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Aug 11, 2022Aug 2022

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PETARD pe·tard nounHISTORICAL a small bomb made of a metal or wooden box filled with powder, used to blast down a door or to make a hole in a wall. "Machine guns in front and on the flank opened fire, while petards, bombs, and artillery fire ...

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Mubble Fubbles

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Aug 11, 2022Aug 2022

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It's an awwwww moment. Just ignore the grammatical error. After you find and touch the paw icon, touch anywhere else on the screen.

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Aug 11, 2022Aug 2022

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If it fits, I sits. “Catcus” alert! 🌵Sitting on a throne of spines, this bobcat was observed at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona. Perhaps, it was scanning the landscape for a tasty treat? The height of the cactus ...

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Aug 11, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKYLE - How effective are MPX vaccines? 08/11/2022

How effective are MPX vaccines? Katelyn Jetelina Vaccines will help control the monkeypox (MPX) outbreak. The bad news is that we desperately need more doses. And we don’t know how much the vaccines help and in what manner they help (prevention, duration of disease, severity of disease). This information is absolutely essential so people know how well they are protected and what behaviors they should (or should not) change. This information will also have major implications for ...

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Aug 11, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKTexas lawsuit aims to gut birth control and HIV medication coverage from health insurance plans - NewsBreak

By Shirin Ali In Kelley v. Becerra, two Texas plaintiffs argue the Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandates health insurance providers cover certain preventative care services they do not need and conflict with their religious beliefs — specifically, contraceptive coverage, STD testing and HIV medications. A Texas lawsuit that hopes to eliminate mandated health insurance coverage of birth control, HIV medication, sexually transmitted disease (STD) testing and more has quietly been pushing ...

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Aug 11, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKPhones Know Who Went to an Abortion Clinic. Whom Will They Tell? - WSJ

Phones Know Who Went to an Abortion Clinic. Whom Will They Tell? Myriad state restrictions on accessing or performing abortions prompt some companies to pledge not to share sensitive mobile-phone data By Patience Haggin Aug. 7, 2022 In May, shortly after the draft of the Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade became public, location-data specialist Tapestri Inc. received unusual requests from two companies. Each wanted to purchase mobile-device data that would reveal ...

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Aug 11, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/10/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, President Joe Biden signed into law the now-bipartisan Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act of 2022. It will expand medical coverage for veterans exposed to burn pits during their service. This law is named for Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson, an Ohio Army National Guardsman who was diagnosed with a rare cancer after his service, during which he was exposed to toxic substances in the burn pits. He...

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Aug 10, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/09/2022

Heather Cox Richardson This afternoon, Representative Scott Perry (R-PA) said the FBI has confiscated his phone after presenting him with a search warrant. Perry was deeply involved in the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election. He connected former president Trump with Jeffrey Clark, the environmental lawyer for the Department of Justice (DOJ) who supported Trump’s claims and who would have become acting attorney general if the leadership of the DOJ hadn’t threatened to ...

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Aug 9, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKThe consequences Trump could face for mishandling White House records

Update: On Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, the FBI executed a search warrant at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. Sources tell CBS News the search was related to a Justice Department investigation into Trump's handling of presidential records. In the story below, first published on Feb. 10, 2022, shortly after the National Archives referred the matter to the Justice Department, legal experts told CBS News that Trump could face consequences for violating the Presidential ...

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Aug 9, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKA plan for the upcoming school year YLE 08/09/2022

Katelyn Jetelina School is starting. And, with it, the contentious debate on what schools should and should not do. While the pandemic ravages on, the landscape continues to morph, and because of that, every subsequent school year has looked very different (hopefully for the better). Unfortunately, student absences continue. As seen in London, students absences continue to be higher than before the pandemic. They were especially high at the end of this school year when BA.5 took hold. We...

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Aug 9, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/08/2022

Heather Cox Richardson It’s been quite a day. It began with Axios sharing photos of what purported to be White House toilets with torn up paper in them. The notes on that paper appear to have former president Trump’s distinctive handwriting on them. Axios got them from New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, who has previously reported that Trump used to get rid of documents by flushing them. (By law, all presidential records must be retained.) I am skeptical of these photos, ...

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Aug 8, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKAug. 8, 2022, 7:22 p.m. Maggie Haberman, Ben Protess and Adam GoldmanFormer President Donald J. Trump said on Monday that the F.B.I. had searched his Palm Beach, Fla., home and had broken open a safe — an account that, if accurate, would be a ...

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Aug 8, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/07/2022

Heather Cox Richardson “The yeas are 50; the nays are 50. The Senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative, and the bill, as amended, is passed.” So spoke Vice President Kamala Harris this afternoon as, after an all-night session, her vote passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 through the Senate. It will now go to the House, where it is expected to pass. The measure devotes more than $300 billion to addressing climate change and energy reform, the ...

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Aug 7, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKRussia still holding more than 400 Western-owned aircraft - The Washington Post

The country’s airlines are refusing to return the planes they’d leased from foreign companies; the planes are worth billions By Jeanne Whalen, Ellen Nakashima and Hafeel Farisz Early last month, an employee of Sri Lanka’s court system walked into the nation’s biggest airport brandishing a judicial order grounding an Aeroflot flight that was about to take off for Moscow. The aircraft’s nearly 200 passengers were deplaned and taken to local hotels, their travel foiled by an ...

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Aug 7, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/06/2022

Heather Cox Richardson On this day in 1880, the Republican candidate for president, James A. Garfield, spoke to thousands of supporters from the balcony of the Republican headquarters in New York City. Ten years before, in 1870, Americans had added the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, making sure that Black men could vote by guaranteeing that “the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, ...

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Aug 7, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKTravis McMichael, the man who killed Ahmaud Arbery, is scared someone will killed him in prison, lawyer says - TheGrio

Oh, darn! Associated Press | Aug 6, 2022 SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — The white man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery after chasing the running Black man in a Georgia neighborhood says he fears he will be killed by fellow inmates if he’s sent to a state prison to serve a life sentence for murder. Travis McMichael, 36, faces sentencing Monday in U.S. District Court after his conviction on federal hate crime charges in February. His defense attorney filed a legal motion Thursday asking ...

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Aug 6, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/05/2022

Heather Cox Richardson On this day in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law a new tax law to help fund the United States government during the Civil War. Far more than writing a traditional revenue act to address the catastrophic war that had demonstrated its horrors just two weeks earlier at the Battle of Bull Run, Congress deliberately constructed the law to shift ownership of the American government away from the bankers who had previously provided Treasury funds, to the American...

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Aug 5, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/04/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Congress established the Department of Justice in 1870, overseen by the attorney general, to protect civil rights in the southern states after state legislators and state law enforcement officers refused to treat their Black neighbors as equals. If the states would not honor the principle of equality before the law, the federal government would. The importance of federal protections for equal rights is today’s central story. Today, Attorney General Merrick ...

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Aug 4, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKFederal Officials Charge Four Officers in Breonna Taylor Raid

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs - 4h ago Federal officials on Thursday charged four current and former police officers in Louisville, Ky., who were involved in a fatal raid on the apartment of Breonna Taylor, accusing them of several crimes, including lying to obtain a warrant that was used to search her home. During the nighttime raid in March 2020, officers knocked down the door and fired a volley of gunshots after Ms. Taylor’s boyfriend shot an officer in the leg, believing that intruders ...

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Aug 4, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKBiden administration declares monkeypox a public health emergency

Biden administration declares monkeypox a public health emergency Amid growing calls from health officials across the country, the Biden administration declared the current monkeypox outbreak to be a public health emergency in the U.S. on Thursday afternoon. The declaration, which was made by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, comes a little less than two weeks after the World Health Organization designated the outbreak an emergency of international concern. By ...

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Aug 4, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKAfter repeating early COVID mistakes, US now has the world’s biggest monkeypox outbreak

Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY The story of monkeypox feels to experts frustratingly like a replay of the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Testing took too long to get launched. Data hasn't revealed the full extent of the outbreak. The spread wasn't stopped quickly enough. Monkeypox was supposed to be different, because it is much harder to transmit, treatments and vaccines were already available, much was known about a virus first described in 1958, and so many lessons were ...

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Aug 4, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/03/2022

Heather Cox Richardson I have spent the day rereading the Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, and the news of the day has heightened its relevance. During the Trump administration, after an extensive investigation, the Republican-dominated Senate Intelligence Committee concluded that “the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multifaceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election…by ...

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Aug 3, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKChild porn found in documents Alex Jones sent to lawyers of Sandy Hook families, court filing says

Does this surprise anyone? Jones denies any knowledge of the images, and Infowars describes the emails as a "malware attack attempting to embed" child porn on their servers. June 17, 2019, 6:38 PM CDT By Tim Stelloh Lawyers representing families of Sandy Hook massacre victims who are suing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones said they received child pornography in documents they were sent by the Infowars founder, according to court papers filed Monday in Connecticut. Consultants working ...

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Aug 3, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKYour Local Epidemiologist - How is monkeypox spread? 08/03/2022

How is monkeypox spread? By Dr. Katelyn Jetelina YLE There is substantial concern about monkeypox (MPV) exposure and risk among the general public. Some of this is warranted; some is not. Misconceptions are taking hold given the rapidly evolving situation and scientific uncertainty. This post triangulates historical context, lab data, and epidemiological data to show you what we do (and do not) know about MPV transmission right now. Transmission In 2019, researchers found that the ...

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Aug 3, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/02/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, voters in Kansas overwhelmingly rejected an amendment to their state constitution that would have stripped it of protections for abortion rights. With 86% of the vote in, 62% of voters supported abortion protections; 37% wanted them gone. That spread is astonishing. Kansas voters had backed Trump in 2020; Republicans had arranged for the referendum to fall on the day of a primary, which traditionally attracts higher percentages of hard-line Republicans; and they ...

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Aug 2, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/01/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Tonight, President Joe Biden announced that a drone strike managed by the Central Intelligence Agency at 9:48 Eastern time on Saturday killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, 71, who took control of al-Qaeda after the death of leader Osama bin Laden. The precision strike hit Zawahiri as he stood on a balcony in a prosperous section of Kabul, Afghanistan. There were no civilian casualties. Zawahiri believed that attacking the U.S. and allied countries was essential...

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Jul 31, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/30/2022

Heather Cox Richardson This morning, Jon Swaine and Dalton Bennett of the Washington Post reported that on October 11, 2019, at Trump’s National Doral golf resort in South Florida, Danish filmmakers caught an unguarded conversation between Trump allies talking about their legal exposure because of their work for the president. Recording a documentary about Trump’s friend and operative, Roger Stone, the filmmakers caught Stone and Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Stone’s lapel ...

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Jul 30, 2022Jul 2022

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PUMPERNICKEL pumpernickel noun pum·per·nick·el | \ ˈpəm-pər-ˌni-kəl \ Definition of pumpernickel : a dark coarse sourdough bread made of unbolted rye flour Examples of pumpernickel in a Sentence Recent Examples on the Web ...

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Jul 30, 2022Jul 2022

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SKEDADDLE skedaddle verb ske·dad·dle | \ ski-ˈda-dᵊl \ skedaddled; skedaddling\ ski-ˈdad-liŋ , -ˈda-dᵊl-iŋ \; skedaddles Definition of skedaddle intransitive verb : to leave immediately : RUN AWAY, SCRAM I've got...

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Jul 30, 2022Jul 2022

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NINCOMPOOP nincompoop noun nin·com·poop | \ ˈnin-kəm-ˌpüp , ˈniŋ- \ plural nincompoops Definition of nincompoop informal : a stupid or silly person : FOOL, SIMPLETON … they could easily find some nincompoop to give them yet more ...

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Jul 30, 2022Jul 2022

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MALARKY malarkey noun ma·lar·key | \ mə-ˈlär-kē \ Definition of malarkey : insincere or foolish talk : BUNKUM He thinks that everything politicians say is a bunch of malarkey.

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Jul 30, 2022Jul 2022

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LOLLYGAG lollygag verb lol·ly·gag | \ ˈlä-lē-ˌgag \ variants: or less commonly lallygag lollygagged also lallygagged; lollygagging also lallygagging; lollygags also lallygags Definition of lollygag intransitive verb informal : to fool...

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Jul 30, 2022Jul 2022

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CATTYWAMPUS Definition - askew, awry, kitty-corner Cattywampus is a variant of catawampus, another example of grand 19th century American slang. In addition to “askew” catawampus may refer to “an imaginary fierce wild animal,” or may mean ...

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Jul 30, 2022Jul 2022

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SHENANIGANS she·nan·i·gans noun INFORMAL secret or dishonest activity or maneuvering. "widespread financial shenanigans had ruined the fortunes of many" silly or high-spirited behavior; mischief.

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DISCOMBOBULATED discombobulated /ˌdiskəmˈbäbyəˌlādəd/ adjective: discombobulated confused and disconcerted. "he is looking a little pained and discombobulated"

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FLABBERGASTED /ˈflabərˌɡastəd/ adjectiveINFORMAL adjective: flabbergasted greatly surprised or astonished. "this news has left me totally flabbergasted"

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Jul 30, 2022Jul 2022

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BAMBOOZLE bam·boo·zle verb INFORMAL past tense: bamboozled; past participle: bamboozled fool or cheat (someone). "Tom Sawyer bamboozled the neighborhood boys into doing it for him" confound or perplex. "bamboozled by the number of savings plans ...

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Jul 30, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/29/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Democrats continue to illustrate the difference between them and the Republicans in the lead-up to the 2022 midterms. Today, Americans continued to spit fury over the Republican senators’ destruction of the Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) bill, which would provide medical benefits for veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxins during their military service, after previously passing the measure. That destruction has added to the growing list of ...

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Jul 29, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/28/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today saw widespread outrage that Senate Republicans sank the Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) bill—a bill they had already agreed to by a strong margin—out of spite over the resurrection of a reconciliation package that would make drugs cheaper, plug tax loopholes for corporations and the extremely wealthy, and invest in switching the economy away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy. The PACT bill would provide medical benefits for veterans ...

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Jul 28, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKCOVID-19 and Monkeypox: Similarities and differences YLE 07/27/2022

By Katelyn Jetelina In two short months, more than 18,000 cases of monkeypox (MPV) and five deaths have been reported across the globe. This is a rapidly evolving situation, but clearly a public health crisis. While one takes hold (MPV) we concurrently fight another pandemic (COVID-19), so it’s tempting to compare the diseases and our responses. There are certainly similarities, but there are key differences, too. Differences MPV can be contained, but the window is closing. ...

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Jul 28, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/27/2022

Heather Cox Richardson President Biden tested negative for coronavirus today and is back at work in public. He used the opportunity to reiterate the importance of vaccines (in a way that certainly irritated the former president, who always hated the idea he was weak or sick): “When my predecessor got COVID,” Biden said, “he had to get helicoptered to Walter Reed Medical Center. He was severely ill. Thankfully, he recovered. When I got COVID, I worked from upstairs of the White ...

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Jul 27, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKSurvey: 40% of parents won’t get their child a COVID-19 vaccine

By Virginia Langmaid, CNN New survey results published Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation indicate that 43% of parents of children under 5 in the U.S. say they will not get their child vaccinated against COVID-19, the highest percentage in the year that KFF's Vaccine Monitor survey has been asking the question. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized COVID-19 vaccinations in children as young as 6 months in mid-June. According to the KFF data, only 17% of parents of ...

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Jul 27, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKBiden emerges from COVID-19 isolation, tells public to get shots

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE, Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Wednesday emerged from five days of isolation after contracting the coronavirus, telling Americans that "COVID isn't gone" but saying serious illness can be avoided with vaccines, booster shots and treatments. "You don't need to be president to get these tools," he said. Biden had a mild bout with the virus that has killed millions of people around the world and disrupted daily life for ...

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Jul 27, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKWhite House visit YLE 07/26/2022

BY: Katelyn Jetelina This is me at the White House today. New shoes and all. Trying to keep my cool. I am so overwhelmingly honored and humbled to represent epidemiology, scientific communication, and most importantly this YLE community in conversations about the future of COVID19, monkeypox, and pandemic preparedness in the U.S. and across the globe. I brought all of the lessons YOU taught me so we can better respond as a country. This YLE journey is something I don’t think I’ll ...

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Jul 27, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/26/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today began with Maggie Haberman and Luke Broadwater at the New York Times reporting on previously undisclosed emails from the weeks before the January 6 insurrection, in which advisors openly referred to the slates of alternative electors they had prodded supporters to produce as “fake.” “We would just be sending in ‘fake’ electoral votes to Pence so that ‘someone’ in Congress can make an objection when they start counting votes, and start arguing ...

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Jul 26, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKPrayer as supplication, not as schoolhouse wedge | Nebraska Examiner

By GEORGE AYOUB JULY 26, 2022 4:00 AM The Supreme Court should house our best legal minds, but the majority’s recent opinion on prayer in public schools needs a better reading of the room. To summarize: The Supremes, by a vote of 6-3, decided that a public high school football coach’s prayer at the 50-yard line after games was a permissible exception to that little nagging necessity of our democracy we’ve lived by for nearly 231 years: separation of church and state. You can look...

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Jul 26, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/25/2022

Heather Cox Richardson President Joe Biden’s doctor says the president’s symptoms from Covid have "almost completely resolved.” The president spoke to two different groups today, virtually, and those two speeches indicated both that the January 6 hearings have weakened Trump and that Biden continues to try to rebuild the American middle class. First, in a speech to the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, Biden called out Trump directly for his inaction on ...

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Jul 25, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKSome cities are discussing returns to indoor masking

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN It's a confusing time, yet again, in the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 cases are increasing across the U.S., driven by the most transmissible variant of the coronavirus yet. Reinfections are up too, and may increase the likelihood of new health problems. Even President Joe Biden has contracted the virus, forcing him to work in isolation from the White House. Each of these developments is alarming in their own way. But none of them seems to have shaken the public ...

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Jul 25, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKCOVID State of Affairs: July 25 2022 Your Local Epidemiologist

To view the graphics click the link. Katelyn Jetelina As Omicron subvariants sweep the globe, the international death toll started rising for the first time in seven months. Although deaths still remain low, a 39% increase in death toll is noticeable. This increase is mainly driven by Southeast Asia (+20%), followed by the Eastern Mediterranean (+15%) and Americas (+7%). Hospitalizations have doubled in Europe and no peaks have been seen yet for countries like France, U.K., Greece, ...

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Jul 25, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/24/2022

Heather Cox Richardson On Friday, Axios began to publish a deeply researched and important series by Jonathan Swan, explaining that if former president Trump retakes power, he and allies like his former chief of staff Mark Meadows, Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), and head of Trump’s social media network Devin Nunes are determined to purge our nonpartisan civil service and replace it with loyalists. In a normal administration, a new president gets to replace around 4000 political ...

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Jul 24, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/23/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Thursday’s public hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol brought to its logical conclusion the story of Trump’s attempt to overturn our democracy. After four years of destroying democratic norms and gathering power into his own hands, the former president tried to overturn the will of the voters. Trump was attacking the fundamental concept on which this nation rests: that we have a right to consent to the ...

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Jul 22, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKPolio: An unfortunate reminder of the decline in routine vaccinations YLE 07/22/2022

Katelyn Jetelina Yesterday, an unvaccinated, young adult was diagnosed with polio in New York and developed paralysis. They had no history of travel. This case follows a U.K. warning last month after London found several wastewater samples of the polio virus. Both instances suggest local community spread. While the U.S. and many other countries use vaccines with an inactive virus, some countries use a lower cost vaccine with a weakened live virus. In some cases, the weakened virus can ...

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Jul 22, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKit’s your Friday Good News — Ask a Manager

I submitted my Friday Good News a few weeks ago, and this week I got published. My letter is 3.

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Jul 22, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/21/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Tonight’s public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol laid responsibility for the crisis at the Capitol on former president Trump. The committee’s chair, Bennie Thompson (D-MS), is isolating with Covid, so Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) presided over the hearing. She began with a tribute to Representative Thompson. Scott Simon, the host of NPR’s Weekend Edition, noted that “the Democratic chair of the ...

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Jul 21, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKTrouble Telling Left from Right? It's Called Left-Right Confusion.

I have Left-Right Confusion, I am really fun to travel with. I can read maps. Don't tell me to turn left, or go north or south. Show me, pointing is fine. Marching in formations while I was in the Army was fun, I started to wear a ring on my right hand. I can process Ring-Right, and that helped. I used to think I was just weird, but we've since learned it is a generically linked trait, my mom had it as did her mom and my dad's mom. and it affects females more often than men. And yes, I heard ...

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Jul 21, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/20/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, documents released by the House Oversight and Reform Committee confirmed that the Trump administration’s attempt to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census was a strategy to skew population data to benefit Republicans. Trump had refused to turn over the documents, but the Biden administration agreed to allow the House committee to see them. U.S. censuses, which are required every 10 years under our Constitution, have always counted “persons,” ...

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Jul 20, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKNovavax is here! Just not the silver bullet we need YLE 07/20/2022

Yesterday, ACIP—CDC’s external scientific advisory board—unanimously voted to authorize the Novavax vaccine (called NVX-CoV2373) in the U.S. This was big news for the small, underdog Maryland company who had a long road to authorization. After rigorous clinical trials, FDA and CDC scientific meetings, and more than 1 million vaccines already rolled out across the globe, it’s clear this vaccine is safe and effective. There are two ways this vaccine could potentially help us in the ...

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Jul 20, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/19/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Last week, the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, Joseph Cuffari, told the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol that the U.S. Secret Service had erased text messages between agents on January 5 and January 6, 2021, during the time of the attack. Last Friday, July 15, the committee subpoenaed those records from the U.S. Secret Service. Today, the Secret Service said it had only one new text to provide ...

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Jul 19, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKCOVID’s getting stronger and we’re growing more complacent

By Donna Brazile After returning from a trip home to New Orleans, I was diagnosed July 11 with COVID-19, joining over 89 million Americans and over 559 million people around the world who’ve received confirmed diagnoses of the disease. The actual number stricken is undoubtedly higher and keeps growing, as new coronavirus variants and subvariants spread.   The office of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced on July 10 that he tested positive. Earlier, ...

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Jul 19, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKCDC issues health alert warning new parents: What is parechovirus? What are the signs, symptoms in babies?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health alert last week warning parents and pediatricians the potentially dangerous pathogen is circulating in the country. The agency said it received multiple reports of infection since May and encouraged health care providers to test for it when patients present certain symptoms. The CDC said most of the reports entail the PeV-A3 strain, which is most commonly associated with severe disease. The agency did not say which states ...

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Jul 19, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKMortification Week: the rock star, the Fabio flowchart, and other stories to cringe over — Ask a Manager

I have not laughed so hard in ages. If you need a break from the world, take a few minutes to read this, and please be careful with your liquids. It’s Mortification Week at Ask a Manager and all week long we’ll be revisiting ways we’ve mortified ourselves at work. Here are 16 mortifying stories to kick off today. 1. The rock star In an interview, I was attempting to express this sentiment: “I know what everyone wants is a rock star, but flashy solo work isn’t for me—what a ...

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Jul 19, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/18/2022

Heather Cox Richardson On Saturday, Maggie Haberman and Luke Broadwater of the New York Times reported that yet another right-wing lawyer was urging former president Trump to overturn the election in late 2020. William J. Olson, who now represents MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell, a conspiracy theorist and key Trump ally, wrote to Trump on December 28. In his letter, he referred to a call between himself and Trump on the afternoon of Christmas Day and to a call between Trump and Mark ...

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Jul 18, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/17/2022

Heather Cox Richardson On July 18, 1863, at dusk, the Black soldiers of the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry of the U.S. Army charged the walls of Fort Wagner, a fortification on Morris Island off Charleston Harbor in South Carolina. Because Fort Wagner covered the southern entrance to the harbor, it was key to enabling the U.S. government to take the city. The 600 soldiers of the 54th made up the first Black regiment for the Union, organized after the Emancipation Proclamation ...

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Jul 17, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKFauci: Monkeypox outbreak needs to be taken more seriously as virus continues to spread

By Carma Hassan and Aya Elamroussi, CNN As cases of monkeypox continue to rise in the US, a top health official is stressing the outbreak needs to be handled in a more rigorous manner. "This is something we definitely need to take seriously. We don't know the scope and the potential of it yet, but we have to act like it will have the capability of spreading much more widely than it's spreading right now," Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN Saturday. Monkeypox has been detected throughout most ...

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General & Hellos

Jul 17, 2022Jul 2022

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This sums it up so well.

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Jul 16, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKArizona Man Sues Clinic for Giving Ex-Wife Abortion Pills 4 Years Ago

Nutcases are coming out of the woodwork. 7/16/2022 by Yelena Dzhanova An Arizona man is suing the clinic that gave his ex-wife abortion pills — nearly four years after the termination. Mario Villegas and his then-wife went to get an abortion in July 2018 at a Phoenix, Arizona, clinic, ProPublica reported. The next year, Villegas heard about a man who had sued an Alabama clinic after creating an estate for the terminated six-week-old embryo. He then set out to do something ...

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Jul 16, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKWhy the omicron offshoot BA.5 is a big deal

Once again, COVID-19 seems to be everywhere. If you feel caught off-guard, you aren't alone. After the omicron tidal wave washed over the United States in January and the smaller rise in cases in the spring caused by the BA.2 subvariant, it might have seemed like the coronavirus could be ignored for a while. After all, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated in December that nearly all Americans had been vaccinated or have antibodies from a past infection. Surely all ...

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Jul 16, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/15/2022

Heather Cox Richardson 8 hr ago A late news dump tonight: the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol has subpoenaed from the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) the text messages between agents on January 5 and January 6, 2021, that it learned Wednesday had been deleted. Chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS) told Secret Service director James Murray, who recently announced his upcoming resignation, that the committee wants all the texts by July 19, 2022. Politico ...

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Feline Fanatics

Jul 15, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKHerd Of Cows Lick Cat - YouTube

A FREAKING Dorable!

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Jul 15, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/14/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph Cuffari, a Trump appointee, yesterday sent a surprising letter to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and its House counterpart. The letter said that the Department of Homeland Security had notified Cuffari’s office that “many U.S. Secret Service (USSS) text messages, from January 5 and 6, 2021, were erased as part of a device-replacement program. The USSS erased those text messages after OIG [Office of ...

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Jul 14, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKIvana Trump, ex-wife of former President Trump, dies at age 73

Not a great loss to the world. Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of former President Donald Trump, has died at age 73, the family told ABC News. The former president said she died at her home in New York City. Ivana Trump was Donald Trump's first wife. They had three children together: Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric Trump. "Our mother was an incredible woman -- a force in business, a world-class athlete, a radiant beauty, and caring mother and friend," the Trump family said in a statement. ...

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Jul 14, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/13/2022

Heather Cox Richardson There are some follow-up stories today from yesterday’s public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. Patrick Byrne, the former chief executive officer of Overstock, who was mentioned in the hearing yesterday as having attended the December 18 meeting in which lawyer Sidney Powell and former national security adviser Michael Flynn called for Trump to seize voting machines, will talk with the committee on ...

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Jul 13, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKA surgeon explains why AR-15-style rifles are so deadly

by Nicole Karlis The semi-automatic weapon known as an "AR-15-style" rifle has become synonymous with mass shootings in America. Indeed, this style of gun is often in the news for being the gun of choice for many mass shooters. Most recently, the weapon used during the mass shooting at a suburban Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois, was a Smith & Wesson M — an AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle made by gun manufacturer Smith & Wesson. In Uvalde, Texas, an AR-15-style ...

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Jul 13, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKBA.5 is here. Time to ride the wave. YLE 07/13/2022

Katelyn Jetelina MPH PhD BA.5 has arrived. An estimated 10-15% of Americans will be infected. Unfortunately, hospitalizations and death will follow, albeit at lower rates than we’ve seen before. There are many reasons to avoid an infection (can’t miss work; don’t want to feel crappy for a week or two; risks of long COVID; high risk for severe disease; live with vulnerable people). But even if you do get infected, you can still help by stopping onward transmission. Here are five ...

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Jul 13, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American

Heather Cox Richardson Today the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol held its seventh public hearing. This one focused on how former president Trump summoned right-wing extremists to Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, in a last ditch effort to overturn the 2020 election. Committee members reiterated that Trump’s advisors had told him repeatedly that there was no evidence for his claims that the election had been corrupt. Again and again, ...

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Jul 12, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKThe omicron BA.5 variant is driving COVID reinfections across the U.S. : NPR

Hunker down folks, it's gonna get wild again. A new dominant omicron strain in the U.S. is driving up cases — and reinfections Updated July 11, 2022 ALLISON AUBREY For much of the pandemic, the only silver lining to coming down with a case of COVID-19 was that you likely wouldn't catch it again for a while (though there isn't exactly a definitive answer on how long that period of immunity typically lasts). Increasingly, however, more people appear to be contracting the virus ...

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Jul 12, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/11/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Tomorrow’s public hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, beginning at 1:00 p.m. ET, will be managed by Representatives Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Stephanie Murphy (D-FL). It will focus on domestic violent extremists, members of Congress who joined Trump’s pressure campaign on legislators to overturn the election, and Trump’s activity focusing on January 6 itself. That activity includes the infamous tweet of...

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Religion & Spirituality

Jul 11, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKI traveled to Jerusalem to face my fear of hell. - YouTube

This is way cool!! A great discussion of hell and how it is all messed up. My Humanist Book Club is reading "The History of Hell" by Alice K Turner [goodreads.com] so this is a timely video for me.

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Jul 11, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKWhat COVID-19 variants are going around in July 2022? | Nebraska Medicine Omaha, NE

I now have 5 extended family members sick with Covid. One is older than I am, the other 4 are two of my kids and two of the spouses. This crap is not going away, so protect yourselves!! Get the latest COVID-19 news from infectious diseases expert Mark Rupp, MD, including COVID-19 case rates, types of variants circulating and vaccine updates. Dr. Rupp says our national COVID-19 case rate is at an "elevated plateau." Since many are using home tests that are not reported through public...

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Jul 11, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLimited access to abortion is a public health issue: How you can help YLE 7/11/2022

Katelyn Jetelina Roe vs. Wade was overturned two weeks ago. Access deserts quickly popped up, as shown in red on the Kaiser Family Foundation figure below. This will only grow with time. Although the Biden administration announced an executive order to protect access to reproductive health care services (including IUDs, interstate travel, data privacy, and legal services), it’s not clear how much rubber will hit the road. For example, it doesn’t fund interstate travel and doesn’t ...

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Jul 11, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/10/2022

Heather Cox Richardson With the recent Supreme Court decisions gutting federal enforcement of civil rights and business regulation and the public hearings of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, economic news has been pushed out of the center of public conversation. That’s a shame for two reasons. First, Democratic president Joe Biden appears to be centering his presidency around the idea of rebuilding the middle class through government ...

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Legalize Cannabis Nationwide/Worldwide

Jul 10, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKDid Minnesota accidentally legalize weed? - POLITICO

Did Minnesota accidentally legalize weed? “That doesn’t legalize marijuana?” Republican Sen. Jim Abeler asked after state lawmakers OK’d products with hemp-derived THC. By PAUL DEMKO 07/10/2022 07:01 AM EDT Minnesota just sorta, kinda, almost legalized weed. A law took effect earlier this month allowing anyone at least 21 years old to purchase edibles or beverages with up to 5 milligrams of hemp-derived THC per serving. Those relatively low potency products with up to ...

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Jul 10, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKFamily found hoarding guns and living in children’s museum - NewsBreak

Carson City, NV Family found hoarding guns and living in children’s museum By Graig Graziosi A family was recently discovered living inside a children’s museum in Nevada and stashing away weapons. According to local broadcaster KOLO, on 30 June, police in Carson City received a call that a two-year-old was wandering around unsupervised near the Children's Museum of Northern Nevada. It apparently wasn't the first time a report had been made about unattended children near the museum....

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Jul 10, 2022Jul 2022

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LINK‘Spillover’ diseases are emerging faster than ever before—thanks to humans

When a dozen merchant ships from the Black Sea docked in Messina, Sicily, in October 1347, they carried a deadly cargo that would change the course of history. Most of the sailors onboard were dead. The few survivors were covered in oozing, black pustules. Though authorities quickly ordered all people to remain onboard the “death ships,” rats had already disembarked. They and the fleas they carried were infected with Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes bubonic plague. Over the ...

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Jul 10, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKHow contagious is monkeypox—and should you get a vaccine? Here’s the latest.

The disease is now global and is spreading rapidly, but there are simple ways to lower your risk of infection. Here’s what you need to know. BYSHARON GUYNUP PUBLISHED JULY 8, 2022 • 12 MIN READ In a world exhausted by two-plus years of the coronavirus pandemic, another disease, monkeypox, continues to spread more rapidly than ever before. It’s a very different virus from the one that causes COVID-19, and is much harder to transmit, but it can land patients in the hospital and even ...

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Jul 9, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKDem Calls for Michael Flynn to Lose Pension for Fine Over Russia Link

By: Katie Balevic A House Democrat called for Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the ex-National Security Advisor under former President Donald Trump, to lose his pension. It comes after the US Army said it wants to collect nearly $40,000 from Flynn, who the Department of Defense cited for failing to disclose financial payments and in-kind compensation. "Just take his pension away and call it even. Traitors don't get pensions from the government they try to overthrow," Rep. Ruben Gallego, a ...

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Jul 9, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/08/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to protect access to reproductive health care services two weeks after the Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. For almost 50 years, that decision protected the constitutional right of women to make health care decisions without the interference of the state. Without that protection, the president noted, states across the country have outlawed abortion, threatening the lives and health, as well as ...

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Jul 8, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKJustice Kavanaugh and the widening risks of political violence - CSMonitor.com

By Story Hinckley Staff writer Shortly after the draft opinion overturning women’s constitutional right to an abortion in the United States was leaked, activists began showing up outside the homes of Supreme Court justices. On many nights since, protesters have marched and chanted along the tree-lined street in suburban Maryland where Justice Brett Kavanaugh and his family reside. To some, these demonstrations, which have been nonviolent, represent a last-ditch effort to try to send a ...

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Jul 8, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKEpidemiology of Reinfections YLE

Reinfections and infections after vaccination are on the rise. Concurrently, reinfection misinformation is at an all time high. This leaves people with a lot of questions. Here is (hopefully) some clarity and answers for you. How common are SARS-CoV-2 reinfections? Before Omicron, reinfections were rare. In the U.K., reinfections comprised around 1% of cases in April 2021. With the introduction of Omicron, reinfection rates quickly increased to 11% of all infections. Right now, reinfections ...

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Jul 8, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKSupreme Court Justices 'Prayed With' Anti-Roe Activist Before Ruling - Rolling Stone

A right-wing evangelical activist was caught on tape bragging that she prayed with Supreme Court justices. The court’s majority cited a legal brief that her group filed while overturning Roe v. Wade At an evangelical victory party in front of the Supreme Court to celebrate the downfall of Roe v. Wade last week, a prominent Capitol Hill religious leader was caught on a hot mic making a bombshell claim: that she prays with sitting justices inside the high court. “We’re the only people...

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Jul 8, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKMitch McConnell Says Labor Shortage Will End When People Run Out of Stimulus Money

For over a year, lawmakers and businesses have been bemoaning how hard it is to find workers. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell offered his own labor-shortage theory at an event in Paducah, Kentucky, on Tuesday. "You've got a whole lot of people sitting on the sidelines because, frankly, they're flush for the moment," the Kentucky Republican said. "What we've got to hope is once they run out of money, they'll start concluding it's better to work than not to work." Many Americans ...

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Jul 8, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/07/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 17 individuals who Biden says “demonstrate the power of possibilities and embody the soul of the nation—hard work, perseverance, and faith. They have overcome significant obstacles to achieve impressive accomplishments in the arts and sciences, dedicated their lives to advocating for the most vulnerable among us, and acted with bravery to drive change in their communities—and across the ...

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Love & Relationships

Jul 7, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKWriter of obituary in Florida Times-Union speaks up | firstcoastnews.com

Author: Tobie Nell Perkins, Mindy Wadley JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The author of a no-holds-barred obituary that called his father a narcissist who was "incapable of love," says that he didn't write the viral piece out of hate, or because he's holding grudges. He wrote it to heal. Lawrence Pfaff Jr. (son of Lawrence H. Pfaff Sr.) submitted an obituary to the Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville that was highly unusual. Tucked between heartfelt stories of loved ones lost, Pfaff Jr.'s ...

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Jul 7, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKChurches closing their doors in record numbers

By: Diane Duenez Jun 23, 2022 In recent years, more churches are closing than opening. Fewer than 50% of Americans claim to be church members. Within this decline are fascinating numbers about how faith and communities have evolved, particularly in tiny towns where tiny churches once formed as community centers. Paul Coston was the minister of the Ragsdale Church of Christ until it closed in March. “You can’t have a church with eight people,” Coston said. Ragsdale Church of ...

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Jul 7, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKCOVID State of Affairs: July 7, 2022 Y

COVID State of Affairs: July 7 Driven by Omicron sub-variants, country-level hotspots are now peppered across the globe. Yesterday, the WHO reported cases are on the rise in 110 countries, causing overall global cases to increase by 30% over the past two weeks. Of course, these numbers and country-level comparisons are only as accurate as testing and reporting. In Europe, BA.4/5 is driving a case surge. Hospitalizations in Portugal finally peaked and are well on their way down. ...

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Jul 7, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/06/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Eighteen months ago today, rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to stop Congress from counting the electoral votes that would make Democrat Joe Biden president. Thanks to the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, we are learning more about just how deep that plot ran, and more evidence is dropping almost daily. Yesterday, for example, Politico revealed a two-minute trailer for the documentary about the Trump ...

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Jul 6, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKDoctors see increase in demand for contraception after Roe v. Wade reversal

Well, duh! Virginia Langmaid, CNN 07/06/2022 In the days since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization and overturned Roe v. Wade, reproductive health care has needed to operate in a new landscape. Doctors and prescribers are now seeing an increase in demand for different forms of contraception, including emergency contraception and longer-lasting forms of birth control. Some national pharmacy chains imposed limits on purchases of ...

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Jul 6, 2022Jul 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 07/05/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Traditionally, Americans have celebrated the Fourth of July with barbecues, picnics, celebrations, and parades as people come together to celebrate our democracy without regard to political party. In Highland Park, Illinois, yesterday morning, a gunman opened fire on a Fourth of July parade with a high-powered rifle, killing 7, physically wounding at least 47 others, and traumatizing countless more. There were more than a dozen other mass shootings over the holiday ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Jul 5, 2022Jul 2022

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LACKADAISICAL lack·a·dai·si·cal adjective lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy. "a lackadaisical defense left the Spurs adrift in the second half"

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