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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 6, 2022Mar 2022

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nullifidian A person having no faith or religious belief. Origin Mid 16th century from medieval Latin nullifidius (from nullus ‘no, none’ + fides ‘faith’) + -an. That would be me!! And likely you as well.

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Mar 6, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 03/05/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Russia’s war on Ukraine continues. If the broader patterns of war apply, Russian president Vladimir Putin is making the war as senselessly brutal as possible, likely hoping to force Ukraine to give in quickly before global sanctions completely crush Russia and the return of warm weather eases Europe’s need for Russian oil and gas. Russian shelling has created a humanitarian crisis in urban areas, and last night, a brief ceasefire designed to let residents of ...

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Mar 5, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 03/04/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Just a few quick markers tonight because I need some sleep. Russia’s war against Ukraine continues. Fourteen wide-bodied aircraft from the U.S. and the European Union delivered anti-tank missiles, rocket launchers, guns, and ammunition to Ukraine today to help it hold on against Russia. The extra aid was approved less than a week ago, and the munitions began flowing two days later. Russia’s economy continues to nosedive. The Russian stock market has been ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 4, 2022Mar 2022

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e·pon·y·mous /əˈpänəməs/ adjective (of a person) giving their name to something. "the eponymous hero of the novel" (of a thing) named after a particular person. "Roseanne's eponymous hit TV series"

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Mar 4, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKInterview with President Biden

Heather Cox Richardson Every day, people write to me and say they feel helpless to change the direction of our future. I always answer that we change the future by changing the way people think, and that we change the way people think by changing the way we talk about things. To that end, I have encouraged people to speak up about what they think is important, to take up oxygen that otherwise feeds the hatred and division that have had far too much influence in our country of late. ...

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Mar 4, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 03/03/2022

Heather Cox Richardson As Russia’s war on Ukraine enters its second week, the lines are clear. This morning—in America’s time—Russian president Vladimir Putin called French president Emmanuel Macron and talked for an hour and a half. Putin warned that he aimed to take “full control” of Ukraine by diplomatic or military means. He said that he was “prepared to go all the way.” Tonight, Russian troops shelled the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power complex in southeast Ukraine. A ...

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Mar 3, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKRussian invasion: Does nonviolent resistance have a role to play in Ukraine?

BY: ANDREW FIALA -- Andrew Fiala is Professor of Philosophy and director of the Ethics Center at Cal State Fresno Overview Despite a history of helping to topple dictators, impede military invasions, frustrate occupations, and overturn systems of oppression and discrimination, nonviolent action continues to be misrepresented as 'doing nothing.' But nonviolent strategies are already part of Ukraine's response to the Russian invasion. n a world of rattling sabers, the option of ...

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Mar 3, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 03/02/2022

Heather Cox Richardson In the midst of all the news stories that have taken the headlines, the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol has continued its work. Today, in a lawsuit, it told a judge that the committee “has a good-faith basis for concluding that the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States.” The filing also said that a “review of the materials may reveal that the president and ...

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Mar 1, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKPutin isn’t ‘strong’ and his fanboy Trump isn’t either

By TOM KRATTENMAKER Tom Krattenmaker is a writer specializing in religion, meaning, and values in public life. How revealing that some in Donald Trump’s party use the term “impotence” to criticize the Biden administration’s handling of Russia’s Ukraine invasion. Because when you think about it, you realize their idol’s outdated definition of strength, like Vladimir Putin’s, has a lot to do with male virility and the region of the body with which impotence is normally ...

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Mar 1, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKUkrainian president signs formal request to join EU

European Union leaders may discuss the possibility of Ukrainian membership at an informal summit in March, a senior EU official said on Monday, adding the issue was important for Ukraine in discussions with Russia on ending the conflict. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that he had signed an official request for Ukraine to join the bloc. Read full story “I think one of the reasons that this is important for President Zelenskiy is also potentially in some of the ...

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Mar 1, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/28/2022

Heather Cox Richardson It’s a picture night, folks. The news is a firehose, but too many late nights mean I simply must get some sleep. The spot in this photo, the Angle, was the high-water mark of the Confederacy. It was here, on a battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on July 3, 1863, that United States soldiers stopped the Confederate soldiers of Pickett’s Charge, turning back the men who were fighting to establish a nation based on the proposition that men were created unequal ...

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Feb 28, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKPutin meant to destroy Ukraine's identity. Instead, he's massively enhanced it

Though it’s hard to know all of Vladimir Putin’s intentions in the invasion of Ukraine, thing is for sure: he intended to destroy Ukraine’s independent identity as he subsumed the sovereign nation into a rose-tinted reformulation of the Soviet Union. But of the many apparent blunders and miscalculations in this campaign, this failure may be the greatest. Instead of destroying Ukraine’s identity in the minds and hearts of the global community, Putin has overwhelmingly enhanced it. ...

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Feb 28, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/27/2028

Heather Cox Richardson Southern novelist William Faulkner’s famous line saying “The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” is usually interpreted as a reflection on how the evils of our history continue to shape the present. But Faulkner also argued, equally accurately, that the past is “not even past” because what happens in the present changes the way we remember the past. Russia’s attack on Ukraine and the defiant and heroic response of the people of Ukraine to that new ...

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Feb 26, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/25/2022

Heather Cox Richardson This was a historic day in a historic week. This afternoon, President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to the Supreme Court. “For too long, our government, our courts haven’t looked like America,” Biden said in a speech introducing Jackson. “I believe it’s time that we have a court that reflects the full talents and greatness of our nation with a nominee of ...

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Feb 25, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/24/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Illia Ponomarenko, a defense reporter with the Kyiv Independent, reported today that according to Ukraine’s top general, “Russia’s blitzkrieg on day one has failed.” Washington Post reporter Dan Lamothe today listed information delivered in an early briefing by a senior U.S. defense official. While this information is very early, and likely to be revised in the future, the official told reporters that the U.S. believed Russia launched more than 100 missiles...

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Feb 25, 2022Feb 2022

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And another word I used this morning. TITTLE noun: tittle a tiny amount or part of something. "the rules have not been altered one jot or tittle since" Middle English (denoting the symbol ÷): from Latin titulus (see title), in medieval Latin ...

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Feb 25, 2022Feb 2022

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And I used this word this morning. JOT verb verb: jot; 3rd person present: jots; past tense: jotted; past participle: jotted; gerund or present participle: jotting write (something) quickly. "when you've found the answers, jot them down" noun ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Feb 25, 2022Feb 2022

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Since I just used this word this morning: DIATRIBE di·a·tribe noun a forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something. "a diatribe against the Roman Catholic Church"

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Feb 24, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/23/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky made a passionate plea to the people of Russia to avoid war. He gave the speech in Russian, his own primary language, and, reminding Russians of their shared border and history, told them to “listen to the voice of reason”: Ukrainians want peace. “You've been told I'm going to bomb Donbass,” he said. “Bomb what? The Donetsk stadium where the locals and I cheered for our team at Euro 2012? The bar where we drank ...

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Feb 23, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/22/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today Russian president Vladimir Putin said he’s recognizing the full territories claimed by the upstart governments of Ukrainian eastern provinces Luhansk and Donetsk. Josh Kovensky of Talking Points Memo points out that since those governments only control about a third and a half of the territory, respectively, in those provinces, this recognition would mean that Ukraine is occupying land that belongs to those breakaway regions. Today, the European Union led the...

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Feb 22, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKSurvey shows that US atheists are overwhelmingly pro-vax

This does not surprise me. Shortly before Darwin Day 2021 (February ) the Freedom From Religion Foundation and its Chicago chapter unveiled the striking billboard above in Chicago. At the time FFRF Co-President Dan Barker said that that science works and must be trusted during pandemics such as Covid. He added: It was a natural selection given the continuing pushback by the Christian Right against masking and social distancing mandates. Tom Cara, FFRF’s Executive Director for the ...

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Feb 22, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKWhy aren't you a Trump supporter?

After reading this I'm not sure why I'm not a Maga loving Trump supporter. Mystery of mysteries. ________________________________ As a social progressive, I know that I benefit from all kinds of unearned privilege. So why is it so hard to recognize the role privilege has played in making me progressive in the first place? By DALE MCGOWAN Dale McGowan is the author of books including Parenting Beyond Belief, Raising Freethinkers, and Atheism for Dummies. He holds degrees in evolutionary ...

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Feb 22, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/21/2022

Heather Cox Richardson As I write tonight, the U.N. National Security Council is meeting to discuss Russian president Vladimir Putin’s recognition of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) as independent states within the country of Ukraine. Russian-backed rebels have been fighting the Ukraine government in those regions since 2014, when Russia invaded Ukraine. Today the self-styled leaders of those regions asked Russia for recognition, and Putin ...

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Trump Pinata

Feb 21, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKEric Trump Got Very Emotional, Literally Almost Cried On Fox News Over The Mistreatment Of His Daddy; And Social Media Destroyed Him

A lot of you know what has hit the fan in TrumpWorld this week, and it’s only Tuesday. Just recently, it seemed we spent the entire week reporting about the new revelations concerning Trump’s blatant mishandling of official White House documents — including ripping documents to pieces that had to be taped back together by aides before being turned over to the National Archives, packing 15 boxes of top-secret and highly confidential documents with him to Mar-a-Lago upon his move from the...

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Feb 21, 2022Feb 2022

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Queen Elizabeth II Has COVID-19. Here's What to Know

After avoiding the virus for almost years, the U.K.’s longest serving monarch, 95-year-old Queen Elizabeth II tested positive for COVID- on Feb. 20. Famous for her stoicism in times of hardship, the Queen is planning to continue working, according to Buckingham Palace. Following a week of scandal for the royal family, during which Prince Andrew agreed to a settlement in a civil sexual assault lawsuit, and the London police opened an investigation into Prince Charles’ charity, the ...

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Feb 21, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/20/2022

Heather Cox Richardson This afternoon, after a rare four-hour-long meeting of the National Security Council, President Joe Biden canceled a planned trip home to Wilmington, Delaware, tonight. The U.S. intelligence community says with high confidence that Russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered military units to proceed with an attack on Ukraine. The U.S. and the United Kingdom say that they expect Russia to create a “false-flag” attack on Russia, allegedly by Ukraine, that they will ...

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Feb 19, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/18/2022

Heather Cox Richardson There are four big stories today. The first is that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has confirmed that it found classified documents among those its staff recovered from former president Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago. David S. Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, wrote in a letter to Representative Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, that NARA is in the process of inventorying ...

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Trump Pinata

Feb 18, 2022Feb 2022

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Math doesn't lie.

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Feb 18, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/17/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, Judge Arthur F. Engoron of the Supreme Court of the State of New York ruled that former president Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., and his daughter Ivanka Trump must produce documents and testify under oath in a civil investigation into their valuations of their business assets, complying with a subpoena New York attorney general Letitia James issued for their testimony in December. The Trumps can invoke their rights under the Fifth Amendment to the ...

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Feb 17, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/16/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, the Washington Post ran a story by Claire Parker explaining that most Canadian truckers oppose the so-called “Freedom Convoy” protests. Almost all Canadian truckers are vaccinated and resent the protesters, whose shutdown of international borders has “had a very significant negative impact upon our professional driving community,” according to Stephen Laskowski, the president of the Canadian Trucking Alliance. Prominent leaders of the convoys, ...

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Trump Pinata

Feb 16, 2022Feb 2022

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Donnie may have trouble with his taxes.

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Feb 16, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American

Heather Cox Richardson In all the chaos surrounding the former president, the actions today of the current president, Democrat Joe Biden, seem to be getting short shrift. This is unfortunate because they say a lot about his reorientation of the U.S. government. At 3:30 this afternoon, Biden addressed the nation to update us on the crisis in central Europe as Russia threatens to invade Ukraine again. He reiterated that the U.S. has engaged in “non-stop diplomacy” for weeks and is ...

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Trump Pinata

Feb 15, 2022Feb 2022

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Putin and his B-t-h

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Feb 15, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/14/2022

Heather Cox Richardson It appears there was a reason for the former president’s unhinged rant of yesterday suggesting that members of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign had spied on him and that “in a stronger period of time in our country, this crime would have been punishable by death.” Trump is likely unhappy because of a letter his accountants, the firm Mazars, sent to the Trump Organization’s chief legal officer on February 9. That letter came to light today when New York ...

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Feb 14, 2022Feb 2022

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Heather Cox Richardson Tonight, while those who observe watched the Los Angeles Rams win the Super Bowl, we are in a holding pattern waiting to see if Russian president Vladimir Putin launches a major European invasion, and supporters of the former ...

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Feb 13, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKWhy These Countries Value Happiness Over Endless Economic Growth | HuffPost Impact

With its rugged mountain landscape, thick rainforest and sweeping, isolated Pacific beaches, Nicoya Peninsula is one of the more beautiful places in the world to live. But there is another benefit to residing in this picturesque chunk of northwestern Costa Rica: The people here, especially men, live some of the longest lives in the world. Nicoyan men have a life expectancy of nearly 84 years, rivaling even the life expectancy in Japan, a country famed for its long-living citizens. ...

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handcrafters , fine artists, photographers, or other things of beauty

Feb 13, 2022Feb 2022

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@MsKathleen donated some Raggedy Ann theme fabrics to me several months ago, and then I found out my youngest daughter is having a baby girl in the late spring/early summer. Today I finished the quilt top for the new baby using some of the fabrics ...

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Feb 13, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/12/2022

Heather Cox Richardson On February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born. Lincoln was the nation’s sixteenth president, leading the country from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865, a little over a month into his second term. He piloted the country through the Civil War, preserving the concept of American democracy. It was a system that had never been fully realized, but that he still saw as “the last, best hope of earth” to prove that people could govern themselves. ...

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Singles/Mingle/Chat

Feb 12, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKChristina Wallace: How to stop swiping and find your person on dating apps | TED Talk

By Christina Wallace Let's face it, online dating can suck. So many potential people, so much time wasted -- is it even worth it? Podcaster and entrepreneur Christina Wallace thinks so, if you do it right. In a funny, practical talk, Wallace shares how she used her MBA skill set to invent a "zero date" approach and get off swipe-based apps -- and how you can, too.

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Academic (e.g., Science)

Feb 12, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLanguage of Slavery - Underground Railroad (U.S. National Park Service)

Introduction While different meanings have been attached to the term Underground Railroad in different times and places, when the National Park Service's National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom uses the term, it to references escape from slavery in the United States through flight and/or assistance in that escape. These escapes lasted from the beginning until the end of legal slavery here, and happened in the north, south, east, and west. The Underground Railroad represents one of ...

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Feb 12, 2022Feb 2022

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Jan 2022 Media Bias chart is out. Where do your favorite news sources fall on this chart?

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Feb 12, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/11/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Yesterday, the Treasury noted that the U.S. budget had a surplus of $119 billion in January. That’s the first budget surplus in more than two years. Tax receipts are up significantly: they grew 21% in January to $465 billion, as higher employment and earnings meant a big jump in payroll taxes and withholdings. At the same time, outlays fell 37%. Today, the administration warned any American in Ukraine to get out as quickly as possible, leaving no later than 48...

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Legalize Cannabis Nationwide/Worldwide

Feb 11, 2022Feb 2022

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In case anyone is counting.

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Feb 11, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/10/2022

Heather Cox Richardson This morning’s news that former president Trump apparently clogged a White House toilet repeatedly with discarded documents was overtaken this evening by the news that some of the records Trump took from the White House were clearly marked as classified, some of them “top secret.” The news of the flushed documents came through Axios from New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman, whose book about Trump will be out in October. By law, the records of a presidential...

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Feb 10, 2022Feb 2022

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Cat·er-cor·nered adjective adjective: catercorner situated diagonally opposite someone or something. "a cater-cornered shortcut" Which is correct catty-corner or kitty-corner? This expression, meaning “diagonally opposite,” was formed from a ...

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Health & Happiness

Feb 10, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKWhat really happens when the unvaccinated get sick with COVID

“My body, my rights.” “My body is a temple.” “I don’t want poison going into my body.” ” I’ve done my research.” And they refuse to wear masks; they refuse to social distance. They refuse COVID vaccinations and the booster. Essentially, they spit in the face of the population that trusts in science and medical research. The disrespect and disregard for scientists, medical doctors, RNs and respiratory therapists are astonishing. Their support groups tout ...

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Feb 10, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/09/2022

Heather Cox Richardson This evening, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol issued a subpoena for documents and testimony to former White House trade advisor Peter Navarro, who has made a number of public statements about his role in trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. In its letter to Navarro, the committee noted his statements that former president Trump was “on board with the strategy” of trying to steal the election, as ...

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Religion & Spirituality

Feb 9, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKJohn the Baptist washes sins away shorts - YouTube

John the Baptist washes sins away

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Feb 9, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American

Heather Cox Richardson The fallout over the Republican National Committee’s statement censuring Representatives Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) for “participating in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse” continues to rain down on the Republican Party. Today, more than 140 former Republican officials and leaders issued a statement saying that the RNC has “betrayed the GOP’s founding principles and ceded control of a ...

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Feb 8, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKStudy shows more than half of teachers ready to leave profession

A new study shows teachers are more burned out now than ever before. They're quitting their jobs at a record pace because of exhaustion. The National Education Association reports 55% of teachers are ready to leave the profession for good for a different job. Sara Earleywine at Iowa's Hoyt Middle School says she's constantly covering other classrooms, even if it's a totally different subject. She says her peers just can't take it anymore. "To lose that passion for a job is incredibly ...

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Feb 8, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/07/2022

Heather Cox Richardson It appears that the Republican National Committee’s censure of Representatives Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), along with its declaration that the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, was “legitimate political discourse,” has created a problem for Republican lawmakers as they try to position the party for the midterms and the 2024 election. Coming, as the statement did, just after former president Trump said that Pence had the power to ...

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Feb 7, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKThe end times for religion - Freethought Now

These could be the end times for religion in the West. We’re entering a new Secular Age when magical supernatural beliefs cannot be swallowed by educated people. Religion is fading in America, as it has done in most Western democracies. Dozens of surveys find identical evidence: Fewer American adults, especially those under 30, attend church — or even belong to a church. They tell interviewers their religion is “none.” They ignore faith. Since 1990, the “Nones” have exploded ...

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Feb 7, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKFFRF pulls up to an Illinois victory over church parking subsidy - Freedom From Religion Foundation

The city of Morris has agreed to stop a discriminatory parking policy favoring churchgoers after the Freedom From Religion Foundation stepped in. The presence of four “church parking only” signs prohibiting area residents from parking on a public street near a church created a discriminatory privilege for churchgoers, FFRF told Mayor Chris Brown. “This not only confers endorsement and advancement of religion but also fosters excessive entanglement between the city and a church,” ...

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Feb 6, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKThe U.S. is debating whether to adopt a digital dollar : NPR

The U.S. is considering a radical rethinking of the dollar for today's digital world Since its establishment as the country's national currency, the dollar has undergone many updates and changes, but nothing compares to the proposal being debated today. The U.S. is gingerly considering whether to adopt a digital version of its currency, one better suited for today's increasingly cashless world, ushering in what could be one of the dollar's most fundamental transformations. In that ...

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Feb 6, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/05/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Just for fun, because today feels like a good day to talk about Grover Cleveland…. The economy has boomed under President Joe Biden, putting the lie to the old trope that Democrats don’t manage the economy as well as Republicans. This should not come as a surprise to anyone. The economy has performed better under Democrats than Republicans since at least World War II. CNN Business reports that since 1945, the Standard & Poor’s 500—a market index of 500 ...

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Feb 5, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKMoney Mule Scams | American Bankers Association

So, working in finance has been quite an education. Talked to a member yesterday, quite nice older gent. He asked me if it was OK if he allowed an acquaintance (that was the word he chose) to make deposits to his checking account. I asked why he would want to do that, and the poor chap could not give me a good answer. I'm afraid this gent may be used as a money mule. A year ago I would not have known what a money mule is. I hope I talked him out of it. What’s a Money Mule? When ...

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Feb 5, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/04/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today the January jobs report showed the U.S. added 467,000 jobs. With more than 6.6 million jobs since Biden took office, 2021 under Biden created more jobs than any other year in history. The jobs report also revised the numbers for November and December upward by more than 700,000. The first 12 months of Biden’s presidency mark the best job creation on record. The unemployment rate is at 4.0%. The other big news today is that the Republican National Committee,...

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Feb 4, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKOklahoma Senate Bill 1470

Oh my F'king dawg! Makes me wanna move to Oklahoma and create some mischief! Not really, nothing would make me wanna stay in Oklahoma more than a split second, but I can see this getting all sorts of and teachers leaving the state in droves. Yes, let's make it tougher and more expensive for teachers.

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Feb 4, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/03/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, President Joe Biden announced that U.S. special operations launched a counterterrorism mission against the leader of the Islamic State militant group, ISIS. Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi took control of ISIS after the death of previous leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who killed himself in October 2019 during a raid by U.S. troops. Qurayshi was located in a safe house in northwestern Syria, and as U.S. forces approached, he detonated a bomb killing himself and...

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Feb 3, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/02/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman sued Donald Trump, Jr., Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and others, as well as Fox News Channel personalities, including Laura Ingraham, for obstructing an official proceeding “by intimidating and retaliating against a key witness.” The lawsuit describes an “intentional, concerted campaign of unlawful intimidation and retaliation against a sitting Director of the National Security Council and decorated ...

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Feb 2, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKTrump calls for Congress to investigate his own vice president

Just when you think it won't get weirder.... The former president has now publicly called for a congressional investigation into his own vice president and his decision to follow the law. By Steve Benen On a regular basis, Donald Trump issues weird public statements, filled with bizarre claims and idiosyncratic capitalizations, most of which are entirely forgettable. But Sunday night, the former president went further than he probably realized, and said something — in writing — that...

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Feb 1, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKThe ongoing threat to democracy posed by Trump's fake electors

by MARCUS JOHNSON After his 2020 electoral loss became (crystal) clear, Trump’s political allies began working on a plot to deliver fake electors to the Electoral College. Now those plans could put the individuals who signed on in legal jeopardy as US prosecutors begin investigating the scheme. The words from key officials are refreshingly unminced. “I believe it’s critical that the federal government fully investigates and prosecutes any unlawful actions in furtherance of any ...

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Feb 1, 2022Feb 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/31/2022

Heather Cox Richardson CNN reported tonight that former president Trump had not one but two executive orders prepared to enable his loyalists to seize voting machines after the 2020 election. One authorizing the Pentagon to seize the machines was made public as part of the investigation by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. Another, authorizing the Department of Homeland Security, has been confirmed to CNN by a number of sources, but is not ...

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Jan 31, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKthe new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed — Ask a Manager

Weird, weirder, and weirdest! AskaManager. Responses from Allison AskaManager in italics. A reader writes: This is a situation currently unfolding at my husband’s office so I’m a very amused bystander and thought I’d get your opinion on this craziness. My husband works in IT and is on the leadership team at a midsized private company. He was part of a panel that recently interviewed a number of folks for an open position on his team. They are entirely remote. They had a few ...

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LINKLetters From An American 01/30/2022

Heather Cox Richardson This will just be a marker to keep the record complete—I need a night off. Last night, at a rally in Conroe, Texas, former president Trump told supporters that if he runs for president and wins in 2024, he will pardon the January 6 insurrectionists. Observers note that this promise might encourage the bigger fish ensnared by the investigation to keep quiet; Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Inquirer noted that “Trump…is committing a form of obstruction of justice ...

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LINKHoward Hesseman, the hard rocking DJ on 'WKRP in Cincinnati,' dies at 81 - CNN

(CNN)Actor Howard Hesseman, best known as the hard rocking disc jockey Dr. Johnny Fever on the sitcom "WKRP in Cincinnati" has died, according to his manager Robbie Kass. Hesseman died Saturday afternoon from complications related to colon surgery, Kass told CNN. Hesseman was 81. In addition to earning two Emmy nominations for his role on "WKRP," Hesseman also appeared on "Head of the Class" and "One Day at a Time," along with guest appearances on "That 70's Show," among others. The Oregon...

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LINKEpidemiologist explains why Omicron is infecting more kids

"I don't think anybody wants to see their own kid struggling to breathe and having to be hospitalized," Anne O'Keefe says OMAHA, Neb. — The Douglas County Health Department's senior epidemiologist Anne O'Keefe said omicron and its subvariants are infecting youth more as the health department just reported its highest number of pediatric COVID-19 hospitalizations at 28. "Is it alarming to see that number go up," KETV reporter Waverle Monroe asked O'Keefe. "It is. I don't think ...

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LINKLetters From An American 01/29/2022

Heather Cox Richardson I’ve thought a lot lately about Representative Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) tweet on January 6, 2021, saying, “Today is 1776.” It’s clear that those sympathetic to stealing the 2020 election for Donald Trump over the will of the majority of Americans thought they were bearing witness to a new moment in our history. But what did they think they were seeing? Of course, 1776 was the year the Founders signed the Declaration of Independence, a stunning ...

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Jan 29, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/28/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol issued subpoenas to 14 individuals who were either chairs or secretaries of the groups signing the false electoral documents in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, on December 14, 2020. In the past several weeks, it has become clear that the submission of false electoral votes from seven states was part of a larger scheme to throw the ...

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LINKLetters From An Americann 01/27/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Numbers released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which is part of the U.S. Federal Statistical System producing data and official statistics, show that the U.S. economy grew by an astonishing 6.9 percent annual rate from October to December 2021. That puts the growth of the U.S. economy for 2021 at 5.7 percent in 2021. Despite the ongoing pandemic, this is the fastest full-year growth since 1984. At the same time, the U.S. added 6 million jobs in 2021, ...

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LINKLetters From An American 01/26/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today’s big news is that Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer plans to announce this week that he will step down from the court at the end of the term. He is expected to make the announcement tomorrow at an appearance with President Joe Biden. Breyer is 83 years old; he took his seat on the court on August 3, 1994. While the recent extremes to which Senate Republicans have gone to dominate the Supreme Court have made the seats seem simply to reflect political ...

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Jan 26, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKSee Trump denialism debunked by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber for a special conversation building off of the lessons people can learn from the new political satire “Don’t Look Up.” The pair also discuss “science politics” in the COVID era and the rise in coronavirus misinformation.

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Jan 26, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/25/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Tonight is not an imperative read, if you need a break from politics. It’s just more details emerging in ongoing stories. Today, the White House told reporters that it is preparing severe economic reprisals for any new Russian movement into Ukraine. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told Bloomberg Television that the sanctions are prepared; he did not deny that Russia might be expelled from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication ...

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Jan 25, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKHospital refusing heart transplant for man who won't get vaccinated

A Boston hospital says it won't consider performing a heart transplant on a patient who refuses to get vaccinated against COVID-19, CBS Boston reports. DJ Ferguson, 31, is fighting for his life at Brigham and Women's Hospital and in desperate need of a heart transplant. His father, David Ferguson, is speaking out passionately on behalf of his son who, he told CBS Boston, "has gone to the edge of death to stick to his guns and he's been pushed to the limit." DJ's family says he was at ...

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Jan 25, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKUnvaccinated 28-Year-Old in Denial of COVID Diagnosis Dies After Ripping Off Oxygen Mask

A 28-year-old man who bucked the reality of COVID-19 died in an Italian hospital and his father is on a ventilator still battling the virus. Italian news outlets said Luigi Cossellu was admitted to the hospital on January 16. He was reportedly unvaccinated against COVID-19 and questioned his diagnosis even after being transferred to a hospital's Intensive Care Unit. Cossellu was being treated in Latina, south of Rome, and at one point tore off his oxygen mask, according to Ansa, an ...

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Jan 25, 2022Jan 2022

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Heather Cox Richardson Today, the Pentagon ordered up to 8500 troops to go on standby in case they are needed to defend Ukraine against Russian aggression. The troops have not been activated. If they are, they will deploy to nations allied with the ...

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Jan 24, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKGa. mayor’s swearing-in communion leaves FFRF aghast - Freedom From Religion Foundation

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has been (almost) rendered speechless by a Georgian mayor’s offering of communion at his recent swearing-in ceremony. Immediately following his swearing-in on Jan. 10, broadcast on Fairburn’s official Facebook page and over Zoom, Mayor Mario Avery “led the crowd — and invited residents watching at home — in taking communion,” a media outlet reports. Avery explained that he came up with the idea while he was praying and asked those watching to ...

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LINKGrandma tricks scammer leading to arrest - Upworthy

Clever grandma lured a scammer to her house and got him arrested There has been a rise in scams against the elderly during the pandemic. According to the FBI, American seniors were scammed for $1 billion dollars in 2020, up $300 million from the previous year. To stay connected with friends and family during the pandemic, more seniors joined social media, opening them up to new avenues for fraud. “The combination of online shopping and social media creates easy venues for scammers ...

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Jan 24, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKJob market: Companies are desperate for workers but can’t find them. Why?

BY ALISON GREEN aka AskAManager.org 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 believe reports from employers, they’re desperate to find good workers but can’t lure them at any price. Talk to job ...

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Jan 24, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKBank of America’s CEO gets real about the labor shortage: ‘We don’t have enough people now’ and those who quit aren’t coming back

BY AMIAH TAYLOR Like many business leaders these days, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan is feeling the impact of the Great Resignation at his company. That would be the record numbers of U.S. workers quitting their jobs—3% left their roles in September alone—creating headaches for businesses trying to keep positions filled. “A lot of people left the labor market and they’re not going to come back, even with a strong bid for their services,” Moynihan said on Thursday during a ...

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LINKTaking Notes By Hand May Be Better Than Digitally, Researchers Say : NPR

This is ME! I take copious notes when I'm taking a class. I may never have to look at the notes again, but I know where they are. I take notes during the phone calls I receive at work. Those notes do get shredded at the end of the day. Attention, Students: Put Your Laptops Away As laptops become smaller and more ubiquitous, and with the advent of tablets, the idea of taking notes by hand just seems old-fashioned to many students today. Typing your notes is faster — which comes in ...

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LINKNot so mild? Hospitalizations exploding among Utah infants, children with COVID-19′s omicron strain

For kids under 5, the omicron variant is not so “mild,” one pediatric expert says. By Erin Alberty “I sorry, Mommy. Mommy hugs, I scared. I don’t like it. Mommy!” Those were the last words 3-year-old Justin Lee Francis spoke to his mother, Yvonne, before he was sedated and put on a ventilator at Primary Children’s Hospital last week, when he was diagnosed with COVID-19, asthma, pneumonia and other illnesses. “Those words are burned in my memory,” Yvonne Francis said ...

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LINKNews Literacy Project

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LINKHome - OnlySky Media

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LINKLetters From An American 01/22/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Joe Biden’s presidency is just over a year old. Biden has embraced the old idea, established by the Democrats under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Republicans under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, that in a democracy, the federal government has a responsibility to keep the playing field level for all. It must regulate business to maintain competition and prevent corporations from abusing their employees, protect civil rights, provide a basic social ...

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LINKLetters From An American 01/21/2022

Heather Cox Richardson On Wednesday, January 19, by a vote of 8 to 1, the Supreme Court refused to block the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) from releasing documents produced by the Trump White House to the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. Last night, NARA handed over hundreds of pages of documents to the committee. Today, Betsy Woodruff Swan at Politico published one of them. Hoo, boy. It was an unsigned executive ...

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Jan 21, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKHow to make sure your N95/KN95 mask is real and where to buy a real one

At the start of the Pandemic I made many, many masks, 2 layers cloth. The ones I kept for myself have ties instead of elastic. I wear hearing aids and don't like to put anything beside my glasses on my ears for fear of dislodging/losing a hearing aid. (those suckers are expensive!) However, it has been recommended by health experts to use the KN95 masks, and all I could find on Amazon were ear elastic masks, so reluctantly I'm switching over. My box of masks arrived Wednesday, and today I saw ...

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LINKLetters From An American 01/20/2022

Heather Cox Richardson In the year that it has been in office, the Biden administration has had to deal with something unprecedented in our history: a former president who refused to admit he lost the election and who has worked ever since, alongside allies, to undermine the administration of his successor. Trump’s plot to overturn the election and undermine our democracy continues to become clearer. This morning, The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell revealed that former White House press ...

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I got Shingles shot 2 yesterday. It is recommended for all over 50. After 1 I had a sore arm for about 24 hours. This one, I feel like I got in a ring with Mike Tyson. I'm not a fighter, not with fists anyway. I lost big time. I ache all over, and ...

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I got Shingles shot 2 yesterday. It is recommended for all over 50. After 1 I had a sore arm for about 24 hours. This one, I feel like I got in a ring with Mike Tyson. I'm not a fighter, not with fists anyway. I lost big time. I ache all over, and ...

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I got Shingles shot 2 yesterday. It is recommended for all over 50. After 1 I had a sore arm for about 24 hours. This one, I feel like I got in a ring with Mike Tyson. I'm not a fighter, not with fists anyway. I lost big time. I ache all over, and ...

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LINKLetters From An American 01/19/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Just before midnight last night, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that her office has “uncovered significant evidence indicating that the Trump Organization used fraudulent and misleading asset valuations on multiple properties to obtain economic benefits, including loans, insurance coverage, and tax deductions for years” and is taking legal action “to force Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump to comply with our investigation.” ...

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LINKLetters From An American 01/18/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Three big chunks of news today focus on voting rights before the Senate, Russian aggression in Ukraine, and the January 6 committee. First, voting rights: Today, the Senate began to debate the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act to protect voting rights. Not a single Republican spoke up for the bill. All 48 Democrats and the 2 Independents who caucus with them—who together represent 40.5 million more people than the 50 Republicans do—support the voting rights ...

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LINKLetters From An American 01/17/2022

Heather Cox Richardson In this moment of struggle over voting rights in America, it is important to distinguish between voter fraud, which is vanishingly rare and has not affected the outcome of elections, and election fraud, which is coming to characterize a number of our important elections. Voter fraud is about an individual breaking the law and is almost always caught. It is not a threat to democracy. Election fraud means that people in power have rigged the system so that the ...

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LINKLetters From An American 01/16/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Republicans say they oppose the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act because it is an attempt on the part of Democrats to win elections in the future by “nationalizing” them, taking away the right of states to arrange their laws as they wish. Voting rights legislation is a “partisan power grab,” Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) insists. In fact, there is no constitutional ground for opposing the idea of Congress weighing in on federal elections. The U.S. ...

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LINKLetters From An American 01/14/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Yesterday, by a vote of 6 to 3, the Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration’s requirement that businesses with more than one hundred employees address the coronavirus pandemic by making employees either get vaccines or, if they choose not to be vaccinated, to test weekly and wear a mask at work. Employees who work exclusively at home or mostly outside were exempted from the requirement, as were those with a religious exemption. President Joe Biden took ...

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Jan 14, 2022Jan 2022

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LINK'The death is just never-ending': Nebraska Medicine ICU nurses give an inside look at the hospital right now

They have both been nurses for more than a decade, but they said the stress and uncertainty of the pandemic made them think about quitting OMAHA, Neb. — Amy Carlin and Ashley Carne work in general intensive care at Nebraska Medicine. They said their unit is packed with COVID-19 patients right now. "Our unit fills in when numbers get too bad," Carne said. "So when you hear our unit is full of COVID-19 and we have however many med-surgical units taking COVID-19 that tells you ...

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LINKStatic Media Bias Chart - Ad Fontes Media

Media Bias Chart 9.0 – Static Version Fascinating! Where does your favorite media fall?

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LINKLetters From An American 01/13/2022

Heather Cox Richardson While all eyes today are on the fight over the newly combined voting rights bill before the Senate—it is now the “Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act”—there are plenty of stories out there right now that make clear what is at stake if the Republicans are permitted to rig the rules so that they will win the next election. Today the Department of Justice acknowledged that there was a seditious conspiracy behind the January 6 insurrection against our government....

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