Thursday, December 15, 2022

Reading archive 2022-12-14

A girl asked to keep a unicorn in her yard. Animal control said yes.

Family of man shot by FBI agent at Metro Center demands prosecution

Trial begins for two D.C. police officers charged in fatal moped chase - "After the officers turned off their body cameras and conferred with each other, Sutton gave the driver of the SUV clearance to leave, Baset said. He said they did not notify the department’s major crash unit, as was required. After Hylton-Brown was taken to a hospital, Baset said, the officers did not interview any witnesses to the collision or secure the crash site for evidence collection."

QAnon, adrift after Trump’s defeat, finds new life in Elon Musk’s Twitter: Among some QAnon devotees, Musk has become a figure of prophecy on par with Donald Trump

Tom Brady pushed crypto to his fans. This lawyer wants him to pay up.: ‘Why shouldn’t they be held responsible?’ says Florida attorney Adam Moskowitz

A newspaper vanished from the internet. Did someone pay to kill it?: The Hook, a beloved Charlottesville weekly, closed a decade ago but its archives lived on — until its 22,000 stories were suddenly taken offline in June. Former staffers have theories about its mystery buyer.

The surprising reasons parts of Earth are warming more slowly

Antiabortion movement seeks to jail people for 'trafficking’ illegal pills: Six months after their Supreme Court victory, conservatives complain that strict new laws are not being sufficiently enforced

Opinion  Smooth sailing for Metro, for now, as storm clouds gather

Opinion  The great American bailout goes on ... and on - "To repeat: There was a case for protecting most of the Teamsters’ pensions, with modest taxpayer support. But there was no case for using public money to protect every single dollar of them, when the vast majority of taxpayers enjoy no such perks. 

"This obviously happened because of the influence a special interest — organized labor — currently enjoys in Washington. Come to think of it, the 2021 law didn’t make employers chip in to solve the problem they helped create, so it’s a quiet corporate subsidy, too."

To live and die in Tijuana

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