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JANUARY 7, 2022 THE BIG STORY
After a year of mostly avoiding Trump, Biden condemned him on the anniversary of the insurrection President Joe Biden speaks at the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2022, to mark the anniversary of the attack on the Capitol. Pool / Getty Images In his clearest and most prolonged denunciation of Donald Trump from the executive office, President Joe Biden gave a speech condemning the former president for his role in inciting violence and undermining democracy.
"His bruised ego matters more to him than our democracy or our Constitution. He cannot accept that he lost," Biden said. "For the first time in our history, a president not just lost an election, he tried to prevent a peaceful transfer of power as a violent mob reached the Capitol."
On the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris made the case that the Capitol attack was more than a physical threat to democracy. Rather, the election denial ideology behind the attack also spurred a series of voter restriction bills from Republican legislators across the country. In the past year, 19 states have passed laws that restrict voter access citing the false narrative — pushed by Trump — that Biden stole the election as the reason.
"If we do not defend it," Harris said, "Democracy simply will not stand." 😷STAYING ON TOP OF THIS (PANDEMIC)
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SNAPSHOTS The government says a key informant in the Michigan kidnapping case was a "double agent." The FBI appears to be disowning its own operative, saying he was "working against the interests of the government" by trying to destroy evidence and prevent arrests.
A judge had zero patience for an alleged Jan. 6 rioter's request to travel to Jamaica. "This Court will not commemorate the one-year anniversary of this attack on the Capitol by granting defendant's request for non-essential foreign travel when he is awaiting judgment for his actions on that day."
SPRING 2020 PROBLEMS IN WINTER 2022
Parents who also teach are freaking out over COVID-19 exposure as parents push to keep classrooms open Chicago Public School teachers, parents, and students protest the COVID response earlier this year Scott Olson / Getty Images Teachers are struggling to protect the health of their students and that of their own children, all while millions of COVID cases spread across the US.
BuzzFeed News spoke to multiple teachers who are parents, many of whom have made the difficult choice to keep children home given how much the coronavirus is spreading in schools. The decision is frustrating educators who believe that in-person learning is always better, and parents who rely on schools to free up time for their other responsibilities.
"The school has to open so other people can have free childcare, but now my kid is sick because I went to school and I brought home the virus," said Andrea Keller, a teacher at PS 96 in the Bronx and a parent of 4-year-old twins. "And now I have to stay home and lose a sick day so that you can send your kid to school for babysitting because they're not getting an education right now." HOUSE OF GUCCI IS ON THIS LIST SUE ME
9 movies we loved in 2021 Winston Duke and Zazie Beetz in Nine Days Michael Coles / Sony Pictures Classics / Courtesy Everett Collection If you find yourself, for whatever reason, staying at home for a few days, taking a break from social gatherings, or needing a distraction from certain global events, these are the movies we loved from last year.
Nine Days In Nine Days, Will is an arbiter, tasked with the responsibility of interviewing souls and deciding which will get the opportunity to go to earth and inhabit a human body. Should he select the soul least likely to suffer? The one most likely to withstand the brutality of existence? Or the soul most oriented to softness and fragility? While the premise is supernatural, the mechanics of the film are rooted in the triumphs and traumas of humanity.
Passing Though you may be expecting a simple story about the dangers of passing for another race, the film allows the audience to consider other questions beyond surface-level observations. Instead of condemning one Black character's choice to live as a white woman, the film raises questions around why someone might choose a life of exile from their people.
Drive My Car For the characters in this film, avoiding suffering has been a necessity; it's enabled them to keep going, but at a cost. Dealing with this kind of loss requires the deepest bravery; Drive My Car is a film that bears witness to the grief process, one of the most common and transformative things we ever face. WELCOME, JANUARY!
Look more closely at the world through these long reads "I think someone entered something in your chart wrong," a physician's assistant said to me over a video call on Saturday. "It says you've had COVID-19 three times."
"Nope, not a mistake." I smiled, chuckling at her confounded expression. "Isn't that hilarious?"
My situation is incredibly rare. Including all my infections and vaccinations, I have been directly exposed to the virus, or parts of it that trigger an immune reaction, five times. My antibodies should be as jacked as an Instagram bodybuilder. But apparently, they're not.
Jail time for an "imaginary crime" Every year, police officers claim to have suffered near-fatal overdoses after accidentally touching fentanyl, a synthetic opioid more powerful than morphine or heroin. But that's not how the drug works.
Accidental overdose by skin exposure "is chemically and physically implausible," said Dr. Ryan Marino, a medical toxicologist and addiction medicine specialist who teaches at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. It's virtually impossible to overdose simply by touching or getting too close to fentanyl. Despite this, people who use the drug are facing serious legal repercussions — such as charges of assault or endangerment of officers — for supposedly causing these improbable overdoses.
The culture wars aren't real. The people they hurt are. From J.K. Rowling's anti-trans rhetoric to the conservative campaign against critical race theory, the current media ecosystem frames disinformation about minority identities as legitimate controversy. Following increased trans visibility in media and public debate about gender, as well as the Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, so-called debates about this representation began to bubble up in news outlets worldwide.
It's not an accident that in all these backlash stories, class isn't invoked to call out how white middle- and upper-class perspectives shape newsrooms. Instead, it is invoked to imply that anti-racism or trans rights are somehow an "elitist" concern. This framing takes pressure off the publications themselves to engage with these issues as a labor concern in their own newsrooms. But divorcing stories about class and identity from the real world and existing power structures is a distortion. Release one thing you've been worrying about today, Alexa 📝 This letter was edited and brought to you by Alexa Lee and BuzzFeed News. You can always reach us here.
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