Reading archive 2021-09-13

How wellness influencers are fueling the anti-vaccine movement: For years, the wellness world has been entangled with vaccine hesitancy. Amid covid-19, the consequences are starker than ever.

Alabama man dies after being turned away from 43 hospitals as covid packs ICUs, family says

Does the supplement Prevagen improve memory? A court case is asking that question.

Opinion: Chris Wallace’s grilling of a GOP governor exposes a much bigger scam

Two Florida middle-schoolers charged with plotting mass shooting after ‘extensively studying’ Columbine

California couple die of covid, leaving five kids behind. Their newborn is 3 weeks old.

Space for dissent opened in Afghanistan after the Taliban was ousted 20 years ago. Now the militants are trying to slam it shut. - "'The United States should have just dropped a nuclear bomb on Afghanistan when it left, instead of letting us die slowly,' yelled one of the women, Rashmeen, her hands shaking. She spoke on the condition that she be identified only by her first name, for fear of reprisals."

Barrett concerned about public perception of Supreme Court: Judges must be "hyper vigilant" to keep personal biases out of their decisions, said Barrett, who would not comment on the court's vote not to block Texas' abortion ban.

Texas wanted to be the tech haven of the U.S. Its new abortion bill and other measures are causing workers to rethink their move.: Tech workers are marking Texas off the list of places they’d consider working after the state passed the nation’s most restrictive abortion law

Fencing to be reinstalled ahead of ‘Justice for J6’ rally defending those arrested in Capitol riot

Afghan American woman’s escape highlights secretive CIA role in Kabul rescues

After COVID almost killed him, a Colorado fitness coach wishes he listened to his mom's advice [ed. note: COVID January 2020, thought was immune, caught again June 2021]

California’s disappearing salmon: The drought, along with man-made impediments, has placed the state’s wild Chinook population at grave risk.

Native Thicket Conservation Project

THE MYTH OF THE THICKET-LESS PRAIRIE

Trump takes aim at George W. Bush, saying he shouldn’t ‘lecture’ about threat of domestic terrorism

Reading archive 2021-08-12

California man charged with spear-gun killing of children

A QAnon-obsessed father thought his kids would destroy the world, so he killed them with a spear gun, FBI says

Voting Machine Tampering Is Coming From Inside The MAGA House: Colorado County Clerk Tina Peters May Have Committed The Very Crime She Accused The Left Of Committing

What If The House Of Representatives Had More Than 435 Seats?: See how adding more seats makes Congress more representative

A GoFundMe topped $200,000 after a woman said she and her kids faced eviction. Then, their real mom came forward.

Mississippi’s Hospital System Could ‘Fail’ In 10 Days, UMMC Warns As Feds Rush In

Mississippi braces for ‘failure’ of hospital system due to covid-19 surge and lack of ICU beds

The spectacular implosion of Mike Lindell

Opinion: CNN’s Brian Stelter continues shilling for Chris Cuomo

Deceptions and lies: What really happened in Afghanistan

The grand illusion: Hiding the truth about the Afghanistan war’s ‘conclusion’

A plant-based diet is the best way to avoid heart disease, according to a new report

Reading archive 2020-10-19

How does Google’s monopoly hurt you? Try these searches.: Right under our noses, the Internet’s most-used website has been getting worse

In a year of political anger, undecided voters inspire a special kind of scorn - "Undecided voters are the butt of jokes. But they also tend to be venerated — by media, by campaigns — as freethinkers, tough customers, keepers of a rarefied common sense that exists above the partisan tug-of-war. They are granted special audiences with candidates, who must persuade them personally while other Undecideds look on.

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"So yes, they do exist. And some think Decideds should consider being a bit more diplomatic. 'The more attacking I feel from one side, it pushes me away from that candidate,' says Samantha Thomas, 32, of Cape May, N.J. 'Sway me, and do it kindly. You catch more flies with honey.'" [ed. note: SPARE ME]

EXCLUSIVE: Fox News Passed on Hunter Biden Laptop Story Over Credibility Concerns

The George W. Bush White House 'Lost' 22 Million Emails

Park Police officers surrender in Fairfax on manslaughter warrants in Bijan Ghaisar slaying: Alejandro Amaya and Lucas Vinyard are arraigned after being indicted last week.

Why crises make some people susceptible to conspiracy theories, and how to protect yourself

Supreme Court to review Trump’s border wall funding and ‘remain-in-Mexico’ program

Republicans: The New Confederacy

‘My people fought for the right to vote’: With a surge of emotion, Black Americans rush to the polls

Trump’s den of dissent: Inside the White House task force as coronavirus surges

Reading archive 2020-06-02

‘I find it baffling and reprehensible’: Catholic Archbishop of Washington slams Trump’s visit to John Paul II shrine

George W. Bush calls out racial injustices and celebrates protesters who ‘march for a better future’

We’ve Now Entered the Final Phase of the Trump Era: The president is stuck in a vicious downward spiral.

As a busy hurricane season looms, NOAA’s credibility has taken a hit, new emails show

Biden, in speech to the nation, denounces President Trump’s actions against protesters and vows to heal racial wounds

Evangelicals Have Abandoned the Character Test. The Competence Test is Next.: Christian political engagement is about more than an issue checklist.

Reading archive 2019-10-11

New revelations about Trump test Pelosi’s narrow impeachment strategy

Ousted ambassador Marie Yovanovitch tells Congress Trump pressured State Dept. to remove her

The growing debate over spaying and neutering dogs

Shepard Smith, Fox News veteran anchor and frequent Trump target, abruptly resigns from the network

Ellen DeGeneres tells America she’s better than us

Dear Ellen: The Problem With George W. Bush Is Not His Beliefs — It’s His War Crimes - "Bush should be treated as a pariah not because he is a Republican or a conservative, but because he caused the deaths of thousands of innocent people and tortured hundreds of others."

Reading archive 2018-02-08

George W. Bush: There’s clear evidence Russia meddled in U.S. election

How Nations Recover

Explain the Rob Porter story. Any of it. - "Explain how White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, who reportedly knew of the FBI reports, could assert, in a statement circulated before and after the abuse photos emerged, 'Rob Porter is a man of true integrity and honor and I can’t say enough good things about him. He is a friend, a confidante and a trusted professional.'"

In new statement, Kelly says he was 'shocked' by Porter allegations and condemns abuse: More than 24 hours after issuing a statement defending staff secretary Rob Porter amid abuse allegations, White House chief of staff John Kelly said in a second statement that he was 'shocked' and condemned domestic abuse. - "A senior administration official told POLITICO earlier Wednesday that Kelly and other top White House officials were aware of the allegations, including the 2010 protective order, weeks and in some cases months before they were made public."

Carrier Employees, Soon to Be Laid Off, Feel Betrayed by Donald Trump

‘Like we descended from Hitler’: Coming to terms with a slave-trading past

White House advises government agencies to prepare for shutdown as Congress struggles to pass budget ahead of midnight deadline

The Nunes memo shows the FBI did not eavesdrop on Trump’s campaign - "The FISA order on Page was issued Oct. 21, 2016. That timing proves that the Page warrant didn’t authorize any surveillance of the Trump campaign — because Page and the Trump campaign had parted ways before the warrant was issued. In fact, the Nunes memo makes it appear that the FBI was trying to avoid surveillance on the Trump campaign, even when doing so undermined the effectiveness of a then-months-old investigation into Russian election interference. Although the FBI had been interested in Page for some time, it was not until after the relationship between Page and the Trump campaign ended that the bureau got the FISA warrant."

Reading archive 2017-11-04 through 2017-11-06

Elizabeth Warren and Donna Brazile both now agree the 2016 Democratic primary was rigged - "The timeline here is also important. Many of those emails described above came after it was abundantly clear that Clinton would be the nominee, barring a massive and almost impossible shift in primary votes. It may have been in poor taste and contrary to protocol, but the outcome was largely decided long before Sanders ended his campaign. Brazile doesn't dwell too much on the timeline, so it's not clear exactly how in-the-bag Clinton had the nomination when the alleged takeover began. It's also not clear exactly what Clinton got for her alleged control.

"This is also somewhat self-serving for Brazile, given the DNC continued to struggle during and after her tenure, especially financially. The op-ed is excerpted from her forthcoming book, 'Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House.' Losses like the one in 2016 will certainly lead to plenty of finger-pointing, and Brazile's book title and description allude to it containing plenty of that."

White House attacks legacies of both Bush presidents after reports that they refused to vote for Trump

Commerce Secretary’s Offshore Ties to Putin ‘Cronies’

Saudi Arabia Arrests 11 Princes, Including Billionaire Alwaleed bin Talal

Citigroup, Twitter, Lyft: Prince’s Arrest Touches Many

India turns to public shaming to get people to use its 52 million new toilets

They spent years planning to live with Alzheimer’s disease. The GOP tax bill threatens those plans.

In glyphosate review, WHO cancer agency edited out “non-carcinogenic” findings

A fake shooter and ‘false flag’ rumors at the hospital — how dark online hoaxes came to Texas

Brazile says she found ‘no evidence’ that Democratic primaries were rigged for Clinton

Reading archive 2017-10-20

John Kelly, Trump’s chief of staff whose son died in combat, defends president’s call to Gold Star widow - "The 67-year-old retired Marine Corps general also sought to claim the moral high ground by deploring the degradation of modern American society. When he was growing up, he said, women, religion and the dignity of life were sacred. Now, he said, they no longer are. There was evident irony in Kelly’s making that particular point in defense of Trump, whose presidential campaign last year was marked by name-calling, harsh rhetoric about Muslims, Mexicans and other minorities, and allegations of sexual misconduct by more than a dozen women." (ed. note: lol @ John Kelly and his hypocrisy)

George W. Bush comes out of retirement to deliver a veiled rebuke of Trump

Ed Gillespie’s lobbying career included work for firms with vast interests in Virginia

‘I’ve never had a year so bad’: How Modi’s big economic changes have hit India’s small businesses

Putin talks like Russia’s next president but stays silent on whether he’ll run

CIA director distorts intelligence community’s findings on Russian interference

Retired ‘Navy SEAL’ praising Trump on Fox News was a fake

Many Trump voters who got hurricane relief in Texas aren’t sure Puerto Ricans should

The Hearing World Must Stop Forcing Deaf Culture to Assimilate: Too many hearing people view deafness as a deficiency rather than a separate linguistic context, worldview and culture.

In attack on Frederica Wilson over Trump’s call to widow, John Kelly gets facts wrong (ed. note: lol @ John Kelly and his blatant lies)

Frederica Wilson 2015 video shows White House Chief of Staff John Kelly got it wrong

What John Kelly got wrong about Rep. Frederica Wilson and the Johnson family

Rep. Frederica Wilson didn’t flinch at Trump’s attacks. Her record explains why.