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Miiry | Salif Diarra

March 26, 2021

Salif Diarra is joined by Angel Farmache for this performance of "Miiry," an original song about thinking positively so that you will attract good things. A Live Outside performance that's dedicated to all women around the world.

The Right Way to Compare Vaccines Is Not What You Think

March 26, 2021

That 'efficacy' figure? It doesn't translate from one test to another. And it's not the most important number, anyway.

March 26, 2021

The War FOR Government

Anand Giridharadas The.Ink

It's time to make a militant case for government that is every bit as emotive and powerful as the forty-year case against, which was so compelling that it persuaded millions of people to vote for their own subjugation.

March 26, 2021

Stacey Abrams Aims to Vaccinate Rural Georgia

Greg Kaufmann Facing South

"We have canvassers and organizers who are ready to go. We saw a huge difference when we engaged and organized communities in terms of the [election] turnout in Southwest Georgia. The same can be done with accessing the vaccine."

March 26, 2021

John Roberts Said 'Things Have Changed Dramatically.' Georgia Says He's Wrong.

Ari Berman Mother Jones

Georgia was the first Southern state to pass a poll tax to disenfranchise newly emancipated Black voters during Reconstruction. Now it’s one of the first states to pass sweeping new voting restrictions, based on Trump’s lies about a stolen election.

March 26, 2021

Bernie Sanders Pushes to Lower Medicare Age in Next Relief Bill

Jake Johnson Common Dreams

Surveys have shown that the idea of lowering the Medicare eligibility age—which has been at 65 or older since the program's inception in 1965—is popular with the American public.

March 26, 2021

Friday Nite Videos | March 26, 2021

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The Right Way to Compare Vaccines Is Not What You Think. Miiry | Salif Diarra. Georgia Lawmaker Arrested. Joe Biden’s Scandals | Desi Lydic Foxsplains. Feds Consider Sedition Charges.

March 25, 2021

The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America

Publishers Weekly

A deep dig into how the steel industry collapse affected hundreds of thousands of decently paid workers, contrasted with the surge of hospital and nursing home hiring that never matched former pay rates or union protections afforded steel workers.

March 25, 2021

Many Workers Remain Angry $15 Minimum Wage Failed to Make it into Biden’s ‘America Rescue Plan’

Joe Maniscalco Labor Press

Traditionally, organized labor has backed establishment Democrats even in the face of diminishing returns. But when it comes to a $15 minimum wage, Democrats should not expect unionists and their allies on the front lines to “dance and be happy.”

March 25, 2021

Tidbits - Mar. 25, 2021 - Reader Comments: Voter Suppression; Asian Americans; Deb Haaland; Andrew Cuomo; Football; Manufacturing; Private Equity; Postal Workers Strike corrections; Myanmar Solidarity; MLK’s Beyond Vietnam speech; more....

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Reader Comments: Voter Suppression; Asian Americans Attacked; Deb Haaland; Andrew Cuomo; Football; Manufacturing; Postal Workers Strike corrections; Myanmar Solidarity; Dr. King’s Beyond Vietnam speech; Fighting Private Equity; Zoom events-lots; more