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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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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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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>The Buffalo Shooter Shopped at their Gun Stores</strong> - New York and Pennsylvania shopkeepers recount their interactions with Payton Gendron, and the fears of civil war that have run rampant in his community since 2020. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/the-buffalo-shooter-shopped-at-their-gun-stores">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>An Insurrectionist Could Be the Next Governor of Pennsylvania</strong> - Doug Mastriano, who won the Republican nomination, has pushed Trump’s lies about the election and sent busloads of supporters to the Capitol riot. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/an-insurrectionist-could-be-the-next-governor-of-pennsylvania">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Is the center shrinking in the Democratic primaries?</strong> -
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<img alt="Pennsylvania state representative Summer Lee smiles in a photo at a campaign event." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/V24ROThLezqfthExuhQ9pZj-vr0=/179x0:3763x2688/1310x983/cdn.vox-
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Pennsylvania Democratic congressional candidate, state Rep. Summer Lee, talks to the press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. | Nate Smallwood/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Democratic voters are moving their party to the left — and dragging candidates with them.
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This year’s Democratic primaries are being largely framed as an ideological struggle between the national party’s moderate and progressive wings. But voting patterns over the last few weeks have complicated that narrative.
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In marquee contests in Pennsylvania and Oregon, progressive wins led to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/18/tough-senate-races-democrats-shift-
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away-centrists-toward-progressive-diverse-candidates/">proclamations</a> that the left wing of the party is <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/18/progressive-democratic-primary-wins-00033557">gaining</a> <a href="https://thehill.com/news/state-watch/3493293-progressives-feel-vindication-after-major-primary-
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wins/">influence</a>, while some moderate victories defied that thinking. What’s becoming clear as votes are counted, however, is that Democratic primary voters seem to care less about who the “progressive candidate” is and more about if candidates are campaigning on progressive goals. What many of the Democrats who won this week have in common is that they all embraced progressive priorities tailored to where they were running.
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Perhaps nowhere encapsulated this reality better than swing-state Pennsylvania, where a relatively progressive and locally trusted candidate who repeatedly rejected the progressive label — <a href="https://www.vox.com/23068819/democrats-pennsylvania-
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senate-primary-progressive-moderate">Lt. Gov. John Fetterman</a> — trounced the more moderate, Washington favorite, Rep. Conor Lamb, in the primary race for the US Senate.
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“Just being a centrist anymore, it’s hard to get things done. There’s shrinking room left in the middle,” Mustafa Rashed, a Democratic strategist in Philadelphia, told me about the state’s dynamics.
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Around the state, candidates who delivered digestible versions of progressive messages did well, from the <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-election-2022-results-
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williams-prescod-evans-hunt-20220518.html">left-leaning candidates</a> who won races in heavily Democratic areas for state and federal legislatures to the <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2022/05/18/pennsylvanias-
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democratic-progressives-and-establishment-face-off">moderate incumbents</a> who survived tough challenges from the left. In nearly all of these races, a general shift to the left was apparent among the party’s base and candidates.
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This trend isn’t necessarily universal: Plenty of more traditional moderate Democrats won their races in Ohio and North Carolina. And it’s possible upcoming races in California, Illinois, Michigan, and Texas may upset this narrative. But for the most part, the primaries so far appear to show that progressive activism and ideas have changed what primary voters want and what their candidates are offering.<strong> </strong>
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Every team scored wins on Tuesday
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Both sides of the Democratic ideological spectrum could claim wins on Tuesday. From North Carolina to Oregon, there wasn’t uniformity in who emerged victorious.
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What does tie a lot of Tuesday’s races together, though, is how few moderates ran openly down the middle of the ideological spectrum without co-opting at least some of the issues and language progressives have used in previous races. That includes things like advocating for a higher minimum wage, expanding health care access and coverage, more openly embracing gun control and abortion rights, and at least addressing climate change.
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A more moderate, establishment type prevailed in Pennsylvania’s Third Congressional District, where Rep. Dwight Evans beat back progressive challengers by focusing on affordable housing, criminal justice reform, gun violence, and crime. A similar dynamic could be seen in <a href="https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-election-2022-results-williams-prescod-evans-hunt-20220518.html">other seats in the state legislature</a>, including with longtime state Sen. Anthony Williams, who campaigned on abortion access, gun-violence prevention, and criminal justice reform as he faced his first serious challenge from the left. And in the primary for lieutenant governor, frontrunner Rep. Austin Davis defeated rivals to his left running on abortion and criminal justice reform.
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This trend wasn’t just seen in Pennsylvania.
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In Kentucky, liberal state Senate Minority Leader Morgan McGarvey defeated a lefty rival to represent the Louisville-area Third Congressional District, which is solidly Democratic, by supporting partial student loan cancellation, single-payer health care, and endorsing the idea of a Green New Deal.
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In North Carolina, a similar picture emerged. Centrist-minded state Sen. Don Davis, backed by outgoing US Rep. GK Butterfield, comfortably beat his progressive challenger, a former state senator endorsed by US Sen. Elizabeth Warren and an array of progressive groups. Though Davis doesn’t back a Green New Deal or Medicare-for-all, he still campaigned on affordable health care, voting rights, reproductive rights, and increasing the minimum wage.
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Things were a little different in Democrat-dominated Oregon, however, where progressives were ascendant. The solidly centrist incumbent Rep. Kurt Schrader, who campaigned on pragmatism and consensus-building, is on track to lose to progressive activist Jamie McLeod- Skinner in the Fifth District, while crypto-backed lawyer Carrick Flynn, who had no political experience, is also trailing the progressive state Rep. Andrea Salinas. And after a difficult campaign, former state House Speaker Tina Kotek defeated a moderate challenger, state Treasurer Tobias Read, in the primary for Oregon governor.
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Oregon’s results, which saw voters gravitate toward the conventional, genuine progressive, add another layer of complexity to the primary picture. Regardless, races this week showed Democratic candidates of all ideologies feel compelled to address their left flank.
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Progressive ideas have changed the way candidates run
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A lot has changed since the last midterms in 2018, when progressives made <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/19/17585606/2018-midterm-elections-democrats-ocasio-cortez">big gains</a> but moderate Democrats were instrumental in giving the party a <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-
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politics/2018/11/5/18042804/2018-midterm-elections-moderates-indiana-ohio-west-virginia">majority in the House</a>. So far, the party’s primaries are showing an electorate much more willing to accept populist, progressive(-ish) ideas than before — a big win for left-wing activists and thinkers who have managed to move the party’s ideological center in their direction.
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Few candidates so far have run overtly as centrists without at least paying lip service to progressive priorities. Where they refused to do so, as in Schrader’s race, they faced headwinds from a changing Democratic primary electorate.
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“Ten years ago, blue-dog and corporate Democrats would run on that [centrist] message against progressives,” Adam Green, the co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which has endorsed several progressive upstarts this election cycle, told me. “These days, they’re more willing to use the language of progressives against progressives in primaries — but Schrader was the exception to this rule.”
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That’s not to say a moderate using progressive talking points has a sure path to success. Marcia Wilson, the chair of rural Pennsylvania’s Adams County Democratic Party, said Lamb’s campaign showed how some Democrats fear electing an apparent liberal who turns out to be a Joe Manchin-style Democrat.
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“Democrats are feeling more galvanized and want to be known as Democrats, not because they are unwilling to compromise but because we want to support Democratic ideals,” she said. Wilson told me that partly explains why Lamb’s pitch to the state didn’t resonate — a more conservative background and platform in past races made his leftward shift in the Senate primary seem inauthentic.
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But still, Lamb attempted some ideological change. A similar thing happened in earlier Democratic primaries in Ohio, where more moderate candidates like Tim Ryan (in the state’s Democratic Senate race), Nan Whaley (in the governor’s race), and Shontel Brown (in the 11th Congressional District) were <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/5/3/23056350/winners-loses-ohio-indiana-primaries-jd-vance-trump">pushed to the left</a>. Upcoming races will test this trend, but so far, it appears Democratic voters want their candidates to speak like progressives, even if they aren’t actually progressive.
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The general election may in turn change the way these candidates talk about their priorities. The citizens who typically turn out to vote in November tend to be less <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/too-much-democracy-is-bad-for-
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democracy/600766/">ideological</a> and <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-2018-primaries-project-the-
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ideology-of-primary-voters/">party-affiliated</a> than the voters who participate in primary elections. And the progressive ideals beloved by hardcore Democrats may not be as well received by moderates and centrists in competitive general election seats.
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If progressives — and progressive ideas — do win <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/07/politics/republicans-midterms-roe-v-wade/index.html">uphill battles</a> in these swing districts, however, Democrats may end up with a newly empowered left flank, catalyzing the political polarization Americans have come to expect from their government.
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<li><strong>The problem of global energy inequity, explained by American refrigerators</strong> -
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The average fridge in the US consumes more electricity in a year than an average person in dozens of countries.
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My refrigerator — that appliance humming in the background that I rarely think about — consumes about 450 kilowatt-hours of energy (kWh) every year. A highly <a href="https://www.energystar.gov/productfinder/product/certified-room-air-conditioners/results">efficient</a> air conditioner uses 483 kWh per year, and even more if the system is older or less efficient.
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Chances are, though, kilowatt-hours don’t mean a lot to you. To help put it into perspective, consider this chart:
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Let’s spell this out. In any given year, the average refrigerator or air conditioner in the US consumes much more energy than an average <em>person</em> in dozens of countries around the world consumes for all purposes over an entire year.
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The issue isn’t that Americans should be going without air conditioners, let alone refrigerators. It’s that the world needs to prioritize how to get much higher levels of energy to the poorest countries in the world. Energy access is a foundational component of development, yet many people across Africa and Asia don’t have the energy they need to thrive — and even survive — in a warming world.
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South Asia, for instance, has been experiencing a record heat wave for the last three weeks, with heat consistently <a href="https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-forecasts/scorching-heat-roasts-india-as-
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new-delhi-soars-to-116-f/1187927">over 110</a>° Fahrenheit and “<a href="https://www.vox.com/23057267/india-pakistan-
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heat-wave-climate-change-coal-south-asia">wet-bulb</a>” temperatures — which account for humidity as well as heat — reaching potentially fatal levels. About <a href="https://www.vox.com/23057267/india-pakistan-heat-wave-climate-change-
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coal-south-asia">half</a> of the workforce in India and Pakistan is employed in agriculture, which means working hours outside in the blistering heat; <a href="https://www.iea.org/reports/cooling">less than 10 percent</a> of Indians — compared to <a href="https://usafacts.org/articles/91-of-households-nationwide-have-air-conditioning-44-of-those-in-
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seattle-do/">91 percent</a> of Americans — own air conditioners. To Americans, living in 110°F heat without air conditioning is almost unthinkable, but for billions of people around the world, cooling is an unaffordable luxury due to poverty and the <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040619020301202?via%3Dihub">lack of access to reliable electricity</a>.
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The energy gap shown in the chart above is one of the starkest examples of global economic inequality. Energy poverty is a major cause of health issues because of <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/energy-poverty-air-pollution">indoor air pollution</a> from burning coal or biomass instead of electricity or gas for stoves — there are an estimated <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/data-review-air-pollution-deaths">3.8 million premature deaths each year</a> due to indoor air pollution — and an <a href="https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-
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reports/documentdetail/184521468179658984/assessment-of-energy-poverty-papers">impediment to economic growth</a>.
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Even in areas where there isn’t risk of illness and death from heat, someone without reliable energy access won’t have regular lighting to study at night, won’t have a smartphone to gain access to new farming techniques and markets, won’t be able to prevent food spoilage at home. Things that most Americans take for granted — smartphone access, hot showers, and, yes, refrigerators — are erratic or nonexistent in much of the world. Americans <a href="https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=50316">experienced</a> on average eight hours of electricity disruption over the course of 2020 — and this represented the most amount of lost power since at least 2013. By contrast, in most Indian states, <a href="https://time.com/6173769/india-heatwave-climate-change-coal/">power outages</a> are surging due to the heat wave, and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), <a href="https://www.iea.org/articles/democratic-republic-of-the-congo-energy-outlook">only about 10 percent of people</a> have access to electricity at all.
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Lack of reliable energy pervades all areas of life and makes people reliant on suboptimal sources of power, which affects people and businesses even more as energy prices <a href="https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/26/food-and-energy-price-shocks-from-ukraine-
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war">spike</a>. “Being a DRC national, I’ve witnessed all my life that whenever fuel prices increase, the prices of everything else increase too,” said Rachel Boketa, the country director for the DRC office of the nonprofit Women for Women International. “Leading an office in an area which has so many electricity-related problems, we rely on generators and we use fuel for that. Now it’s affecting our budget because we have to cover all these unplanned increases in price.”
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I spoke with Todd Moss, who heads the <a href="https://www.energyforgrowth.org/us/todd-
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moss/">Energy for Growth Hub</a>, an initiative to connect energy research to policy. He created the <a href="https://www.cgdev.org/blog/my-fridge-versus-power-africa">original “fridge graph,”</a> so I asked about the rationale behind making it. “We know that inequality is really bad in the world, but this is a stark visual of how unequal energy consumption is. … [Americans] consume 100 times as much electricity as hundreds of millions of people.”
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There are of course climate and carbon trade-offs involved in expanding energy access, and the most recent UN climate conference <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/09/climate/africa-fossil-fuel-gas-
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cop26.html">featured a push</a> to restrict fossil fuel development in the global South. But Western nations have been <a href="https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/05/14/yemi-osinbajo-on-the-hypocrisy-of-rich-countries-climate-
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policies">rightly accused of hypocrisy</a> for trying to hold poor countries to standards they don’t hold themselves, particularly given that, as the chart shows, one fridge or one air conditioner takes more energy than the average DRC citizen uses in a year.
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When the war in Ukraine and the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-
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ukraine-putin-european-union-global-trade-57d45b570e2d186032c7198e12eeaa66">resulting</a> economic <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/12/europes-gas-supply-crisis-grows-after-russia-imposes-
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sanctions">response</a> raised the possibility Germany would be cut off from Russian natural gas, Moss said, Berlin’s priorities completely changed. Suddenly ultra-green Germany was discussing <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-28/germany-mulls-extending-coal-phaseout-to-wean-off-russian-
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gas">extending coal plant usage</a>. “Taking [energy] away is very powerful,” he said. With the war in Ukraine, “African leaders are going to say, ‘Energy security is obviously a top priority for Europe, that’s why they’re responding this way. Well, energy security is just as urgent for us. We don’t have it, we need it. Just because you already have it doesn’t mean you’re more entitled to it than we are.’ It’s a different conception of what energy security means, which is being able to count on having it when you need it.”
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In a <a href="https://www.economist.com/by-
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invitation/2022/05/14/yemi-osinbajo-on-the-hypocrisy-of-rich-countries-climate-policies">recent op-ed</a> in the Economist, Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo underscored the importance of energy access for jobs and growth, and wrote that while Nigeria is moving toward <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth">renewables</a> such as wind and solar energy,<strong> </strong>policy around energy needs to be as flexible as it was for rich nations. “The renewables-only mantra is also driven by unjustified fears of the continent’s future emissions,” Osinbajo wrote. “Yet under no plausible scenario is Africa a threat to global climate targets.”
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As renewables grow <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth">more widespread and affordable</a>, it’s becoming increasingly possible to balance growth with sustainability. For cooling in India, Oxford University sustainable development expert Radhika Khosla told me, passive cooling methods, such as shading, natural ventilation, green roofs or reflective white roofs, and changing working schedules and hydration practices when possible will continue to be vital for people who can’t afford air conditioners or work most of the day outdoors. Making efficient air conditioners more affordable and widely used — few in India use the <a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-energy-demand-for-
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cooling-in-indias-cities-is-changing/">most efficient models</a> due to cost — will require technological advances, policy and market mechanisms, and education about long-term cost savings of efficient air conditioners. <strong><br/>
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Energy needs and policies will vary by country. The Democratic Republic of Congo, in which <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS?locations=CG">about half the population lacks access to electricity</a>, is very different from India, which has high electrification but faces deadly heat waves that make cooling essential and extend service interruptions. These massive energy inequalities, as well as <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-05-15/india-heat-wave-a-diary-from-new-delhi-on-a-day-of-killer-
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weather?sref=qYiz2hd0">human suffering</a> from lack of energy, are important to appreciate before high-income countries make wholesale policy decisions for the rest of the world.
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<li><strong>Title 42, the controversial Trump-era border policy, explained</strong> -
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A child in a shelter for refugee migrants from Central and South American countries seeking asylum in the United States, as Title 42 and Remain in Mexico border restrictions continue, in Tijuana, Mexico, on April 9, 2022. | Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images
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A Louisiana judge is preventing Biden from ending the policy as planned.
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The Biden administration was days away from <a href="https://www.vox.com/23006820/title-42-border-pandemic-
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biden">ending Title 42</a>, a policy implemented under then-President Donald Trump that has allowed the US to expel hundreds of thousands of migrants at the southern border under the guise of curbing the spread of Covid-19, when a Louisiana federal judge temporarily put a halt to those efforts.
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District Judge Robert Summerhays <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.188754/gov.uscourts.lawd.188754.90.0_1.pdf">ruled</a> on Friday that the policy must remain in place for now, writing that the administration didn’t follow the correct administrative procedures in ending the policy. It also failed to consider the surge in migration that would result from lifting the policy and the costs border states would incur by supporting social services for additional migrants, he wrote.
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The decision will set the Biden administration back by months in its efforts to end Title 42.<strong> </strong>And it maintains a status quo on the border that has shut migrants out of the US asylum system since March 2020.
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Title 42 was put in place under dubious public health rationale and has become an overt, de facto national immigration and border security strategy due to its effectiveness at keeping migrants out of the US. As Summerhays noted, Title 42’s rollback was expected to prompt an increase in migration to the border that would challenge US immigration and border enforcement capabilities. Republicans were ready to pounce on the anticipated border surge, and some Democrats — including ones in tight reelection races in this fall’s midterms — had even <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23016907/democrat-biden-border-title-42-midterms">urged President Joe Biden to leave Title 42</a> in place of his own accord.
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The White House had resisted such calls, proceeding with its plans to end the policy on May 23. But now that the court is standing in its way, the question is how forcefully the Biden administration will resist its decision.
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Here’s what you need to know about the policy and the political fight over ending it.
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Title 42, explained
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Title 42 is a previously little-known section of US health law that allows the US government to temporarily block noncitizens from entering the US “when doing so is required in the interest of public health.”
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When the Trump administration invoked Title 42 in March 2020 at the outset of the pandemic, White House officials <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/cdc-officials-objected-to-order-turning-away-migrants-at-
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border-11601733601">argued</a> that it had been recommended by public health officials to prevent the spread of Covid-19 among migrants in crowded Border Patrol stations.
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But public health officials weren’t the ones pushing the policy; the effort was led by Stephen Miller, a former senior adviser to Trump and the chief architect of his immigration policy, which focused on reducing overall immigration levels to the US, at times by <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/">deliberately cruel means</a>. Even before the pandemic, Miller had been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/03/us/coronavirus-immigration-
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stephen-miller-public-health.html">looking for opportunities</a> to use Title 42 to expel migrants, including when there was a mumps outbreak in immigration detention and flu spread in Border Patrol stations in 2019.
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The policy has effectively shut out migrants arriving at the southern border from legal pathways to enter the US (there are limited exceptions for some families, unaccompanied children, and Ukrainians). Before Title 42, the migrants would have been processed at Border Patrol facilities and evaluated for eligibility for asylum and other humanitarian protections that would allow them to remain in the US. Migrants have a legal right, enshrined in US and international law, to seek asylum. But under Title 42, migrants are returned to Mexico within a matter of hours and without any such opportunity.
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The US has used Title 42 to expel migrants more than <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters">1.9 million times</a> since March 2020. Many have been caught trying to cross the border multiple times because the policy removed any potential adverse legal consequences of doing so.
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Title 42 was controversial when Trump implemented it: It was clear that the primary purpose of the policy was not to protect public health, but to advance Trump’s political goal of cracking down on unauthorized immigration at great human cost.
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The Biden administration has had plenty of opportunities to roll back Title 42, starting when Biden made a flurry of executive actions in January 2021 to roll back other Trump-era immigration policies. But because the administration waited more than a year to take action, it has had to defend the policy as a necessary public health tool. In that time the current reality on the border, where most migrants are being turned away under Title 42, has become the new normal.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found last month that Title 42 was <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cdcresponse/Final-CDC-Order-Prohibiting-Introduction-of-Persons.pdf">no longer necessary</a> to protect public health from the spread of Covid-19. Many public health experts outside the agency argued all along that it was <a href="https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/node/76271">never necessary</a> for public health because community transmission inside the US, not introduction of the virus from Mexico, is what has driven the spread of Covid-19 in the country. They say that the US always had the capacity to safely process migrants by means of testing, quarantining, and enforcing masking.
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But the Trump administration maintained that Title 42 was a means of mitigating “serious danger to migrants, our front-line agents and officers, and the American people,” as then-acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/cdc-officials-objected-to-order-
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turning-away-migrants-at-border-11601733601">said</a> at a White House event announcing the policy.
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Not only was Title 42 questionable from a public health standpoint, it didn’t deter migration. Before Title 42, migrants might have been subject to swift deportation proceedings, known as “expedited removal,” and criminal prosecution, which would have made it more difficult for them to get legal status in the US down the line. But now they’re simply returned to Mexico and undeterred from trying to cross again.
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That’s reflected in the data: There were nearly <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters">twice as many</a> border apprehensions in fiscal year 2021 as in fiscal year 2019. Before the pandemic, only <a href="https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/guide-title-42-expulsions-border">7 percent</a> of people arrested at the border had crossed the border more than once; in fiscal year 2022, it’s <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/cbp-enforcement-statistics">27 percent</a>, and among single adult migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras specifically, it’s <a href="https://twitter.com/Haleaziz/status/1517563859803942912?s=20&t=ZjQtANbSyNmIW8d-BYWq3g">49 percent</a>.
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What Title 42 has meant for migrants
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Title 42, coupled with other Trump policies designed to keep out migrants, has impacted the lives of hundreds of thousands of migrants who are effectively trapped in Mexico, many living in shelters or camps along the border and relegated to informal work if they can find work at all. Many of them had nowhere else to go: Gang violence, climate-related challenges, and economic instability due to the pandemic are common factors in their decisions to flee their home countries.
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Though Title 42 is still the US’s primary means of turning back migrants to Mexico, migrants have also been returned under the Trump administration policy colloquially known as “Remain in Mexico.” The Trump administration used this policy to send 70,000 asylum seekers to Mexico while they awaited their immigration court hearings in the US.
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Biden tried to roll back Remain in Mexico last year, but a <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/4/26/23042653/supreme-court-remain-in-
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mexico-trump-biden-texas-immigration-border-asylum">Trump-appointed judge</a> ordered the administration to reinstate the program in December. The administration appealed that ruling to the US Supreme Court, which <a href="https://www.vox.com/23032702/supreme-court-remain-in-mexico-texas-biden-trump-immigration">heard arguments</a> in the case in April and will determine whether the rollback of Remain in Mexico can proceed. In the meantime, another <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2022-04/2022_0415_plcy_mpp_cohort_report_april_2022.pdf">3,012 migrants</a> — most from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela — have since been enrolled in the program under Biden as of April 2022.
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Mexico is woefully ill-equipped to administer to the needs of thousands of migrants who have been waiting in border towns for a chance to enter the US. When migrant shelters are full, some have been forced into camps in cities such as Tapachula and Reynosa along Mexico’s southern and northern borders, where they rely on NGOs to provide basic supplies and services, including medical care. During the pandemic, social distancing in these environments has been difficult if not impossible, and access to testing and vaccines has been <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22902501/migrants-mexico-omicron-surge-health-care">sparse</a>.
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What’s more, Title 42 and Remain in Mexico have endangered migrants by sending them back to Mexico. The refugee advocacy group Human Rights First documented <a href="https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/sites/default/files/AttacksonAsylumSeekersStrandedinMexicoDuringBidenAdministration.1.13.2022.pdf">8,705</a> reports of kidnappings and other violent attacks against migrants sent back to Mexico by the US. Haitians and other Black migrants have been at <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22881819/biden-haiti-immigration-mexico-
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asylum">particular risk</a> because of the discrimination they face in Mexico.
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What were the Biden administration’s plans to lift Title 42?
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Lifting Title 42 would be a seismic change in US policy for migrants who have been stranded in northern Mexico, in many cases for years. As part of the administration’s now moot plans to end the policy on May 23, families and single adults who are caught trying to cross the border would have been processed and placed in deportation proceedings.
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They might have been detained while fighting their deportation cases, a process that could take months or even years, or released while being monitored. If they couldn’t prove that they have a legal basis to stay in the US (such as asylum or other humanitarian protections), then they would have been deported, which would have also made it harder for them to legally immigrate in the future.
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The policy change would have also brought challenges for Biden administration officials, who would have faced the enormous task of safely and humanely processing what would have likely been a sharp increase in the number of migrants arriving on the southern border in the coming months. DHS and State Department officials told reporters last month that they were concerned that smugglers will contribute to that anticipated spike, misrepresenting the policy change to migrants, and overstating their chances of getting legal status in the US.
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The administration had been preparing for a worst-case scenario of <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-bracing-influx-
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migrants-southern-border-title-42/story?id=83751437">as many as 18,000 migrants</a> arriving daily after Title 42 was lifted, up from an average of <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/us-bracing-influx-migrants-southern-border-
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title-42/story?id=83751437">about 5,900</a> in February. That involved deploying additional resources to the border to deal with it, including hundreds of personnel, transportation, medical resources, and new soft-sided processing facilities.
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“We are confident that we can implement our plans when they are needed. … [W]e are planning for different scenarios,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alejandro-
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mayorkas-interview-transcript-border-immigration-title-42/">told CBS</a> in April. But he also admitted that “certain of those scenarios present significant challenges for us.”
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In April, Mayorkas issued a <a href="https://cdn.vox-
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cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/23420124/DHS_Plan_for_Southwest_Border_Security_and_Preparedness.pdf">20-page memo</a> formalizing those plans, which included surging even more resources to the border, increasing processing efficiency, enforcing legal consequences against migrants who try to cross the border without authorization, bolstering NGO capacity, targeting transnational criminal organizations, and trying to deter migrants from making the journey to the southern border in the first place.
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Border Patrol leaders had <a href="https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2022/04/22/el-paso-border-patrol-cbp-title-42-asylum-immigration-
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migrants/7355068001/">voiced concern</a> about getting adequate support from the Biden administration and what that could mean for morale. But if they had the support, they thought they could implement the new system.
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“It’s going to take us a little bit to ramp up. But we’re gonna get there,” Border Patrol El Paso Sector Chief Gloria Chavez <a href="https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2022/04/22/el-paso-border-patrol-cbp-
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title-42-asylum-immigration-migrants/7355068001/">told</a> the El Paso Times.
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The Biden administration is also in the process of revamping the way that migrants will apply for asylum. Rather than wait in years-long backlogs for a hearing before an immigration judge, they would be referred to an asylum officer and released while US Citizenship and Immigration Services processes their application. The aim was for the application process to take no more than a few months, but the Biden administration <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/03/29/2022-06148/procedures-for-credible-fear-screening-and-
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consideration-of-asylum-withholding-of-removal-and-cat">acknowledged</a> that USCIS doesn’t currently have the necessary staffing levels to make that happen. That would require <a href="https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/2022/04/22/el-
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paso-border-patrol-cbp-title-42-asylum-immigration-migrants/7355068001/">another</a> 800 employees and an additional $180 million in funding.
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How ending Title 42 became a fight among Democrats
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Republicans have been gearing up for a fight over the policy even before the Biden administration announced that it would end Title 42. They have decried what they predict will be “<a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/republican-states-challenge-repeal-pandemic-migrant-expulsion-
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policy-2022-04-04/">unmitigated chaos and catastrophe</a>” at the border once the policy is lifted, advancing their <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/us/jim-jordan-republicans-memo-immigration.html">planned line of attack</a> on Biden’s immigration policies ahead of the midterms.
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Democrats, especially those facing tough 2022 contests, have little interest in taking responsibility for a perceived border crisis by ending Title 42. Democratic Senate candidates, including John Fetterman in Pennsylvania and Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin, have consequently urged the administration to reevaluate whether it should end. Five Democratic senators — Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly of Arizona, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, Raphael Warnock of Georgia, and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire — even joined Republicans in introducing a <a href="https://www.kelly.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/BAI22187.pdf">bill</a> that would preserve the policy until 60 days after the surgeon general announces the end of the public health emergency related to Covid-19.
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“Unless we have a well-thought-out plan, I think it is something that should be revisited and perhaps delayed,” Sen. Gary Peters of Michigan, chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, <a href="https://thehill.com/news/senate/3271983-biden-faces-deepening-democratic-rift-over-title-42/">told reporters</a> last month. “I’m going to defer judgment on that until I give the administration the opportunity to fully articulate what that plan is. But I share … concerns of some of my colleagues.”
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Moderate Democrats’ reaction to the Biden administration’s decision to end Title 42 was swift — but for many of them, it’s the first time they have voiced any opinion about the policy at all. Progressives, on the other hand, have been calling on Biden to end Title 42 since shortly after he took office. As early as February 2021, 60 Democratic members of Congress <a href="https://twitter.com/RepWilson/status/1364368698207830016?s=20&t=fnvrVKtccd3TLmVvAz4h6Q">wrote</a> to the administration demanding that it “safely and effectively end all expulsions under title 42 … as soon as practicable and ensure that migrants can access our nation’s asylum system.”
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Members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus reiterated that message during a meeting with the White House in late April: “Title 42 should be lifted, and we should focus on border management policy in order to make sure that they have the resources in order to move forward,” caucus chair Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-CA) <a href="https://thehill.com/news/administration/3463077-title-42-looms-over-biden-
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There are huge political upsides for Republicans trying to spin the end of Title 42 as the start of a border surge — and not so much for Democrats making the argument that the policy should be rescinded.
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According to an April 6 Morning Consult/Politico <a href="https://morningconsult.com/2022/04/06/biden-approval-rating-immigration-title-42/">poll</a>, 55 percent of voters somewhat or strongly oppose the decision to end the policy, including 88 percent of Republicans and 27 percent of Democrats. That represents the biggest backlash to any Biden administration policy among dozens tracked by Morning Consult since January 2021. But there is a big partisan divide in perception of the policy, and Republicans rank immigration overall as a <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2022/02/16/publics-top-priority-
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for-2022-strengthening-the-nations-economy/">much higher-priority issue</a> than Democrats.
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Democratic convulsions over Title 42 show that the party’s consensus on immigration policy is tenuous at best.
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The party wasn’t always as pro-immigration as it purports to be today. As recently as 2006, <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/109-2006/h446">64 House Democrats</a> and <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/109-2006/s262">26 in the Senate</a> voted for the Secure Fence Act, which built some 700 miles of fence — basically, a wall by another name — along the 2,000-mile southern border. For votes included then-Sens. Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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The Democratic Party’s identity as the party of immigrants is a relatively new development, and now the party seems to be reverting to old patterns. But in failing to present a united front and make the case for why Title 42 should end, Democrats are handing a political win to Republicans.
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“It is important for Democrats to articulate to the American public where they stand, which is for a well-managed border and a fair, orderly system,” Tyler Moran, a senior adviser for migration to Biden who stepped down from her post at the end of January, <a href="https://www.vox.com/23006820/title-42-border-pandemic-biden">told me</a> last month. “If Democrats don’t say anything, it puts them at a disadvantage because Republicans are able to fill the void.”
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The court battle isn’t over, and how the administration handles this next phase will reveal its true commitment to ending the policy and making good on its promises to build a more humane immigration system.
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The Biden administration could immediately appeal the decision so that the rollback could proceed. It could also start the administrative process of formally notifying the public of its decision to end Title 42 and asking for feedback — a step that the <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.188754/gov.uscourts.lawd.188754.90.0_1.pdf">Louisiana judge said</a> couldn’t be skipped.
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But that assumes that the White House is willing to spend further political capital on the issue. The Louisiana court has handed the Biden administration a potential easy out from what was already shaping up to be a costly controversy over border policy in an election year. The White House has stood by its decision to end the policy for the last month in an attempt to placate immigration activists and progressives, even over the protests of moderate Democrats. Now, the administration can argue that the court has effectively tied its hands.
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<em><strong>Update, May 20, 7 pm ET: </strong></em><em>This story has been updated with new information about the latest Louisiana court ruling.</em>
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<em><strong>Update, April 29, 1:50 pm ET:</strong></em><em> This story has been updated to include the Louisiana ruling.</em>
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<em><strong>Update, April 27, 4 pm ET:</strong></em><em> This story has been updated with new information about Alejandro Mayorkas’s testimony to Congress.</em>
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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>Man City’s Foden named Premier League’s best young player for the second season in a row</strong> - Manchester City midfielder Phil Foden named Premier League Young Player of the Season; Declan Rice, Mason Mount among those who were in consideration to win award</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>Indian men bag compound team gold</strong> - Silver for Bhardwaj and bronze for mixed team</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>Indian men’s compound archery team wins second straight World Cup gold</strong> - The fourth-seeded men's team of Abhishek Verma, Aman Saini and Rajat Chauhan beat France by two points to win the gold medal in the compound team event at the World Cup Stage 2</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>PV Sindhu loses to Chen Yu Fei in Thailand Open semifinals</strong> - Sindhu, a two-time Olympic medallist, lost to third-seeded Chen in 43 minutes to end an impressive run in the Super 500 tournament</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>On selection radar for South Africa series: Umran Malik, Mohsin Khan, Dinesh Karthik</strong> - India’s squad for the home series against South Africa to be picked on Sunday; Rohit, Virat, Bumrah and Pant likely to be rested</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>Faculty interview at National Institute of Technology Calicut (NITC)</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>OMCs reduce fuel supply to petrol outlets in north Andhra, Godavari districts</strong> - BPCL has reportedly reduced supplies drastically in the last few days</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>Rahul Bhat's killing | Kashmiri Pandits take out protest march in Srinagar</strong> - Rahul Bhat was gunned down by terrorists inside the Tehsil office in Chadoora town on May 12</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>Ayush Ministry announces major initiatives in Sikkim, northeast</strong> - Underlying the importance of Sowa Rigpa, Minister says a 30-bedded Sowa Rigpa Hospital will be set up in Sikkim</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>65 kg of ganja seized at Walayar</strong> - Arrested duo hid contraband in boot of car</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</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>Mariupol: Russia declares complete victory at Azovstal plant</strong> - Ukraine says the last defenders at the besieged site have been given permission to leave.</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>Tornado in Germany injures 43 people, police say</strong> - Officials said the tornado cut a path of destruction during violent storms in the west of the country.</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>Moldova should be ‘equipped to Nato standard’ - UK</strong> - The foreign secretary says smaller nations should be helped to counter Russian aggression.</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 says giant Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant can’t supply Russia</strong> - Russia occupies Europe’s biggest nuclear plant and now wants to sell power from it back to Ukraine.</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>Russia halts gas supplies to Finland</strong> - Finland has refused to pay for gas in roubles but also angered Moscow by applying to join Nato.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</h1>
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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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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Analysis of prehistoric feces shows Stonehenge people had parasites</strong> - Fossilized fecal analysis sheds light on prehistoric dietary habits and social behavior. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1855356">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Review: New Chip ‘N Dale movie hilariously spoofs classic games, cartoons</strong> - A <em>Shrek</em> for a new era, as Disney lets Lonely Island go nuts (in PG fashion). - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1855487">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</h1>
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<li><strong>After my accident, I woke up in hospital with a sexy nurse standing over me</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MEforgotUSERNAME"> /u/MEforgotUSERNAME </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/uudjym/after_my_accident_i_woke_up_in_hospital_with_a/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/uudjym/after_my_accident_i_woke_up_in_hospital_with_a/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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Walking.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/meganpecan"> /u/meganpecan </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/uu4kf7/what_is_harry_potters_favorite_way_to_get_down_a/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/uu4kf7/what_is_harry_potters_favorite_way_to_get_down_a/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/808gecko808"> /u/808gecko808 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/uukoi4/i_just_accidentally_superglued_my_thumb_and_index/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/uukoi4/i_just_accidentally_superglued_my_thumb_and_index/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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She’s a little nervous because it’s dark, but it’s the shortest way to get to her home.
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Suddenly she hears a distinct tapping noise from the graves on her left. Her heart almost stops as she pauses mid-step. She hears it again - tap, tap, tap.
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She screams and starts running down the path. After a while she stops to catch her breath. “This is silly” she thinks to herself “there must be a rational explanation.”
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She slowly retraces her steps and walks towards the direction of the sound - tap, tap, tap.
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There, sitting on a grave, is a gentle old man with a small hammer and chisel. He is tapping out an inscription on the tombstone.
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“Phew! You scared me” the girl says, relieved upon seeing him. “What are you carving there?”
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The old man turns to her and smiles. “I’m just correcting the spelling of my name”
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Three Italian nuns die and go to heaven.
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At the Pearly Gates, they are met by St. Peter. He says “Sisters, you all led such wonderful lives that I’m granting you six months to go back to earth and be anyone you want to be.”
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The second says, “I want to be Madonna;” and <em>poof</em> she’s gone.
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The third says, “I want to be Sara Pipalini.” St. Peter looks perplexed. “Who?” he says. “Sara Pipalini;” replies the nun. St. Peter shakes his head and says; “I’m sorry, but that name just doesn’t ring a bell.”
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The nun then takes a newspaper out of her habit and hands it to St. Peter. He reads the paper and starts laughing. He hands it back to her and says “No sister, the paper says it was the ‘Sahara Pipeline’ that was laid by 1,400 men in 6 months.”
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