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Over the past week comedian Jimmy Dore has single-handedly exposed a collection of self-styled leaders of progressive media as imperialist hacks joined at the hip with the Democratic Party and NATO.
It all started when Dore, a self-described jagoff pothead comedian – called for progressive members of Congress to withhold their votes for Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker until she agreed to hold a floor vote on Medicare for All. With a pandemic raging and Americans losing their jobs and healthcare, it seemed like the perfect way to hold Democrats’ feet to the fire.
But Dore’s push apparently threatened the most prominent progressive in Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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President-Elect Joe Biden’s pick of South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg to be the next Transportation secretary drew polarized reactions from sustainable transportation advocates who were either thrilled with his big ambitions for transit and ending traffic violence, or wary of his inexperience in implementing either.
Buttigieg was a surprising choice for the post, which experts speculated would go to a transit or transportation veteran like New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Polly Trottenberg or a major city mayor who had dealt with large-scale federal transportation grants, such as Los Angeles’s Eric Garcetti. But others were thrilled to see a Midwestern former mayor take the helm of an agency that has not always recognized the unique challenges of ending car dependency in transit-poor cities where most Americans live and argued that his vision for
A medical miracle : 10 of the best reactions to the newly-authorized COVID-19 vaccine Joshua Bote, USA TODAY
As the nation let out a small sigh of relief when the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was authorized, many people experts and the general public alike took to Twitter to share their thoughts on the news.
Some recognized the marvel of medical research that is the COVID-19 vaccine itself. Indeed, it was a process that experts initially predicted would have taken up to a few years to finish and distribute. Now, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration anticipates that the vaccine will be given to most of the general public by next summer.