it is sunday, february the 5th. i am ali velshi. we begin today with a big balloon! a major metaphor and a geopolitical turning point in the wrong direction. yesterday, at 2:39 pm eastern standard time the united states military f 32 aircraft flying at 15,000 feet used a single air to air missile to shoot down what the united states says was a chinese around balloon. roughly six nautical miles off the coast of south carolina, while within u.s. territorial airspace. the blue crafted to the atlantic ocean creating a debris field at least seven mile spread out in monthly shallow water. the recovery is ongoing. that includes navy divers, the coast guard, another manned and unmanned savage vehicles. fbi counter intelligence agency are also on board the vehicles. officials say there is plenty to learn from the debris. they add they have also been studying the balloon since it first entered u.s. airspace in the lucian islands of alaska on january the 28. the balloons, which had mane
relatively easy time passing its rules package, its first order of business, but the rules package includes provisions like the motion to vacate, which makes it easier to remove the speaker, kevin mccarthy. it also gets rid of pandemic era changes like proxy voting, it imposes rules and limiting spending and blocking tax increases. house republicans also passed a pair of disingenuous and deceitful antiabortion bills that were designed to push propaganda rather than addressing real concerns about women s reproductive rights. their decision to pass these bills during the first week of that new term, and despite the overall unpopularity of their antiabortion positions, demonstrates how they seriously are about governing in general. republicans made it clear months ago that they intend to use their tenure to investigate democrats. the rules package includes a provision that allows the house to create a new subcommittee to investigate the origins of covid and to scrutinize the wor
FREDERICK COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — A tractor trailer fire on southbound I-270 shut down all lanes in Frederick County on Wednesday morning. Just before 6 a.m., Frederick County Fire and Rescue said the tractor trailer was fully involved on I-270 southbound, about a mile before Doctor Perry Rd. All southbound lanes, as well […]
locked in the struggle. in the struggle i think there is the old saying, one step forward two steps back, and that is actually what the song speaks to. in the second verse, which actually tells the story of adversity, the servers tells the story of when we actually make gains, we shouldn t be too comfortable in believing that this is the end of the journey. the song itself reminds people that this is an ongoing struggle, and so it makes sense that, that we are listening to the song at a moment at which we are actually, in some ways, in a very fraught period of time when it comes to black people, black history, and black culture. so, maybe, it can actually inspire us to push back against these efforts to continually marginalize black live. dr. perry, great to see you again, thank you for being with. us dr. amani perry is a professor of african american studies at princeton