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Apr 30, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKIdaho lawmaker resigns after a 'terrified' 19-year-old aide detailed rape allegations

Hours after a legislative ethics committee voted that he should be suspended or permanently expelled for misconduct, an Idaho lawmaker accused of rape resigned Thursday, the Idaho Statesman reported. The former representative, identified as Aaron von Ehlinger, was accused of raping a 19-year- intern. Investigations against von Ehlinger began in March after the young staffer reported he raped her in his apartment after the two had dinner. After the Idaho House Ethics and House Policy ...

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Apr 30, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKSupreme Court Conservatives Just Made It Easier to Sentence Kids to Life in Prison | The Marshall Project

The new ruling could worsen existing racial disparities in states that condemn teens to die in prison. For years, the Supreme Court sent a consistent message about kids who commit the most serious crimes: They’re still kids. Their bad decisions are often a product of abusive upbringings and still-developing brains. So they can’t be executed. And they can’t get life without parole unless they kill someone — and even then, “all but the rarest of children” deserve a chance at ...

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Love & Relationships

Apr 30, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKHey, gals! If you're tired of the 'soy boy swamp,' this new 'Christian' dating site is for you!

This so much makes me want to be a troll or a scammer. Do you think I could pull it off...

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Apr 30, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKTed Cruz admits a bit too much about influence of corporate cash

April 30, 2021, 8:25 AM CDT By Steve Benen Three years ago this week, Mick Mulvaney spoke to a group of banking industry executives, who were likely eager to hear what he had to say. By that point, the Republican was already a highly influential figure in the Trump administration, leading both the White House budget office and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, so when the former South Carolina congressman agreed to offer bankers some guidance, they were ready to listen. "We had a ...

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Apr 30, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/29/2021

Today marks the hundredth day of the Biden-Harris administration. In many ways, the hundred-day mark is arbitrary, a holdover from the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who worked with Congress to pass 76 new laws by the end of his first 100 days, setting a high bar for a consequential presidency. A hundred days is not an entirely useless metric, though, because by that time, a modern president has generally set the tone of the administration. Crucial to the success of that tone is having...

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Apr 29, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKTLC star Josh Duggar arrested on federal charges | TheHill

What are Mama and Papa 19 kids going to say about this one? Josh Duggar, the former star of the TLC show "19 Kids and Counting," was arrested by federal authorities on Thursday. The website for the Washington County Sheriff's office shows that Duggar was arrested on Thursday and was booked around 1 p.m. He is being held without bail, according to the website. The records shows that Duggar was arrested by U.S. Marshals, meaning the nature of arrest was federal and not state related. It ...

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Apr 29, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKHow Amy Coney Barrett is backfiring for the right.

A Different Kind of Supreme Court Reform Is Already Happening The left is finally paying attention to the court, and it might be having an impact. But here is where we slightly miss the point: It is this sustained and productive frustration on the left that is really new and, in theory, transformational. It signals that the court has become a big, important issue. A progressive left that often sleepwalked through the Merrick Garland blockade and had no idea how to message the judiciary in ...

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Apr 29, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKJoe Biden was a boring candidate. He now draws comparisons to FDR | The Economist

WASHINGTON, DC “I’m sick and tired of reading how we’re planning another ‘hundred days’ of miracles,” griped John F. Kennedy before assuming the presidency. The sentiment made its way into his inaugural address, albeit in a more stirring manner: “All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1,000 days, nor in the life of this administration.” A recurrent trope of American politics is to scour the actions of the first 100 days of ...

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Apr 29, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKThe most dangerous place on Earth | The Economist

The test of a first-rate intelligence, wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald, is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. For decades just such an exercise of high-calibre ambiguity has kept the peace between America and China over Taiwan, an island of 24m people, 100 miles (160km) off China’s coast. Leaders in Beijing say there is only one China, which they run, and that Taiwan is a rebellious part of it. America nods to the one China idea,...

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Apr 29, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/28/2021

Earlier today, in anticipation of tonight’s address to Congress, President Joe Biden met with news anchors. The president told them that his many meetings with foreign leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, have convinced him that the story of this moment is whether democracy can survive the challenges of the twenty-first century. As things speed up, is it possible, he asked, to achieve the consensus necessary for democracy in time to compete with...

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Apr 28, 2021Apr 2021

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skyline A god botherer who has just PM'd me. Not much to go on except he lives in Texas and I don't, and he says he's 45, and I am so far past that. Not much to go on, but 45 and in Texas and asking me if I want to correspond to get ...

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Apr 28, 2021Apr 2021

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skyline A god botherer who has just PM'd me. Not much to go on except he lives in Texas and I don't, and he says he's 45, and I am so far past that. Not much to go on, but 45 and in Texas and asking me if I want to correspond to ...

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Apr 28, 2021Apr 2021

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Patlor00 God botherer. Following women from all over the place. There are contradictions in his bio regarding religion, but maybe he just wasn't careful. I don't notice any NNES. Pictures don't look like a movie star, didn't check ...

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Apr 28, 2021Apr 2021

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Patlor00 God botherer. Following women from all over the place. There are contradictions in his bio regarding religion, but maybe he just wasn't careful. I don't notice any NNES. Pictures don't look like a movie star, didn't check ...

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Apr 28, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLouisiana's Ray Garofalo Argues for Teaching 'Good' Parts of Slavery in U.S. Schools - Second Nexus

Louisiana State Rep. Urges Schools to Teach the 'Good' Part of Slavery and Gets Instantly Shut Down A Louisiana lawmaker is in hot water this week after arguing that the state's schools should teach the "good" aspects of slavery in the United States. For over a year, Republican lawmakers across the country—following former President Donald Trump's lead—have sought to ban comprehensive history curricula like critical race theory from being taught in American schools and workplace ...

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Apr 28, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKFederal investigators execute search warrant at Giuliani's home

Trump, the Justice Department reportedly blocked prosecutors' interest in Rudy Giuliani. Things are far different now. April 28, 2021, :06 PM CDT By Steve Benen It was four months ago when NBC News and The Rachel Maddow Show first reported that federal prosecutors in New York had been in communication with Justice Department officials in D.C. about trying to obtain Rudy Giuliani's electronic communications. There wasn't much in the way of public revelations in the weeks that followed, ...

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Apr 28, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/27/2021

More than 140 military leaders, former national security officials, and elected officials from both parties have asked Congress to establish a commission to figure out what led to the January 6 insurrection, when rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol, and how to stop a similar coup attempt in the future. Yesterday, Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) told reporters that the proposed congressional commission should focus solely on that attack. "What happened on January 6 is unprecedented in our ...

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Apr 28, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKPossession Is Nine-Tenths Of The Law, The Last Tenth Is Elon Musk Breaking Into Your House

Florida is actually going to authorize him to bust into your property. That's not hyperbole. By JOE PATRICE onApril 27, 2021 at 4:44 PM There’s a classic joke about a hunter who killed a duck that landed on a farmer’s land. The farmer proposes to settle the property dispute over the prize bird by kicking each other in the testicles until one party relents. It’s a pretty great joke. Here’s Buddy Hackett telling it. Anyway, in today’s version of the joke, Elon Musk is the guy ...

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Apr 27, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/25/2021

On Thursday and Friday of last week, April 22 and 23, President Biden convened a virtual meeting of 40 world leaders to discuss addressing climate change. It is no longer possible to ignore changes in the world’s climate: the last decade was the hottest in recorded history, and the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has reached record levels. Arctic ice is melting; last summer’s fires in Australia, California, and Colorado were catastrophic. In 2015, representatives of more than ...

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Apr 27, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKHere are the winners and losers following the 2020 census

More than a year since the 2020 census began in a remote Alaska village, the first numbers to emerge from the nation's once-a-decade head count were released on Monday, showing how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes each state is getting based on its population. Because the number of seats in the House of Representatives is set at 435, it's a zero-sum game with one state's gain resulting in another state's loss — like a pie with uneven slices. As one state gets a larger ...

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Apr 27, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/26/2021

In his first major speech as Secretary of State, Antony Blinken laid out the principles of the Biden administration in foreign policy, emphasizing that this administration believed foreign and domestic policy to be profoundly linked. Biden’s people would support democracy at home and abroad to combat the authoritarianism rising around the world… including in the U.S. “The more we and other democracies can show the world that we can deliver, not only for our people, but also for each ...

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Health & Happiness

Apr 26, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKThe Satanic Temple is Launching it's Sober Faction!

The Satanic Temple Sober Faction provides peer to peer support for addiction free from the pseudoscience and superstitious dogma entrenched in most mainstream programs.

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Apr 26, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKAlaska legislator banned from flights to capital.

An Alaska state legislator, Sen. Lora Reinbold, is now banned from flights on Alaska Airlines, the only carrier from her home in Anchorage to the capital in Juneau. She has refused to wear a mask and fought with airline employees once too many times for their comfort.

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General & Hellos

Apr 26, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKmy new hire is too attractive for me to manage her — Ask a Manager

I love Ask A Manager, I read her blog every day. She give great advice and has great contributors. One of the letters in today's blog got a great answer from her, and I thought I'd share. Click the link to read the replies and comments as well, there were over 300 comments when I posted. A reader writes: I feel like a bad manager for even asking this question, but I find one of the new hires assigned to me to be amazingly attractive. I would never act on it, or do or say anything ...

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Apr 26, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKDC pastor used PPP loan to buy Tesla, Baltimore property, US Attorney says

GREENBELT, Md. (7News) — A D.C. pastor used loans meant for COVID pandemic relief to buy a Tesla and a property in Baltimore, according to U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland. Rudolph Brooks Jr., of Cheltenham, Maryland, known as the pastor at Kingdom Tabernacle of Restoration Ministries, faces a federal charge for wire fraud. Federal authorities have also seized $2.2 million from his various bank accounts, along with a 2018 Tesla Model 3. The federal government enacted ...

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Apr 25, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKWe’re all socially awkward now - The Washington Post

“I’m looking for a kumquat. Do you know what that looks like?” Kay Kingsman flagged down a fellow shopper in the grocery store with that question — and no, he couldn’t identify a kumquat. But she kept on talking. “How’s your day?” she recalls asking. “Having a fun grocery trip?” Kingsman, a 27-year-old manufacturing engineer in Portland, Ore., dragged the conversation on so long that this stranger in the citrus aisle interjected with an answer to a question she hadn’t...

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Apr 24, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKMontana governor signs bill allowing residents to challenge regulations on religious grounds | TheHill

Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) signed legislation into law on Thursday that allows individuals to challenge government regulations that infringe on their religious beliefs. The bill, dubbed the “Montana Religious Freedom Restoration Act,” requires the government to present a compelling reason to violate an individual's freedom of religion, and to achieve its goals in the least restrictive method possible. "The governor signed SB215 into law to protect the freedom of people of all ...

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Apr 24, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKSTATE CAPITOL NEWS IN BRIEF: Creationism bill fails in committee | Senate OKs gun-laws measure | Vaccine-mandates bill sent to governor

A bill stating that Arkansas teachers may teach religious beliefs of creation alongside scientific theories failed to advance from the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday. The sponsor, Rep. Mary Bentley, R-Perryville, said many teachers had asked her for the ability to teach "counter-theories" and open up the class for debate among students. Sen. Linda Chesterfield, D-Little Rock, said the bill would allow all religion's creation stories to be taught, which would lead to "consternation."...

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Apr 24, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/23/2021

The big news today is the two-day climate conference of world leaders, which I will write about in the future, but I am still chewing over something from four days ago. Tonight’s post is a combination of history and speculation, so this is a good one to skip if you need a break from politics or you’re not interested in musings. If you’re still on board…. On April 19, Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), who is the chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, in charge of ...

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Apr 23, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/23/2021

Today there are three stories in the news about the mechanics of government that add up to a much larger story about American democracy. First, by a vote of 216 to 208, the House of Representatives passed a bill to grant statehood to the District of Columbia. The measure would carve out the area around Capitol Hill, the White House, and the National Mall to remain much as they are today, but the rest of what is now the District would get one representative in Congress and two senators. About ...

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Apr 22, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKRight-Wing Radio Host Slammed For Racist Response To Chauvin Verdict - Comic Sands

This is my town, they did the right thing. Omaha has a small blue dot in this huge red sea of conservatives. I am so pleased they axed the radio host almost immediately. Sure, he had a "boomer" moment. Sorry dude, man up, you did it, you got caught, and now you . KFAB news/YouTube Chris Baker, a right-wing radio host from Omaha, Nebraska, is facing backlash both online and in the real world after posting a racist GIF in response to the Derek Chauvin verdict. Chauvin, who was on trial for...

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Apr 21, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKPolice officers like me need to take the Chauvin verdict personally - The Washington Post

By Patrick Skinner Patrick Skinner is a police officer in his hometown of Savannah, Ga. He is a former CIA operations officer and served in the United States Coast Guard as well as the U.S. Capitol Police. April 21, 2021 at 11:28 a.m. CDT I was at work as a police officer when the verdict was read Tuesday in the Minneapolis courtroom. I am a violent-crimes detective in my hometown of Savannah, Ga., but like the rest of America, I was worried about the verdict. I was worried that once again, ...

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Apr 21, 2021Apr 2021

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Selene (Gustav) English is not very good, and profile has some contradictions. Seems to be a god botherer. One picture, not overtly sexy at all. She has made some "interesting" posts: and she had a weird comment on ...

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Apr 21, 2021Apr 2021

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Selene (Gustav) English is not very good, and profile has some contradictions. Seems to be a god botherer. One picture, not overtly sexy at all. She has made some "interesting" posts: and she had a weird comment on ...

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Apr 21, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKIs Recycling Worth It Anymore? People On The Front Lines Say Maybe Not : NPR

Recycling works, but it's not magic. As America continues to lead the world in per capita waste production, it's becoming more and more clear that everybody –- manufacturers and consumers — "over-believes" in recycling. This is a story about responsibility, and what happens when everyone keeps trying to pass it off to the next person. And what happens, when finally, there is no next person. This video is based in part on Throughline's podcast episode "The Litter Myth."

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Apr 21, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/20/2021

Today a jury in Minneapolis, Minnesota, convicted former police officer Derek Chauvin on all counts in the death of George Floyd. On May 25, 2020, Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for 9 minutes and 29 seconds after arresting him for allegedly trying to pass a counterfeit $20 bill. The jury found Chauvin guilty of second-degree murder, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter. He faces up to 75 years in prison, and will be sentenced in two months. As we heard this verdict today, it ...

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Apr 20, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKColumbus police shooting: Officer shot and killed teen, family says

This saddens me again, just when we made one step forward.

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Apr 20, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/19/2021

America today is caught in a plague of gun violence. It wasn’t always this way. Americans used to own guns without engaging in daily massacres. Indeed, it always jumps out at me that the infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929, when members of one Chicago gang set up and killed seven members of a rival gang, was so shocking it led to legislation that prohibits automatic weapons in the U.S. Eighty-nine years later, though, in 2018, another Valentine’s Day shooting at Marjory ...

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Apr 19, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKFuture Tense newsletter: A Darkly Comical Programming Error Shows the Human Assumptions Behind Code

Drop-down menus on online forms: They could be the death of us. On Thursday, journalist and programmer Dan Nguyen pointed out a darkly comic incident report connected to a flight over the summer. During a pandemic hiatus, an unnamed airline operator upgraded the system that helps ensure an accurate load sheet—the document tabulating the estimated weight of the passengers, crew, cargo, etc. The problem: The new system included titles and assumed that anyone listed as “Miss” must be a ...

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Apr 19, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/18/2021

According to CNN, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has scrapped the idea of the “America First Caucus” after considerable pushback, now claiming that she had not approved the platform released on Friday and announced by her own spokesperson. I have been thinking a lot about Republican lawmakers like Greene lately, and about the Republican Party these days. As I sort through it all, I find myself absolutely gobsmacked that today’s party is shaping itself around the Big Lie ...

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Apr 19, 2021Apr 2021

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LINK'60 Minutes' interview reveals Oath Keepers militia are being trained by police - Raw Story - Celebrating 17 Years of Independent Journalism

In an interview with "60 Minutes" Sunday evening, Oath Keepers leader Jim Arroyo revealed that active-duty law enforcement is part of their movement and helping with militia training. "Our guys are very experienced. We have active-duty law enforcement in our organization that are helping to train us. We can blend in with our law enforcement," he said. Javed Ali, Towsley Policymaker in Residence at the Gerald Ford School of Public Policy, formerly served as a former NSC senior director and ...

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Apr 18, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKGOP faces massive realignment as it sheds college-educated voters

I think this is hella good news, and I feel like I can breathe again. The data suggest that what we are seeing might be more than just a sudden Democratic edge in party affiliation. WASHINGTON — It's an off-year for national electoral politics, with only a few big gubernatorial races later in the year in Virginia and New Jersey. Still, polling data show the great shift in the nation's two major political parties is continuing and some of those changes could have significant impacts at ...

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Apr 18, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKHow to Get 100 Senate Votes for Infrastructure

Let us be clear. Republicans do not want an infrastructure bill at all for two reasons: it will put the final nail in the coffin of their “government spending destroys the economy” mantra they have used (and, official Washington has more-or-less swallowed) for 50 years; and it will make President Biden and Democrats look good going into the next two election cycles with “it’s morning again in America” memes. (Not to mention the opportunity of contrasting Trumpf’s 500,000 dead, as ...

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Apr 17, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKAll About Your Covid vaccine card: What to do if you lose it - The Washington Post

There are various ways to document that you received a coronavirus vaccine. Some people have snapped selfies proudly displaying the Band-Aid on their upper arm. Some vaccination sites are handing out stickers. But the official form of documentation is the small white vaccination record card issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which you receive after your first shot. “You do want to make sure you keep it safe,” says Kelly Moore, deputy director of the Immunization ...

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Apr 17, 2021Apr 2021

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Richardscaffe7 And possibly the most recent scammer on the site!! He messaged me this morning, and another member of the site just let me know he's messaging her. His bio has no punctuation: Am Richard from LA work for the US ...

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Trolls, Scammers & Nigerian Russian Wives:Report Them Here

Apr 17, 2021Apr 2021

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Richardscaffe7 And possibly the most recent scammer on the site!! He messaged me this morning, and another member of the site just let me know he's messaging her. His bio has no punctuation: Am Richard from LA work for the US ...

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Apr 17, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/16/2021

Today, news broke that a number of pro-Trump House Republicans, including Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), and Paul Gosar (R-AZ), are organizing the “America First Caucus,” which calls for “a degree of ideological flexibility, a certain intellectual boldness… to follow in President Trump’s footsteps, and potentially step on some toes and sacrifice sacred cows for the good of the American nation.” The seven-page document outlining their ideas, ...

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Apr 16, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKMy Fourth Grade Students Recently Read the True History of Christopher Columbus

Nathanael Madden is a teacher at Cold Spring Elementary in Potomac, Maryland, and he has decided to take a different path when teaching his students about a very controversial historical figure. Madden decided that he would teach the real history of Columbus and Columbus Day to his 4th-grade students, and his tweets about his student’s responses went viral. Madden said about his decision, “School is often a very confining and controlling place for kids, and I want to create a space ...

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Apr 16, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKBeijing tells Japanese politicians to drink Fukushima’s wastewater to prove it’s safe before they dump it into the ocean — RT World News

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has called on politicians in Tokyo to use Fukushima’s wastewater for drinking, cooking, washing clothes, or irrigation in order to prove it is safe enough to be discharged into the ocean. Speaking on Thursday, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian reinforced Beijing’s opposition to Tokyo’s decision to dump more than one million tons of “treated” nuclear wastewater into the ocean. “Japan’s claims that the safety of nuclear wastewater ...

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Apr 16, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKCapitol riot police response: A damning new report finally explains the most surreal thing I saw inside the riot.

BY AYMANN ISMAIL APRIL 15, 2021 When I walked toward the Capitol on Jan. 6 alongside Donald Trump’s supporters and heard some of them had breached the building ahead, I expected the situation to escalate sharply. I expected police in military gear and a response as aggressive as I’ve come to anticipate covering and observing protests over the past year, where a single water bottle thrown at a cop line can bring a volley of tear gas and percussion grenades in retaliation. Instead, I ...

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Apr 16, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/15/2021

April 15 is a curiously fraught day in American history. In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln breathed his last at 7:22 a.m., and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, who adored the president, said, “Now he belongs to the ages.” In 1912, the British passenger liner RMS Titanic sank at 2:20 a.m. after hitting an iceberg in the North Atlantic. In 1920, two security guards in Braintree, Massachusetts, were murdered on this date; Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti would be accused of the ...

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Apr 16, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKDemocrats Pitch Supreme Court Expansion — A Bad Idea, But Maybe A Good Strategy? | Above the Law

By JOE PATRICE onApril 15, 2021 at 1:43 PM Court expansion is a popular idea among rank-and-file Democratic voters, which is a shame because it’s a bad one. But, yet again, they’re locking in on the idea with a bill fronted by Senator Ed Markey and Representative Jerry Nadler that would expand the Court to 13 members. It’s an expansion that conveniently would transform the current 6-3 conservative majority into a 7-6 liberal to progressive majority. What are the odds? Court ...

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Apr 16, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKUS police and public officials donated to Kyle Rittenhouse, data breach reveals | US news | The Guardian

A data breach at a Christian crowdfunding website has revealed that serving police officers and public officials have donated money to fundraisers for accused vigilante murderers, far-right activists, and fellow officers accused of shooting black Americans. In many of these cases, the donations were attached to their official email addresses, raising questions about the use of public resources in supporting such campaigns. The breach, shared with journalists by transparency group ...

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Apr 15, 2021Apr 2021

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LINK'Just Kill 'Em': 'Prophet' Jeff Jansen Brags That the Ushers at His Church Will Not Hesitate to Shoot Anyone Who Tries to 'Pull Something' | Right Wing Watch

Self-proclaimed “prophet” Jeff Jansen spoke at a “Reign” conference at Ignite Faith Church in Redmond, Oregon, over the weekend, where he bragged that the ushers at his church all carry guns and will not hesitate to kill anyone who even thinks “about starting something.” Jansen kicked things off by declaring that Jesus was “a tough guy” and complaining that the church today has “turned effeminate, almost homosexual.” “The church, we are so neutered,” Jansen griped. ...

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Apr 15, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/14/2021

Today, President Joe Biden announced that by September the United States will withdraw the 2500 or so troops remaining in Afghanistan. We have been on a military mission in the country for almost 20 years, and have lost 2488 troops and personnel. Another 20,722 Americans have been wounded. The U.S. invaded Afghanistan a month after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001—which killed almost 3000 people in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania-- to go after Osama bin Laden, who had been ...

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Apr 14, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKThe Legal Oppression Of Nonbelievers Will Escalate The More Religion Declines | Above the Law

Combine a conservative religious ideology that fears and hates nonbelievers and has taken over much of the judiciary, with an ever-increasing nonbeliever population growth, and what you get is legal oppression. By TYLER BROKER April , 2021 at 2: PM I should not have to care whether my religious beliefs conflict with the majority of those in any branch of our government. The Constitution — as enumerated in Article VI Section 3 and the First Amendment — is supposed to guarantee that ...

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Singles/Mingle/Chat

Apr 14, 2021Apr 2021

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I had a productive afternoon.

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Apr 14, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/11/2021

Congress has been on break since March 29, and tomorrow members will go back to Washington, D.C., to resume work. The next weeks are going to be busy for the lawmakers, not least because the political ground in America appears to be shifting. In the two weeks the lawmakers have been back in their districts, a lot has happened. The Biden administration released the American Jobs Plan on March 31, calling for a $2 trillion investment in infrastructure. The plan includes traditional items like ...

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Apr 14, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/12/2021

Yesterday, at about 2:00 in the afternoon, a white police officer in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright, a Black man, after what seems to have been a routine traffic stop turned up an arrest warrant. Today, the Brooklyn Center police chief told reporters that the arresting officer intended to fire her Taser at Wright, but instead fired her gun. Wright’s death took place about ten miles from where Derek Chauvin is on trial for killing George Floyd in ...

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Apr 14, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/14/2021

Today, the administration issued a proclamation on Black Maternal Health Week. It noted that Black American mothers die from pregnancy-related complications at two to three times the rates of White, Hispanic, Asian American, and Pacific Islander women, no matter what their income or education levels. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris declared their commitment to “building a health care system that delivers equity and dignity to Black, Indigenous, and other women and girls of...

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LINKAtheists Will No Longer Have to Swear an Oath to God in Order to Vote in Alabama | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos

Good news!! After filing a lawsuit, atheists in Alabama have successfully eliminated a religious test for voting. Here’s the backstory: Until recently, if you wanted to register to vote in Alabama, you had to read and sign a declaration that included a religious reference: I solemnly swear or affirm to support and defend the constitution of the United States and the State of Alabama and further disavow any belief or affiliation with any group which advocates the overthrow of the ...

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Apr 12, 2021Apr 2021

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sherry3245 Check this one out: The hair - wow! She comes off as desperate; alone for a year, doesn't like it because it's lonely. To me this says scammer. Also the mention of DAWG sending her a man.... Puh leeze.The ...

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sherry3245 Check this one out: The hair - wow! She comes off as desperate; alone for a year, doesn't like it because it's lonely. To me this says scammer. Also the mention of DAWG sending her a man.... Puh leeze.The ...

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LINKEvangelical Pastor Faces Prison Time After Recording Child Changing Her Clothes | Hemant Mehta | Friendly Atheist | Patheos

Wow! Is this guy a POS, and I hope he gets his due in prison.

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LINKWAPO Reported That The Federal Government Had Been Paying $3000 A Month For Toilets For Ivanka Trump And Jared Kushner’s Secret Service Detail

The Washington Post revealed in a report that U.S. Secret Service agents meant to provide security for Ivanka and Jared Kushner had to go to extreme lengths to find a bathroom to use since the couple wouldn’t allow them to use any of their 6 1/2 bathrooms at their home. The report is bonkers because, of course, if anyone has a security detail, they would be more than happy to let them use their bathroom since they’re the ones keeping them safe amid a toxic political climate. Well, not if ...

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LINKOffice reopening anxiety: Workers are freaked out about going back to their offices.

This is Askamanager.org visiting on Slate.com about returning to the offices. Good read, she says it like it is and how to deal with it.

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LINK'White Lives Matter' rallies flop as hardly anyone shows up

The poor turnout underscores how the country's unpopular and disorganized extremist movements have been driven underground. In semi-private, encrypted chats, neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists planned rallies in dozens of cities Sunday to promote their racist movements and spread their ideologies to larger audiences. Hyped by organizers as events that would make “the whole world tremble,” the rallies ran into a major problem: Hardly anyone showed up. The “White Lives ...

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LINKA Pastor’s Son Becomes a Critic of Religion on TikTok

John Piper is one of the most influential theologians in America. His son Abraham calls evangelicalism “a destructive, narrow-minded worldview.” Abraham Piper became a sensation on TikTok nearly overnight. He posted his first video in November, and he now has more than 900,000 followers, many of them young people who thank him for capturing their experiences so precisely. His unlikely path to online stardom: irreverent critiques of evangelical Christianity aimed at others who have left ...

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LINKWe’re Finally Getting a Picture of How Dangerous PPE Is for Wildlife

More than a year into the pandemic, scientists are seeing the impact of disposable gloves and masks on ecosystems. THE LATEX GLOVE WAS A streaky, dirty, yellow-gray, the color of a plastic bag that somersaulted into a tree and got tangled in the branches. When citizen scientists in the Netherlands spotted it in August 2020 while collecting trash along Leiden’s Oude Vest canal, they noticed something unsettling. The glove was torn, and wedged inside a gash beneath the thumb, they saw a tail....

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Apr 11, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKProud Boy begs judge not to send him back to jail where other Capitol rioters are getting beaten up – DeadState

Who's the bitch now? The legal team for the self-professed “Sergeant of Arms” of the far-right group Proud Boys is asking a federal judge not to send their client to jail, partly because other people charged and convicted for partaking in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 have allegedly been the target of abuse behind bars, Law reports. Lawyers for 30-year-old Ethan Nordean cited recent reports detailing alleged assaults and poor treatment of Capitol riot defendants by ...

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Apr 11, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKSidney Powell's claim that 'no reasonable person' would believe her comes back to bite her

Michigan is seeking sanctions against former Trump attorney Sidney Powell for filing frivolous lawsuits to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Sidney Powell's defense against a $1.3 billion lawsuit over her lies about voter fraud in the 2020 election could come back to bite her. Powell, a lawyer who supported Donald Trump's claims of election fraud and filed multiple failed lawsuits across the country seeking to overturn the 2020 election, is being sued by Dominion Voting Systems ...

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Apr 11, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKWhen Will COVID End? We Must Start Planning For a Permanent Pandemic

With coronavirus mutations pitted against vaccinations in a global arms race, we may never go back to normal. For the past year, an assumption — sometimes explicit, often tacit — has informed almost all our thinking about the pandemic: At some point, it will be over, and then we’ll go “back to normal.” This premise is almost certainly wrong. SARS-CoV-2, protean and elusive as it is, may become our permanent enemy, like the flu but worse. And even if it peters out eventually, our ...

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Apr 10, 2021Apr 2021

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LINK‘We don’t go to church.’ I get shocked looks, promises of prayer. ‘How will your daughter know right from wrong?!’: Agnostic mom ‘unapologetically’ raising daughter without religion – Love What Matters

“One of my mom’s favorite embarrassing stories to tell about my childhood goes a little something like this: One Sunday, when I was about 8, I came home from Sunday school at my local Methodist church. My mom asked what we’d learned about today in religion class. ‘Well, we talked about Jesus,’ I said. ‘I guess Jesus is like Santa. Him and God, they’re watching over us all the time.’ ‘Yes, that’s right,’ Mom agreed as she stirred the Sunday pot of split-pea soup ...

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Apr 10, 2021Apr 2021

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LINK“Mask up to keep it up”: preliminary evidence of the association between erectile dysfunction and COVID-19. | Physician's Weekly

OK guys, attention. If you want your little man to continue to rise to the occasion, wear a mask and get the vaccination!!! Erectile dysfunction (ED), as the hallmark of endothelial dysfunction, could be a short- or long-term complication of COVID-19. Additionally, being ED a clinical marker and predictor of Non-communicable Chronic Diseases, particularly cardiovascular, subjects with ED could potentially have a higher risk of contracting COVID-19. To investigate the prevalence of ED ...

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Apr 10, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKSlavery Reparations Study Set for House Judiciary Markup

A bill to study paying reparations to descendants of slaves will be considered in the House Judiciary Committee next week, paving the way for a possible vote on an issue that has become increasingly mainstream in recent years of racial reckoning. The House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday will mark up and vote on a bill from Texas Representative Sheila Jackson Lee that would establish a commission to examine the role of federal and state governments in slavery and racial discrimination from ...

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Apr 10, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKFormer Family Source Hit Out At Ivanka Trump, Implied That "Jared Is Gay And It’s An Arranged Marriage"

Even though Donald Trump’s presidency is thankfully over now, no one will soon forget daddy’s favorite daughter-wife, Ivanka Trump’s RNC speech that she spent hawking her daddy’s lies and bullshit. It’s was clear that Ivanka was doing her dead-level best to earn that allowance check of hers and she seemed to be doing so happily. Over the years, there has been a whole lot of speculation surrounding the relationship “enjoyed” between the Trump father/daughter duo. And trust me,...

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Apr 10, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/09/2021

The 1918 influenza pandemic killed at least 50 million people across the world, including about 675,000 people in the United States. And yet, until recently, it has been elusive in our popular memory. America’s curious amnesia about the 1918 pandemic has come to mind lately as the United States appears to be shifting into a post-pandemic era of job growth and optimism. A year ago today, I noted that we were approaching 17,000 deaths from Covid-19. Now our official death count is over ...

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Apr 9, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKDerek Chauvin's trial shows police reform needs to come from cops

Holding bad officers accountable is the only way to reform policing. And officers are going to have to lead the way. No matter the outcome of this trial, this in itself is a powerful indicator of a few things: By showing the world on national television that cops are willing to call out other cops when they see misconduct, it shows that things can, in fact, change. It also reinforces the necessity of seeing progress inside police department culture itself — not solely by forces of external ...

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LINKLetters From An American 04/09/2021

On April 8, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant was having a hard night. His army had been harrying Confederate General Robert E. Lee's for days, and Grant knew it was only a question of time before Lee had to surrender. The people in the Virginia countryside were starving and Lee's army was melting away. Just that morning, a Confederate colonel had thrown himself on Grant's mercy after realizing that he was the only man in his entire regiment who had not already abandoned the cause. But while Grant ...

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Apr 9, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKPrince Philip, the Queen's husband, dies

The Brits are playing God Save The Queen on national TV and radio today, Prince Phillip has passed away, he was 99.

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Apr 9, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKTo combat gun violence, one of Biden's new moves stands out

In the wake of the nation's latest deadly mass shootings, President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Attorney General Merrick Garland appeared in the Rose Garden earlier today to denounce gun violence as "an epidemic" and "an international embarrassment." Biden also unveiled some policy measures, which were modest but not meaningless. Biden directed the DOJ to write rules that will reduce the proliferation of "ghost guns," homemade firearms often made from parts bought online and that...

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Apr 9, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKWayne LaPierre Admits Living High On NRA’s Dime, But Claims Only He Can Keep ‘Charity’ Solvent | Above the Law

The National Rifle Association is not bankrupt. In fact, the NRA boasts on its own website that it’s in its “strongest financial condition in years.” Nonetheless, the organization filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on January 15 in the Northern District of Texas in a bid to reorganize itself right out of a prosecution by the State of New York for appalling self-dealing and fiscal mismanagement. Or, as the NRA puts it (again, on its own website), “This action is necessitated ...

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Apr 8, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKMaking pain a vital sign caused the opioid crisis. Here's how.

I love Kevin MD, he shoots straight. I remember the first time I experienced the paradigm shift when it came to pain management. Sometime around the late nineties while I was on call, I received a phone call from a floor nurse stating that a patient that had their ankle operated on that day by another surgeon was having increased pain that was not controlled by the pain medication that had been ordered. As I had been doing for many years, I inquired as to what procedure was done, what pain ...

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Apr 8, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKWho We Elect - Interactive Graphs.

Verbatim from Sarah Levin Here's a tool I just found from National Council of State Legislatures that breaks down (although imperfectly) religious affiliation of lawmakers in state legislatures. [ncsl.org]

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Apr 8, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLawmakers Call for President Biden to Remove All USPS Board Members and DeJoy

Democratic lawmakers issued fresh calls late Monday for President Joe Biden to remove all six members of the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors to enable the ouster of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy after the board declared its “full support” for the Republican megadonor accused of openly sabotaging the agency. “Instead of holding DeJoy accountable, the USPS Board of Governors confirmed what I always suspected was true: The six current members are all DeJoy loyalists,” tweeted ...

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LINKGallup poll shows large increase in Democratic Party affiliation

More Americans identify as Democrats than Republicans by a margin that hasn't been seen in a decade, according to a report released by Gallup on Wednesday. An average of 49% of adults age 18 and older reported Democratic Party affiliation or said they are independent with Democratic leanings throughout the first quarter of 2021, the pollster reported. The survey was conducted by phone from January-March. In comparison, 40% of adults identified as Republican or Republican-leaning. The 9% ...

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Apr 8, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/06/2021

I spent much of today thinking about the Republican Party. Its roots lie in the immediate aftermath of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in spring 1854, when it became clear that elite southern slaveholders had taken control of the federal government and were using their power to spread their system of human enslavement across the continent. At first, members of the new party knew only what they stood against: an economic system that concentrated wealth upward and made it impossible for ...

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LINKShe Gave Birth To Her Own Children, Then A Michigan Judge Ruled Her To Be A Surrogate | Above the Law

This is really tangled up, the judge needed the wisdom of Solomon, and he fell way short of that mark. There are many ways to form a family, and all families deserve equal respect under the law. By ELLEN TRACHMAN April 7, 2021 at 11:42 AM A lot of surprising things happen when the use of assisted reproductive technology slams up against outdated family law doctrines. I see a lot of unexpected cases that end up in this column. This case is actually shocking to me. Reciprocal IVF ...

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Apr 8, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/07/2021

Last night, commentator Kevin Williamson published a piece in National Review justifying voter suppression by suggesting that “the republic would be better served by having fewer—but better—voters.” Representatives, he says, “are people who act in other people’s interests,” which is different from doing what voters want. This is the same argument elite slaveholder James Henry Hammond made before the Senate in 1858, when he defended the idea that Congress should recognize the ...

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Apr 7, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKBREAKING NEWS! FFRF lawsuit ends religious test to register to vote in Alabama - Freedom From Religion Foundation

Good news for our sides!! The Freedom From Religion Foundation has attained a huge constitutional victory for secular voters in Alabama. FFRF sued the Alabama secretary of state last October on behalf of four Alabama citizens who encountered and objected to a religious test to register to vote. Now that the state of Alabama has amended all its voter registration forms to allow citizens to opt out of the religious oath, both online and in printed forms, the national state/church ...

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LINKFirst toilet paper, now there's a ketchup packet shortage | Food and Cooking | omaha.com

First, it was toilet paper. Then cleaning supplies were impossible to find. Now? It's ketchup. Before you dump a dozen bottles in your grocery cart, however, know that it's the individual packets that are hard to find, the Wall Street Journal reported. "The pandemic turned many sit-down restaurants into takeout specialists, making individual ketchup packets the primary condiment currency for both national chains and mom-and-pop restaurants," WSJ wrote. "Packet prices are up 13% since ...

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Apr 7, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKPrison looms for Iowa man after face-mask fight: ‘If I have it, you have it!’ | Omaha State and Regional News | omaha.com

The real title should be STUPID PEOPLE! This is another reason I'm glad to not go shopping right now. A Des Moines man is facing a mandatory 10-year prison sentence after being accused of pulling down his COVID-19 face mask and spitting on a fellow retail customer while yelling, “If I have it, you have it!” Police and court records indicate Shane Michael, 42, went to a Vision 4 Less eyewear store in Des Moines on Nov. 11. While there, Michael was wearing his face mask pulled down ...

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Apr 7, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKHow Men Treat Women They Find Unfuckable

TWs - talk about body size and body shaming. Dozens of women say that after a change in physical appearance — gaining weight, aging or becoming ill — they have been either ignored or treated like shit by men When Anne, a 31-year-old administrative assistant in Chicago, noticed that two colleagues in her workplace were both obsessed with the New York Times crossword, she thought it would be nice to introduce them. “He was a 50-year-old guy who I’d occasionally go to lunch with, and...

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LINKThe first step to stop corporations from profiting from incarceration in the United States | Transnational Institute

Over the past decades, private corporations have increased their control over prison services in the United States and around the world. Despite enormous lobbying efforts by the private players, citizens have started to reject this agenda of profiting from the criminal justice system, and instead demand to return prison management to public authorities. Biden has announced an end to renewing federal private prison contracts, which should be the starting point for wider changes. On 26 January ...

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Apr 7, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKHow an Abstinence Pledge in the ’90s Shamed a Generation of Evangelicals

The Christian “purity” movement promoted a strict view of abstinence before marriage. But two decades later, some followers are grappling with unforeseen aftershocks. To the uninitiated, Christianity’s evangelical movement can seem like a monolith that brooks no dissent on certain core issues: Same-sex relationships are sinful, men’s spiritual dominance over women is divinely ordained and, on the political front, Donald J. Trump was an improbable but nonetheless valued protector of ...

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LINKSimulation: Why You Need High Vaccination Rates To Stop A Pandemic : Shots - Health News : NPR

What will it take to finally halt the spread of the coronavirus in the U.S.? To answer that question, we've created a simulation of a mock disease we're calling SIMVID-19. When you click "Run Simulation" above, you are witnessing how a disease can spread through a population and how increased levels of vaccination can stop it in its tracks. We've chosen to simulate a fake disease since there are too many unknowns to simulate the course of COVID-19. There are common features in how any ...

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Apr 7, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKCOVID-19 Vaccine Cheat Days are Adding Up - The Atlantic{"@context":"","@type":"WebSite","name":"The ...

A few weeks ago, my partially vaccinated partner and my wholly unvaccinated self got an invitation to a group dinner, held unmasked and indoors. There’d be Thai food for 10, we were promised, and two über-immunized hosts, more than two weeks out from their last Moderna doses. And what about everyone else? I asked. Would they be fully vaccinated, too? Well, came the response. Not really. Some would be, some wouldn’t. But it had been so long—weren’t we close enough? The answer was ...

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Apr 6, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/05/2021

For people sick of news, there is nothing happening that cannot wait, so tonight’s letter is a good one to skip. Otherwise, there are lots of developing stories today. Top of the list is the story of Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who is implicated in what appears to be a significant sex scandal involving underage girls. Running a close second is the story Shane Goldmacher at the New York Times broke this weekend: in the closing days of the 2020 election season, the Trump campaign ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Apr 6, 2021Apr 2021

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Fettle fedl Part of speech: noun Origin: Late Middle English, 1300s 1: Condition. 2: Make or repair (something). Examples of Fettle in a sentence "Despite being over a decade old, the biplane remained in fine fettle." "Since Mark had ...

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Apr 5, 2021Apr 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 04/04/2021

The Republican outrage over Major League Baseball moving the All-Star game out of Georgia after the passage of the state’s new voter suppression law reveals a bigger crisis in American democracy: the mechanics of our current system do not reflect the will of the majority. Consumer-driven corporate America is increasingly throwing its weight against the new voter suppression measures across the country. While MLB and Coca-Cola are out front on the new Georgia voting law, American Airlines, ...

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