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CNN's 5 things
It can take years for new words to get accepted into the dictionary, even if they’re already staples in the American vocabulary. Words like “pumpkin spice” and “metaverse” were among the 370 new ...
Rest easy, Queen.
Queen Elizabeth dies at 96, ending an era for Britain
CNN 5 things 9/7/22
Extreme heat A brutal heat wave baking the western US has brought record-breaking temperatures and threatened widespread power outages this week. In California, Sacramento hit 116 degrees on Tu...
New Yorker link
State Legislatures Are Torching Democracy
Where the Covid outbreak began
Two studies published yesterday in Science magazine are giving us insight into the roots of the pandemic. The research, which was previewed in February, has now been peer-reviewed and revised, an...
CNN 5 things for today
New studies conclude that animals sold at a seafood market in Wuhan, China, are most likely what started the Covid-19 pandemic. In June, the World Health Organization recommended that scientists ...
State legislatures may reshape American politics Key parts of the legacies of President Obama and President Trump could combine next year in a Supreme Court ruling that may dramatically reshape A...
Washington Post Daily 202
The big idea Biden backs filibuster exception to codify Roe vs Wade “Outrageous.” “Destabilizing.” “Mistake.” President Biden signaled Thursday he’s heard liberals’ mounting criticism of his resp...
Fuck this planet!
Oklahoma lawmakers pass bill that would ban abortions from the moment of ‘fertilization’ The bill, which Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) is expected to sign into law, would effectively prohibit almost all a...
The Orbanization of America
The U.S Right Walks In Hungary’s Path By Ishaan Tharool with Sammy Westfall ~Washington Post In the summer of 2018, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared war on a generation. He foresaw ...
CNN 5 Things for 5/11/22
Ukraine The House of Representatives yesterday passed a roughly $40 billion bill to deliver aid to Ukraine as it continues to face Russia’s brutal assault. The measure will next need to be passed...
Russian invasion of Ukraine 4/18/22
“The two couples lived next to each other. On the final day before the Russians left the village, soldiers knocked at one home. Valya’s husband, Pavlo Ivanyuk, opened the door. The soldiers took ...
The echoes of Syria grow louder in Ukraine
As the war drags on, the parallels deepen. The Russian invasion has already spawned an enormous refugee crisis, hollowed out many Ukrainian cities and towns, and led to the suffering of countless...
Russians flee Putin Crackdown (link)
New Yorker article The Russians Fleeing Putin’s Wartime Crackdown Resisters are leaving Russia because the country they worked to build is disappearing—and the more people who leave, the faster ...
News 3/21/ 22
I really really really need a subscription to the Washington Post In a dingy Russian classroom with worn-out rugs, elementary school students lined up to form the shape of the letter Z: the symbo...
Why Putin's Nuclear Threat Could Be More Than Bluster
Washington Post The scariest site on the Internet isn’t lurking on the dark web, but hiding in plain sight at nuclearsecrecy.com. “Nukemap” lets you pick the size of a nuclear bomb, plunk it anyw...
"It doesn't exist anymore."
Coronavirus Updates
Washington Post From email newsletter on 3/9/22 The latest Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, many long-haul covid-19 patients who are unable to work are being denied disability benefits fo...
A U.S. reading crisis
Since the beginning of the pandemic, Dana Goldstein, who covers education for The Times, has been hearing from parents concerned that their young children’s language development might have been h...
news today
Chernobyl plant disconnected from power grid in what Ukraine called an ‘extremely dangerous situation.’ Ukraine’s closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been disconnected from the nation’s pow...
Love in the time of Covid
Washington Post The pandemic has not been kind to many couples. Lockdowns have added strains to relationships, leading to a spike in divorces when they were lifted. Differences in opinion over va...
News today
Omicron has pushed U.S. cases to record levels of more than 800,000 per day. Infection levels seem to have peaked in some of the places that were hit first, including Puerto Rico, Cleveland, Chic...
Covid PTSD
Fom the New York Post Health workers call it quits The U.S. is experiencing a crisis of burned-out health care workers. For nearly two years, overwhelmed nurses, doctors and hospital staff have r...
Omicron is Here.
From The New York Times Omicron is here The all-too-familiar messages came pouring into my phone this week. Vaccinated friends texted with Covid scares. A colleague told me on Slack that contact ...
Local Covid news 7/26/21
The Franklin County Health Department reported 104 new cases of COVID-19 from July 17 to July 23, the highest number reported since the county moved to weekly instead of daily reports in May. Th...
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