tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70180735414176467732024-03-18T15:29:15.553-04:00UNDERNEWSOnline report of the Progressive Review. Since 1964, the news while there's still time to do something about it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger33306130tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-54004423477942338672024-03-18T14:20:00.002-04:002024-03-18T14:20:23.077-04:00Justice<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2024/03/punitive-isolation-juvenile-justice"> </a><b><a href="https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2024/03/punitive-isolation-juvenile-justice">The American Psychological Association</a> </b>has adopted <a href="https://www.apa.org/about/policy/isolation-youth">a resolution</a>
that calls for prohibiting youth from being placed in solitary
confinement, except for emergencies where a young person is in immediate
danger of serious physical harm to themselves and others. Other
highlights of the resolution include limiting emergency placements to
the shortest time possible, implementing alternatives to confinement,
and emphasizing the importance of monitoring and ongoing mental health
support for youth in isolation. The measure passed in a 154-2 vote by
APA’s governing Council of Representatives, who cited the serious and
lasting effects of solitary confinement on mental health and
development. </span> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-79431219342986606402024-03-18T13:20:00.001-04:002024-03-18T13:20:16.919-04:00Health<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-middle-aged-americans-lonelier-european.html">Medical Xpress - </a></b>Middle-aged adults in the U.S. tend to report significantly higher
levels of loneliness than their European counterparts, possibly due in
part to weaker family ties and greater income inequality, according to
research published in the journal <i>American Psychologist</i>. "Loneliness
is gaining attention globally as a public health issue because elevated
loneliness increases one's risk for depression, compromised immunity, <a class="textTag" href="https://medicalxpress.com/tags/chronic+illness/" rel="tag">chronic illness</a> and mortality," said lead author Frank Infurna, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychology at Arizona State University.</span></p><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-63086696542428188202024-03-18T10:40:00.004-04:002024-03-18T14:43:50.683-04:00Trump<div style="position: relative;"><div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-classified-documents-case-florida-walt-nauta-aileen-cannon-presidential-records-1880218">Newsweek - </a></b>Donald Trump declared hundreds of classified documents as "personal" as he was moving them from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Trump's former valet has claimed in court. Walt Nauta, and former Mar-a-Lago property manager, Carlos De Oliveira, have pleaded not guilty in a Florida federal court to assisting Trump in hiding classified documents at the estate. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 40 charges over allegations he illegally retained about 300 classified documents, among other presidential records, when he left the White House in January 2021. He is also accused of obstructing federal attempts to retrieve them from his Mar-a-Lago estat</span></p><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/ZtWkOXDstTFpecd9hVmFwg~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRn2ucnP0TmaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyNC8wMy8xOC9ueXJlZ2lvbi90cnVtcC1ib25kLWNpdmlsLWZyYXVkLWNhc2UuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD0xOTAmZW1jPWVkaXRfdWZuXzIwMjQwMzE4Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTExNzg5MSZubD1mcm9tLXRoZS10aW1lcyZyZWdpX2lkPTI4OTA0MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTE2MTEwMiZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9OTdkYzUxODc5Y2NkYTMwMmI4MTZmZGFlMmI1YzY4MjlXA255dEIKZeMnYvhlGZ6tPFIOc3NtaXRoQGlnYy5vcmdYBAAAAAM~">NY Times </a> -</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Donald
J. Trump’s lawyers disclosed on Monday that he had failed to secure a
roughly half-billion dollar bond in his civil fraud case in New York,
arguing that doing so was “a practical impossibility.” The filing, coming one week before the bond is due, raised the prospect that the former president might <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/16/us/politics/trump-finances-money-fundraising.html" title="">face a financial crisis</a>
unless an appeals court comes to his rescue. Mr. Trump has asked the
appeals court to pause the $454 million judgment that a New York judge
imposed on Mr. Trump last month, or accept a bond of only $100 million. The
former president has been unable to secure the full bond, his lawyers
said in the court filing on Monday, despite “diligent efforts.” Those
efforts included approaching about 30 companies, and yet, they said, he
has encountered “insurmountable difficulties.” The judge in the civil fraud case, Arthur F. Engoron, <a class="css-yywogo" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/24/nyregion/trump-fraud-trial-penalty.html" title="">levied the penalty and other punishments</a>
on Mr. Trump after concluding that he had fraudulently inflated his net
worth to obtain favorable loans and other benefits. The case, brought
by the New York attorney general, Letitia James, has posed a grave
financial threat to Mr. Trump.He
must post an appeal bond in excess of that amount — possibly more than
$500 million to reflect the interest he will owe — to prevent Ms. James
from seizing his a</span></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.the-express.com/news/politics/131494/donald-trump-property-seized-new-york-civil-fraud">Express - </a></b>If Trump fails to pay up, the state "could levy and sell his assets,
lien his real property, and garnish anyone who owes him money,"
according to Syracuse University law professor Gregory Germain. Asset
seizure is a usual legal strategy when a defendant lacks sufficient
cash for a civil penalty. Notably, OJ Simpson's Heisman Trophy was
seized and auctioned off in 1999 to meet part of a $33.5 million
wrongful death judgment against him.</span></p></div></div><div class="css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-at9mc1 evys1bk0"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i class="css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0"></i></span></p></div></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href=" https://x.com/krassenstein/status/1769339589112541376?s=66&t=dUb86Z3TAcWtqC7PCmc39A">Brian Krassenstein:</a></b> So you are suggesting we re-elect a guy who...<br /><br /></span><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><span>- Oversaw less economic output than any of the previous 12 presidents.
<br />
- Put America in more debt in 4 years than any president had in 7 years. </span></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><span> - Has been indicted on 85 felonies including those under the Espionage Act.
<br />
- Had supporters who attempted to overthrow a democratic election.
<br />
- Made $7.8 million from 20 foreign governments during his presidency.
<br />
- Was the only President since WWII who left the White House with fewer Americans employed than when he started.
<br />
- Attempted to bring forth "fake electors" to overturn a fair election.
<br />
- Has been found liable of fraud and sexual assault
<br />- Asked Russia for help in his 2016 campaign<br />- Refused to send federal aid to New York City amid the first COVID-19 wave because the virus was hitting Democratic-voting states hardest.</span></span></span></div></div></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://x.com/rbreich/status/1769431256788291727?s=66&t=dUb86Z3TAcWtqC7PCmc39A">RBReich:</a> </b>Trump's 2nd-term economic agenda would hurt workers & kids to help the rich. He wants to:<br /><br />-Cut taxes more for the rich<br />-Defund the IRS so the rich can cheat<br />-End student loan forgiveness<br />-End overtime rules<br />-Slash school lunches<br />-Allow child labor</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1769484347797586178">Thirty years ago Barbara Walters called out Trump for his lies</a> <br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/us-intelligence-trump-putin-threat">Guardian </a></b>- Donald Trump’s continuing lavish praise and
support for Vladimir Putin are fueling alarm among former intelligence
officials and other experts who fear another Trump presidency would
benefit Moscow and harm American democracy and interests overseas. Trump
praised the Russian president as a “genius” and “pretty savvy” when
Russia invaded Ukraine in early 2022, and has boasted he would end the
war in a “day”, sparking critics’ fears that if he’s elected again Trump
would help Russia achieve a favorable peace deal by cutting off aid to
Kyiv. Trump also recently greenlit Russia to “do whatever the hell they
want” to Nato members who don’t pay enough to the alliance. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">“<span>Trump
views Putin as a strongman,” said Fiona Hill, a senior fellow at
Brookings Institution and a national security official in the first two
years of Trump’s administration. “In a way they’re working in parallel
because they’re both trying to weaken the US, but for very different
reasons.”</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-36492959244900150242024-03-18T10:18:00.002-04:002024-03-18T10:18:48.741-04:00Middle East<b><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/mar/18/middle-east-crisis-live-israel-gaza-palestine-al-shifa-live-updates">Middle East crisis live: famine ‘imminent’ in northern Gaza,</a></b> UN report says, as EU foreign policy chief calls area ‘open air graveyard’ Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-3818862304297543652024-03-18T10:00:00.002-04:002024-03-18T10:00:13.381-04:00Flow: We really are unconscious when we're 'in the zone'<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://newatlas.com/medical/brain-activity-creative-flow-state/?utm_source=New+Atlas+Subscribers&utm_campaign=e0459d5eee-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_03_05_02_55&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-e0459d5eee-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D"> New Atlas - </a></b>By analyzing the brain waves of improvising jazz musicians,
researchers now understand how the brain achieves a creative flow state.
The findings have practical implications for anyone – not just
musicians – wanting to get ‘in the zone’ to generate creative ideas. Flow,
commonly called being in the zone, is where a person is totally engaged
in performing an activity, up to the point where they are hardly
self-conscious or conscious of their surroundings. The phenomenon is
often used to describe artists and athletes but is aspired to by
business people, researchers, educators and, well, anyone who wants to
produce creative ideas and products. There’ve been many studies on
flow, but most have relied on participants’ self-reports. Researchers
from the Creativity Research Lab at Drexel University in the US are the
first to reveal, in a new study, how the brain gets in the zone by
analyzing flow-related brain activity during a creative task.</span></p><p>- <br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-65072336194046524042024-03-18T09:42:00.000-04:002024-03-18T09:42:00.052-04:00Ecology<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://email.newsletters.ft.com/c/eJyM0c-KGzEMBvCnGd8cbFn-d_BhoQRybvsAtiQnQzNJdsZD6NuXDVv2uudPEj_xUR1yvq9_y02e21XGkFVx6Q1zByXFRmtCigG9kqXO1xMXmwhqzKhrhKZRHOuUIWrIwgQQY41BXUrL0FBMTpHJe_bC7FN1qaPUBpbVXMAAGmej9cYYd2g22EjWOmyRfQgTmi_UdujjQPdFXctljMc2ubcJjhMcn8_nZzTBka7zUofo81ofl5kmd_xUT-7Hd9wThE3Oi9zGa4VIJCc0OlBuGmIM2iCLbikyYmg5VKuu8zZOXAI02xilkcWPEFpiitGpx3rnnUbZHnX9o9ZSF3p3YCc05w_b66lV3nd5nXHUMLrsdSJrNCbbdRPfdQ_VQDJCIPn_uPBPufGvefnqyYAaZd9nntzbt4oaa71tlcZ8v524ZIqmc606hOQ0WkM6Y606ehG0wrZlVvsm6-995tJ9Fo6-addt15gc6uYoa0ndh8pOTPP_AgAA__-LJ7Qq">Financial Times - </a></b>Since March 2023 oceans have begun to warm to previously unseen levels and now we’ve hit 365 days of consecutive daily highs. Every day of the past 12 months has set a global record... The global average sea surface temperature tipped to the 21.2C record this week. While the cyclical El Niño warming effect of the Pacific Ocean is starting to show signs of weakening, global ocean temperatures remain unusually high. </span><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-28541826624518687802024-03-18T09:34:00.006-04:002024-03-18T09:34:34.824-04:00Guns<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://links.nbcnews.com/click/34720796.302584/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubmJjbmV3cy5jb20vbmV3cy91cy1uZXdzL3VuaW50ZW50aW9uYWwtc2hvb3RpbmdzLWNoaWxkcmVuLWV2ZXJ5dG93bi1ndW4tc2FmZXR5LXJjbmExNDM0MTE_Y2lkPWVtbF9uYm5fMjAyNDAzMTgmdXNlcl9lbWFpbD1lMjEyYTUzZTdmMTA4YjQzYTA3MDAzODQ4MTQzYWJhZGRiYzk4N2FhZTI5MjA3OWNiNTY1ZmRlMjM2NTk1OTgzJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1icmVha2luZ25ld3M/658742b3ee858c52640daed0B41a97dd0">NBC - </a></b>At least 157 people were killed and 270 were injured last year in
unintentional shootings by children, according to Everytown, an advocacy
group for firearm safety. The children who pulled the trigger
were most often teenagers between 14 and 17 or children ages 5 and
under, according to Everytown’s data, which is compiled from media
reports. Roughly half of the incidents involved children who shot
themselves. In the other half, someone else was injured — usually
another child.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-9711783154539766562024-03-17T19:14:00.001-04:002024-03-17T19:14:47.318-04:00Politics as show business<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <i>We posted this a year ago - March 17,, 29230 - and things haven't changed much. </i></span></p><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Sam Smith - </b>In my lifetime the worst presidents – Reagan and Trump – repeatedly <span></span>demonstrated the dangers in using show business as a useful guide in exercising constitutional democracy, and repeatedly the public had responded warmly.We tend to blame the news media for many of the current failures of our system, but the far less noticed fact is that politics has become a form of show business. As just one example, a Pew Research Center survey found that about ten percent of US adults get at least some of their news from TikTok and for those under 30, the figure is 26%. Because I have few other skills, I shall continue to practice journalism as best I can but I do so in recognition that it has lost much of it status to the art of performing fantasies and providing fictions and fibs. If there are no rules and nothing matters, facts are a pretty dull alternative to show business. </span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-33918626683265014272024-03-17T11:07:00.002-04:002024-03-17T11:07:12.780-04:00Drugs<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.pressherald.com/2024/03/17/vice-president-harris-rapper-fat-joe-team-up-for-discussion-on-easing-marijuana-penalties/">A full seven in 10 U.S. adults favor legalizing marijuana,</a></b> according to
Gallup polling. Support for legalization is closer to eight in 10 among
18- to 34-year-olds, a demographic whose support for Biden, who is
seeking reelection, has softened since he took office.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-83579335902478254092024-03-17T10:57:00.000-04:002024-03-17T10:57:06.829-04:00Money<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Image" class="css-9pa8cd" draggable="true" height="224" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GI0r1kdWsAANaEt?format=png&name=medium" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Via <a class="css-175oi2r r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l r-1loqt21" href="https://twitter.com/David_Charts" role="link"><span class="css-1qaijid r-dnmrzs r-1udh08x r-3s2u2q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">David Doney</span></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-81245656699570352362024-03-17T10:54:00.006-04:002024-03-17T10:54:44.810-04:00Trump<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><b><a href="https://twitter.com/FordJohnathan5">Ford News - </a></b>Former Trump officials and Republicans who will not endorse Donald Trump for Presidency.
<br /><br />Vice President Mike Pence
-United Nations Ambassador <br />Nikki Haley
-Chief of Staff John Kelly <br />
Defense Secretary Mark Esper <br />Defense Secretary James Mattis <br />Attorney General Bill Barr <br />Secretary of State Rex Tillerson <br />National Security Advisor John Bolton <br />National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster <br />Former Speaker Paul Ryan <br />Senator Mitt Romney <br />Former President George Bush <br />Former Vice President Dick Cheney <br />Former Vice President Dan Quayle <br />Senator Susan Collins <br />Senator Lisa Murkowski <br />Senator Todd Young<br />Former Senator Rob Portman <br />Former Senator Jeff Flake <br />Representative Chip Roy <br />Former Representative Liz Cheney <br />Former Speaker John Boehner<br />Former Federal Conservative Judge Michael Luttig</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-27844656628612009122024-03-17T10:49:00.001-04:002024-03-17T10:49:15.978-04:00Democracy<p><b> Take It Back - </b> Two times in the last 25 years, in 2000 and 2016, the person
who won the Presidency did not win the popular vote. First it was George W. Bush in 2000, who was handed the win by the Supreme Court which stopped the vote recount in Florida. Then it was Donald Trump in 2016, whose elevation to the Presidency came despite losing the popular vote by 2.9 million votes.... Almost a decade ago, in June 2015, Donald Trump rode down his golden
escalator and inflicted himself on the American people. If the popular
vote had carried the day in that election, and Trump had never been
president... In 2016, despite losing by nearly 3 million votes, just 80,000 votes in just 3 states gave Trump the Electoral College win. It’s terrifying that so few votes can determine a national election in which 158 million Americans voted. But the Electoral College is built into the Constitution, and we are
not likely to get 3/4 of the states to ratify an Amendment to abolish
the Electoral College. More than a 1/4 of the states are
over-represented by their Electoral College votes, and are not likely to
want to give up their advantage, unfair as it may be. </p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The solution </span></b><br /><p><a href="https://click.actionnetwork.org/ss/c/u001.qUXRBnqZ7T8nxbpAcIVwoUsWLkUMWlo_0JmZttSlm38hgjPw-nJC-SWkqBQNs9QMMKFyeZtttAfds_cycGzoPntRdG_b9ZcR_tpUhiAKYMOA7-Fl0GxrRM8c9iTq_zO4elJIM3blo7zsUj-rHsFCPsMe0nigaK1I26kSnKig47Jfh1i1AYCmJKTdsaPn7Eawk18jIXqymQ7I1fO6HHrP8f-QssNLGd_OIzsQ4Zep9GkpkNDV5weDOCrdeoD8Yjgv9f4BwVd70SpazzsmLDYgu_0tG19DaFbFAS9Qvtript9chxUQerePg7lcIoQQYOBBPM56gxnuluHFerHEB4aFtZkMv7HzNFWkwIgAoSYBp7-StRCsGYJquEpe-xgEDgS5fMn9kDWZlx70Bq31ieo4Ts-gV1_VOugUTrWQjR8OqKbFnUqSzlieZl1l3e4pOMd-LsAEhA7ZvkiWWqKsU1M_6edALbkAiKIwFPzAiTLQ0Vg/44q/FW8KRE4nRVu3RjLI1sI-6w/h0/h001.liWeKZ4y8hA1CjrxV2fu8qh_OgoiYd4vRA0TEq1BNfQ"><strong>Here’s how the National Popular Vote Compact works:</strong> </a>
If enough states agree to assign their Electoral College electors to the
winner of the national popular vote, rather than the state’s own
popular vote<strong>,</strong> we can guarantee the presidency
to the candidate who receives the most popular votes nationwide, without
needing to amend the Constitution. The compact won’t take effect until enough states have joined to
guarantee Electoral College victory to the popular-vote winner. So far,
sixteen states and D.C. have already signed on, totaling 205 Electoral
College votes out of the 270 needed to secure a national popular vote
victory.
</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-32850364609259712632024-03-17T10:35:00.005-04:002024-03-17T10:35:46.230-04:00GOP<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/16/congress-lawmakers-resignations/">Tensions reached such a boiling point </a></b>among House Republicans that only
about 40 percent of the 218 members of their conference attended their
issues retreat in West Virginia, leading to the cancellation of their
Friday panel discussions so lawmakers could leave Thursday night
instead.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-33174359188729368902024-03-17T10:22:00.001-04:002024-03-17T10:26:16.563-04:00Travel<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/mvuze95nvpt5hgzoqmwclue9m7lqq/l2heh6u3r777xmfg/aHR0cHM6Ly93YXBvLnN0LzRjNUpKbW8=">Washington Post</a> </b>- Self-checkout lanes at retail stores were first introduced in the 1980s,
but, as anyone who’s shopped at a Target or major grocery chain knows,
they’ve really taken off in the past two decades. Now, the
Transportation Security Administration is adopting the same concept for airport security. As
of March 11, passengers with TSA PreCheck departing from Las Vegas’
Harry Reid International Airport can elect to participate in a new,
self-screening pilot program. TSA officers are still checking IDs and
performing secondary screenings of flagged luggage, but passengers scan their own bags and themselves with limited additional interaction with agents. <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b> <a href="https://click.convertkit-mail.com/mvuze95nvpt5hgzoqmwclue9m7lqq/l2heh6u3r777xmfg/aHR0cHM6Ly93YXBvLnN0LzRjNUpKbW8=" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(255, 165, 0); text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">See how it works</a>.</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="featured-image" height="300" src="https://dailypassport.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2024/03/5-DP-Didnt-Know-Ireland.jpg" style="border-radius: 15px;" width="400" /><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b> <br /></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><b><a href="https://track.dailypassport.com/?xtl=t8dgohdu5wp01dspyif6j42ukze8jjis3wyazwyfuelrd0k1645f8aid2adjt21cx1a4fgosxy84omqsgqc01tav31mfa6gho3jttuvhqye3444fukrmuuv5a6qzi065w751tus0pcnhf5bxo34nxsbhxvozwgv4qin3i49mz5ytjl6um2m6e04zq72ni0d6amhj0s0g6ftlu3seew46jlkfekgjq799lm7lj8mccxlbpvafxb8xflkjj7rzo5e9s31knc8avwuh5eoyj8bxlp0o0ddq623dicn9b29d1quqdxgm5ns8hso9sdc78t6tl7s0ii5zti74rv1hysr9yf84wh1muotv3tjemokssmtaiflw6sxuspe90k7ryx82pu5kzjyk2gc4kwirw1fddum6jsodqdg5f&eih=1dqe5g6gkafuz6d8eaadqqyb22pytm7&__stmp=sahw94&email=prorevsam%40gmail.com&sub_level=L0">Stretching approximately 1,600 miles,</a></b> the Wild Atlantic Way is the longest uninterrupted coastal driving route in the world. It extends from the north of the country on the Inishowen Peninsula and continues along the western side of the Emerald Isle, ending in the colorful sea port town of Kinsale. It should take drivers about two to three weeks do the entire route justice, but the trip is broken into 14 stages, allowing those with limited time to pick and complete the portion they want to see the most. Along the way you'll find plenty of charming Irish villages and sweeping sea views, along with famous natural landmarks like the Cliffs of Moher, one of Ireland's top tourist attractions. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b> <br /></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b> </b></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-77906400543241948312024-03-17T10:13:00.005-04:002024-03-17T10:13:46.714-04:00A federal government agency we really didn't need<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://reason.com/2024/03/17/after-a-century-the-federal-tea-board-is-finally-dead/">Reason -</a> </b>"I see no reason," the late Sen. Harry Reid (D–Nev.) once declared on
the Senate floor, "why those in this country who enjoy drinking tea
need someone else to tell them what tastes good." Yet for nearly
100 years that is exactly what the government did, thanks to one of the
strangest agencies ever to be a part of the federal bureaucracy. In
addition to the usual beverage regulations aimed at ensuring proper
storage and safe handling, imported tea was required for decades to pass
a literal taste test before it could be sold in the United States. The
task fell to a group of Food and Drug Administration appointees,
who would gather annually in a converted Navy warehouse in Brooklyn to
smell, slosh, sip, and spit the various oolongs, greens, and Earl Greys
that tea merchants sought to sell to Americans.This was the federal Board of Tea Experts. The
board's members would taste dozens of teas over the course of several
days. The process was more an art than a science. According to a 1989 <em>Washington Post </em>profile,
there was no uniform method for tasting. Some board members worked in
silence while others slurped their tea or gargled it loudly. Some
preferred to taste the tea hot; others let it cool first. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-84306337624800016552024-03-17T10:03:00.002-04:002024-03-17T10:03:19.144-04:00Biden<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-anger-rcna143729?cid=eml_nbn_20240317&user_email=e212a53e7f108b43a07003848143abaddbc987aae292079cb565fde236595983&utm_campaign=breakingnews&%243p=e_sailthru&_branch_match_id=1296103227668588227&utm_medium=Email%20Sailthru&_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAAzWOwYqEMBBEvyZ7U2NajQ4My8IyvxE6sUfDxDbEiL%2B%2F8bBQh65q6lFrzvF4NA1bx3QdNcZYB8%2BfBuK3UB3EJ5kDfchrOr9KsCe%2FeMZgzhSe610W8CPUq%2Bi6rvof4%2FatJHEPPnt3lFNJ1VUUyGW%2Fc%2FHWz8QV8kKpSo6x7UCrScDL%2BVnAL23BsGVz1yS0WqjhPCgZ2sqW%2B69ahT2QfrdytB2g1FLC2I2Fgxbn2bpp1IikJiX15Gw%2F9O%2BZFAz91E8j3Ly8GYdbRL9wIdpE%2BPG83PP%2FAKtpfusVAQAA"> Behind the scenes, Biden has grown angry and anxious about re-election effort</a></b></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-78371519455327211522024-03-17T10:01:00.010-04:002024-03-17T10:01:00.140-04:00Workers<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://link.axios.com/click/34714087.471630/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXhpb3MuY29tLzIwMjQvMDMvMTUvd2Vla2x5LXBlYWstb2ZmaWNlLWF0dGVuZGFuY2UtaXMtc3RpbGwtbm93aGVyZS1uZWFyLXByZS1wYW5kZW1pYy1sZXZlbHM_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJfYXhpb3NhbSZzdHJlYW09dG9w/626fe04dd7092b502c0573d8Bd5a6c405"> </a><b><a href="https://link.axios.com/click/34714087.471630/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXhpb3MuY29tLzIwMjQvMDMvMTUvd2Vla2x5LXBlYWstb2ZmaWNlLWF0dGVuZGFuY2UtaXMtc3RpbGwtbm93aGVyZS1uZWFyLXByZS1wYW5kZW1pYy1sZXZlbHM_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJfYXhpb3NhbSZzdHJlYW09dG9w/626fe04dd7092b502c0573d8Bd5a6c405">Axios </a>-</b> <b>Many offices in America’s biggest cities </b>aren't even two-thirds full on the busiest days of the week<i>s.<b> </b></i></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Four years after pandemic lockdowns began, kids are back in school, brick-and-mortar retailers are <a href="https://link.axios.com/click/34714087.471630/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXhpb3MuY29tLzIwMjQvMDEvMzEvY3JlLXJldGFpbC1jb21tZXJjaWFsLXJlYWwtZXN0YXRlLWNyYXNoLXZhY2FuY3k_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJfYXhpb3NhbSZzdHJlYW09dG9w/626fe04dd7092b502c0573d8B4bd39cf8" target="_blank">thriving</a> and travel has rebounded. But remote and hybrid work have lingered. The shift away
from working in offices has touched nearly all aspects of our lives —
from where people live, to how they structure their work-family balance
to the way companies run. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Offices could get even emptier: Nearly a third of leases are set to expire by 2026, <i>The Atlantic </i><a href="https://link.axios.com/click/34714087.471630/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlYXRsYW50aWMuY29tL2lkZWFzL2FyY2hpdmUvMjAyMy8wNi9jb21tZXJjaWFsLXJlYWwtZXN0YXRlLWNyaXNpcy1lbXB0eS1vZmZpY2VzLzY3NDMxMC8_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXJfYXhpb3NhbSZzdHJlYW09dG9w/626fe04dd7092b502c0573d8B0d14a038" target="_blank"><i>notes</i></a><i>. </i>Peak office days, typically Tuesdays or Wednesdays, can gauge the return-to-office momentum..<b>.</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">Office occupancy<b>
i</b>s close to 62% on those high-attendance days, but falls to around 35%
on Fridays, according to Kastle Systems swipe data from 10 big cities,
including New York, L.A., Chicago and Houston... </span><span style="font-size: medium;">In some cities, developers are turning office buildings into <a href="https://link.axios.com/click/34714087.471630/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXhpb3MuY29tLzIwMjQvMDEvMTYvb2ZmaWNlLWNvbnZlcnNpb25zLW55Yy1hcGFydG1lbnRzP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1uZXdzbGV0dGVyX2F4aW9zYW0mc3RyZWFtPXRvcA/626fe04dd7092b502c0573d8B8b7e19f2" target="_blank">apartments</a>. <br /></span></p><p class="body">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Output per worker <a href="https://stacker.com/business-economy/how-us-labor-productivity-has-changed-1950">increased by almost 300% between 1950 and 2018</a> </b>in the U.S. The standard American workweek, meanwhile, has remained unchanged, at about 40 hours.T is paradox is especially notable in the U.S., where the <a href="https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm">average work year is 1,767 hours compared with 1,354 in Germany</a>, a difference largely due to Americans’ <a href="https://www.justworks.com/blog/average-vacation-days-by-country#which-country-has-the-least-vacation-days-how-the-us-compares">lack of vacation time</a>. <a href="https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-is-free-time-still-so-elusive?utm_medium=email&utm_source=pocket_hits&utm_campaign=POCKET_HITS-EN-DAILY-RECS-2024_03_17&sponsored=0&position=8&category=fascinating_stories&scheduled_corpus_item_id=e42924b2-5be2-4495-a78b-928cac9fe32b&url=https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-is-free-time-still-so-elusive"><b>More<br /></b></a></span></p><p class="body"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-16307766416782514272024-03-17T09:52:00.001-04:002024-03-17T09:52:49.140-04:00How journalism has changed<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Sam Smith - </b>I have come to realize that one major reason I didn't do better at Harvard in the 1950s was that I was a fledglin<b>g </b>journalist<b>. </b>I thought I was there to learn facts, not theories and ideas. I like to tell folks that the best course I took at Harvard was covering the Cambridge City Council for the student radio station. It wasn't on any course agenda, but it started me on my actual career. So you will understand why I found the article below so interesting. </i></span><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.persuasion.community/p/how-pseudo-intellectualism-ruined?mc_cid=af8e59764e&mc_eid=bd0aab99c3">William Deresiewicz, Persuasion </a></b>- I was sitting across<span> from the professor as she
went over my latest piece. This was 1986, Columbia School of
Journalism, Reporting and Writing I, the program’s core course. At one
point, in response to what I don’t recall, I said, “That doesn’t bode
well for me.” I could have been referring to a lot of things; there were
so many, in my time in journalism school, that did not bode well for
me. One was the next set of words that came out of her mouth. “‘Bode?’”
she said. “I haven’t heard anyone </span><em>bode</em><span> anything in
a long time.” Another was her comment, on a previous piece, about my
use of “agglomerate.” She had circled it and written, “No such word.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">But
the most important was the intellectual climate of the school as a
whole, in that it did not have one. We were not there to think. We were
there to learn a set of skills. One of them, ironically, was asking
questions, just not about the profession itself: its premises, its
procedures, its canon of ethics. I know, because from time to time I
tried, and it didn’t go well. This was trade school, not liberal arts
school. When a teacher said something, you were supposed to write it
down, not argue.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-43932497016182995962024-03-17T09:10:00.003-04:002024-03-17T09:10:32.811-04:00Mid East<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>NPR- </b> <b>Ireland is one of the most pro-Palestinian nations in the world. </b>Public
support for Palestinians is higher in Ireland than even some
majority-Muslim countries, according to polling data. Ireland was the
first European Union member to call for Pa<b></b>lestinian statehood in 1980
and the last to grant Israel permission to open an embassy in 1993.<b> </b>A little under a century ago, the Irish and Palestinians were both under British rule. Britain called the Palestinian territory British Mandate Palestine, or Mandatory Palestine. Many Irish people see similarities between the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the decadeslong Catholic-Protestant fighting in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles. Ireland's Sinn Fein party is leading the polls ahead of elections later this year or early 2025.
Sinn Fein has historic ties to Irish Republican Army militants, who
themselves had a decades-long alliance with the Palestine Liberation
Organization. In the early 20th century, Ireland was very pro-Israel. Many
identified with the Jewish history of being a displaced people and
wanted Jews to have a safe place to go. Public opinion flipped with
Israel annexing and occupied more Arab land. Read more about Ireland's history with Israel and Palestinians, including a darker chapter during World War II, <b><a data-linkto="https://" href="https://click.nl.npr.org/?qs=a4c5d82d9242694cd73907763e3a81c544d5f6594f75e52c5676ae44de1bd1a096fe12e16173383cd4f4e8468cb708557b0e80d67aa114ea" style="color: #76c7a0; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank" title="here">here</a>. </b><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-14967642029576171992024-03-17T04:50:00.001-04:002024-03-17T04:50:00.146-04:00Workers<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Image" class="css-9pa8cd" draggable="true" height="400" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIzZwthXsAAvlHs?format=jpg&name=medium" width="400" /></div><p> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-84307458644752347892024-03-16T12:09:00.000-04:002024-03-16T12:13:06.538-04:00Ecology<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/why-is-the-sea-so-hot" target="_blank"> <b>New Yorker - </b></a>I</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">n early 2023, climate scientists—and anyone else paying attention to the
data—started to notice something strange. At the beginning of March,
sea-surface temperatures began to rise. By April, they’d set a new
record: the average temperature at the surface of the world’s oceans,
excluding those at the poles, was just a shade under seventy degrees.
Typically, the highest sea-surface temperatures of the year are observed
in March, toward the end of the Southern Hemisphere’s summer. Last
year, temperatures remained abnormally high through the Southern
Hemisphere’s autumn and beyond, breaking the monthly records for May,
June, July, and other months. The North Atlantic was particularly
bathtub-like; in the words of Copernicus, an arm of the European Union’s
space service, temperatures in the basin were “off the charts.” ... “We don’t really know what’s going on,” Gavin Schmidt, the director of <em class="small">NASA</em>’s
Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told me. “And we haven’t really
known what’s going on since about March of last year.” He called the
situation “disquieting.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black;"><b>Thursday night’s storms</b> left
trails of destruction across parts of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and
Arkansas. About 40 people were injured and dozens of homes damaged in
one Indiana community. Tornadoes were also suspected in Illinois and
Missouri. The Indian Lake area in Ohio’s Logan County appeared to be the
hardest hit. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><span><a href="https://link.apnews.com/click/34704837.467483/aHR0cHM6Ly9hcG5ld3MuY29tL2FydGljbGUvdG9ybmFkby1pbmRpYW5hLW9oaW8tc2V2ZXJlLXdlYXRoZXItNzMxZWQzNmIwMmNkNTIxNTkwYWM4ZjVkYmM0NTA5ZjU_dXNlcl9lbWFpbD1lMjEyYTUzZTdmMTA4YjQzYTA3MDAzODQ4MTQzYWJhZGRiYzk4N2FhZTI5MjA3OWNiNTY1ZmRlMjM2NTk1OTgzJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09QWZ0ZXJub29uX1dpcmUmdXRtX3NvdXJjZT1TYWlsdGhydV9BUA/61c09d795f6e2b44c81a560dDf9dc442e" rel="noopener" style="text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Read More.</a></span></b></span><span><b> <br /></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=2ea2dbdcc2&u=7c733794100bcc7e083a163f0&id=4e1bbbe240"> In recent decades, Central America</a></b> has had the <a href="https://insideclimatenews.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7c733794100bcc7e083a163f0&id=31f9bbeb65&e=2ea2dbdcc2" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #046530; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">highest deforestation rate of any region</a>, losing about 20 percent of its forests from 1990 to 2020, according to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization.</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-48282907738288066592024-03-16T12:06:00.004-04:002024-03-16T12:06:45.616-04:00Hitler and drugs<p></p><div class="css-175oi2r r-1pz39u2 r-1777fci r-15ysp7h r-1habvwh r-s8bhmr"></div><h2 aria-level="2" class="css-1rynq56 r-dnmrzs r-1udh08x r-3s2u2q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-1qd0xha r-adyw6z r-135wba7 r-b88u0q r-1vvnge1" dir="ltr" role="heading" style="color: #0f1419; text-overflow: unset;"><div class="css-175oi2r r-xoduu5 r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l"><div class="css-175oi2r r-xoduu5 r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l r-1awozwy r-18u37iz"><div class="css-175oi2r r-xoduu5 r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l"><div class="css-175oi2r r-xoduu5 r-1awozwy r-18u37iz r-dnmrzs"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-1awozwy r-6koalj r-1udh08x r-3s2u2q" style="color: #0f1419; text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-dnmrzs r-1udh08x r-3s2u2q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="@Time Capsule Tales">Time Capsule Tales</a> - </span></span></span></span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="font-weight: normal; text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Adolf Hitler was “a good patient,” according to his doctors. He was meticulously adherent to the regimen for his chronic sinusitis: cocaine in aerosol form.
Hitler’s drug use was of epic proportions. In addition to cocaine, the German Fuhrer also took amphetamines, sedatives, and hormones.
In his book Blitzed, German author Norman Ohler describes how the Third Reich was permeated with drugs, including cocaine, heroin and most notably crystal meth, which was used by everyone from soldiers to housewives and factory workers.
Ohler also says that Hitler, whose mental and physical health has been the source of much speculation, relied on daily injections of the “wonder drug” Eukodol, which puts the user in a state of euphoria – and often renders them incapable of making sound judgments.</span></span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-1awozwy r-6koalj r-1udh08x r-3s2u2q" style="color: #0f1419; text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-dnmrzs r-1udh08x r-3s2u2q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1pos5eu" style="text-overflow: unset;"></span></span></span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-xoduu5 r-18u37iz r-1q142lx" style="text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1awozwy r-xoduu5" style="text-overflow: unset;"></span></span></div></div></div></div></h2>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-42586347371508165392024-03-16T12:00:00.000-04:002024-03-16T12:10:58.377-04:00Trump<div class="separator"><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Folks who knew Trump<br /></b></span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">Wharton Professor William T Kelley:
“Donald Trump was the dumbest god damn student I ever had!” </span></li><li><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">Trump’s Chief of Staff Gen. John Kelly:
“He’s unhinged and an idiot! – We have to save him from himself!” </span></li><li><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">Trump’s Attorney General William Barr:
“Trump has become Detached from Reality – if he really Believes this Stuff!” </span></li><li><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">Trump’s Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis:
“Trump acts like and has the understanding of Fifth or Sixth Grader!” </span></li><li><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"> Trump’s Chief Strategist Steve Bannon:
“The President is like an 11-year-old child!” </span></li><li><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">Trump’s Secretary of State Rex Tillerson:
“Trump’s a Fucking Moron!” - Via </span><a class="css-175oi2r r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l r-1loqt21" href="https://twitter.com/AymannJames" role="link"><span class="css-1qaijid r-dnmrzs r-1udh08x r-3s2u2q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">James Aymann</span></span></a></li></ul><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>DavidCornDC:</b> Dear NY Times: Good morning.
How are you? I’m just wondering why in today’s paper there’s no mention
of Mike Pence, Donald Trump’s former veep (as you know), saying he won’t
endorse Trump. Not on the front page. Not inside. Seems kinda big. Are
you okay?</span><span class="css-1qaijid r-dnmrzs r-1udh08x r-3s2u2q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"> </span></span></p><div class="css-175oi2r r-1awozwy r-18u37iz r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs"><div class="css-1rynq56 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-1qd0xha r-a023e6 r-rjixqe r-b88u0q r-1awozwy r-6koalj r-1udh08x r-3s2u2q r-1ddef8g" dir="ltr" style="color: #0f1419; text-overflow: unset;"><a class="css-175oi2r r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l r-1loqt21" href="https://twitter.com/AymannJames" role="link"><span class="css-1qaijid r-dnmrzs r-1udh08x r-3s2u2q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"></span></span></a></div></div><p></p><p><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://polinews.org/trumps-ex-press-secretary-confirmed-donald-repeatedly-instructed-her-to-lie-to-the-public-because-he-knew-that-his-supporters-are-gullible-enough-to-believe-it/">Political Tribune </a>- </b></span><span style="font-size: medium;">In the midst of the January 6th anniversary of the violent, Trump-fueled
attack on the US Capitol, Stephanie Grisham sat down for an interview
with CNN’s Jim Acosta, in which they spoke about the events that took
place at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, and Donald Trump’s
deep-seated claims and so-called beliefs that he was the true and
rightful winner of the 2020 presidential election, despite his clear and
repeatedly confirmed loss to Joe Biden... Speaking with Acosta, Grisham explained, “He knows he’s lying. He
used to tell me when I was press secretary, go out there and say it. It
doesn’t matter, Stephanie. Say it over and over and over again. People
will believe it. He knows his base <a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/a-neuroscientist-explains-how-donald-trump-exploits-his-supporters-minds/">believes in him</a>. He knows he can basically say anything, and his base will believe what he’s saying.” The former Trump press secretary went on to say that, while his lies
and gullible base will likely help him secure the 2024 primaries, she
expects it to backfire in his face when it comes to the general
election. “I think this will help propel him into the general, but I think that
independents and center-leaning Republicans are not going to be buying
this,” Grisham explained. “They’re much, much smarter than that. I think
he’s going to get in trouble with it in the general with these kinds of
lies.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/15/us/politics/jared-kushner-pursuing-development-deals-in-albania-and-serbia.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share">NY Times - </a></b>Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of Donald J. Trump, confirmed on
Friday that he was closing in on major real estate deals in Albania and
Serbia, the latest example of the former president’s family doing
business abroad even as Mr. Trump seeks to return to the White House.<span><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><b> <br /></b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><b><a href="https://twitter.com/chrisalbertolaw/status/1768469187322659177?s=66&t=dUb86Z3TAcWtqC7PCmc39A">Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro, </a></b>who helped orchestrate the Trump campaign's 2020 fake electors plot, had his law license suspended by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.</span></span></p><div class="separator"><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Image" class="css-9pa8cd" draggable="true" height="280" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIq5G06WQAAmCGx?format=jpg&name=small" width="400" /></div><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"> <br /></span></span></p></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"> </span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-1678921724499457052024-03-16T11:57:00.003-04:002024-03-16T11:57:16.767-04:00Politics<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Image" class="css-9pa8cd" draggable="true" height="399" src="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIvhlQca0AAZina?format=jpg&name=small" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-dnmrzs r-1udh08x r-3s2u2q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">Via </span></span><a class="css-175oi2r r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l r-1loqt21" href="https://twitter.com/NickKnudsenUS" role="link"><span class="css-1qaijid r-dnmrzs r-1udh08x r-3s2u2q r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;"><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="text-overflow: unset;">Nick Knudsen</span></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-33347048858531517262024-03-16T10:19:00.003-04:002024-03-16T10:19:27.974-04:00GOP<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/michele-morrow-gop-nominee-for-north-carolina-schools-chief-called-for-execution-of-biden-obama?via=newsletter&source=CSPMedition&user_emailA=97dc51879ccda302b816fdae2b5c6829&user_emailB=e212a53e7f108b43a07003848143abaddbc987aae292079cb565fde236595983&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=240315-Cheat%20Sheet%20PM&utm_term=C%20List%20New%20Cheat%20Sheet%20PM">Daily Beast - </a></b>A conservative activist who once called for the murder of President <a aria-label="" class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a> and former President <a aria-label="" class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/barack-obama">Barack Obama</a> is the Republican nominee to be the superintendent of <a aria-label="" class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/north-carolina">North Carolina’s</a> public schools, <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/politics/kfile-gop-nominee-north-carolina-public-schools-michele-morrow-executing-democrats/index.html">CNN reports</a>.
Michele Morrow, who has previously called public schools
“indoctrination centers” and “socialism centers,” is in contention for
the responsibility of her state’s $11 billion school budget. Morrow one
commented “Death to ALL traitors!!” in response to an image of Obama in
an electric chair. She later <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://twitter.com/michelemorrownc/status/1768409927112970310?s=12">defended</a>
her statement, alleging that Obama’s drone strike campaign in the
Middle East constitutes treason. Morrow has also suggested in a <a class="LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201230062249/https://twitter.com/_stand_firm/status/1343969166655692800">tweet </a>that
President Joe Biden should be killed for recommending citizens wear
masks. CNN also found that Morrow had posted comments calling for the
execution of Hillary Clinton and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY). <br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-15984713652245669782024-03-16T10:09:00.007-04:002024-03-16T10:09:41.585-04:00Money<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" height="239" src="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/i.Rk0.YgYkcU/v0/-1x-1.png" style="display: block; margin: auto; max-width: 550px; width: 100%;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"></div><p> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-50654014478237543262024-03-16T09:29:00.004-04:002024-03-16T09:29:19.860-04:00Meanwhile. . .<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="mso-font-fix-arial"><b>The history of <a href="https://news.join1440.com/t/j-l-skhhily-iidhuihyti-jt/" style="color: #0000ee !important; text-decoration: underline !important;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #0000ee;">St. Patrick's Day</span></a>. <br /></b></span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-65834721632412329502024-03-16T09:19:00.000-04:002024-03-16T09:19:00.934-04:00Workers<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/03/12/majorities-of-adults-see-decline-of-union-membership-as-bad-for-the-us-and-working-people/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=d42325e688-Weekly_3-16-24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-d42325e688-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D">Pew Research </a>-</b> Majorities of Americans see the large reduction in the share of
workers represented by unions over the past several decades as a bad
thing for both the country and working people in the United States.</span></p><figure class="wp-block-image alignright size-640-wide is-resized"></figure>
<ul><li><span style="font-size: medium;">54% of U.S. adults say the decline has been bad for the country.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: medium;">59% say this has been bad for working people.</span></li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-48109895177884561342024-03-16T08:59:00.006-04:002024-03-16T08:59:53.310-04:00Religion<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Pew Research </b>- An
80% majority of U.S. adults say religion’s role in American life is
shrinking, and most who hold this view say it’s a bad thing. Many
religious and nonreligious Americans alike feel that their beliefs <a href="https://pewresearch.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=434f5d1199912232d416897e4&id=add75bd71c&e=4854d8d21c" style="color: #346ead; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">put them at odds with mainstream culture</a>
and with people on the other side of the political spectrum. Few
overall see President Joe Biden or former President Donald Trump as
especially religious.
</span></p><ul><li style="margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>What Americans think about:</strong> <a href="https://pewresearch.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=434f5d1199912232d416897e4&id=79000ddec6&e=4854d8d21c" style="color: #346ead; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Religion’s role in public life</a> | <a href="https://pewresearch.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=434f5d1199912232d416897e4&id=40a0aba032&e=4854d8d21c" style="color: #346ead; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Having a religious president</a> | <a href="https://pewresearch.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=434f5d1199912232d416897e4&id=95a5742788&e=4854d8d21c" style="color: #346ead; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Christianity’s place in politics, and “Christian nationalism”</a></span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://pewresearch.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=434f5d1199912232d416897e4&id=4f89010b3f&e=4854d8d21c" style="color: #346ead; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">5 facts about religion and Americans’ views of Donald Trump</a></span></li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7018073541417646773.post-91689980737040272332024-03-16T08:57:00.000-04:002024-03-16T08:57:11.426-04:00Youth<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> <b>Pew Research - </b>Most U.S. teens (72%) say being disconnected from their phone makes them feel peaceful at least sometimes, <a href="https://pewresearch.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=434f5d1199912232d416897e4&id=76067606e1&e=4854d8d21c" style="color: #346ead; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">though 44% say this makes them anxious</a>.
Teens see smartphones as having some negative effects on people their
age, but they largely believe the benefits outweigh the harms.
Meanwhile, half of parents say they’ve ever looked through their teen’s
phone.
</span></p><ul><li style="margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>What teens think about:</strong> <a href="https://pewresearch.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=434f5d1199912232d416897e4&id=0de4e6e4d4&e=4854d8d21c" style="color: #346ead; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Screen time and cutting back</a> | <a href="https://pewresearch.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=434f5d1199912232d416897e4&id=a1350dedc5&e=4854d8d21c" style="color: #346ead; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Smartphones’ impact on young people</a></span></li><li style="margin-bottom: 14px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>What parents think about:</strong> <a href="https://pewresearch.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=434f5d1199912232d416897e4&id=57739b9632&e=4854d8d21c" style="color: #346ead; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Raising teens in the smartphone age</a> | <a href="https://pewresearch.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=434f5d1199912232d416897e4&id=adbcd55ec4&e=4854d8d21c" style="color: #346ead; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: left; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Their own struggles with device distractions</a></span></li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0