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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Oct 8, 2021Oct 2021

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sol·vent /ˈsälvənt/ adjective 1. having assets in excess of liabilities; able to pay one's debts. "interest rate rises have very severe effects on normally solvent companies" 2.able to dissolve other substances. "osmotic, chemical, or solvent ...

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Oct 7, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 10/08/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Today, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) backed down from his obstructionism, agreeing to let the Democrats raise the debt ceiling by a simple majority rather than by the 60 votes they needed when the Republicans kept filibustering their bills. A quick recap: the issue at stake was whether the United States would default on its debts, which it has never done before. The threat to default was purely a political ploy on the part of the Republicans to try ...

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Oct 6, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKIllinois toddler fights for his life as COVID transmission rages

By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) - When her two-year- started feeling sick early last week, Tiffany Jackson didn't think it might be COVID-19. No one else in the family was sick. Adrian James just had a bit of a cough. She gave him cough syrup and put a humidifier in his room. But by Friday he was sweaty and his breathing was labored. Jackson took him to an emergency room in her town of Mt. Vernon, Illinois. Doctors and nurses there did a chest X-ray and swabbed him for COVID - and then ...

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Oct 6, 2021Oct 2021

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nos·tal·gia /näˈstaljə,nəˈstaljə/ noun a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations. "I was overcome with acute nostalgia for my days in college" something done or...

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Oct 6, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 10/05/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Today, Facebook whistle-blower Frances Haugen testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security. Haugen noted that Facebook co-founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg controls about 58% of Facebook’s voting shares, meaning he sets the terms of the company’s behavior. Her documents, illustrating that Facebook addressed only about 1% of hate violent speech and that its own algorithms pushed disinformation, ...

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Oct 5, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 10/04/2021

Heather Cox Richardson “hello literally everyone,” the official account of Twitter tweeted this afternoon, after Facebook and its affiliated platforms Instagram and WhatsApp went dark at about 11:40 this morning. The Facebook outage lasted for more than six hours and appears to have been caused by an internal error. But the void caused by the absence of the internet giant illustrated its power at a time when the use of that power has come under scrutiny. In mid-September, the Wall ...

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Oct 4, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKWglobal supply chains are in a state of disarray- Thread by @SahilBloom on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

By now, you’ve probably heard that global supply chains are in a state of disarray. Here's a simple breakdown of what’s causing it: 1/ There's a lot of talk right now about the global supply chain crisis. @business published an article subtitled "Inside the Brutal Realities of Supply Chain Hell”—it's getting serious. This thread provides my (very) simple framework for understanding the key drivers: 2/ First off, what are the visible impacts of the crisis? Product delays ...

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Oct 4, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKCult-like church’s takeover of Idaho college town is fueled by a misogynist, rape-friendly theology

In most regards, Moscow, Idaho, is the embodiment of the bucolic college town: tree-covered neighborhoods, quiet streets, quaint shops downtown, and a pretty University of Idaho college campus. But for people who live there, the insidious presence of Pastor Doug Wilson’s cult-like Christ Church—not at all obvious on the surface, but cumulatively overwhelming at times—can make life on the Palouse surreal, even nightmarish. Moreover, as a deep profile by Sarah Stankorb at Vice reveals, ...

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Oct 4, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 10/03/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Yesterday, people rallied at more than 600 marches across the country to demonstrate their opposition to Texas’s new restrictions on abortion rights. Today, the Washington Post broke the story that the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) obtained more than 11.9 million financial records including emails, spreadsheets, contracts, and so on, that reveal a vast international network of financial schemes to hide money from taxation, ...

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Oct 3, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKMy School is Shaming Girls’ Bodies

Sexist dress codes in schools prevent students from focusing on their education. Riley O'Keefe , High School Student September 30, 2021 Last May, I was counting down the final days of my freshman year at Bartram Trail High School and anxiously waiting to pick up my first high school yearbook. When the yearbooks finally came, I rushed down the hallways to the cafeteria to grab my copy and immediately did what every kid does: I flipped through the pages until I found my photo. But when I ...

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Health & Happiness

Oct 3, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKKaren Mistakes Customer For Employee, And Is Served Nothing But Relentless Honesty

Our Narrator Tells Us He Might Have A "Retail" Face "I'm telling you about one event but I must have a "retail" face because I'm approached so often. I wear a suit at work. When I call in at any shop on the way home I leave my jacket in the car so I'm just wearing a shirt and tie. I couldn't tell you how many times people assume I am staff. If they're civil, I'm civil. If they're struggling, I'm helpful. If they're rude, I have fun. The reason I remember this one is because I've said ...

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Oct 3, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKPandora Papers reveal secret offshore financial system for global elites - Washington Post

PANDORA PAPERS | A GLOBAL INVESTIGATION BILLIONS HIDDEN BEYOND REACH Trove of secret files details opaque financial universe where global elite shield riches from taxes, probes and accountability By Greg Miller, Debbie Cenziper and Peter Whoriskey Oct. 3, 2021 A massive trove of private financial records shared with The Washington Post exposes vast reaches of the secretive offshore system used to hide billions of dollars from tax authorities, creditors, criminal investigators and —...

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Oct 3, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKAbout the Pandora Papers investigation - The Washington Post

Today at 12:52 p.m. EDT Dear Reader, Today The Washington Post is joining news organizations around the globe to bring you the first in a series of important stories. These are the product of nearly a year of reporting at The Post focused on a vast trove of documents that expose a secretive financial universe that benefits the wealthy and powerful. The project, known as the Pandora Papers, was conceived and organized by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, ...

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Love & Relationships

Oct 3, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKEscaping the Rabbit Hole: How to Help Your Conspiracy Theorist Friend with Mick West - YouTube

Communicating with a believer of conspiracy theories presents many challenges and may seem like an impossible task. How do you get through to someone who rejects conflicting evidence and thinks that you are part of the problem? Conspiracy Theory Expert Mick West presents a selection of time-tested tools and techniques for understanding and helping a friend lost down the rabbit hole. Mick West is a writer, investigator, and debunker who enjoys looking into the evidence behind conspiracy ...

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Oct 3, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKOpinion | If they’re going to keep passing religious laws, we’re going to need exemptions - The Washington Post

Opinion by Kate Cohen Contributing columnist September 29, 2021 at 3:59 p.m. EDT Religious exemptions make no sense to me. These escape clauses from our civic compact allow people to claim that such-and-such a law does not apply to them since it conflicts with their “sincerely held religious belief.” A person can claim a religious exemption to the equal opportunity clause that’s required in all federal contracts; to the contraceptive coverage mandate of the Affordable Care ...

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General & Hellos

Oct 3, 2021Oct 2021

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Yesterday I was at Omaha's Women's March rally with two of my girls.

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Oct 3, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKThe Colorado River Is in Crisis. The Walton Family Is Pushing a Solution.

The first-ever official shortage on the Colorado River has intensified a debate over how to provide water for 40 million people across the Southwest and irrigate fields of thirsty crops like wheat, cotton and alfalfa. Few voices outside government are more influential than that of the Walton family, billionaire heirs to the Walmart Inc. fortune, who have long advocated water markets as a key part to solving the region’s woes. But some environmental groups say the Waltons drown out other, ...

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Oct 2, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 10/01/2021

Heather Cox Richardson For those of you exhausted by this week’s news, you can take a break tonight. Lots of moving pieces are in play, but nothing that would hold a historian to her desk a hundred years from now, so skip this letter with a clean conscience. For those of you who do want some reflections, I am struck today by the media’s breathless recounting of how the ongoing negotiations over the two infrastructure bills shows that the Democrats are in disarray and President Joe ...

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Oct 1, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKFacebook's Historian: Professor Heather Cox Richardson — The Heights

By Timmy Facciola Like Ulysses S. Grant Jr., Daniel Webster, and so many more historical figures she has spent her life studying, Heather Cox Richardson got her start in the hallowed halls of Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH, where she was a member of one of the first coed classes in the early 1970s. Perhaps it was spending her formative years in the same classrooms as such giants that has afforded Richardson the ability to discuss history with a distinct air of familiarity. In her...

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Oct 1, 2021Oct 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/30/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Tonight, President Joe Biden signed into law a bill that extends funding for the government until December 3, 2021. The government won’t shut down tomorrow. In the Senate, Republican Tom Cotton (R-AR) tried to amend the measure to stop aid for Afghan refugees who were evacuated to the United States. That amendment reflected the demands of former president Donald Trump, who insisted that Republicans should oppose the bill, calling it “a major immigration rewrite ...

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Sep 30, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKWhy the federal government (probably) won't shut down tonight

Why the federal government (probably) won't shut down tonight. Ordinarily, when Congress finds a way to avert a government shutdown \ Sept. 30, 2021 By Steve Benen The United States government has shutdown for a variety of unfortunate reasons. In 2013, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz convinced Republicans to shut down the government in the hopes of derailing the Affordable Care Act. In 2018, Donald Trump shut down the government because he wanted money for ineffective border barriers. In 2019, ...

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Sep 30, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/29/2021

Heather Cox Richardson We are coming down to the wire for the Senate to pass the Freedom to Vote Act. This bill was hammered out earlier in September by a group of senators trying to find common ground with conservative Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who objected to the sweeping For the People Act passed by the House. The Freedom to Vote Act pared down that larger bill but retained its most important pieces. It creates a national standard for voting rules and tries to stop voter ...

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Sep 29, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/28/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Today, the fight over the debt ceiling continued. As Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned that breaching the debt ceiling would delay Social Security payments and military paychecks, as well as jeopardizing the status of the U.S. dollar as the international reserve currency, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) offered Senate Republicans “a way out” from having to participate in raising the ceiling, despite the fact that the Republicans had added $7.8 ...

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Sep 28, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKEvangelical Pastor Says Jesus Hasn’t Returned Yet Because People Are Not Donating Money

An evangelical pastor is being slammed on social media after telling his congregants that they could speed up the return of Jesus by donating money to a fellow minister’s church. Jesse Duplantis, a preacher based in New Orleans who is known for his extravagant lifestyle, was appearing alongside televangelist Kenneth Copeland for a church fundraiser when he claimed that he believed that God’s will was for people to give money to ministers like himself. He said, ‘I really believe...

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Sep 28, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/27/2021

Heather Cox Richardson Today, the Senate considered a bill to fund the government until December and to raise the debt ceiling. The Republicans joined together to filibuster it. Such a move is extraordinary. Not only did the Republicans vote against a measure that would keep the government operating and keep it from defaulting on its debt—debt incurred before Biden took office—but they actually filibustered it, meaning it could not pass with a simple majority vote. The Republicans will...

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Sep 26, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKOpinion | Our constitutional crisis is already here - The Washington Post

“Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation.” — James Madison The United States is heading into its greatest political and constitutional crisis since the Civil War, with a reasonable chance over the next three to four years of incidents of mass violence, a breakdown of federal authority, and the division of the country into warring red and blue enclaves. The warning signs may be obscured by the distractions of politics, the pandemic, the economy and ...

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Sep 26, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/25/2021

Heather Cox Richardson For weeks now, I have vowed that I would finish these letters early and get to bed before midnight, and for weeks now, I have finally finished around three in the morning. That was not the case two years ago, when I started writing these at the start of the Ukraine crisis: it was rare enough for me to be writing until midnight that I vividly remember the first time it happened. I got to thinking today about why things seem more demanding today than they did two ...

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Sep 25, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/24/2021

Heather Cox Richardson On Monday, we learned that after last year’s election, John Eastman, a well-connected lawyer advising former president Donald Trump, outlined a six-point plan to overturn the outcome of the election and install Trump as America’s leader. They planned to cut the voters’ actual choice, Democrat Joe Biden, out of power: as Trump advisor Steve Bannon put it, they planned to “kill the Biden presidency in the crib.” This appears to have been the plan that Trump and ...

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Sep 24, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/23/2021

Heather Cox Richardson This evening, the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol issued subpoenas to four key figures in the Trump White House who either were working with or had communications with the White House in the days surrounding the January 6 insurrection: former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications Daniel Scavino, former Defense Department official Kashyap Patel, and former Trump ...

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Sep 23, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKOpinion: Facebook's alarming plan for news feeds - CNN

Kara Alaimo, an associate professor of public relations at Hofstra University, is the author of "Pitch, Tweet, or Engage on the Street: How to Practice Global Public Relations and Strategic Communication." She was spokeswoman for international affairs in the Treasury Department during the Obama administration. Follow her on Twitter @karaalaimo. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author. (CNN)Worried about recent news reports that Facebook knows that Instagram, ...

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Sep 23, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/22/2021

Heather Cox Richardson CNN’s bombshell revelation of Trump loyalist lawyer John Eastman’s six-point memo of instructions for overturning the 2020 election—discussed in the new book by veteran journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa—seems to be sparking a reckoning with how dangerous the Trump loyalists are to the survival of American democracy. Eastman responded to the story by saying the released memo was only a draft and then giving CNN the final version, which was longer but...

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Sep 22, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/21/2021

By Heather Cox Richardson Tonight, the House of Representatives passed a funding bill that would both keep the government from shutting down and prevent a default on the U.S. debt. The vote was 220 to 211, with all Democrats voting in favor and all Republicans voting against. There are two financial deadlines looming. One is the need for Congress to fund the government. In late December 2020, Congress passed a huge bill that, among other things, funded the government through September 30....

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Sep 21, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/20/2021

Heather Cox Richardson So many stories landed today that some will have to wait. Tonight’s news, though, boils down to Republican attempts to retake control of the government in the 2022 elections…and, if Trump has his way, even earlier. This morning, CNN revealed another bombshell story from the forthcoming book by veteran reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa: a six-point memo from pro-Trump lawyer John Eastman laying out a plan for then–vice president Mike Pence to steal the...

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Sep 20, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/19/2021

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

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Sep 19, 2021Sep 2021

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

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

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Sep 18, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/17/2021

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

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Sep 17, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/16/2021

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

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Sep 16, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/15/2021

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

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Sep 15, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/14/2021

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

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Sep 14, 2021Sep 2021

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

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Sep 14, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/13/2021

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

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Sep 14, 2021Sep 2021

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

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

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Sep 12, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKWho Is Buying My Neighborhood? | Sojourners

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

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Sep 12, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/11/2021

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

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Sep 11, 2021Sep 2021

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

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

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Sep 11, 2021Sep 2021

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

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

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Sep 11, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/10/2021

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

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Sep 10, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKWoman who coughed on shoppers in viral video loses job

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

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Sep 10, 2021Sep 2021

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

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

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Sep 10, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/09/2021

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

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Sep 9, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/08/2021

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

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Sep 8, 2021Sep 2021

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

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

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Sep 8, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/07/2021

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

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Sep 7, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/06/2021

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

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Sep 6, 2021Sep 2021

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

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Trolls, Scammers & Nigerian Russian Wives:Report Them Here

Sep 6, 2021Sep 2021

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

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Sep 6, 2021Sep 2021

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

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

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Sep 6, 2021Sep 2021

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

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Sep 6, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/05/2021

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

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Sep 5, 2021Sep 2021

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

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Sep 5, 2021Sep 2021

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

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

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Sep 5, 2021Sep 2021

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

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

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Sep 4, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKWillard Scott, legendary TODAY weatherman, dies at 87

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

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Sep 4, 2021Sep 2021

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

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

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Sep 4, 2021Sep 2021

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

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Sep 4, 2021Sep 2021

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

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

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Religion & Spirituality

Sep 4, 2021Sep 2021

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

R'amen and R'amen!

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Sep 4, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKWhy Texas Republicans’ Abortion Ban Could Backfire

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

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Sep 4, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/03/2021

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

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Sep 3, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKTikTok Users and Coders Flood Texas Abortion Site With Fake Tips

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

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General & Hellos

Sep 3, 2021Sep 2021

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

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Sep 3, 2021Sep 2021

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

Good news!

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Sep 3, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/02/2021

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

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Sep 2, 2021Sep 2021

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

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

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Sep 2, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKRon Reagan: Unabashed Atheist - YouTube

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

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Sep 2, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 09/01/2021

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

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Academic (e.g., Science)

Sep 1, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKAccomplished Women Who Did Hard Work And Got No Credit

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

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Sep 1, 2021Sep 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/31/2021

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

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Aug 31, 2021Aug 2021

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

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Aug 31, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/30/2021

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

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Aug 31, 2021Aug 2021

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

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

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Uncommon words and their meanings.

Aug 30, 2021Aug 2021

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

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Aug 30, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKExplaining Humans to Aliens - YouTube

Mrs Betty Bowers tells it like it is.

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Aug 30, 2021Aug 2021

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

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

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Trump Pinata

Aug 29, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKFederal judge excoriates Trump lawyers, refers them for disbarment

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

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Aug 29, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKFederal judge excoriates Trump lawyers, refers them for disbarment

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

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Aug 29, 2021Aug 2021

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

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

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Aug 29, 2021Aug 2021

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The handoff

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Aug 29, 2021Aug 2021

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The handoff.

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Aug 29, 2021Aug 2021

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

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

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Aug 29, 2021Aug 2021

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

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

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Aug 29, 2021Aug 2021

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

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

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Aug 29, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/28/2021

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

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Singles/Mingle/Chat

Aug 28, 2021Aug 2021

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

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Aug 28, 2021Aug 2021

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

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

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Religion & Spirituality

Aug 28, 2021Aug 2021

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

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

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Feline Fanatics

Aug 28, 2021Aug 2021

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Yes, the cat HAS been fed.

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Aug 28, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/28/2021

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

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Aug 27, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/26/2021

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

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Aug 26, 2021Aug 2021

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LINKLetters From An American 08/25/2021

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

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