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Jun 17, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKFDA authorizes 1st COVID-19 shots for infants, preschoolers
U.S. regulators on Friday authorized the first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers, paving the way for vaccinations to begin next week. The Food and Drug Administration's action follows its advisory panel's unanimous recommendation for the shots from Moderna and Pfizer. That means U.S. kids under 5 — roughly 18 million youngsters — are eligible for the shots, about 1 1/2 years after the vaccines first became available in the U.S. for adults, who have been hit the hardest during ...
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Jun 17, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKLouisiana woman raped at 16 ordered to pay alleged attacker child support
I lived in that state for less then 2 years, and I was so happy to see it in my rearview mirror. I don't think I've ever been back since then, and no plans to go back EVER. A Louisiana woman named Crysta Abelseth has been ordered to pay child support to a man twice her age who she was reportedly raped by at the age of 16. Her alleged abuser has also been awarded full custody. In 2005, the now 32-year-old woman met John Barnes after a night out at a local restaurant with friends in the...
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Jun 17, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 06/16/2022
Heather Cox Richardson On CNN this morning, Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD), a member of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, said: “New evidence is breaking every single day now. Suddenly, a lot of people want to tell the truth.” After the committee’s third public hearing today, we can see why. The window for getting onto the good side of the investigation by cooperating with it is closing, and the story the congress members are ...
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Jun 16, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 06/15/2022
Heather Cox Richardson In a letter to Georgia Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) this morning, the chair of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, Bennie Thompson (D-MS), dropped information, images, and video showing that Loudermilk had led individuals through the U.S. Capitol complex on January 5, 2021, in what sure looks like a reconnaissance tour. Thompson wrote that the committee had reviewed surveillance video, social media activity,...
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Jun 15, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKHidden message with expletive on headstone in Iowa raises concerns
I think this is a tempest in a tea pot. Click the link to see the video. POLK COUNTY, Iowa — It may not look like it at first glance, but a headstone at a cemetery in Iowa has a hidden message. "Forever in our hearts, until we meet again, cherished memories, known as our brother, father, papa, uncle, friend, and cousin," said Lindsay Owens, daughter of the late Steven Owens. If you pay special attention to the headstone, you'll notice that the first letter of each phrase reads ...
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Jun 15, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKFDA meeting for <5 COVID vaccine
This article has great graphs, click the link to go directly to the article. By: Katelyn Jetelina Today the FDA external advisory committee, called VRBPAC, met to discuss and vote on the safety and effectiveness of two COVID19 vaccines (Moderna and Pfizer) for under 5 year olds. Many of us parents have been waiting a long time for this! Ultimately, the committee unanimously voted to approve both vaccines. Many parents have fantastic questions. I was in attendance at the FDA meeting; ...
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Jun 15, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 06/14/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today the White House announced that President Joe Biden will visit the Middle East next month. His first stop will be in Israel, and then he will go to Saudi Arabia, where he will meet with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the man responsible for the murder and dismemberment of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. MBS recently invested $2 billion in Jared Kushner’s new investment fund against the advice of the funds’ advisors. In 2019, Biden ...
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Jun 14, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 06/13/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today was the second hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. The day began with chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS) laying out clearly and simply that what Trump and his minions did was to try to steal from Americans our right to vote for the leaders we want. That’s the heart of our system of government and central to the rule of law. The investigation of what happened in the last months of the Trump administration ...
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Jun 13, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 06/12/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Thursday’s presentation by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol made quite a splash…and the ripples are still spreading. Today in the New York Times, columnist Maureen Dowd reacted to Thursday’s revelations that Trump was “deadly serious about overthrowing the government,” by laying out the main points: Trump knew he had lost the election, and he was willing to see his vice president hanged in order to avoid ...
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Uncommon words and their meanings.
Jun 11, 2022Jun 2022

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I used this word just a few minutes ago. PERSNICKETY per·snick·et·y adjectiveINFORMAL•NORTH AMERICAN placing too much emphasis on trivial or minor details; fussy. "she's very persnickety about her food" requiring a particularly precise or ...
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Jun 11, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 06/10/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Preliminary reports say that about 20 million people watched last night’s compelling hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. That number, which does not include streaming or later views, is fewer than tune in for a normal State of the Union address, but more than for the World Series. In contrast, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s 11-hour testimony in a 2015 Benghazi hearing drew only about 4 million ...
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Jun 10, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKYLE Predicting the Fall and Boosters
Katelyn Jetelina We’ve been using the same vaccine formula throughout the pandemic—one created in early 2020 to fight against the original Wuhan variant. But the virus continues to mutate quickly. This means our antibodies are waning fast and (re)infections are coming more often. Marry this with the fact that coronaviruses thrive in the winter, and we likely need an updated strategy going into the fall. So what’s our next move? A hard problem to solve One way to get ahead of the ...
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Jun 10, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 06/09/2022
Heather Cox Richardson “Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.” So Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY), vice chair of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, damned her Republican colleagues at tonight's first hearing on the January 6 insurrection. And that was only a piece of what we heard tonight. Calmly, ...
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Jun 9, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKBrookings girl finds tracer in car
BROOKINGS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) -A girl in Brookings was going about her day when she found a tracking device under the hood of her car. This happened as her dad was looking at her car. “The car was at my house, my dad was working on it, we had some stuff happening with the engine, the hood was open, and he had thrown some bolts up right where that hatch is,” said Angelina Jennen. This was when he noticed something out of place “When he checked he thought he saw a paint chip,...
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Jun 9, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKThe Morning today is...wrong YLE
Katelyn Jetelina In the beginning of the pandemic, I wrote a lot of posts addressing and countering mis- and dis-information. I’ve largely stopped because I am, quite frankly, tired of fighting. As Winston Churchill said, “A lie goes around the world before the truth get its pants on.” We also need more proactive, rather than reactive, communication. But an email was sent this morning to 6 million Americans from the New York Times The Morning entitled COVID and Race. TL;DR: The email ...
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Jun 9, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 06/08/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today, the Washington Commanders defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio complained to reporters that there have been “two standards” in the way we have seen the vandalism at some of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 and the January 6 insurrection. “We have a dust-up at the Capitol, nothing burned down, and we’re going to make that a major deal.” This is a common charge on the right, but it is a myth. An AP study showed that more than 120 defendants have ...
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Jun 8, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 06/07/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today, President Biden signed nine bipartisan bills designed to improve veterans’ health care and to honor those who have served in our nation’s military. It was an upbeat hour in the midst of a storm gathering as the nation takes on both gun safety legislation and the events of January 6. Today, Good Morning America ran an 8-minute segment with teacher Arnulfo Reyes, who was wounded in the massacre at Uvalde, Texas, where on May 24 a gunman murdered 19 ...
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Jun 7, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 06/06/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today the Justice Department filed a superseding indictment charging Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio and four colleagues with up to ten criminal counts, including seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, in relation to the January 6 insurrection. Sedition is the crime of inciting a revolt against the government, and conspiracy means there was an organized group of people with a plan. A grand jury indicted Tarrio and Ethan ...
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Jun 7, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKFirearms: What you can do right now YLE
See link for graphics and other links. Katelyn Jetelina We need solutions for firearm morbidity and mortality in the U.S. Firearm violence is a leading cause of premature death in the U.S. and the leading cause of death overall among kids, recently surpassing car crashes, cancer, and drug overdoses. We need to and we want to do things. But it’s not clear how. We are all familiar by now with the swiss cheese approach for COVID-19. The same model can be applied to gun violence. I ...
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Jun 5, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKNew variants will keep COVID-19 circulating at high levels throughout the summer, experts say
Even as the U.S. grapples with its most recent wave of COVID-19, new research suggests that variants on the horizon may keep case levels high. The next influx of infections will probably come from the newer omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5, two closely related viruses that were first characterized in South Africa and that landed in the United States around late March, according to the gene sequence sharing site GISAID. These variants are gaining ground against BA.2, particularly in the ...
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Jun 5, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKPresidents ranked from worst to best CBS News
Presidents ranked from worst to best BY ELISHA FIELDSTADT PUBLISHED: 09:38 AM MAY 30, 2022 The ranking of presidents... so far Who is the best president of all time? Who is the worst? It's official: Donald Trump is not going down in history as America's best president — or the worst. According to the latest available survey of presidential historians, there are some presidents who delivered worse performances during their tenure in the White House. How many? Who are they? ...
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Jun 5, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 06/04/2022
Heather Cox Richardson The Gettysburg Address it wasn’t. Seventy-five years ago, on June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George C. Marshall, who had been a five-star general in World War II, gave a commencement speech at Harvard University. Rather than stirring, the speech was bland. Its long sentences were hard to follow. It was vague. And yet, in just under eleven minutes on a sunny afternoon, Marshall laid out a plan that would shape the modern world. “The truth of the matter is ...
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Jun 4, 2022Jun 2022

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LINK'We started something new here': Factory gets influx of workers with unique offer - YouTube
This is in Nebraska! Something progressive in Nebraska! Wonders never cease.
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Jun 4, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKFather of child killed in Uvalde, retains lawyers who sued makers of rifle used in Sandy Hook
The Connecticut lawyers who successfully sued the maker of the rifle used in the 2012 Newtown, Connecticut, shooting filed a letter Friday seeking documents and records from Daniel Defense, maker of the rifle used in the Uvalde, Texas, shooting May 24. This petition was filed on behalf of the father of Amerie Jo Garza, one of the 19 children killed in the rampage by the alleged gunman, 18-year-old Salvador Ramos. Alfred Garza, Amerie Jo's father, is being represented by attorneys Josh ...
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Jun 4, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 06/03/2022
Heather Cox Richardson In 1981, Reagan Republicans took power with the plan of cutting the government back to the form it took in the 1920s. But Americans like a basic social safety net and protection for consumers and workers, so to win votes for tax cuts and deregulation, Republican leaders warned that white Christian men who just wanted to work hard for their own success were under attack by a government in thrall to minorities, women, lazy organized workers, and secularists who were ...
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Jun 3, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKIt’s hard to explain (and fix) evil
Mass shootings and mental illness Katelyn Jetelina In the aftermath of mass violence and the furor of the 24-hour news cycle, the words “mental illness” are often used to try to explain a perpetrator’s actions. In many cases, the assumption that mental illness had to be involved in these incidents drives the public debate about solutions. This kind of coverage might raise awareness of how important mental health care is, but it is ultimately problematic because it too often it ...
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Jun 3, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 06/02/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Yesterday, Kyle Cheney at Politico flagged a new document released last week by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. John Eastman, the lawyer informally advising Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, has tried repeatedly to slow down or stop producing the documents the courts have told him he must. As part of that process, U.S. District Court Judge David Carter reviewed a number of documents. In ...
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Jun 2, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKBison gores Yellowstone visitor, tosses her 10 feet, park officials say
The visitor, a woman from Ohio, had puncture wounds and other injuries, officials said. Her condition was unknown. May 31, 2022, 11:33 PM CDT / Updated June 1, 2022, 2:16 PM CDT By Tim Stelloh A woman visiting Yellowstone National Park was gored by a bison and tossed into the air, park officials said Tuesday. The 25-year-old woman, who was visiting from Ohio, was not identified in a news release from the park. The woman approached the female bison Monday morning after it came close ...
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Jun 2, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 06/01/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today, with the radical right the most loyal voting bloc in the party, Republican leaders refuse to call out even the most extreme statements from their followers. But once upon a time, Republican politicians were the champions of reason and compromise. Famously, on June 1, 1950, Senator Margaret Chase Smith, a Republican from Maine, stood up against Republican Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin and his supporters, who were running roughshod over American democracy....
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Jun 1, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKCDC adds these destinations to 'high' risk category for travel as COVID-19 cases rise
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added three island destinations to its "high" risk category for travelers on Tuesday. Anguilla, Jamaica and Turks and Caicos Islands were all moved to Level 3, or "high" risk for COVID-19. In April, the CDC overhauled its ratings system for assessing COVID-19 risk for travelers. The Level 3 "high" risk category is now the top rung in terms of risk level. Level 2 is considered "moderate" risk, and Level 1 is "low" risk. Level 4, ...
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Jun 1, 2022Jun 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/31/2022
Heather Cox Richardson The story presented by the police about the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, was that a teacher propped open the door the murderer used to enter the building. In fact, the teacher had propped the door open but slammed it shut and called the police because the shooter was firing a weapon outside. The door did not lock as it should have. Today, Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, the Uvalde school district police chief in charge during the massacre, was ...
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May 31, 2022May 2022

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LINKInfographic: How many mass shootings took place in US in 2022?
Infographic: How many mass shootings took place in US in 2022? There is no common definition of a mass shooting – depending on which database is used, there were 3 to 268 mass shootings across the US this year. By Al Jazeera Staff Published On 31 May 2022 31 May 2022 On May 24, an 18-year-old gunman stormed the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, fatally shooting 19 children and two teachers, before being shot dead by police, casting a spotlight on gun violence in the ...
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May 31, 2022May 2022

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LINKUvalde coroner is haunted by identifying bodies of children and an old friends : NPR
UVALDE, Texas — Eulalio "Lalo" Diaz, Jr. isn't always on call, but it was his turn to be at the helm as Uvalde's Justice of the Peace on the day a gunman massacred 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in the deadliest school shooting in state history. The county is so small that the justice on call also acts as Uvalde's de facto coroner. He doesn't expect he'll ever be the same. "It was my luck ... my bad luck," Diaz told NPR. "But I wouldn't wish it on anyone." ...
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May 31, 2022May 2022

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LINKYour Local Epidemiologist COVID State of Affairs: May 31
The global average of reported cases and deaths continue to decline across the world. There are a few exceptions, most notably in Taiwan, Portugal, Australia, and the United States. It’s not entirely clear if we can continue to judge the global situation by comparing per capita case rates across countries. Many countries are winding down systematic testing efforts and enormous country-to-country variability exists regarding at-home antigen testing, like availability, usage, and official ...
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May 31, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/30/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Outrage continues over the Uvalde massacre of last Tuesday, May 24, in which 21 people were killed and 17 wounded. The assault on this elementary school stands out for many reasons: the youth of the victims, the apparent mishandling of the situation by law enforcement officers, and the heroism of the parents, for example. After all, there have been at least 14 mass shootings in the U.S. since the Uvalde murders, killing at least 10 people and wounding another 61, and ...
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May 30, 2022May 2022

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LINKUS birth rates rose slightly in 2021
Early speculation that the COVID-19 pandemic may lead to a baby boom has been turned on its head, with early data showing more of a baby bust -- and worsening rates of some adverse outcomes. After a steep drop in the first year of the pandemic, U.S. birth rates rose only slightly in 2021, according to provisional data published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. It was the first time in seven years that the U.S. birth rate ...
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Uncommon words and their meanings.
May 30, 2022May 2022

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Olly olly oxen free "Olly olly oxen free" is a catchphrase or truce term used in children's games such as hide and seek, capture the flag, and kick the can to indicate that players who are hiding can come out into the open without losing the game; ...
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May 30, 2022May 2022

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LINKPrinceton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy - TPM – Talking Points Memo
A new study from Princeton spells bad news for American democracy—namely, that it no longer exists. Asking “ho really rules?” researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page argues that over the past few decades America’s political system has slowly transformed from a democracy into an oligarchy, where wealthy elites wield most power. Using data drawn from over 1,800 different policy initiatives from 1981 to 2002, the two conclude that rich, well-connected individuals on the ...
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May 30, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/29/2022
Heather Cox Richardson 9 hr ago While there is a lot going on in the country and the world today, it seems as important as ever to honor Memorial Day, the day we have honored since 1868, when we mourn those military personnel who have died in the service of the country—that is, for the rest of us. For me, one of those people is Beau Bryant. I have written about him before, but this time, there is a new ending. When we were growing up, we hung out at one particular house where a ...
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May 29, 2022May 2022

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LINKNew Study:1 in 5 Adult COVID-19 Survivors Has Long COVID
New research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that long COVID is more common than most people realize. The study, which was published earlier this week, found that one in five adults under the age of 65 has the condition. For the study, researchers analyzed electronic medical records of nearly 2 million people and compared people who were diagnosed with COVID-19 in the first 18 months of the pandemic to those who had never had the virus. Researchers looked for 26 ...
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May 29, 2022May 2022

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LINKFirearms were the leading cause of death in children in 2020, researchers say : NPR
For decades, auto accidents have been the leading cause of death among children, but in 2020 guns were the No. 1 cause, researchers say. Overall firearm-related deaths increased 13.5% between 2019 and 2020, but such fatalities for those 1 to 19 years old jumped nearly 30%, according to a research letter in New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers analyzed data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing that there were a record 45,222 firearm-related deaths in ...
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May 28, 2022May 2022

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LINKWhat schools and elected officials can do to prevent school shootings : NPR
May 26, 20225:08 PM ET JEFFREY PIERRE & CORY TURNER Before the Golden State Warriors took to the court for a pivotal playoff game on Tuesday, Steve Kerr, the team's head coach and a vocal activist, stopped the pre-game interview to say that he didn't walk to talk about basketball. The news of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, had visibly pushed him to tears. And instead of talking about the game, Kerr wanted to talk about why the shootings were becoming all too common. "There are 50...
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May 28, 2022May 2022

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LINKThe Founding Father That Wanted the Constitution to Change Every 20 Years | Synonym
When Thomas Jefferson asserted that a constitution should change every 19 to 20 years, he was expressing a deep-rooted conviction that governments need to adapt to survive. Although he did not personally participate in drafting the U.S. Constitution, he had strong opinions about what political leaders had to do in order to make it work. Thomas Jefferson's Letter to Samuel Kercheval In an 1816 letter to Virginia lawyer Samuel Kercheval on the subject of calling a convention to revise the ...
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May 28, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/27/2022
Heather Cox Richardson The timeline for the Uvalde massacre is becoming clearer. After shooting his grandmother in the face and taking her truck, the gunman got to Robb Elementary School at 11:28 Tuesday morning and started firing into the school windows. A police officer responded to a call about the shooter but drove by him, instead mistaking a teacher for the suspect. The gunman got into the school through a door that had been propped open, and began his rampage down a hallway, ending ...
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May 27, 2022May 2022

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LINKWe can reduce gun violence in the U.S. YLE
Katelyn Jetelina May 27 I was going to wait until next week to start writing about firearm violence. During the day, I’m a violence epidemiologist so have some perspectives to share. But this week has been a lot. People need time to grieve, to react, and to process, so I was going to allow space for that. But I’m starting to see dangerous rhetoric bubble to the surface: We can’t change this; we won’t change this; and, there is no hope. I’m here to say that is false. We can reduce ...
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May 27, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/26/2022
Heather Cox Richardson One of the key things that drove the rise of the current Republican Party was the celebration of a certain model of an ideal man, patterned on the image of the American cowboy. Republicans claimed to be defending individual men who could protect their families if only the federal government would stop interfering with them. Beginning in the 1950s, those opposed to government regulation and civil rights decisions pushed the imagery of the cowboy, who ran cattle on the ...
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Music, Movies & Books
May 26, 2022May 2022

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LINKMargaret Atwood Releases an Unburnable Edition of The Handmaid's Tale, to Support Freedom of Expression | Open Culture
When first published in 1985, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale drew acclaim for how it combined and made new the genre conventions of the dystopian, historical, and fantasy novel. But the book has enjoyed its greatest fame in the past decade, thanks in part to a 2017 adaptation on Hulu and a sequel, The Testaments, published two years thereafter. It’s even become prominent in mass culture, frequently referenced in discussions of real-life politics and society in the manner of Nineteen...
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General & Hellos
May 26, 2022May 2022

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Modern day xianity
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May 26, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/25/2022
Heather Cox Richardson All day, I have been coming back to this: How have we arrived at a place where 90% of Americans want to protect our children from gun violence, and yet those who are supposed to represent us in government are unable, or unwilling, to do so? This is a central problem not just for the issue of gun control, but for our democracy itself. It seems that during the Cold War, American leaders came to treat democracy and capitalism as if they were interchangeable. So long...
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May 26, 2022May 2022

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LINKMPX State of Affairs: May 26 2022
By Katelyn Jetelina Although it’s been less than a week since the global outbreak of monkeypox (MPX) gained traction, we’re already gathering important clues thanks to timely and incredible collaboration around the globe. Here is the latest state of affairs. Case Surveillance More MPX cases continue to be identified. Thanks to Global.Health scraping information from public sources, we have almost real-time epidemiological numbers to follow. As of this morning, 344 confirmed and ...
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May 25, 2022May 2022

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LINK10 Reasons Why Christianity Is Declining—and Atheism Is Growing - Soapboxie
THE GUTTER MONKEY APR 13, 2022 The results are in! Good news, heathens! According to a recently released study by the Pew Research Center, it looks like America is becoming less Christian with each passing day. More surprising? The religiously unaffiliated is growing in a big, bad way. The study (available here) found that the number of religiously unaffiliated Americans has skyrocketed from a mere 16.1% to 22.8% of the population. This number consists of a combination in the rise of ...
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May 25, 2022May 2022

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LINKYour Local Epidemiologist: A note... and Q&A boosters for 5-11 year olds
by Katelyn Jetelina I put together the following post about boosters for 5-11 year olds yesterday afternoon. Shortly thereafter, 19 kids in this age bracket died during a mass shooting in Texas. It suddenly felt silly to send. Our kids need boosters but also much, much more. They need to come home after school. They need their community to advocate for their safety. They need to live long, prosperous lives. Enough is enough. We can and need to change this insanity. As a mom, researcher, and ...
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May 25, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/24/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today, a gunman murdered at least 19 children and 2 adults at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. For years now, after one massacre or another, I have written some version of the same article, explaining that the nation’s current gun free-for-all is not traditional but, rather, is a symptom of the takeover of our nation by a radical extremist minority. The idea that massacres are “the price of freedom,” as right-wing personality Bill O’Reilly said in ...
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May 24, 2022May 2022

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LINKI'm a Christian Pastor. Evangelicals Have to Be Defeated in 2022.
JUNE 5, 2021 / JOHN PAVLOVITZ ’ve been a pastor in the church for over two decades, much of that in predominantly white churches in the American South. I’ve spent countless hours in church staff meetings and men’s Bible studies and youth pastor conferences. I’ve stayed connected on social media with thousands of people still there in those churches. I read what they share and post and amplify and I know how they think and what they believe. I need you to understand something ...
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May 24, 2022May 2022

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LINKThe History Of Women And Credit Cards | Bankrate
I didn't realize that there were no credit cards until 1958 (the year I was born) and then women could not get credit in their own name until 1974. I was 16. I got my first credit card about age 19ish. Written by Erica Sandberg March 8, 2022 It’s been a long, hard road to establish gender equality in personal finance. While there are still a few areas under construction, great strides have certainly been made. In March, the United States recognizes Women’s History Month, a time to ...
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May 24, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/23/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Scandals today, and be forewarned: the first deals with sexual assault. If you want to skip over it, the next one starts about nine paragraphs down, with the word TODAY in all caps. Yesterday, a nearly 300-page report from a third-party investigation revealed that the leadership of the Southern Baptists buried sex abuse claims for more than 20 years. They ignored accusations or attacked sex abuse survivors to protect the church from legal liability, describing ...
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May 23, 2022May 2022

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May 23, 2022May 2022

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LINKPfizer says 3 COVID shots protect children under 5. Here's what to know about the vaccine.
Three doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine offer strong protection for children younger than 5, the company announced Monday. Pfizer plans to give the data to U.S. regulators later this week in a step toward letting the littlest kids get the shots. The news comes after months of anxious waiting by parents desperate to vaccinate their babies, toddlers and preschoolers, especially as COVID-19 cases once again are rising. The 18 million tots under 5 are the only group in the U.S. not yet ...
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May 23, 2022May 2022

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LINKWhy everyone is so rude lately.
Few people are as knee-deep in our work-related anxieties and sticky office politics as Alison Green, who has been fielding workplace questions for a decade now on her website Ask a Manager. In Direct Report, she spotlights themes from her inbox that help explain the modern workplace and how we could be navigating it better. If you have the sense that we’re living in a ruder, more hostile world, you’re not alone. Some of that hostility has gotten a lot of attention—like the aggression ...
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May 22, 2022May 2022

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LINKWHO chief: The COVID-19 pandemic is 'most certainly not over'
BERLIN — The COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over,” the head of the World Health Organization warned Sunday, despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the omicron wave. He told governments that “we lower our guard at our peril.” The U.N. health agency's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told officials gathered in Geneva for opening of the WHO's annual meeting that “declining testing and sequencing means we are blinding ourselves to the evolution ...
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May 22, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/21/2022
Heather Cox Richardson On May 22, 1964, in a graduation speech at the University of Michigan, President Lyndon Johnson put a name to a new vision for the United States. He called it “the Great Society” and laid out the vision of a country that did not confine itself to making money, but rather used its post–World War II prosperity to “enrich and elevate our national life.” That Great Society would demand an end to poverty and racial injustice. But it would do more than that, he ...
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May 21, 2022May 2022

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LINK17 Sex Tricks Men Learn From Porn That Women Wish We Could Wipe From Your Brain
Yes, women can tell when a man watches too much porn By Carlyn Beccia When Shakespeare wrote “all the world’s a stage,” he probably didn’t imagine our private sex lives becoming stages. Unfortunately, our modern world has placed even sex on a grand stage. In 1970, legendary sex researchers Masters and Johnson coined the term “spectatoring” to refer to sex in which someone focuses on a third-person perspective instead of one’s sensations and partner. Spectatoring is ...
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May 21, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/20/2022
Heather Cox Richardson As the hearings on the events of January 6th and the attempt to overturn the 2020 election approach, the extent of the operation is becoming clearer. Last night, lawyers for John Eastman filed a brief arguing, once again, that Eastman should be able to hide documents associated with the attempt to overturn the 2020 election on the grounds that he was working for former president Trump and so their communications are protected by attorney-client privilege. Eastman was...
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May 20, 2022May 2022

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LINKMonkeypox 101, unanswered questions, and the bigger picture
By: Katelyn Jetelina YLE This month we’ve witnessed the global Avian flu outbreak, chocolates laced with salmonella, severe hepatitis of unknown cause among children, Ebola outbreak in Central Africa, the first Polio case in Mozambique in 30 years, and . . . A global outbreak of monkeypox. I partnered with Dr. Anne Rimoin, a global health expert in monkeypox and emerging diseases and Professor at UCLA, to explain monkeypox, the burning, unanswered questions, and why the bigger picture ...
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May 20, 2022May 2022

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LINKBaby formula industry was primed for disaster long before key factory closed down | Nebraska Examiner
By: KEVIN KETELS MAY 20, 2022 3:00 AM The conditions that led to a shortage of baby formula were set in motion long before the February 2022 closure of the Similac factory tipped the U.S. into a crisis. Retailers nationwide reported supplies of baby formula were out of stock at a rate of 43% during the week ended May 8, 2022, compared with less than 5% in the first half of 2021. In some states, such as Texas and Tennessee, shortages were over 50%, which has prompted parents to travel...
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May 20, 2022May 2022

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LINKAs cases rise, CDC suggests some should consider masking based on their COVID-19 risk
As cases rise, CDC suggests some should consider masking based on their COVID-19 risk The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urges counties with high COVID-19 community levels to encourage people to mask up in public indoor settings. U.S. counties with high COVID-19 community levels should encourage people to put their masks back on while indoors and people in areas with medium levels should consider masking based on their own COVID-19 risk, CDC Director Dr. ...
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May 20, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/19/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol sent a letter to Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), asking for his voluntary cooperation in their investigation. The committee members believe he has “information regarding a tour you led through parts of the Capitol complex on January 5, 2021,” the day before the January 6 insurrection. The letter goes on to say that there have been public reports of both individuals...
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May 19, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/18/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Finland and Sweden have applied for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a defensive alliance originally formed in 1949 to resist the expansion of the Soviet Union and now standing against Russian expansion under president Vladimir Putin. Now the 30 member nations will consider the applications. They are expected to go through, although Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he does not view their applications positively, likely to gain ...
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May 18, 2022May 2022

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LINKThe U.S. men's and women's soccer teams will be paid equally under a new deal : NPR
The U.S. Soccer Federation announced Wednesday that it has reached a deal to pay the U.S. Men's National Team and the U.S. Women's National Team equally, eliminating a contentious pay gap that saw female players earning less. The new collective bargaining agreements will run through 2028 and include the "equalization" of World Cup prize money, the organization announced. In February, the governing body and the women's team announced a settlement to resolve the longstanding pay dispute, ...
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May 18, 2022May 2022

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LINKOfficials say more areas of US may see mask recommendations
WASHINGTON — COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States – and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking. Increasing numbers of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations are putting more of the country under guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that call for masking and other infection precautions. Right now, the increases ...
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May 18, 2022May 2022

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LINKAre we in a public health emergency? Your Local Epidemiologist
by: Katelyn Jetelina We are clearly in the middle of an infection surge in the U.S. Hospitalizations are increasing but not reflecting case acceleration, and deaths are nearing pandemic lows. The individual risk of severe disease continues to decline thanks to immunity and treatments. This changing dynamic has sparked an intense tug-of-war among scientists, leaders, and the public—a push towards “normalcy” from some and push back towards “urgency” from others. Where one lands on ...
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May 18, 2022May 2022

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LINKIn the middle of a severe baby formula shortage, many have suggested mothers should simply switch to breastfeeding. Carla Cevasco, Ph.D., breaks down why that may not be possible. By Chandni G May 17, 2022 The United States is currently ...
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May 18, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/17/2022
Heather Cox Richardson On this day in 1954, the Supreme Court handed down the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decision, which declared the segregation of public schools unconstitutional. Today, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden traveled to Buffalo, New York, where ten Americans were murdered and three wounded at a grocery store by a white supremacist on Saturday. Biden named and described the victims, ten of whom were Black: a baker, a public school teacher,...
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May 17, 2022May 2022

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LINKA school board member justified bigotry with Jesus. This mom wasn't having it.
Very well said. You have to hear the speech that a parent delivered at a recent school board meeting in response to one board member’s religious tirade against her daughter. To make sense of it, you have to understand that Colorado Springs has long been a hotbed for white evangelical Christianity. That brand of bigotry has now crept onto local public school boards. A couple of months ago, in the span of a two weeks, the Freedom From Religion Foundation sent multiple letters to those ...
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May 17, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/16/2022
Heather Cox Richardson White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre began her first press briefing today by noting its significance. “I just want to say a few words about how honored I am to be here with all of you today in this role, in this room, standing behind this podium,” she said. “I am obviously acutely aware that my presence at this podium represents a few firsts. I am a Black, gay, immigrant woman, the first of all three of those to hold this position. I would not be here ...
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May 16, 2022May 2022

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May 16, 2022May 2022

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LINKYour Local Epidemiologist 05/16/2022
Check out the link for charts by Katelyn Jetelina Global pandemic Global deaths due to SARS-CoV-2 are continuing to plummet and closing in on levels we only saw at the beginning of the pandemic. Although we are hopeful this continues due to increased vaccination and infection-induced immunity, many eyes are on four specific areas across the globe: South Africa. The BA.4/5 subvariant leader continues to report exponential growth in cases and hospitalizations, although decoupling ...
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May 16, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/15/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Yesterday, an 18-year-old white man murdered 10 people and wounded three others with an AR-15. The shooter traveled more than 200 miles to get to a predominantly Black neighborhood, where he put on heavy body armor and live streamed his attack as he gunned down people grocery shopping. Eleven of those he shot were Black. The Buffalo Police Commissioner, Joseph Gramaglia, said, “The evidence that we have uncovered so far makes no mistake that this is an absolute ...
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May 14, 2022May 2022

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LINKA South Carolina man died from a heart problem while burying the woman he strangled, deputies say - CNN
Truth might be weirder than fiction, again. (CNN)A 60-year-old man strangled a woman and tried to bury her in the backyard of their South Carolina home, but had a "cardiac event" in the process of covering a pit and died, according to a news release from the Edgefield County Sheriff's Office. Deputies responded to the home in Trenton on Saturday morning for calls of an unresponsive man lying in his yard. Deputies identified him as Joseph McKinnon, who had no signs of trauma "and natural ...
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May 14, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/13/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today was White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s last day at the White House after 15 months. She set out to restore truth, transparency, and accountability of the administration to the press, and to that end she has held 224 press briefings—together, all of former president Trump’s press secretaries combined held only 205 in his four years in office. Psaki gave her first press conference on January 20, 2021, the day of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, ...
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May 13, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/12/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol issued subpoenas for testimony to five members of Congress: Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Representatives Scott Perry (R-PA), Jim Jordan (R-OH), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Mo Brooks (R-AL). The committee previously invited them to cooperate voluntarily, and they refused. The committee has evidence that these five, in particular, know crucial things about the events of ...
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May 12, 2022May 2022

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LINKFeds Seek 20 Years for Josh Duggar After Child-Pornography Conviction
I used to watch "9 Kids and Counting", and was just amazed and slightly disgusted by that family. Amazed at how organized they were (you have to be with that many kids) and disgusted for so many other reasons. Now the kids are mostly growed up and how the truth is being revealed. Feds demand a 20-year sentence for Josh Duggar after his child-pornography conviction, citing his 'violent sexual interest in children' Federal prosecutors are demanding a 20-year sentence for the former ...
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May 12, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/11/2022
Heather Cox Richardson In the last year, the Republican Party has transformed. The modern Republican Party rose to power in 1980 promising to slash government intervention in the economy. But that was never a terribly popular stance, and in order to win elections, party leaders wedded themselves to the religious right. For decades, party leaders managed to deliver economic liberties to business leaders by tossing increasingly extreme rhetoric and occasional victories to the religious ...
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May 11, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/10/2022
Heather Cox Richardson That Republicans appear to be on the cusp of overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion seems to have thrown them into confusion. Since Nixon first raised the issue of abortion as a political wedge in 1972, the year before Roe (recall that Nixon characterized 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern as the candidate of “acid, amnesty, and abortion”), they have used the issue to raise money and turn out voters. But now, with the prize...
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May 10, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/09/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Weeks of speculation that Russian president Vladimir Putin would use the May 9 Victory Day celebration to announce he was escalating his war on Ukraine were incorrect. The celebration went off—subdued this year—and Putin delivered a speech, but it simply covered his usual topics. During the day, hackers broke into Russian televisions with the message: “The blood of thousands of Ukrainians and hundreds of murdered children is on your hands…. TV and the ...
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May 9, 2022May 2022

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LINK11 brutally honest reasons millenials don't want kids
11 brutally honest reasons millenials don't want kids When it comes to embarking on the journey of parenthood, lots of millennials are saying, "Meh. No, thanks." According to data from the Urban Institute, birth rates among 20-something women declined 15% between 2007 and 2012. Additional research from the Pew Research Center reflects a longer-term trend of women eschewing parenthood as the number of U.S. women who choose to forego motherhood altogether has doubled since 1970. This ...
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May 9, 2022May 2022

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LINKReport: 37 teachers to leave Central High School after the school year ends
I know similar stories are happening all over the US. OMAHA, Neb. — An Omaha journalism teacher said she's one of nearly 40 teachers who plan to leave Central High School at the end of the school year. She and a student she advises requested the data from the Omaha Public School district after hearing whispers in the hallways. Two educators are speaking about their decisions to leave and the future of their field. Both teachers said it was an incredibly difficult decision to ...
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May 9, 2022May 2022

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LINKmy male coworkers are insisting on taking "period leave" — Ask a Manager
by ALISON GREEN MAY 9, 2022 A reader writes: I’m a manager in an overseas office of an American company. About two-thirds of our employees were hired locally, with the remainder (mostly managers) having relocated from the United States. Under local law, women are allowed one day off per month to care for menstrual symptoms. Women wishing to use this benefit are required to give notice by the start of the workday that they will be absent, manager approval is not required, and it will...
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May 9, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/08/2022
Heather Cox Richardson I had not intended to write tonight despite some huge news dumps this weekend, but there are two time-sensitive stories to note. First, today First Lady Jill Biden celebrated Mother’s Day with an unannounced visit to western Ukraine, where she visited Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska at a school currently being used to house internally displaced Ukrainians. Before going to Ukraine, Biden visited displaced Ukrainian mothers and children in Romania and Slovakia, ...
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May 8, 2022May 2022

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LINKAmerican life expectancy is dropping because more young people are dying
BYEZRA MARCUS A new study released recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association has some unbelievably bad news: Young and middle-aged adults in the U.S. are dying more often — from bleak causes like suicide, liver disease, and drug overdoses — and life expectancy in the country is falling as a result. The study analyzed 60 years of mortality rates, with the goal of understanding some of the troubling trends beginning to reveal themselves in macro life expectancy data. The ...
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May 8, 2022May 2022

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Heather Cox Richardson I told this story here two years ago, but I want to repeat it tonight, as the reality of women’s lives is being erased in favor of an image of women as mothers…. If you google the history of Mother’s Day, the internet ...
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May 7, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/06/2022
Heather Cox Richardson While most eyes were on the leaked draft of the Supreme Court decision this week, the Biden administration continued its work to move the country forward, demonstrating that investing in ordinary Americans creates a strong economy. Since the 1980s, Republicans have insisted that the way to establish strong economic growth is to cut business regulations and taxes in order to free up innovation and capital for investment. Rejecting the system in place since 1933 that ...
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May 6, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/05/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Fallout continues over the leaked draft decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the draft overturning Roe v. Wade. Tonight, in addition to the “non-scalable” fence erected last night, Capitol Police are placing concrete barricades around the United States Supreme Court. Legal commentator Joyce White Vance tweeted: “Odd that the Supreme Court is acting like they’re under assault, when it’s actually us who ...
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May 5, 2022May 2022

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LINKNearly 15M deaths associated with COVID-19, World Health Organization says
LONDON — The World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years, more than double the official death toll of 6 million. Most of the fatalities were in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas. In a report released on Thursday, the U.N. agency's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described the figure as "sobering," saying it should prompt countries to invest more in ...
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May 5, 2022May 2022

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LINKBanning abortions will not stop abortions
By Katelyn Jetelina Public health touches on all aspects of our lives, not just during a pandemic and not just with infectious diseases. Thanks to your feedback, this newsletter will continue with COVID updates but will start touching on other epidemiological topics, too. For example, women’s health. If you would only like COVID19 updates, go to your settings HERE and deselect “Your Local (Women’s Health) Epidemiologist”, “Your Local (Violence) Epidemiologist” and “Your Local ...
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May 5, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/04/2022
Heather Cox Richardson The uproar over the leaked draft of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade continues. You can tell just how furious the reaction has been by the fact that establishment Republicans are desperately trying to turn the public conversation to the question of who leaked the document. They are baselessly blaming the opposition to the decision—a Newsmax host blamed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who hasn’t even taken her seat yet—for the leak, although ...
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Politics
May 4, 2022May 2022

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LINKForeign Policy Expert Who Testified Against Donald Trump In First Impeachment Trial Said She Realized Very Early On He Would Try To Steal The Election Well Before January 6th: "This Was Trump Pulling A Putin"
By Andrea Thompson The recent bombshell CNN exposure of Donald Trump Jr.’s damning text messages to his father’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows — sent just days after the November 2020 election, before the race had even been called, in which the then-president’s son was already floating ideas and suggestions for overthrowing the election his father was about to lose — was bad enough for the already scandal-ridden former president. In fact, one former federal prosecutor has already ...
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May 4, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/03/2022
Heather Cox Richardson In 1985, President Ronald Reagan’s team made a conscious effort to bring evangelicals and social conservatives into the voting base of the Republican Party. The Republicans’ tax cuts and deregulation had not created the prosperity party leaders had promised, and they were keenly aware that their policies might well not survive the upcoming 1986 midterm elections. To find new voters, they turned to religious groups that had previously shunned politics. ...
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May 3, 2022May 2022

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LINKI'm a member of The Satanic Temple and got outed at work — Ask a Manager
I’m a member of The Satanic Temple and got outed at work by ALISON GREEN on MAY 3, 2022 A reader writes: I’m a member of The Satanic Temple. That information got out at work and now things are unpleasant and awkward. I became a passionate patients’ rights advocate when a family member almost died after they were denied emergency medical treatment on religious grounds. The unexpected delay in care almost cost my family member their life and it was a frightening time for our ...
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May 3, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/02/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Tonight, news broke of a leaked draft of what appears to be Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s majority decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision establishing access to abortion as a constitutional right. That news is an alarm like the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford decision declaring both that Black Americans had no rights that a white man was bound to respect and that Congress had no power to prohibit human enslavement in the territories....
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