Sorry, fighting the good fight. I think it should be obvious that from here on out to the election (and after) that publishing will be a little irregular.
"The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which hold enough frozen water to lift oceans 65 metres, are tracking the UN's worst-case scenarios for sea level rise, researchers said Monday, highlighting flaws in current climate change models." The worst case scenarios. We're boned.
"Tropical Depression Fifteen strengthened slightly Tuesday afternoon and the National Hurricane Center upgraded it to Tropical Storm Omar. Just hours earlier, a vigorous tropical disturbance in the Caribbean became Tropical Storm Nana, according to the hurricane center." Tropical Storm Nana… I'll wait for the comedians to stretch and warm up first…
"Black holes are getting stranger — even to astronomers. They've now detected the signal from a long ago violent collision of two black holes that created a new one of a size that had never been seen before."
"Susan Schneider Williams, the widow of late comic and actor Robin Williams, once called Lewy body dementia 'the terrorist inside my husband's brain.'… While it afflicts more than one million Americans, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, it is regularly overshadowed by Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's, often leading to misdiagnoses in patients with Lewy body dementia."
"Antibody levels against the novel coronavirus rose and then held steady for up to four months in more than 90% of recovered COVID-19 patients in Iceland, according to a study published on Tuesday."
"The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is promoting policies that will prolong the COVID-19 pandemic and, as such, states and local leaders should disregard the agency and strike out on their own. That’s according to Harold Varmus, the Nobel-prize-winning scientist and former director of the National Institutes of Health, and Rajiv Shah, the former administrator of the United States Agency for International Development and current president of the Rockefeller Foundation." The purposeful breakdown of government.
"A person on a poorly ventilated Chinese bus infected nearly two dozen other passengers with coronavirus even though many weren't sitting close by, according to research published on Tuesday that offers fresh evidence the disease can spread in the air." Well, that it doesn't require relatively larger droplets of water to survive. Ta-da!
"Ohio has reported its largest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases since the end of July, with 1,453 new cases reported Tuesday. With the holiday weekend approaching, Governor Mike DeWine said the potential for another spike is possible if we aren’t careful."
"Any new coronavirus vaccine, once approved, should be allocated to people in the US in four phases with first responders and high-risk workers in health care facilities at the front of the line, an independent committee recommended Tuesday… People with conditions that put them at significantly higher risk of bad outcomes and older adults living in dense settings would be a close second, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee said in a draft framework released Tuesday to help policymakers fairly allocate and distribute a coronavirus vaccine."
"The Trump administration will send most of its newly purchased 150 million rapid COVID-19 tests to U.S. states for schools and critical services, a White House official said on Tuesday, as New York City pushed back reopening classrooms in a deal with union leaders."
"A police stop could have cost former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin his career in space before he ever got started… Melvin, who was never afraid launching into space on two Space Shuttle Atlantis missions to help build the International Space Station, never knew what was going to happen when the cops pulled him over."
"At a roundtable event in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday, President Donald Trump answered for a pair Black pastors in the room when they were asked whether they think police violence is a systemic issue… The two pastors… were the only African Americans seated at the dais for a roundtable on public safety and were the only participants to bring up Blake's shooting before the President took questions from the press."
Meanwhile, on Bullshit Mountain… "President Trump traveled to Kenosha, Wis., Tuesday to demonstrate his profound and sincere support for the heartland community as it rebuilds from the senseless rioting, looting and violence it has experienced over the past week."
"A man charged with running a drug syndicate was offered a plea deal in July if he would name Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old Black woman killed by police in her Louisville, Ky. apartment, as a member of his alleged criminal gang, according to the man's attorney."
"Private payroll growth came in well below expectations for August, according to a report Wednesday from ADP, whose job tallies have differed widely from the government’s during the coronavirus pandemic… Companies added 428,000 jobs during the month, well below the 1.17 million estimate from economists surveyed by Dow Jones though a leap above the lackluster 212,000 that ADP measured for July." Note that number is less than half of the new unemployment claims just last week.
"The federal government's accumulated debt burden is projected to be larger than the overall economy next year for the first time since 1946. Debt is expected to reach an all-time high of 107% of gross domestic product in 2023." Remember the Tea Party? Guess who engineered this with their tax cut.
"University of California schools can no longer use SAT and ACT test results in deciding undergraduate admissions as the school system's 'test optional' policy at some of its campuses may unfairly benefit those who can access a test amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a judge ruled." Did not see that one coming.
"Fourteen people have gone on trial in Paris on charges of assisting the gunmen who attacked the weekly Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish supermarket five years ago, leaving 17 people dead."
"Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a variant of Novichok, a Soviet-era nerve agent, according to tests carried out by a German military laboratory. A German government spokesman said the evidence is 'without a doubt.'"
"Alexander Lukashenko, the leader of Belarus, has thanked Russian state-backed television channel RT for sending journalists to help prop up Belarusian state media after some staff members went on strike in protest against his rule."
"Authorities in Belarus have instigated a harsh crackdown on student protesters after thousands demonstrated against the government Tuesday, according to a local human rights group… Videos shared on social media showed young people in Minsk being struck by masked police officers, dragged away and loaded into vans as their peers look on." Hey, that's ours, give it back!
"The Trump Administration has leveled sanctions against the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, who is investigating allegations that U.S. troops committed war crimes in Afghanistan. Human rights groups swiftly decried the sanctions as an attack on international justice."
"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Tuesday it made more than 2,000 arrests during a six-week nationwide operation in July and August that focused on those with criminal convictions and charges, but also led to the arrests of some undocumented immigrants with clean records."
"A former top Department of Homeland Security official who resigned in April says the Trump administration is creating the conditions for domestic extremism to flourish in the United States."
"Under pressure from lawmakers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday that it was reversing course and would extend at least through the autumn the flexible free school meals program helping to keep millions of kids fed amid the coronavirus pandemic. Some of the options granted to meal providers over the summer, including flexibility to allow parents and carers to collect free meals at any school, even without the children present, had been set to expire at the start of September."
"When the Chardon High School football team opened the season on Friday night, one of the Hilltoppers carried a thin blue line American flag onto the field… In a letter to the Chardon community, the superintendent also wrote that the carrying of the flag could be interpreted as political speech, that is not permitted on school grounds and would not be allowed in the future." With the usual right-wing "whataboutisms" and garment rending. Also, they're not banning the flag on shirts or hats, they're just saying it wasn't permissible or right for the football team to carry the flag onto the field (in the same way adults can't lead school prayers). And tell ya what, the next time the Hilltoppers carry the Rainbow Flag on the field without repercussions we can talk.
"A Census Bureau analysis has concluded that its curtailed schedule for the 2020 census increases the risk of 'serious errors' in the results for the national head count, according to an internal bureau document obtained by the House Oversight and Reform Committee."
"President Donald Trump jokingly ordered Sarah Huckabee Sanders to move to North Korea and take one for the team after she saw the country’s dictator, Kim Jong Un, wink at her, according to her new book." Our president, everyone. And don't start with "it was a joke", adult men don't joke this way. This is juvenile bullshit.
"President Donald Trump has been known to dabble in conspiracy theories — be it that Barack Obama was secretly born in Kenya, that global warming is a hoax created by China, or that Bill and/or Hillary Clinton had child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein murdered in prison… But his latest whopper — that his political opponent, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, is secretly being controlled by a roving band of black-clad violent extremists who like to fly on commercial airlines — is more than just another conspiracy theory. It’s also disturbingly reminiscent of a disinformation tactic commonly deployed by dictators around the world to discredit legitimate political opposition."
"An appeals court panel agreed Tuesday to delay Manhattan prosecutors’ effort to obtain President Donald Trump’s financial records, a decision that could likely punt resolution of the issue into early October — and possibly past the Nov. 3 election… Following a morning oral argument session held by telephone, a three-judge panel issued an order granting Trump lawyers' request to block Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance from accessing the disputed documents until the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals resolves the issue."
"Seventy-seven percent of registered voters aged 18 to 35 across 13 battleground states said they 'definitely will vote' in the upcoming elections, according to results of an August survey exclusively shared with The Hill." We'll see.
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