Biden to propose 8-year citizenship path
LISA MASCARO and BILL BARROW
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden plans to unveil a sweeping immigration bill on Day One of his administration, hoping to provide an eight-year path to citizenship for an estimated...
Facebook Blocks Events Near Capitol And White House Leading Up To Inauguration
Social media giant Facebook is continuing to place limits on rioters.
According to a statement released Friday, the tech company is preventing users from creating events near the Capitol, White House and several state capitols.
The site will...
Trump has set the wheels in motion to scrap the H-1B visa lottery
Donald Trump has set the wheels in motion to scrap the H-1B lottery
With less than two weeks left in office, the Donald Trump administration dealt another blow to H-1B aspirants.
The US Citizenship and Immigration...
The first American social media presidency
The first American social media presidency has come to an end, as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat unceremoniously locked the accounts of President Donald Trump last week. Trump literally won the 2016 due to social media (not counting...
Parler data is being downloaded – This is huge!
My friend who lurks Reddit posts messaged me in the middle of the night with this absolutely bombshell. I work in tech and someone on the internet has managed to crack into Parler and...
What we do now will determine whether violent mob will act again
If anyone is still asking if it’s fair to classify Wednesday’s attack at the Capitol as an attempted coup, the short answer is yes. But Atlantic magazine contributor Zeynep Tufekci, who has lived through four coups in...
Why We’re Holding Those Who Lied For Trump Accountable
The insurrection was rooted in lies. That a fair election was stolen in a landslide. The oldest democracy in the world is practiced at the state level and is a system of manipulation. This...
Democracy is a threat to white supremacy—and that is the cause of America’s crisis
Inequality is the greatest threat to justice, and the corollary is that white supremacy is the greatest threat to democracy. But what has become clear in recent weeks is that the opposite is true:...
The white backlash has begun. Again.
Ashton Lattimore for Prism Reports
As surely as night follows day, any flex of political power by Black and brown people in the United States will be followed by a reactionary white supremacist show of force. The pattern...
If you claim to value education, vaccinate teachers
Laura Clawson/ Daily Kos (01/09/2021)
Evidence on how safe in-person schooling is and how it contributes to the spread of COVID-19 has been mixed—a lot more mixed than the headlines would tell you (read to the 11th paragraph...
