Often on January 1, I post about the Emancipation Proclamation, which President Abraham Lincoln signed on this day in , but had thought perhaps just to post a photo tonight. It feels like we could all use another quiet day. Insulin in the U. Unfortunately, more than half the diabetics in the U.
This amounts to more than 21 million people. The vote was 57 to 43, meaning that 57 senatorsβincluding seven Republicansβvoted in favor of the cap, but the filibuster means that it takes 60 votes to pass most measures through the Senate, so the cap for those covered outside Medicare failed.
The introduction is dominated by a discussion of the Brown v. Board of Education decision in which the Warren court overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision and required the desegregation of the public schools.
The comparison runs aground on the reality that Brown v. Board expanded equality before the law and Dobbs v. The report makes no mention of the leak of the Dobbs decision, a leak that the right wing met with fury but that has come to appear to be associated with right-wing Justice Samuel Alito and thus seems to have fallen off their radar screen. Lula replaces Jair Bolsonaro, the right-wing ally of former U. Traditionally, an outgoing Brazilian president is supposed to pass the presidential sash to the incoming president as a symbol of the peaceful transfer of power.
But Bolsonaro for weeks refused to accept the outcome of the election, and as he is now under a number of investigations, he flew to Orlando, Florida, Friday night and expects to stay at least a month while he sees whether the new government will pursue the investigations.
