Saturday, July 6, 2024

Reading archive 2024-07-03 through 2024-07-05

D.C. Council Bills Seek to Address Chronic Absenteeism and Truancy: A bill from Mayor Bowser directs the attorney general to file criminal charges in cases where a student misses 25 days of school.

Vatican excommunicates Archbishop ViganĂ² for refusing to recognize Pope Francis: In a rare trial, the Vatican acted against Carlo Maria ViganĂ², a former ambassador to the U.S. and one of Pope Francis’s most vociferous internal critics.

Opinion Who’s the least bad choice to be Trump’s VP?: Of three top contenders, J.D. Vance would be terrible, Marco Rubio and Doug Burgum possibly much better.

She took on a small Mississippi town’s police. Then they arrested her.: How civil rights lawyer Jill Collen Jefferson convinced the Justice Department to investigate allegedly racist and abusive policing in tiny Lexington, Miss.

A shift in how Democrats talk about Biden’s dropping out: It’s subtle, but it’s unmistakable. While the Biden campaign says this isn’t on the table, big-name Democrats suggest it should be.

Justice Dept. plans to pursue Trump cases past Election Day, even if he wins: If Donald Trump is elected president, the finish line for federal prosecutors is Inauguration Day, not Election Day, people familiar with the discussions said

Opinion Some fun ideas for Louisiana classroom walls: The Louisiana law mandating the commandments’ display fails to further historical education.

One year in, Threads hasn’t overtaken X. Meta still thinks it can.: The goal is to build “a less angry place for people to share their ideas,” Instagram chief Adam Mosseri says. Not everyone’s happy about that.

Doing Nothing About Biden Is the Riskiest Plan of All

This Isn’t All Joe Biden’s Fault - "But rather than act as a check on Biden’s decisions and ambitions, the party has become an enabler of them. An enforcer of them. It is giving the American people an option they do not want and then threatening them with the end of democracy if they do not take it." [ed. note: the party is right, but voters are morons]

Joe Biden should drop out: Denying Joe Biden's decline has put Democrats in a terrible position.

Trump advisers hope Biden stays in race, as they eye alternate scenarios: After dismissing suggestions the president could withdraw, the Trump campaign is beginning to consider having to tweak its message.

Democrats begin to consider Harris at the top of their ticket: Several party leaders suggest that if Biden steps aside, Harris would have to be his replacement.

Biden faces growing political crisis over response to debate performance: The president has told allies in recent days that he is in a tough moment and that he has to prove to voters that he is up for the job.

Biden’s aging is seen as accelerating; lapses described as more common Aides, foreign officials, members of Congress and donors say: President Biden has seemed slower and more often loses his train of thought in recent months, though close aides insist he remains mentally sharp.

Why More French Youth Are Voting for the Far Right: Most young people in France usually don’t vote or they back the left. That is still true, but support has surged for the far right, whose openly racist past can feel to them like ancient history.

The short answer on office shorts: No: Ask yourself these questions before you free your knees.

Why scientists think they may finally have found a way to recycle clothes: It’s almost impossible to turn old threads into new clothes, but scientists are working to change that.

Tempers flare as Trump reviews revised abortion plank for Republican platform: The former president wants the platform to endorse leaving the issue to the states rather than a federal ban in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s demise.

Business leaders, pro-Democracy activists send letter asking Biden to withdraw: The letter sent to the White House is the latest outreach from the donor and activist community pushing for a new nominee after the president’s debate performance.

Sen. Mark Warner works to gather Senate Democrats to ask Biden to exit race: There’s increasing sentiment among Democratic senators that President Biden cannot stay in the race.

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