Sorry for the lateness and absence. On Wednesday I had a medical proceedure as a followup to my SVT in December. And today was business catch up day for the design job.
"NASA is naming landmarks and geological features on Mars in the Navajo language… The Perseverance rover's team, in collaboration with the Navajo Nation, has been naming features of scientific interest with words in the language, according to NASA. And it includes a rock named 'Máaz,' the Navajo word for 'Mars.'"
Just what is an NFT?
"'From March to early June, Republican-led states had lower Covid-19 incidence rates compared with Democratic-led states. On June 3, the association reversed, and Republican-led states had higher incidence,' the study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Medical University of South Carolina showed… 'For death rates, Republican-led states had lower rates early in the pandemic, but higher rates from July 4 through mid-December,' the study found." While their reasoning is sound (Democrats controller states that have our main ports of entry, so also vectors for international pandemics), the miss that Democrats are also in control of the most populous states (and the states were wealth is concentrated, as a result of the previous two factors).
"The coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford has now been suspended in a number of countries across Europe and Asia, following reports of blood clots in some vaccinated people. Many other nations, however, have defended their use of the shot and said they will continue their respective inoculation campaigns."
"President Biden is aiming for the country to begin to find a degree of normalcy and begin to move on from the coronavirus pandemic by the July Fourth holiday, Biden announced in his first prime-time address Thursday night from the White House on the one-year anniversary of the pandemic."
"When the pandemic hit, visits to hospital emergency departments plummeted by more than 40%. People were scared of catching the coronavirus… But Kristin Holland, a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found patients experiencing drug-related crises needed help so desperately they kept coming."
"A Des Moines Register reporter has been found not guilty by an Iowa jury of failing to disperse and interfering with official acts. She was arrested by police last summer as she was covering a Black Lives Matter protest last summer… Andrea Sahouri's case has drawn international concerns over its implications for press freedom amid what First Amendment advocates have said is a sharp increase in recent arrests of journalists in the U.S."
"The city of Minneapolis on Friday agreed to pay $27 million to settle a civil lawsuit from George Floyd’s family over the Black man’s death in police custody, as jury selection continued in a former officer’s murder trial."
"That's where the CASE Act comes in. When Congress passed the massive stimulus bill in late December, it was — like lots of legislation — packed to the gills with stuff that had nothing to do with government funding. Tucked among tax breaks for various industries were a few provisions intended to counter online piracy, including the CASE Act, standing for Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement."
"The Interior Department said on Monday it had completed its environmental review for a massive wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts, a key step toward final approval of the long-stalled project that will play a prominent role in President Joe Biden's effort to expand renewable energy in the U.S."
"Holding hands in the parking lot, Tavia and I swore a quiet oath: we would not do this to anyone. We would not leave the contents of our lives for someone else to sort through, because who would that mythical sorter be, anyway? My stepchildren? Her niece? Neither of us had children of our own. Could we assume that our husbands would make order out of what we left behind? According to the actuarial tables, we would outlive them." On downsizing and growing older. Thoughts that haven't been far out of my mind as well. (Grokked from Gwenda Bond)
"British police confirmed Friday that they had identified the body of 33-year-old Sarah Everard, whose disappearance while walking home in London sparked an outpouring across social media from women sharing their own experiences of sexual assault and harassment."
"Dozens of students were reportedly kidnapped from their school in northwestern Nigeria during the early morning hours on Friday… Around 30 students were taken from Federal College Of Forestry Mechanization, which sits just outside Kaduna city. The incident marks at least the fourth kidnapping of students in the country since December."
"President Joe Biden is taking part in the first leaders' summit of the informal international alliance known as the 'Quad' as his administration steps up efforts to deal with China's growing influence… The group, which also includes India, Japan and Australia, is meeting virtually due to coronavirus restrictions."
"The Biden administration on Thursday took the final step to end the controversial Trump-era rule that makes it more difficult for immigrants to obtain legal status if they use certain public benefits, such as Medicaid, food stamps and housing vouchers… Earlier this week, the Supreme Court dismissed a case concerning the 'public charge' rule and the Department of Homeland Security determined that continuing to defend the rule was 'neither in the public interest nor an efficient use of limited government resources.'"
"Senior military leaders have condemned viral comments made by Tucker Carlson on his show about women in uniform. Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said on Thursday that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin shares the "revulsion" many senior leaders have expressed about the monologue… Carlson said during his show on Tuesday that new grooming standards and inclusive military uniforms for women were making a mockery of the U.S. military. In a monologue, Carlson said China's military has become 'more masculine,' while 'our military needs to become, as Joe Biden says, more feminine.'" Note that Mr. Carlson never served in uniform. Tucker is nothing more than a troll who has been given a platform on a Trolling Network. Apparently his ratings, and sponsorships, were hurting and he decided he needed more attention. And hate is good enough for him.
"GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia was offered cookies and a geography lesson by leaders in Guam after she falsely suggested the US territory is a foreign country that didn't deserve aid." Ignorance is the GOP Brand.
"One of those is the Southern Baptist Convention, where Beth Moore, one of its most prominent women, this week left the church, having declared that she is 'no longer a Southern Baptist.'" Schisms continue as "evangelical" takes a decidedly non-Christian bent.
"The former president is dialing up GOP senators to back their campaigns and talk strategy, weighing how to approach primaries in critical open seats and making sure he leaves an imprint on the midterm elections. Trump’s involvement, revealed in interviews with a dozen GOP senators, shows how far the 50-member conference has come two months after they weighed a clean break with the former president following the insurrection at the Capitol by his supporters."
"In a newly revealed phone call, President Donald Trump asked a Georgia law enforcement official to find evidence of fraud with absentee-by-mail ballots, the latest revelation in his unsuccessful attempt to overturn the state's election results."
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