And another day of voting protections, TX Democrats, cases rising, SCOTUS rejections, vaccine trials, TN, budget agreements, abortions in TX, droughts, drinking, dolls, sleep radar, and the five-day work week comes to a close:
"The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it." — George Orwell
Deaths
US: 623,435 (+406)
World: 4,065,326 (+9775)
Cases
US: 34,807,813 (+41,409)
World: 188,579,690 (+527,951)
Biden Pushes for Voting Protections, But Not for Ending the Filibuster That Blocks Them. Yet voting rights advocates say the White House’s rhetoric about the existential threat to democracy has not been matched by action to solve the problem. Biden, they complain, has been much more engaged in trying to pass an infrastructure plan than in trying to persuade Senate Democrats to pass the For the People Act, the sweeping voting rights measure that was blocked by a GOP filibuster last month.
Texas Democrats dig in after exodus; GOP threatens arrest.
The GOP voting bill that literally caused Texas Democrats to flee the state, explained.
US COVID-19 cases rising again, doubling over three weeks. The COVID-19 curve in the U.S. is rising again after months of decline, with the number of new cases per day doubling over the past three weeks, driven by the fast-spreading delta variant, lagging vaccination rates and Fourth of July gatherings.
Justice Clarence Thomas rejects longshot bid to disrupt Biden's mask mandate for public transport. While the Supreme Court has been willing to disrupt other coronavirus-related regulations, particularly as they affected religious gatherings, there was no apparent appetite for disturbing the public transportation mask mandate.
COVID vaccine trials: Where are the women? Worldwide, women are reporting worse side effects after COVID vaccinations than men. But the data is hard to find — most studies ignore gender and sex.
Tennessee Health Officials Halt All Vaccine Outreach for Kids After Pressure From GOP. The halted education efforts concern not only the COVID-19 vaccine, which the state has struggled to roll out, but all preventatives aimed at people under 18 for diseases like the flu or HPV.
Unvaccinated Belgian woman contracted two COVID variants simultaneously. A 90-year-old Belgian woman who died from COVID-19 in March had contracted two variants of coronavirus at the same time, which is believed to be the first documented case of its kind.
Senate Democrats announce $3.5 trillion budget agreement.
A group of abortion providers and abortion rights advocates filed suit in federal court on Tuesday to block a recently passed Texas law that allows for anyone in the U.S. to sue abortion providers or anyone else who helps someone get an abortion in Texas after the law’s proposed six-week limit.
A severe drought, coupled with human-induced climate change, has resulted in a fire season that has already seen more than three times as much land burned in California so far this year than during the same time span last year, officials say.
'Wither away and die:' U.S. Pacific Northwest heat wave bakes wheat, fruit crops. An unprecedented heat wave and ongoing drought in the U.S. Pacific Northwest is damaging white wheat coveted by Asian buyers and forcing fruit farm workers to harvest in the middle of the night to salvage crops and avoid deadly heat.
Drinking alcohol may be related to cancer, study finds, but there are many unknowns.
The five-day workweek is dead. It’s time for something better. During the pandemic, there’s a growing feeling that “we have one life — and are we working to live, or are we living to work?”
Mattel unveils its new Barbie Role Model doll based on tennis star Naomi Osaka.
Amazon granted approval to use radar to monitor sleep.
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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