AOC Walks Through the COVID-19 Vaccine Process

AOC walked through the process of getting the COVID-19 vaccine on Instagram — here’s everything you need to know.

 

Gov. Cuomo & AOC Shut Down Trump's Conspiracy About Elderly Buffalo Protester

‘You think the blood coming out of his head was staged?’ — Gov. Cuomo and other leaders are condemning Trump for tweeting out a baseless conspiracy theory about the 75-year-old man who was violently shoved by Buffalo police.

Response To Donald Trump's Racism

Interesting point: Representative Ayanna Pressley begged the press not to let President Trump and his racist comments distract from the real issues. But one of the very first questions went to Representative Ilhan Omar, asking her to address “rumors” that she was a communist associated with Al-Qaeda.

Omar, to her credit, kept incredibly cool in the face of this very Islamaphobic question, and rightfully pointed out that almost all Americans who are Muslim have had questions of this ilk directed at them at some point in their lives. She said she would not dignify the question with answer.

Julia Carrie Wong  from the Guardian

Our senior tech correspondent, Julia Carrie Wong, weighs in on President Trump and his racist tweets:

Whenever Donald Trump achieves a new low on his Twitter feed, critics cry out for the social media company to take action against the account-in-chief. We saw this when Trump tweeted a threat at North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, when he tweeted a video encouraging violence against CNN, and when he retweeted racist misinformation by a British hate figure.

Throughout it all, Twitter has declined to take any actions against Trump’s account, recognizing that censoring the president of the United States is not necessarily something that a private company wants to do – or that citizens of a democracy should want a private company to be able to do.

Just last month, Twitter announced a new policy that would allow it to split the baby when it comes to violations of Twitter’s rules by Trump and other world leaders: a special label that would be affixed to tweets by major political figures if they violated Twitter’s rules, but deleting them would not be in the public’s interest.

But don’t hold your breath waiting for Twitter to add such a label to Trump’s racist rant against four progressive congresswomen. A Twitter spokeswoman said the tweets did not violate any of the company’s rules.

Which means that those looking for a way to combat Trump and his racism will be forced to rely on the institution designed to counterbalance the power of the US presidency: Congress.

The Green New Deal, explained

The Green New Deal is an ambitious plan to fight the effects of climate change. It’s the only American plan that actually acknowledges the size of the impending crisis. And it contains some difficult truths that we might not want to hear.

Why you still don't understand the Green New Deal

The Green New Deal is an ambitious proposal that outlines how the U.S. might begin transitioning towards a green economy over the next ten years. It includes steps like upgrading our power grid and renovating our transportation infrastructure. But most people watching news coverage likely don’t know what’s in the Green New Deal. And that’s because political news coverage tends to focus on strategy over substance, fixating on a bill’s political ramifications rather than its ability to solve a problem. That approach to news coverage is known as “tactical framing,” and research shows it makes audiences at home more cynical and less informed about big policy debates. The result is a cycle of partisanship, where solutions to big problems like climate change are judged on their political popularity rather than their merit.

The 70% Top Tax Rate, Explained With Potatoes

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for a 70 percent top tax rate on the super rich.

How can we make all citizens as well-off as possible? That's the simple question behind something call "optimal tax theory." It starts from this idea that, to a rich person, one dollar is worth almost nothing. Take away the dollar and he'll be just as well off as he was before. But that dollar is worth a lot to poor people. So, if the government wants to optmize the well-being of its citizens, it should tax that money from the rich and give it to the poor.