Senate Republicans Stand With the Postmaster General, Even As He Admits Mail Delays
Caroline Brehman/Congressional Quarterly via ZUMA Press For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Louis DeJoy, the embattled US Postmaster General, defended recent his policy changes in recent weeks, telling the Senate Homeland Security Committee that his efforts to make the Postal Service more efficient are part of a plan…
Friday Cat Blogging – 21 August 2020
This is Stripey pretending to be a lion out on the savannah. It’s also a good object lesson in the old saying that the best camera is the one you have with you. I didn’t bring my camera along on this particular day, so I had to shoot this with my cell phone. Is it…
From Our Archives, an Interview With Ntozake Shange
For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Over the past few weeks, I have begun a long project of trying to read through the Mother Jones archive, piece by piece. You can too, here. (Well, sorry, you can read from January 1995 onward. Don’t fret, that’s plenty.) If you,…
Postmaster General Agrees to Prioritize Mail Ballots
Our beloved postmaster general testified before the Senate today: “We will scour every plant each night leading up to Election Day,” Mr. DeJoy said in response to a question from Senator Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, as he testified for over two hours before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee….“There has been no…
Existing Home Sales Have Recovered From COVID-19
“U.S. Existing-Home Sales Surged 24.7% in July on Low Rates” blares the Wall Street Journal this morning. That sounded pretty impressive until I got hold of the underlying data from the National Association of Realtors: Technically, it’s true that existing home sales increased a lot from June to July. But the real story is less…
DeJoy Says USPS Won’t Reinstall More Than 600 Removed Mail Sorting Machines
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy arrives at a meeting at the office of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi on August 5.Alex Wong/Getty For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Embattled Postmaster General Louis DeJoy testified before the US Senate on Friday that he will not reinstall more than 600…