Saturday, May 28, 2022

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With new attempts to deliver Covid pills, the White House says virus deaths should be ‘largely preventable.’
“Fundamentally what we’re trying to do is get to a point where Covid deaths are largely preventable, and I think we’re pretty close to there,” Dr. Ashish K. Jha, the White House Covid-19 response coordinator, said. read more
 
Paxlovid will help the unvaccinated.
 
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White House Aims to Increase Regulation and Competition in Poultry Industry
More than 90 percent of chickens eaten by Americans are raised by farmers under contracts with poultry processing companies. read more
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avian_influenza
 
Chicken is cheaper to grow than beef, mutton, or goat.
 
I am bird tolerant. 

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Biden administration aims to increase regulation and competition in the poultry industry.
More than 90 percent of chickens eaten by Americans are raised by farmers under contracts with poultry processing companies. read more
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avian_influenza
 
Chicken is cheaper to grow than beef, mutton, or goat.
 
I am bird tolerant. 

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Supreme Court Allows Greenhouse Gas Cost Estimates
Louisiana and other Republican-led states challenged a federal working group’s efforts to develop standards for agencies to use in quantifying the harms caused by emissions. read more
 
The use of fossil carbon must end.

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Democrats Hit Pause on Gun Control Vote, Hoping for a Compromise
After the deadliest school shooting in a decade, the top Senate Democrat said he would wait to force a vote on gun safety measures the G.O.P. has opposed. read more
 
Republicans allow no compromises on guns.
 
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U.S. Aims to Constrain China by Shaping Environment Around It, Blinken Says
The U.S. secretary of state gave a glimpse of President Biden’s classified strategy on China, in which officials have concluded they cannot change Beijing’s aggressive behavior. read more
 
A newly recognized set of problems. 

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Democrats Confront 2 Obstacles on Guns: Time, and an Implacable G.O.P.
After the slaughter of Texas schoolchildren, the parties are already reprising their familiar roles: Democrats are pushing for action on gun control, while Republicans wait for the furor to fade away. 
 
The central problem is replacement theory.
Guns are peripheral. 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/us/politics/republicans-campaign-guns.html
conservatism. Democrats see little gain in highlighting an issue on which their party hasn’t been able to get much done. read more
 
The central problem is replacement theory.
Guns are peripheral. 

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John Fetterman and the Remaking of Political Image
The Pennsylvania Democratic candidate for Senate has upended the electability dress code. How will he influence the general election? read more
 
His influence is unknown.
Veterans are not the best government.
 
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Defense Team for Democratic-Linked Lawyer Won’t Call Ex-Times Reporter to Testify
Lawyers had argued that the reporter, Eric Lichtblau, should testify about his communications with their client, Michael Sussmann, who is accused of lying to the F.B.I. read more
 
Trump won that round.
 
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Democrats Hit Pause on Gun Control Vote, Hoping for a Compromise
After the deadliest school shooting in a decade, the top Senate Democrat said he would wait to force a vote on gun safety measures the G.O.P. has opposed. read more
 
The Republican party does not compromise on guns.

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In the U.S., Backlash to Civil Rights Era Made Guns a Political Third Rail
Other countries changed course after massacres. But American political protection for guns is unique, and has become inseparable from conservative credentials. read more
 
The former slave states fear the slave revolt.
 
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A Timeline of Failed Attempts to Address U.S. Gun Violence
Time after time for more than a decade, Democrats in Congress have proposed gun restrictions and faced unyielding Republican opposition. read more
 
A slave rebellion is feared.
 
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Biden Calls for Action After Texas Shooting, but Faces Limits of His Power
White House officials said the president was under no illusions that the Senate would pass gun safety legislation given continued opposition by Republicans. read more
 
Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion.
 
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Ted Cruz Digs In Against Gun Control After Texas Shooting
After the mass shooting at an elementary school in his home state, the senator called for armed law enforcement on campuses and faulted Democrats for politicizing the issue. read more
 
The South lost the civil war.
Ted Cruz needs to know.
 
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Pennsylvania’s G.O.P. Senate primary is officially headed to a recount.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, backed by former President Donald J. Trump, was leading David McCormick by fewer than 1,000 votes in one of this year’s most closely watched contests. read more
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRU1AJsXN1g
 
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Stacey Abrams Fights Headwinds From Washington in Georgia Rematch
The Democrat is facing off for a second time against Brian Kemp, a Republican — but in a far-more-difficult political climate. read more
 
The popular wisdom is probably wrong.
Stacey Abrams will probably be reelected,
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_Abrams
 
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Fed Minutes Show Officials Expecting to Raise Rates Three Times to Address Inflation
Minutes of the Federal Reserve’s May meeting underscored the deep concern within the central bank about rapidly rising prices that have far exceeded the Fed’s target. read more
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/inflation-prices-stagflation.html
 
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Intensifying Inquiry Into Alternate Electors Focuses on Trump Lawyers
In recent subpoenas, federal prosecutors investigating alternate slates of pro-Trump electors sought information about Rudolph W. Giuliani, John Eastman and others. read more
 
Trump is the face of treason.
 
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Ian Welsh1 day ago
We Are Going To Go Thru Hell, So What Now?
[image: We Are Going To Go Thru Hell, So What Now?] I was born in 1968, the year Wallerstein calls one of “world revolution”. It was a revolution that both failed and succeeded: women and minorities got more rights, often a lot more, but the end result was an oligarchy, where most people were equal in their lack of power, and where every year saw ordinary people becoming poorer, no matter what the official statistics claimed. The 70s were the heyday of environmental possibility: everyone understood the stakes, and it seemed for a time that we would act. President Carter famously p... read more
 
Disasters are unplanned in sane cultures.
I will support libraries.
 
Civil engineering is a survival skill
Electrical engineering is luxury.

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