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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Putin’s War Remade Washington</strong> - From a revitalization of NATO to the return of superpower nuclear anxiety, it’s been a breathtaking three months. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/how-putins-war-remade-washington">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Trump Brings His Big Lie Playbook to the G.O.P. Primaries</strong> - Tuesday was a mixed bag for candidates endorsed by the former President, who is making fresh suggestions of election fraud. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/trump-brings-his-big-lie-playbook-to-the-gop-primaries">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>American Racism and the Buffalo Shooting</strong> - The gunman seems motivated by a vision of history, pushed by the right, in which American racism never existed and Black people are undeserving takers. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/american-racism-and-the-buffalo-massacre">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Claire-Louise Bennett Reads “Invisible Bird”</strong> - The author reads her story from the May 30, 2022, issue of the magazine. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-writers-voice/claire-louise-bennett-reads-invisible-bird">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Ever End?</strong> - If Americans decide too soon that it is over, it could paradoxically drag on even longer. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/will-the-coronavirus-pandemic-ever-end">link</a></p></li>
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Allina Diaz and her 6-year-old daughter, Journey, chat on the patio of their Jefferson, Maine, home on May 6. | Séan Alonzo Harris for Vox
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Six months of payments lifted millions of children out of poverty. Then they stopped.
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<em>Part of the </em><em><strong>May 2022 issue </strong></em><em>of </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/the-
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highlight"><em><strong>The Highlight</strong></em></a><em>, our home for ambitious stories that explain our world.</em>
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Allina Diaz started looking for work last May, after graduating from the University of Maine at Augusta. As a single mom, Diaz had attended classes while raising her three daughters — Lilly, 13, Annabelle, 11, and Journey, 6 — on a tight budget.
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She knows the numbers intimately: Her financial aid (a mix of grants and federal student loans, which together covered basic living costs while she was a student) came every four months, and ranged from about $3,000 to $5,000 per payment, which she’d stretch to last until the next. She made around $500 a month from her work-study jobs as an office assistant, tutoring, and administering Covid-19 tests to students.
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Her two eldest daughters received a combined $1,500 a month in Social Security benefits, which they were eligible to receive because they’d lost their father at a young age. SNAP benefits helped to cover food, and Section 8 vouchers helped to pay for her house, though she still owed an additional $600 or so a month to make up for the gap in housing costs. After covering rent and utilities, she had around $1,200 a month in cash to spend on everything else: gas for the car, clothes and school supplies for the kids, food not covered by SNAP, and unexpected expenses.
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When she graduated with her degree in justice studies, the financial aid checks and work- study income stopped. Diaz, then 34, needed to find full-time work. “I thought I was going to be able to get a job quickly,” she said.
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But with the pandemic still affecting many aspects of American life, the process took months. She interviewed for jobs at criminal justice reform and social advocacy nonprofits through the summer and into the fall. Toward the end of the year, the number of Covid-19 cases in Maine crept higher than they’d been at any other point in the pandemic. “My kids were out of school constantly for 10-day quarantines,” she says. She had to keep them at home for long stretches while she was busy interviewing for jobs. “It was a really rough time.”
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Her financial stress would have been even worse, she thinks, if she hadn’t started receiving her expanded child tax credit payments in July, following her graduation. The credit — <a href="https://www.vox.com/future-
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perfect/22543868/biden-child-tax-credit-july-15-monthly-payment">which was passed as part of the American Rescue Plan</a> in March 2021 — built upon the existing child tax credit that many parents already received yearly. It increased the amount of money families were able to get, from $2,000 per child to $3,000-$3,600, depending on the age of the child.
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The credit also expanded eligibility, making it available to most parents, including those who didn’t earn enough money to file tax returns. Rather than coming at tax time, as it did before the American Rescue Plan was passed, the money showed up every month between July and December in 2021: up to $300 for each child under 6, and $250 for children between 6 and 17. It was a clear example of a policy that directly benefited American families by giving them cash and trusting that they knew the best use for it.
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Diaz spends time with her three daughters (from left) Lilly, 13; Journey, 6; and Annabelle, 11. After she finished college, the expanded child tax credit — part of the American Rescue Plan — helped Diaz make ends meet, until the payments abruptly stopped.
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As a parent of three, Diaz received $750 a month. “Those payments made it so that my income rounded out,” she says. “I was still not bringing in as much as I had been, but it was a godsend. It came at exactly the right time.”
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The economic impact of the expanded child tax credit was profound. According to one analysis by researchers at Columbia University’s Center on Poverty and Social Policy, the payments immediately lifted <a href="https://www.povertycenter.columbia.edu/news-
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internal/monthly-poverty-july-2021">3 million children out of poverty</a> in July.
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Congress only approved the expanded payments through the end of 2021. Advocates for the policy hoped that the program would be extended, possibly as part of President Joe Biden’s bigger social and environmental spending proposal, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/11/19/22776638/house-democrats-pass-185-trillion-social-spending-bill">Build Back Better</a>. But Republican senators were uniformly opposed to Build Back Better, as was Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), who said he specifically <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/21/us/politics/manchin-child-tax-credit-
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biden.html">couldn’t support extending the expanded child tax credit</a> due to its lack of a work requirement and its price tag — about $1.5 trillion if the program lasted a decade, according to <a href="https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2021-12/57673-BBBA-GrahamSmith-Letter.pdf">a Congressional Budget Office estimate</a>. Negotiations over Build Back Better <a href="https://www.vox.com/23040707/child-tax-credit-ctc-
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midterms">fell apart in December,</a> and the payments stopped coming.
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<q>Child poverty increased 41 percent the first month after the credit expired</q>
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The effects of the expanded tax credit’s expiration were just as stark as its introduction: Child poverty increased 41 percent the first month after the credit expired, <a href="https://www.povertycenter.columbia.edu/news-internal/monthly-poverty-january-2022">according to the researchers at Columbia</a>.
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By the end of December, as Diaz realized that Congress still hadn’t renewed the payments for the following year, she began to stress about how she was going to heat the house through the Maine winter. Instead of enjoying holiday celebrations with her family, she says, she was worrying about whether she had enough fuel oil for her furnace. She’d frequently find herself going to the basement to make sure she had enough in the tank to keep the house warm. “I was afraid I’d wake up some morning,” she says, “and the kids couldn’t take a bath.”
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For the six months that the payments went out, the extra money provided a layer of support to the millions of families that really needed it. It helped to alleviate some of the interminable stress of living in, or on the brink of, poverty. It was a reliable supplement to families trying to weather a pandemic and rising inflation. Since it expired, supporters of the expanded tax credit have been dismayed by the relative lack of urgency in Congress around renewing it.
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“When the child tax credit was expanded, we tracked it and we saw in real time how many kids could be lifted out of poverty,” says Lisa Davis, who leads <a href="https://www.nokidhungry.org/blog">No Kid Hungry</a>, a campaign to end child hunger started by the nonprofit <a href="https://www.shareourstrength.org/">Share Our Strength</a>. “We should have a bipartisan clamoring to reinstate the expanded child tax credit. There’s nothing that symbolizes the failure to act in Congress more than this.”
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One study, by the economic think tank Urban Institute, showed that <a href="https://www.urban.org/research/publication/who-has-received-advance-child-tax-credit-payments-and-how-were-
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payments-used">half of the families receiving the credit</a> used it for food, and nearly a third used it to pay utilities. That’s how Odessa Davis, a 34-year-old special education aide in Silver Spring, Maryland, spent hers: paying off bills and using the extra cash to buy groceries for her son, Leon. During the months she was receiving the money, she’d worry about bills, “and then next thing, boom, the child tax credit hit my account,” she says. “I didn’t end up in a negative balance. It helped me fill in when I needed it.” Her son started asking about trying new ingredients he’d learned about from watching anime. She bought him bok choy and experimented with new meals without worrying that she was wasting money.
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Journey chases after a frisbee in the yard of her family’s home. Many parents, including Journey’s mom, used the cash to pay for essentials, like school clothes and groceries.
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Another 30 percent of people surveyed by the Urban Institute said that they spent the money on clothing. Diaz used her money to buy school clothes for her girls, as well as to cover car payments and phone bills while she interviewed for jobs. That’s what Amber Roy, a 42-year-old from West Virginia, planned to do, too — to buy new clothes for her teenage sons — but she never actually got to. Each month, there was a more pressing need for the money, like bills they were behind on in July, or groceries that needed to be bought in August.
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Roy, who lives in Charleston with her husband and sons, knows how much she owes in bills every month: $200 on water, around $400 for the family phone bills, $200 a month in gas for the car. Their income without the credit isn’t enough to cover all of their living expenses, she says, so she often finds herself cooking for her family and then skipping dinner herself.
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“I say I’m not hungry because I know there’s not going to be enough for everybody to be full,” she says. “I’ll eat a piece of bread with peanut butter. You do what you have to do to make sure your kids are good.” Recently, she overheard her sons arguing over the laundry; the younger one was telling the older one not to waste water because it was too expensive. “He’s 14. He shouldn’t have to know that,” Roy says. “But he does.”
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The parents who didn’t spend the money on essential needs said that it was helpful for long-term planning and unexpected expenditures — and in some cases, both.<strong> </strong>Patrick McGinty, an adjunct professor who lives in Pittsburgh with his partner Candace and their 5-year-old son Augie, decided to take $100 from their monthly credit and invest it in the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2016/5/5/11540288/how-to-choose-529">529 account</a> they opened to save for Augie’s college tuition.
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Then, in October, their furnace died, and the extra cash helped offset the $6,000 repair. “It made a tangible difference,” Patrick says. Even though the payments stopped, he and his partner have continued to send $100 a month to the account. “We probably have $2,000-3,000 in there that genuinely would not have existed” without the expanded credit, he says.
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For the families that came to rely on the monthly payments, the end of the expanded credit meant that they needed to adjust how they spent their money — and just as importantly, their time. It came at a moment when inflation started to make the costs of food, fuel, housing, and consumer goods even more expensive. Jeannette, a 42-year-old mother of one from Westbrook, Maine, who asked that Vox only use her first name because she is an asylum seeker, says that she’s had to spend less on groceries and school clothes for her son, and that he’s not able to attend swimming classes as frequently as he’d like. “I’m sad about it,” she says, “because it’s something that he loves, that keeps him happy.”
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The effects of losing the monthly payments rippled out beyond individual families. Sophia Whitehouse, 32, who lives in Ohio with her husband Ray and their two young children Zac and Zoe, is a school psychologist who recently opened her own practice with a colleague.
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Her family used the payments for child care and summer camp so that she could work. Losing that monthly income has meant that her husband has had to add extra overtime shifts at the Walmart distribution center where he’s employed. It’s also kept Sophia away from work even as she is trying to build her practice. “I have to stay home more with the kids, which is resulting in me losing money that I could be making,” Whitehouse says. “Me not being at work means more kids in my community are not getting the help they need, because I’m not available. It’s dominoes falling over.”
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credit.html">wasn’t enough</a> to keep the expanded tax credit from slipping into legislative limbo, and it’s uncertain if Congress will revive it. When lawmakers in Washington debate anti-poverty programs, the voices of the people who stand to benefit most from them tend to get lost, but they are the voices Congress needs to hear most as they consider the expanded tax credit’s future.
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“We have a lot of families that are still struggling. Inflation has happened, the pandemic has happened, war is happening,” says Tamara Harris, a single mom from Indianapolis, Indiana, who works as a bus driver and received $250 a month from the child tax credit. “We have nothing to help us in day-to- day living expenses, and our wages are not improving,”
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policy-feedback-partisan">didn’t support extending the payments</a>. “He’ll never know what it’s like to have to walk into a grocery store with a calculator to make sure you don’t go over your budget. He’ll never know what it’s like to buy one Christmas gift for his kids because you can’t afford anything else,” she says. “He claims to speak for all of West Virginia. We can’t even afford to do everyday things.”
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Lisa Davis, who runs the No Kid Hungry campaign, says that despite Manchin and Republicans’ concern about the cost of the program, there’s a greater cost in letting so many kids live in poverty. “There’s so much research that shows that when kids go hungry their <a href="https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2015.0645">physical health suffers</a>, their brain development suffers, their mental health suffers, and their academic performance suffers,” she says. “When you look at all of those costs children will face for a lifetime, continuing the expansion of the child tax credit has one of the strongest returns on investment I can imagine. We have so many families and kids that really are struggling right now.”
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When the credit ran out, it put a hole in Allina’s budget. In January, she skipped paying her credit card bills and her electricity bill. In February, Allina landed a job as a community organizer at <a href="https://maineequaljustice.org/">Maine Equal Justice</a>, an economic justice nonprofit that advocates for policies that benefit low-income and marginalized people. Her job came with good benefits and allowed her to stop worrying so much about money. It also put her in touch with other families in her community who are still struggling in the face of rising housing costs and inflation, and without the monthly payments that had made life a bit easier. “When these programs end,” she says, “it’s taking food out of kids’ mouths.”
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Incumbent Rep. Henry Cuellar was already facing a close <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/3/2/22957261/texas-primary-results-2022-abbott-beto-paxton-bush-casar-cisneros">runoff in Texas’s 28th Congressional District</a> on May 24, but the recent <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/5/3/23054543/supreme-court-roe-wade-abortion-samuel-alito-overruled-draft-
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Cuellar, a nine-term Congressman and longtime fixture in his South Texas district, is now the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/us/politics/cuellar-cisneros-abortion-politics.html">last standing House Democrat</a> who has taken anti-abortion stances.<strong> </strong>Cuellar’s challenger, progressive Jessica Cisneros, has blasted him on the issue, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/04/cisneros-calls-out-house-
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democrat-leadership-for-supporting-anti-abortion-cuellar-00030124">arguing</a> that “he could very much be the deciding vote on the future of our reproductive rights and we cannot afford to take that risk.”
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Though Cisneros and her allies are working to ensure abortion rights shape the race, it’s not yet clear to what extent the issue will affect people’s votes. While Democratic strategists say the fight for abortion rights has energized a segment of voters in the region, Cuellar — whose campaign didn’t respond to a request for comment — has said his <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/07/us/politics/cuellar-cisneros-abortion-politics.html">views are in line with those in the district</a>.
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“If his opponent is going to say that we need to kick him out of office because he’s not in favor of abortion, I don’t think that’s going to get very far. I don’t see that being the deciding factor,” says state Rep. Richard Peña Raymond, a Cuellar supporter who also represents part of the district.
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Cuellar is one of few congressional Democrats to take a hardline position on abortion. Last year, <a href="https://www.krgv.com/news/u-s-rep-henry-cuellar-of-texas-is-lone-democrat-to-vote-against-federal-bill-protecting-
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abortion-rights/">Cuellar was the only House Democrat</a> to vote against the <a href="https://www.vox.com/20930358/codify-roe-wade-womens-health-protection-act-supreme-court-nancy-pelosi-
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democrats">Women’s Health Protection Act,</a> legislation to codify the protections from <em>Roe v. Wade</em>. Cuellar maintains that his position hasn’t changed, but notes that <a href="https://twitter.com/CuellarCampaign/status/1521614378637869070">he opposes an abortion ban</a> without exceptions for rape, incest, and a mother’s health.<strong> </strong>
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midterm-elections">how much the issue of abortion rights</a> energizes Democratic voters. In the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/01/us/elections/results-texas.html#H">March primary,</a> Cisneros and Cuellar were within roughly 2 percentage points of one another, with a third candidate, Tannya Benavides, capturing almost 5 percent of the vote.
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“My sense is that it is pretty close,” says Matt Angle, a Texas Democratic strategist who’s not affiliated with either campaign. “I thought for a while that Henry was in better shape in the runoff, and he probably still is. But the Supreme Court leak did change the dynamics. It might have excited her base a little bit.”
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Texas’s 28th Congressional District has been blue for years, though it’s more moderate and socially conservative than the typical district that progressives have gone after. President Joe Biden won the newly drawn version of the <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/25/cuellar-cisneros-primary-challenge-00001579">district by just 7 points in 2020</a>, compared to, for example, the more than 60 points he won by in the Missouri district where progressive Rep. Cori Bush felled a longtime incumbent that year.
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A predominantly Latino district that includes many Catholic voters, the Texas 28th stretches from the more liberal San Antonio region to more moderate voting bases in Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley. Though those demographics may suggest the voters in the district skew anti-abortion, local political experts told Vox that views on abortion rights in the area match up to those in the state overall. According to an <a href="https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/blog/overview-abortion-attitudes-texas-four-things-
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“They assume because it’s South Texas and it’s Catholic that it’s a pro-life district. Texas mirrors the national opinions, and even places like Laredo are pro-choice,” says George Shipley, a longtime Democratic consultant in Texas who’s not affiliated with either campaign.
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Organizers and Democrats on the ground say they’ve seen the leaked Supreme Court decision energize many voters including young people and women. “I’m Catholic, and yes I’m anti-abortion, but I’m for a woman’s right to choose. I know what just happened has sparked a real response that we didn’t see in 2020,” says Sylvia Bruni, the chair of Webb County Democrats, who’s not affiliated with or backing either candidate.
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Still, it’s an open question whether this outrage translates to the polls. Older, more conservative voters are among those more likely to back Cuellar, and historically <a href="https://money.usnews.com/money/retirement/aging/articles/why-older-citizens-are-more-likely-to-vote">more likely to show up for a runoff election</a>. “There’s a lot of old-school folks. And as you know, in runoffs, old-school folks vote,” says Susan Korbel, a member of the Bexar County Blue Action Democrats and candidate for a Bexar County commissioner seat, who’s not backing either candidate.
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“If she wins, it’s going to send a message to every Democrat that thinks they can equivocate on choice, that they can equivocate on women’s health, that they won’t be able to do that,” says Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez, the president of NextGen America and founder of a statewide group dedicated to mobilizing Latino voters in Texas.
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Outside organizations like Planned Parenthood Action Fund and Naral are also working to send that message. They’ve<strong> </strong>mobilized heavily in the wake of the leak, with Naral sending four organizers to the district and launching a new digital ad. Cisneros, meanwhile, has called for House leaders like Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/in-case-youre-wondering-nancy-pelosi-is-still-
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supporting-the-only-antiabortion-house-democrat">who back Cuellar</a>, to withdraw their support over his anti-abortion stance. They’ve argued, though, that they welcome a diverse range of viewpoints in the Democratic caucus<strong>. </strong>
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Progressives have eyed this district as a key target since 2020, when Cisneros came within <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/04/henry-cuellar-defeats-primary-challenger-120954">4 percentage points of Cuellar in the primary</a>. In addition to abortion rights, Cisneros has sought to draw contrasts with Cuellar on issues like immigration, climate change, and corporate donations.
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A Cuellar loss would be significant given how entrenched he is as an 18-year incumbent in the region and an even longer one in the state. Prior to serving in the House, he was a Texas Secretary of State and a state representative, and he has touted his leadership role in Congress as an important advantage for the district.
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If her challenge is successful, Cisneros would have to keep the momentum going into the fall. Because the district is a moderate one, experts believe a progressive candidate is likely to have a tougher fight in a general election as Republicans try to cast them as too extreme. “I think the district is Democratic enough that Jessica can win, but I don’t think they should take it for granted,” says Angle.
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Cisneros has emphasized that she’s focused on district outreach in her campaign, amid concerns that the region is shifting toward the right. “This area has been reliably Democratic for a very long time,” <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/2/26/22948098/cisneros-cuellar-democrats-texas-primary-latinos-2022">she previously told Vox</a>. “But that’s also led a lot of incumbents to just take this community for granted. We’re offering an alternative vision of what South Texas can look like.”
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Hospital data <a href="https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/23042779/covid-19-us-cases-hospitalizations-variants-long-covid">remains a primary metric</a> in how experts are tracking trends in the pandemic. As of early May, Covid-19 hospitalizations were up by 22.4%, with about 3,000 people admitted with Covid-19 per day, according to the CDC. Experts believe those numbers will only trend upward in the months to come, underlining the need for strong public health measures.
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With the politicization of Covid-19, public health messaging around the pandemic in the US has faced an uphill battle — and it shows. Beyond the recent hikes in hospitalizations, <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html">as of May 20</a>, only 66.5% of the US population had been fully vaccinated — <a href="https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/vaccines/international">lagging behind</a> other wealthy nations like France, Japan, and the UK — while just 46.4% had received a booster, according to CDC data.
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Research <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/10/30/science/wear-mask-covid-particles-ul.html">shows</a> that masks, if used correctly, can be a valuable tool for reducing the spread of the virus. But the CDC’s mask recommendation for people living in areas with high risks of Covid-19 this week was met with mixed responses online. Some have criticized the agency’s inconsistency in its masking policy, while others tried to paint the CDC’s motives as political, pointing to the upcoming midterm elections.
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In April, US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle ruled to overturn the CDC’s mask mandate for public transit. In her ruling, Mizelle — a Trump nominee who was rated “not qualified” for that position by the American Bar Association — <a href="https://ecf.flmd.uscourts.gov/cgi-
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bin/show_public_doc?2021-01693-53-8-cv">contended</a> that the federal public health agency had overstepped its authority in enacting the public health mandate.
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Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, says a combination of confusing guidelines from public officials and a lack of careful reporting by the media have led to the politicization of public health measures.
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“The U.S. public is done with the pandemic even though the virus is not done with us, and we have to recognize that in public health,” Osterholm <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/osterholm-calls-decision-
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striking-mask-mandate-mass-transit/story?id=84265827">said</a> in a televised interview with ABC News following the ruling. “What has happened is this has become really a philosophical and political issue, not a science issue.”
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According to Dr. Renuga Vivekanandan, the division chief for infectious disease at CHI Health and Creighton University, strong public health measures and messaging are crucial in preventing the spread of the coronavirus. “It’s very important to have public health measures to try to blunt the Covid-19 or any other type of infection rate,” Dr. Vivekanandan told Vox. “We have to have a uniform message [and] make sure we give the right information to our community.”
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Vivekanandan, whose work focuses on preventing the spread of infections in public settings, says she is focused on providing patients with the right information regarding proper pandemic mitigation tools, such as vaccinations, boosters, and masking in public, even though she still encounters people unwilling to get vaccinated.
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“There are some individuals who still want to think about it or who still do not want to receive the vaccine, but I think that’s an individual choice,” said Vivekanandan. “But as public health [officials], we’re just going to continue to stay with that messaging and show what works and what doesn’t.” Relatively low vaccinations, as well as booster rates, are other public health mitigation tools that would benefit from stronger public health messaging, she said.
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Despite these concerns around the erosion of public trust in public health, experts are undeterred and have proposed ways to strengthen the country’s public health measures. Doubts about the authority that government health entities can wield when it comes to enacting public health measures in times of crisis only fuel distrust and conspiracies around government health guidelines. Rebuilding public trust is key and that starts by establishing credibility through clearer government structures and providing a uniform message around Covid-19 public safety protocols.
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pandemic/#:~:text=Our%20recommendations%20focus%20on%20three,health%20to%20prepare%20for%20inevitable">report</a> from the think tank Bipartisan Policy Center suggested 10 broad recommendations to prepare the US for the next pandemic cycle, including the need to clarify federal responsibilities during a pandemic and create a national board on pandemic preparedness, which would be tasked with establishing a standard of benchmarks to evaluate the country’s preparedness.
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Beyond rebuilding public trust, building out public health infrastructure and stabilizing funding are key ways to address the current pandemic and better prepare for what may lie in store in the future. It’s critical that the US continues to respond, as Covid-19 is certainly not going away.
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“The pandemic is going to be a turning point,” <a href="https://www.thenationshealth.org/content/52/2/11">said</a> Tom Frieden, a former director of the CDC, and a member of the American Public Health Association. “Whether it’s toward a healthier society or one more resistant to collective action to protect one another, time will tell.”
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Weak public health messaging may also have wider implications when it comes to fighting off the next wave of Covid-19 infections. Congress has been in deadlock over President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 relief proposal — which was slashed from $22 billion to $15 billion — since <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-seeks-10-billion-
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for-aid-to-ukraine-22-5-billion-for-covid-expenses">early March</a>. A seeming lack of urgency in dealing with the pandemic could affect the ease of accessing more funding as well. White House pandemic coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha <a href="https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19/23123609/us-covid-cases-on-the-rise-vaccines-paxlovid">warned</a> that drained funds, which would cover the country’s purchase of the next generation of Covid-19 vaccines, could lead to issues in the fall when the US is expected to see more waves of infection.
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not-1/#:~:text=The%20Ready%20or%20Not%3F%20report,so%20that%20everyone%20is%20protected.">report</a> by Trust for America’s Health, which issues annual findings on the country’s readiness in facing health crises, the Trust recommended addressing the steady decline in public health funding through the creation of a mandatory $4.5 billion-per-year public health infrastructure fund. Legislation to establish a similar “off-limits” fund dedicated to public health infrastructure development was introduced in Congress by Democratic Sen. Patty Murray last year.
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“While the vaccines have given us a way to get through COVID, we also have to learn from this pandemic and make sure we are better prepared for the next public health emergency. That means finally making — and maintaining — the kind of bold investments in public health I have been pushing for, for years,” Murray <a href="https://www.murray.senate.gov/as-covid-strains-eastern-and-central-washington-health-care-systems-senator-murray-
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pushes-for-major-investments-in-public-health-infrastructure/">said</a> of the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/674">Public Health Infrastructure Saves Lives Act</a>.
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Until a more robust public health infrastructure is implemented, the onus of keeping the next Covid-19 wave at bay lies with each community member.
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“What I’ve thought about during the pandemic, it’s not ‘I’ it’s ‘us,’” Vivekanandan said. “I think the public health community have been doing their very best… communicating that public health message about how we can all work together to make sure every time we have a wave [we] bring the wave down and protect each other.
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Levin Safoor Mydeen — the ‘one court wonder’ from Tirunelveli</strong> - Asian under-14 champion has already caught Djokovic’s attention</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>IPL Playoffs: Super Over could determine winner in case of disruptions</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Bellator, King Louis, Disruptor, Estosha, NRI Superpower and One You Go Black shine</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>County stint will keep me in good stead when we face England: Pujara</strong> - “As always, looking forward to preparing and training well ahead of the tour, and do hope to continue contributing to the Indian team,” Pujara said</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Jyothi Yarraji smashes own 100m hurdles national record in U.K.</strong> - Jyothi had bettered Anuradha Biswal's national mark of 13.38 which had stood since 2002</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Madurai Campus Connect</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Over 30 injured in bus collision in Kozhikode</strong> - It is suspected that the traffic lights were not functioning at the time of the accident</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>17,262 tax evasion cases last fiscal</strong> - ₹79.48 cr. yielded as fine, says State GST Department</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: Russian soldier Vadim Shishimarin jailed for life over war crime</strong> - The tank commander admitted killing an unarmed civilian at the first war crimes trial since the invasion.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>French street artist Miss. Tic dies aged 66</strong> - She is seen as one of the founders of stencil art, famous for her graffiti of female figures in Paris.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Google’s past failures were on full display at I/O 2022</strong> - All your favorite dead products from the past are back. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1853885">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The weekend’s best deals: Epic PC games sale, 1Password subscriptions, and more</strong> - Dealmaster also has discounts on Hulu memberships, AirPods, and LG OLED TVs. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1855398">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Biden administration lays out plan for four carbon-capture facilities</strong> - Big infrastructure package includes funds for the underdeveloped technology. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1855569">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Researchers find backdoor lurking in WordPress plugin used by schools</strong> - If you’ve used School Management Pro, it’s time to check your site, stat. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1855563">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Sixth child in US dies of unexplained hepatitis as global cases top 600</strong> - There are now over 600 cases worldwide and 15 deaths, but still no firm answers. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1855561">link</a></p></li>
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