday morning and told the co-hosts that he had two items of news to deliver. The topic was the flood of illegal migrants into Texas and the holding facility that the Biden administration is using to house unaccompanied minors in Midland. A Texas state senator delivered troubling news

Having just come out of a period here in upstate New York where the temperatures never rose above 40 degrees for nearly three solid months, when I saw this headline over at NBC News, I thought they might be announcing something really inspiring. “Summers could last half the year by the end of this century.”

Okay, so the title is probably a bit on the harsh side. (Borrowing a page from the Andrew Cuomo playbook, I’m sorry if anyone was offended.) But with that out of the way, the Biden administration is still taking fire for flip-flopping on the question of staffers receiving security clearances if they admit to past

Senator Roy Blunt is complaining over the potential partisanship of any September 11th-style commission looking into the January 6th riot on the U.S. Capitol. “[Y]ou know, Speaker Pelosi has never suggested after her first suggestion that it would be overwhelmingly controlled by one side that there’d be a bipartisan commission…” The Missouri Republican told NBC’s

I’m pleasantly surprised today to see the Sunday shows not only giving the border crisis the attention it deserves — it was the top story on most programs — but being justifiably hard on Team Biden for their half-assed handling of it. Especially ABC, which had no patience for the White House narrative that the

D.C. Circuit Court Judge Laurence Silberman is making headlines for his frank assessment of the American press, specifically mentioning The New York Times and The Washington Post. He exploded on both of the news outlets, as well as including the news section of the Wall Street Journal, in a partial dissent of a libel case.

San Francisco School Board member Alison Collins is under significant pressure to resign after tweets she posted about Asian Americans back in 2016 were brought to light by a parent group seeking to oust her. As I pointed out yesterday, one of Collins tweets said, “Many Asian Am. believe they benefit from the ‘model minority’

A 65-year-old woman from Grants Pass, Oregon drove an RV to Galveston, Texas. Her purpose in making the trip was to to “cross items off her bucket list”. She ended up in jail for her refusal to wear a face mask in not one but two business establishments. Terry Lynn Wright is the subject of

A wax figure of former President Trump has been removed from display in Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks in San Antonio, Texas. As it turns out, the wax likeness of Trump has taken too many punches to the face. Trump’s figure has been stored for repairs. To be honest, I had no idea this is a thing

Yesterday Vox’s Aaron Rupar posted a brief clip of Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office Captain Jay Baker saying that suspect Robert Aaron Long had “a really bad day.” Rupar’s clip gave some of the context but his description suggested this was the officer’s “strange” personal description of events: So this is the origin of the viral

Something fun on a slow Friday afternoon for all the Fauci-haters out there. Last night Ben Domenech was asked about him on Bret Baier’s show and gave this answer: “Look, I want to be measured and when I am saying here, Domenech said. “Dr. Fauci is someone who has worked very hard for the American

Lotta groaning about this clip today among the righties I follow on Twitter, for understandable reasons. “They’re just trying to drive us crazy. There’s no other satisfying explanation,” tweeted Noah Rothman after watching. It’s another mixed message from a medical expert underselling the vaccine. Normally the underselling takes the form of discouraging vaccinated people from

Texas Governor Greg Abbott held a press briefing across the street from the convention center in Dallas being used to house up to 3,000 boys ages 15 to 17. The unaccompanied minors, all illegal migrants, are seeking asylum in the United States. The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center is now a “decompression center” used to

Vaccine hesitancy among Republicans is a real thing and a potential stumbling block to herd immunity, but c’mon. What sort of reaction did a reporter from CNN of all places except to get when he wandered into a red-state diner with a camera crew in tow and gut-checked them on a question like this? Which