Texas Democrats leave the state in an extraordinary move, and a slow trickle of Gaza aid: Weekend Rundown

In an extraordinary decision to count Republican redistribution in Texasdozens of democrats in the House of State Representatives went to Illinois to deny a necessary quorum So that the GOP advances with these efforts.

The approximately 30 Democrats are expected to stay for the week in a plan negotiated with the governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, who met the Texas Caucus at the end of last month and ordered his staff to provide logistical support for their stay.

“We leave Texas to fight for the Texans,” said Texas House Democratic Caucus, Gene Wu, in a press release. “We will not allow help in the event of a disaster to be kept hostage to a Gerrymander Trump. We do not come out on our responsibilities; We go out on a rigged system that refuses to listen to the people we represent. Today, this special corrupt session is over. ”

Last week, the Texas Republicans published a proposed Congress card which would give the GOP a path to collect five seats in the mid-term elections next year. It followed President Donald Trump Public pressure for a new card In the state while it works to keep a majority in the congress in what is historically a difficult year for the party which holds the White House.

The proposed map would move the district lines in a way that would target current democratic members of the congress in and around Austin, Dallas and Houston, as well as two Democrats already endangered representing the districts of South Texas that Trump worn last year.

Food flows in Gaza, but not enough to stop a famine, say the help groups

Humanitarian organizations claim the amount of aid that has entered Gaza Since Israel said it would take a break in certain regions in certain regions is insufficient to stop an increasing number of Palestinians who die from hunger.

Israel has only authorized a limited aid to enter the enclave because it has lifted a total blockade this year. Most of the aid was distributed by the group supported by Israel known as Gaza’s humanitarian foundation, and other humanitarian organizations have said that Israeli restrictions have hampered their efforts to distribute aid.

“This is not an adequate response,” said Jeanette Bailey, the global official of the global practice of the rescue committee and research director for nutrition, in a telephone interview.

A gradual entry of aid “here or there,” she said, “will not be enough to prevent us from entering a full-fledged famine where the number of deaths goes well.”

• Hamas sparked an uproar in Israel during the weekend when it A published video seems to show an Israeli hostage visibly emaciated In addition to images of emaciated Palestinian babies.

Meet the press

The economic advisor of the White House Kevin Hassett Develops President Donald Trump’s decision to draw The Commissioner for Statistics of the Labor Office Erika Mcentarfer, as well as Trump’s pretension that the weaker than expected job reports were “faked”, but he produced no evidence in support of the complaint.

Hassett said that on NBC News’ “meeting” that Trump’s “own people” will install more “transparent and reliable” job reports in the future.

“What we need is a new set of Eyes on BLS,” said Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, to the Kristen Welker moderator.

Several Republicans, including Senator Rand Paul, Kentucky, questioned the dismissal.

“We need to look for a place for objective statistics. When people who provide statistics are dismissed, it is much more difficult to make judgments which, you know, the statistics will not be politicized,” Paul News said in NBC News.

Meanwhile, Senator Alex Padilla, D-Calif., Accused Trump of having tried to “arm” work statistics for his own program. Padilla said that the Senate would assess the “independence” of a new BLS commissioner when the time comes to confirm a new one.

“When [Trump’s] Trying to arm the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which tells you about their insecurity on the economy and the state of economic affairs, “Padilla told Welker.

Brief policy

• Studied: Federal officials are Investigate the former special lawyer Jack Smith After eminent Republicans allegedly alleged that his investigations on the candidate of the time, Donald Trump, constituted an illegal political activity.
• Confirmed: The senate voted to confirm Former Fox News animator and prosecutor Jeanine Pirro, as an American lawyer for Washington, DC, in a vote of 50-45 parties of the party.

• On a break: While the members of the Congress are preparing to return home for summer recess, the Republicans will seek to sell the “big and beautiful bill” unpopular in their original states, while the Democrats work on their big brand problem.
• Windy City Warning: The team of the candidate for the town hall of New York Zohran Mamdani hope to avoid misstep From the progressive mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, he worked to win in November.
• Assembled again? The National Museum of American History of Smithsonian will mention Trump again In an exhibition on presidential dismissal after the withdrawal of a sign noting that its two Senate trials aroused concerns.

It’s a good time to be a nostalgic millennium

Backstreet boys play closed windows.

Lindsay Lohan plays in a new film “Freaky Friday”.

And the old co-stars of “Dawson’s Creek” and Exes Katie Holmes and Joshua Jackson were recently spotted by turning a new project in New York.

No, this is not the early 2000s – but Millennials have the impression of being SO back.

A recent increase in POP culture focused on generation Y is “the next level of escape” for an uncertain generation, said Kate Kennedy, author of “One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Saits, Fangirls and Entering”.

“It makes us at a time when our biggest concern was to queue for a CD, not if we would be able to allow ourselves a house,” said Kennedy.

“I think we are a more lonely and isolated generation in adulthood that we have never planned that we would be in our young people,” she said, adding that millennials “ride two very different eras in terms of technology and information”.

Notable quote

Recent university graduates looking for jobs find that practical diplomas, work experience and even links are No match for hiring slowly – With a dark labor market, ghost employers and a “black hole” in which 1,000 applications can fall unanswered.

In case you missed it

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• Tennessee officials found 14 improvised explosive devices in a man’s house As they stop it last week, suspected of threatening civil servants.
• A record crowd of 91,032 for a major league baseball match in the regular season could see all Pomp and the ceremonial with the MLB Speedway Classic Before the rain washes the game itself on Saturday. The match resumed on Sunday, the Braves of Atlanta defeating the Cincinnati Reds 4-2.
• Two men described as “partners” of the suspect in A quadruple homicide in Tennessee were arrested for suspicion of having helped the fugitive.
• Yu Zidi, a 12 -year -old Chinese swimmer, has become a world feeling With his history times, even if observers and fans are back home against the overhang of the young athlete.
• Ukraine anti-corruption organizations say They discovered a major transplant scheme This obtained military drones and signaling scrambling systems at inflated prices.
• The defending world champion of 100 meters Sha’Carri Richardson was arrested on the allegations that she attacked her boyfriend at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
• Joan Anderson, the woman who presented the Hula Hoop in the United States and gave it its emblematic name, Died last month at the age of 101.