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‘Sip, return, repeat’: How this California city is trying to normalize reusable cups
Next month, more than 30 chain restaurants and locally owned coffee shops and eateries in Petaluma, California, will begin providing beverages in reusable cups by default as part of a first-of-its-kind pilot program meant to reduce pollution from single-use plastic. Through the Petaluma Reusable Cup Project — a three-month pilot...
"Video games are so universal": HBO doc "Quad Gods" reveals the disability esports team on a mission
The engaging Max documentary “Quad Gods" profiles Richard, Blake and Prentice, three members of the titular esports team. Director Jess Jacklin’s compassionate film shows these disabled gamers and their teammates playing "Rocket League" with adaptive controls (sometimes using breath and head movements), but the central focus is how each of these men see themselves.
"A landslide": Political analysts and some Democrats now say Biden is bringing down the whole party
President Joe Biden and his campaign, struggling to contain the fallout over his disastrous debate performance, have been nailing down Democratic support on Capitol Hill despite calls for him to step aside for a more viable nominee. But those efforts have done little to slow his tumbling poll numbers, which on Tuesday prompted the nonpartisan Cook Political Report to move three swing states — Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada — into the "Lean Republican" column.
Ex-aide: Trump isn't "shouting about the debate" because he's "afraid" of Kamala Harris
Former Trump White House communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin on Tuesday's episode of ABC's "The View" made a case for why former President Donald Trump has stayed relatively mum about President Joe Biden's ostensibly floundering debate performance, an uncharacteristic pivot from his typical braggadocio. “There’s a reason Donald Trump isn’t...
More food, less regulation: Project 2025’s alarming vision for agriculture
Thirty years ago, Richard Nixon’s secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Earl Butz, relayed a message to farmers that transformed American agriculture: “Get big or get out.”. Butz cut policies from the New Deal that sought to protect family farmers from corporations, and openly supported...
The quick, quiet death of Biden’s natural gas export pause
When the Biden administration paused the approval of new liquefied natural gas exports in January, environmentalists and left-leaning politicians hailed the decision as a watershed moment for the climate movement. After months of pressure from climate activists, the Department of Energy, or DOE, announced that it would rethink how it evaluates the massive export projects that condense fracked gas into a supercooled liquid, known as LNG, and load it onto tankers that ship the fuel for sale in Europe and Asia. In the meantime, the administration committed to keeping the LNG projects awaiting approval in a holding pattern, preventing them from breaking ground.
"She’s a woman, she's colored": Ex-Trump official Seb Gorka calls Kamala Harris a "DEI hire"
Newsmax personality and former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka described Vice President Kamala Harris a “DEI hire” and “colored” in an interview on Tuesday. In the segment, Gorka, himself accused of inflating his credentials as a terrorism expert, predicted that Biden will be forced to withdraw from the presidential race if major Democratic donors “pull the plug.”
Jim Jordan worries dozens of members may leave en masse over House Freedom Caucus civil war
A dramatic divide is erupting in the far-right House Freedom Caucus after the group voted to oust a third member in the span of a year. The ejection of Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Ohio, was led by allies of Chairman Bob Good, R-Va., Politico reported. Good recently lost a primary election for his district in Virginia – the only congressional Republican to do so – and Davidson openly backed Good’s challenger, the Trump-ensorsed John McGuire.
George Stephanopoulos caught saying Biden can't serve "four more years" days after interview
Less than a week after interviewing President Joe Biden about his viability as a candidate, ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos was caught on camera saying he doesn’t think the president is fit to serve another four year term. Stephanopoulos was walking on 5th Avenue when a pedestrian approached him,...
Dishonest Biden defenders sound like MAGA surrogates as they privately admit he can't win
It’s what you would expect a co-chair of the candidate’s re-election campaign to say, thrust into the impossible position of defending the vitality of an elderly man whose clear and rapid decline was witnessed by 50 million Americans on live television. But that didn’t make it any less excruciating, and certainly not any more believable.
Stephen King: Biden should bow out "in the interests of the America he so clearly loves"
Acclaimed horror writer Stephen King has joined a number of other high-profile Democrats in asking President Joe Biden to bow out of the presidential race against Donald Trump. The "Shining" and "It" author on Monday took to X/Twitter to share his thoughts, writing, "Joe Biden has been a fine president,...
A death knell for NATO: Project 2025 calls for Trump to "restructure" US foreign policy
We haven't seen much of Donald Trump lately but he did poke his head up Tuesday to speak at a little rally he held at his Doral golf resort, almost certainly paid for by his campaign so any profits are put directly into his pocket. (Too bad he's stiffed so many of the other venues that have hosted him but that's just his way.) It wasn't anything special. He sounded as unhinged as usual, delivering his greatest hits to a hot and wilted but adoring Florida crowd.
Biden blames Texas officials for delayed federal response to Hurricane Beryl
This article originally appeared on The Texas Tribune. "Biden blames Texas officials for delayed federal response to Beryl" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. Sign...
The grift behind Project 2025: Leader John McEntee made an app to hustle cash from lonely MAGA men
Donald Trump wants the press and the voters to look away from Project 2025. Instead, his defensiveness is causing journalists to report on the intricate web of connections between Trump and the far-right playbook for his desired second term. For instance, one of the many close Trump advisors who now works on Project 2025 is John McEntee, former Trump White House personnel director. McEntee has already confirmed that the plan is to "integrate" Project 2025 into the official Trump campaign.
5 Lessons Joe Biden should have learned from Hillary Clinton’s 2016 loss
In the summer of 2016, the Hillary Clinton campaign was confident. Despite the pesky level of support shown for Bernie Sanders, Clinton’s team still foresaw a successful Democratic National Convention in August followed by winning the presidency in November. In the lead-up to Election Day no one on the Clinton team, amongst the Democratic party elites, or in the center-left conventional news media imagined there was any chance that Donald Trump — a lying, racist, misogynistic bully with not one single day of public service experience —had any chance of winning the race. The New York Times predicted that Clinton had an 85% chance of being elected.
Bird flu seems to be slowly mutating to better infect humans. Experts warn the time to act is now
In late March, a worker on a commercial dairy farm in Texas developed a case of pink eye. He eventually tested positive for the highly pathogenic avian influenza Type A H5N1, also known as bird flu. Scientists were shocked to find out that cattle, not birds, were the host — and that large amounts of H5N1 were found in the infected cattle.
It’s our democracy, America! A second Trump presidency would be nothing like the first
Just when you wonder how MAGA world’s love affair with violence could get any more torrid, they show you it can. On Friday, the New Republic’s Greg Sargent reported the shocking speech given last week by Mark Robinson, the “pro-life” MAGA Republican nominee for governor of North Carolina. “Some folks need killing!” he said to a church audience in White Lake, a small town in the state’s southeastern corner.
McDonald's is adding a new, limited-edition McFlurry flavor to its U.S. lineup
McDonald's is finally treating its U.S. customers to a limited-edition McFlurry flavor. The latest release comes after the fast-food chain released several exciting flavors, including Lotus Biscoff and Cinnamon Toast Crunch, in locations outside of the States. News of the latest frozen offering was first dropped by Snackolator, the popular...
Gypsy Rose Blanchard is pregnant
Gypsy Rose Blanchard is expecting her first child with her boyfriend Ken Urker, per an announcement video Blanchard shared on her YouTube channel on Tuesday. Blanchard, a survivor of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, served an eight-and-a-half-year prison stint for her involvement in the death of her mother Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard.
Experts: Black voters still back Biden after debate amid Trump's "highly anti-Black" campaign
As President Joe Biden returns to the campaign trail to do damage control in the wake of his lackluster debate performance, he's turned to a more comfortable yet critical part of his base to shore up support: Black voters. Speaking without a teleprompter but with notes, Biden on Sunday sought...
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