Ed Asner, and so it goes.
"We're focused today on Ida, which has been downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm, but still poses a significant threat as it moves inland."
"This has been the worst salmon fishing season on record for the Yukon River. King salmon, a regional favorite, have returned in low numbers for years, but now a typically stable species, chum salmon, has also collapsed. Subsistence fishing on the lower Yukon River for both species is closed, and residents who usually depend heavily on the fish are pivoting towards other ways to get meat."
"The Asante system encompasses three hospitals in the Rogue Valley — in the cities of Ashland, Medford and Grants Pass. All three ICU's are 100% full of COVID-19 patients, according to staff."
"A Butler County judge ruled in favor of a woman last week who sought to force a hospital to administer Ivermectin — an animal dewormer that federal regulators have warned against using in COVID-19 patients — to her husband after several weeks in the ICU with the disease." Sweet Jesus. (Grokked from Jeff VanderMeer)
"Federal researchers will not objectively study ivermectin as a treatment for Covid-19, the Kentucky senator Rand Paul claimed, because 'hatred for Donald Trump' has tainted their view of those who say the drug used to deworm horses can aid the fight against the pandemic." The willing ignorance.
"The European Union plans to recommend that its 27 nations reinstate restrictions on tourists from the U.S. because of rising coronavirus infection levels there, EU diplomats said Monday."
"Clubhouse began rolling out a iOS app update on Sunday that enables spatial audio support. The Android update is 'coming soon,' according to the company. The feature works by introducing subtle spatial cues that position speakers on Clubhouse calls into three-dimensional space around your head, making the remote listening experience a better approximation of being in a room full of people. It works best with headphones, either Bluetooth or wired." Ah, what we've all been waiting for… not.
"Bonds yields moved mildly lower on Monday as investors look ahead to Friday’s all-important jobs report… The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note ticked slightly downward to 1.299% in early trading, while the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond was slipped to 1.909%. Yields move inversely to prices." Which means more money is moving into bonds.
"States that withdrew early from federal unemployment programs pushed few people back to work and fueled a nearly $2 billion cut in household spending, potentially hurting their local economies, according to new research… Twenty-six state governors — all Republican, except one — opted out of the pandemic-era programs several weeks before their official expiration on Labor Day. Enhanced benefits were keeping the unemployed from looking for jobs and fueling a labor shortage, they claimed." You mean cutting people off didn't drive them back into the labor market? Shocked, shocked I am…
"North Korea appears to have restarted its Yongbyon reactor, which produces plutonium and was likely shut down in December 2018, The Wall Street Journal reports."
"But at a family home in Kabul on Monday, survivors and neighbors said the strike had killed 10 people, including seven children, an aid worker for an American charity organization and a contractor with the U.S. military." About that drone strike against the "imminent attack on Kabul airport."
"As rockets apparently aimed at Kabul's airport rained down on a nearby neighborhood, U.S. forces scrambled to evacuate thousands of Afghan trying to flee ahead of a Tuesday deadline for the withdraw of all American troops."
"As white-gloved officers carried the flag-draped case of their fellow Marine from the C-17 military plane, the quiet of their gentle footsteps was broken by the soft cries of a loved one's anguish." Pointed to not because of the main message, but because there is a determined information campaign to say Biden was not there.
"Former Trump adviser Stephen Miller on Sunday called President Joe Biden 'clinically insane' for allowing Afghan refugees to live in the United States… Miller yelled at the current commander-in-chief throughout a Fox News interview after host Maria Bartiromo asked him about 'refugees' that are being brought to the United States from Afghanistan." Himler throws a spat.
"Republicans raised the debt ceiling with minimal drama under Donald Trump. Now Democrats are prepared to make them publicly refuse to do the same for Joe Biden… Senate Republicans are digging in deeper and deeper in their resistance to raising the nation's borrowing limit, with 46 of them vowing to oppose an increase this fall that will need at least 10 Republican votes. Yet Democrats still plan to burn their most expedient ticket out of the debt mess, with no intention to shift course and pass an increase along party lines." Hello government shutdown. Again.
Meanwhile, on Bullshit Mountain… "'Democrats have embarked on a massive and unprecedented deficit spending spree. Without a single Republican vote, they passed a $1.9 trillion ‘Covid relief’ bill in March,' the letter, which garnered the support of 103 House Republicans, says. 'Now they have passed a $3.5 trillion Budget Resolution, again without a single Republican vote.'" The glorious revolution still goose-steps along.
"Thousands of people gathered in Washington, D.C., and other cities across the country on Saturday to protest a recent slew of legislation that critics say suppresses voter rights, particularly for voters of color and young voters, in many Republican-led states."
"It’s a common refrain from some of those charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and their Republican allies: The Justice Department is treating them harshly because of their political views while those arrested during last year’s protests over racial injustice were given leniency." The data says "nope".
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