Next week, the current moratorium on evictions enacted by the federal government is set to expire. It’s been more than a year since the policy went into effect, and public housing advocates are eager to see it extended yet again. Meanwhile, as we’ve discussed here in the past, many landlords, particularly the small business, mom

In case you’ve forgotten some of the knee-jerk responses to the Boulder shooting, let me remind you. Here’s a Deadspin editor bringing up a “white man with an AR-15” and a USA Today editor replying “It’s always an angry white man. Always.” (She was fired over that tweet.) “Activist, feminist, author” How she reacted when

I missed this when it first aired a few weeks ago but I owe it to you now, as I’ve complained before about TV news not covering these reunions. Good work here by ABC to showcase the chief social benefit of the vaccine, especially knowing how reluctant the expert class is to encourage socializing under

This happened even sooner than most people expected. We were warned at the beginning of the month that New York State was working to implement a system of immunity passports for people who wish to reenter most “normal” aspects of society. The state had clearly made up its mind already and had people working on

When authorities in Boulder, Colorado named the supermarket shooter this week, there were a whole lot of people on the left who had egg on their face. That’s because many had wrongly assumed the shooter must be white. I wrote an entire post based on a Twitter thread just collecting some of the many blue

Jazz wrote about this mystery on Tuesday and now print media is sniffing around it too. On March 2, Greg Abbott announced that he would lift the state’s mask mandate and reopen most businesses at 100 percent capacity on March 10. That seemed rash at the time given the spread of more contagious variants across

As targets go, it’s second only to You Know Who, but the fights get tougher as Dominion Voting Systems goes up in weight class. The company filed a $1.6 billion defamation claim against Fox News this morning — the first time it’s gone after a media company: Dominion Voting Systems on Friday filed a $1.6

Back in December Democrat Rita Hart decided to appeal her 6-vote loss in the Iowa-2 race directly to the House of Representatives. Hart claimed there wasn’t time to try to settle the issue in state court. Instead, she wanted to hand the decision over to Nancy Pelosi. Pelosi agreed to seat the certified winner of

I’m glad he volunteered this at the start of today’s press conference because our crack White House press corps asked him exactly zero questions about COVID. No fooling. Not a one. Nothing about variants, nothing about loosening the CDC guidance for vaccinated people, nothing about the g-ddamned teachers unions still whining incessantly as his administration

I suppose we really couldn’t go an entire week without another scandal involving New York Governor Andrew Cuomo. So if you’re craving a fix for your Cuomo badness withdrawal symptoms, here you go. It’s being reported that last spring, during the beginning of the pandemic, the Governor dispatched officials and law enforcement to ensure that

Prince Harry is on a roll. In the course of two days, two announcements have been made of new employment opportunities for the Duke of Sussex. A Silicon Valley startup has hired Harry as its chief impact officer. The second announcement comes from the Aspen Institute where he’ll be joining a six-month commission aimed at

Alternate headline: President Kamala Harris finally makes her debut. Actually, my second thought would be … what did Harris do to make Joe Biden this angry with her? Having screwed up his immigration messaging and provoked a record-breaking humanitarian crisis on the border with Mexico, Biden’s now punting the mess to the Democrats’ future nominee: President

They’re not the first states to open up eligibility to everyone 16 and over — Alaska, West Virginia, and Mississippi are already doing that — but together Texas and Georgia account for 40 million people, more than a tenth of the U.S. population. And Texas is the second-most populous state, of course, behind only California.

The death of ‘Jeopardy!’ show host Alex Trebek left some big shoes to fill for those charged with finding his replacement. The struggle is exemplified by the number of guest hosts that have been chosen to keep the popular game show going until a permanent host is decided upon. The guest hosts fill in for

Has he? If so, this is an awkward time to raise this particular complaint — although it looks more like an attempt to exploit a momentary public passion. Less than a day after Senate Democrats confirmed the final Cabinet official in Joe Biden’s administration, two Senate Democrats accused Biden of failing their expectations of diversity,

An odd, even shocking turn here from an up-and-comer who’s clearly angling to run for president in 2024 if Trump doesn’t. Remember that Trump himself recently flagged the unfairness of trans women competing against biological women in his speech at CPAC. Republican state legislatures have taken up the issue too, passing a raft of bills

Governor Abbott appeared on Fox and Friends Monday morning and told the co-hosts that he had two items of news to deliver. The topic was the flood of illegal migrants into Texas and the holding facility that the Biden administration is using to house unaccompanied minors in Midland. A Texas state senator delivered troubling news

Having just come out of a period here in upstate New York where the temperatures never rose above 40 degrees for nearly three solid months, when I saw this headline over at NBC News, I thought they might be announcing something really inspiring. “Summers could last half the year by the end of this century.”

Okay, so the title is probably a bit on the harsh side. (Borrowing a page from the Andrew Cuomo playbook, I’m sorry if anyone was offended.) But with that out of the way, the Biden administration is still taking fire for flip-flopping on the question of staffers receiving security clearances if they admit to past

Senator Roy Blunt is complaining over the potential partisanship of any September 11th-style commission looking into the January 6th riot on the U.S. Capitol. “[Y]ou know, Speaker Pelosi has never suggested after her first suggestion that it would be overwhelmingly controlled by one side that there’d be a bipartisan commission…” The Missouri Republican told NBC’s

I’m pleasantly surprised today to see the Sunday shows not only giving the border crisis the attention it deserves — it was the top story on most programs — but being justifiably hard on Team Biden for their half-assed handling of it. Especially ABC, which had no patience for the White House narrative that the

D.C. Circuit Court Judge Laurence Silberman is making headlines for his frank assessment of the American press, specifically mentioning The New York Times and The Washington Post. He exploded on both of the news outlets, as well as including the news section of the Wall Street Journal, in a partial dissent of a libel case.

San Francisco School Board member Alison Collins is under significant pressure to resign after tweets she posted about Asian Americans back in 2016 were brought to light by a parent group seeking to oust her. As I pointed out yesterday, one of Collins tweets said, “Many Asian Am. believe they benefit from the ‘model minority’

A 65-year-old woman from Grants Pass, Oregon drove an RV to Galveston, Texas. Her purpose in making the trip was to to “cross items off her bucket list”. She ended up in jail for her refusal to wear a face mask in not one but two business establishments. Terry Lynn Wright is the subject of

A wax figure of former President Trump has been removed from display in Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks in San Antonio, Texas. As it turns out, the wax likeness of Trump has taken too many punches to the face. Trump’s figure has been stored for repairs. To be honest, I had no idea this is a thing

Yesterday Vox’s Aaron Rupar posted a brief clip of Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office Captain Jay Baker saying that suspect Robert Aaron Long had “a really bad day.” Rupar’s clip gave some of the context but his description suggested this was the officer’s “strange” personal description of events: So this is the origin of the viral

Something fun on a slow Friday afternoon for all the Fauci-haters out there. Last night Ben Domenech was asked about him on Bret Baier’s show and gave this answer: “Look, I want to be measured and when I am saying here, Domenech said. “Dr. Fauci is someone who has worked very hard for the American

Lotta groaning about this clip today among the righties I follow on Twitter, for understandable reasons. “They’re just trying to drive us crazy. There’s no other satisfying explanation,” tweeted Noah Rothman after watching. It’s another mixed message from a medical expert underselling the vaccine. Normally the underselling takes the form of discouraging vaccinated people from

Texas Governor Greg Abbott held a press briefing across the street from the convention center in Dallas being used to house up to 3,000 boys ages 15 to 17. The unaccompanied minors, all illegal migrants, are seeking asylum in the United States. The Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center is now a “decompression center” used to

Vaccine hesitancy among Republicans is a real thing and a potential stumbling block to herd immunity, but c’mon. What sort of reaction did a reporter from CNN of all places except to get when he wandered into a red-state diner with a camera crew in tow and gut-checked them on a question like this? Which