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Axios AM
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By
Mike Allen
·Sep 20, 2021
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 Good Monday morning. It's the first day of New York City's Climate Week. President Biden speaks to the UN in New York tomorrow.
- Smart Brevity™ count: 1,174 words ... 4½ minutes. Edited by Zachary Basu.
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1 big thing: Travel revolution
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Data: TSA. Chart: Jared Whalen/Axios Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky will
argue this week that the world is undergoing a "travel revolution," in
which some parts of the industry stay shrunk but the sector ultimately
comes back "bigger than ever." - Why it matters:
Chesky, who faced the abyss when the world shut down last year,
foresees a significant shift in how people move around, with more
intentional gatherings of family, friends and colleagues — even if
routine business travel is never what it once was.
Chesky will unveil his "revolution" this week at the Skift Global Forum, a gathering of travel-industry leaders (in-person, of course — vaccinated-only, near JFK airport). Among Chesky's top points: - Travel will be back bigger than ever — just not like it was in 2019. After isolating, he'll say, people want to come together.
- The flexibility created by remote work
is driving this shift. Zoom is the latest to disrupt travel, following
revolutions by steam engines, mass-produced cars and commercial air
travel.
A factor helping the travel business, Chesky will argue: - Extended weekends are on the rise. Airbnb says bookings for three- and four- day weekends with families were up 70% from Q2 2019 to Q2 2021.
- Long-term stays (28+ nights) were Airbnb's fastest-growing trip-length category in Q2 data. Airbnb says its surveys show people plan to continue extended getaways.
 Reality check: New data out today will show the Delta variant is derailing fall travel plans, Hope King reports for Axios Markets.
- Thanksgiving domestic flight bookings in August were 18% lower this year compared with 2019, according to the Adobe Digital Economy Index.
The big picture: Domestic flight demand remains far off pre-pandemic levels. - Online bookings last month reached $4 billion, a decline of 35% from August 2019.
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2. Governments hold upper hand online
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Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios
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Governments around the world are finding it easier
than ever to make the internet, and the companies that run it, knuckle
under, Axios managing Scott Rosenberg reports. - On Friday, Russia forced
Apple and Google to remove an app that supporters of dissident leader
Alexei Navalny had created to coordinate opposition votes in Russian
elections.
- Also last week, China's government
removed nearly all online content connected with one of its top movie
stars, as part of a broader campaign against the power of celebrities.
"Erased from the Internet," as The Wall Street Journal put it (subscription).
The big picture:
Governments are limiting or banning applications, content and
connectivity itself — and Big Tech companies, rich and powerful as they
are, can't or won't fight back. - From the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter protests, the internet helped organizers build popular movements and even overthrow governments.
- But the tables have turned: Technology is giving entrenched leaders and parties an effective lever to bolster their power.
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3. Roadblock for Dems' immigration plan
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Screenshot: CNN
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The Senate parliamentarian ruled last night that
Democrats can't include pathways to citizenship in the $3.5 trillion
budget reconciliation package, Axios' Stef Kight reports. - Why it matters: It's a blow to Democrats' hopes of providing pathways for millions of undocumented immigrants in the U.S.
At issue was how tightly the provision relates to the budget. - "Changing the law
to clear the way to [legal permanent residence] status is tremendous
and enduring policy change that dwarfs its budgetary impact," the
parliamentarian wrote in the ruling.
The reconciliation route would
have allowed Democrats to pass politically contentious immigration
changes with only 50 Senate votes, as opposed to the usual 60 required. - The plan would have provided green cards for Dreamers, Temporary Protected Status holders and undocumented essential workers.
Context:
It's the second time since President Biden took office that the
parliamentarian has clipped Democratic efforts to push the limits of
reconciliation. The first time stopped efforts to raise the minimum wage. What to watch: Democrats plan to go back to the parliamentarian to see if there are other routes.
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A message from Bank of America
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Lessons from Ali for today
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Ken Burns discusses Muhammad Ali’s background and how the journey of boxing’s greatest champion is more relevant today – in sport, culture and beyond.
“He is speaking to us with a kind of force and clarity...that to me is just so enduring.” - Ken Burns
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4. Pic du jour
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Photo: Al Drago/Getty Images Seen from atop the Washington Monument, 660,000+ white flags form the "In America: Remember" art installation, commemorating Americans lost to COVID. - The flags will be on the National Mall through Oct. 3.
Go deeper ... Dedicate a flag.
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5. U.S. flies migrants back to Haiti
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Migrants board a Coast Guard plane yesterday at Del Rio International Airport in Texas. Photo: Marco Bello/Reuters
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300+ Haitians returned home after the U.S. flew them
back from Texas, leaving would-be migrants angry about their failed
search for a better life outside their impoverished country, Reuters reports from Port-au-Prince. - 12,000+ migrants are packed under — and beside — International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas, after wading across the Rio Grande, CNN reports.
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Drone's-eye view of the bridge yesterday. Photo: Adrees Latif/Reuters Plants from the Rio Grande are being used for roofs on the makeshift city sprawling out from the bridge, NBC's Morgan Chesky reported. - Border Patrol agent Brandon Judd told ABC News near the bridge: "We’ve never seen anything like this. This is completely and totally out of the norm of anything that we've ever seen."
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6.  Stat: Vax-hostile Alabama is literally shrinking
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A vaccination event in Birmingham, Ala., on Aug. 28. Photo: Andi Rice/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Alabama, which has one of the country's lowest COVID vaccination rates, recorded more deaths in 2020 than births — a first in state history. - Alabama State Health Officer Dr. Scott Harris says it could happen again in 2021 — the state is literally shrinking, Alabama News Network reports.
- The Yellowhammer State had 65,000 deaths last year, compared to 58,000 births — a gap of 7,000.
Harris said: "We’re
going to have around six or seven thousand more people who died in our
state this past year than any year we have ever had, going back to the
year 1900. That’s how far I’ve asked our staff to go back." (AL.com)
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7. Alabama tries again on racist constitution
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Two female African American students arrive at West End School in
Birmingham, Ala., on the first day of the city's desegregation of
schools — Sept. 4, 1963. Photo: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
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Alabama lawmakers are working to strip racist language from the state constitution. Voters will get their say in '22 if the process keeps moving. - Efforts to rewrite the
constitution have failed twice in the past 20 years. But "jolted partly
by racial justice protests across the country," a committee of
lawmakers and lay people began the redrafting process this month, The
New York Times reports (subscription).
Nearly 70 years after the Supreme Court ruled out segregation in public schools, this language remains in Alabama's governing document, AP notes: - "Separate schools shall
be provided for white and colored children, and no child of either race
shall be permitted to attend a school of the other race."
Alabama's "Committee on the Recompilation of the Constitution" meets again Oct. 13.
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8. Streamers win the Emmys
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"Ted
Lasso" winners (from left): Jeremy Swift, Phil Dunster, Brett
Goldstein, Hannah Waddingham, Jason Sudeikis, Juno Temple, Nick
Mohammed, Brendan Hunt. Photo: Rich Fury/Getty Images Netflix's "The Crown" and
"The Queen's Gambit" combined with Apple TV+'s "Ted Lasso" to sweep top
series honors at the Emmy Awards, a first for streaming services that
cemented their rise to prominence in the television industry, AP reports. - Netflix led with 44 awards, equaling the broadcast network record set in 1974 by CBS.
Reality check:
"No performers of color won in any of the comedy, drama or limited
series categories despite some of the strongest contenders in years,"
L.A. Times TV critic Lorraine Ali notes.
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A message from Bank of America
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Exploring Muhammad Ali’s legacy
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One of America’s greatest documentarians tells us what he and his team discovered exploring the life of an American icon.
“Looking back over the nearly 40 films I’ve made...in the end they’re
all about love, and that’s what I think Muhammad Ali was about.” - Ken
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