2025/02/13

Thursday, February 13, 2025 (#44)

Wednesday Thursday Friday On This Date 2025/02/13 16:33 UTC [L..T] RFK Jr. confirmed as Trump's health secretary, over Democrats' loud objections «Kennedy faced opposition from the left for his decades of espousing conspiracy theories on vaccines and from the right for his past support of abortion rights. For several weeks, it was uncertain whether he had enough senators backing him to get through. Yesterday, Democratic senators made speeches on the floor past midnight in protest. But on Thursday morning, he had the votes to be confirmed. The vote was 52 to 48. Sen. Mitch McConnell, the former Republican majority leader and a polio survivor, was the sole Republican joining Democrats to vote against Kennedy.» 2025/02/13 05:00 UTC [L..T] Worcester passes sanctuary city resolution for transgender community «Every Tuesday for the past month, dozens of members of the LGBTQ+ community have shown up to Worcester City Council meetings and told elected officials how scared they are. For themselves. For their families. For their communities. [/] On Tuesday night the city council responded to the community's petition and voted in favor of becoming a sanctuary city for transgender and gender-diverse people.» 2025/02/13 05:00 UTC [L..T] Seattle voters embrace excess compensation tax to build social housing, reject Chamber-conceived alternative «A grassroots initiative that would create a new source of progressive revenue to build publicly-owned social housing in Seattle appears to be on its way to a decisive victory tonight despite an onslaught of corporate cash in opposition, suggesting that voters in the Emerald City are eager to try a new approach to tackling our housing crisis.» [...] «The Seattle Times and the region’s largest corporations campaigned emphatically for the alternative conceived by the Chamber. Amazon, Microsoft, T‑Mobile, and Russell Investments underwrote the 1B campaign with large checks. Mailers sent out by the campaign for 1B carried the endorsement of Mayor Bruce Harrell.» to file links found today, but not necessarily for articles posted today https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/13/nx-s1-5294591/rfk-jr-trump-health-human-services-hhs-vaccines https://x.com/ChrisDJackson/status/1889844148594942289 https://bsky.app/profile/404media.co/post/3lhvymk4wd22s https://bsky.app/profile/annabower.bsky.social/post/3lhys6exq3c2m Front Pages