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from ABC News (& affiliates)
TV Network in New York, New YorkABC10-KXTV Sacramento: People who were involved in Stockton's guaranteed income initiative transitioned to full-time jobs and better health, the report says. In February 2019, former Stockton Mayor Michael D. Tubbs launched the Stockton Economic Empowerment Demonstration (SEED), the country's first city-led guaranteed universal basic income experiment. It sent $500 a month for 24 months to 125 recipients with no strings attached. The program was funded from $3 million in private donations. To qualify, people had to have lived in a neighborhood of Stockton in which the median income was at or below $46,033.
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from The Federalist
RIGHT BIAS, HIGH, online magazine
America is entering its very own Mao-like Cultural Revolution. The iconoclasm of the left’s culture war isn’t a side effect, it’s the point.
Dr. Seuss has been cancelled. Some of his work has been deemed racist, and we can’t have that. On Tuesday, the entity that oversees the estate of Theodor Seuss Geisel announced it would no longer publish six of Geisel’s books because they “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.”
Among the works now deemed unfit for children are Geisel’s first book under the pen name Dr. Seuss, “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,” published in 1937, and the much-beloved, “If I Ran the Zoo,” published in 1950. The former depicts a “Chinaman” character and the latter shows two men from “the African island of Yerka” in native garb.
from Huffington Post
LEFT BIAS, MIXED, news and commentary site headquartered in New York City
The lies Trump told at CPAC about the election and his record were not new, but his request for supporters to give money to his new political committee was a first.
After years of claiming he was so rich he didn’t need anyone else’s money for his political campaigns, Donald Trump is officially asking small-dollar donors ― many of them lower income and older ― to send him cash, potentially hurting the Republican Party’s small-dollar program. The request was tucked in near the end of his first public appearance since leaving the presidency Jan. 20, a 90-minute speech Sunday that largely recycled his oft-repeated lies about the November election and his record in office. “There’s only one way to contribute to our efforts, to elect ‘America first’ Republican conservatives. And in turn, to make America great again. And that’s through Save America PAC and Donald J Trump dot com,” he told his Conservative Political Action Conference audience.
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from NBC News (& affiliates)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS
Senate Democrats plan to give $1,400 checks to fewer people under a deal struck with President Joe Biden, according to two sources familiar with it. Every American who filed individually and makes up to $75,000 will still get the full amount before it begins to reduce at incomes above that. But rather than zeroing out at $100,000 earnings, as the last Covid-19 relief bill does, the Senate bill will cut off payments at $80,000, the sources said.
Critics are condemning a decision to stop publishing six Dr. Seuss books, as experts say a reckoning with his racist works is long overdue.
The business that preserves Dr. Seuss’ legacy announced Tuesday that six of the celebrated author’s books for children will stop being published because of racist imagery. The move has both sparked backlash from conservatives who call it another example of “cancel culture” and reignited debate over promoting classic but problematic books. The announcement came on Read Across America Day, an initiative to promote childhood reading, which falls on the birthday of Theodor Seuss Geisel, known as Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss Enterprises admitted that the books — published in the 1930s to the late 1970s — “portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong.” The decision may have prompted a renewed focus on the classic works, but conversations about racism and prejudice in the author’s books are hardly new.
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from The New American Magazine
RIGHT BIAS: John Birch SocietyA Voice From the Grave on Our Real Existential Threat
“Existential” has become a very popular word today, even among those who aren’t adherents of French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. For example, people who want attention focused on some pet issue will often call it an “existential threat.” We’ve heard that climate change is an existential threat (not likely), that ISIS is an existential threat (not really), that “structural racism” is an existential threat (not exactly), and that China is an existential threat (you bet). But a true existential threat, and the greatest one we face, is rarely understood well or discussed. But a voice from beyond the grave warned of it Monday — issuing words to the wise. Yuri Bezmenov was a KGB asset from the Soviet Union who defected to Canada in 1970. From that point forward, he increasingly sounded the alarm about what he called “ideological subversion” in America. And it appears that now, 28 years after his death, more people may finally be heeding his warnings. This is both encouraging and alarming. Encouraging because it means more citizens are becoming aware of our truest existential threat; alarming because it means that this threat to our existence is beginning to materialize fully. Bezmenov was featured Monday by Newsmax’s Grant Stinchfield in a video titled “Americans Are Being Trained to Accept Socialism.” The host warned that this was the result of a “devious subversion” process that is “nearly complete.”
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from NPR (& affiliates)
Nonprofit Broadcasting & Media Production Company
House Approves Police Reform Bill Named After George Floyd
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House Approves Police Reform Bill Named After George Floyd
House lawmakers on Wednesday passed the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a reform bill that would ban chokeholds and alter so-called qualified immunity for law enforcement, which would make it easier to pursue claims of police misconduct. The 220-212 vote, mostly along party lines, came nine months after Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man, was killed by Minneapolis police officers last spring. The wide-ranging legislation would also ban no-knock warrants in certain cases, mandate data collection on police encounters, prohibit racial and religious profiling and redirect funding to community-based policing programs.
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from The Salt Lake Tribune
One opponent of bail reform repeal says it poses ‘an existential threat of going backwards’
As the clock ticks down the final hours of the Utah legislative session, a group of state prosecutors and public defenders came together Monday to call on lawmakers not to repeal a broadly supported bail reform package enacted last year. Proponents of the reforms — which aim to keep relatively low-risk defendants from sitting behind bars for weeks or months awaiting trial because they’re poor, while rich people can simply post bail and walk free — say the system now in place under HB206 is significantly better than the old one, which was based on cash bail. “A system that is based on cash bail impacts the poor, communities of color and the marginalized, disproportionately causing people to lose their jobs, lose their shelter, their homes [and] their apartments,” Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said at a news conference on Monday. “And [it] impacts in a disproportionate way the economic and the emotional well-being of their families.”
from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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An advocacy group angling for a free-flowing Snake River has released a detailed multimedia website envisioning what the removal of four dams could mean for the region. “We’re hoping that interactive map is a tool to show people what was there,” said Sam Mace, the Inland Northwest Director of Save Our Wild Salmon.
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