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About a month ago, a group of Democratic politicians from Texas fled their state in a last-ditch move to stop a voter-suppression bill. They came to Washington, D.C., to plead for help from Congress to protect the right to the vote. On one of their final days in Washington, they met with Vice President Kamala Harris. As Gina Hinojosa, one of the Texas Democratic representatives, remembers it, Harris left them with a message. “I know you’re tired, but you can’t stop,” she said. “You’re leaders now in this fight for voting rights.” On Monday, Texas Democrats resorted to their walk-out strategy again. The Texas legislature was in the opening days of a special session called, in part, to pass the voting legislation that Gov. Greg Abbott and his Republican allies failed to enact earlier this summer. The new bill seeks to empower partisan poll watchers to operate inside voting locations; another would ban local election officials from delivering mail-in ballot applications — not ballots themselves, the application to receive a ballot — to all eligible voters. These efforts are just one piece of a nationwide wave of bills that seek to restrict access to mail-in voting, early voting, and other means of voting used by traditionally Democratic constituencies like minorities and young people. Gina Hinojosa is one of the Texas Democratic legislators who left her home state to thwart the Republican voting-restriction bills. She represents Austin in the state House of Representatives. Hinojosa says she and her colleagues took Vice President Harris’ words to heart after their first bolt to Washington, a maneuver that killed the previous version of the GOP voting bill albeit temporarily. In an interview with Rolling Stone on Tuesday afternoon, Hinojosa talked about this latest escape from Texas, how long she and her colleagues plan to hold out, and which legislators they’re aiming to lobby while in the nation’s capital. Tap the link in our bio to read more. Photo: Jay Godwin/LBJ Library
India Walton, winner of last month’s Democratic primary for mayor of New York’s second-largest city, left her job as a nurse after 10 years to focus on organizing and advocating around a variety of causes touching on racial and economic inequities rampant throughout Buffalo. Walton’s grassroots campaign was built around not only her understanding of the forces contributing to poverty in the city, but the ways in which she has experienced these forces. “I believe that the people closest to the problem are also those closest to the solution,” she said often during her campaign. If Walton is able to win the general election, she’ll join progressives like Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (a former bartender), Jamaal Bowman (a former school principal), and others who have parlayed their working-class experience to knock off entrenched Democrats. One thing a lot these insurgents share is that they identify as socialists. Walton, too, has embraced the term at a time when it has been weaponized by the right — and centrists like Brown — to attack public servants who, more than anything, just want to serve the public. “All we’re doing in this moment is claiming what is rightfully ours,” she boomed on election night. “We are the workers. We do the work. We deserve a government that works with and for us.” Rolling Stone recently spoke with Walton about the s-word, her journey into politics, what the national progressive movement can learn from her grassroots campaign, and more. Tap the link in our bio to read. Photo: Lindsay DeDario/REUTERS
On Tuesday, the White House stated that Olivia Rodrigo would be meeting with President Joe Biden and Dr. Anthony Fauci in Washington, D.C., to participate in a video campaign on the importance of young people getting vaccinated against Covid-19. Rolling Stone has reached out to representatives for Rodrigo for further details on the campaign and when it will be expected to be released. Rodrigo is a prime candidate to appear in a campaign targeting Gen Z, as she currently has the Number One album in the country with her debut 'Sour.' Tap the link in our bio to read more. Photo: Jason Mendez/Getty Images
Meet Paul McCartney: the ultimate Beatles geek. The excellent new Hulu documentary series 'McCartney 3, 2, 1' gets up close with the most legendary of rock stars, alone in the studio with Rick Rubin, telling stories and listening deep to the Beatles. It’s a fascinating thrill just to listen with him. Like anyone else, he’s mystified by how these four nowhere boys from Liverpool managed to create this music. As Paul says, “For me, I’ve grown to be a fan of the Beatles. Because then, I was just a Beatle. But now that the Beatles’ volume of work is finished, I listen back to it, and you know, ‘What’s that bassline?’” 'McCartney 3,2,1' is Paul really stretching his wings as a Fabs fan. He breaks down the tunes track by track, isolating the musical details. He makes occasional (but welcome) detours into his solo and Wings years, using archival photos and film footage. Rubin, in his barefoot-Yoda mode, totally understands that his job here is to just listen and say “Wow.” It’s just three hours of conversation, stretched out over six episodes, but it flies by. At the link in our bio, read Rob Sheffield's review on this astounding Hulu doc series. Photo via Hulu
In September of 1996, a reporter asked Tony Thomas, the musical director at Seattle’s KMPS Radio, what he thought about LeAnn Rimes’ 'Blue.' Released 25 years ago this month, the title track had become one of the biggest selling singles in the past decade, and in a few short months Rimes, then 13, had gone from local Texas singing sensation to the CMA Awards and, soon after, the youngest solo artist to win a Grammy and the first country one to win Best New Artist. “The question is,” Thomas said. “Is this the dawn of a career for a new artist, or is it just a novelty? I believe, in the end, Rimes’ talent will win out.” Thomas was both right and wrong. Rimes’ immense talent did emerge to match the promise of her debut. But it also wasn’t always enough to “win out” against an industry that has undervalued the legacy of both 'Blue' and Rimes herself, an artist who helped to birth an entire generation of country artists, most of whom are barely years her junior, if that. Maren Morris got her start singing Rimes songs into a karaoke machine — it’s how her parents noticed that she possessed a talent far beyond the usual fold. Mickey Guyton caught her performing the National Anthem at a baseball game, an experience she credits with making her want to perform country music. Kacey Musgraves yodeled in harmony with her duo the Texas Two-Bits, after Rimes brought the tradition back into the fold. At the link in our bio, Rimes talks about 'Blue's impact on country music and how it paved the way for other women in the genre. Via @rscountry Photo: Norman Seeff
After thousands demonstrated in cities and towns across Cuba on Sunday, President Joe Biden released a statement on Monday saying the U.S. stands with the Cuban people. The president called the protests a “clarion call for freedom and relief” while offering his support, but the president has not taken substantive actions to alleviate Cubans’ suffering. “We stand with the Cuban people and their clarion call for freedom and relief from the tragic grip of the pandemic and from the decades of repression and economic suffering to which they have been subjected by Cuba’s authoritarian regime,” Biden’s statement said. “The Cuban people are bravely asserting fundamental and universal rights. Those rights, including the right of peaceful protest and the right to freely determine their own future, must be respected. The United States calls on the Cuban regime to hear their people and serve their needs at this vital moment rather than enriching themselves.” The historic protests were prompted by nationwide food and vaccine shortages in the communist country. Demonstrators filled the streets chanting “freedom” and “yes, we can” while calling for an end to the nation’s decades-old dictatorship. Calls for Biden to support the demonstrations began immediately after the protests began and came from both Florida’s Republican Senator Marco Rubio and Florida Democratic Congresswoman Val Demings, who is running to unseat Rubio. Cuba continues to deal with the decades-old U.S. trade embargo, as well as even stiffer sanctions imposed by the Trump administration. The sanctions, a bipartisan effort dating back to 1962, are aimed at destabilizing an authoritarian regime long led by Fidel Castro. The sanctions have been in place, in some form or another, for 60 years. They have failed in their stated goal of destabilizing the regime but succeeded in making life worse for the 11 million people who live under that regime. Tap the link in our bio to read more. Photo:@apnews
Vince Staples' knack for combining brevity and sly wordplay, together with Kenny Beats’ restrained production, make his self-titled LP particularly lucid from start to finish. Tap the link in bio to read our review. Photo: Tyree Harris
Since its beginnings as a group of British schoolboys in 1967, Genesis has had one of the weirdest journeys of any band, with a successful lead-singer transplant (drummer Phil Collins took over for Peter Gabriel in 1976) leading to an improbable jump from prog-rock pioneers to adult-contemporary hitmakers. With the Collins-fronted incarnation of the band reuniting for the first time in 14 years on an upcoming, mostly sold-out tour, our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast looks back at the full story of Genesis, with Andy Greene joining host Brian Hiatt for the discussion. The episode also delves into the hard-to-predict future of classic-rock touring after the pandemic-induced live-music hiatus. Tap the link in our bio to listen, or download and subscribe on iTunes or Spotify. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
The crypto world is getting greener. Is it too little too late? Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are both literally and figuratively red-hot, in that they’re trendy and also contribute to global warming. In the last few months, environmentalists have slammed blockchain enthusiasts for catapulting a technology into the mainstream that requires a whole lot of energy, but are they right in doing so? While, yes, there is a problem, there are also potential solutions. In April, analysts estimated that minting and sending one NFT on the popular Ethereum blockchain required the same amount of energy used to power the average American household for one and a half days: 48.14 kilowatt-hours (kWh). “It’s now up to 3.6 days,” Adam Fell — co-founder of OneOf, the music-centric NFT marketplace backed by Quincy Jones — tells Rolling Stone. That’s why OneOf runs on a different network called Tezos, and its why passionate people like Fell are determined to find a variety of sustainable solutions to a very real problem. OneOf prides itself on minting NFTs that need only the same amount of energy as sending a Tweet. How is that possible? Tap the link in our bio to read more. Photo: LONG WEI (FeatureChina via AP Images @apnews)
It took the 2020 pandemic for Clairo to realize she needed to slow her life down. She’d toured relentlessly since she was 19, and life on the road began to feel like a blur. “I felt like I was in someone else’s body,” she admits. In her Rolling Stone digital cover, she discusses spending time in the country, adopting her dog Joanie (named after Joni Mitchell), and recording her second album, 'Sling.' Tap the link in our bio to read. Written by @angiemartoccio Photographer: @peterashlee Creative Director: @catrionaniaolain Fashion Director: @thealexbadia Stylist: @stricola for @honeyartists Hair: @kenna_hair_ for @artdeptagency Makeup: @alliesmithmakeup for @bridgeartists
In the latest state-level swing at LGBTQ health care access, Ohio will now allow medical providers to refuse to administer any medical treatment that violates their moral, ethical, or religious beliefs. The language was buried in a 700-page document of last-minute amendments to the state’s two-year budget bill, which Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine approved last Thursday. The provision allows anyone providing medical care — from doctors and nurses to researchers and lab techs – and anyone paying for that care (namely, insurance providers), “the freedom to decline to perform, participate in, or pay for any health care service which violates the practitioner’s, institution’s, or payer’s conscience as informed by the moral, ethical, or religious beliefs.” The bill does not allow medical professionals to deny LGBTQ people care, carte blanche; the exemption “is limited to conscience-based objections to a particular health care service.” It goes on to say that the provider is “responsible for providing all appropriate health care services, other than the particular health care service that conflicts with the medical practitioner’s beliefs or convictions, until another medical practitioner or facility is available.” But the bill was overwhelmingly opposed by the state’s medical community. “The implications of this policy are immense and could lead to situations where patient care is unacceptably compromised,” read a letter to budget negotiators, signed by the Ohio Hospital Association, the Ohio Children’s Hospital Association, the Ohio State Medical Association, and the Ohio Association of Health Plans. Gov. DeWine could have struck the language while signing the rest of the budget into law, but declined to do so, despite issuing 14 other line-item vetoes. Tap the link in our bio to read more.
Toward the end of 2019, Jazmine Sullivan got some heartbreaking news: Her mother, Pam, a former background singer who once co-managed Jazmine’s music career, had been diagnosed with breast cancer. A few months after that shock, the pandemic shut down live music entirely. It was a lot to handle — especially coming on top of the years of trauma that Sullivan had endured from an abusive relationship that ended not long before. But the Philadelphia-born singer and songwriter found a silver lining when executives at her label recommended that she record new music to get ahead of her hard times. For some artists, that might have been a challenge; for Sullivan, 34, getting her emotions out in the form of new songs comes naturally. “In my music, I feel like I can talk about things that I wouldn’t normally have talked about,” she says, “and just be proud of who I am, and own who I am.” The result of that therapeutic recording process was 'Heaux Tales,' the 14-song EP that Sullivan released to rave reviews this past January, ending the six-year hiatus that followed her Grammy-nominated 2015 LP, 'Reality Show.' The project is organized around a theme of romantic realism, expressed through spoken-word testimonials from the women in Sullivan’s life (including family members and fellow artist Ari Lennox) and bluntly honest songs about relationships and their downsides. Tap the link in our bio to read more. Photo by @josefinasantos for Rolling Stone
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