Friday, May 19, 2023

Reading archive 2023-05-19

Florida teacher investigated for showing Disney movie with gay main character

US signals to allies it won’t block their export of F-16 jets to Ukraine

The unexpected downside of raising bees in your backyard - "'The honeybee has been promoted as the symbol of helping the environment and biodiversity, and really it’s not that,' says Gail MacInnis, a former postdoctoral researcher at Concordia University in Montreal and the study’s lead author. 'You would never start keeping chickens to help save wild bird species.'"

Zelensky, on surprise Saudi visit, seeks Arab League support in war

Opinion  Marjorie Taylor Greene’s impeachment stunt wrecks a big MAGA myth - "The idea that our border is under perpetual siege isn’t intended as an empirical declaration about a concrete challenge facing the country. Rather, it’s a kind of animating myth, one manufactured to mobilize political energy. In this, it’s essential to MAGA’s identity."

D.C. police officer arrested, accused of leaking info to Proud Boys leader: Lt. Shane Lamond told Henry “Enrique” Tarrio that police had a warrant out for him in advance of his arrest in the burning of a Black Lives Matter flag, prosecutors say

The short life of Baby Milo - "The state’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks of gestation has an exception for fatal fetal abnormalities. But as long as their baby’s heart kept beating, the Dorberts say, doctors would not honor their request to terminate the pregnancy. The doctors would not say how they reached their decision, but the new law carries severe penalties, including prison time, for medical practitioners who run afoul of it. The hospital system declined to discuss the case. ...

"The day before Milo was born, the Dorberts sat down with their son Kaiden to explain that the baby’s body had stopped working and that he would not come home. Instead, someday, they told Kaiden, they would all meet as angels. The 4-year-old burst into tears, telling them that he did not want to be an angel. ...

"He never cried or tried to nurse or even opened his eyes, investing every ounce of energy in intermittent gasps for air. “That was the beginning of the end,” Rogell said, recalling the persistent gulps that he thought at first were hiccups but turned out to be his grandson’s labored efforts to inhale."

Fox News Stoked Outrage Over Migrants Displacing Homeless Vets. It Was a Hoax.: Fox News and the rest of right-wing media went wild for a week over a now-debunked story about New York hotels booting homeless vets to accommodate asylum seekers. - "The manager of the hotel also told Mid-Hudson News that no veterans were ever at the hotel, let alone kicked out of Crossroads. No other guests had been displaced either, as the hotel had not been booked to capacity despite housing a group of migrants. ...

"The story got even wilder on Friday, however, when Mid-Hudson News further reported that Toney-Finch had recruited a group of homeless men from a nearby shelter to pretend they were the military veterans that had been displaced by migrants."

Homeless men recruited for veteran hotel scam

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