Grandparents could be out making money in the time they spend with their grandchildren, complains an op-ed published in Bloomberg last week.
More retired grandparents should refuse to babysit their grandchildren while their parents are at work, recommended Teresa Ghilarducci, a scholar on labor and retirement security issues and economics professor at The New School in Manhattan.
&#8220;Saying no to babysitting your grandchildren might be one of the most distressing and complicated refusals in human relationships. But it’s something more retirees should do instead of serving as primary child-care givers while parents are at work,&#8221; Ghilarducci wrote in her <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-07-21/personal-finance-do-you-really-want-to-watch-grandchildren-full-time">op-ed</a> titled, &#8220;Think Twice, Grandma, Before You Become the Nanny&#8221; which was published in Bloomberg on Wednesday.
&#8220;While you love your children and grandchildren, and relish the idea of spending more time with them, stop and think of what you may be giving up by saying yes to a full-time role,&#8221; she continued.
She went on to outline some of the activities that could be more worthwhile for those in their golden years than spending time with their grandchildren, like making money.
&#8220;Filling your days with watching your grandchildren means you miss the chance to pursue other interests and interact with other adults. Even more important, at least financially, you forgo the opportunity to earn money.&#8221;
The money grandparents could be out earning could be used to &#8220;pay down debt or invest in your health,&#8221; Ghilarducci suggested.
Even grandparents who think they are financially secure should consider whether they&#8217;re really ready to relax because &#8220;there could be high, unknown costs down the road as you age.&#8221;
Spending time with grandchildren might not just cheat grandparents financially, according to the article, because children also carry germs.
&#8220;There may be health risks to consider, too. While there could be other benefits to interacting with children, such as keeping depression at bay and staying mentally sharp, grandparents spending time with young children could be exposed to more germs,&#8221; the article says.
Even a grandparent who is vaccinated could catch the coronavirus if &#8220;exposed to an unvaccinated child for long periods of time,&#8221; the article claims.
The list of cons is still not complete, though. Grandparents must also weigh the &#8220;emotional costs&#8221; of caring for grandchildren.
&#8220;Taking care of children is rewarding, but it can be a grind. Grandparents may start to feel resentful or that they&#8217;re being taken for granted if there isn&#8217;t enough appreciation expressed,&#8221; the article cautions.
Grandparents&#8217; care could even be bad for children too, the article claims, since &#8220;grandparents tend to allow children to eat more sweets and non-nutritious food than parents do.&#8221; The article admits that &#8220;more systematic research is needed&#8221; in that area, however.
To remedy the litany of negatives, the author encourages grandparents to &#8220;set schedules from the beginning, such as certain days of the week for a set number of hours,&#8221; although &#8220;limiting the amount of time could prove to be the best arrangement of all.&#8221;
The article was promptly mocked on social media, Twitter users panning it as &#8220;grim&#8221; and anti-family.
&#8220;What&#8217;s with Bloomberg&#8217;s war on grandparents these days?&#8221; one Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/tereziaxavier/status/1419855214803185667">wrote</a>. &#8220;My grandmother was my &#8216;nanny&#8217; growing up and it was great. Don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;d do without her &amp; I love being able to pay it forward now that I&#8217;m able to.&#8221;
&#8220;I plan on taking care of my grandkids one day if I’m needed. As cliche this sentiment is, it’s true: At the end of my life I’m not going to wish I’d spent more time at the office,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/CmartWest98/status/1419684042564321280">wrote</a> another.
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Atlantic City, New Jersey, shut down its needle exchange site last week as the country suffers from a spike in deaths from drug overdoses.
The Oasis Drop-In Center, which serves 1,200 people and is the only syringe service site in the Atlantic City area, will be closed after 14 years following a controversial 7–2 City Council vote.
“It’s going to be devastating for people — it’s already devastating,” Carol Harney, chief executive officer of South Jersey AIDS Alliance (SJAA), which has operated the site since 2007, <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/danvergano/atlantic-city-shutters-needle-exchange">told</a> Buzzfeed.
The needle exchange site, the largest of seven such sites in New Jersey, provides various medical services to addicts and people in recovery including clean needles, health screenings, overdose-prevention drugs, and addiction treatment.
The decision to close the site was reportedly unpopular among public health advocates but supported by local officials. Out of 50 public comments on the issue, all but two were opposed to closing down the site. City Council members argued that too many people come from out of town to use the needle exchange service and that the site has contributed to syringes littering the boardwalk and parks.
“It doesn’t make sense for Atlantic City to be the only place that has to deal with the drug crisis,” City Council President George Tibbitt said during Wednesday&#8217;s nearly three-hour city council meeting.
“We’re all here to protect our reputation and our children,” he said.
During the virtual meeting, Tibbitt held up a plastic jar nearly half-full of needles that he said he found in a park.
&#8220;They give out these assisted suicide devices, being the needles, and these people are ending up dead in the streets,&#8221; Tibbitt <a href="https://6abc.com/atlantic-city-nj-councilman-attacked-hossain-morshed-ac-attack/10898216/">said</a> last week. &#8220;We&#8217;re taking our streets back. It&#8217;s gotten out of control.&#8221;
Another council member <a href="https://6abc.com/atlantic-city-nj-councilman-attacked-hossain-morshed-ac-attack/10898216/">landed</a> in the hospital earlier this month with a broken nose and eye socket after he was attacked, he believes, by supporters of the needle exchange program. Atlantic City police are investigating the attack.
&#8220;I thought they were going to shoot me. I&#8217;m thinking about my family and if I died, who was going to take care of my family,&#8221; Councilman MD Hossain Morshed <a href="https://6abc.com/atlantic-city-nj-councilman-attacked-hossain-morshed-ac-attack/10898216/">said</a> from his hospital bed last week.
Morshed still voted to close down the city&#8217;s needle exchange site.
The site&#8217;s closure comes after the U.S. saw a 29.4% increase in overdose deaths in 2020 compared to 2019.
More than 93,000 people died of drug overdoses in the U.S. last year <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm">according</a> to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including <a href="https://www.nj.gov/governor/news/news/562021/20210304a.shtml">more than 3,000</a> in New Jersey alone.
The spike in fatal overdoses has been attributed in part to the coronavirus pandemic, which helped to isolate individuals struggling with addiction. Another factor in rising overdose deaths is increased access to the potent and frequently lethal synthetic opioid fentanyl, which the CDC says is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine.
Dr. Nora Volkow, who directs the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said this month that one of the factors that contributed to that increase in drug use was &#8220;the isolation, social distancing, and that does not allow you to provide Narcan, which reverses overdoses.”
“That despair that people felt, hopefully, will start to be mitigated” as people rebuild their support systems, Volkow <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/14/ease-of-covid-lockdown-restrictions-may-help-diminish-drug-abuse-doctor-says.html">said</a>.
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The Society of Children’s Bookmakers and Illustrators&#8217; (SCBWI) executive director announced this week that she will retire at the end of this year as the group weathers a controversy over the sudden resignation of its diversity officer, a black Jewish woman.
Executive Director Lin Oliver told faculty for the society&#8217;s summer conference in a July 19 email that she will retire this year, <a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/86928-voicing-support-for-diversity-and-reorganization-scbwi-director-announces-retirement-amid-controversy.html">according</a> to Publisher&#8217;s Weekly.
Her announcement comes as the professional group, which has 22,000 members globally, grapples with the resignation of its chief equity and inclusion officer April Powers, who was attacked and <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/april-powers-ex-scbwi-diversity-chief-sent-death-threats-after-sharing-antisemitism-post-1607181">sent death threats</a> after she posted a statement of solidarity with Jewish people last month.
Powers, who is black and Jewish, resigned on June 27, shortly after SCBWI posted the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SCBWI/photos/a.129189255298101/349922729891418/?type=3">statement</a> to its website and Facebook on June 10.
In its statement, the SCBWI said it &#8220;unequivocally recognizes&#8221; that the world&#8217;s Jewish people &#8220;have the right to life, safety, and freedom from scapegoating and fear.&#8221;
&#8220;No person should be at risk because of their heritage, religion, disability, or whom they love,&#8221; the SCBWI said, adding that over the last several years, anti-Semitism has been &#8220;on the rise globally.&#8221;
&#8220;Because antisemitism is one of the oldest forms of hatred, it has its own name,&#8221; the group said. &#8220;It is the example from which many forms of racism and violence are perpetrated. As writers, illustrators, and translators of children’s literature, we are responsible for promoting equity and humanizing people in our work-all children and all families.&#8221;
&#8220;Silence is often mistaken for acceptance and results in the perpetration of more hatred and violence against different types of people. As proof, it saddens us that for the fourth time this year we are compelled to invite you to join us in not looking away and in speaking out against all forms of hate, including antisemitism,” the statement concluded.
The statement mentioned &#8220;all forms of hate.&#8221; It did not specifically mention Israel, Palestinians, Muslims, or conflict between any groups.
Nevertheless, it was met with criticism from authors including Palestinian-American writer Razan Abdin-Adnani, a member of the SCBWI, who attacked Powers as &#8220;dismissive and culturally insensitive.&#8221;
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If I may&#8230; just one more tweet before I step away for a bit. Here&#39;s their DEI officer, April Powers, talking about her organizational goals for <a href="https://twitter.com/scbwi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@scbwi</a>: <a href="https://t.co/BsevhEu4yK">https://t.co/BsevhEu4yK</a> &amp; below is April Power stating that she is &quot;Pro-Israel&quot; on an official SCBWI forum. Coincidence? &#8230; <a href="https://t.co/0AWmRE1UPW">pic.twitter.com/0AWmRE1UPW</a>
&mdash; Razan A-A 🇵🇸 (@razanabnani) <a href="https://twitter.com/razanabnani/status/1407459628103909387?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 22, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You can imagine my dismay when they released a powerful statement in support of the Jewish community,&#8221; Abdin-Adnani tweeted.
Abdin-Adnani said that while she does not disagree with this statement &#8220;in the slightest bit,&#8221; she was disappointed with Powers&#8217; response to her concerns. The Palestinian author said she had inquired about potential statements of solidarity with Palestinians and Muslims as well, to which Powers responded, &#8220;if we see a surge against Muslims globally as we have w/ other groups, expect us to speak out.&#8221;
Following Abdin-Adnani&#8217;s criticism, Powers was subjected to a torrent of abuse online that reportedly included death threats and doxxing.
&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t matter if it&#8217;s credible or not, the feeling that you have when someone threatens your life and that of your family online and publicly is a terrorist act,&#8221; Powers <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/april-powers-ex-scbwi-diversity-chief-sent-death-threats-after-sharing-antisemitism-post-1607181">told</a> Newsweek.
Powers resigned from the SCBWI and issued a statement apologizing for neglecting to address &#8220;the rise in Islamophobia,&#8221; saying she &#8220;deeply regrets&#8221; that omission.
&#8220;As someone who is vehemently against Islamophobia and hate speech of any kind, I understand that intention is not impact and I am sorry,&#8221; she said.
Powers later clarified that the SCBWI had not fired her or asked her to resign. She also <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/scbwi-diversity-chief-resigns-after-not-mentioning-islamophobia-antisemitism-post-1605118">thanked</a> supporters during a &#8220;terrifying moment for me and my family.&#8221;
The SCBWI also issued an <a href="https://twitter.com/scbwi/status/1409262124547727372">apology</a> in late June to Abdin-Adnani, as well as the group&#8217;s Palestinian and Muslim members.
&#8220;I would like to apologize to everyone in the Palestinian community who felt unrepresented, silenced, or marginalized,&#8221; Oliver said in her apology on behalf of the SCBWI. &#8220;SCBWI acknowledges the pain our actions have caused to our Muslim and Palestinian members and hope that we can heal from this moment.&#8221;
Oliver apologized specifically to Abdin-Adnani and said the writer has been unblocked from the organization&#8217;s feed. Abdin-Adnani did not accept the apology, but instead <a href="https://twitter.com/razanabnani/status/1409631299128594439">urged</a> a boycott of SCBWI and slammed Oliver for her nearly $200,000 <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/300456551">salary</a>.
The SCBWI did not respond to a request for comment.
Abdin-Adnani has a history of replying to Twitter threads with comments criticizing Jews, including <a href="https://twitter.com/razanabnani/status/1400225183324061697">remarks</a> like &#8220;I hear Germany &amp; Poland are quite nice these days.&#8221; Last month, she responded in agreement with a Twitter user who <a href="https://twitter.com/razanabnani/status/1400226216582467597">said</a>, “the Zionists need to go back to Europe and Brooklyn.”
The controversy even caught the attention of actress Debra Messing, who is Jewish and spoke up to defend Powers, saying she &#8220;must be given her job back.&#8221;
&#8220;Condemning hate against Jews is NOT Islamophobic NOR Anti- Palestinian,&#8221; Messing tweeted. &#8220;If you think it is, you have a prejudice against Jews.&#8221;
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A black Jewish woman, April Powers, was FIRED ( forced to resign) as Equality Director because an antisemite hated her statement of condemnation against <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/antisemitism?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#antisemitism</a>. <a href="https://t.co/swZPayoxYP">pic.twitter.com/swZPayoxYP</a>
&mdash; Debra Messing✍🏻 (@DebraMessing) <a href="https://twitter.com/DebraMessing/status/1410000222969806848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
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After Messing weighed in, Abdin-Adnani cried harassment and urged her followers to report Messing&#8217;s Twitter thread for &#8220;targeted harassment.&#8221;
&#8220;The right-wing mob continues to harass me,&#8221; she tweeted.
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Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) on Wednesday ripped House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) after she rejected his nomination to the special congressional panel investigating the Capitol riot on January 6.
“It really made me angry. I served my country in Afghanistan and she is saying that I’m not up to playing a serious role on this Jan. 6 committee,” Banks <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/07/21/banks-unloads-on-pelosi-vows-to-get-jan-6-answers-via-gop-panel/">told</a> the New York Post on Wednesday.
“But it just goes to show all along this was never a serious effort on their part, it’s all a political witch hunt. They want to make this all about Donald Trump, dragging Republican members of Congress through the mud and attacking 75 million people that voted for Donald Trump,” Banks told the outlet.
On Wednesday, Pelosi rejected two of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) proposed Republican members for the committee, Banks and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH).
&#8220;With respect for the integrity of the investigation, with an insistence on the truth and with concern about statements made and actions taken by these members, I must reject the recommendations of Representatives Banks and Jordan,&#8221; Pelosi said.
In response, McCarthy said he would pull all five of his Republican picks for the select committee unless Pelosi reversed course and seats all five. The minority leader also announced that the GOP will conduct its own investigation into the events of January 6, when a mob broke through security and marauded through the U.S. Capitol.
&#8220;This represents an egregious abuse of power and will irreparably damage this institution,&#8221; McCarthy said in a statement. &#8220;Denying the voices of members who have served in the military and law enforcement, as well as leaders of standing committees, has made it undeniable that this panel has lost all legitimacy and credibility and shows the Speaker is more interested in playing politics than seeking the truth.&#8221;
Earlier this month, Pelosi announced eight picks for the committee including one Republican, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), one of former President Trump&#8217;s most vocal critics. McCarthy <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/07/01/mccarthy-says-it-would-be-unprecedented-for-liz-cheney-to-keep-committee-seats/?sh=ff656f0586b0">said</a> at the time that it would be “unprecedented” for Cheney to keep her committee assignments after her decision to accept Pelosi&#8217;s nomination.
Banks said he had started “digging into the real questions that nobody’s asked,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Democrats don’t want to answer to on why the Capitol was vulnerable on January 6 when we had real intelligence three weeks before and we didn’t do anything to prepare for it.”
The Indiana Republican suggested that Democrats may be avoiding investigating aspects of the January 6 violence because Pelosi may have been involved in the costly delay of the deployment of the National Guard, a claim Pelosi&#8217;s office has strongly denied.
“Democrats don’t want to talk about it because at the end of the day, the higher up the food chain you get, the closer to Nancy Pelosi you get, and that spooked Nancy Pelosi and that’s why she rejected Jim Jordan and me,” Banks told the Post.
“We’re not giving up. These are questions that deserve answers and we’re still members of Congress who can demand answers to serious questions that the Democrats, so far, have not given any attention to.&#8221;
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President Biden said Wednesday that the only reason not to eliminate the filibuster is that doing so would &#8220;throw the entire Congress into chaos and nothing will get done.”
At CNN&#8217;s town hall Wednesday evening, one attendee asked Biden whether it is “logical to get rid of the filibuster” in order to &#8220;protect our democracy and secure the right to vote.&#8221;
Biden began by calling the GOP&#8217;s voting law reforms &#8220;Jim Crow on steroids.&#8221;
&#8220;The abuse of the filibuster is pretty overwhelming,&#8221; the president continued, adding that he is in favor of returning to filibustering by physically standing on the floor.
&#8220;I would go back to that where you have to maintain the floor,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;You have to stand there and talk and hold the floor.&#8221;
CNN&#8217;s Don Lemon then interjected to press Biden on the issue.
&#8220;If you hold the floor for a day or a year, what difference does it make?&#8221; Lemon asked. &#8220;Why is protecting the filibuster, is that more important than protecting voting rights, especially for people who fought and died for that?&#8221;
&#8220;No, it&#8217;s not,&#8221; Biden answered, acknowledging that he does not “want the debate to only be about whether or not we have a filibuster or exception to the filibuster or going back to the way the filibuster had to be used before.”
“But isn’t that the only way you’re going to get it done right now?” Lemon asked.
“No, I don’t believe that. I think we can get it done,” Biden responded.
Lemon referenced remarks last year by former President Barack Obama, who called the filibuster a &#8220;Jim Crow relic,&#8221; to which Biden agreed &#8220;it is.&#8221;
“If it’s a relic of Jim Crow, it’s been used to fight against civil rights legislation historically, why protect it?” Lemon asked.
“There’s no reason to protect it other than you’re going to throw the entire Congress into chaos and nothing will get done,” Biden said. “Nothing at all will get done.”
Last month, Republicans filibustered to successfully block the creation of an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the first time the minority party has used their filibuster power in the Senate this year.
With 54 votes in favor of establishing the commission and 35 against, the vote fell short of the 60 votes needed to overcome the GOP filibuster. Eliminating the filibuster would allow Democrats to use a simple majority to pass major legislation. The Senate is currently split 50-50, but Democrats have Vice President Kamala Harris to cast the tie-breaking vote.
Senate Democrats are at odds over what to do about the filibuster, with some like Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) criticizing it as a tool used to “block the will of the majority of the American people.” Meanwhile, the most conservative Democrat in the Senate, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), has vocally opposed eliminating the filibuster. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kyrsten-sinema-defends-filibuster-saying-it-protects-the-democracy-of-our-nation">defended</a> the filibuster, saying it “protects the democracy of our nation,” despite complaints from her fellow Democrats who want to eliminate it in order to accomplish policy goals.
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Americans think race relations between black and white people are at their lowest in more than two decades, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday.
A majority of Americans, 57%, say relations are &#8220;somewhat&#8221; or &#8220;very&#8221; bad, the Gallup poll <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/352457/ratings-black-white-relations-new-low.aspx">found</a>. Meanwhile, about 42% of Americans say relations between blacks and whites are either &#8220;very&#8221; or &#8220;somewhat&#8221; good.
The results are similar to last year’s poll, which also found that U.S. adults viewed race relations between blacks and whites as at an all-time low. 
The poll was conducted from June 1 to July 5, during which time former police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison after being convicted of murder in the death of George Floyd. His sentence, while one of the longest for a police officer convicted of unlawful use of deadly force, fell short of what some advocates wanted and prompted protests. 
Before 2016, majorities of both racial groups rated relations between the two groups positively. Over the last two decades, whites have been more likely to rate race relations positively, but the difference in the two groups’ views is particularly stark this year. Only 33% of black Americans view relations with white Americans positively, while 43% of white Americans view relations positively. However, the gap is still smaller than in 2018, which saw a 14-point gap between the groups.
The poll comes after a turbulent year for race relations in the U.S., coupled with economic and physical hardship for many Americans caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
In May last year, riots broke out in metropolitan areas across the country following the death of George Floyd. The day after Floyd’s death, rioters in Minneapolis took to the streets, shattering storefronts and burning police cars as they clashed with law enforcement. Similar violent demonstrations broke out in New York City, Portland, Dallas, Atlanta, Seattle, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and other cities across the country.
In recent months, conservatives have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shapiro-the-movement-against-critical-race-theory-is-deeply-necessary">pushed back</a> against efforts to teach more Critical Race Theory, a left-wing ideology that promotes the idea that white people in the U.S. constitute an oppressor class while racial minorities are relegated to an oppressed class.
However, “even as Americans rate Black-White relations negatively today, they continue to be optimistic about the future overall,” Gallup said. 
A 57% majority of U.S. adults say “a solution to the problem of Black-White relations will eventually be worked out and race relations will not always be a problem,” Gallup said, while 40% “disagree and say it will always be a problem.”
“As the nation continues to grapple with racial equity, Americans rate the state of Black-White relations more negatively now than at any time in over two decades. Overall, however, they believe there is still hope for an eventual solution,” Gallup said.
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Six months later, the FBI continues to hunt for hundreds of people suspected of participating in the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Tuesday marks six months since hundreds of supporters of former President Donald Trump descended on the Capitol building, breaching security and forcing their way into the inner restricted chambers just as a joint session of Congress convened to certify the results of the presidential election. Since then, more than 500 defendants have already been arrested on charges related to the riot.
The FBI <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/capitol-violence">website</a> looking for information about Capitol rioters currently displays more than 900 photos of around 300 people marked &#8220;unidentified,&#8221;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-dc-wire-capitol-siege-government-and-politics-98baf0b213e507e5f3f6f32b78583cbd"> according</a> to The Associated Press.
“We’ve already arrested close to 500, and we have hundreds of investigations that are still ongoing beyond those 500,” FBI Director Christopher Wray <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/us/politics/capitol-riot-inquiry-fbi-congress.html">told</a> the House Oversight Committee last month.
One of the people still not apprehended by authorities is the individual who planted two pipe bombs outside the offices of the Republican and Democratic national committees the night before the riot.
Last month, a 49-year-old woman from Indiana <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/23/indiana-woman-reportedly-pleads-guilty-in-first-capitol-riot-sentencing.html">pleaded guilty</a> in the first sentencing of the Capitol riot investigation. Anna Morgan-Lloyd pleaded guilty to one charge of misdemeanor disorderly conduct and was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay $500. 
More than a dozen people have now pleaded guilty in connection with the riot. Some defendants languished in jail for months after they were arrested but before their trials began. Some <a href="https://amgreatness.com/2021/06/10/letters-from-a-d-c-jail/">were kept</a> in solitary confinement for nonviolent crimes.
Meanwhile, high-level prosecutors from across the country are trying cases against alleged participants in the Capitol riot, a Daily Wire review of court records <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/terrorism-homicide-prosecutors-brought-in-to-try-capitol-riot-defendants-for-crimes-like-trespassing">showed</a>.
The U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C. has ramped up its resources and called in prosecutors from unrelated areas of its office, including the Violent Crime Narcotics Trafficking Section, Homicide Section, Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering Section, Sex Offense and Domestic Violence Section, and Major Crimes Section. In some cases the prosecutors from those departments are prosecuting misdemeanors only.
The U.S. attorney&#8217;s office has also called in prosecutors from special sections of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and dozens of federal prosecutors from offices across the country.
One Justice Department attorney who is helping prosecute Capitol riot defendants, previously <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/jury-finds-brooklyn-man-guilty-conspiracy-and-attempting-provide-material-support-isis">assisted</a> in the case against a Brooklyn resident who was found guilty of working to support ISIS.
The defendants <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/capitol-riot-mob-arrests/">range</a> in age from 18 to 70, the vast majority of them men. Many of the cases follow a cookie-cutter pattern involving some combination of trespassing and disorderly conduct charges as well as “Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building.”
Last month, former U.S. Attorney for Utah Brett Tolman told The Daily Wire, “This is beyond aggressive, and it’s also one-size-fits-all.”
“There seems to be no careful analysis of the individual criminal intent or lack thereof, and that’s what a prosecutor’s first line of scrutiny and judgment is supposed to be considering,” Tolman said.
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Volkswagen pushed a detailed manual about gender and sexuality on employees, according to a whistleblower at the German car manufacturer.
A training document titled &#8220;How to be an Ally&#8221; was provided to The Daily Wire by a whistleblower. The document was dated last month and marked as coming from Herndon, the location of Volkswagen&#8217;s North American headquarters in Virginia&#8217;s Fairfax County.
The insider said the material represents some of the training &#8220;being shoved down our throats at VW&#8221; and that the &#8220;misinformation&#8221; on gender issues is being disseminated to the entire employee body.
The training document could have used at least one more edit, as the first reference to &#8220;LGBTQ+&#8221; people reads &#8220;LQBTQ+&#8221; instead.
&#8220;LQBTQ+ [sic] people exist across cultures and throughout human history,&#8221; the document says alongside a timeline of landmark moments for LGBT acceptance in the U.S.
&#8220;Despite recent progress, they continue to face discrimination and violence,&#8221; the document adds.
The training document says there are still &#8220;no LGBTQ+ legal protections&#8221; for housing, education, child welfare services, conversion therapy, public accommodations, hate crimes, and transgender healthcare in many states.
The material encourages employees to &#8220;take action&#8221; on the Equality Act, and a link redirects to a Human Rights Campaign <a href="https://www.hrc.org/campaigns/equality-act">page</a> informing people how they can work to get the legislation passed.
One &#8220;allyship tip&#8221; the training offers is: &#8220;don&#8217;t assume you know a person&#8217;s gender, use gender-neutral language.&#8221;
An ally is defined as &#8220;a person who supports and respects members of the LGBT+ community.&#8221;
&#8220;Expression, identity, sex, and orientation exist on a spectrum and are independent of one another. There are many more terms and identities within the LGBTQ+ community,&#8221; the document says.
In the definition of cisgender, the training says that &#8220;if a person is not transgender, they are cisgender.&#8221; Some LGBT rights advocates <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/cisgender-vs-straight#other-genders">dispute</a> that definition, however, saying the reality is more complicated.
The document criticizes &#8220;heteronormativity&#8221; as a pernicious &#8220;assumption&#8221; that &#8220;everyone is heterosexual and that heterosexuality is superior to all other sexualities,&#8221; which &#8220;leads to invisibility and stigmatizing of other sexualities.&#8221;
The training encourages employees not to say &#8220;ladies and gentlemen,&#8221; &#8220;both genders,&#8221; &#8220;opposite sexes,&#8221; gendered terms such as &#8220;mailman&#8221; or &#8220;fireman,&#8221; or &#8220;normal people&#8221; when referring to &#8220;cisgender&#8221; people.
The materials also encourages employees to add pronouns to their email signature along with a link to an article about why sharing your pronouns is &#8220;important.&#8221;
&#8220;As an ally, sharing your pronouns costs you nothing,&#8221; the training says, &#8220;However, it signals that you are an ally and that it is safe for LGBTQ+ individuals to be authentic with you.&#8221;
The document says the training material was put together by DRIVE (Diversity, Respect, Inclusion, Values, Equality), Volkswagen&#8217;s North American &#8220;employee resource group for LGBTQ+ colleagues and allies,&#8221; which said it works to make Volkswagen &#8220;a more affirming and inclusive place to be through education, connection, community outreach &amp; partnerships.&#8221;
Major companies, as well as local governments, have ramped up their diversity training to include content about gender and sexuality as well as how to unlearn <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whistleblower-amazon-regularly-forces-employees-to-confess-unconscious-racial-bias">unconscious racial bias</a>.
Employees in New York City were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-employees-forced-to-complete-ultra-woke-gender-identity-training">forced</a> to complete a mandatory online training session developed by the city that teaches that society defines people by their reproductive organs and asks whether all “cisgender” men need a “plaid shirt” and “bulging muscles.”
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Democrats have revived their calls to expand the Supreme Court after the Court ruled in favor of conservatives this week.
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Thursday in favor of two GOP-passed Arizona voting laws aimed at safeguarding election integrity.
&#8220;Today’s ruling is another blow to voting rights,&#8221; Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) wrote in a tweet.
&#8220;We have no time to waste to protect the right to vote. We must abolish the filibuster and pass the For the People Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Act. And we must expand the Supreme Court,&#8221; Markey said.
&#8220;Today, the Supreme Court once again gutted the Voting Rights Act. If we don’t expand the Court soon, we will no longer have a democracy to protect. What are we waiting for?&#8221; wrote Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) in a tweet.
&#8220;And still some people have the nerve to question whether Court expansion is necessary,&#8221; Jones wrote in another tweet responding to a tweet that accused Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) of having &#8220;stolen&#8221; Supreme Court seats for former President Trump.
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) also <a href="https://twitter.com/ReElectHank/status/1410656690756800514">called</a> for expanding the Supreme Court, as well as abolishing the filibuster, in a tweet.
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Today’s ruling is another blow to voting rights. We have no time to waste to protect the right to vote. We must abolish the filibuster and pass the For the People Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
And we must expand the Supreme Court. <a href="https://t.co/PwLLAlfXcx">https://t.co/PwLLAlfXcx</a>
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Today, the Supreme Court once again gutted the Voting Rights Act. 
If we don’t expand the Court soon, we will no longer have a democracy to protect. 
What are we waiting for?<a href="https://t.co/mti1ZG6Enf">pic.twitter.com/mti1ZG6Enf</a>
&mdash; Mondaire Jones (@MondaireJones) <a href="https://twitter.com/MondaireJones/status/1410705072263159820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Justice Samuel Alito wrote the court’s majority <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/19-1257_g204.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">opinion</a> on the Arizona voting laws, concluding that they do not violate the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Alito was joined by Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Chief Justice John Roberts. Justices Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor dissented.
Last year, some Democrats called for adding justices to the Supreme Court, known as “court-packing.” In April, congressional Democrats <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/democrats-introduce-bill-expand-supreme-court-9-13-justices-n1264132">introduced</a> a bill to expand the court from nine to 13 justices.
President Biden refused to answer questions on court-packing during his campaign last year.
“Whatever position I take on that, that’ll become the issue,” Biden responded during a presidential debate in September when pressed on whether he supported increasing the number of justices.
Over the last several years, Democrats have made clear that they strongly disapprove of each of Trump&#8217;s three Supreme Court picks.
In March of last year, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), then the Senate Minority Leader, <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/i-should-not-have-used-the-words-i-did-schumer-walks-back-supreme-court-threat-after-being-scolded-by-chief-justice/">stood</a> on the steps of the Supreme Court and spoke before a throng of abortion advocates as the court took up its first case dealing with abortion since Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh were confirmed.
“I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price,” Schumer declared. “You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
A spokesman for Schumer <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/i-should-not-have-used-the-words-i-did-schumer-walks-back-supreme-court-threat-after-being-scolded-by-chief-justice/">said</a> at the time that the senator&#8217;s remark was a “reference to the political price” Republicans would pay for confirming Gorsuch and Kavanaugh to the court. The spokesman added that the justices would inspire a “major grassroots movement on the issue of reproductive rights against the decision.”
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Oregon may stop requiring lawyers to pass the state&#8217;s bar exam after new data showed dramatic racial disparities in bar exam results.
Instead of studying for the notoriously grueling two-day bar exam, those hoping to practice law in Oregon may soon be given two alternative routes to becoming licensed in the state.
A task force of the Oregon Board of Bar Examiners <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2021/06/oregon-considers-dropping-bar-exam-requirement-for-new-lawyers-a-rare-move-among-states.html">recommended</a> in two recent task force reports that potential attorneys be allowed to either take the exam or be admitted to the profession on the merits of coursework and practical experience.
The idea is to provide a pathway to licensing for people who do not have the time or resources to prepare for the bar exam. Some proponents of the alternatives also say it will lead to attorneys being better prepared when they do begin practicing.
The recommendations come after more than 1,000 new lawyers <a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/over-1-000-new-lawyers-get-licenses-without-taking-bar-exam">became licensed</a> over the past year without taking a bar exam, thanks to emergency pandemic programs in Utah, Washington, Oregon, Louisiana, and Washington, D.C.
The <a href="https://willamette.edu/news/library/2021/06/law-alternative-pathways.html">recommendations</a> were delivered on Friday last week to the Oregon Supreme Court, which is set to consider them at a public meeting on July 7. The court &#8212; along with the Oregon State Bar &#8212; is currently accepting <a href="https://taskforces.osbar.org/ate/comments/">public</a> <a href="https://taskforces.osbar.org/standard-setting-task-force/comments/">comment</a> online up to the day before the meeting.
The move came the same week the American Bar Association (ABA) released new <a href="https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/legal_education_and_admissions_to_the_bar/statistics/20210621-bpq-national-summary-data-race-ethnicity-gender.pdf">data</a> showing dramatic racial disparities in bar exam scores.
In 2020, 87.65% of the white candidates taking a bar exam for the first time passed. Among first-time black candidates, 66.28% passed, and among first-time Hispanic candidates, 75.59% passed, according to the ABA&#8217;s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.
In 2020, 17% who took the Oregon bar <a href="https://www.osbar.org/admissions/examresults_july2019.htm">failed</a>. In 2016, the fail rate <a href="https://www.osbar.org/admissions/examresults_july2016.htm">was</a> significantly more dismal at 42%.
Oregon has required lawyers to pass a bar exam for 111 years, since 1910.
Hans Bader, a longtime civil rights lawyer who served a stint in the federal Office for Civil Rights, said that while he can see the argument for getting rid of the bar exam, lawyers should be required to disclose to clients that they did not pass it.
&#8220;You might still be able to learn these basics later, by being an apprentice in a law firm,&#8221; Bader told The Daily Wire. &#8220;So I can see the argument that if you attended law school, and got a law degree, you should be allowed to practice law even if you couldn&#8217;t pass the bar exam.&#8221;
However, he added, &#8220;if someone like that is allowed to practice law, I think they should have to publicly disclose in advertisements or client solicitations that they didn&#8217;t pass the bar exam, so prospective clients can take that into account, and realize that they are not the cream of the crop, in terms of lawyers.&#8221;
Bader also expressed his view that Oregon&#8217;s law degree requirement should be <a href="https://truthonthemarket.com/2011/09/20/hans-bader-on-abolish-law-school-requirement-keep-the-bar-exam/">scrapped</a> before the bar exam, as the high cost is a more significant barrier for some people. Oregon requires a degree from a law school approved by the American Bar association before someone can sit for the Oregon bar exam.
&#8220;Much of what you learn in law school isn&#8217;t that useful to most lawyers, especially after the first year,&#8221; Bader said. &#8220;And law school, unlike the bar exam, is terribly expensive.&#8221;
During his second term, former President Obama <a href="https://cei.org/blog/president-obama-cut-law-school-from-three-years-to-two/">suggested</a> that law schools should shave off a year of classes.
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A marine science conference will charge white scientists for entry while scientists of color are allowed to attend for free.
The POSea 2021 Conference, a virtual conference for the &#8220;marine science BIPOC community,&#8221; will charge white scientists $10 to attend as an &#8220;ally&#8221; as well as bar them from certain conference events.
&#8220;Allies are welcome to attend the main conference events and support the conference by purchasing a $10 ally ticket. The conference is free for BIPOC scientists,&#8221; the conference <a href="https://www.accelevents.com/e/POSea2021Conference">description</a> says. BIPOC stands for black, indigenous, and other people of color.
A &#8220;BIPOC only preview event&#8221; will be held on July 31, the conference description says. The &#8220;main conference events&#8221; for the virtual conference will be held from 4p.m. Friday, October 1 to 10p.m. Sunday October 3.
The virtual conference is co-hosted by the Minorities in Shark Sciences, Latinx in the Marine Sciences, Black in Marine Science, Black Women in Ecology, Evolution and Marine Science, Minorities in Aquarium, and Zoo Science, and BIPOC in Ocean Science.
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The deadline for abstracts is June 30th. 
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&#8220;This conference will provide networking opportunities and professional development opportunities for participants while showcasing the work of BIPOC marine scientists from around the world,&#8221; according to the conference description.
The conference accepts abstract submissions from &#8220;a broad range of topics&#8221; including biological oceanography, chemical oceanography, marine geology, physical oceanography, marine ecology, environmental science, marine policy, aquarium/zoo science, and science education. The deadline for abstracts was Thursday.
Conference participants can also showcase their organization during the conference as an exhibitor. A full list of speakers and the agenda for the conference will be revealed in July.
The marine biology conference is not the first event that has tried out charging white people for entry.
Earlier this month, organizers of a Pride event in Seattle charged &#8220;white allies and accomplices&#8221; a &#8220;reparations fee&#8221; to attend.
The event, called &#8220;Taking B(l)ack Pride,&#8221; is about &#8220;lifting the voices, narratives, and contributions of black queer and trans voices,&#8221; organizers <a href="https://www.seattlepride.org/events/taking-black-pride">said</a>.
The event sparked concerns even among other LGBT groups, and Capitol Hill Pride filed a complaint with the Seattle Human Rights Commission, saying the event&#8217;s policy was racially discriminatory. The event was organized by the Trans Women of Color Solidarity Network and Queer the Land.
In 2019, an Afrofuturist group charged white people $20 and black people $10 to attend its Detroit festival.
The group backed down from the policy after a performer backed out and ticketing website Eventbrite threatened to unpublish the event. Rapper Tiny Jag, who was scheduled to perform, brought attention to the festival&#8217;s controversial policy.“This does not reflect the views of myself or the Tiny Jag team. I will not be playing this show. I apologize for anyone who may have been triggered or offended,” the rapper said. Tiny Jag <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/07/us/afrofuture-fest-charging-wipe-people-trnd/index.html">told</a> CNN that she is biracial and that her grandmother is white.
“I didn’t think we were near that thinking that something like that could be progressive,” she said. “We have never seen hate work, I don’t understand.”
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The parish council at President Biden&#8217;s church inserted itself this week into the debate on whether the Catholic president should be permitted to receive holy communion given his public support for abortion.
Holy Trinity Catholic Church in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., issued a <a href="https://trinity.org/2021/06/a-statement-from-parish-council-regarding-the-eucharist/">statement</a> from its parish council on Tuesday &#8220;concerning the issues surrounding offering the Eucharist to American politicians.&#8221;
&#8220;As a parish which has a long history of welcoming all, we concur with and support the pastoral approach of our Archbishop. Holy Trinity Catholic Church will not deny the Eucharist to persons presenting themselves to receive it,&#8221; the parish council stated.
The parish council <a href="https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/parishcouncilsayswhat">has no power</a> over whether parishioners are allowed to receive sacraments.
The council said it agrees with the stance of Cardinal Wilton Gregory, the archbishop of Washington, who said last year that he plans to allow Biden to continue to receive the sacrament.
“I’m not going to veer from that,” Gregory <a href="https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2020/11/24/cardinal-wilton-gregory-joe-biden-communion-dialogue">said</a> in December, noting that Biden received holy communion during the eight years he was vice president.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops <a href="https://www.usccb.org/news/2021/united-states-conference-catholic-bishops-vote-write-document-meaning-eucharist-life">voted</a> to create a document on the meaning of the sacrament, prompting speculation that the document could lead to politicians like Biden who support abortion being barred from receiving holy communion.
Biden&#8217;s church&#8217;s parish council called it &#8220;shocking and disappointing&#8221; that Gregory&#8217;s request to delay the document was not successful.
&#8220;Sadly, the recent vote has caused considerable desolation among our parishioners as well as Roman Catholics throughout the nation,&#8221; the council said.
&#8220;As Pope Francis recently reaffirmed, communion should be viewed &#8216;not as a prize for the perfect, but as a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.&#8217; None of us, whether we stand in the pews or behind the altar, is worthy to receive it. The great gift of the Holy Eucharist is too sacred to be made a political issue,&#8221; the council&#8217;s statement concluded.
This is not the first time that the parish council of Holy Trinity, which is run by the Jesuit order, has weighed in on a heated political issue.
In March, when Pope Francis approved a Vatican decree stating that priests cannot bless same-sex unions because God &#8220;does not and cannot bless sin,&#8221; the parish council expressed its disappointment.
&#8220;Our lay-led ministry embraces individuals who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning/queer, intersex, asexual and their families and friends,&#8221; the parish council said in a <a href="https://trinity.org/lgbtqia-ministry/">statement</a>.
&#8220;As pastoral ministers, parish leaders and parishioners at Holy Trinity, we have listened to the pain and frustration — and have experienced our own pain and frustration — caused by last week’s statement regarding the blessing of same-sex unions by the Vatican,&#8221; the council continued. &#8220;This statement opened yet another wound that leaves our LGBTQIA+ parishioners and their families and friends wondering: what is my place in the Church?&#8221;
The council continued, saying that &#8220;unequivocally, Holy Trinity affirms that LGBTQIA+ individuals have and always will have a valued place in our parish community,” and that they &#8220;must take steps to ensure the inclusion, voices and perspectives of those our society and Church often push to the margins.&#8221;
&#8220;To our LGBTQIA+ friends, we want to stress that Holy Trinity is enriched by your presence, ministry and leadership. Our parish is honored to baptize your children, accompany you in grief, celebrate your love and grow in holiness with you,&#8221; the council said.
On Monday, the U.S. bishops’ conference urged Congress to reinstate bans on federal funding for abortions in two appropriations bills that are currently making their way through the House.
Biden&#8217;s 2022 budget request, on which the appropriations bills are based, dropped the 45-year-old Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the federal government from using taxpayer funds for elective abortions.
“Emboldened by the White House, pro-abortion Democrats in Congress will stop at nothing to expand abortion on demand, paid for by taxpayers, at home and abroad,&#8221; said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the pro-life Susan B. Anthony List.
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