Kate Manne
Writer & philosopher at Cornell, author of Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (OUP, NY, 2018) and Entitled (Crown/Penguin, Fall 2020). Aspiring recluse. She/her.
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6-week-old baby dies of COVID-19: What we know about how susceptible infants are and how they’re treated
A 6-week-old baby in Connecticut is now believed to be one of the youngest victims of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus. The 6-week-old baby from the Hartford area was brought to a hospital in an unresponsive state last week and...
Kate Manne
So, so awful. Crying for this family.
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This Pandemic Is Not Your Vacation
You might not want to spend your quarantine in a city. But the rural places many Americans treat as playgrounds, and the workers who keep them running, will suffer for it.
Man eating kebab on bench among 50 people fined in NSW and Victoria for violating coronavirus laws
Concern that police crackdown to tackle public health emergency will disproportionately affect vulnerable people
Kate Manne
“Keeping the community safe is vitally important, but we are concerned these fines will disproportionately affect people already experiencing vulnerability, including...Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and those who have just lost their job.”
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Georgia governor says he didn't know asymptomatic people could spread coronavirus
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R), while announcing a statewide stay-at-home order, said Wednesday that he only recently became aware the coronavirus could be spread by asymptomatic people.
Kate Manne
This from the man who stole the election from Stacey Abrams. The ignorance--and sense of entitlement not to know--is breathtaking. SMDH
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Who Will Win the Fight for a Post-Coronavirus America?
Every disaster shakes loose the old order. What replaces it is up to us.
Ice agents are still performing raids – and using precious N95 masks to do so | Miriam Magaña Lopez and Seth M Holmes
If we want to survive, we must stop Ice raids, detention and deportation and provide protective equipment to health workers
Work strikes at Amazon, Instacart and Whole Foods show essential workers' safety concerns
Workers at Amazon, Instacart and Whole Foods are striking for improved safety measures, medical coverage and hazard pay during the coronavirus crisis.
Lawmakers Ask Trump To Suspend Sanctions To Help Iran Fight Coronavirus
U.S. policy stymies Iran's access to medicine and vital equipment, 32 members of Congress say in a letter shared exclusively with HuffPost.
Isolation is hazardous to your health. The term 'social distancing' doesn't help
Is the phrase "social distancing" sending the wrong message to millions of Americans struggling to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic? Some experts think so.
A sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden has ignited a firestorm of controversy
A woman says Biden assaulted her in 1993. Now #TimesUpBiden is trending.
13 Deaths in a Day: An ‘Apocalyptic’ Coronavirus Surge at an N.Y.C. Hospital
Hospitals in the city are facing the kind of harrowing increases in cases that overwhelmed health care systems in China and Italy.
Children and Coronavirus: Research Finds Some Become Seriously Ill
A study of more than 2,000 children with the virus in China found that babies were especially vulnerable to developing severe infection.
A New York Doctor’s Coronavirus Warning: The Sky Is Falling
Alarmist is not a word anyone has ever used to describe me before. But this is different.
Kate Manne
"The sky is falling. I’m not afraid to say it. A few weeks from now you may call me an alarmist; and I can live with that. Actually, I will keel over with happiness if I’m proven wrong."
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Rikers Island inmate has contracted coronavirus: sources
The news came just hours after union officials announced that a correction officer also has the infection. The correction officer — a member of the Security Operations Division — worked at the entrance gate at Rikers, union officials said.
The Things About the Biden-Sanders Debate That Were Impossible to Explain
A pandemic was raging, and the two candidates for the Presidency wanted to move on to other matters.
Kate Manne
"The two men who would be President acted as if this unprecedented state of affairs were just one of many agenda points—indeed, one that they seemed eager to leave behind, so they could pick up an ongoing argument about their respective voting records."
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The Trump Presidency Is Over
It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the con man behind the curtain.
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Kate Manne
Why does anyone believe this? During times of crisis, many people like nothing better than a daddy. Even a bad daddy. #daddyism
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The coronavirus pandemic is a reminder of how much we need each other
What Albert Camus’s "The Plague" can teach us about life in a pandemic.
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Kate Manne
"We’re all in the same boat, for better or worse. But accepting this... seems uniquely difficult in America. This country is built on a cult of individualism. It’s a myth so deeply ingrained that it’s politically toxic to even question it."
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The Michigan primary results raised a striking question about sexism
The parallels between 2016 and 2020 proved to be quite telling.
Why Trump keeps calling women 'nasty'
We are by now used to the President's name-calling -- it is unpresidential and gauche, writes Kara Alaimo. But "nasty"-- which he has most recently lobbed at Denmark's Prime Minister, but also at Nancy Pelosi and Meghan Markle -- is one that rings...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Refused To Campaign More For Sanders
The popular New York lawmaker's absence was notable as Sanders lost his Democratic front-runner status to Joe Biden.