MF Manchin strikes again: 
We Don’t Talk About Climate Change Manchin, you mean?
The “Good Jobs” initiative - an attempt to narrow the pay and employment gaps:
Stacey Abrams’ financial disclosures are a reminder that relative success does not always shield us from struggle.
I guess now Manchin & Sinema will go back and vote for the rest of Biden’s infrastructure and climate change bill?
This is how you know that it’s good policy.
President Joe Biden is poised to invoke as soon as this week Cold War powers to encourage domestic production of critical minerals for electric-vehicle and other types of batteries, according to people familiar with the matter.
The White House is discussing adding battery materials to the list of items covered by the 1950 Defense Production Act – the same authority wielded by Harry Truman to make steel for the Korean War and Donald Trump to spur mask production to tackle the coronavirus pandemic – the people said. They
(yahoo reprint)
i.e. he knows that AOC is old enough to primary him out for the 2024 season
Whatever happened to the whole “not going to run in 2024 because old” thing?
The guidance, issued Thursday and signed by Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general for civil rights, was delivered amid the advancement of a slew of measures in state legislature targeting transgender youth, including new laws inhibiting their access to transition-related care, prohibiting transgender girls from playing in women’s sports and barring instruction to youth on LGBTQ issues.
“Intentionally erecting discriminatory barriers to prevent individuals from receiving gender-affirming care implicates a number of federal legal guarantees,” Clarke writes. “State laws and policies that prevent parents or guardians from following the advice of a healthcare professional regarding what may be medically necessary or otherwise appropriate care for transgender minors may infringe on rights protected by both the Equal Protection and the Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
Clarke also points out anti-transgender measures are unlawful federal laws prohibiting sex discrimination, such as Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, warning states violating these laws could lead adverse legal action.
“Courts have held that many nondiscrimination statutes contain an implied cause of action for retaliation based on the general prohibition against intentional discrimination, and agencies have made this clear in regulations,” Clarke said. “Thus, any retaliatory conduct may give rise to an independent legal claim under the protections described above.”
