Sorry about the disruptions to the feed these past weeks. The day thing has been very busy and there's been plenty of things happening in real life.
Gilbert Gottfried, and so it goes.
"Heavy rains and flooding battered the eastern coast of South Africa on Wednesday, killing at least 306 people, damaging roads and destroying homes."
"California’s clean-air regulators unveiled a plan this week that would ramp up the sale of electric and zero-emissions vehicles while phasing out the sale of new gasoline-fueled vehicles by 2035, in an aggressive effort to combat the state’s greenhouse gas pollution."
"Exposure to a toxic rock dust appears to be 'the main driving force' behind a recent epidemic of severe black lung disease among coal miners, according to the findings of a new study. Lawmakers have debated and failed to adequately regulate the dust for decades."
"To help mitigate the spread of bird flu, the Raptor Center at the University of Minnesota is asking people to take down bird feeders and stop using bird baths this spring." I'm not entirely convinced that will help.
"When Philadelphia’s health commissioner announced this week that the city’s indoor mask mandate would be reinstated as Covid-19 cases there rise, something unusual happened: Not a single other major U.S. city followed suit."
"The study—which dove deep into the noses, nerves, and brains of 23 people who died of COVID-19—is the most detailed look at the coronavirus' effects on our sniffers. Researchers concluded that inflammation—not the virus—is behind the loss of smell and taste during a bout of COVID-19, which is good news in some ways. It suggests that treatments with anti-inflammatory drugs could prevent severe or long-term damage to those critical senses."
"As allergy season collides with yet another rise in COVID-19 cases nationwide, deciphering the difference between symptoms of the coronavirus and allergies can be tricky. So how can you tell the difference between the two?"
"Warning lights are flashing for the U.S. economy… A growing number of forecasters now believe a recession is on the horizon as the Federal Reserve gears up to raise interest rates sharply to combat the highest inflation in more than 40 years."
"Mortgage rates rose again this week, reaching 5% for the first time in over a decade… The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 5% in the week ending April 14, up from 4.72% the week before, according to Freddie Mac. That's the highest since 2010."
"Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal is trying to assuage employee fears in the wake of Elon Musk launching a hostile $43 billion takeover attempt of the social media company… At an all-staff meeting on Thursday, Agrawal said Twitter's board is considering Musk's offer and will act in the best interest of company shareholders, according to two employees in attendance."
"Palestinians clashed with Israeli police at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on Friday as thousands gathered for prayers during the holy month of Ramadan. Medics said more than 150 Palestinians were wounded in the most serious violence at the site in nearly a year."
"People seeking asylum in the UK could now be relocated to Rwanda under a controversial new scheme blasted by international human rights groups as 'shockingly ill-conceived' and contrary to international obligations… UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the scheme an 'innovative approach, driven by our shared humanitarian impulse and made possible by Brexit freedoms,' on Thursday, saying that with the UK's help, Rwanda will have the capacity to resettle 'tens of thousands of people in the years ahead.'"
"A Russian warship that was damaged by an explosion on Wednesday has sunk, Russia's defence ministry has said… Moskva, the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, was being towed to port when 'stormy seas' caused it to sink, according to a ministry message."
"As Russian troops retreated from areas around Kyiv, officials, aid workers and journalists received reports from local residents that soldiers had raped them. A Ukrainian lawmaker said that sexual violence is 'systematic in all the areas that were occupied by the Russians.'"
"Video shows Ukrainian soldier taking apart a Russian drone and discovering its components include a plastic bottle top for a fuel cap." Giggle all you want, but if it's effective on the battlefield it doesn't matter if it was assembled with bailing wire and chewing gum.
"Moldova said on Wednesday that reports that Russia's army was trying to recruit Moldovan citizens were dangerous and that it was regularly discussing all matters of concern with Russian officials, in response to a question about the Ukraine war… The comments came days after British military intelligence said that Moscow was trying to replenish its forces in Ukraine by recruiting in the breakaway Transdniestria region."
"Transgender women and girls in Kentucky will no longer be allowed to compete on sports teams consistent with their gender at public and private schools in the state after lawmakers on Wednesday overrode a veto from their Democratic governor to enact the restrictive measure."
"The man suspected of shooting 10 people on a subway train in Brooklyn on Tuesday called in a tip to Crime Stoppers that led to his capture Wednesday, two law enforcement sources told CNN."
"Buck, 67, a wealthy gay white donor to Democratic, LGBTQ and animal rights causes, was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court to 30 years in federal prison for injecting two men with lethal doses of methamphetamine as part of a fetish that turned fatal."
"Tester said that Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, a critical swing vote on sweeping voting-rights reforms, had signaled his support for the bill and, more crucially, the parliamentary-rules change needed to bypass a Republican filibuster of that bill. 'I think it’s gonna happen,' Tester said." But then, Manchin bailed. And has kept doing it.
Hey look, actual voter fraud… "Two residents from The Villages confessed to voter fraud charges after filing two ballots in the 2020 Presidential election, court records show… Charles F. Barnes and Jay Ketcik pleaded guilty to casting more than one ballot in an election, a third-degree felony that could have resulted in a maximum five-year prison sentence." Oh wait, one's Republican and the other is "not affiliated". So it's conservatives again. Never mind.
"Donald Trump’s decision to endorse celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz in the Pennsylvania Senate race has divided local Republican Party officials and stunned close advisers who thought he had decided to stay out of the contest to pick a Republican candidate, two sources familiar with internal deliberations told Reuters."
"In the weeks between the 2020 election and the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, almost 100 text messages from two staunch GOP allies of then-President Donald Trump reveal an aggressive attempt to lobby, encourage and eventually warn the White House over its efforts to overturn the election, according to messages obtained by the House select committee and reviewed by CNN." Hey guys, I appreciate the whole "trial in the court of public opinion" movements, but you're not really moving the needle at all. You need convictions in a court of law and all you're doing now is tainting the jury pool.
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