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Sep 24, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 09/23/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY), who took over as the chair of the House Republican Conference after the party rejected Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) for her refusal to back the January 6 insurrection, released the House Republicans’ plan for the country. Covering just a single page, it presents vague aspirations—many of which Biden has already put in place—but focuses on the radical extremes of the...

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Sep 23, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 09/22/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Big stories in different parts of the world today. The Russian mobilization—the first since World War II—appears to be aiming at 1 million new soldiers, rather than the 300,000 suggested yesterday. Officials are scouring villages to conscript men, especially ethnic minorities, to fill the quotas the government has established. Stories are circulating of men given only an hour to appear at recruitment centers, students being given draft notices while they were ...

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Sep 23, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKThe "common" viruses for our kids may be back YLE 09/23/2022

YLE OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES The "common" viruses for our kids may be back Katelyn Jetelina and Caitlin Rivers Emerging infectious diseases like monkeypox and polio capture many headlines, but parents of young children know it’s the “normal” viruses (now including COVID-19) that disrupt our daily lives the most. These common respiratory viruses are on the rise among children. Last week, the CDC alerted clinicians to a surge in severe respiratory illness in children. ...

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Sep 22, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 09/21/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Russian president Vladimir Putin announced today that he is mobilizing the Russian population to fight Ukraine. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu put that number at 300,000 soldiers. At the same time, the legislature abruptly changed the laws to inflict harsh penalties on those who don’t report to military duty, who surrender, or who refuse to fight. Reports suggest that 20–40% of the soldiers from some units have quit. The cost of airline tickets out of ...

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Sep 21, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKSelf-managed abortion with pills: Medically safe, legally risky Your Local Epidemiologist 09/21/2022

YLE WOMEN'S HEALTH Self-managed abortion with pills: Medically safe, legally risky By: Katelyn Jetelina Public health touches on all aspects of our lives, not just during a pandemic. Thanks to your feedback, this newsletter will continue with COVID updates but will start touching on other epidemiological topics, too. For example, women’s health. If you would only like COVID19 updates, go to your settings HERE and deselect “YLE Women’s Health” and other options. Abortion has ...

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Sep 21, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 09/20/2022

Heather Cox Richardson There is big news today out of Russia, where the legislative body abruptly passed harsh penalties on those who don’t report to military duty, who surrender, or who refuse to fight against Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russian-installed officials in the parts of Ukraine occupied by Russia announced referenda for later this week on joining those territories to Russia. Once those territories vote to join Russia—as authorities will undoubtedly declare, no matter what any ...

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Sep 20, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 09/19/2022

Heather Cox Richardson On Saturday, the anniversary of the day in 1787 on which the Framers signed the U.S. Constitution, Attorney General Merrick Garland administered the oath of allegiance to 200 immigrants in the Great Hall at Ellis Island. From 1892 to 1954, nearly 12 million immigrants stopped on the island as part of their journey to the United States, and from 1900 to 1924, the Great Hall was filled with as many as 5000 new arrivals a day, sitting on benches under the high ceiling that...

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Sep 18, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 09/17/2022

Heather Cox Richardson In 1761, 55-year-old Benjamin Franklin attended the coronation of King George III and later wrote that he expected the young monarch’s reign would “be happy and truly glorious.” Then, in 1776, he helped to draft and then signed the Declaration of Independence. An 81-year-old man in 1787, he urged his colleagues at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia to rally behind the new plan of government they had written. “I confess that there are several parts...

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Health & Happiness

Sep 17, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKThe 4-7-8 method that could help you sleep

I often have trouble sleeping; partly it is age related, and recently it has been stressssssss. I do meditate which helps, and I've heard of this method in the past and I'm willing to give anything a try. The 4-7-8 method that could help you sleep Falling asleep or coming down from anxiety might never be as easy as 1-2-3, but some experts believe a different set of numbers -- 4-7-8 -- comes much closer to doing the trick. The 4-7-8 technique is a relaxation exercise that involves ...

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Sep 17, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKAmerica’s age tipping point is approaching — we’re totally unprepared - NewsBreak

By Joseph Chamie America faces mounting old age challenges as growing numbers of individuals find themselves ill-prepared in terms of financial resources, personal health and social support for their remaining years of life. The number of Americans aged 65 and older has increased to approximately 56 million, or 17 percent of the population, nearly double the 1960 level of 9 percent. The majority, about 55 percent, are women, and among those 85 years and older, nearly two-thirds are women....

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Sep 17, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKRailroad strike: Why rail companies almost inflicted an economic disaster on the U.S.

Railroad Companies Almost Inflicted an Economic Disaster on the U.S. All because they chose profits over humane working policies. BY TERRI GERSTEIN AND JENNY HUNTER SEPT 15, 202211:33 AM If you were planning to spend Thursday stocking up on toilet paper in advance of a seemingly imminent freight-railroad strike or lockout, you woke up to welcome news. President Joe Biden has announced a tentative agreement to avert the disruption and the body blow it would have caused the economy and...

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Sep 17, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 09/16/2022

Heather Cox Richardson The big story in the news over the past couple of days is that Florida governor Ron DeSantis chartered two planes to fly about 50 migrants, most of whom were from Venezuela, to Martha’s Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts. The story is still developing. Although DeSantis is the governor of Florida, the migrants appear to have come from Texas, and it currently appears that they were lured onto the planes—paid for with taxpayer money—with the false promise ...

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Sep 16, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 09/15/2022

Heather Cox Richardson This morning we awoke to news that rail carriers and union leaders had reached an agreement to avoid a national rail strike that would have badly tangled the supply chains that are just now starting to move efficiently again. That, in turn, would have affected everything from drinking water—the chlorine to purify urban systems is shipped by train—to consumer goods, costing up to $2 billion a day and likely sparking job losses and contributing to the inflation that ...

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Sep 14, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKHe Called 911 Because His Car Was Stuck. The Cops Killed Him.

He Called 911 Because His Car Was Stuck. The Cops Killed Him. Police originally said the 22-year-old man was shot and killed while attempting to stab officers. New body-camera footage seems to show otherwise. By Mack Lamoureux September 14, 2022, 1:43pm Body camera footage shows Colorado police shot and killed a young man who had called 911 for help after getting his car stuck on a dirt road, despite him never leaving his vehicle's driver seat. Body-camera footage shows Colorado...

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Sep 14, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKWith proposed abortion bans, GOP eyes criminal charges for doctors

By Steve Benen Sept. 14, 2022, 9:40 AM CDT Steve Benen is a producer for "The Rachel Maddow Show," the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of "The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics." With proposed abortion bans, GOP eyes criminal charges for doctors GOP candidates were told to say that the party does not "want to throw doctors ... in jail." And yet, Republican proposals keep saying the opposite....

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Sep 14, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 09/13/2022

September 13, 2022 Heather Cox Richardson In an event at the White House today, President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and the First Lady and Second Gentleman, along with lawmakers and those who worked for the causes the law embraces, celebrated the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the new law that lowers prescription drug costs, invests in new technologies to combat climate change, and raises ...

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Sep 13, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKMonkeypox death — believed to be the first in the US — confirmed by LA County health officials

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County resident with a compromised immune system has died from monkeypox, local health officials announced Monday. It's believed to be the first U.S. fatality from the disease. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced the cause of death, and a spokesperson said it was confirmed by an autopsy. The patient was severely immunocompromised and had been hospitalized. No other information on the person was released. The Centers for Disease ...

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Sep 13, 2022Sep 2022

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LINK400 Americans are dying each day. We cannot accept this reality. YLE 9/13/2022

400 Americans are dying each day. We cannot accept this reality. Katelyn Jetelina We are losing 400 Americans a day. In the last 7 days, we have lost 2,299 people. During August 2022 alone, we lost 15,284 Americans to COVID-19. This means COVID-19 remains the third leading cause of death in our repertoire of threats. And it’s largely preventable. In the U.S., death rates are not back to pre-pandemic times; excess deaths are still 10% above “expected.” This is changing our ...

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Sep 13, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKSo you haven't yet caught COVID. Does that make you a superdodger? NPR

I haven't caught COVID... So you haven't caught COVID yet. Does that mean you're a superdodger? September 12, 202210:52 AM ET By MICHAELEEN DOUCLEFF Back in the early 1990s, Nathaniel Landau was a young virologist just starting his career in HIV research. But he and his colleagues were already on the verge of a landmark breakthrough. Several labs around the world were hot on his team's tail. "We were sleeping in the lab, just to keep the work going day and night because there ...

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Sep 13, 2022Sep 2022

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Heather Cox Richardson Many thanks for all your good wishes on our marriage. Someone saw the picture and wrote, “Heather is betting on the future.” I am indeed. And there are reasons to be hopeful about that future. When I last wrote about ...

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Philosophy & Meaning

Sep 12, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKEverything I Like about Religion I Learned from an Atheist - TheHumanist.com

Barbara Ehrenreich passed away recently, in her memory. Everything I Like about Religion I Learned from an Atheist BY BARBARA EHRENREICH • 19 FEBRUARY 2018 One of the most alarming developments in my lifetime has been the increasing identification of patriotism and other so-called traditional values, like family, with religion. Religion is such a ...

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Sep 11, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKReturn to school is driving up COVID-19 cases in kids, but there are more tools to keep them safe

By Deidre McPhillips, CNN COVID-19 cases are on the rise among kids in the United States as another school year gets underway. New cases reported among children in the last week of August were 14% higher than they were two weeks earlier, according to data tracked by the American Academy of Pediatrics. They jumped even more in the South, where classes have been in session for weeks. In contrast, overall cases for all ages were down about 17% in the same timeframe. Experts say that this ...

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Trump Pinata

Sep 10, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKSucker - YouTube

Sep 8, 2022 This is the ad that pissed off Trump this morning. The Lincoln Project is a leading pro-democracy organization in the United States — dedicated to the preservation, protection, and defense of democracy. Our fight against Trumpism is only beginning. We must combat these forces everywhere and at all times — our democracy depends on it.

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Sep 10, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKRoyal beekeeper has informed the Queen's bees that HM has died and King Charles is their new boss | Daily Mail Online

EXCLUSIVE: Royal beekeeper has informed the Queen's bees that the Queen has died and King Charles is their new boss in bizarre tradition dating back centuries Royal beekeeper John Chapple has notified the palace hive of the Queen's death He told the bees that King Charles is their new boss and urged them to be good The centuries-old traditon is rooted in superstition about honey production Full coverage: Click here to see all our coverage of the Queen’s passing By JOHN DINGWALL FOR ...

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Sep 10, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKWhy experts are predicting a bad flu season

Australia's flu season was a doozy — and that's not a good sign for us. From Prevention magazine. By Korin Miller Flu season has almost always been a predictable part of every winter, but the COVID-19 pandemic threw things out of whack. The 2020-2021 flu season was practically non-existent due to COVID-19 precautions and lockdowns, and last year’s flu season was definitely mild compared to pre-pandemic years. But many health experts are predicting the 2022-2023 flu season ...

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Sep 10, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKU.S. Life Expectancy Falls Again in ‘Historic’ Setback

The decline during the pandemic is the sharpest in nearly 100 years, hitting Native American and Alaska Native communities particularly hard. By Roni Caryn Rabin Aug. 31, 2022 The average life expectancy of Americans fell precipitously in 2020 and 2021, the sharpest two-year decline in nearly 100 years and a stark reminder of the toll exacted on the nation by the continuing coronavirus pandemic. In 2021, the average American could expect to live until the age of 76, federal health ...

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Sep 10, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 09/09/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, President Joe Biden’s administration released an “economic blueprint” to show how the new laws and policies it has put in place “are rebuilding an economy that works for working families.” The Biden-Harris Economic Blueprint notes that Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took office in the midst of unprecedented crises, including “an economy that for many decades had been failing to deliver for working families—with workers and middle-class ...

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Sep 9, 2022Sep 2022

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Focus1 I think this moron is a troll. He has been posting insulting responses. No bio or picture yet, says he is from Texas. I reported him so he is now blocked for me.

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Trolls, Scammers & Nigerian Russian Wives:Report Them Here

Sep 9, 2022Sep 2022

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Focus1 I think this moron is a troll. He has been posting insulting responses. No bio or picture yet, says he is from Texas. I reported him so he is now blocked for me. I hate pinheads like this.

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Sep 9, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 09/08/2022

September 8, 2022 Heather Cox Richardson On this day in 1974, President Gerald Ford gave former president Richard M. Nixon “a full, free, and absolute pardon…for all offenses against the United States which he…has committed or may have committed or taken part in” during his time in the presidency. In the pardon proclamation, Ford said he issued the pardon to help the nation heal from the trauma of the Watergate scandal. A trial would “cause prolonged and divisive debate over the...

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Sep 8, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 09/07/2022

Heather Cox Richardson 6 hr ago Today, in Texas, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor undercut a key part of the Affordable Care Act, more popularly known as Obamacare. That law assigned to three different government bodies the task of deciding what preventative treatments—cancer screenings, vaccines, and so on—health plans must cover. In Braidwood Management v. Secretary of Health and Human Services Xavier Becerra, various business owners and individuals opposed buying insurance that ...

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Sep 7, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKOne shot per year? We really need to step up our game then YLE 09/07/2022

By Katelyn Jetelina MPH PhD Yesterday, the White House announced a new plan: one COVID-19 shot per year. The idea is this will decrease public confusion and increase booster uptake by aligning with the flu vaccine campaign. Reading between the lines, I think this is also a political signal to shift out of the SARS-CoV-2 emergency phase. Will an annual shot plan work? Maybe. But there’s a lot that needs to align beforehand. And I certainly hope this doesn’t mean we are accepting our ...

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Sep 7, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKHow a missing foot in Borneo is upending what we've known about human history

How a missing foot in Borneo is upending what we've known about human history Grace Hauck, USA TODAY At the center of a cathedral-size cave in remote Borneo, an Indonesian archaeologist brushed away sediment to reveal the top of a human skull. Next came a perfect right foot. Then, a leg. Teaspoon by teaspoon over 11 days, a team of excavators uncovered the carefully buried skeleton dating to 31,000 years ago. But one piece was mysteriously absent – the left foot. As the ...

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Sep 7, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKTrump Ruling Lifts Profile of Judge and Raises Legal Eyebrows

MIAMI — In her just over 20 months as a federal judge, Aileen M. Cannon worked mostly in obscurity, becoming nominated and appointed to her position during the height of the coronavirus pandemic and at the end of a turbulent presidency. Then, last month, she was assigned the most prominent case of her short judicial career, involving the very person who put her on the bench: former President Donald J. Trump. On Monday, Judge Cannon granted Mr. Trump’s request to appoint an independent ...

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Sep 7, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKPlatte River runs dry again

By: Hailey Mach GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (KSNB) - Driving down Highway 281, one may notice there’s not a single drop of water in the Platte River. Local hydrologists say there’s nothing to be concerned about, as this is something that happens more often than you think. The last time the Platte River dried up was in 2012. Similar to then, the issue was very drought-driven. Carrie Roberts, a hydrologist and the director of conservation research for the Crane Trust said, there’s a ...

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Sep 7, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKIs COVID-19 winding down? Scientists say no. Here's why

Is COVID-19 winding down? Scientists say no. Here's why By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer Is the coronavirus on its way out? You might think so. New, updated booster shots are being rolled out to better protect against the variants circulating now. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has dropped COVID-19 quarantine and distancing recommendations. And more people have thrown off their masks and returned to pre-pandemic activities. But scientists say no. They predict...

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Sep 7, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKScientists find antibody that can neutralize all COVID variants

Scientists discovered an antibody that can take out all known COVID-19 variants Researchers hope to create a new vaccine with it By Korin Miller COVID-19 vaccines have been effective at keeping people from getting severely ill and dying from the virus, but they’ve required different boosters to try to keep on top of all of the coronavirus variants that have popped up. Now, researchers have discovered an antibody that neutralizes all known COVID-19 variants. The antibody, ...

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Sep 7, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKLetters From An American

Heather Cox Richardson When President Joe Biden called out “Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans” last Thursday as representative of “an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” he drew a clear line between those supporting the former president and those from all parties who support democracy. He quite deliberately drew a line between Trump supporters and “mainstream Republicans” who do not embrace the “extreme ideology” of their former allies. ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Sep 6, 2022Sep 2022

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i used this word in a reply today, and realized I did it again. One of my former supervisors told me I'd have to dumb down my language. I can't do that, it just comes out of me when it is the right word for the right spot. QUAGMIRE quag·mire ...

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Sep 6, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 09/05/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, on the federal holiday of Labor Day, Judge Aileen M. Cannon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida granted former president Trump’s request for a special master to review the nearly 11,000 documents FBI agents seized in their search of the Trump Organization’s property at Mar-a-Lago on August 8. The special master will examine the documents, some of which have the highest classification markings, to remove personal items or those ...

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Sep 5, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKHarvard Legal Expert Said One Particular Footnote In Recently Released Affidavit "Makes It Impossible" To Not Indict Donald Trump On His Crimes

Please, please, please let this be so. Harvard Legal Expert Said One Particular Footnote In Recently Released Affidavit “Makes It Impossible” To Not Indict Donald Trump On His Crimes He's in big, big trouble. by Andrea Thompson 09/05/2022 Recently, the US Justice Department released a heavily redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago affidavit that lead to the search and seizure warrant against the ex-president’s Palm Beach estate that he’s called home since the disastrous end...

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Sep 5, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKPaul Krugman Views Bitcoin, Crypto As Useless, Wasteful, Ponzi Scheme

I work for a Federal Credit Union as a Member Service Representative. I have taken a few calls from member where we've discussed BitCoin. I didn't know much about it, but I have never been comfortable with it. Now I see my reservations were justified. Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has slammed bitcoin as pointless, wasteful, and in large part a Ponzi scheme. Here are the economist's 12 best quotes about crypto over the past decade. BY: Theron Mohamed Sep 3, 2022 Paul Krugman has ...

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Sep 4, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 09/04/2022

Heather Cox Richardson One hundred and forty years ago, on September 5, 1882, workers in New York City celebrated the first Labor Day holiday with a parade. The parade almost didn’t happen: there was no band, and no one wanted to start marching without music. Once the Jewelers Union of Newark Two showed up with musicians, the rest of the marchers, eventually numbering between 10,000 and 20,000 men and women, fell in behind them to parade through lower Manhattan. At noon, when they reached ...

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Sep 4, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKAfter Teaching For 11 Years, I Quit My Job. Here's Why Your Child's Teacher Might Be Next.

After Teaching For 11 Years, I Quit My Job. Here's Why Your Child's Teacher Might Be Next. "The broken system is breaking teachers faster than they can be replaced. This world has eroded my love of teaching beyond repair." By Katie Niemczyk Sep 4, 2022, 08:30 AM EDT I didn’t become a teacher with the intention of going deep undercover and spying on the U.S. education system. But for better or worse, that’s what I did for the last 11-plus years. I’ve taught in charter and ...

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Sep 3, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKConsiderations for your fall booster YLE 09/02/2022

Katelyn Jetelina YLE Sep 2, 2022 This fall, everyone should get a bivalent COVID-19 booster. And, really, that’s all you need to know: Get a vaccine. Any bivalent vaccine. This fall. But, yes, we can use scientific data to optimize timing and, thus, protection. How long after infection/last vaccine should you booster? The aspect of timing is, to me, the most tricky part. It really depends on your last infection and/or vaccine and risk tolerance. Infection: If you’ve been ...

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Sep 3, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKMikhail Gorbachev Didn't Mince Words When It Came To His Opinion Of Donald Trump

Throughout its history, the USSR had many different leaders, some who were more impactful than others. Mikhail Gorbachev was both an impactful and a different type of Soviet leader. Gorbachev died on August 20, 2022 and was the last living leader of the former Soviet Union. As Reuters states, Gorbachev's political life was strife with both controversies and oddities. Gorbachev oversaw the fall of the Soviet Union, which was already significantly weakened by his domestic policymaking. Gorbachev ...

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Sep 3, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 09/02/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Just a week ago, a judge ordered the release of the affidavit on which the FBI applied for a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago. That document revealed that Trump had taken highly classified documents from the government and held them in insecure locations. That document was horrifying, but it referred only to documents the government had already recovered, not the ones for which it would go on to search for on August 8. Today the unsealing of a court filing revealed that...

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Sep 2, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKBarbara Ehrenreich: Why I’m Giving Up on Preventative Care ‹ Literary Hub

Barbara Ehrenreich: Why I’m Giving Up on Preventative Care How Contemporary American Medicine is Testing Us to Death By Barbara Ehrenreich April 9, 2018 In the last few years I have given up on the many medical measures—cancer screenings, annual exams, Pap smears, for example—expected of a responsible person with health insurance. This was not based on any suicidal impulse. It was barely even a decision, more like an accumulation of micro-decisions: to stay at my desk and meet a ...

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Sep 2, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKBarbara Ehrenreich, Explorer of Prosperity’s Dark Side, Dies at 81

Barbara Ehrenreich has passed. She is an author I greatly respected, and her writing helped me to articulate my own thoughts on medicine and how it effects how we age. I have seen too many people grasping at too many questionable medical procedures that make doctors richer and the rest of us sicker. One of the first books that I read of hers was “Nickel and Dimed,” an undercover account of the indignities of being a low-wage worker in the United States, is considered a classic in social ...

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Sep 2, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 09/01/2022

Heather Cox Richardson This morning, former president Trump told a Newsmax host that he was “financially supporting” some of the rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Calling it “disgraceful” that they are being prosecuted, he said that If reelected, he would look “very favorably at full pardons” for them and would apologize to them. At a time when his supporters are increasingly ...

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Sep 1, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKFall Boosters ACIP Meeting: Cliff Notes YLE 09/01/2022

Katelyn Jetelina YLE 09/01/2022 Today ACIP— the external advisory committee to the CDC— met to discuss the bivalent fall boosters in the United States. This committee’s main purpose is to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of vaccines as well as policy recommendations for dissemination (who should get one and when). This was a much anticipated meeting, as we have seen barely any data on the BA.4/5 bivalent booster. We also had some other burning questions. Here was the agenda ...

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Sep 1, 2022Sep 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/31/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Not saying that Trump supporters are desperately trying to find a way to spin his theft, and subsequent hiding, of classified documents from the U.S. government, but there was actually an op-ed today in a major paper suggesting that the documents described by the Department of Justice and shown in last night’s explosive photo were just props because stacks of paper make Trump feel important. I’m going to do the author of that piece a favor and not link to it in ...

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Aug 31, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/30/2022

Heather Cox Richardson The big news until shortly before midnight tonight was that businesses do indeed seem to be coming home after the pandemic illustrated the dangers of stretched supply lines, the global minimum tax reduced the incentives to flee to other countries with lower taxes, and the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act and the Inflation Reduction Act spurred investment in technology. Yesterday, Honda and LG Energy Solution announced they would spend $4.4 billion to construct a ...

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Aug 30, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/29/2022

Heather Cox Richardson 5 hr ago Lots of news swirling around about the boxes of classified information Trump took from the United States and held at Mar-a-Lago, but the most telling window into all those stories is that the former president took to his Truth Social network this morning to demand that he be declared the winner of the 2020 election, or that the election be redone again “immediately!” This is distraction at its purest—no one is going to redo the 2020 election—but it no...

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Health & Happiness

Aug 28, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKWe Have No Garbage Day in Amsterdam! - YouTube

My adult child is moving to Amsterdam. Yes, my heart is breaking, and yes, I am planning to visit and learning Dutch. She has shared with me one of the perks of living in Amsterdam. They have no "garbage day." No set day for trash pick up. How civilized!

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Aug 28, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/27/2022

Heather Cox Richardson In a speech Thursday night, President Joe Biden called out today’s MAGA Republicans for threatening “our personal rights and economic security…. They’re a threat to our very democracy.” When he referred to them as “semi-fascists,” he drew headlines, some of them disapproving. A spokesperson for the Republican National Committee called the comment “despicable,” although Republicans have called Democrats “socialists” now for so long it passes as ...

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Aug 28, 2022Aug 2022

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jacobhue No bio or pictures, from Rajgangpur, Rajasthan, India. Joined July 22. Replied on posts at least 4 time with the same canned response.

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Aug 28, 2022Aug 2022

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jacobhue Replied on posts at least 4 time with the same canned response. No bio or pictures, from Rajgangpur, Rajasthan, India. Joined July 22.

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Aug 27, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/26/2022

Heather Cox Richardson The Department of Justice (DOJ) today released the redacted affidavit that persuaded a judge to agree to issue a search warrant for FBI agents to look for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago, the property owned by the Trump Organization in Florida. It was bad. The affidavit explained to the judge the history behind the FBI’s request. On February 9, 2022, the National Archives and Records Administration (what did I say about archivists?) told the DOJ that ...

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Aug 26, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/25/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, legal news about the former president and members of his team revealed a group of people who appear to have ignored the law. The stories began with the release of the Department of Justice (DOJ) memo written for Trump’s attorney general Bill Barr arguing that Trump should not be charged with obstruction of justice over his attempts to shut down the Russia investigation despite his firing of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey, urging...

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Aug 25, 2022Aug 2022

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Ashleylop899 Trying to peddle her line of jewelry.

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Trolls, Scammers & Nigerian Russian Wives:Report Them Here

Aug 25, 2022Aug 2022

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Ashleylop899 Trying to sell jewelry.

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Aug 25, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/24/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Yesterday’s elections suggest that American voters are concerned about the past year’s radicalization of the Republican Party. In a special election for a seat in the House of Representatives in a New York state swing district, the 19th congressional district, Democrat Pat Ryan beat his Republican opponent. Pundits looked at the race as a bellwether (named for the wether, or castrated sheep, fitted with a bell to indicate where the flock was going), and most thought...

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Aug 24, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKNow Christians are targeting women who wear pants

This dude is bat s--t cray cray. The religious right has celebrated the overturn of Roe v. Wade, but their obsession with controlling women’s bodies knows no satisfaction. Now a far-right preacher known for his vile rants about the LGBTQ community is calling for men to burn their wives’ pants because, he says, it’s just a form of crossdressing. Brother Duncan Urbanek spread the love of God by using anti-gay slurs and encouraging men to destroy their spouses’ possessions. Urbanek...

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Aug 24, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKFall Boosters: An Update YLE 08/23/2022

by Katelyn Jetelina, MPH PhD Fall COVID-19 boosters will be available soon. This is a notable shift in the pandemic response, as we’ve been using the same vaccine formula throughout the pandemic—one created in early 2020 to fight against the original Wuhan variant. The FDA and CDC (and their external scientific advisory committees) met in June and decided that not only do we need a fall booster, but we should try and match it to Omicron as best we can. Fall is around the corner and, ...

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Aug 24, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/23/2022

Heather Cox Richardson 10 hr ago Early this morning, right-wing journalist John Solomon posted on his website a letter dated May 10 from Debra Steidel Wall, the acting archivist of the United States, to Evan Corcoran, a lawyer for former president Trump. Just why the Trump camp leaked the letter is unclear because it is a damning revelation of the extent of the stolen documents and Trump’s refusal to return them. Wall was responding to Trump’s request that the National Archives and ...

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Aug 23, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/22/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today’s big news is an eye-popping $1.6 billion donation to a right-wing nonprofit organized in May 2020. This is the largest known single donation made to a political influence organization. The money came from Barre Seid, a 90-year-old electronics company executive, and the new organization, Marble Freedom Trust, is controlled by Leonard A. Leo, the co-chair of the Federalist Society, who has been behind the right-wing takeover of the Supreme Court. Leo has also ...

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Aug 22, 2022Aug 2022

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Possibly a scammer, none of her photos pop. She certainly has a chest. English is not perfect, but no obviously NNES. The member who alerted me to her said she is using pictures of a famous actress, but as I said nothing popped.

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Trolls, Scammers & Nigerian Russian Wives:Report Them Here

Aug 22, 2022Aug 2022

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Possibly a scammer, none of her photos pop. She certainly has a chest. English is not perfect, but no obviously NNES. The member who alerted me to her said she is using pictures of a famous actress, but as I said nothing popped.

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Aug 22, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKState of Affairs: COVID-19, MPX, and ...Polio YLE 08/22/2022

Katelyn Jetelina Well, we currently have three public health emergencies across the globe and in the United States: COVID-19, monkeypox, and polio. Here is a State of Affairs for all fronts. Buckle up. COVID-19 In most countries, BA.5 is beginning to wind down. This is a welcome reprieve given that in the past four weeks we lost 62,892 people worldwide, including 15,100 Americans. Japan, however, is still getting hit hard and is experiencing the highest number of deaths since the ...

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Aug 22, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/21/2022

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

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Aug 21, 2022Aug 2022

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CROWBAR Not really an uncommon word, but WHY is it called a CROWBAR? From Wikipedia . The accepted etymology identifies the first component of the word crowbar with the bird-name "crow", perhaps due to the crowbar's resemblance ...

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Aug 21, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/20/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Earlier this month, on August 2, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a Democratic delegation commanded headlines when they traveled to Taiwan, an independently governed East Asian country made up of 168 islands on which about 24 million people live, and which China claims. Since 1979 the U.S. has helped to maintain the defensive capabilities of the democratically governed area, although it has been vague about whether it would intervene if China attacks Taiwan. Pelosi’s...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Aug 20, 2022Aug 2022

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APROPOS /ˌaprəˈpō/ preposition with reference to; concerning. "she remarked apropos of the initiative, “It's not going to stop the abuse.”" adjective very appropriate to a particular situation. "the composer's reference to child's play is ...

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Aug 20, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKU.S. Church Membership Falls Below Majority for First Time

MARCH 29, 2021 BY JEFFREY M. JONES WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans' membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup's eight-decade trend. In 2020, 47% of Americans said they belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque, down from 50% in 2018 and 70% in 1999. U.S. church membership was 73% when Gallup first measured it in 1937 and remained near 70% for the next six decades, before beginning a steady decline around the turn of the ...

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Aug 20, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKNew details emerge on man who died after hearing guilty verdict in Denton County | News | dentonrc.com

Summary: Dude found guilty of child sex assault and drinks from a water bottle in the court room and dies shortly thereafter. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office lists Leclair’s time of death as 3:21 p.m. at Medical City Denton. The cause of death is pending. The Texas Rangers are investigating. Jurors had been dismissed from the courtroom before the bailiff found Leclair. They returned Friday morning to determine the next move since Leclair, who had been found guilty, had ...

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Aug 19, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKWhy older people are at higher risk for severe COVID-19 YLE

Katelyn Jetelina Age is the strongest predictor of COVID-19 severe disease and death. Even though those aged 65+ are the leaders in vaccination rates, they continue to lead hospitalizations in the U.S. and across the globe. But… why? An onslaught of scientific information can tell us why this may be the case. I worked with Edward Nirenberg to translate the science to show why boosters among this population, especially, should be of utmost priority. First wall of defense: ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Aug 19, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKQuiz: Only 1 in 50 People Know The Meaning Of These 16 Old-Fashioned Words - Women.com

Click the link. It starts with Jiggery-pokery...

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Aug 19, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/18/2022

Heather Cox Richardson On this day in 1920, the Tennessee legislature ratified the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by the narrow vote of 50 to 49. A mirror of the Fifteenth Amendment protecting the right of Black men to vote, the new amendment read: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. “Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”...

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Aug 18, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKYLE OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES - It’s time for the ACAM2000 conversation

Katelyn Jetelina and Caitlin Rivers, PhD 11 hr ago Monkeypox (MPX) cases continue to increase in the United States and across the globe. Concurrently, the availability of the best vaccine option— Jynneos—is constrained. As Bloomberg reported Wednesday, the Jynneos manufacturer isn’t certain it can meet demand. The U.S. has bought some time by switching to a dose-sparing strategy that involves giving the vaccine intradermally, but it’s important we have a plan for what to do if this...

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Aug 18, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLouisiana hospital denies abortion for fetus without a skull | Health care/Hospitals | nola.com

This makes me sad and very angry. More than 35 years ago I was pregnant for the first time. Routine ultrasound showed the baby had multiple neural tube defects. We were stationed in Louisiana at the time. We were sent to an AirForce hospital in Mississippi, and they determined that the defects could cause a miscarriage and a threat to my health, and the defects precluded life outside the womb. The pregnancy was terminated. And now, same type of defect, and the mom has to carry to term... The ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Aug 18, 2022Aug 2022

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LINK7 Obscure Words for Cheating and Infidelity | Merriam-Webster

The word that was submitted earlier today led me down a rabbit hole, and I just had to share. Your Cheatin' Words Obscure words of infidelity and its aftermath 22 Apr 2022 Bedswerver Definition: “One that is false to the bed; one that ranges or swerves from one bed to another.” (Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755) Bedswerver appears to have come from the fertile pen of William Shakespeare, who may or may not have coined the word (we have no ...

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Aug 18, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/17/2022

Heather Cox Richardson “Last night, my father killed another political dynasty, and that’s the Cheneys. He first killed the Bushes, then he killed the Clintons. Last night he killed the Cheneys.” So Eric Trump, former president Donald Trump’s son, interpreted the primary loss by Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) last night. He is not wrong that the Republican Party has now been captured by extremists who reject the principles associated with that party. Trump’s statement reflects ...

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Aug 17, 2022Aug 2022

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A new definition for our times.

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Aug 17, 2022Aug 2022

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A new definition for our times.

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Aug 17, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/16/2022

Heather Cox Richardson This afternoon, President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. Almost immediately, it will produce results. A 30% tax credit for energy-efficient windows, heat pumps, or newer models of appliances will lower people’s energy costs; the cost of drugs will be capped at $2,000 per year for people on Medicare; and health care premiums will fall for certain Americans. In the longer term, it will be easier for the country to switch to renewable energy, and ...

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Aug 16, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKNobody Wants to Teach Anymore and Everyone should know why.

Nobody Wants to Teach Anymore Everyone should know why. I remember having a conversation with my dad when I was in high school. He told me that nursing and teaching were "thankless occupations." He also told me he wouldn't sign the papers for me to go to college, but that is a story for another day (and a box of tissues and a bottle of booze). He was pretty much dead on about teaching though. By Jessica Wildfire It’s getting pretty bad. Schools are resorting to all kinds ...

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Aug 16, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/15/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, President Joe Biden congratulated the people of India on their 75th anniversary of independence, calling out the relationship between “our great democracies” and “our shared commitment to the rule of law and the promotion of human freedom and dignity.” Yesterday, he lamented the recent knife attack on writer Salman Rushdie, calling out Rushdie’s “insight into humanity,…his unmatched sense for story,…his refusal to be intimidated or ...

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Hearing Loss or What the heck did you say?

Aug 14, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKWhat I Have Learned as a Person With Hearing Loss

What I Have Learned as a Person With Hearing Loss My hearing loss presents constant challenges but it has also taught me so much. Posted August 12, 2022 By: Shari Eberts KEY POINTS: Hearing loss is an invisible disability, so one must become comfortable declaring their hearing loss publicly and asking for help when needed. Hearing aids are not like glasses, meaning they will not restore hearing to normal. Getting over the stigma around hearing loss can reduce a lot of the ...

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Aug 14, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKWhat I Have Learned as a Person With Hearing Loss -- Psychology Today 08/12/2022

What I Have Learned as a Person With Hearing Loss My hearing loss presents constant challenges but it has also taught me so much. Posted August 12, 2022 By: Shari Eberts KEY POINTS: Hearing loss is an invisible disability, so one must become comfortable declaring their hearing loss publicly and asking for help when needed. Hearing aids are not like glasses, meaning they will not restore hearing to normal. Getting over the stigma around hearing loss can reduce a lot of the ...

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Aug 14, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/13/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Since it seems clear we will be deciding whether we want to preserve the Social Security Act by our choice of leaders in the next few elections, I thought it not unreasonable to reprint this piece from last year about why people in the 1930s thought the measure was imperative. There is more news about the classified material at Mar-a-Lago, but nothing that can’t wait another day so I can catch this anniversary. By the time most of you will read this, it will be ...

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Aug 13, 2022Aug 2022

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Koch His English is not great. And he is a believer. From his pictures he has visited Japan recently. He doesn't sound like the brightest bulb in the box. The first photo popped on TinEye as having been used in Feb 2021 by user Mark ...

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Aug 13, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/12/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Today, the House of Representatives passed the Inflation Reduction Act, a sweeping bill that will invest more than $430 billion in climate change and extended subsidies for the Affordable Care Act. It will raise about $737 billion over the next ten years by allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, adequately staffing the Internal Revenue Service after years of cuts so it can catch people cheating on their taxes, and raising the tax rate on rich corporations to ...

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Aug 12, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKAuthor Salman Rushdie stabbed on lecture stage in New York

Author Salman Rushdie stabbed on lecture stage in New York By JOSHUA GOODMAN CHAUTAUQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” drew death threats from Iran’s leader in the 1980s, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday by a man who rushed the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York. A bloodied Rushdie, 75, was flown to a hospital and underwent surgery. His agent, Andrew Wylie, said the writer was on a ventilator Friday ...

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Aug 12, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKThomas Robertson: Former Virginia police officer sentenced to more than 7 years in January 6 case - CNNPolitics

CNN -- A former Virginia police officer who was fired after breaching the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021, was sentenced by a federal judge Thursday to more than seven years in prison. Thomas Robertson entered the Capitol with the first breach of rioters that day, prosecutors said, and marks the second rioter convicted by a jury to be sentenced. Guy Reffitt, the first riot defendant convicted by a jury, received the same sentence of 87 months behind bars – the highest sentence in a ...

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Aug 12, 2022Aug 2022

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He's going to get taken down by LIBRARIANS!!! Truly poetic justice for one who doesn't read.

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Aug 12, 2022Aug 2022

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He's going to get taken down by LIBRARIANS!!! Truly poetic justice for one who doesn't read.

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Aug 12, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKA Reaction To The CDC guidance YLE 8/12/2022

By Katelyn Jetelina YLE Aug 12, 2022 Yesterday, the CDC released much anticipated guidance for COVID-19. In all, the guidance is much more “relaxed,” as headlines are detailing. It’s difficult to organize my million thoughts, but here are a few: 1. Goal. I appreciated that the CDC clearly defined their goal: reduce severe disease. Some may not agree with it, but we finally have clarity on what the CDC is actually trying to control and prevent. On one hand, this goal makes ...

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Aug 12, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKPolio detected in NYC's sewage, suggesting virus is circulating

NEW YORK — Associated Press The polio virus has been found in New York City's wastewater in another sign that the disease, which hadn't been seen in the U.S. in a decade, is quietly spreading among unvaccinated people, health officials said Friday. The presence of the polio virus in the city's wastewater suggests likely local circulation of the virus, the city and New York state health departments said. State Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett said the detection of ...

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Aug 12, 2022Aug 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 08/11/2022

Heather Cox Richardson Since Monday’s search of former president Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property by the FBI, Trump, Trump supporters, and right-wing media have all been accusing the government of executing a political vendetta and speculating that FBI agents might have planted evidence on the property. This afternoon, Attorney General Merrick Garland gave a brief press conference in which he announced that the unjustified attacks on the Department of Justice (DOJ) have led it to file a ...

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