"At least one person was killed and several others were injured after a 12-story residential building partially collapsed in southern Florida's Miami-Dade County early Thursday morning, authorities said."
"After staging weeks of protest and being called 'reprehensible' by a federal judge, 153 workers of a Houston-based hospital system lost their jobs Tuesday for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19." Get the goddamn shots (if you can). (Grokked from John)
"The 'delta variant' has come to dominate headlines, having been discovered in India where it provoked an extreme surge in Covid-19 cases before spreading around the world… But now a mutation of that variant has emerged, called 'delta plus,' which is starting to worry global experts." "Worrying global experts" is such a non-sensical statement as the news media latches on to any slight variant of this 2 year old story to try and generate some interest. Viruses mutate, it's what they do. What this shows is the people reporting on this disease don't have the basic knowledge required to fully inform the public. You have to get halfway through the article before you find any relevant information. It's new. We don't have data. Could be worse.
"Dating abuse can happen to anyone — it doesn't matter if the teen is a good student, plays sports or seems happy. A teen in an abusive relationship may not understand what's happening or have the experience to know what to do — so adults are critical… Here are a few tips for adults who can help." Yeah, that first one, "Normalize conversations about relationships and sex" is going to trip up a lot of people (and frankly is a part of the problem).
"Initial claims for unemployment insurance remained elevated last week as employers struggled to fill a record number of job openings… First-time filings totaled 411,000 for the week ended June 19, a slight decrease from the previous total of 418,000 but worse than the 380,000 Dow Jones estimate, the Labor Department reported Thursday."
An indigenous group in Canada says it has found 751 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school in Saskatchewan… The Cowessess First Nation said the discovery was 'the most significantly substantial to date in Canada'."
"Indigenous chiefs and human rights organizations have accused Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro of enabling such killings through state policies that they say encourage the destruction of the Amazon for profit while failing to protect Indigenous people’s rights. They have asked the International Criminal Court to investigate whether the far-right leader's actions — including weakening dozens of environmental protections and encouraging private development of the Amazon, leading to the displacement of Indigenous people and contributing to climate change — constitute crimes against humanity."
"International condemnation is growing over an airstrike that killed dozens of people in Ethiopia's war-torn northern Tigray region earlier this week, as Africa's second-most populous nation tallied ballots to decide its next leader."
"Missouri has new a law that claims to invalidate all federal gun control laws — and prohibits state and local cooperation with enforcement of those laws… But can a state actually invalidate a federal law?… No." But it can put a lessor priority on enforcement by local officials. It's like the legalization of marijuana laws. It's still illegal at a federal level, and federal officers can arrest you for violations of federal law. But while most drug laws are enforced at a local level, most gun laws (other than concealed carry or use of firearms during the commission of another felony) are enforced at a federal level (by the ATF) already. And because it may not be pointed out elsewhere, a felon possessing a firearm is in violation of a federal law. With this Missouri law, that means local law enforcement cannot charge a convicted felon of possession.
Why the judiciary is important… "A federal judge has dismissed claims that former White House officials conspired to forcibly remove peaceful protesters last year from Washington, D.C.'s Lafayette Square so that then-President Donald Trump could pose for a photo holding a Bible at a nearby church."
"The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a Pennsylvania high school violated the First Amendment rights of a cheerleader by punishing her for using vulgar language that criticized the school on social media… The 8-1 opinion upheld lower court rulings against Mahanoy Area High School’s decision to suspend then-student Brandi Levy from her junior varsity cheerleading squad for one year over two Snapchat posts she sent while off school grounds."
"The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that police cannot always enter a home without a warrant when pursuing someone for a minor crime."
"In Afghanistan, a crisis is mounting. Taliban and other insurgents are targeting Afghan citizens like Khan who aided U.S. forces. As U.S. and NATO troops completely withdraw from Afghanistan within the next few weeks — the U.S. symbolic deadline is Sept. 11, but forces are expected to be out next month — thousands of Afghans who worked as interpreters, translators, drivers, cooks, cultural advisors and staff for the U.S. military and other U.S. government agencies fear being stranded."
"Democrats have pledged not to give up. 'In the fight for voting rights, this vote was the starting gun, not the finish line,' Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader in the Senate, said on the floor during Tuesday’s vote. Senate Democrats plan to hold a series of hearings in states like Georgia that have passed voting restrictions to highlight the need for federal legislation. Biden also promised more action next week. 'We are going to be ramping up our efforts to overcome again – for the people, for our very democracy.'"
Meanwhile, on Bullshit Mountain… "Progressive Democrats are stewing after one of their top priorities, a massive elections bill, stalled in the Senate Tuesday – and they're directing their ire at several targets, including Republicans, the Senate filibuster and even President Biden, who they allege didn't do enough to stump for the legislation." Owning the libs has become the raison d'etre of the GOP.
"Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday she would create a new committee to investigate what she said are 'many questions' about the events leading up to the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol and the federal response to that day."
"Advisers to former President Donald Trump were reportedly hoping his battle with COVID-19 last year would give him a 'newfound appreciation for the seriousness' of the virus — only for it to ultimately become clear he 'hadn't changed at all.'" He feels he beat it with his superior genetics, no reason for him to change.
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