And another day of choosing truth over power, vaccines taking on the variants, McConnell’s pledge, oversight boards, firing squads, the Republican war against trans kids, and the lowest US birth rate in over a century comes to a close:
“So let me get this straight: The Republican Party is up in arms about "cancel culture," but they're ousting one of their most prominent female leaders for telling the truth about a presidential election?” — Robert Reich
“Despite McCarthy’s spin...Cheney’s real crime is that she has embarrassed the guys: her courage highlights their cowardice, and her insistence on telling the truth underscores their intellectual and moral corruption.” — Charlie Sykes
“I don’t understand the Republicans.” -- President Joe Biden
Deaths
US: 593,148 (+739)
World: 3,255,270 (+14,246)
Cases
US: 33,321,244 (+46,585)
World: 155,820,246 (+847,198)
Liz Cheney chooses truth over power -- a lonely path in Trump's GOP.
Covid vaccines can take on new coronavirus variants, studies show. A batch of new studies published Wednesday show how well coronavirus vaccines work against worrying new variants -- and one indicates booster doses can help them work even better.
US backs waiving intellectual property rules on vaccines. The Biden administration on Wednesday joined calls for more sharing of the technology behind COVID-19 vaccines to help speed the end of the pandemic, a shift that puts the U.S. alongside many in the developing world who want rich countries to do more to get doses to the needy.
Tucker Carlson thinks he’s untouchable. He’s a danger to every person on the planet.
“One hundred percent of my focus is on stopping this new administration.” -- Mitch McConnell
Editorial: Which is the same thing he said during the Obama administration. It’s his sole focus to obstruct anything put forward by Democrats. McConnell has damaged this country more than anyone else in the last ten years or so.
Biden dismisses McConnell’s pledge to focus ‘on stopping this new administration’. President Joe Biden responded on Wednesday to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s comment that “100%” of his focus is “on stopping this new administration,” asserting that he had heard such threats from the Kentucky Republican before and worked through them.
Despite business warnings, GOP moves ahead with voting bills.
Republicans’ Pessimistic Views On The Economy Have Little To Do With The Economy. Yet, despite these optimistic economic indicators, most Republicans say the economy is getting worse. On the one hand, this is to be expected, as political scientists have found that how we think about the economy is increasingly rooted in how we identify politically rather than in actual economic conditions...These shifts are particularly striking for Republicans when considering the actual state of the economy. Even after a prolonged period of growth in GDP, household income, employment and the stock market during Barack Obama’s presidency, about 70 percent of Republicans consistently thought the economy was getting worse in 2016 — nearly the same share who are now pessimistic about the economy’s trajectory under Biden. (By contrast, fewer than half of Republicans said the economy was getting worse at the height of the coronavirus recession, when the U.S. economy was in its worst shape since the Great Depression.) And this disconnect underscores a key point that political scientists John Sides, Lynn Vavreck, and I have repeatedly made about the 2016 election: Despite a media narrative that attributed Trump’s political rise to widespread economic dissatisfaction and anxiety, it was partisan and race-based opposition to Obama’s presidency that drove public opinion about the economy. — So, racism.
Facebook’s oversight board has upheld its decision to ban Trump from its platforms. But it says Facebook should not have banned him indefinitely — and that it must decide to either let him come back, or block him permanently.
“Nearly six months since a senior GOP official told the Post, ‘What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time?’ So far: insurrection, 147 in Congress opposing democracy, voter suppression, and potentially purging a GOP leader for not keeping Trump's lie going.” — Michael Calderone
2 older Asian women stabbed in broad daylight while waiting for bus in downtown SF. — WTF?
About half of UT student tour guides on strike over "The Eyes of Texas" controversy: report.
South Carolina House adds firing squad to execution methods. The South Carolina House voted Wednesday to add a firing squad to the state’s execution methods amid a lack of lethal-injection drugs — a measure meant to jump-start executions in a state that once had one of the busiest death chambers in the nation.
The Republican War Against Trans Kids. Chase Strangio, who has won a series of landmark court cases in his role as ACLU deputy director for transgender justice, explains why states across the country are suddenly targeting the freedom of trans youth with a wave of new laws.
Inside the Christian Right's Final Efforts to Stop Canada's Ban on Conversion. Therapy. Since last year, dozens of people from Christian groups have come together regularly like this to pray and strategize against proposed laws that would criminalize conversion therapy practices. Bill C-6 defines conversion therapy as a practice designed to change a person’s sexual orientation to heterosexual, to change a person’s gender identity or gender expression to cisgender, or to repress or reduce “non-heterosexual attraction” or sexual behaviour or non-cisgender gender expression...Conversion therapy amounts to torture, according to international health experts and can lead to depression, PTSD, and suicide.
Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada. Doctors in Canada have been coming across patients showing symptoms similar to that of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare fatal condition that attacks the brain. But when they took a closer look, what they found left them stumped. Most patients began experiencing symptoms recently, from 2018 on, though one is believed to have had them as early as 2013. Dr Marrero says the symptoms are wide ranging and can vary among patients.
US birth rate falls to lowest point in more than a century. The rate dropped for moms of every major race and ethnicity, and in nearly age group, falling to the lowest point since federal health officials started tracking it more than a century ago.
Woman from Mali gives birth to 9 babies in Morocco. A Malian woman has given birth to nine babies at once — after expecting seven, according to Mali’s Minister of Health and the Moroccan clinic where the nonuplets were born. It appeared to be the first time on record that a woman had given birth to nine surviving babies at once.
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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