"A penguin has found itself on the shores of New Zealand, at least 3,000 kilometres (1,864 miles) away from its natural habitat of Antarctica… The Adélie penguin, who has now been affectionately named Pingu by locals, was found looking lost on the coast." Brooklyn?! I'm dyin' over here.
"In 1858, sewage clogging London's Thames River caused a 'Great Stink.' A century later, parts of the famed waterway were declared biologically dead… The river today is 'home to myriad wildlife as diverse as London itself,' Andrew Terry, the director of conservation and policy at the Zoological Society of London, writes in a forward to the report published Wednesday. Terry points to 'reductions in pressures and improvements in key species and habitats.'"
"A new therapy, developed by researchers in the USA, has successfully reversed paralysis and repaired severe spinal cord injuries in mice. The animals regained the ability to walk only four weeks after a single injection of the treatment."
"Patients like LaDue have researchers scrambling to figure out why some people experience persistent, often debilitating symptoms after catching SARS-CoV-2. It remains unclear how often it occurs. But if only a small fraction of the hundreds of millions of people who've had COVID-19 are left struggling with long-term health problems, it's a major public health problem."
"A recent study in the United Kingdom found that COVID affects one in seven children months after they were infected. Symptoms can include headaches, anxiety, lung issues and fatigue… Katharine Clouser, a pediatric hospitalist, said her team is seeing an increase in the number of kids with long-hauler symptoms. Clouser and her team at Hackensack Meridian Health in New Jersey opened one of the first pediatric COVID recovery centers in the state last spring."
"In a TikTok video that has garnered hundreds of thousands of views, Dr. Carrie Madej outlined the ingredients for a bath she said will 'detox the vaxx' for people who have given into Covid-19 vaccine mandates." Sobs uncontrollably. (Grokked from John Scalzi)
"The country is still in a pandemic that's killing more than 1,000 Americans every day. And a body of evidence shows masking, in combination with other safety measures, effectively cuts COVID-19 transmission in K-12 schools. Masks are cheaper than renovating school buildings to improve ventilation or create outdoor learning spaces, and they're (still) easier to get ahold of than COVID-19 tests, which can also be used to preempt transmission."
"A group of 10 states has filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration and its requirement that health care workers in the U.S. to be vaccinated against COVID-19, saying the mandate is 'unconstitutional and unlawful.'" As a healthcare worker I am vaccinated up the wazzo against a host of diseases. To claim some special carve out for COVID-19 is farcical on it's face.
"A record 4.4 million Americans quit their jobs in September as the sheer volume of available jobs is empowering workers to have their pick… Workers are quitting in search for better pay or better jobs, representing a fundamental shift in America's labor market."
"The busy Christmas shopping season is almost here. Unfortunately, a lot of holiday merchandise is tied up in traffic, and Bonnie Ross is starting to sweat." Why, it's almost as if our economy was built in such a way that expansion became unsustainable because of the inequities built into the system.
"Elon Musk sold another block of Tesla shares Thursday… In two additional filings, Musk disclosed early Friday that he had sold another $687.3 million worth of the stock Thursday. That brings his sales of stock for this week to 5.2 million shares for a total of $5.8 billion… Last weekend, Musk conducted a Twitter poll asking the public if he should be selling 10% of his shares of the stock in order to increase the taxes he owed. He said he would abide by the results, and 58% agreed he should sell."
"Belarus has threatened to cut off its transit of gas supply to Europe if the EU imposes sanctions over a migrant crisis at its western border… The bloc has accused Russian-backed President Alexander Lukashenko of weaponizing the thousands of people currently gathered in freezing camps at the border with Poland to undermine EU security and distract from domestic political pressures, an allegation Belarus denies." He seems nice. Putin will let him go to the end of his chain and bark, and then reassure the EU that he won't cut off supply.
"'If we're going to start a precedent, starting yesterday, where we're going to bring high-profile members of the African American community into the courtroom to sit with the family during the trial in the presence of the jury, I believe that's intimidating and it's an attempt to pressure -- could be consciously or unconsciously -- an attempt to pressure or influence the jury,' attorney Kevin Gough said Thursday in court in Brunswick, Georgia… Gough the next day offered 'my apologies to anyone who might have inadvertently been offended' by the remarks." He totally didn't mean for his remarks to be taken as a racists statement by anyone who may not be a racist themselves.
"Buchan, an analyst at the British climate-advocacy group Stop Funding Heat, is part of a global team of activists and online researchers that has been tracking false and misleading claims about climate change while world leaders have met in Glasgow… The London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue, which has long studied online extremism and terrorism, led the effort."
"Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is facing a criminal referral to the justice department for contempt of Congress after he failed to appear for an immediate deposition on Friday morning before the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack."
"A federal appeals court Thursday granted former President Donald Trump's request to temporarily block the National Archives from turning over his White House records to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol."
"House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has watched in silence as Republican Rep. Paul Gosar tweeted a fantasy anime video depicting him killing a Democratic colleague and brandishing swords at President Joe Biden… He has kept his distance as some of the 13 House GOP lawmakers who voted last week for a bipartisan infrastructure bill have been targeted by the far-right, with one of them, Rep. Fred Upton of Michigan, revealing that he received death threats." Paralyzed by the reality of the precarious position he's placed himself in. Don't worry, he'll over react and come out swinging in a few weeks causing destruction and discord.
"Donald Trump defended rioters at the Capitol on 6 January who threatened to 'hang Mike Pence', his vice-president, according to recorded remarks released on Friday… Trump was speaking to the ABC chief Washington correspondent, Jonathan Karl, for his book Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show, which will be published on Tuesday. The recording was released by Axios."
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