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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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Jan 30, 2022Jan 2022

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Jan 30, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/29/2022

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

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Jan 29, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/28/2022

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

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Jan 28, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An Americann 01/27/2022

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

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Jan 27, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/26/2022

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

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Jan 26, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKSee Trump denialism debunked by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

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Jan 26, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/25/2022

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

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Jan 25, 2022Jan 2022

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

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

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Jan 25, 2022Jan 2022

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

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

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Jan 25, 2022Jan 2022

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

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Jan 24, 2022Jan 2022

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

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

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Jan 24, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKGrandma tricks scammer leading to arrest - Upworthy

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

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Jan 24, 2022Jan 2022

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

BY ALISON GREEN aka AskAManager.org Few people are as knee-deep in our work-related anxieties and sticky office politics as Alison Green, who has been fielding workplace questions for a decade now on her website Ask a Manager. In Direct Report, she spotlights themes from her inbox that help explain the modern workplace and how we could be navigating it better. If you believe reports from employers, they’re desperate to find good workers but can’t lure them at any price. Talk to job ...

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Jan 24, 2022Jan 2022

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

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

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Jan 23, 2022Jan 2022

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

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

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Jan 23, 2022Jan 2022

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

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

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Jan 23, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKNews Literacy Project

Jan 24th to 28th is National News Literacy week.

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Jan 23, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKHome - OnlySky Media

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Jan 22, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/22/2022

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

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Jan 22, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/21/2022

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

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Jan 21, 2022Jan 2022

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

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

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Jan 21, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/20/2022

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

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Jan 20, 2022Jan 2022

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

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Jan 20, 2022Jan 2022

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

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Jan 20, 2022Jan 2022

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

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Jan 20, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/19/2022

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

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Jan 19, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/18/2022

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

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Jan 18, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/17/2022

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

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Jan 17, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/16/2022

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

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Jan 15, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/14/2022

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

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Jan 14, 2022Jan 2022

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

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

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Jan 14, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKStatic Media Bias Chart - Ad Fontes Media

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

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Jan 14, 2022Jan 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 01/13/2022

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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General & Hellos

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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