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Jan 13, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKTeen who left baby in New Mexico dumpster didn't know she was pregnant until day before birth, police say

This is part of what is wrong with education in America. An 18 year old should have basic knowledge of biology to know what pregnancy is. It is also a parenting fail in the same way. Alexis Avila, 18, was charged with attempted murder and felony child abuse after the baby was discovered in the dumpster. By Marlene Lenthang An Eighteen-year-old mother who threw her newborn baby in a New Mexico dumpster last week didn’t know she was pregnant until the day before she gave birth, ...

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Jan 13, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/12/2022

Heather Cox Richardson The struggle between the Trump-backed forces of authoritarianism and those of us defending democracy is coming down to the fight over whether the Democrats can get the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act through the Senate. It’s worth reading what’s actually in the bills because, to my mind, it is bananas that they are in any way controversial. The Freedom to Vote Act is a trimmed version of the For the People Act the House passed at the...

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Jan 12, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKJohn Kuczwanski killed in Tallahassee road rage incident

Kuczwanski was arrested for a separate road rage incident at the same intersection in 2014. John Kuczwanski, the Legislative Affairs Director for the State Board of Administration, was killed last week in what appeared to be a shootout during a road rage incident north of Tallahassee. The Leon County Sheriff’s Office took one person into custody after the Jan. 6 events, however that person has since been released and no charges have been filed, according to a Thursday LCSO news release....

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Jan 12, 2022Jan 2022

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LINK'We're tired of watching people die': the 6 stages of critical COVID-19 care | Nebraska Medicine Omaha, NE

Critical care physician and anesthesiologist Shaun Thompson, MD By Critical care physician and anesthesiologist Shaun Thompson, MD Published December 27, 2021 This is what I'm seeing in my COVID-19 patients, depending on the amount of oxygen assistance they need. Every patient is variable, but it's typically a stepwise progression through these stages. Emergency room triage Most commonly, people come in with shortness of breath. There are usually other COVID-19 symptoms, like fever or ...

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Jan 12, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/11/2022

Heather Cox Richardson January 11, 2022 (Tuesday) The United States came perilously close to losing its democracy in 2020, when an incumbent president refused to accept the results of an election he lost and worked with supporters to declare himself the winner and remain in power. We are learning more about how that process happened. Yesterday, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol revealed that it has been looking at attempts to ...

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Jan 11, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKMaya Angelou becomes the first Black woman to appear on the U.S. quarter : NPR

By Jonathan Franklin A new quarter featuring legendary poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou and other trailblazing American women has officially started shipping to banks on Monday, the U.S. Mint announced. Angelou is the first Black woman to appear on the quarter. The Maya Angelou design is the first quarter in the "American Women Quarters Program," a four-year program that will include coins featuring prominent women in U.S. history. The other honorees include astronaut Sally ...

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Jan 11, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/10/2022

By Heather Cox Richardson Today, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta held a hearing in Washington, D.C., to determine whether three lawsuits against former president Trump and a number of his loyalists should be permitted to go forward. The lawsuits have been filed by Democratic members of the House and Capitol Police officers injured on January 6 against Trump, lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump Jr., Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL), and others. The plaintiffs are trying to hold Trump and his ...

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Jan 10, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/09/2022

Heather Cox Richardson There are two big stories for the coming week: diplomatic conversations with Russia and the passage of voting rights legislation in America. The two are related. In the last several months, Russia has massed nearly 100,000 troops on the border of Ukraine, and its president, Vladimir Putin, has threatened to invade the independent country again, as Russian troops did in 2014. Ukraine amended its constitution in 2019 to enable the country to join the European Union and...

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Love & Relationships

Jan 8, 2022Jan 2022

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Words to live by.

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Jan 8, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKPope suggests pet owners without children are selfish | TheHill

Soooo, this vastly wealthy elderly male virgin cross dresser says not having children is selfish... Oy. Pope suggests pet owners without children are selfish The pontiff encouraged couples to “not be afraid” of parenthood. Pope Francis suggested that couples who choose to not have children or who instead only own pets show a form of selfishness. The comment was made during a Wednesday general assembly at the Vatican. The focus of the general assembly was to reflect on the ...

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Jan 8, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/07/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, Judge Timothy Walmsley sentenced the three men convicted of murdering 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery on February 23, 2020, as he jogged through a primarily white neighborhood in Brunswick, Georgia. Travis McMichael, his father Gregory McMichael, and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan chased Arbery in their trucks, cornering him on a suburban street. Travis McMichael shot and killed the unarmed Arbery, while Bryan filmed the encounter from inside his truck. ...

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Jan 7, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/06/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Just before sunrise on a November day in 1861, Massachusetts abolitionist Julia Ward Howe woke up in the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C. She got out of bed, found a pen, and began to write about the struggle in which the country was engaged: could any nation “conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” survive, or would such a nation inevitably descend into hierarchies and minority rule? Howe had faith in America. ...

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Jan 6, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/05/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, clashes between anti-government protesters and state forces in Kazakhstan have forced Central Asia into an unexpected crisis. Kazakhstan has about 19 million people and is the ninth largest country in the world. After years of smaller protests, this week’s protests began on January 2, sparked by a rise in fuel prices, but spread rapidly across the oil-rich country, where an authoritarian government has enriched cronies, ignored the economic needs of the people,...

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Jan 5, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKWhy men are lonelier in America than elsewhere | The Economist

Marrying later, working harder and being better parents have diminished male friendships Are isolated men driving American women up the wall? A recent sketch on “Saturday Night Live”, which refers to studies concluding that males in America are increasingly friendless, suggests that they are. A young woman, frustrated by her boyfriend’s inability to open up to anyone else, takes him by the hand and leads him to a “man park” (like the version) where, after a shy start, he ...

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Jan 5, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/04/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Late this afternoon, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol asked Fox News Channel personality Sean Hannity voluntarily to answer questions about his communications with former president Donald Trump and Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in the days around the January 6 insurrection. In their letter requesting the conversation, committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and vice chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) ...

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Jan 4, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/03/2022

Heather Cox Richardson The lines between democracy and authoritarianism are becoming clearer. This morning, former president Donald Trump began the new year by endorsing Hungarian authoritarian Viktor Orbán for reelection. Rising to power by attacking immigration, Orbán has systematically undermined democracy in Hungary, silencing his opponents, forcing businesses to sell out to him or his cronies, rewriting election laws, suppressing the press, packing the courts, and rewriting his ...

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Jan 3, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/02/2022

Heather Cox Richardson A quick review to get us up to speed for what promises to be a fraught week, launching a fraught year. The big story of the new year is what we will learn from the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, whose members have announced they will hold public hearings early in 2022. As the New York Times editorial board put it in the paper’s January 1, 2022, edition, “Every Day Is January 6 Now.” The New York Times ...

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Jan 2, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKHow telemedicine ruined a physician's career

Doing side gigs is in vogue now. I want to tell you my story. It has to do with how one of the leading telemedicine companies ruined my career. I hope that my story will help many of you navigate this tough economy, especially those who are coming out of residency. I started working as an independent contractor about ten years ago when it first came to the forefront. I worked with many telemedicine companies in this manner, and it was nice to have some side income. Most of the patients were ...

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Jan 2, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/01/2022

Heather Cox Richardson On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed his name to the Emancipation Proclamation. “I never in my life felt more certain that I was doing right,” he said, “than I do in signing this paper. If my name goes into history, it will be for this act, and my whole soul is in it.” The Emancipation Proclamation provided that as of January 1, all people “held as slaves” anywhere that was still controlled by the Confederate government would be “then,...

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Love & Relationships

Jan 1, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKStop Calling Women Nags — How Emotional Labor is Dragging Down Gender Equality

Emotional labor is the unpaid job men still don't understand. BY GEMMA HARTLEY SEP 27, 2017 For Mother's Day I asked for one thing: a house cleaning service. Bathrooms and floors specifically, windows if the extra expense was reasonable. The gift, for me, was not so much in the cleaning itself but the fact that for once I would not be in charge of the household office work. I would not have to make the calls, get multiple quotes, research and vet each service, arrange payment and ...

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Jan 1, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKWhy Pastors Are Joining the Great Resignation | Sojourners

WHY PASTORS ARE JOINING THE GREAT RESIGNATION \ BY MELISSA FLORER-BIXLER NOV 30, 2021 My friend clams up each time I mention pastoral ministry. In the three years since she left her job as a pastor for work in higher ed, she hasn’t talked about the entrenched sexism and racism that eventually caused her to leave ministry. It’s too soon; the wounds are still fresh. The Great Resignation is underway in the United States with an astounding 3 percent of employees collectively refusing...

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Dec 31, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKWorld Health Organization says 'tsunami' of Omicron cases will pressure hospital systems on the 'brink of collapse'

WHO's director-general said a wave of COVID-19 cases would strain already stressed hospital systems. He said he was concerned that Omicron cases were rising while the Delta variant remained prevalent. The World Health Organization's warning comes as the US is experiencing a surge in infections. The head of the World Health Organization said a "tsunami" of COVID-19 cases driven by the Omicron variant would pressure hospital systems already on the "brink of collapse." "I am highly ...

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Dec 31, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKNew COVID-19 cases in US soar to highest levels on record

CHICAGO (AP) — More than a year after the vaccine was rolled out, new cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. have soared to their highest level on record at over 265,000 per day on average, a surge driven largely by the highly contagious omicron variant. New cases per day have more than doubled over the past two weeks, eclipsing the mark of 250,000, set in mid-January, according to data kept by Johns Hopkins University. The fast-spreading mutant version of the virus has cast a pall over ...

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Dec 31, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKU.S. Shatters Daily Record for COVID as Cases Continue Increasing Around the World

The United States shattered its daily record for COVID-19 cases as two highly infectious variants of the virus—delta and omicron—continue to upend daily life across the country. There were a whopping 441,278 infections recorded nationally on Tuesday, which is almost 0,000 more than the previous high from last winter. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention noted that this number may be a tad misleading, as it could include a backlog of cases due to the Christmas holiday. “The counts...

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Dec 31, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/30/2021

Heather Cox Richardson On January 6, insurrectionists trying to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election stormed the U.S. Capitol and sent our lawmakers into hiding. Since President Joe Biden took office on January 20, just two weeks after the attack, we have been engaged in a great struggle between those trying to restore our democracy and those determined to undermine it. Biden committed to restoring our democracy after the strains it had endured. When he took office, we ...

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Dec 30, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/29/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Yesterday, Josh Kovensky at Talking Points Memo reported that the Trump allies who organized the rally at the Ellipse at 9:00 a.m. on January 6 also planned a second rally that day on the steps of the Supreme Court. To get from one to the other, rally-goers would have to walk past the Capitol building down Constitution Avenue, although neither had a permit for a march. The rally at the Supreme Court fell apart as rally-goers stormed the Capitol. Trump’s team ...

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Dec 29, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/28/2021

Heather Cox Richardson On the clear, cold morning of December 29, 1890, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, three U.S. soldiers tried to wrench a valuable Winchester away from a young Lakota man. He refused to give up his hunting weapon; it was the only thing standing between his family and starvation. As the men struggled, the gun fired into the sky. Before the echoes died, troops fired a volley that brought down half of the Lakota men and boys the soldiers had captured the ...

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Dec 28, 2021Dec 2021

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I have a fake COVID-19 vaccine card. My best friend won’t speak to me. Don’t I have the right to make these decisions for myself?

I’m not sure this is a question for the Moneyist, but here goes. I’m 34, I live alone, and I have not gotten vaccinated. Here’s my issue: I have a fake vaccine card that I only very occasionally flash to get into bars and restaurants. I choose restaurants that I know are not crowded, and I am in the age group that has only relatively mild symptoms from COVID-19. I have a friend who had bad side effects from the vaccine — elevated heart rate — and it put me off getting one. I have a ...

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Dec 28, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/27/2021

Heather Cox Richardson After interviewing more than 300 people, issuing more than 50 subpoenas, and reviewing more than 35,000 pages of documents, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol is circling closer to former president Trump and his allies. They, in turn, appear to be trying to stop the committee from getting the information it wants. Today, The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell reported that the committee is interested in the phone calls Trump ...

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Dec 27, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/26/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Thirty years ago, on December 26, 1991, the headline of the New York Times read: “Gorbachev, Last Soviet Leader, Resigns; U.S. Recognizes Republics’ Independence.” On December 25, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned, marking the end of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the USSR. Former Soviet republics had begun declaring their independence in March 1990, the Warsaw Pact linking the USSR’s Eastern European satellites into a defense treaty...

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Dec 26, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKDesmond Tutu: South Africa anti-apartheid hero dies aged 90

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace prize laureate who helped end apartheid in South Africa, has died aged 90. President Cyril Ramaphosa said the churchman's death marked "another chapter of bereavement in our nation's farewell to a generation of outstanding South Africans". Archbishop Tutu had helped bequeath "a liberated South Africa," he added. Tutu was one of the country's best known figures at home and abroad. A contemporary of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, he was one...

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Dec 24, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKAncient human discoveries dominated 2021. Here's what we learned - CNN

(CNN)The human story -- where we come from and how we evolved -- got a new chapter in 2021. Thanks to new fossil finds and analysis of ancient DNA preserved in teeth, bones and cave dirt, scientists have unearthed startling revelations about our Homo sapien forebears, and other humans that existed before -- and in some cases, alongside us. Here are six of this year's most ground-breaking discoveries in human prehistory that are shaping the family tree in fascinating and unexpected ways. ...

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Dec 24, 2021Dec 2021

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LINK10 things this nurse is f-ing tired of saying

Musings of a primary care triage nurse: 1. “Isolation means you aren’t around others. No, you shouldn’t be eating dinner with your family or watching TV with them.” 2. “You’ve been sick for the past week but didn’t get tested. Yes, COVID can just be symptoms like a cold or that sinus thing you get each year.” 3. “The majority of those that are hospitalized are unvaccinated. I know ‘someone’ told you that’s not true, but that is not what we see each day.” 4. ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Dec 24, 2021Dec 2021

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An appropriate word for this time of year. TREACLE trea·cle /ˈtrēk(ə)l/ Learn to pronounce noun 1. BRITISH a thick, sticky dark syrup made from partly refined sugar; molasses. 2. cloying sentimentality or flattery. "enough of this ...

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Dec 24, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American

Heather Cox Richardson Tonight the Washington Post reported that the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol is weighing possible criminal referral for former president Trump, focusing on the 187 minutes between Trump’s urging his supporters to march on the Capitol and the video he finally released telling them to stop. During that period, Trump was inundated with text messages and phone calls begging him to call off his supporters. Famously, ...

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Dec 23, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/22/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Year-end accounts of the U.S. economy are very strong indeed. According to Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal—which are certainly not giddy media outlets—U.S. economic output has jumped more than 7% in the last three months of 2021. Overall growth for 2021 should be about 6%, and economists predict growth of around 4% in 2022—the highest numbers the U.S. has seen in decades. China’s growth in the same period will be 4%, and the eurozone (which is made up of ...

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Dec 22, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/21/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Summarizing U.S. political news these days sometimes feels like following two entirely different threads. On the one hand, there is the story about what’s happening in the White House and among the Democrats in Congress, who are trying to pass laws that are really quite popular—like the bipartisan infrastructure law and the Build Back Better bill—and to shore up the democratic alliances that have been central to our place in the world since World War II. On the...

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Dec 21, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/20/2021

Heather Cox Richardson On Fox News Sunday yesterday, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) said he could not support the Build Back Better infrastructure bill, a measure that is central to President Joe Biden’s vision for America. Negotiators have been working on the measure for months. At the end of March, Biden called for the American Jobs Plan, a $2.3 trillion bill designed to support well-paid American jobs by investing in a wide range of projects, both taking care of long-deferred maintenance...

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Dec 20, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/19/2021

Heather Cox Richardson “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” These were the first lines in a pamphlet called The American Crisis that appeared in Philadelphia on December 19, 1776, at a time when the fortunes of the American patriots seemed at an all-time low. Just five months before, the ...

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Health & Happiness

Dec 19, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKWhat to Do When You Get an Omicron Breakthrough Infection - The Atlantic

America is in for a lot more breakthrough infections. Here’s what to do if you fall sick. By Yasmin Tayag My breakthrough infection started with a scratchy throat just a few days before Thanksgiving. Because I’m vaccinated, and had just tested negative for COVID-19 two days earlier, I initially brushed off the symptoms as merely a cold. Just to be sure, I got checked again a few days later. Positive. The result felt like a betrayal after 18 months of reporting on the pandemic. And as...

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Dec 18, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/17/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Tonight CNN broke the story that members of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol think they know who wrote one of the eye-popping texts to Trump’s White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows. The text was the one sent the day after the election, before all the states had called the election, suggesting that Republicans should not wait for results in three states but should simply appoint their own electors. Then the ...

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Dec 16, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/15/2021

Heather Cox Richardson A year ago today, Trump retweeted pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood’s declaration that Georgia governor Brian Kemp and Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger would “soon be going to jail” because they would not overturn the election results in Georgia. Today the House of Representatives sent its contempt resolution concerning Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to the Department of Justice. The Federalist, a pro-Republican media outlet, exposed...

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Dec 15, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKAbout Three-in-Ten U.S. Adults Are Now Religiously Unaffiliated | Pew Research Center

Self-identified Christians make up 63% of U.S. population in 2021, down from 75% a decade ago The secularizing shifts evident in American society so far in the 21st century show no signs of slowing. The latest Pew Research Center survey of the religious composition of the United States finds the religiously unaffiliated share of the public is 6 percentage points higher than it was five years ago and 10 points higher than a decade ago. Christians continue to make up a majority of the U.S....

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Dec 15, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/14/2021

Heather Cox Richardson The big story today continues to be the insurrection and the many people now seemingly swept up in the investigation of it. The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol took to the House Rules Committee its resolution to hold Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress. This afternoon, the House Rules Committee voted along party lines by a vote of 8 to 4 to advance the contempt resolution to the House ...

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Dec 14, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/13/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Tonight, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol held a televised hearing to vote on whether to hold Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena. Their answer was yes, unanimously, by a vote of 9–0. More, even than that, though, was that in order to justify their votes they dropped some details about what happened on January 6. What they revealed was eye-popping. ...

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Academic (e.g., Science)

Dec 13, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKNina Dølvik Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl: The virginity fraud | TED Talk

The hymen is still the most misunderstood part of the female body. Nina Dølvik Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl share their mission to empower young people through better sex education, debunking the popular (and harmful) myths we're told about female virginity and the hymen.

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Family & Parenting

Dec 13, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKNew dads: the dangerous trend one therapist sees in first-time fathers.

After months of obsessive preparation for fatherhood, I brought my wife to her breaking point within a single day of our first son arriving home, an experience I recently detailed in Slate. The months that followed were a fog that’s familiar to many new parents, but despite my baby-book reading and spreadsheeting, I found myself unprepared for the specific malaise that hovered over me as a first-time father. That caused deeper problems at home. This story is familiar to Justin Lioi. He is a...

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Dec 13, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/12/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Tonight the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol released a report urging Congress to hold Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress after he has refused to honor a congressional subpoena. It’s quite a document. First of all, it pieces together a wide range of material from a number of different sources to lay out very clearly Meadows’s actions in the White House leading up to January 6. ...

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Dec 12, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKFemale officers involved in lawsuits against LPD facing discipline, including suspensions and firings | Crime and Courts | journalstar.com

Female officers at the Lincoln Police Department who have sued the city or who are in the initial stages of litigation have faced discipline — including internal affairs investigations, suspensions and firings — after making formal complaints of sexual harassment and discrimination. One of the officers, who spoke to the Journal Star on condition of anonymity, said after years on the force without a single internal affairs complaint, suddenly she found herself the subject of multiple ...

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Trump Pinata

Dec 12, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKA single sentence that perfectly captures the utter madness of the Trump era

In an interview with Donald Trump earlier this week, conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt said something truly breathtaking. "You know, Mr. President, you and I disagree about the election, but we agree on so much," Hewitt told Trump, segueing into a conversation about China's hypersonic missiles. Talk about an other-than-that-how-was-the-play-Mrs. Lincoln moment! That Hewitt uttered that line without irony is a telling window into how conservatives have found ways to rationalize ...

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Dec 12, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKA single sentence that perfectly captures the utter madness of the Trump era

In an interview with Donald Trump earlier this week, conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt said something truly breathtaking. "You know, Mr. President, you and I disagree about the election, but we agree on so much," Hewitt told Trump, segueing into a conversation about China's hypersonic missiles. Talk about an other-than-that-how-was-the-play-Mrs. Lincoln moment! That Hewitt uttered that line without irony is a telling window into how conservatives have found ways to rationalize ...

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Singles/Mingle/Chat

Dec 12, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKthe best office holiday party date story of all time — Ask a Manager

EVERY time I read this it makes me laugh. by ALISON GREEN on DECEMBER 10, 2021 A couple of years ago, someone shared what I consider to be the best holiday date story of all time, and it must be shared here again. Enjoy: When I was fresh out of college, a dude in my social circle invited me to his fancy work Christmas party. He was a teacher, so I’d kind of assumed I was there as friend to act as a buffer between well-intentioned female colleagues who wanted to set him up with one ...

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Dec 12, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/11/2021

Heather Cox Richardson The picture of what was happening at the White House in the days before the January 6 insurrection is becoming clearer. (While we also have a decent idea of what was happening at the Department of Justice, what was happening at the Pentagon remains unclear.) Shortly after Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows announced on Tuesday that he would no longer cooperate with the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol,...

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Trump Pinata

Dec 11, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKTrump accuses Netanyahu of disloyalty: "F him" - Axios

Does Donnie Boy have class, style, elan; or what? No surprises here.

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Posts

Dec 11, 2021Dec 2021

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ANDER Pea brained male, wants to be more than friends... Joined a week ago, he's 40something; I think I saw his age when he first messaged me. One photo, and he's masked so no use doing a image search. Lives in GA, willing to go ...

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Watchers

Dec 11, 2021Dec 2021

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ANDER Pea brained male, wants to be more than friends... Joined a week ago, he's 40something; I think I saw his age when he first messaged me. Lives in GA, willing to go anywhere for romance. Mercy these dudes make me tired. One ...

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Academic (e.g., Science)

Dec 11, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKKamala Harris Is Actually Right About the Bluetooth Headphones, You Nitwits

KAMALA HARRIS IS ACTUALLY RIGHT ABOUT THE BLUETOOTH HEADPHONES, THERE ARE VALID CRITICISMS OF THE VP — BUT THIS AIN’T IT. Bluetooth-Phobic VP In a classic instance of news-that-shouldn’t-be-news news, Vice President Kamala Harris came under fire this week for the outrageous decision to not use Bluetooth headphones. It all began when Politico published a hard-hitting story on Monday about the VP’s aversion to the technology, citing numerous examples in which Harris could be seen ...

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Dec 11, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/10/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Today, in Whole Woman’s Health v. Jackson, the Supreme Court undermined the federal protection of civil rights that has shaped our world since the 1950s. The case asked whether opponents of Texas’s S.B. 8, the so-called Heartbeat Bill, could bring a federal case to block the law, which gets around normal challenges by putting private individuals, rather than the state itself, in charge of enforcing it. By a vote of 5 to 4, the court said they could sue, but it ...

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Dec 10, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKThe God's Honest Truth about Humanism - TheHumanist.com

This article was originally published in the newsletter of the Secular Humanist Society of New York (SHSNY). As a humanist, I’ve always been asked a basic question about my belief system and it goes something like this, “David, you don’t believe in god so where do you get your morals?” Since I am an educator, I always take this time of either negative challenge or honest reflection from the questioner and attempt to explain briefly what humanism is all about as concisely as possible....

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Dec 10, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/09/2021

Heather Cox Richardson The big news today is, once again, the economy. Indeed, it’s odd that the sort of numbers we're seeing across the country aren’t constant headline news, indicating, as they do, both a rapid economic recovery from the pandemic and the success of President Biden’s return to an economic policy that focuses on getting money into the hands of ordinary Americans. In Washington Monthly, national economic consultant Robert J. Shapiro catalogued what he called the ...

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Dec 9, 2021Dec 2021

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LINK‘Christ Tree’ first ‘victim’ in the ‘war on Christmas’ - Freethought Now

Chris Line December 8, 2021 A 140-foot-tall “Christ Tree,” hit by friendly fire, has become the first victim this year in the so-called War on Christmas. The city of Enid, Okla., recently spent upward of $150,000 to help one of its citizens install the “Christ Tree,” a Christmas tree meant to highlight “the true meaning of Christmas: our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” Ironically, that tree has now been damaged by an “act of God.” In November, organizers boasted about ...

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Dec 9, 2021Dec 2021

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LINK/Letters From An American 12/08/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Russia’s threat to push troops into Ukraine highlights Biden’s approach to foreign policy. Rather than issuing military threats, he has worked with European allies to put economic pressure on Russia. So far, it appears to be heading off the crisis. “What I am doing is putting together what I believe…will be the most comprehensive and meaningful set of initiatives to make it very, very difficult for Mr. Putin to go ahead and do what people are worried he may...

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Dec 8, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/07/2021

Heather Cox Richardson On the sunny Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, Messman Doris Miller had served breakfast aboard the U.S.S. West Virginia, stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and was collecting laundry when the first of nine Japanese torpedoes hit the ship. In the deadly confusion, Miller reported to an officer, who told him to help move the ship’s mortally wounded captain off the bridge. Unable to move him far, Miller sheltered the captain behind the ship’s conning tower. ...

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Dec 7, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKThis conservative Republican just told an uncomfortable truth about the Trump wing in Congress

Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw did something rare in Republican politics over the weekend: He used actual facts to rebut a commonly held misconception. Speaking at an event for the Texas Liberty Alliance PAC on Sunday, Crenshaw lit into what are often believed to be the most conservative -- and most Trump-loving -- members of the GOP conference. Here's Crenshaw: "There's two types of Members of Congress: There's performance artists and legislators. The performance artists are the ones that get...

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Dec 7, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/06/2021

Heather Cox Richardson On June 3, 2021, President Biden vowed to combat international corruption in order to protect democracy. orruption threatens United States national security, economic equity, global antipoverty and development efforts, and democracy itself,” he said. “y effectively preventing and countering corruption and demonstrating the advantages of transparent and accountable governance, we can secure a critical advantage for the United States and other democracies.”...

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Dec 6, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/05/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Speaking in Athens, Greece, yesterday, Pope Francis warned Americans, “We cannot avoid noting with concern how today, and not only in Europe, we are witnessing a retreat from democracy." He warned against politicians with "an obsessive quest for popularity, in a thirst for visibility, in a flurry of unrealistic promises,” and called for people around the world to turn away from authoritarianism, individualism, and indifference. Instead, they must rededicate ...

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Dec 5, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKPolice say cash and checks found in wall of Joel Osteen's Church ARE connected to 2014 heist | Daily Mail Online

The Houston PD posted a statement regarding the investigation, launched after a plumber who worked at the church called into a Houston radio show Thursday The revelation comes seven years after about $600,000 in donations was stolen and hasn't been recovered Police said they were called to the church for a report of property discovered in the building on November 10 at about 2:30pm They claimed church members told them the money was found inside a wall during a renovation project They ...

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Dec 5, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKRep. Eric Swalwell reminds us who really has the right to complain when it comes to COVID-19

Even though I’m not a parent (you can thank me later, nonexistent kids who were never forced to explain my Igloo cooler-sized head and piquant yeti musk to your friends and classmates), I feel every bit of this mini-Twitter thread from Rep. Eric Swalwell. I enjoy Swalwell’s takes, which tend to be clear, concise, amusing, and acerbic. And when it comes to the perpetual waves of death that have washed over our land since Donald Trump decided to politicize the coronavirus, the congressman ...

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Dec 4, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/03/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Senate Republicans will not issue any sort of a platform before next year’s midterm elections. At a meeting of donors and lawmakers in mid-November, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that the Republican Party’s 2024 nominee would be responsible for deciding on an agenda. The Republican senators in 2022 will simply attack the Democrats. Rather than advancing any sort of a positive program, Republican Senators will be focusing on culture wars. ...

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Dec 3, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/02/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Tonight both the House and the Senate passed a measure to fund the federal government until February 18, 2022. The new legislation will prevent a government shutdown. The measure passed the House by a vote of 221 to 212 with only one Republican, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, voting yes. “This government should be shut down,” Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) said. “You want to know why it should be shut down? Because the people in here. The people in ...

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Dec 2, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/01/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Today The Guardian broke the news that former president Donald Trump tested positive for COVID on September 26, 2020, days earlier than the White House admitted. A forthcoming book from former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has the story. Despite the positive test, Trump went forward with his public schedule, unmasked. He exposed the guests at a Rose Garden ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett, his nominee for the Supreme Court; it became a superspreader event ...

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Dec 1, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/30/2021

Heather Cox Richardson The U.S. economy is booming. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testified today before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, saying that although the rise in COVID cases due to the Delta variant had slowed recovery, the gross domestic product is still on track to grow about 5% in 2021. According to Christine Romans, CNN’s chief business correspondent, the last time we had that kind of growth was under the Reagan administration forty years ...

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Nov 30, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/29/21

Heather Cox Richardson Today’s news hit like a firehose, which is to be expected after the Thanksgiving holiday. This year, though, that normal firehose is intensified by the news of the new Omicron COVID variant that the World Health Organization has labeled a “variant of concern.” Epidemiologists in South Africa first identified Omicron on Wednesday, November 24, but the variant did not necessarily originate there: South African doctors were simply the first to identify it. The ...

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Nov 28, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/27/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Today, Nate Cohn noted in the New York Times that the policies President Joe Biden and the Democrats are putting in place are hugely popular, and yet Biden’s own popularity numbers have dropped into the low 40s. It’s a weird disconnect that Cohn explains by suggesting that, above all, voters want “normalcy.” Heaven knows that Biden, who took office in the midst of a pandemic that had crashed the economy and has had to deal with an unprecedented insurgency ...

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Nov 27, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKWhat to know about omicron, the new COVID variant : Coronavirus Updates : NPR

What to know about omicron, the new COVID variant By MICHAELEEN DOUCLEFF, JOEL ROSE, and NICOLE HERNANDEZ The U.S. is putting travel restrictions in place in response to a new variant of the coronavirus circulating in southern Africa. The restrictions, which are set to take effect on Monday, are being implemented out of an abundance of caution, said a senior Biden administration official. The World Health Organization announced Friday that it deems this strain, B.1.1.529, a variant of...

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Nov 27, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/26/2021

By Heather Cox Richardson On Wednesday, November 24, just before the Thanksgiving holiday, a jury found Gregory McMichael (65), his son Travis McMichael (35), and their neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan (52) guilty on 23 counts in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery on February 23, 2020, near Brunswick, in Glynn County, Georgia. Ahmaud Marquez Arbery, 25, was a former high school football player who ran every day. On February 23, he was running through a primarily white neighborhood about two ...

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Nov 26, 2021Nov 2021

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LINK’Tis the Season for DeJoy’s Removal | The Nation

The Thanksgiving holiday weekend opens the most demanding season of the year for America’s postal workers. Last year, according to the United States Postal Service, “13 billion letters, cards, and packages were processed and delivered under some of the most difficult circumstances we’ve faced in the past century.” This year, postal workers will again provide outsize service to this country, while continuing to face unprecedented challenges. Some of those challenges stem from the ...

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Nov 26, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/25/2021

Heather Cox Richardson I started these letters completely inadvertently on September 15, 2019, after I happened to see House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff's (D-CA) angry letter to then–acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire on September 13, noting that the committee knew a whistleblower had made a complaint and demanding that Maguire produce that complaint as required by law. As a political historian, I saw that for what it was: an accusation from a member of ...

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Love & Relationships

Nov 25, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKShould Women Still Change Their Name When They Marry?

I have always felt that Smith was my dad's name, I've been married twice and those we're the ex's names they did not reflect on who I was. My name is Paula, the last name doesn't matter that much to me. One of my daughters got married and changed her name, and realized that was not who she was. When she divorced she changed back, and when she remarried she kept the maiden name. One of my girls has never married, and the youngest was more than happy to take her husband's name. Historical ...

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Nov 25, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/24/2021

Heather Cox Richardson The Biden administration has announced it will convene the first of two virtual “Summits for Democracy” on December 9 and 10, 2021. The gatherings will bring together leaders from 110 countries who work in government, civil society, and the private sector, to come up with an agenda to renew democratic government and work together to keep the ideals of democracy strong. Authoritarianism is growing around the world, including in America, and the administration ...

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Nov 25, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKWhat is the history of Thanksgiving – and why is it controversial?

By AARON REICH The Thanksgiving holiday is considered by many to be a classic slice of Americana, and a definitive part of the American experience. Dating back over 200 years, the holiday itself is meant to commemorate events even older than that, though many have made it into a divisive issue in terms of colonialism and its legacy. Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated throughout the US, having many different customs and traditions – including for many American Jews. But what are ...

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Nov 24, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKThe bootleg CDs, the rare books department, and other stories of holiday mayhem — Ask a Manager

By ALISON GREEN on NOVEMBER 24, 2021 All this week I’m going to be sharing holiday stories from years past. Here are more. 1. The flush “It was my first holiday party at my office fresh out of undergrad, and with my hearty Irish heritage I am prone to 1) generally ferocious rosacea and 2) an especially vivid red flush after my first drink. I arrived to the party late because I’d walked form work (it was at a hotel conference room area), met with friends, and grabbed a glass of ...

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Nov 24, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/23/2021

Heather Cox Richardson On this date in 1876, William “Boss” Tweed, who had stolen between $25 and $200 million in his corrupt years at the head of New York City’s government and then fled to Spain to escape prison, was delivered up to authorities and sent back to jail. One hundred and forty-five years later, the law is in the news again. In Virginia today, a jury decided that the leaders of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in August 2017 violated state law by ...

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Nov 23, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/22/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Today, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, based in Stockholm, Sweden, released its 2021 report on “The Global State of Democracy.” “Democracy is at risk,” the report’s introduction begins. “Its survival is endangered by a perfect storm of threats, both from within and from a rising tide of authoritarianism.” “The world is becoming more authoritarian as nondemocratic regimes become even more brazen in their ...

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Nov 22, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/21/2020

Heather Cox Richardson Yesterday, the head of Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency, Brigadier General Kyrylo Budanov, told Military Times that he expects Russia to attack his country in late January or early February. Russia has placed more than 92,000 troops at its border with Ukraine. In a visit to Washington, D.C., where he met with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Ukraine’s defense minister, Oleksiy Reznikov, took a broader view of the mounting tensions in central and ...

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Religion & Spirituality

Nov 21, 2021Nov 2021

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Sounds perfectly plausible.

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Nov 20, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKI Left Evangelical Christianity 5 Years Ago. Here's What I'm Still Deconstructing - YouTube

Fascinating!

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Nov 20, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/19/2021

Heather Cox Richardson On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln spoke at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where more than 23,000 men had been killed or wounded the previous July defending the United States of America from those who would destroy it. He rooted the nation in the Declaration of Independence, in which the nation’s founders announced that they “hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and...

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Nov 19, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKRich White Men Still Getting Away With Rape

Judge Says Prison “Would Be Inappropriate” for Wealthy White Man Convicted of Raping 4 Teens Content warning: sexual assault. A young man who pled guilty and was convicted of raping four teenage girls (when he himself was also a teen) will not face any jail time after the judge declared he thought prison “would be inappropriate” for the rapist. Why yes, the man in question is white and also wealthy, how did you know? Christopher Belter pleaded guilty to felony charges ...

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Nov 19, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKThe Culture War Turned Legal And It’s Hurting Kids | Above the Law

Ignorance isn't always bliss. Sometimes it's discontent By CHRIS WILLIAMS There’s been a lot of discussion about Critical Race Theory and what it is — a term that could refer to the work of Kimberlé Crenshaw, principals getting fired, or Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, apparently. And there’s a reason it’s so vague! It’s because the “Anti-CRT” movement is actually just White Nationalist rhetoricians who are using the law to target and recruit your children. OK, now I know that...

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Nov 19, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/18/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Today began with Republican leadership doubling down on its support for Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ), whom the House censured yesterday for tweeting a cartoon video of himself killing a Democratic colleague, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), and attacking the president, Joe Biden. Only two Republicans voted with the Democrats in favor of the censure. Former president Donald Trump issued a statement praising Gosar and saying the congressman “has my Complete and ...

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Nov 18, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/17/2021

Heather Cox Richardson November 17, 2021 (Wednesday) Today the House of Representatives voted to censure (not censor) Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and to strip him of his committee assignments. The vote was 223 to 207, with 1 representative, David Joyce (R-OH), voting “present.” Three other representatives—Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), Scott Perry (R-PA), and Morgan Griffith (R-VA)—did not vote. Representatives Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) joined Democrats to vote in...

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Nov 17, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/16/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Today, President Joe Biden hit the road to sell the benefits of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill he signed into law yesterday. In Woodstock, New Hampshire, today, standing at a bridge deemed structurally unsafe—one of the 215 unsafe bridges in New Hampshire—Biden said "Clean water, access to the internet, rebuilding bridges—everything in this bill matters to the individual lives of real people. This is not something abstract.” The popularity...

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From my FB memories from 2013

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Nov 16, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKMob Justice Is Trampling Democratic Discourse - The Atlantic

THE NEW PURITANS Social codes are changing, in many ways for the better. But for those whose behavior doesn’t adapt fast enough to the new norms, judgment can be swift—and merciless. By Anne Applebaum Illustrations by Nicolas Ortega It was no great distance, in those days, from the prison-door to the market-place. Measured by the prisoner’s experience, however, it might be reckoned a journey of some length.” So begins the tale of Hester Prynne, as recounted in Nathaniel ...

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Nov 16, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/15/2021

Heather Cox Richardson This afternoon, President Joe Biden signed the $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, known as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, into law. At a celebratory signing ceremony on the White House lawn, he and several of the lawmakers who worked to pass the measure, Democrats and Republicans both, joined in praising the new law. Said Biden: “The new law makes the most significant investment in roads and bridges in the past 70 years, the most ...

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Nov 15, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKHow Long Does It Take To Charge An Electric Car? : NPR

I need a new car eventually, I will consider electric. How long does it take to charge an electric vehicle? The question is more complicated than it seems. How long does it take to charge an electric vehicle? The question is more complicated than it seems, and that's a challenge for the auto industry. Vehicles have different battery sizes, and charge at different speeds. The same vehicle at different chargers will experience wildly varying charge times. And no matter what charger a ...

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Nov 15, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKHere, the surge never ended. In rural California, hospitals are pushed to the brink

By HaileyBranson-Potts This is what the COVID-19 pandemic looks like in the part of California where the Delta variant surge refuses to let up. In Fresno County, understaffed hospitals have been so clogged that ambulance crews stopped transporting people unless they have a life-threatening emergency. In Tulare County, a Visalia hospital — which has been treating more COVID-19 patients in recent days than any other medical facility in the state — declared an internal disaster this ...

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Nov 15, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKWhy is Europe returning to the dark days of Covid? | Coronavirus | The Guardian

The continent is now the centre of the global epidemic – again. As countries from the Baltic to the Med brace for harsher winter measures, we look at what’s driving the fourth wave Jon Henley, Europe correspondent and Philip Oltermann in Berlin Sat 13 Nov 2021 09.15 EST It was almost as if the pandemic had never happened. In Cologne, thousands of revellers in fancy-dress jostled side by side in a tightly packed throng as they counted down to the start of the annual carnival season at ...

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Nov 15, 2021Nov 2021

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LINK'Woke,' 'multiculturalism,' 'equity': Wisconsin GOP proposes banning words from schools | TheHill

The Wisconsin Assembly passed legislation on a party-line vote Tuesday that would bar public schools from teaching critical race theory, the latest Republican-controlled legislative chamber to take action on a culture war issue that erupted in school board meetings around the country this summer. The measure mirrors efforts in other states to block teachers from instructing students on concepts of racial injustice or inherent bias. But in testimony before a Wisconsin Assembly committee ...

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