News roundup: Student debt; GOP war on children; Medicaid sunsets; Jan. 6 going to prime time
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Welcome Friday folks! The word on the street is that after freely giving billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine in their battle against Russian invasion, the Biden administration may honestly have a meaningful conversation about federal student debt relief. There is also a continued drumbeat for the Democratic Party to work to pass sections of their Build Back Better bill while they still have a slim majority, and much of that still depends on how much they can finesse the abjectly corrupt Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia. But with relief for many people on programs like Medicaid “sunsetting” soon, the Democratic Party will have to act cohesively if they want to really help Americans in need.
All of this talk about what is actually happening behind the scenes is driving media outlets like Politico bananas as they have invested heavily in the concept of news as sensationalism and are finding that having a less outrageous person as president is less fun and more work. Maybe the folks over at Politico will just have to cover the GOP’s war on children and the moves being made to attack the most marginalized amongst us. Maybe they will be happy to hear that some of the Jan. 6 committee hearings might hit prime time television coverage.
Here is some of what you might have missed:
- Fox News wraith Laura Ingraham gets smashed by Twitter after heartless student loan tweet
- Politico complains that competence, transparency, and truthfulness is making their job too hard
- Black D.C. residents comprised 90% of the pregnancy-related deaths in the city, a study finds
- The Jan. 6 committee will hold hearings in June, some in primetime
- Medicaid matters a lot for 77 million people, and 15 million of them could soon fall off a cliff
- Thanks to Republican hate, Oklahoma is the first state in the nation to do a very bad thing
- New York man charged with hate crime after hitting Asian American woman with pool cue
- Boriqua activist offers classes for people of color to understand and decode ‘colonial mentality’
- Oath Keeper cries as he pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy charges; will cooperate
- Trump’s COVID-19 pandemic response was second-rate and deceitful, a new report shows
- Raskin tears apart the Putin Wing of the GOP
And from the community:
- 1.2 Billion people suffer through temperatures up to 122 F, with a likely staggering death toll
- I don’t think Elon Musk is going to buy Twitter
- Kos Diabetes Group: Diabetes and Alcohol