Monday, May 10, 2021

Reading archive 2021-05-10

Child care has bipartisan support. But the culture war could wreck that.

The Jean War between millennials and Gen Z cannot be won

An off-duty officer ‘terrorized’ a family displaying a BLM flag. Police drove him home without arrest.

German priests defy Pope Francis with blessings of same-sex unions

The making of a myth: Russell J. Ramsland Jr. sold everything from Tex-Mex food to light-therapy technology. Then he sold the story that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump. - "The campaign foundered amid revelations she had previously appeared on Infowars, the right-wing website operated by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and on another occasion had said she believed data showed that military-grade explosives were planted inside the twin towers on 9/11. That comment prompted the Austin American-Statesman to retract its endorsement of her. (Pressley told The Post she had 'no opinion' on whether planes brought down the World Trade Center.) 

"The race was not close: Her opponent, a community organizer, defeated her by a margin of almost 30 points. 

"Pressley could not believe it. 

"'I knew in my heart that I had won,' she recently told a gathering of law enforcement officers outside Houston, one of hundreds of speeches she has given about the case, 'and I became convinced there was fraud.'"

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