And another day of vague commitments, vulgar codes, the 2nd amendment in 2008, lawsuits to stop mandates, ousting Fauci, the UF bars faculty from testifying, road fatalities, and selling contaminated meat to the public comes to a close:
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Deaths
US: 766,299 (+2515 over three days)
World: 5,014,940 (+19,603 over three days)
Cases
US: 46,823,938 (+138,793 over three days)
World: 247,460,597 (+1,197,678 over three days)
G-20 make mild pledges on climate neutrality, coal financing. Leaders of the world’s biggest economies agreed Sunday to stop funding coal-fired power plants in poor countries and made a vague commitment to seek carbon neutrality “by or around mid-century” as they wrapped up a Rome summit before the much larger United Nations climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland. -- We’re fucked. Apologize to your children and grandchildren for fucking up the planet.
How ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ became code for insulting Joe Biden. The line has become conservative code for something far more vulgar: “F—- Joe Biden.” It’s all the rage among Republicans wanting to prove their conservative credentials, a not-so-secret handshake that signals they’re in sync with the party’s base.
The Second Amendment Didn’t Protect Your Right To Own A Gun Until 2008. Before then, in the eyes of the federal courts, the amendment protected the rights of state militias to bear arms — not the rights of individual Americans. That all changed in 2008 with the stroke of a pen. And this November, the Supreme Court has the chance to expand the meaning of the Second Amendment yet again, potentially allowing more concealed weapons onto the streets of major cities like Los Angeles and New York.
Vaccinated people who get the virus are "much less infectious more rapidly." Experts said there's no doubt the delta variant is among the most hyper-transmissible versions of the virus to have emerged. That hyper-transmissibility makes it possible to spread between vaccinated people. But that risk is still low. Even if the delta variant is transmissible among vaccinated people, new data suggests "it's for a shorter period of time" compared to the unvaccinated, said Durbin.
Psaki tests positive for Covid, last saw Biden Tuesday.
Bon Jovi tests positive for Covid, cancels show in Miami.
Eighteen states filed three separate lawsuits Friday to stop President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors, arguing that the requirement violates federal law.
Poll: Majority of voters say Fauci should resign. The poll comes as Fauci remains a polarizing figure among partisans.
University of Florida bars professors from testifying against Ron DeSantis' voting law. But the notion that the work of university employees must not contradict the political maneuvering of elected officials—and that the interests of a university must be aligned with the interest of the governor at all—is a fairly radical one and counter to the bedrock idea of academic freedom. Truly no such independence can exist if professors cannot testify against the abuse of state power. — The Fascism snowball gets bigger and it picks up speed.
911 transcripts filed in updated “Trump Train” lawsuit reveal San Marcos police refused to send escort to Biden bus. The transcribed recordings were filed in an attempt to show that San Marcos law enforcement leaders chose not to provide the bus with a police escort multiple times, even though police departments in other nearby cities did. In one transcribed recording, Matthew Daenzer, a San Marcos police corporal on duty the day of the incident, refused to provide an escort when recommended by another jurisdiction.
Pathetic trolls bomb Marvel's Eternals with hundreds of one-star reviews over gay character. Some people have been “review-bombing” the film on IMDb, in order to “protest” its LGBT+ representation. Eternals garnered at least 450 one-star reviews on IMDB, The Direct reported, despite the fact it hasn’t yet been released.
‘This is a crisis:’ Road fatalities hit 15-year high. The Department of Transportation announced it will put together a strategy to combat rising deaths, which are increasing the most in the West and the South. That is the biggest percentage increase in road deaths in the first half of the year since the U.S. Department of Transportation began recording fatal crash data in 1975. And it has put the U.S. on a pace for more than 40,000 traffic deaths just this year, with 15 states and Puerto Rico accounting for half of the road fatalities, according to the department.
American Airlines cancels hundreds of weekend flights. American Airlines has canceled more than 1,600 flights over the past three days, citing blustery conditions in Texas and a shortage of flight attendants.
NFL wide receiver steps away from football for 'mental wellbeing'. Ridley follows other prominent athletes including tennis star Noami Osaka, U.S. gymnast Simone Biles and Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price who have taken time off in their respective sports to focus on their mental health.
For years, a dangerous salmonella strain has sickened thousands and continues to spread through the chicken industry. The USDA knows about it. So do the companies. And yet, contaminated meat continues to be sold to consumers. With a public health threat unfolding across the country, you might have expected federal regulators to act swiftly and decisively to warn the public, recall the contaminated poultry and compel changes at chicken plants. Or that federal investigators would pursue the root cause of the outbreak wherever the evidence led. None of that happened. Instead, the team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention closed the outbreak investigation nine months later even though people were continuing to get sick. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees meat and poultry, was not only powerless to act but said nothing to consumers about the growing threat. So supermarkets and restaurants continued selling chicken tainted with drug-resistant infantis. And they continue to do so today…See how often salmonella was found at the plant that processed your chicken or turkey.
New York elementary schools ban Squid Game Halloween costumes. Schools warn parents against allowing kids to wear outfits inspired by Netflix series over ‘violence depicted in the show’.
Halloween is a time to be haunted by ghosts, goblins and ghouls, but nothing in the universe is scarier than a black hole. Black holes are scary for three reasons. If you fell into a black hole left over when a star died, you would be shredded. Also, the massive black holes seen at the center of all galaxies have insatiable appetites. And black holes are places where the laws of physics are obliterated.
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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