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May 24, 2022May 2022

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LINKThe History Of Women And Credit Cards | Bankrate
I didn't realize that there were no credit cards until 1958 (the year I was born) and then women could not get credit in their own name until 1974. I was 16. I got my first credit card about age 19ish. Written by Erica Sandberg March 8, 2022 It’s been a long, hard road to establish gender equality in personal finance. While there are still a few areas under construction, great strides have certainly been made. In March, the United States recognizes Women’s History Month, a time to ...
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May 24, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/23/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Scandals today, and be forewarned: the first deals with sexual assault. If you want to skip over it, the next one starts about nine paragraphs down, with the word TODAY in all caps. Yesterday, a nearly 300-page report from a third-party investigation revealed that the leadership of the Southern Baptists buried sex abuse claims for more than 20 years. They ignored accusations or attacked sex abuse survivors to protect the church from legal liability, describing ...
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May 23, 2022May 2022

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May 23, 2022May 2022

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LINKPfizer says 3 COVID shots protect children under 5. Here's what to know about the vaccine.
Three doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine offer strong protection for children younger than 5, the company announced Monday. Pfizer plans to give the data to U.S. regulators later this week in a step toward letting the littlest kids get the shots. The news comes after months of anxious waiting by parents desperate to vaccinate their babies, toddlers and preschoolers, especially as COVID-19 cases once again are rising. The 18 million tots under 5 are the only group in the U.S. not yet ...
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May 23, 2022May 2022

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LINKWhy everyone is so rude lately.
Few people are as knee-deep in our work-related anxieties and sticky office politics as Alison Green, who has been fielding workplace questions for a decade now on her website Ask a Manager. In Direct Report, she spotlights themes from her inbox that help explain the modern workplace and how we could be navigating it better. If you have the sense that we’re living in a ruder, more hostile world, you’re not alone. Some of that hostility has gotten a lot of attention—like the aggression ...
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May 22, 2022May 2022

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LINKWHO chief: The COVID-19 pandemic is 'most certainly not over'
BERLIN — The COVID-19 pandemic is “most certainly not over,” the head of the World Health Organization warned Sunday, despite a decline in reported cases since the peak of the omicron wave. He told governments that “we lower our guard at our peril.” The U.N. health agency's director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told officials gathered in Geneva for opening of the WHO's annual meeting that “declining testing and sequencing means we are blinding ourselves to the evolution ...
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May 22, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/21/2022
Heather Cox Richardson On May 22, 1964, in a graduation speech at the University of Michigan, President Lyndon Johnson put a name to a new vision for the United States. He called it “the Great Society” and laid out the vision of a country that did not confine itself to making money, but rather used its post–World War II prosperity to “enrich and elevate our national life.” That Great Society would demand an end to poverty and racial injustice. But it would do more than that, he ...
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Love & Relationships
May 21, 2022May 2022

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LINK17 Sex Tricks Men Learn From Porn That Women Wish We Could Wipe From Your Brain
Yes, women can tell when a man watches too much porn By Carlyn Beccia When Shakespeare wrote “all the world’s a stage,” he probably didn’t imagine our private sex lives becoming stages. Unfortunately, our modern world has placed even sex on a grand stage. In 1970, legendary sex researchers Masters and Johnson coined the term “spectatoring” to refer to sex in which someone focuses on a third-person perspective instead of one’s sensations and partner. Spectatoring is ...
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May 21, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/20/2022
Heather Cox Richardson As the hearings on the events of January 6th and the attempt to overturn the 2020 election approach, the extent of the operation is becoming clearer. Last night, lawyers for John Eastman filed a brief arguing, once again, that Eastman should be able to hide documents associated with the attempt to overturn the 2020 election on the grounds that he was working for former president Trump and so their communications are protected by attorney-client privilege. Eastman was...
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May 20, 2022May 2022

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LINKMonkeypox 101, unanswered questions, and the bigger picture
By: Katelyn Jetelina YLE This month we’ve witnessed the global Avian flu outbreak, chocolates laced with salmonella, severe hepatitis of unknown cause among children, Ebola outbreak in Central Africa, the first Polio case in Mozambique in 30 years, and . . . A global outbreak of monkeypox. I partnered with Dr. Anne Rimoin, a global health expert in monkeypox and emerging diseases and Professor at UCLA, to explain monkeypox, the burning, unanswered questions, and why the bigger picture ...
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May 20, 2022May 2022

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LINKBaby formula industry was primed for disaster long before key factory closed down | Nebraska Examiner
By: KEVIN KETELS MAY 20, 2022 3:00 AM The conditions that led to a shortage of baby formula were set in motion long before the February 2022 closure of the Similac factory tipped the U.S. into a crisis. Retailers nationwide reported supplies of baby formula were out of stock at a rate of 43% during the week ended May 8, 2022, compared with less than 5% in the first half of 2021. In some states, such as Texas and Tennessee, shortages were over 50%, which has prompted parents to travel...
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May 20, 2022May 2022

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LINKAs cases rise, CDC suggests some should consider masking based on their COVID-19 risk
As cases rise, CDC suggests some should consider masking based on their COVID-19 risk The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urges counties with high COVID-19 community levels to encourage people to mask up in public indoor settings. U.S. counties with high COVID-19 community levels should encourage people to put their masks back on while indoors and people in areas with medium levels should consider masking based on their own COVID-19 risk, CDC Director Dr. ...
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May 20, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/19/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol sent a letter to Representative Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), asking for his voluntary cooperation in their investigation. The committee members believe he has “information regarding a tour you led through parts of the Capitol complex on January 5, 2021,” the day before the January 6 insurrection. The letter goes on to say that there have been public reports of both individuals...
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May 19, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/18/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Finland and Sweden have applied for membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a defensive alliance originally formed in 1949 to resist the expansion of the Soviet Union and now standing against Russian expansion under president Vladimir Putin. Now the 30 member nations will consider the applications. They are expected to go through, although Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he does not view their applications positively, likely to gain ...
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May 18, 2022May 2022

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LINKThe U.S. men's and women's soccer teams will be paid equally under a new deal : NPR
The U.S. Soccer Federation announced Wednesday that it has reached a deal to pay the U.S. Men's National Team and the U.S. Women's National Team equally, eliminating a contentious pay gap that saw female players earning less. The new collective bargaining agreements will run through 2028 and include the "equalization" of World Cup prize money, the organization announced. In February, the governing body and the women's team announced a settlement to resolve the longstanding pay dispute, ...
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May 18, 2022May 2022

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LINKOfficials say more areas of US may see mask recommendations
WASHINGTON — COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States – and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking. Increasing numbers of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations are putting more of the country under guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that call for masking and other infection precautions. Right now, the increases ...
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May 18, 2022May 2022

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LINKAre we in a public health emergency? Your Local Epidemiologist
by: Katelyn Jetelina We are clearly in the middle of an infection surge in the U.S. Hospitalizations are increasing but not reflecting case acceleration, and deaths are nearing pandemic lows. The individual risk of severe disease continues to decline thanks to immunity and treatments. This changing dynamic has sparked an intense tug-of-war among scientists, leaders, and the public—a push towards “normalcy” from some and push back towards “urgency” from others. Where one lands on ...
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May 18, 2022May 2022

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LINKIn the middle of a severe baby formula shortage, many have suggested mothers should simply switch to breastfeeding. Carla Cevasco, Ph.D., breaks down why that may not be possible. By Chandni G May 17, 2022 The United States is currently ...
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May 18, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/17/2022
Heather Cox Richardson On this day in 1954, the Supreme Court handed down the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decision, which declared the segregation of public schools unconstitutional. Today, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden traveled to Buffalo, New York, where ten Americans were murdered and three wounded at a grocery store by a white supremacist on Saturday. Biden named and described the victims, ten of whom were Black: a baker, a public school teacher,...
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May 17, 2022May 2022

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LINKA school board member justified bigotry with Jesus. This mom wasn't having it.
Very well said. You have to hear the speech that a parent delivered at a recent school board meeting in response to one board member’s religious tirade against her daughter. To make sense of it, you have to understand that Colorado Springs has long been a hotbed for white evangelical Christianity. That brand of bigotry has now crept onto local public school boards. A couple of months ago, in the span of a two weeks, the Freedom From Religion Foundation sent multiple letters to those ...
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May 17, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/16/2022
Heather Cox Richardson White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre began her first press briefing today by noting its significance. “I just want to say a few words about how honored I am to be here with all of you today in this role, in this room, standing behind this podium,” she said. “I am obviously acutely aware that my presence at this podium represents a few firsts. I am a Black, gay, immigrant woman, the first of all three of those to hold this position. I would not be here ...
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Mental Health Support
May 16, 2022May 2022

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This brought tears to my eyes today.
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May 16, 2022May 2022

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LINKYour Local Epidemiologist 05/16/2022
Check out the link for charts by Katelyn Jetelina Global pandemic Global deaths due to SARS-CoV-2 are continuing to plummet and closing in on levels we only saw at the beginning of the pandemic. Although we are hopeful this continues due to increased vaccination and infection-induced immunity, many eyes are on four specific areas across the globe: South Africa. The BA.4/5 subvariant leader continues to report exponential growth in cases and hospitalizations, although decoupling ...
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May 16, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/15/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Yesterday, an 18-year-old white man murdered 10 people and wounded three others with an AR-15. The shooter traveled more than 200 miles to get to a predominantly Black neighborhood, where he put on heavy body armor and live streamed his attack as he gunned down people grocery shopping. Eleven of those he shot were Black. The Buffalo Police Commissioner, Joseph Gramaglia, said, “The evidence that we have uncovered so far makes no mistake that this is an absolute ...
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May 14, 2022May 2022

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LINKA South Carolina man died from a heart problem while burying the woman he strangled, deputies say - CNN
Truth might be weirder than fiction, again. (CNN)A 60-year-old man strangled a woman and tried to bury her in the backyard of their South Carolina home, but had a "cardiac event" in the process of covering a pit and died, according to a news release from the Edgefield County Sheriff's Office. Deputies responded to the home in Trenton on Saturday morning for calls of an unresponsive man lying in his yard. Deputies identified him as Joseph McKinnon, who had no signs of trauma "and natural ...
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May 14, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/13/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today was White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s last day at the White House after 15 months. She set out to restore truth, transparency, and accountability of the administration to the press, and to that end she has held 224 press briefings—together, all of former president Trump’s press secretaries combined held only 205 in his four years in office. Psaki gave her first press conference on January 20, 2021, the day of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, ...
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May 13, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/12/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol issued subpoenas for testimony to five members of Congress: Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Representatives Scott Perry (R-PA), Jim Jordan (R-OH), Andy Biggs (R-AZ), and Mo Brooks (R-AL). The committee previously invited them to cooperate voluntarily, and they refused. The committee has evidence that these five, in particular, know crucial things about the events of ...
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May 12, 2022May 2022

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LINKFeds Seek 20 Years for Josh Duggar After Child-Pornography Conviction
I used to watch "9 Kids and Counting", and was just amazed and slightly disgusted by that family. Amazed at how organized they were (you have to be with that many kids) and disgusted for so many other reasons. Now the kids are mostly growed up and how the truth is being revealed. Feds demand a 20-year sentence for Josh Duggar after his child-pornography conviction, citing his 'violent sexual interest in children' Federal prosecutors are demanding a 20-year sentence for the former ...
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May 12, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/11/2022
Heather Cox Richardson In the last year, the Republican Party has transformed. The modern Republican Party rose to power in 1980 promising to slash government intervention in the economy. But that was never a terribly popular stance, and in order to win elections, party leaders wedded themselves to the religious right. For decades, party leaders managed to deliver economic liberties to business leaders by tossing increasingly extreme rhetoric and occasional victories to the religious ...
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May 11, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/10/2022
Heather Cox Richardson That Republicans appear to be on the cusp of overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion seems to have thrown them into confusion. Since Nixon first raised the issue of abortion as a political wedge in 1972, the year before Roe (recall that Nixon characterized 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern as the candidate of “acid, amnesty, and abortion”), they have used the issue to raise money and turn out voters. But now, with the prize...
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May 10, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/09/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Weeks of speculation that Russian president Vladimir Putin would use the May 9 Victory Day celebration to announce he was escalating his war on Ukraine were incorrect. The celebration went off—subdued this year—and Putin delivered a speech, but it simply covered his usual topics. During the day, hackers broke into Russian televisions with the message: “The blood of thousands of Ukrainians and hundreds of murdered children is on your hands…. TV and the ...
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May 9, 2022May 2022

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LINK11 brutally honest reasons millenials don't want kids
11 brutally honest reasons millenials don't want kids When it comes to embarking on the journey of parenthood, lots of millennials are saying, "Meh. No, thanks." According to data from the Urban Institute, birth rates among 20-something women declined 15% between 2007 and 2012. Additional research from the Pew Research Center reflects a longer-term trend of women eschewing parenthood as the number of U.S. women who choose to forego motherhood altogether has doubled since 1970. This ...
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May 9, 2022May 2022

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LINKReport: 37 teachers to leave Central High School after the school year ends
I know similar stories are happening all over the US. OMAHA, Neb. — An Omaha journalism teacher said she's one of nearly 40 teachers who plan to leave Central High School at the end of the school year. She and a student she advises requested the data from the Omaha Public School district after hearing whispers in the hallways. Two educators are speaking about their decisions to leave and the future of their field. Both teachers said it was an incredibly difficult decision to ...
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May 9, 2022May 2022

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LINKmy male coworkers are insisting on taking "period leave" — Ask a Manager
by ALISON GREEN MAY 9, 2022 A reader writes: I’m a manager in an overseas office of an American company. About two-thirds of our employees were hired locally, with the remainder (mostly managers) having relocated from the United States. Under local law, women are allowed one day off per month to care for menstrual symptoms. Women wishing to use this benefit are required to give notice by the start of the workday that they will be absent, manager approval is not required, and it will...
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May 9, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/08/2022
Heather Cox Richardson I had not intended to write tonight despite some huge news dumps this weekend, but there are two time-sensitive stories to note. First, today First Lady Jill Biden celebrated Mother’s Day with an unannounced visit to western Ukraine, where she visited Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska at a school currently being used to house internally displaced Ukrainians. Before going to Ukraine, Biden visited displaced Ukrainian mothers and children in Romania and Slovakia, ...
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May 8, 2022May 2022

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LINKAmerican life expectancy is dropping because more young people are dying
BYEZRA MARCUS A new study released recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association has some unbelievably bad news: Young and middle-aged adults in the U.S. are dying more often — from bleak causes like suicide, liver disease, and drug overdoses — and life expectancy in the country is falling as a result. The study analyzed 60 years of mortality rates, with the goal of understanding some of the troubling trends beginning to reveal themselves in macro life expectancy data. The ...
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May 8, 2022May 2022

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Heather Cox Richardson I told this story here two years ago, but I want to repeat it tonight, as the reality of women’s lives is being erased in favor of an image of women as mothers…. If you google the history of Mother’s Day, the internet ...
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May 7, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/06/2022
Heather Cox Richardson While most eyes were on the leaked draft of the Supreme Court decision this week, the Biden administration continued its work to move the country forward, demonstrating that investing in ordinary Americans creates a strong economy. Since the 1980s, Republicans have insisted that the way to establish strong economic growth is to cut business regulations and taxes in order to free up innovation and capital for investment. Rejecting the system in place since 1933 that ...
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May 6, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/05/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Fallout continues over the leaked draft decision of the Supreme Court in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the draft overturning Roe v. Wade. Tonight, in addition to the “non-scalable” fence erected last night, Capitol Police are placing concrete barricades around the United States Supreme Court. Legal commentator Joyce White Vance tweeted: “Odd that the Supreme Court is acting like they’re under assault, when it’s actually us who ...
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May 5, 2022May 2022

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LINKNearly 15M deaths associated with COVID-19, World Health Organization says
LONDON — The World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years, more than double the official death toll of 6 million. Most of the fatalities were in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas. In a report released on Thursday, the U.N. agency's chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described the figure as "sobering," saying it should prompt countries to invest more in ...
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May 5, 2022May 2022

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LINKBanning abortions will not stop abortions
By Katelyn Jetelina Public health touches on all aspects of our lives, not just during a pandemic and not just with infectious diseases. 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 “Your Local (Women’s Health) Epidemiologist”, “Your Local (Violence) Epidemiologist” and “Your Local ...
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May 5, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/04/2022
Heather Cox Richardson The uproar over the leaked draft of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade continues. You can tell just how furious the reaction has been by the fact that establishment Republicans are desperately trying to turn the public conversation to the question of who leaked the document. They are baselessly blaming the opposition to the decision—a Newsmax host blamed Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who hasn’t even taken her seat yet—for the leak, although ...
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Politics
May 4, 2022May 2022

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LINKForeign Policy Expert Who Testified Against Donald Trump In First Impeachment Trial Said She Realized Very Early On He Would Try To Steal The Election Well Before January 6th: "This Was Trump Pulling A Putin"
By Andrea Thompson The recent bombshell CNN exposure of Donald Trump Jr.’s damning text messages to his father’s Chief of Staff Mark Meadows — sent just days after the November 2020 election, before the race had even been called, in which the then-president’s son was already floating ideas and suggestions for overthrowing the election his father was about to lose — was bad enough for the already scandal-ridden former president. In fact, one former federal prosecutor has already ...
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May 4, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/03/2022
Heather Cox Richardson In 1985, President Ronald Reagan’s team made a conscious effort to bring evangelicals and social conservatives into the voting base of the Republican Party. The Republicans’ tax cuts and deregulation had not created the prosperity party leaders had promised, and they were keenly aware that their policies might well not survive the upcoming 1986 midterm elections. To find new voters, they turned to religious groups that had previously shunned politics. ...
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Religion & Spirituality
May 3, 2022May 2022

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LINKI'm a member of The Satanic Temple and got outed at work — Ask a Manager
I’m a member of The Satanic Temple and got outed at work by ALISON GREEN on MAY 3, 2022 A reader writes: I’m a member of The Satanic Temple. That information got out at work and now things are unpleasant and awkward. I became a passionate patients’ rights advocate when a family member almost died after they were denied emergency medical treatment on religious grounds. The unexpected delay in care almost cost my family member their life and it was a frightening time for our ...
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May 3, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 05/02/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Tonight, news broke of a leaked draft of what appears to be Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s majority decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision establishing access to abortion as a constitutional right. That news is an alarm like the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford decision declaring both that Black Americans had no rights that a white man was bound to respect and that Congress had no power to prohibit human enslavement in the territories....
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May 2, 2022May 2022

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LINKHow Citibank ended up as the Republicans’ newest corporate target
How Citibank ended up as the Republicans’ newest corporate target Citibank said it would cover the travel expenses for employees who have to leave their home state to seek an abortion. Many Republicans aren't pleased. May 2, 2022, 9:44 AM CDT By Steve Benen Republican efforts to bully corporations into submission have become more common of late, but a rather dramatic example of the phenomenon came to public light a couple of months ago. Citibank, one of the nation’s largest ...
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May 1, 2022May 2022

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LINKReligion and education: Let's be perfectly clear
Despite a long-time understanding among sociologists that certain forms of religious belief and identification undercut educational attainment, contrarian social scientists and religious apologists often argue that education and religion are completely compatible. Recent arguments by Ilana Horwitz and Ryan Burge go further to claim that religion may even enhance educational success. Such arguments wither under basic scrutiny. Reliably offered by cheerleaders of religion, this perspective ...
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General & Hellos
May 1, 2022May 2022

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Are you vaxxed?
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General & Hellos
May 1, 2022May 2022

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A very long time ago I was an Morse Intercept Operator when I was Active Duty Army. This has some references to the job that I did.
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May 1, 2022May 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/30/2022
Heather Cox Richardson In the spring of 1890, Republicans were convinced they would win the upcoming midterm elections. Thanks to their management of the economy, they insisted, the United States was on its way to becoming the most advanced nation in the world. Technology had brought new products to the country—bananas, for example—and upwardly mobile Americans had enough leisure time and money to celebrate weddings with special dresses and cakes, and to give their children toys on ...
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Apr 30, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/29/2022
Heather Cox Richardson The “Ghost of Kyiv,” an ace pilot who heartened the Ukrainian resistance by shooting down a number of Russian aircraft on the first day of Russia’s invasion, was real after all. According to The Times of London, he was Major Stepan Tarabalka, 29 years old, and was killed in action on March 13. That extraordinary Ukrainian resistance, reinforced as we now know it was by U.S. intelligence and the unified support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) ...
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Apr 29, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/28/2022
Heather Cox Richardson It has been hard for me to see the historical outlines of the present-day attack on American democracy clearly. But this morning, as I was reading a piece in Vox by foreign affairs specialist Zack Beauchamp, describing Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s path in Florida as an attempt to follow in the footsteps of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, the penny dropped. Here’s what I see: Before Trump won the presidency in 2016, the modern-day Republican Party was well on its...
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Apr 28, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/27/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Last night, New York Times reporters Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin released more of the audio recording of Republican leadership that they obtained in the process of writing their forthcoming book. This recording features a conversation among the House leadership on January 10, 2021. In it, the two top Republicans in the House of Representatives—House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and House minority whip Steve Scalise (R-LA)—agreed that the Trump ...
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Apr 27, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKElon Musk buys Twitter. What could possibly go wrong?
Overview: The world's richest man, a "free-speech absolutist," buys Twitter. Is this good news for the little guy, for the marginalized, for truth? Everyone has their line. Even 4chan, a supposedly “anything-goes platform” that many think is the worst manifestation of the internet, had a line. It was an animated depiction of child pornography, as well as concerted attacks on female journalists and others associated with Gamergate. The result? 8chan was started as an even more ...
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Apr 27, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/26/2022
Heather Cox Richardson I intended to write tonight about Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s statement today before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—and I will—but the research for that topic led me elsewhere: into the world of the early years of the Trump administration, when many journalists were trying oh, so hard to pretend that maybe Trump’s gutting of the State Department, for example, was just some part of a new policy approach. It’s startling when you compare it ...
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Feline Fanatics
Apr 26, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKThe complicated truth about a cat’s purr
By Stephen Dowling 25th July 2018 Our cats may purr when we pet and tickle them, but it’s a much more complicated form of communication than we've assumed. We think we know what a cat’s purr means. It is arguably the most recognisable sign of animal contentment: a pleasurable rasp that erupts whenever a cat is tickled or petted, the soundtrack to countless sessions sprawled on an owner’s lap. But that’s not quite the full story. There is a lot more going on with the cat’s ...
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Apr 26, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/25/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Yesterday, voters in both France and Slovenia rejected far-right candidates for leadership. French voters preferred leaving Emmanuel Macron in place as president by 58.5% over Marine Le Pen (41.5%). Le Pen is supported by fascists and antisemites, and she promised to take France out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), to turn against the U.S. influence, and to end multiculturalism, which she maintains is a failure. In Slovenia, a small country in ...
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Apr 24, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/23/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Late last night, the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol filed a motion asking a judge to put an end to the attempts of Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows to stonewall the committee. Meadows has tried to avoid talking to the committee or providing it with documents, using a number of different arguments that essentially try to establish that the U.S. president cannot be held accountable by Congress. The committee’s motion ...
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Apr 23, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKUniversity of Pittsburgh Proves Exercise Equals Better Memory
University of Pittsburgh Proves Exercise Equals Better Memory By Sarah Barkley Published on April 11, 2022 Most people know that regular physical activity is beneficial to their physical health. However, it offers more benefits than you might realize because it promotes better memory and cognition. Regular physical activity improves cognitive health, helping you think clearly, learn, problem-solve, and find emotional balance. You’ll quickly find that it promotes better memory, making...
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Apr 23, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKA bad death: the importance of truth-telling at end-of-life
A bad death: the importance of truth-telling at end-of-life ALTHEA HALCHUCK, APRIL , 2022 “Death would not be called bad, O people, if knew how to truly die.” — Nanak Her funeral was yesterday, and there was a huge turn-out. She was 67 and never cussed or said a bad word about anyone. She was much-friended and well-loved. In late January 2022, she was diagnosed with stage-4 cancer in her lungs, which metastasized to her liver and bones. At first, some medico used the word ...
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I am so going to use this now!
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LINKCOVID-19 was third leading cause of death in the United States in 2021, CDC reports
COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2021, following heart disease and cancer, for the second year in a row, according to provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The overall age-adjusted death rate for all causes in the U.S. was about 1% higher in 2021 than in was in 2020, but the death rate from COVID-19 increased by nearly 20%. The data was published Friday in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. More than one ...
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SERENDIPITOUS ser·en·dip·i·tous adjective occurring or discovered by chance in a happy or beneficial way. "a serendipitous encounter"
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KALEIDOSCOPE ka·lei·do·scope noun a toy consisting of a tube containing mirrors and pieces of colored glass or paper, whose reflections produce changing patterns that are visible through an eyehole when the tube is rotated. a constantly ...
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Mellifluous mel·lif·lu·ous adjective (of a voice or words) sweet or musical; pleasant to hear. "the voice was mellifluous and smooth"
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Trump Pinata
Apr 23, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKDisturbing New Court Filing Just Brutally Exposed Donald Trump, As Secret Service Allegedly Warned The White House Of Violence Against The Capitol Two Days Before Attack, Trump Ignored It And Still Called On His Supporters To March To The Capitol
by Andrea Thompson If there were ever any truly damning evidence against former President Donald Trump in connection to his major role in inciting the January 6th Capitol attack, this is it. Mark Meadows, the former president’s old Chief of Staff, has recently lodged a lawsuit against the January 6th House Select Committee over what he claims is an overly broad subpoena from the panel to appear before them and deliver his testimony regarding his knowledge of the January 6th events, as...
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Apr 23, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/22/2022
Heather Cox Richardson “I don’t recall.” “I don’t remember.” Georgia Republican representative Marjorie Taylor Greene today took the stand before an administrative law judge in Atlanta to defend her right to be on the ballot in Georgia after five voters challenged her inclusion on the grounds she had violated the third section of the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits anyone from holding office who has taken an oath to support the Constitution and then participates in an ...
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Marsronson002 Persistent little bugger. He's trying to get my phone number, and trying to convince me that he's the one. He is not overly pretty, member since 2/1/22. No sign of NNES in his correspondence. His pictures don't pop in ...
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Apr 22, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/21/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today started with a New York Times story by journalists Alexander Burns and Jonathan Martin, based on their forthcoming book, detailing how the two top Republicans in Congress during the January 6 insurrection, then–Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), blamed Trump for the attack on the Capitol and wanted him removed from office. On the night of January 6, McConnell told colleagues that the party would ...
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Would you consider give three MONTHS notice?
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Apr 21, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKNew strains of the omicron variant are still evolving
Arguably the most successful version of the 0micron coronavirus variant to date has been BA.2 — but it hasn't been resting on its laurels. BA.2 has been picking up mutations, sometimes shifting into sleeker and, incredibly, even faster versions of itself. Global variant trackers have found 21 viral offspring associated with BA.2. Most of these look like underachievers, with mutations of little consequence. But two of these offshoots — BA.2.12.1 and BA.2.12 — have been fueling a rise ...
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LINKWhy the Federal Reserve has made a historic mistake on inflation | The Economist
What comes next will set the path for the world economy Apr 23rd 2022 Central banks are supposed to inspire confidence in the economy by keeping inflation low and stable. America’s Federal Reserve has suffered a hair-raising loss of control. In March consumer prices were 8.5% higher than a year earlier, the fastest annual rise since 1981. In Washington inflation-watching is usually the preserve of wonks in shabby offices. Now nearly a fifth of Americans say inflation is the ...
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LINKLetters From An American 05/20/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Yesterday, Arizona governor Doug Ducey brought the Republican governors of 26 states together in the “American Governors’ Border Strike Force” to serve as a “force multiplier” in what he says is “criminal activity directly tied to our border.” For all of Ducey’s rhetoric about how the force is supposed to “accomplish what the federal government has failed at, protecting our communities from ruthless transnational criminal organizations,” the ...
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Apr 20, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKI got in trouble for talking to my coworker about how much money I make — Ask a Manager
I got in trouble for talking to my coworker about how much I make by ALISON GREEN on APRIL 20, 2022 A reader writes: Recently, I was given feedback from my manager stating they had concerns with confidentiality and discretion when it came to my work. They said it had been brought to their attention that I had shared what my salary was with a team member. My manager did not share who it was, for confidentiality reasons, but I have spoken to person about salary and that is my team ...
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Apr 20, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKYour Local Epidemiologist Transmission on Planes
Katelyn Jetelina On Monday, a Florida judge voided the U.S. mandate for public transit, which includes planes, trains, and buses. Several airlines immediately announced they dropped masks. And, in true pandemic fashion, an intense debate about masks ensued. There are health equity concerns. There are legal concerns, like setting the precedent that the CDC doesn’t have authority during a public health emergency. And there are epidemiological concerns. In particular, I’ve noticed ...
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Apr 20, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/19/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Last night, lawyers for Ed Vallejo, one of 11 members of the right-wing Oath Keepers gang accused of seditious conspiracy for their actions surrounding January 6, filed a motion for Vallejo’s release from pretrial jail. Vallejo’s lawyer describes his client as having “a passionate yet gentle nature, as well as love of animals,” and quotes one of Vallejo’s friends as saying the accused conspirator is a “true man of passion” whose “tools are an ...
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Apr 19, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKYour Local Epidemiologist: State of Affairs: April 19
Katelyn Jetelina Last week, the WHO confirmed that we are, in fact, still in a pandemic. The Emergency Committee met recently and unanimously concluded it’s too soon to declare the emergency over. The Director General, Dr. Tedros, agreed: “It’s far from being the time to drop our guard, this is the moment to work even harder to save lives.” In the latest WHO epidemiological report, every region in the world has decreasing trends. In even better news, the number of global deaths ...
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Apr 19, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/15/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today is tax day, since public workers in Washington, D.C., got April 15, our usual tax day, off to celebrate Emancipation Day. That holiday honors April 16, the day that President Abraham Lincoln in 1862 signed the law emancipating enslaved Black Americans in the nation’s capital. The Biden administration used the occasion of tax day to highlight the difference between its tax policies and those of the current Republican Party. Biden is calling for making ...
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Apr 18, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/17/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today, political scientist and member of the Russian legislative body Vyacheslav Nikonov said, “in reality, we embody the forces of good in the modern world because this clash is metaphysical…. We are on the side of good against the forces of absolute evil…. This is truly a holy war that we’re waging, and we have to win it and of course we will because our cause is just. We have no other choice. Our cause is not only just, our cause is righteous and victory will...
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Apr 16, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKA Funeral for My Christianity
A Funeral for My Christianity APRIL 10, 2022 / JOHN PAVLOVITZ A friend told me that I seemed angry lately and at first it really pissed me off. I instantly mounted a spirited, vigorous defense laying out the reasons she had assessed me incorrectly but soon found myself trailing off, resigned to a harsh, unwelcome truth: She was right, or at least she was in the ballpark. It’s an easy mistake to make. From the outside grief looks a lot like anger. The external markers tend to be...
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Apr 16, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKIt's not over: COVID-19 cases are on the rise again in US
Yet again, the U.S. is trudging into what could be another COVID-19 surge, with cases rising nationally and in most states after a two-month decline. One big unknown? "We don't know how high that mountain's gonna grow," said Dr. Stuart Campbell Ray, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins University. No one expects a peak nearly as high as the last one, when the contagious omicron version of the coronavirus ripped through the population. But experts warn that the coming wave – ...
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Apr 16, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/15/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Early in the morning of April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln breathed his last. The night before, he and his wife had gone to see a play—a comedy. One of the last men to talk to him before he left for the theater said it seemed the cares of the previous four years were melting away. The Confederacy was all but defeated, and the nation seemed to be on its way to a prosperous, inclusive new future. The bullet that killed Lincoln had been delivered by John Wilkes...
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LINKLetters From An American 04/14/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today’s stories illuminate the increasingly dangerous international struggle between democracy and authoritarianism. On the world stage, that struggle is most visible these days in the invasion of democratic Ukraine by the authoritarian president of Russia, Vladimir Putin. Putin apparently believed his invasion would be a cakewalk, but we are now in day 51 of Putin’s brutal attack, and while Ukraine is badly battered, it is holding strong. Yesterday, Ukrainian...
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Apr 14, 2022Apr 2022

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Fox News viewers changed their minds after getting paid to watch CNN for a month
Some hope we can bridge the political divide. The prevailing logic in today’s political world is that polarization is worsening because people live in media echo chambers where they are only exposed to outlets that mirror their views. People who live in echo chambers come to distrust any opinions that exist outside of their bubbles and when they're not exposed to any conflicting information. This creates a scenario where the person becomes increasingly entrenched in their worldview....
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Apr 14, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/13/2022
Heather Cox Richardson “Democrats need to make more noise,” Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) told Greg Sargent of the Washington Post. “We have to scream from the rooftops, because this is a battle for the free world now.” Sargent interviewed Schatz after the senator called out Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) on the floor of the Senate on April 7 for the profound disconnect between the Republican senator’s speeches and his actions. Hawley has placed a hold on President Joe Biden’s ...
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Apr 13, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKIs It Ethical To Use Amazon? | Current Affairs
Opinions please, read and tell me what you think. Should we be ashamed of ourselves for patronizing evil corporations? by NATHAN J. ROBINSON Just about every week, I order a thing from Amazon. Sometimes it is a connector cable or some teabags. Occasionally it is a bag of gummy volcanoes. Checking my order history, I find that most recently it was a pair of lamp harps and a copy of John Cassidy’s How Markets Fail. I have an Amazon Prime account, which not only gets me free two-day ...
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Apr 13, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/12/2022
Heather Cox Richardson On April 12, 1945, a visibly exhausted President Franklin Delano Roosevelt jerked in his chair while having his portrait painted in Warm Springs, Georgia. FDR put his hand up, said “I have a terrific pain in the back of my head,” and lost consciousness. He died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage within hours. When FDR entered the White House in 1933, he undertook to rebuild the nation after Republicans had run it into the ground. Believing that businessmen ...
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Apr 12, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/11/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Last week, we lost a crucially important voice in the media when media reporter Eric Boehlert died unexpectedly. In his last column for his publication Press Run, titled “Why is the press rooting against Biden?,” Boehlert wrote that there is such a “glaring disconnect between reality and how the press depicts White House accomplishments” that it seems the press is “determined to keep Biden pinned down.” Boehlert pointed to the extraordinary poll showing ...
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Apr 11, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKTeachers Are Done. No, Really.
I've been asked often why teachers are fleeing the classroom and while I can't speak for all teachers, many of our reasons appear to be universal. Teachers are leaving the classroom for a multitude of reasons. Prior to the pandemic, the system was already very much broken, but teachers were able to hold all the pieces together, often at the expense of their own families, their own mental health, and their own personal lives. Teaching was martyrdom for the greater societal good. In some ways, ...
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Apr 10, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKTucker Carlson is Now Advocating For Violence Against Teachers.
The rhetoric just continues to escalate. By Lauren Elizabeth 04/10/2022 After Georgia Representative Marjorie Greene has been making the headlines for claiming Democrats were “pro-pedophile” and increasingly sounding like a leader who hopes to set the stage for genocide, FOX News’ own Tucker Carlson decided he was going to add to the increase in violent rhetoric coming from the right wing as well. On his April 8th show, Carlson decided to draw teachers and fathers into the mix....
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Apr 10, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/09/2022
Heather Cox Richardson On April 9, 1865, General Ulysses S. Grant got out of bed with a migraine. The pain had hit the day before as he rode through the Virginia countryside, where the United States Army had been harrying the Confederacy’s Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee, for days. Grant knew it was only a question of time before Lee had to surrender. After four years of war, the people in the South were starving, and Lee’s army was melting away as ...
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Apr 9, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/08/2022
Heather Cox Richardson “I have dedicated my career to public service because I love this country and our Constitution and the rights that make us free," Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said today at a White House ceremony celebrating her confirmation to the Supreme Court. Also today, we learned that Donald Trump, Jr., texted Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on November 5, 2020, two days after the presidential election and two days before the media would call the election ...
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Apr 8, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKWhy the BA.2 variant — the dominant strain in the US — hasn't shown signs of a surge
Maybe BA.2 really is the "stealth variant." The omicron subvariant caused as many as 3 in 4 cases of COVID- in the United States last week, according to the latest genomic surveillance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but so far, there are no signs of a looming surge in the U.S. Even as BA.2 has become dominant, overall numbers of cases are still decreasing, says Dr. Jessica Justman, an epidemiologist at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. ...
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Apr 8, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/07/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed to become Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. The Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s nominee by a vote of 53 to 47, with three Republicans joining all 50 Democrats in favor of confirmation. The three Republicans voting yes were Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Mitt Romney (R-UT). Jackson’s elevation will not change the legal philosophy of the court. She will replace Justice ...
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Apr 7, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/06/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today, all but two of the Republicans in the House of Representatives voted against a resolution finding Trump aides Dan Scavino and Peter Navarro in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with subpoenas from the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol. Among the early “no” votes was Representative Greg Pence (R-IN), whose brother, Vice President Mike Pence, was in danger from the mob on January 6 after then-president ...
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Apr 6, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/05/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today, former president Barack Obama returned to the White House at President Joe Biden’s invitation to talk about the Affordable Care Act (ACA), popularly known as Obamacare. He noted there have been changes in the White House since he left in 2017. For one thing, “here’s a cat running around,” he joked, “which I guarantee you Bo and Sunny would have been very unhappy about.” Obama signed the ACA into law in 2010. Today, 31 ...
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Apr 5, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKLetters From An American 04/04/2022
Heather Cox Richardson Today the Senate Judiciary Committee deadlocked, 11 to 11, on whether to send Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court to the full Senate for a vote. The Democrats can still move the nomination forward through procedural measures, and three Republicans—Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), and Mitt Romney (R-UT)—have said they will vote for her, so her confirmation is assured (even if Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), who has not yet said how ...
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Uncommon words and their meanings.
Apr 5, 2022Apr 2022

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PLETHORA This is one of my favorite words, it really means alot to me :) pleth·o·ra /ˈpleTHərə/ noun 1: a large or excessive amount of (something). "a plethora of committees and subcommittees" Similar: excess, abundance, overabundance, ...
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Apr 3, 2022Apr 2022

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LINKAmericans are using credit cards to pay for everything. What happens when the bills come due?
The promise of economic recovery has rung in America's ears since the false promises of an end to the pandemic in 2021. Lawmakers, business owners, and speculators assured us that hallmarks of our consumer life, like casual spending on nonessentials, were returning, and that this would mean the society that houses the world’s largest economy could finally assume a new normal. Soon enough we would be able to take off our masks, go back to work, and have fun like nothing ever happened. Of ...
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