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Mar 31, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKThe necessity of secularist small dissent

Overview: Secularists should not remain silent when religious people offer opinions but should rejoin with small, pleasant disagreement. Secularists often say nothing when they should really speak up. Sometimes taciturnity is merely manners, perhaps thought of as good manners. There is no need to mar a dinner party with a sharp and disagreeable remark, right? No need to set the table on a roar with a cutting witticism offered at a guest’s or a host’s expense. But how many ...

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Mar 31, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American

Heather Cox Richardson CBS News has hired Mick Mulvaney as a paid on-air contributor. In his first official appearance on Tuesday morning to talk about President Joe Biden’s budget proposal, anchor Anne-Marie Green introduced Mulvaney as “a former Office of Management and Budget director,” and said, “So happy to have you here…. You’re the guy to ask about this.” Mulvaney was a far-right U.S. representative from South Carolina from 2011 to 2017, when he went to work for ...

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Mar 30, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 03/29/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Yesterday, a decision by Judge David Carter said that Trump had likely committed a federal crime when he was part of a conspiracy to obstruct Congress’s count of the votes of the Electoral College on January 6, 2021. Today, a Trump spokesperson called yesterday’s decision “absurd and baseless.” But the investigation into the events of January 6 is producing more and more evidence about the attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and it is ...

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Mar 29, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 03/28/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, United States District Judge David O. Carter of the United States District Court for the Central District of California ordered John Eastman to disclose 101 documents to the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. Eastman is a former law school dean at Chapman University and author of the Eastman memo outlining a plan for Vice President Mike Pence to throw the 2020 election to Donald Trump. He also spoke at Trump’s ...

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Mar 26, 2022Mar 2022

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LINK To some, what goes on inside an HR person's mind is a source of mystery. They have to toe the line between upper management and other employees, and you're left never fully knowing the intention behind an email, a work party or ...

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Mar 26, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 03/25/2022

Heather Cox Richardson In confirmation hearings this week for her elevation to a Supreme Court seat, the highly qualified and well-respected Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson endured vicious attacks from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee, who vow to reject her confirmation despite the fact that her record is stronger than those of recent Republican nominees and that 58% of Americans want her to be confirmed. (In contrast, only 42% of Americans wanted Justice Amy Coney Barrett ...

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Mar 25, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKWhy tracking COVID-19 case rates still matters

COVID-19 cases in the United States have fallen more than 95% from their peak in January, and on Friday, Hawaii became the last state to roll back its indoor mask mandate. Testing has slowed, and states are scaling back on reporting surveillance data, too. But experts say that tracking new COVID-19 cases is still important — even if it is an imperfect measure. "Dating back to the beginning of the pandemic, we've always known that case numbers were being undercounted. It was never quite ...

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Mar 25, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/24/2022

Heather Cox Richardson “We are very pleased, dear President, dear Joe, to welcome you again in Brussels,” European Council president Charles Michel of Belgium told President Joe Biden today. “Your presence here and your participation in this European Council meeting is a very strong signal.” The European Council is made up of the heads of states of the European Union states, along with the President of the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union. “Our ...

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Mar 24, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 02/26/2022

Heather Cox Richardson “O, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet— And yet must be—the land where every man is free.” Langston Hughes wrote these words in a poem published in 1936. He wrote as the Dust Bowl baked in the heat, Louisiana senator Huey Long died by gunfire, the Supreme Court invalidated much of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal, a serial killer terrorized Cleveland, workers finished Hoover Dam, the Depression dragged on, ...

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Mar 23, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American

Heather Cox Richardson Right on cue, Republican Senator Mike Braun of Indiana today told a reporter that states not only should decide the issue of abortion but should also be able to decide the issues of whether interracial marriage should be legal and whether couples should have access to contraception. He told a reporter: “Well, you can list a whole host of issues, when it comes down to whatever they are, I’m going to say that they’re not going to all make you happy within a given ...

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Mar 22, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 03/21/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today is the anniversary of Georgia Senator Alexander Stephens’s Cornerstone Speech, given in 1861 just after he became the provisional vice president of the Confederacy. All these years later, the themes of that speech are still with us. Stephens spoke in Savannah, Georgia, to explain the difference between the United States and the fledgling Confederacy. That difference, he said, was slavery. The American Constitution was defective because it based the government...

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Mar 21, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 03/20/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Tomorrow, the Senate will begin confirmation hearings for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, nominated by President Joe Biden on February 25, 2022, to take a seat on the Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Jackson is currently a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. This small circuit is prominent and prestigious because its location in Washington, D.C., means that it decides cases concerning the U.S. government. It is...

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General & Hellos

Mar 20, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKWhy Would A God Need to be Worshipped? (or is God a Karen?) - YouTube

The bible says over and over again that God is jealous while also telling us not to be jealous. It also tells us to be meek while also asking us to worship him. Why is there a difference? Why would the writers of the bible focus on this aspect so much?

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Mar 20, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKJustice Clarence Thomas hospitalized with infection, Supreme Court says

He was admitted to the hospital after experiencing flu-like symptoms. Justice Clarence Thomas has been hospitalized with an infection, the Supreme Court announced in a statement. Thomas was admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Friday evening after experiencing flu-like symptoms, Supreme Court spokesperson Patricia McCabe said in a statement. He was diagnosed with an infection after undergoing tests and is being treated with intravenous antibiotics, McCabe ...

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Academic (e.g., Science)

Mar 20, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKThe helical model - our solar system is a vortex - YouTube

This is fascinating!

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 20, 2022Mar 2022

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I used this word yesterday, thought I'd bring it over here. Crepuscular cre·pus·cu·lar adjective of, resembling, or relating to twilight. ZOOLOGY (of an animal) appearing or active in twilight. A crepuscular animal is one that is active ...

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Mar 19, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 03/18/2022

Heather Cox Richardson This morning, President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping spoke about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, speaking personally for the first time since last November. In early February, before the invasion, Xi and Russian president Vladimir Putin met and issued a 5000-word statement pledging limitless “friendship.” But it is not clear Xi expected either the invasion or how badly it would go for Russia, as Ukraine has held its own against a military ...

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Mar 18, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 03/17/2022

Heather Cox Richardson While Russia’s war on Ukraine continues in all its blistering horror, there are glimmerings that suggest Russia’s position in its assault on Ukraine is weakening. A senior U.S. defense official today told reporters that while there is significant fighting going on, the only major military news is that Russia has now launched more than 1000 missiles at Ukraine. Ukraine’s allies are working on supplying Ukraine with long-range air defense systems. The Pentagon also ...

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Mar 17, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 03/16/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, Russia’s war on Ukraine gave us a penetrating snapshot of democracy and autocracy. This morning, Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed a joint session of Congress virtually; his speech was live streamed to the American people. Looking tired, he wore a green military tee shirt and was unshaven, sitting next to a large Ukrainian flag, a visual representation of his besieged country. Speaking from Kyiv, Zelensky emphasized that he and Ukrainians ...

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Mar 16, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 03/15/2022

Heather Cox Richardson “I want to thank the Russian Academy for this Lifetime Achievement Award.” That was former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s response to the news that her name was among those of the people Russia sanctioned today, forbidding their entry into Russia and freezing any Russian assets they might have. Clinton, of course, was the one who warned in 2016 that then-candidate Donald Trump would be “ Putin’s puppet” if he were ...

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Mar 15, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 03/14/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, Russia continued its offensive against Ukraine, striking hard at civilians in Kyiv and Mariupol. The Russian army is gaining ground, but it appears to be sustaining massive losses of personnel and equipment which, in turn, is making leaders focus on grinding Ukraine into submission through sheer brutality. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced that Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky will speak virtually ...

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Mar 14, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKHere's what experts say could lie ahead for the third year of the pandemic

Things seem to be looking up as the U.S. crosses into year three of the COVID-19 pandemic. Vaccines still do a good job of keeping people alive and out of the hospital. There's increasing access to tests and treatments. The numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths are heading in the right direction. If living in a Covid world has taught us anything, however, it's that the coronavirus can surprise even the smartest public health experts, and the world certainly isn't out of the woods yet....

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Mar 14, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 03/13/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Russian president Vladimir Putin has asked China for help in his war against Ukraine, according to U.S. officials. Observers see this as a defining moment for China and the direction it wants to take in the twenty-first century. In what might be a sign of how China will react to that request, the spokesperson for the Chinese embassy in Washington said he had never heard of it. "The high priority now is to prevent the tense situation from escalating or even getting out ...

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Mar 13, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKWilliam Hurt Dies: Oscar-Winning Actor Was 71 – Deadline

William Hurt Dies: Oscar-Winning Actor For ‘Kiss Of The Spider Woman’ Was 71 William Hurt, who often played a quiet intellectual in his earlier acting roles, but also later appeared in science fiction and Marvel films, has died just a week before his 72nd birthday. William Hurt’s son, Will, posted today that his father has died. It was announced in May 2018 that the elder Hurt had terminal prostate cancer that had spread to the bone. “It is with great sadness that the Hurt family ...

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Mar 13, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 03/12/2022

Heather Cox Richardson In our history, the United States has gone through turning points when we have had to adjust our democratic principles to new circumstances. The alternative is to lose those principles to a small group of people who insist that democracy is outdated and must be replaced by a government run by a few leaders or, now, by a single man. The Declaration of Independence asserted as “self-evident” that all people are created equal and that God and the laws of nature ...

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Mar 12, 2022Mar 2022

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LINK24-year-old's sterilization photoshoot sparks conversation about women choosing child-free lives

Whereas I always knew I wanted kids, have have never regretted having them, my middle daughter does not want children and I support her decision 1000%. Her dad otoh not so much. That daughter is an excellent auntie, and she is now parenting her parents, she's not missing anything. 'While I have many reasons for not wanting to get pregnant and wanting to be child-free, at the end of the day, 'I don't want to have kids' is reason enough and should be respected.' A 24-year-old's ...

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Mar 11, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 03/10/2022

Heather Cox Richardson On June 5, 1944, the day before the D-Day operation in which the Allied forces in World War II invaded German-occupied western Europe, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his 29th Fireside Chat. Roosevelt told the American people that Rome had fallen to American and Allied troops the previous day. He used the talk not only to announce this important milestone in the deadly war, but also to remind Americans they were engaged in a war between democracy and ...

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Mar 10, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 03/9/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Yesterday, the Department of Justice indicted Henry “Enrique” Tarrio on a conspiracy charge in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Tarrio is a leader of the far-right extremist Proud Boys, the white supremacists that former president Trump told to stand back and stand by in his September 2020 debate with Joe Biden. Tarrio was not at the Capitol itself on January 6th because a court had ordered him to leave the city the day before after destroying a ...

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Mar 9, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKEvery household is eligible for additional free COVID-19 tests from the government

All U.S. households are now eligible to order four additional free COVID-19 tests from COVIDtests.gov. When the government site launched in January, it received more than 45 million orders. Now officials say fewer than 100,000 orders a day are coming in for the packages of four free rapid tests per household, delivered by the U.S. Postal Service. Experts say testing will become more important with mask requirements now easing. "If infection control is still our priority, testing ...

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Mar 9, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 03/08/2022

Heather Cox Richardson This morning, President Joe Biden announced an executive order that will ban the import of Russian oil, liquified natural gas, and coal to the United States, as part of a plan to cut Russia off from the world economy. Biden did this under pressure from Congress, which was preparing its own bill for this outcome. The administration hesitated to take this step independently from other allies and partners. In 2021, the U.S. imported only 3% of its oil from Russia, and ...

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Mar 8, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 03/07/2022

Heather Cox Richardson For all the breathless reports of Russia’s war on Ukraine, it is unclear who is gaining advantage. This is in part because both sides are fighting the war with propaganda as well as with missiles, and it is hard to sort out what is real and what is not. Indeed, image and reality may merge, since images often shape what later becomes real. So, for example, the many stories of Ukrainian resistance feed that resistance, while the stories of Russian failures hurt morale....

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Mar 7, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 3/6/2022

Heather Cox Richardson It was a beautiful sunny day today in Selma, Alabama, where thousands of people, including Vice President Kamala Harris and five other senior White House officials, met to honor the 57th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when law enforcement officers tried to beat into silence those Black Americans marching for their right to have a say in the government under which they lived. The story of March 7 in Selma is the story of Americans determined to bring to life the ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Mar 6, 2022Mar 2022

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LINKHas 'Run' Run Amok? It Has 645 Meanings ... So Far : NPR

OK, this is a common word, but did you know this word has 645 definitions? Seriously. RUN: One three-letter word does much of the heavy lifting in the English language. The little word "run" — in its verb form alone — has 645 distinct meanings. Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, explains the rise of "run" and the decline of a formerly rich word, "set."

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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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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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News & Links

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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Posts

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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Jan 31, 2022Jan 2022

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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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Jan 30, 2022Jan 2022

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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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Jan 30, 2022Jan 2022

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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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