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Sep 20, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/19/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Last Friday, Marine Corps General Frank McKenzie of U.S. Central Command admitted that the August 29 drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, that the U.S. had claimed hit ISIS-K fighters had instead killed 10 civilians, including seven children. This “tragic mistake,” as he called it, at the very end of the country’s 20-year engagement in Afghanistan, opens up the larger question of the growing U.S. use of unmanned aerial systems—drones—in warfare. Drones are...

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Sep 19, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKMost private insurers are no longer waiving cost-sharing for COVID-19 treatment - Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker

Federal law requires all private insurance plans to cover the entire cost associated with approved COVID-19 testing so long as the test is deemed medically appropriate. Additionally, the U.S. government pre-paid for COVID-19 vaccines and required COVID-19 vaccines be made available at no out-of-pocket costs regardless of whether the vaccine recipient is insured. However, while a handful of states required or created agreements with insurers to waive COVID-19 out-of-pocket treatment costs for ...

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Sep 18, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/17/2021

Heather Cox Richardson One hundred and fifty nine years ago this week, in 1862, 75,000 United States troops and about 38,000 Confederate troops massed along Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland. After a successful summer of fighting, Confederate general Robert E. Lee had crossed the Potomac River into Maryland to bring the Civil War to the North. He hoped to swing the slave state of Maryland into rebellion and to weaken Lincoln’s war policies in the upcoming 1862 elections. For his ...

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Sep 17, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/16/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Disgraced retired lieutenant general Michael Flynn is endorsing candidates for office. Flynn advised former president Trump’s 2016 campaign and was Trump’s first national security adviser. He served for just 22 days before having to resign after news broke that he had lied to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak. Flynn pleaded guilty to "willfully and knowingly" lying to the FBI but withdrew the plea two weeks ...

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Sep 16, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/15/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Today’s news can wait for tomorrow. Tonight, a thank-you. Exactly two years ago today, after about a six-week hiatus during the summer, I wrote a Facebook post that started: “Many thanks to all of you who have reached out to see if I'm okay. I am, indeed (aside from having been on the losing end of an encounter with a yellow jacket this afternoon!). I've been moving, setting up house, and finishing the new book. Am back and ready to write, but now everything ...

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Sep 15, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/14/2021

Heather Cox Richardson This morning, the team of Democratic senators working on a voting rights measure that could meet the demands of conservative Democratic West Virginia senator Joe Manchin released their bill. The 592-page document is described as a bill “to expand Americans’ access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes.” Led by Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the senators have called their effort the “Freedom to Vote Act.”...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Sep 14, 2021Sep 2021

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Anemoia is a word coined by The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, which means: nostalgia for a time you've never known. I believe that at our core, we all are deeply desiring of a world where justice and liberation dominate our social fabric. A time...

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Sep 14, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/13/2021

Heather Cox Richardson As the coronavirus continues to burn across the United States, Republicans are maintaining their opposition to President Joe Biden’s new requirement that certain groups, including those who work at companies that employ more than 100 people, should either be vaccinated or be tested frequently for the virus. They insist that vaccination should be voluntary, but have no solution to the new spike in coronavirus infections and deaths. In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis...

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Sep 14, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKTom Waddell: Subsidizing religion costs US taxpayers - CentralMaine.com

BY TOM WADDELL Churches want to turn American democracy upside down by advocating for representation without taxation. To meet the requirements of tax-exempt nonprofits, churches and secular 501(c)(3) charitable organizations “may not attempt to influence legislation as a substantial part of its activities and it may not participate at all in campaign activity for or against political candidates.” Yet, according to the Freedom Forum Institute, it is common for religious organizations, ...

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Sep 12, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKWho Is Buying My Neighborhood? | Sojourners

Anonymous corporations own more and more of our cities. BY CHUCK COLLINS INVISIBLE FORCES ARE disrupting housing markets in most metropolitan areas, fueling the most acute housing crisis in a generation. As pandemic protections are lifted, many communities are anticipating waves of evictions and foreclosures. By one estimate, the U.S. has a shortage of more than 5.5 million units of housing. Among these invisible forces is an explosion in short-term rentals, a shift to corporate ownership...

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Sep 12, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/11/2021

Heather Cox Richardson On the twentieth anniversary of the day terrorists from the al-Qaeda network used four civilian airplanes as weapons against the United States, the weather was eerily similar to the bright, clear blue sky of what has come to be known as 9/11. George W. Bush, who was president on that horrific day, spoke in Pennsylvania at a memorial for the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 who, on September 11, 2001, stormed the cockpit and brought their airplane down in a field,...

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Sep 11, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKA Just Cause, Not a Just War - HowardZinn.org

By Howard Zinn • The Progressive • July 16, 2007 I believe two moral judgments can be made about the present “war”: The September 11 attack constitutes a crime against humanity and cannot be justified, and the bombing of Afghanistan is also a crime, which cannot be justified. And yet, voices across the political spectrum, including many on the left, have described this as a “just war.” One longtime advocate of peace, Richard Falk, wrote in The Nation that this is “the first ...

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Sep 11, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKStatement from the AHA on the DOJ's Lawsuit Against Texas' SB 8 - American Humanist Association

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021 Today, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the United States Department of Justice is filing a lawsuit against the State of Texas regarding SB 8, a law that effectively bans abortion as early as six weeks of pregnancy. The American Humanist Association (AHA) applauds this decision by the Justice Department and will continue to help fight for abortion access and reproductive healthcare access across the nation. “Texas is in open defiance of the ...

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Sep 11, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/10/2021

Heather Cox Richardson When the Senate returns to business on September 14, voting rights are going to be on the table. In the midst of the efforts of Republican-dominated states to suppress voting, Joe Manchin (D-WV), who stood alone in his party against the sweeping For the People Act, has continued to lead a group of senators trying to craft a voting rights bill that will gain the support of at least ten Republicans so it can pass without changing the rules of the filibuster. The ...

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Sep 10, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKWoman who coughed on shoppers in viral video loses job

I am 50 miles east of Lincoln, it is the state capitol and I was born there soooo long ago. LINCOLN, Neb. — A woman who defied a local mask mandate and coughed on a woman and her in a Nebraska grocery store is no longer employed at her job at an Arizona business. Business software company SAP confirmed Wednesday that the woman featured in the viral video is a former employee who now no longer works for the company. "We have reviewed the incident and can confirm that the ...

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Sep 10, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKIn the Middle of the Great Resignation, Employers Are Rejecting Millions of Qualified Workers, New Harvard Research Finds

Problematic hiring software and bad job descriptions deserve a big chunk of the blame. A scroll through business media or even a stroll through your local downtown is enough to reveal just how desperate companies are to hire right now. "Help Wanted" signs adorn nearly every shop window, and the press is full of stories of companies offering extraordinary perks to attract talent. Given the incredible difficulty of hiring during "the Great Resignation," you'd therefore probably be pretty ...

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Sep 10, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/09/2021

Heather Cox Richardson After weeks of pleading with Americans to get vaccinated as Republican governors opposed mask mandates, ICUs filled up, and people died, today President Joe Biden went on the offensive. Saying, “My job as President is to protect all Americans,” he announced that he was imposing new vaccination or testing requirements on the unvaccinated. The U.S. government will require all federal employees, as well as any federal contractors, to be vaccinated. The government ...

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Sep 9, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/08/2021

Heather Cox Richardson On this day in 1974, President Gerald Ford granted “a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.” Ford said he was issuing the pardon to keep from roiling the “tranquility” the nation had begun to enjoy since Nixon stepped down. If Nixon were indicted and brought to ...

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Sep 8, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKMom Beats Up Catholic Preschool Teacher After Seeing Her Son Physically Abused | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos

Mom is proud of herself, and I say "well done!"

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Sep 8, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/07/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Early in the wake of Trump’s presidency, Republican Party lawmakers facing upcoming elections appear to have made the calculation that radicalized Trump voters were vital to their political futures. They seemed to worry that they needed to protect themselves against primary candidates from the right, since primaries are famous for bringing out the strongest partisans. If they could win their primaries, though, they could rely on tradition, gerrymandering, and voter ...

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Sep 7, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/06/2021

Heather Cox Richardson This week, lawmakers will begin to construct the details of the $3.5 trillion infrastructure package they declared their intention to pass. On August 11, the Senate approved a budget resolution telling committees to hammer out the details of a bill that will deal with the “soft” infrastructure not covered in the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill that dealt with roads, bridges, broadband, and other “hard” infrastructure needs. The larger bill will focus...

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Posts

Sep 6, 2021Sep 2021

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Fiddle_Garyben Heeeee's BACK!! Using the same dang photos! He was John Colgate back in July. The photo with him in the green shirt was used then. None of the pictures pop on Tin Eye. He looks real enough. I hate chihuahuas. Now he...

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Trolls, Scammers & Nigerian Russian Wives:Report Them Here

Sep 6, 2021Sep 2021

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Fiddle_Garyben Heeeee's BACK!! Using the same damn photos! He was John Colgate back in July. The photo with him in the green shirt was used then. None of the pictures pop on Tin Eye. He looks real enough. I hate chihuahuas. Now he...

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Sep 6, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKCovid Surges Nearly 700% In South Dakota After Sturgis Motorcycle Rally—An Even Higher Rate Than Last Year

South Dakota is experiencing a jump in coronavirus infections and hospitalizations after this year’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally many times greater than seen at the same point after last year’s superspreader event, an analysis of state data shows. South Dakota’s daily coronavirus cases have increased 685% from an average of 54 when the rally began on August 6 to 424 as of September 1, according to a tracker run by The New York Times. New infections had only jumped by about 260% by ...

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Sep 6, 2021Sep 2021

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From Your Local Epidemiologist: Review the science to equip yourself with facts: An abortion law was put into effect this week in my home state of Texas: banning all abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. Last night the Supreme Court decided not to...

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Sep 6, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/05/2021

Heather Cox Richardson On March 25, 1911, Frances Perkins was visiting with a friend who lived near Washington Square in New York City when they heard fire engines and people screaming. They rushed out to the street to see what the trouble was. A fire had broken out in a garment factory on the upper floors of a building on Washington Square, and the blaze ripped through the lint in the air. The only way out was down the elevator, which had been abandoned at the base of its shaft, or ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Sep 5, 2021Sep 2021

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I seem to be pulling more rarely used words out of the dark recesses of my mind. This is another one that would have gotten frowns at a former workplace. ob·liv·i·ous /əˈblivēəs/ adjective not aware of or not concerned about what is ...

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Sep 5, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKWe Need a Mass Movement to Defend Abortion Rights and We Need it Now - Left Voice

In Texas, you can get $10,000 if you report someone for getting an abortion after six weeks. In fact, you can even get $10,000 if you report someone helping another person get an abortion after 6 weeks, which is not limited to direct service provision. Not only could the physician performing the procedure be sued, but so could the front desk staff at the clinic, or even the ride share service driver that took the person to the clinic. This law went into effect on September 1, in Texas, which ...

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Sep 5, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKHospitals Crushed By COVID May Have To Ration Care : Shots - Health News : NPR

The U.S. health care system is again buckling under the weight of a COVID-19 surge that has filled more than 100,000 hospital beds nationwide and forced some states to consider enacting "crisis standards of care" — a last resort plan for rationing medical care during a catastrophic event. The idea is an alarming sign of how the delta variant has ripped through large swaths of the country — primarily sickening the unvaccinated and straining an already depleted health care workforce. In ...

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Sep 4, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKWillard Scott, legendary TODAY weatherman, dies at 87

Willard Scott, who forecast the weather on TODAY for more than three decades and spent 65 years at NBC, died this week, TODAY's Al Roker has confirmed. Willard Scott — the legendary TODAY weatherman known for his exuberant personality and launching the tradition of celebrating fans who reached the century mark — died this morning, TODAY's Al Roker has confirmed. Scott was 87 years old. "We lost a beloved member of our @todayshow family this morning," Roker shared on Instagram. "Willard...

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Sep 4, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKTrump's lawyers used his tactics to spread disinfo. Now they're paying for it.

The pro-Trump lawyers may still have succeeded in giving Trump and his allies the talking points they need to perpetuate the big lie. By Barbara McQuade, MSNBC Opinion Columnist Truth has taken a beating during the past few years, from former President Donald Trump’s claims about the size of the crowd at his inauguration to his statements that Covid-19 was a hoax. But on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Linda V. Parker, in Detroit, took a strong stand in its defense when she issued...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Sep 4, 2021Sep 2021

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I just used this word today and wanted to make sure I was right: moot /mo͞ot/ Learn to pronounce adjective 1. subject to debate, dispute, or uncertainty. "whether they had been successful or not was a moot point" Similar: debatable, open to ...

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Sep 4, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKWhy Satanists may be the last hope to take down Texas’s abortion bill

The state of Texas, with approval from the U.S. Supreme Court, instituted the most draconian set of anti-abortion laws in the last 50 years this Tuesday. While pro-choice advocates scramble to save what’s left of Roe v. Wade, their salvation may come from an unexpected place: The Satanic Temple. The nontheistic religious group, based out of Salem, Massachusetts, has filed a letter with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration arguing that their members should be allowed to access abortion ...

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Religion & Spirituality

Sep 4, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKR'amen! The Flying Spaghetti Monster Finally Gets A Praise-Worthy Hymn | HuffPost

R'amen and R'amen!

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Sep 4, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKWhy Texas Republicans’ Abortion Ban Could Backfire

Texas Republicans Got What They Wanted. They Might Regret It. Until now, Republicans have had a lucrative, no-risk way to rail against abortion. But accountability is coming. By David Frum Gerald Ford supported abortion rights. George H. W. Bush supported abortion rights for the first two decades of his political career. As governor of California, Ronald Reagan signed one of the most permissive abortion laws in the nation. Over the four decades since 1980, however, the Republican Party...

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Sep 4, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/03/2021

Heather Cox Richardson The new anti-abortion law in Texas is not just about abortion; it is about undermining civil rights decisions made by the Supreme Court during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. The Supreme Court declined to stop a state law that violates a constitutional right. Since World War II, the Supreme Court has defended civil rights from state laws that threaten them. During the Great Depression, Democrats under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt began to use the government to ...

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Sep 3, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKTikTok Users and Coders Flood Texas Abortion Site With Fake Tips

To protest Texas’ new abortion law, activists said, they pranked a website set up by the state’s largest anti-abortion group. By Nicole Perlroth After a Texas law restricting abortion went into effect on Wednesday, the state’s largest anti-abortion group publicized a website that invited citizens to inform on the law’s violators. The website, prolifewhistleblower.com, which was set up by the group Texas Right to Life, was designed to help carry out the new law. That’s because ...

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General & Hellos

Sep 3, 2021Sep 2021

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Copied from FB: Regarding Texas, here's a comment from one of today's threads: (from) Skylar Green People talk about using the website to troll or protest by naming male politicians. I don't think these people care....

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Sep 3, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKPro-Choice People Paralyze Texas Abortion Tip Line With Thousands Of Fake Reports

Good news!

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Sep 3, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/02/2021

Heather Cox Richardson In the light of day today, the political fallout from Texas’s anti-abortion S.B. 8 law and the Supreme Court’s acceptance of that law continues to become clear. By 1:00 this afternoon, the Fox News Channel had mentioned the decision only in a 20-second news brief in the 5 am hour. In political terms, it seems the dog has caught the car. As I’ve said repeatedly, most Americans agree on most issues, even the hot button ones like abortion. A Gallup poll from ...

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Sep 2, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKTexas Abortion Ban: What It Means and What Happens Next : NPR

With the U.S. Supreme Court mum, a new law went into effect in Texas that bans abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy. That's well before many women even know they are pregnant. The law allows private citizens to sue abortion providers and anyone else who helps a woman obtain an abortion — including those who give a woman a ride to a clinic or provide financial assistance to obtain an abortion. Private citizens who bring these suits don't need to show any connection to those they are ...

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Sep 2, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKRon Reagan: Unabashed Atheist - YouTube

A fresh version of an iconic Freedom From Religion Foundation ad featuring Ron Reagan is set to premier on Rachel Maddow’s and Stephen Colbert’s highly watched shows. The updated spot, in which the “unabashed atheist” is still notably “not afraid of burning in hell,” will debut on MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show.” The ad is slated to run six times, starting Tuesday, Sept. 7, through Thursday, Sept. 9, and then from Tuesday, Sept. 14, through Thursday, Sept. 16. The new ...

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Sep 2, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/01/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Last night at midnight, a new law went into effect in Texas. House Bill 1927 permits people to carry handguns without a permit, unless they have been convicted of a felony or domestic violence. This measure was not popular in the state. Fifty-nine percent of Texans—including law enforcement officers—opposed it. But 56% of Republicans supported it. “I don’t know what it’s a solution to,” James McLaughlin, executive director of the Texas Police Chiefs ...

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Academic (e.g., Science)

Sep 1, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKAccomplished Women Who Did Hard Work And Got No Credit

If you're a woman, especially in a male-dominated field, you probably know what it feels like to be overshadowed by male colleagues, even when you're doing better work than them. All of the women on this list know what that feels like. The group is comprised of scientists, artists, writers, inventors, and humanitarians, who never got credit for their remarkable achievements, and were snubbed when sexism reared its ugly head. The most remarkable thing about these women is that most of them ...

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Sep 1, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/31/2021

Heather Cox Richardson This afternoon, President Joe Biden explained to the nation why he ended the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history. He reminded Americans that the purpose of the attack on Afghanistan in 2001 was to destroy the ability of the Taliban to protect al-Qaeda and to capture or kill the terrorists who had attacked America on September 11, 2001. American bombing immediately weakened the Taliban, and when U.S. troops killed Osama bin Laden ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Aug 31, 2021Aug 2021

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beleaguered /bəˈlēɡərd/ adjective 1. in a very difficult situation. "the board is supporting the beleaguered director amid calls for his resignation" 2. (of a place) surrounded by armed forces aiming to capture it or force surrender; besieged. ...

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Aug 31, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/30/2021

Heather Cox Richardson At 3:29 ET on August 30, 2021—early on the morning of August 31 in Afghanistan—the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan ended. It was the longest war in American history. Among the last to come home were the 13 Americans killed in an ISIS-K attack last Thursday. They arrived at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware Sunday morning from Germany. President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Chairman...

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Aug 31, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKI'm a local ICU doctor. Please take precautions, COVID-19 is going to hit our hospitals hard | Nebraska Medicine Omaha, NE

By Daniel W. Johnson, MD, critical care anesthesiologist Published August 24, 2021 This is a personal social media post written by Nebraska Medicine critical care anesthesiologist Daniel W. Johnson, MD. It is shared with permission from Dr. Johnson. If you are considering getting vaccinated for COVID-19, please do so immediately. Our region has the potential to look exactly like Florida, Alabama and Mississippi over the next several weeks. In the southern U.S., many hospitals and ICUs ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Aug 30, 2021Aug 2021

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House Spouse English beats up other languages in dark alleys, and then rifles through their pockets for loose grammar and spare vocabulary.

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Religion & Spirituality

Aug 30, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKExplaining Humans to Aliens - YouTube

Mrs Betty Bowers tells it like it is.

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Aug 30, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKMy company wants me to investigate what expensive medical treatments employees are having and why — Ask a Manager

AskaManager is an awesome blog, this is one of today's discussions that I found interesting. The comments are fascinating as well. by ALISON GREEN on AUGUST 30, 2021 A reader writes: I took a job a few months ago doing benefits for a new company and recently have started to feel uneasy about one of my job duties. For now this particular duty has been delegated to my manager (who has experience in benefits but only started at this company a week before me), so I haven’t been doing ...

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Trump Pinata

Aug 29, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKFederal judge excoriates Trump lawyers, refers them for disbarment

Rachel Maddow reads from a ruling by Judge Linda V. Parker of the Federal District Court in Detroit in which she agrees with the case brought by Detroit that the lawsuits filed to overturn Donald Trump's election loss in Michigan were not actually about any legal issues but were political stunts to undermine the integrity of the election.

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Aug 29, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKFederal judge excoriates Trump lawyers, refers them for disbarment

Rachel Maddow reads from a ruling by Judge Linda V. Parker of the Federal District Court in Detroit in which she agrees with the case brought by Detroit that the lawsuits filed to overturn Donald Trump's election loss in Michigan were not actually about any legal issues but were political stunts to undermine the integrity of the election.

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Aug 29, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKActor Ed Asner, TV’s blustery Lou Grant, dies at 91

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ed Asner, the burly and prolific character actor who became a star in middle age as the gruff but lovable newsman Lou Grant, first in the hit comedy “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and later in the drama “Lou Grant,” died Sunday. He was 91. Asner’s representative confirmed the actor’s death in an email to The Associated Press. Asner’s official Twitter account included a note from his children: “We are sorry to say that our beloved patriarch passed away this ...

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Aug 29, 2021Aug 2021

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The handoff

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Posts

Aug 29, 2021Aug 2021

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The handoff.

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Aug 29, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKOpinion | Professors indoctrinating students? In reality, it’s the other way around. - The Washington Post

Brian Broome is the author of “Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir” and will be writer-in-residence at St. Mary’s College (California) in 2022. During the first few days of class, my students are silent and nervous. They are college first-years, and the class is English Composition. My job is to teach them to communicate effectively through writing. They file in anxiously and choose their seats. The majority are White and have come from suburbs around Pittsburgh, north New Jersey and ...

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Aug 29, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKKnow Your Rights! (Or, How I Got Tripped Up By Two Corinthians In A Public School)

Aug 23, 2021 by Ian Smith When I was a sophomore in high school, I was part of a group project that involved writing a report about a local historical landmark and then giving a class presentation about the same topic. We decided to write about an old historical church that one of the members attended (completely legal, by the way, because we picked the topic). My portion of the oral report involved the church’s beautiful stained-glass windows. One of those windows referenced a Bible quote ...

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Aug 29, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKMiss. Gov.: South's response to COVID impacted by belief in 'eternal life

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves believes religion has a lot to do with the region’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. During a Thursday, Aug. 26, fundraiser at the Eads home of Shelby County Election Commission Chairman Brent Taylor, Reeves spoke to several dozen Republicans. “I’m often asked by some of my friends on the other side of the aisle about COVID … and why does it seem like folks in Mississippi and maybe in the Mid-South are a little less scared, shall we say,” Reeves ...

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Aug 29, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/28/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Today, Americans across the country marched for voting rights. They recognize that our right to have a say in our government is slipping out of our hands. At a rally in Washington, Martin Luther King III told the crowd, “Our country is backsliding to the unconscionable days of Jim Crow. And some of our senators are saying, ‘Well, we can’t overcome the filibuster,’.... I say to you today: Get rid of the filibuster. That is a monument to white supremacy we ...

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Singles/Mingle/Chat

Aug 28, 2021Aug 2021

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I work in "member" service for a federal credit union. Yesterday I answered a call from a late 40ish guy, he was checking on the status of a credit card for someone he just put on his account as an authorized user. That means the AU can use the card,...

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Aug 28, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKGOP senator says unvaccinated Americans -- not undocumented immigrants -- are to blame for COVID-19 surge - Raw Story - Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) broke ranks with many Trump-loving governors on Friday when he said that unvacThe Citizen-Times reports that Tillis told the Council of Independent Business Owners on Thursday that it isn't fair to blame immigrants for the spread of the novel coronavirus when so many Americans are refusing a free vaccine.mmigrants. The Citizen-Times reports that Tillis told the Council of Independent Business Owners on Thursday that it isn't fair to blame immigrants for the spread of ...

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Religion & Spirituality

Aug 28, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKHarvard Has A New Chief Chaplain And He's An Atheist : NPR

Greg Epstein is the author of Good Without God. In his new role, he will oversee the activities of all religious communities on campus. His personal beliefs or disbelief don't seem to be an issue.

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Feline Fanatics

Aug 28, 2021Aug 2021

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Yes, the cat HAS been fed.

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Aug 28, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/28/2021

Heather Cox Richardson America is in a watershed moment. Since the 1980s, the country has focused on individualism: the idea that the expansion of the federal government after the Depression in the 1930s created a m of collectivism that we must destroy by cutting taxes and slashing regulation to leave individuals free to do as they wish. Domestically, that ideology meant dismantling government regulation, social safety networks, and public infrastructure projects. Internationally, it ...

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Aug 27, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/26/2021

Heather Cox Richardson In Afghanistan today, two explosions outside the Kabul airport killed at least 60 Afghan civilians and 13 U.S. troops. More than 100 Afghans and 15 U.S. service members were wounded. ISIS-K, the Islamic State Khorasan, claimed responsibility for the attack. ISIS-K is an extremist offshoot of the Taliban organized in Pakistan about six years ago by younger men who think the older leaders of the Taliban now in control of Afghanistan are too moderate. The ISIS-K ...

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Aug 26, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/25/2021

Today the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol asked eight federal agencies for records. The chair of the committee, Representative Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), gave the agencies two weeks to produce a sweeping range of material that showed the committee is conducting a thorough investigation of the last days of the Trump administration. Thompson sent letters to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), which keeps the ...

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Aug 25, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/24/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Since August 14, just ten days ago, the U.S. has facilitated the evacuation of 70,700 people from Afghanistan; more than 21,000 flew out in the last day alone. President Biden maintains that the U.S. will be out of Afghanistan by the August 31 deadline. The evacuation, which began chaotically as the Afghan army and government crumbled and the Taliban took over the country in less than two weeks, has become far more orderly and efficient. (If there’s one thing the ...

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Aug 24, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKChristian pastor gets 30 years in prison for secretly filming children as they undress – DeadState

A judge slapped a Texas church pastor with a 30-year prison sentence for secretly filming children — some as young as 11 — while they undressed, the New York Daily News reports. David Pettigrew, along with co-defendant Chad Rider, set up multiple hidden cameras disguising them as “hooks, clocks, charging blocks, a smoke detector, a picture frame, an air conditioner adapter and even a pen.” The covert recording of children took place at Denison Church of the Nazarene in Grayson ...

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Aug 24, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/23/2021

Today, the Food and Drug Administration gave full and final approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, which had previously been in use under an emergency authorization. The FDA approved the vaccine for people 16 and older. It has not yet been fully approved for people aged 12 to 15; for them it is still under an emergency authorization. The good news about the vaccine’s approval sent the stock market soaring, as investors hoped the approval would lead to a surge in vaccinations, ...

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Love & Relationships

Aug 23, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKIt Took Divorce to Make My Marriage Equal | Glamour

I thought this was awakening. I stood in my dining room surrounded by toys and the remnants of dinner from the night before sticking to the bottom of my feet. In the kitchen, a bag of trash was tipped over, its innards strewn across the floor. In the living room, a week’s worth of laundry had been waiting two weeks to be folded. It was 9:45 a.m., and already I was exhausted. I’d come home at midnight the night before, only to have to wake up at 5 a.m. with my toddler son and then take ...

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Aug 23, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/22/2021

A week after the Taliban took control of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, as the U.S. was withdrawing the forces that have been in the country since 2001, the initial chaos created by the Taliban’s rapid sweep across the country has simmered down into what is at least a temporary pattern. We knew there was a good chance that the Taliban would regain control of the country when we left, although that was not a foregone conclusion. The former president, Donald Trump, recognized that the ...

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Aug 22, 2021Aug 2021

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LINK'I'd rather be somewhere else': Ron Johnson suggests he doesn't want to be in the Senate

I'd rather he were somewhere else as well. The Wisconsin Republican has been mounting a campaign against his own reelection for months. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told a right-wing host on Wednesday that he does not actually want to be a U.S. senator saying he only took the job out of love for his country. Johnson, who is considering whether to stick with his two-term limit pledge or run for reelection in 2022, made the comments during an appearance on Wendy Bell Radio. The remarks were...

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Feline Fanatics

Aug 21, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKTouching Moment Little Girl Sings ‘You Are My Sunshine’ To Her Dying Cat

Caution: Tear alert.

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Health & Happiness

Aug 21, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKDon Winslow Films - ProtectYourChild - YouTube

Better a mask today than a respirator tomorrow.

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Aug 21, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKTransgender victory over Hobby Lobby could have national impact

LGBTQ advocates say the "sweeping" ruling could be used to attack “bathroom bills” and trans sports bans across the country. An appellate court deciding Hobby Lobby violated Illinois anti-discrimination law by denying a transgender employee access to the women’s restroom could have nationwide implications, experts say. Meggan Sommerville, a trans woman who has worked at a Hobby Lobby location in Aurora for more than 20 years, has been denied access to the store’s women’s room...

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Aug 21, 2021Aug 2021

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LINK49 unvaccinated University of Virginia students disenrolled from fall classes after failing to meet requirement - The Washington Post

University of Virginia disenrolls unvaccinated students ahead of fall semester Forty-nine students who registered for fall classes at the University of Virginia have been disenrolled after failing to meet the school’s vaccine mandate, officials said Friday. The campus unveiled its vaccine mandate in May and the overwhelming majority of the campus is in compliance, officials said. More than 96 percent of U-Va. students are vaccinated against the coronavirus and 335 students with ...

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Aug 21, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/20/2021

On August 21, 1831, Nat Turner, an enslaved American, led about 70 of his enslaved and free Black neighbors in a rebellion to awaken his white neighbors to the inherent brutality of slaveholding and the dangers it presented to their own safety. Turner and his friends traveled from house to house in their neighborhood in Southampton County, Virginia, freeing enslaved people and murdering about 60 of the white men, women, and children they encountered. Their goal, Turner later told an interviewer,...

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General & Hellos

Aug 20, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKIf Megachurches Were Honest | Honest Ads (Mars Hill, Hillsong, Bethel, Lakewood Church Parody) - YouTube

IF Megachurches Were Honest, Awesome, just awesome!

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Aug 20, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/19/2021

On Tuesday, Representative Terri Sewell (D-AL) introduced H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021. In 1965, a bipartisan majority in Congress passed the Voting Rights Act to protect the right to vote in America. That law was reauthorized on a bipartisan basis as recently as 2006. But in 2013, the Supreme Court struck down a vital piece of the Voting Rights Act, the piece requiring that the Department of Justice approve proposed changes in election rules in states with...

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Aug 19, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKAmericans United And American Atheists Applaud Dept. Of Education Plan To Reconsider Forcing Universities To Fund Discrimination By Religious Student Groups | Americans United for Separation of Church and State

Aug 19, 2021 Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it is reviewing and anticipates rescinding parts of a regulation enacted by the Trump administration that, among other things, forces universities to financially support religious student groups that discriminate. Americans United for Separation of Church and State and American Atheists, who are challenging this provision in federal court on behalf of the Secular Student Alliance and a California university student, welcomed...

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Aug 19, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/18/2021

It is still early days, and the picture of what is happening in Afghanistan now that the Taliban has regained control of the country continues to develop. Central to affairs there is money. Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world, with about half its population requiring humanitarian aid this year and about 90% of its people living below the poverty line of making $2 a day. The country depends on foreign aid. Under the U.S.-supported Afghan government, the United States ...

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Aug 17, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKCardinal Raymond Leo Burke, a Covid-19 vaccination critic, is hospitalized and on a ventilator - CNN

Karma is working overtime today, WTG girl!! (CNN)Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke has been hospitalized with Covid-19 and placed on a ventilator, according to a tweet over the weekend from his official account. In an tweet on August 10, Burke, a Covid-19 vaccination critic, announced he had tested positive for coronavirus, and said, "Thanks be to God, I am resting comfortably and receiving excellent medical care." It is unclear whether Cardinal Burke, who is in his early 70s, has been ...

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Aug 17, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKTexas Gov. Greg Abbott tests positive for COVID, isolating in Austin

Whoa!! I think shit just got real for the gubner. No one deserves it more... well, some more deserve it just as much. Gov. Greg Abbott tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday, according to his office. The Republican leader is fully vaccinated and was asymptomatic after testing positive, Abbott spokesman Mark Miner said. Abbott is receiving Regeneron's monoclonal antibody treatment while isolating at the Governor's Mansion, according to a news release. Gov. Greg Abbott announced Tuesday...

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Aug 17, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/16/2021

According to an article by Susannah George in the Washington Post, the lightning speed takeover of Afghanistan by Taliban forces—which captured all 17 of the regional capitals and the national capital of Kabul in about nine days with astonishing ease—was a result of “cease fire” deals, which amounted to bribes, negotiated after former president Trump’s administration came to an agreement with the Taliban in February 2020. When U.S. officials excluded the Afghan government from the ...

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Trump Pinata

Aug 16, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKMaddow Breaks Down How Trump Plot Revelations are Useful to Georgia Election Investigation

Donald Trump’s attempts to subvert the 2020 election results and declare himself the winner are being investigated by the Department of Justice’s inspector general, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol. Last week it was revealed that Jeffrey Clark, Trump’s acting head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division, tried to get DOJ leaders to falsely claim that investigations into voter fraud in Georgia cast ...

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Aug 16, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/15/2021

Today, in Afghanistan, Taliban fighters took over the presidential palace in Kabul, the country’s capital, while the president of the U.S.-backed Afghan government, Ashraf Ghani, fled to Tajikistan. The U.S. and many other countries are rushing to evacuate their diplomatic personnel and allies from the country, although Russia is not, as the Taliban has guaranteed their safety. As of tonight, all U.S. embassy personnel are at the Kabul airport, which is currently being protected by the U.S. ...

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Aug 15, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/14/2021

On this day in 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law. While FDR’s New Deal had put in place new measures to regulate business and banking and had provided temporary work relief to combat the Depression, this law permanently changed the nature of the American government. The Social Security Act is known for its payments to older Americans, but it did far more than that. It established unemployment insurance; aid to homeless, dependent, and ...

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Aug 14, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/13/2021

Yesterday, the Census Bureau released information about the 2020 census, designed to enable states to start the process of drawing new lines for their congressional districts, a process known as redistricting. Because of that very limited intent for this particular information dump, the picture the material gives is a very specific one. The specificity of that information echoes the political history that in the 1920s began to skew our Congress to give rural white voters disproportionate ...

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Aug 12, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKWhy Aren't We All Conspiracy Theorists?

Turn conspiracy theorizing upside down and you begin to see solutions. QAnon is now as popular as some major religions. That’s the finding of a study released by The Public Religion Research Institute. QAnon, of course, is a conspiracy theory centered on the idea that a cabal of Satan-worshipping, sex-trafficking pedophiles runs America. Another study found that 56% of Republicans believe that this theory is partly or mostly true. Facts like these underscore the importance of ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Aug 12, 2021Aug 2021

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Grumblement. This is not a word as we understand it, but it needs to be. It was used by the person leading the training class I was in yesterday. It was used to describe the discussion we have with some of our customers who call just to grouse ...

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Aug 12, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/11/2021

Four years ago today, racists, antisemites, white nationalists, Ku Klux Klan members, neo-Nazis, and other alt-right groups met in Charlottesville, Virginia, to “Unite the Right.” The man who organized the rally, Jason Kessler, claimed he wanted to bring people together to protest the removal of Confederate general Robert E. Lee from a local park. But the rioters turned immediately to chants that had been used by the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s: “you will not replace us,” “Jews will ...

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Aug 11, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKSecret IRS Files Reveal How Much the Ultrawealthy Gained by Shaping Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Tax Cut” — ProPublica

Billionaire business owners deployed lobbyists to make sure Trump’s 2017 tax bill was tailored to their benefit. Confidential IRS records show the windfall that followed.. In November 2017, with the administration of President Donald Trump rushing to get a massive tax overhaul through Congress, Sen. Ron Johnson stunned his colleagues by announcing he would vote “no.” Making the rounds on cable TV, the Wisconsin Republican became the first GOP senator to declare his opposition, ...

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Aug 11, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/10/2021

The shocking revelations from former acting attorney general Jeffrey A. Rosen about former president Trump’s direct efforts to use the Department of Justice to overturn the 2020 election, along with the horrors of spiking Covid among the unvaccinated, drove out of the news cycle a revelatory piece of news. Last Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Department of Labor released the jobs report for August 2021. It was stronger than economists had predicted, and even stronger than the ...

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Aug 10, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/09/2021

It appears the Senate is on track to pass the bipartisan $1 trillion “hard” infrastructure package as early as tomorrow morning. As soon as it passes, Democrats will turn to the $3.5 trillion bill, a sweeping measure that would modernize the nation’s approach to infrastructure by including human infrastructure as well as the older “hard” projects. It establishes universal pre-kindergarten for 3- and 4-year-olds, cuts taxes for families with children, makes community college ...

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Aug 9, 2021Aug 2021

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LINK/Letters From An American 08/21/2021

On the heels of yesterday’s testimony by former acting attorney general Jeffrey A. Rosen before the Senate Judiciary Committee, former president Trump hit the Fox News Channel to try to turn the conversation back to an attack on President Joe Biden’s handling of the coronavirus. “Could you imagine if I were president right now and we had this massive attack from the coronavirus?” he asked host Dan Bongino. “If that were me, they would say, ‘What a horrible thing, what a horrible ...

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Trump Pinata

Aug 8, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKA grand jury has been convened in the Trump criminal investigation which means the DA has proof of a crime | VozWire

About damn time!

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Aug 8, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/07/2021

While I try to post a picture on weekends, I don’t want to fail to put in this record that today’s testimony by Jeffrey A. Rosen, acting attorney general during the Trump administration, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, strikes me as being a game-changer. New York Times reporter Katie Benner broke the news way back in January that a relatively unknown lawyer in the Justice Department, Jeffrey Clark, worked secretly with then-president Donald Trump to overturn the results of the ...

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Aug 7, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKUSPS awards $120 million contract to Louis DeJoy’s former company XPO Logistics, raising ethics concerns - The Washington Post

The U.S. Postal Service will pay $120 million over the next five years to a major logistics contractor that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy previously helped lead and with which his family maintains financial ties, according to DeJoy’s financial disclosure statements and a federal contracting database. The new contract will deepen the Postal Service’s relationship with XPO Logistics, where DeJoy served as supply chain chief executive from 2014 to 2015 after the company purchased New Breed ...

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Aug 7, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKThe Young And Secular Are Least Vaccinated, Not Evangelicals

This surprised me. Check out the article for all the tables. (ANALYSIS) As the delta variant has caused COVID-19 to surge again in the United States, there’s been a flurry of attention paid to the share of Americans who have chosen to forgo the vaccine against the coronavirus. Trying to understand the causal factors that would lead to one not getting the inoculation seems to be the first task when it comes to finding ways to reduce vaccine hesitancy coast to coast. One of the primary...

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