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How Freedom defeated America: We lost an entire year from COVID due to phony patriotism and cheap liberty

How Freedom defeated America: We lost an entire year from COVID due to phony patriotism and cheap liberty

Posted by | Dec 19, 2020

“Do not ever forget that nurses died after working in COVID ICUs wearing trash bags over their clothes while cops dressed like video game characters brutalized people who dared ask that they not be murdered in their beds.” – Molly Conger COVID beat America — completely, unequivocally, and historically. There’s simply no way around that truth. We have been decimated far beyond even the most dire calculations back in the Spring of 2020. The sickness has been unfathomable and the death toll staggering. We have been the planet’s most egregious cautionary tale on what not to do, how not...

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Federal court dismisses Trump Campaign’s SLAPP lawsuit against Wisconsin TV station

Federal court dismisses Trump Campaign’s SLAPP lawsuit against Wisconsin TV station

Posted by | Dec 19, 2020 |

A lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump’s campaign against a Northwoods TV station has been dismissed in federal court. The Trump campaign in April sued the Rhinelander-based WJFW-TV over an ad that juxtaposed clips of Trump’s statements about the coronavirus in January and February with a graph showing the rising case count in the United States. The ad was produced by the liberal advocacy group Priorities USA, but the Trump campaign initially targeted WJFW-TV in the lawsuit. The station’s owner, Rockfleet Communications, is a small company that also owns stations in Bangor, Maine. The case was initially filed in...

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A system broken by design: How to close the racial health gap for communities affected by COVID-19

A system broken by design: How to close the racial health gap for communities affected by COVID-19

Posted by | Dec 18, 2020 |

By Tamra Burns Loeb, Adjunct Associate Professor – Interim, UCLA School of Medicine; and Dorothy Chin, Associate Research Psychologist, UCLA School of Medicine The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the reality that health in the U.S. has glaring racial inequities. Since March, people of color have been more likely to get sick and more likely to die from COVID-19 infection because they have been living and working in social conditions that worsen their physical health and mental health. These conditions are rooted in structural inequalities that are also responsible for the severity and progression of COVID-19. While the issues are...

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300,000 Dead: Loss of American lives reaches staggering record as coronavirus vaccine begins distribution

300,000 Dead: Loss of American lives reaches staggering record as coronavirus vaccine begins distribution

Posted by | Dec 18, 2020 |

More than 300,000 people have now died because of COVID-19 in the United States, with the latest milestone coming amid record daily fatalities and the national rollout of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine. The first shot in the U.S. mass vaccination program was given shortly after 9:00 am ET on December 14 at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, New York. Intensive care nurse Sandra Lindsay became the first person not enrolled in the vaccine trials to receive it. “It feels surreal,” she said. “It is a huge sense of relief for me, and hope.” New York governor Andrew...

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Why a return to “normal” would be disastrous for America, normal gave us Trump

Why a return to “normal” would be disastrous for America, normal gave us Trump

Posted by | Dec 17, 2020 |

“Life is going to return to normal,” Joe Biden promised on November 26 in a Thanksgiving address to the nation. He was talking about life after COVID-19, but you could be forgiven if you thought he was also making a promise about life after Trump. It is almost impossible to separate the two. To the extent voters gave Biden a mandate, it was to end both scourges and make America normal again. Despite COVID’s grim resurgence, Dr. Anthony Fauci – the public health official whom Trump ignored and then muzzled, with whom Biden’s staff is now conferring – sounded...

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Khary Penebaker: On casting Wisconsin’s Electoral College votes for the first Black female Vice President

Khary Penebaker: On casting Wisconsin’s Electoral College votes for the first Black female Vice President

Posted by | Dec 16, 2020 |

In Wisconsin and across the country, 538 members of the Electoral College met on December 14 to cast their votes for president — officially awarding President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris their 306 earned electoral college votes. But many of those electors, in battleground states such as Wisconsin, met under increased security and amid unprecedented chaos and confusion after efforts from President Donald Trump and his Republican allies to sow doubt on the election results. The Electoral College vote marked the end of Trump’s efforts to use the courts to overturn the election, with the Wisconsin Supreme...

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