"In this Darwinian experiment, the scientists are trying to speed up coral's evolutionary clock to breed 'super corals' that can better withstand the impacts of global warming… For the past five years, the researchers have been conducting experiments to prove their theories would work. Now, they're getting ready to plant laboratory-raised corals in the ocean to see how they survive in Nature." Because nothing bad ever happened when we've tried to mess with evolution.
"But this week Michigan had more patients hospitalized for Covid-19 than ever before. Covid-19 hospitalizations jumped 88% in the past month, according to the Michigan Health & Hospital Association… 'We have more patients than we've ever had at any point, and we're seeing more people die at a rate we've never seen die before,' said Jim Dover, president and CEO of Sparrow Health System."
"The Senate voted Wednesday night to overturn the Biden administration's proposed rule that large private employers must require their workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or tested, or face losing their jobs… Before the vote, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said he was strongly opposed to the measure and attacked supporters of ending the requirement as anti-vaxxers, although several specifically made the point they believed in vaccines, but not mandates." This argument is making the rounds, "we really aren't anti-vax, we're just anti mandate." Oh really? Are you vaxxed and have you encouraged others to get vaccinated? No? Then you just are anti-vax. It's just the same bullshit, and they know they're losing. So they're moving the goal posts again.
"Prices for U.S. consumers jumped 6.8% in November compared with a year earlier as surging costs for food, energy, housing, autos and clothing left Americans enduring their highest annual inflation rate in 39 years."
"Senators grilled the head of Instagram on Wednesday about the app's effects on children and teens, airing frustrations and attempting to extract various commitments from the company to make the platform a safer space for its youngest users… But over two and half hours, Adam Mosseri skirted key questions from the Senate Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Data Security. Instead, he defended Instagram and its parent company Meta — formerly Facebook — touting existing safeguards and some the company plans to roll out soon." It's going to be better Real Soon Now (that's a joke).
"The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative supermajority seemed poised Wednesday to hand school-choice advocates a major victory, and potentially a large expansion of state programs required to fund religious education… The handwriting on the wall came during a nearly two-hour argument involving a challenge brought by two Maine families to the state's unusual way of providing public education."
"Americans don't feel the direct payments or expanded child tax credits doled out earlier this year helped them much, according to the latest NPR/Marist poll, and they don't see Democrats' signature legislation as addressing their top economic concern — inflation… Additionally, they're down on the job President Biden is doing, don't give him much credit for the direct payments or tax credits, and have soured on the direction of the country."
"Wikileaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited from the UK to the US, the High Court has ruled… The US won its appeal against a January UK court ruling that he could not be extradited due to concerns over his mental health."
"Krause is one of several Texas Republicans to have recently demanded information about school library books that they deem inappropriate as the highly politicized debate over critical race theory plays out in districts across the country." The culture wars are back on the menu.
"The parents of two Oxford High School students are suing school officials, claiming last week's fatal school shootings in Michigan were 'entirely preventable,' and that the defendants 'created and increased the dangers then-existing at Oxford High School.'"
"The North Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered that the state's March 2022 primary be delayed until May 17 so it can settle two lawsuits challenging Republican-drawn maps for Congress and the state's legislature." So much for "the courts can't intervene in elections."
"Georgia gubernatorial candidate and former Sen. David Perdue (R) said on Wednesday that he would not have certified Georgia's 2020 presidential election results." They aren't even hiding their intentions to steal the next election. (Grokked from Jim Wright)
"Technically, the next attempt to overthrow a national election may not qualify as a coup. It will rely on subversion more than violence, although each will have its place. If the plot succeeds, the ballots cast by American voters will not decide the presidency in 2024. Thousands of votes will be thrown away, or millions, to produce the required effect. The winner will be declared the loser. The loser will be certified president-elect." A very long The Atlantic article on the subversion of Democracy happening before our eyes.
"The visitor, Trevian Kutti, gave her name but didn’t say she worked for (Kanye) West, a longtime billionaire friend of Trump. She said she was sent by a 'high-profile individual,' whom she didn’t identify, to give Freeman an urgent message: confess to Trump’s voter-fraud allegations, or people would come to her home in 48 hours, and she’d go to jail." (Grokked from Jim Wright)
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