Reading archive 2021-08-31

Protests to boycott Nellie’s Sports Bar created summer-long ‘joy space’ for Black LGBTQ community

NEW video shows moment leading up to woman dragged by hair at Nellie's Sports Bar

Hillary Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ speech shocked voters five years ago — but some feel it was prescient

Reading archive 2021-08-30

D.C.'s sports betting app keeps underperforming, with lots of finger-pointing about what’s to blame - "Companies running sportsbooks near stadiums like Nationals Park pay licensing fees to the city of $500,000 for five years. But Jordan said the fees, which are set in D.C. law, have proved to be too low to cover the expense of performing background checks and regularly inspecting the sportsbooks: From January 2020 through June 2021, the office took in just over $2 million in licensing fees but spent more than $3.6 million regulating the industry, Jordan said."

Opinion: Inside the mind of someone who won’t take a fully approved vaccine

How this after-school program achieved a high vaccination rate in a Black neighborhood where most young adults are unvaccinated

The false claim that the fully-approved Pfizer vaccine lacks liability protection - "These claims are false, based on a misunderstanding of the law, as Malone acknowledged after we contacted him."

Fear and anticipation on the streets of Kabul as Afghans adapt to Taliban rule

Reading archive 2021-08-27

Wife hospitalized for covid gets home to find husband dead from the same virus: ‘It was like walking into a horror movie’ - "Neither Ron, who died of covid-19 complications, nor Lisa had been vaccinated, Lisa said. Both had agreed they would wait longer to schedule their shots."

Vaccine conspiracy theorists become even more desperate after full FDA authorization The claim is that the FDA somehow didn’t really fully authorize the Pfizer vaccine. It’s built on nonsense, experts say. - "Chris Beyrer, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Public Health, noted that the existing Pfizer vaccines that have been produced and purchased can’t legally be overlabeled with the Comirnaty branding, even as they are the same thing."

Lawyer for Afghan girls’ robotics team tells Oklahoma woman to stop taking credit for rescue

Opinion: D.C.'s landlords are powerless to address the Wild West atmosphere in their properties

Fox helped turn Herschel Walker into a Senate candidate. Republicans are panicking.

Reading archive 2021-08-26

Opinion: It is time to deal with the nation’s vexing increase in homicides

Opinion: D.C.’s Metro must up its game. The region’s prosperity depends on it.

Seven Capitol Police officers sue Trump, right-wing groups over injuries from Jan. 6 riot

Taliban spokesman says ‘no proof’ bin Laden was responsible for 9/11 attacks

Maggie Haberman and the never-ending Trump story

Officer who shot Ashli Babbitt during Capitol riot breaks silence: 'I saved countless lives': In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Lt. Michael Byrd said he opened fire only as a “last resort” after the rioters failed to comply with his commands.

Reading archive 2021-08-25

Rapper Boosie Badazz: Lil Nas X Pushes Gay Identity on Children

Opinion: Why J.D. Vance may be just the kind of phony GOP voters are looking for - "For instance, the substance-free centrism that is so important in Washington is a particularly shallow approach to politics, since it doesn’t have any real goals or vision; it just wants to be at the fulcrum of power, which it now is due to the narrow margins Democrats hold in both houses."

The viral Milk Crate Challenge has left people injured. Doctors are begging them to stop.

Harris, in Vietnam, gets a dose of China’s challenge to the U.S.

Biden receives inconclusive intelligence report on covid origins: The report falls short of concluding whether the coronavirus jumped from animal to human, or might have accidentally escaped from a lab in China

Opinion: Democrats just launched a missile at the GOP’s fortress of minority rule

Texts show William Barr congratulated Trump's impeachment lawyer as his first Senate trial wrapped up: 'You are a STAR'

‘I’m still not planning to get it’: FDA approval not swaying some vaccine holdouts Skeptics who were waiting on regulators now say they have new doubts

Reading archive 2021-08-24

Gus Kenworthy Trains for His Last Olympics — and Hollywood

Got The Climate Change Blues? Try Delawning

How journalism saved ‘Jeopardy!’ from an unworthy host after an utter failure of corporate vetting

Planting Trees Encourages Cloud Formation—and Efficiently Cools the Planet: New study examines cooling effect of clouds produced by deciduous forests under pressures of climate change

CIA Director William Burns held secret meeting in Kabul with Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar

A group of moms on Facebook built an island of good-faith vaccine debate in a sea of misinformation: As social media giants struggle to crack down on false claims about covid, ordinary users are finding ways to reach vaccine skeptics — and win them over. [ed. note: facebook.com/groups/vaccinetalkforum and reddit.com/r/changemyview/]

Facebook News Consumers Less Likely to Be Vaccinated, Survey Finds

Conservative Bill Kristol endorses McAuliffe in race for Virginia governor

Reading archive 2021-08-23

Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine wins full FDA approval, potentially persuading the hesitant to get a shot: The licensing is a landmark event that could have major effects, experts said.

Portland protests descend into violence as opposing groups clash with paintballs, weapons, chemical spray

Group of South Florida doctors stage walkout in protest of unvaccinated COVID patients

Trump and top ally get booed by the monster Trump’s GOP created

A mysterious sickness blinding birds has disappeared as suddenly as it arrived

Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. Here’s Why.