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Dec 5, 2021Dec 2021

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

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

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Dec 4, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/03/2021

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

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Dec 3, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/02/2021

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

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Dec 2, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 12/01/2021

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

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Dec 1, 2021Dec 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/30/2021

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

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Nov 30, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/29/21

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

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Nov 28, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/27/2021

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

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Nov 27, 2021Nov 2021

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

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

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Nov 27, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/26/2021

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

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Nov 26, 2021Nov 2021

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

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

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Nov 26, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/25/2021

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

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Love & Relationships

Nov 25, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKShould Women Still Change Their Name When They Marry?

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

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Nov 25, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/24/2021

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

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Nov 25, 2021Nov 2021

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

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

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Nov 24, 2021Nov 2021

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

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

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Nov 24, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/23/2021

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

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Nov 23, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/22/2021

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

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Nov 22, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/21/2020

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

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Religion & Spirituality

Nov 21, 2021Nov 2021

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Sounds perfectly plausible.

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Religion & Spirituality

Nov 20, 2021Nov 2021

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

Fascinating!

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Nov 20, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/19/2021

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

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Nov 19, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKRich White Men Still Getting Away With Rape

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

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Nov 19, 2021Nov 2021

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

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

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Nov 19, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/18/2021

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

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Nov 18, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/17/2021

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

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Nov 17, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/16/2021

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

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Nov 16, 2021Nov 2021

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From my FB memories from 2013

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Nov 16, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKMob Justice Is Trampling Democratic Discourse - The Atlantic

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

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Nov 16, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/15/2021

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

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Nov 15, 2021Nov 2021

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

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

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Nov 15, 2021Nov 2021

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

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

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Nov 15, 2021Nov 2021

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

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

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Nov 15, 2021Nov 2021

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

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

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Nov 15, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/14/2021

November 14, 2021 Heather Cox Richardson Last night, Trump’s disgraced former national security advisor Michael Flynn spoke at the “Reawaken America” conference in San Antonio, Texas, designed to whip up supporters to believe the 2020 election was stolen and that coronavirus vaccines are an infringement on their liberty. Flynn told the audience: “If we are going to have one nation under God, which we must, we have to have one religion. One nation under God, and one religion under ...

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Nov 13, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKSnow leopards die of Covid-19 complications at Nebraska zoo - CNN

(CNN)Three snow leopards at the Lincoln Children's Zoo in Nebraska have died of complications from Covid-19, zoo officials announced Friday. "Our leopards, Ranney, Everest, and Makalu, were beloved by our entire community inside and outside of the zoo," the zoo said in a Facebook post. "This loss is truly heartbreaking, and we are all grieving together." Three giraffes died at the Dallas Zoo in less than a month. Experts are looking into whether two of the deaths are connected Snow ...

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Nov 13, 2021Nov 2021

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I have a dream!

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Nov 13, 2021Nov 2021

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LINK'Needs to Be Investigated as a Crime': Florida School Board Member Files Criminal Complaint Over LGBTQ Book for Teens

Published on November 11, 2021 at 06:52 PM ETBy David Badash A member of the Flagler County, Florida school board has filed a criminal complaint over four copies of an LGBTQ book recommended for 14 to 18 year olds, claiming it violates the state’s obscenity laws. “My concern is for the children of Flagler County,” Jill Woolbright claims, according to the Palm Coast Observer. “This book needs to be investigated as a crime in our media center. This is pretty heavy stuff, violating ...

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Nov 13, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKBorn to Win, Schooled to Lose: Why Equally Talented Students Don't Get Equal Chances to Be All They Can Be - CEW Georgetown

The American Dream promises that individual talent will be rewarded, regardless of where one comes from or who one’s parents are. But the reality of what transpires along America’s K-12-to-career pipeline reveals a sorting of America’s most talented youth by affluence—not merit. Among the affluent, a kindergartner with test scores in the bottom half has a 7 in 10 chance of reaching high SES among his or her peers as a young adult, while a disadvantaged kindergartner with top-half test ...

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Nov 13, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKJosh Hawley wants to fix America's men. Good luck to him.

Hawley points to real struggles that men are experiencing, but fails to come up with ways to actually solve them. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., isn’t even trying to be subtle about the fact that he’s desperately trying to woo male voters. Hawley is right. Men as a whole are not doing very well. In an interview with Axios over the weekend, the senator proclaimed he was going to make masculinity a signature campaign issue because men, a demographic responsible for about 90 percent of ...

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Nov 13, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/12/2021

Heather Cox Richardson This afternoon, a federal grand jury indicted Trump advisor Stephen K. Bannon on two counts of contempt of Congress. Today’s indictment was signed by Matthew M. Graves, the new U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, sworn into office just a week ago today. Bannon was part of the gang at the so-called War Room at the Willard Hotel that apparently helped to plan the events of January 6, and before that date he told his podcast audience repeatedly to expect ...

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General & Hellos

Nov 12, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKDid my intern frame my coworker for credit card theft? — Ask a Manager

This is a fascinating article and made me laugh out loud a few times in the comments. A jacket belonging to an intern was stolen from an office, and the woman accused of the crime "couldn't have done it because she went to church." Once you get into the comments it is just amazing. I don't usually read the commentary, but this one has some great stuff.

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Nov 12, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/11/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Our Veterans Day falls on what used to be called Armistice Day. On that day in 1918, the major fighting of World War I ended. My grandfather fought in France in WWI, but when I think of that horrific, interminable conflict, and all that it says about war, I think not of him, but of George Lawrence Price. In 1918, Price was a private serving with Company A of the 28th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Belgium. Along with all the other exhausted ...

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Nov 11, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKAmerica 'on fire': Facebook watched as Trump ignited hate

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The reports of hateful and violent posts on Facebook started pouring in on the night of May 28 last year, soon after then-President Donald Trump sent a warning on social media that looters in Minneapolis would be shot. It had been three days since Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on the neck of George Floyd for more than eight minutes until the 46-year- Black man lost consciousness, showing no signs of life. A video taken by a bystander had been viewed ...

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Nov 11, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/10/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Today, in a joint press conference with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the U.S. is "concerned by reports of unusual Russian military activity," which it is "monitoring very closely” out of concern that Russia might invade Ukraine again as it did in 2014. Russia has been building up troops near the border, and Russian leaders have been talking more forcefully about asserting control over Ukraine. The Biden ...

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Nov 11, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/10/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Today, in a joint press conference with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the U.S. is "concerned by reports of unusual Russian military activity," which it is "monitoring very closely” out of concern that Russia might invade Ukraine again as it did in 2014. Russia has been building up troops near the border, and Russian leaders have been talking more forcefully about asserting control over Ukraine. The Biden ...

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Nov 10, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/09/2021

Heather Cox Richardson While President Joe Biden quietly tried to fix the congestion at ports that is causing supply chain issues, the news today has been consumed by one story after another showing the increasing radicalization of those Republicans in charge of the national party. Yesterday’s news that Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) had posted a video of himself as an anime character killing Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and slashing at an anime Biden drew attention ...

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Nov 9, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/08/2021

Heather Cox Richardson The big news of the day is the Biden administration’s ongoing efforts to combat international terrorism and lawlessness through cybersecurity and international cooperation. Today the Department of Justice, the State Department, and the Treasury Department together announced indictments against two foreign actors for cyberattacks on U.S. companies last August. They announced sanctions against the men, one of whom has been arrested in Poland; they seized $6.1 ...

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Nov 8, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKTrump allies Flynn, Miller, Eastman, others subpoenaed by Jan 6 committee | Reuters

WASHINGTON, Nov 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. congressional committee probing the deadly Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol issued subpoenas seeking documents and testimony from six more associates of former President Donald Trump, including top aides from his re-election campaign. They are William Stepien, manager of Republican Trump's 2020 re-election campaign; Jason Miller, senior adviser to the campaign; Angela McCallum, national executive assistant to the campaign; John Eastman, an attorney for ...

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Feline Fanatics

Nov 8, 2021Nov 2021

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LINK50 Uplifting Cat Posts That Show How Caring And Wholesome Cats Are

Caution: Awwwww alerts.

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Nov 7, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKHow (and why) the Jan. 6 committee is making 'real progress'

How (and why) the Jan. 6 committee is making 'real progress' On the surface, the Jan. 6 committee is fighting with Team Trump for cooperation. Below the surface, the investigation is making surprising strides. By Steve Benen In light of the coverage surrounding the Jan. 6 committee and its fight to hear from Donald Trump's allies, it may be tempting to think the bipartisan select committee has been stymied in its work. As NBC News reported, there's fresh evidence to the contrary. ...

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Nov 7, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKAbortion: I grew up a Texan evangelical Christian. I'm not a single-issue voter any more.

By Andrea Lucado The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Texas’ law that bans abortions as early as six weeks into pregnancy and deputizes citizens to sue anyone they know who has provided an abortion or assisted in one. In an extraordinary move last month, the court declined to grant a temporary stay of the law as requested by the Justice Department, but the justices took up the case on an expedited timeline. With hearings already scheduled for Dec. 1 in a separate case challenging a ...

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Nov 7, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/06/2021

Heather Cox Richardson As soon as the Democrats in the House of Representatives, marshaled by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), passed the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (H.R. 3684) by a bipartisan vote of 228–206 last night, Republicans began to say that the Democrats were ushering in “socialism.” When Republicans warn of socialism, they are not talking about actual socialism, which is an economic system in which the means of production, that is, the ...

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Nov 7, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKHow extremist Christian theology is driving the right-wing assault on democracy | Salon.com

Progressive policies and positions are supposed to be rooted in reality and hard evidence. But that's not always the case when it comes to the culture wars that have such an enormous impact on our politics — especially not since the unexpected evangelical embrace of Donald Trump in 2016, culminating in the "pro-life" death cult of anti-vaccine, COVID-denying religious leaders. If this development perplexed many on the left, it was less surprising to a small group of researchers who have been ...

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Nov 6, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKVaccine resistance: How to reach secular Americans who won’t get vaccinated - Deseret News

How to reach the secular Americans who refuse to get vaccinated While those unaffiliated with a religion have a high vaccination rate, there are secular holdouts who remain hesitant or are refusers. With no centralized place to reach them, how do we help them get vaccinated? By Mya Jaradat@myaguarnieri Oct 24, 2021, 10:00pm MDT Share this story Share this on Facebook (opens in new window) Share this on Twitter (opens in new window) SHARE All sharing options Recently, in my social ...

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Nov 6, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/05/2021

Heather Cox Richardson 9 hr ago 586 180 In February 2021, the month after President Joe Biden took office, unemployment was 6.3%, and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projected that it would take until the end of 2023 for the nation to reach 4.6% unemployment. In March 2021, Congress passed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan to stimulate the economy, which had withered during the coronavirus pandemic. The plan extended unemployment benefits and provided stimulus payments to...

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Nov 5, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American

Heather Cox Richardson Republican state legislatures are gerrymandering districts to elect members to the House of Representatives. The results are extreme. According to voting expert Ari Berman, in Ohio, where former president Trump got 53% of the vote in 2020, the new maps would give Republicans 86% of seats. In North Carolina, where Trump won 49.9% of the vote, Republicans would take 71–78% of seats, which translates to a 10–4 advantage if the voters split the vote evenly. In ...

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Trump Pinata

Nov 5, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKNew Grand Jury Seated As Trump Criminal Probe Continues | HuffPost Latest News

The Manhattan district attorney’s office is weighing whether to seek more indictments in a case that has already resulted in tax fraud charges against Trump’s company, By Michael R. Sisak NEW YORK (AP) — New York prosecutors investigating former President Donald Trump’s business dealings have convened a new grand jury to hear evidence in the probe as the previous panel’s term was set to run out, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press Thursday. The ...

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Nov 4, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/03/2021

Heather Cox Richardson While the news has been full of stories about how Trump-like Glenn Youngkin’s win in yesterday’s Virginia governor’s race spells disaster for Democrats going into 2022, the election news is not at all such a clear story. The Virginia governor’s race almost always goes against whichever party is in the White House; indeed, journalist Eric Boehlert, who studies the press, noted that this pattern is so well established that in 2009, during President Barack ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Nov 3, 2021Nov 2021

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PLETHORA pleth·o·ra 1. a large or excessive amount of (something). "a plethora of committees and subcommittees" 2. MEDICINE an excess of a bodily fluid, particularly blood.

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Nov 3, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/02/2021

Heather Cox Richardson The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP26, is underway right now in Glasgow, Scotland. It began on Sunday, October 31, and will last until Friday, November 12. (COP stands for “Conference of the Parties” and this is the 26th meeting. The “parties” are the countries that signed the 1994 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.) President Joe Biden spent Monday and Tuesday at COP26, where he tried to demonstrate ...

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Nov 2, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/01/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Americans appear to be waking up to the reality that our democracy is on the ropes. Emerging details about how hard Trump lawyer John Eastman pushed his memo with the plan of how Trump could steal the 2020 election, along with the chronology of the events surrounding the January 6 insurrection compiled by reporters for the Washington Post, show that we came perilously close to a successful coup d’état. New polls show that 82% of people who watch the Fox News...

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Nov 1, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKCan Cats See Optical Illusions? This Cute Feline Investigates - Nerdist

Cats are undoubtedly clever creatures. The species is known for getting into all kinds of mischief. From stealthily stalking their prey to making their every desire known, cats are ahead of the curve. But this video by Hosico Cat begs the question, can cats see optical illusions? While cats don’t seem to be able to, for instance, recognize themselves in the mirror, optical illusions are a bit different. The illusion only requires sight, not precisely a deeper level of understanding. The ...

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Nov 1, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKHow to find a comfortable bra or go braless - The Washington Post

Kate Chapman doesn’t know where her bras are — or whether she even owns one anymore. “It’s a delicious feeling,” she says, noting that the last time she tried on a bralette, which is one of the more comfortable variations of the undergarment, it felt so restrictive that she donated it. “My body doesn’t want me to strap it in for fashion’s sake or because culture says I should. Nope. No more,” says Chapman, 51, a life coach who lives in Colorado. She spent decades performing ...

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Nov 1, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKQuitting Your Job Never Looked So Fun

By John Herrman Oct. 29, 2021 In making sense of the Great Resignation — the phrase coined for the record rate at which Americans have quit their jobs this year — it’s important not to lose sight of the fundamentals. We’re living in a pandemic. There’s a child-care crisis. Workers across the board are worn out. Others are just over the grind. It also helps to read some receipts. For months, text exchanges between fed-up employees and their villainous bosses have been going ...

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Nov 1, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKWhite House press secretary Jen Psaki reveals she has COVID-19 : NPR

President Biden's press secretary Jen Psaki said on Sunday that she has tested positive for COVID-19, the highest-ranking White House official to have publicly revealed a case in this administration. Psaki, who is fully vaccinated, said she has experienced only mild symptoms. In a statement, she said she had not had contact with senior White House officials since Wednesday — four days before she tested positive — and last saw Biden on Tuesday, when they were wearing masks and were more ...

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Nov 1, 2021Nov 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/31/2021

Heather Cox Richardson In the weeks after the January 6 insurrection, one of the things that struck me as an odd political calculation was how quickly Republican lawmakers fell back into line behind former president Trump. Anyone watching could see that the information about Trump’s involvement in that insurrection that would come out by, well, right about now—about a year before the midterm elections—was going to be bad. And here we are, and yes it is. Today the Washington Post ...

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Oct 31, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKOpinion | Allowing abortion before 15 weeks, and barring it after, would be in line with the original meaning of the 14th Amendment - The Washington Post

Opinion: A middle ground on abortion that originalists should embrace October 26, 2021 As the Supreme Court weighs the future of Roe v. Wade, one of the chief arguments for overruling the case — and allowing states to ban abortions throughout pregnancy — is that the right to abortion is inconsistent with the Constitution’s original meaning. Opinions to start the day, in your inbox. Sign up. The problem with this argument is that it is historically inaccurate. If the ...

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Oct 31, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKThe Five Universal Laws of Human Stupidity

We underestimate the stupid, and we do so at our own peril. In 1976, a professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley published an essay outlining the fundamental laws of a force he perceived as humanity’s greatest existential threat: Stupidity. Stupid people, Carlo M. Cipolla explained, share several identifying traits: they are abundant, they are irrational, and they cause problems for others without apparent benefit to themselves, thereby lowering ...

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Oct 31, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKPhiladelphia to become first major US city to ban police from stopping drivers for low-level traffic violations - CNN

(CNN)When Philadelphia's mayor signs landmark legislation as soon as this week, the city will become the first major US city to ban police from stopping drivers for low-level traffic violations -- stops that studies show target Black drivers at disproportionately higher rates. The Driving Equality Bill, passed 14-2 by the city council on October 14, categorizes certain motor vehicle code violations as "primary violations," which allow officers to pull people over in the name of public safety,...

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Oct 31, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKAmerican Airlines cancels more than 600 flights on Sunday - CNN

(CNN)American Airlines canceled another 634 flights on Sunday, more than 12% of its total operations for the day, the company said Sunday. The airline has now canceled more than 1,500 flights since Friday, as it deals with weather issues and staffing shortages that started last week. "With additional weather throughout the system, our staffing begins to run tight as crew members end up out of their regular flight sequences," American said in a statement to CNN on Saturday. Two days of ...

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Oct 30, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLower working memory capacity linked to non-compliance with social distancing guidelines during the early stage of the coronavirus outbreak

I kinda suspected this... New research provides preliminary evidence that working memory is associated with engaging in social distancing in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic. The new study has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. On March 11th, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus SARS‐CoV‐2 to be a global pandemic. Governments around the world urged people to follow preventive health measures ...

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Oct 30, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/29/2021

Heather Cox Richardson The Republican Party has long ceased to offer policy ideas and is focusing on culture wars and obstruction. Their big statement this week has been to throw “Let’s go, Brandon” into speeches and, in the case of Representative Lauren Boebert (R-CO), into a rap video in which she stars. The phrase means “F--k Joe Biden,” for those in the know; they use it because social media moderators do not flag it. The press secretary for Senate Minority Leader Mitch ...

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Oct 29, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 10/28/2021

Heather Cox Richardson In 1929, October 28 was a Monday, the opening night for New York’s Metropolitan Opera. Four thousand glittering attendees thronged to the elegant building on foot or in one of a thousand limousines to see Puccini’s Manon Lescaut, the melodramatic story of an innocent French girl seduced by wealth, whose reluctance to leave her riches for true love leads to her arrest, deportation to the wilds of America, and tragic death. Flash bulbs blinded the crowd, gathered...

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Oct 28, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKIn U.S., Far More Support Than Oppose Separation of Church and State | Pew Research Center

But there are pockets of support for increased church-state integration, more Christianity in public life The First Amendment to the United States Constitution states that the country shall have no official religion. At the same time, Christians continue to make up a large majority of U.S. adults – despite some rapid decline in recent years – and historians, politicians and religious leaders continue to debate the role of religion in the founders’ vision and of Christianity in the ...

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Oct 28, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/27/2021

Heather Cox Richardson At a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee today, Republican senators accused Attorney General Merrick Garland of “siccing” the FBI on parents who are simply concerned about their child’s education. The backstory is that there has been a coordinated effort across the country to whip up protests at school board meetings over mask mandates and opposition to teaching Critical Race Theory in K–12 schools (where it is not taught), and they have gotten ...

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Oct 27, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 10/26/2021

Heather Cox Richardson For all the news stories that seem to tug us in one direction or another, there is just one overarching story in the news for Americans today. We are in an existential fight to defend our democracy from those who would destroy it. People seem to hark back to films from the 1930s and 1940s and think that so long as we don’t have tanks in our streets, our government is secure. But in this era, democracies die more often through the ballot box than at gunpoint....

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Oct 26, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKTrump Is Tearing Apart the Evangelical Church - The Atlantic

The election of the elders of an evangelical church is usually an uncontroversial, even unifying event. But this summer, at an influential megachurch in Northern Virginia, something went badly wrong. A trio of elders didn’t receive 75 percent of the vote, the threshold necessary to be installed. “A small group of people, inside and outside this church, coordinated a divisive effort to use disinformation in order to persuade others to vote these men down as part of a broader effort to take...

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Oct 26, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 10/25/2021

Heather Cox Richardson “Caravans” of migrants to our southern border are once again headline news on the Fox News Channel, but while these anti-immigrant stories divert attention from news that those on the right would like to bury, as usual, they also establish a larger pattern. Whipping up fears of immigration is standard for authoritarians trying to convince followers to support the loss of civil liberties in order to promote law and order. One of those who rose to power with just...

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Oct 25, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKJob market trend: Hiring managers are enraged at job seekers “ghosting” them.

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. In today’s topsy-turvy job market, a strange new thing is happening. Employers are increasingly grumbling about job seekers “ghosting” them. These job candidates ...

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Oct 25, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKEvangelicals scrambling to oust belief in Trump as congregations are torn apart - Raw Story - Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism

In an extensive piece in the Atlantic, former George W. Bush speechwriter Peter Wehner explained that some evangelical leaders are picking through the wreckage of their congregations that were torn apart by the influence of former president Donald Trump. Wehner, a highly vocal Christian, has been no friend of Trump and is worried that the Christian faith has been damaged by the embrace of the one-term president by high-profile evangelical leaders which, in turn, has left some congregations in...

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Oct 25, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 10/24/2021

Heather Cox Richardson I had planned to post a picture tonight, but this evening Rolling Stone dropped an exclusive, blockbuster story from reporter Hunter Walker that demands attention. The story says that two sources who are talking to the January 6th committee about planning the January rallies in Washington, D.C., have talked to Rolling Stone as well. They say they worked with congressional lawmakers and White House officials to plan rallies both in Washington, D.C., and around the...

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Oct 24, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 10/23/2021

Heather Cox Richardson There are three stories in the news today that seem to me to add up to a larger picture. First is the story of money laundering, which seems suddenly to be all over the news. Today we learned that federal prosecutors in Detroit have broken into a massive money-laundering operation between the United States and the United Arab Emirates called “The Shadow Exchange.” They confiscated $12 million and suggest this is the tip of the iceberg. This story comes just ...

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Oct 23, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 10/22/2021

Heather Cox Richardson This morning, Jonathan Martin at the New York Times reported that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) has warned Republican political consultants that they may not continue to work for both him and Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY), who is vice chair of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. While Republican lawmakers are trying to sweep the insurrection under the rug, Cheney is calling out the attack ...

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Oct 22, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 11/21/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Last night, the “Trump Media and Technology Group” (TMTG) issued a press release announcing the creation of a “rival to the liberal media consortium” which would “fight back against the “Big Tech’ companies of Silicon Valley, which have used their unilateral power to silence opposing voices in America.” The new social media site was called “Truth Social,” and his team advertised it as the first piece of a media empire that would take its place ...

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Oct 21, 2021Oct 2021

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douglasrobb211 Oh puhleese, there is no way in hell that there is a Lt. General on Ag.com with his profile picture his formal photo. He lists his education level as High School. Oh heebus jeebus, what a moron. I only noticed because ...

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Oct 21, 2021Oct 2021

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douglasrobb211 Oh puhleese, no way is there a Lt. General on Ag.com with his profile picture his formal photo. He lists his education level as High School. Oh heebus jeebus, what a moron. I only noticed because he visited my ...

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Oct 21, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKGOP Rep. Fortenberry May Have Made One Or Thirty Thousand Campaign Finance Oopsies | Above the Law

Yesterday morning Nebraska Congressman Jeff Fortenberry put out a strange message on his website. “You deserve to hear it from us firsthand,” began the post, which was styled as a letter from his wife Celeste to Fortenberry’s constituents. It included a video of the congressman and the missus, parked in a cornfield inside their “1963 Ford F100 pickup truck,” adorable puppy in tow. Because Jeff Fortenberry is a Real American™. In the Fortenberrys’ telling, poor saintly Jeff is...

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Oct 21, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 10/20/2021

Heather Cox Richardson This afternoon, Senate Republicans blocked a discussion of the Freedom to Vote Act. The measure is the compromise bill put together by seven Democrats and one Independent after Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) said he could not support the more sweeping For the People Act passed by the House of Representatives. Manchin maintained that a carefully crafted bill could attract the ten Republican senators it needed to break a filibuster. The Freedom to Vote Act would provide ...

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Oct 20, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 10/19/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Always eager to stay in the news, former president Trump issued statements today insulting former secretary of state and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell, who passed at 84 yesterday after suffering complications from Covid-19. Trump also complained about the removal of a statue of Thomas Jefferson from the New York City Council Chamber. Unfortunately, he undermined his claim to be defending American history when he misidentified Jefferson as ...

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Oct 19, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 10/18/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Today, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol recommended that the House of Representatives find Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon in contempt of Congress. Bannon is refusing to cooperate with a subpoena for documents and testimony about the events surrounding the January 6 insurrection. Now the House will take up the question of contempt. The committee report is a lot more interesting than that topline suggests ...

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Oct 17, 2021Oct 2021

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Heather Cox Richardson On October 8, the executive director of curriculum and instruction for the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, told a teacher to make sure to follow Texas’s new law requiring teachers to present ...

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Oct 16, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 10/15/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told his colleagues that on Monday evening he plans to bring up the Freedom to Vote Act and to try to get it through the Senate. The Republicans are determined not to let Democrats level the electoral playing field. While Democrats in the House, where legislation can pass with a simple majority vote, have passed voting rights laws, Democrats in the Senate have to deal with the filibuster, which enables senators ...

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Oct 15, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 10/14/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Today Stephen K. Bannon, a one-time adviser to former president Trump, was supposed to testify before the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. Yesterday, Bannon’s lawyer sent a letter to committee chair Representative Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) saying that Bannon would neither produce documents nor testify because “President Trump”—not former president Trump—“is exercising his executive privilege; therefore, he...

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Oct 14, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An America 10/13/2021

Heather Cox Richardson President Joe Biden has tried to move the country beyond the partisanship of the current Republican Party by focusing on making government work so that people forget their differences and direct their attention to rebuilding the country. It is not an easy task, especially when the Republicans illustrate, as they did with their votes on raising the debt ceiling, that they would happily tank the country if it means regaining power. But Biden’s push forward is ...

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Oct 13, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 10/12/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Tonight the House voted to raise the debt ceiling by $480 billion, which should keep the country afloat until December 3. The vote was 219 to 206, with all Republicans either voting no or refusing to vote. Republican representative Andy Biggs from Arizona moved to adjourn Congress rather than take the vote at all. Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) said he would not vote to raise the debt ceiling because government spending funds “tyranny” over people’s lives. He ...

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Health & Happiness

Oct 12, 2021Oct 2021

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LINK10 Reasons to Wear a Mask

The new school year and the increasing dangers of the delta variant have caused another wave of debates about mask wearing. Although states and territories differ on their mandates, public health experts strongly encourage all people over the age of two to continue to wear masks. As advocates for science and compassion, humanists have many reasons to wear masks to help decrease the spread of COVID-19. Here are some inspired by the Ten Commitments: 1. Altruism – I want to help others stay ...

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Oct 12, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 10/11/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Both the New York Times and the Washington Post today ran op-eds from Republicans or former Republicans urging members of their party who still value democracy to vote Democratic until the authoritarian faction that has taken over their party is bled out of it. In the New York Times, Miles Taylor and Christine Todd Whitman wrote, “We are Republicans. There’s only one way to save our party from pro-Trump extremists.” Taylor served in the Department of Homeland ...

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Oct 11, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 10/10/2021

Heather Cox Richardson The fight over raising the debt ceiling reveals that the Trump wing has taken control of the Republican Party. Defaulting on our debt for the first time in our history would have crushed our economy and forfeited our international standing. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that a default would be “catastrophic,” creating “a permanently weaker nation.” Financial analysts at Moody’s Analytics noted that when a problem with word-processing ...

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Oct 10, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKNebraska’s poorest county is also its most vaccinated. Here’s why. | Health and Fitness | journalstar.com

WINNEBAGO — On a muggy August afternoon, members of the Winnebago Tribe in northeast Nebraska gathered to clean heritage corn and dry it for the coming winter. Some will be given to relatives. Some will be used in soup to warm tribal members when the Nebraska weather turns brutally cold. This return to the normal rhythms of Winnebago life feels deeply satisfying to tribal members like Keely Purcell. A year ago, Purcell sat lonely in her Iowa living room, staying home, working hard to keep ...

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Oct 8, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 10/08/2021

Heather Cox Richardson By midnight last night, four of former president Donald Trump’s closest allies were required to turn over documents to the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. The four are former chief of staff Mark Meadows, social media manager Dan Scavino, adviser Steve Bannon, and former Defense Department official Kash Patel. Today, committee chair Bennie Thompson (D-MS) and vice chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) released a ...

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