And another day of voter suppression, retaliation, anti-trans laws, exposed Facebook data of 500 million accounts, and color-changing stitches comes to a close:
“The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.” -- Alfred Whitney Griswold
Deaths
US: 568,513 (+903)
World: 2,858,867 (+8479)
Cases
US: 31,383,126 (+68,501)
World: 131,347,619 (+540,429)
Corporate America is wading into the voting rights brawl. Here's why.
Florida Republicans are considering a bill that would effectively make it a crime to give voters food or drink, including water, within 150 feet of polling places.
“The real question is why should anyone have to wait hours to vote? That’s the thing that should be challenged.” — Steve Redmond
First confirmed case of Indian coronavirus variant in U.S. found in California. The strain was first detected last month by health officials in India.
GOP senators push to end MLB antitrust status after it pulls All-Star game from Georgia.
Our conversation about anti-trans laws is broken. Let’s stop pretending that bills denying trans kids health care are something other than bigotry that will get children killed. So let me be blunt: The current wave of anti-trans legislation sweeping various state legislatures is an attempt to ostracize trans Americans. It is an attempt to cut off our access to necessary health care. It is an attempt to kill us through the indifferent cruelty of bureaucratic measures...The arguments being advanced against trans people are the same ones used against gay and lesbian people, and they’re the same arguments that were used against women in the workforce in the 20th century, and they’re the same arguments that prop up structural racism: There is a certain way America looks, and it’s not like [insert out-group of choice]...Saw away at the social safety net, and trans people — lots of us — will die. It is that simple, and it is worth thinking about whether that blood is worth so many hypotheticals that turn us into imagined monsters rather than people just trying to survive another day in a country that increasingly doesn’t care whether we live. Those who question the stories of trans people — especially trans youth — rob us of our autonomy to define our lives. They argue, sometimes implicitly and sometimes explicitly, that cis people are the true arbiters of who we are. They suggest that when trans people advocate for our interests, both as individuals and as a community, we are being selfish, naïve, and uncompromising. But it is not selfish to say you have a self, it is not naïve to believe that you know that self better than others, and it is not uncompromising to insist that you should live a life of dignity the same as anybody else. — Read the rest.
A 15-year-old is under arrest in Tacoma, Washington, for an apparent attack on an Asian couple seen in a cell phone video, according to police.
Facebook data on more than 500M accounts found online.
Meet the teen who invented color-changing stitches to prevent fatal infections.
Life’s short. Live, love, create, and help others.
Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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