Coronavirus News, Analysis, and Opinion:
A Pill to Treat COVID-19? The U.S. Is Betting on It.
Hospitals See Surge In Double-Lung Transplants As COVID "Honeycombs" Organs
Cryptocurrency, Investing, Money, Economy, and Debt:
Seen at our local McDonald's pic.twitter.com/InhWzowlVm
— Great Ape Dad 💪🏿🦍 💪🏾🐵 (@GreatApeDad) June 14, 2021
First the Great Reset, and Now Happytalism
I Was Taught From a Young Age to Protect My Dynastic Wealth
What could possibly go wrong? Fed explores ‘once in a century’ bid to remake the U.S. dollar
Politics:
It’s true some GOP members of Congress who are treating Capitol Police like shit were the most scared on the floor. Jody Hice took apart a hand sanitizer station to make into a club, Gosar & Biggs were the first to leave the floor and Rep. Clyde was screaming like a banshee. https://t.co/2xH5cGZmdM
— Ruben Gallego (@RubenGallego) June 18, 2021
White House freezes Ukraine military package that includes lethal weapons
Trump Voters Give Putin Higher Approval Than Biden
The GOP Whitewashes the Trump Presidency
The attempt to reconfigure the often disastrous historical record of the Trump presidency comes as the former President eyes a political comeback ahead of a new round of political rallies this summer teeing up 2022 primaries. And it takes place as much of the Republican Party is engaged in a crusade built on the former President’s lies about election fraud to make it harder for many Americans to vote and easier for GOP officials to interfere in free and fair elections.
Since the truth is too painful for Republicans and is detrimental to their future political prospects, an alternative narrative must be constructed.
Arizona ‘Audit’ Contractor Took Election Data To A Montana ‘Lab’… Or Maybe A Log Cabin
The interactive map is really interesting: Mapping China's growing global influence
The Man Who Invented the ‘Critical Race Theory’ Panic
As Christopher Rufo eventually came to see it, conservatives engaged in the culture war had been fighting against the same progressive racial ideology since late in the Obama years, without ever being able to describe it effectively.
Said Rufo: “We’ve needed new language for these issues. ‘Political correctness’ is a dated term and, more importantly, doesn’t apply anymore… The other frames are wrong, too: ‘cancel culture’ is a vacuous term and doesn’t translate into a political program; ‘woke’ is a good epithet, but it’s too broad, too terminal, too easily brushed aside.”
He added: “Critical race theory is the perfect villain.”
Pennsylvania GOP Backs Recalls, But Only for Philadelphia
State Rep. Martina White (R), who represents Northeast Philly and chairs the Republican City Committee, introduced a bill in March to give voters across the state the power to recall elected officials, from governors and auditor generals down to mayors and district attorneys.
White’s bill landed this week in the House State Government Committee, where State Rep. Frank Ryan, a Republican from Lebanon County, amended it to apply only to Philadelphia. That amendment passed on party lines.
Serendipity:
Seed keepers in Turkey revive old farming methods to confront new climate threats
Girard Series, Part 1: The Death of the Festival
The natural order is unraveling. Plagues, floods, droughts, political unrest, riots, and economic crises strike one upon the next, before society has recovered from the last. Cracks spread in the shell of normality that encloses human life. Societies have faced such circumstances repeatedly throughout history, just as we face them today.
We would like to think we are responding more rationally and more effectively than our unscientific forebears; instead, we enact age-old social dramas and superstitions dressed in the garb of modern mythology. No wonder, because the most serious crisis we face is not new.
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