And another day of turning election lies into action, centuries in the making, increasing extremist violence, a global ‘catastrophe’ for women, long Covid in older Americans, pollution, monkeypox, the most acidic level in 26,000 years, and extending human rights to animals comes to a close:
“There’s devils on the surface, they ain’t in the ground.” -- Jacob Aaron Smith (The White Buffalo)
"The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know." — Albert Einstein
A corollary for some, particularly for MAGA and Q: “The less I learn, the more I believe I do know.”
“Republicans call me the Radical Left.
“I believe in full LGBTQ rights.
“that we should protect the planet,
“that women should have autonomy,
“that everyone deserves healthcare.
“Guess humanity looks radical to inhumane people.” -- John Pavlovitz
Deaths
US: 1,028,014 (+729)
World: 6,294,792 (+2468)
Cases
US: 84,692,706 (+219,259)
World: 525,038,045 (+941,667)
How Pa. GOP gov pick could turn election lies into action. Doug Mastriano is not the only candidate who won a Republican primary on Tuesday after embracing Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen. But no GOP contender did more to subvert that presidential election -- and no one may be better positioned to subvert the next one -- than Mastriano if he’s elected Pennsylvania’s governor.In one of the most politically competitive states in the U.S., the newly minted Republican nominee for governor was deeply involved in the former president’s efforts to overturn the last election. He was at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection. If he’s elected in November, Mastriano has pledged to end no-excuse vote by mail, a process that hundreds of thousands used in this week’s primary. He also wants to force millions of registered voters to register again. -- The fact this is even being discussed in this country should scare the shit out of every American. We are on the doorstep of being forced into having a theocratic, authoritarian form of government. If you’ve ever wondered what you would have done during the Nazi’s rise to power in Germany, well, you’re doing it right now.
The Buffalo shooting was centuries in the making, experts say. Experts say his act was not episodic or unprecedented, but is part of America’s violent history of using racial terror to intimidate and exert power over Black people. In the days since the shooting, conversations about hate crimes and gun control have consumed the nation. But experts say the Buffalo shooting must be viewed within the context of both historical racist backlash to Black existence and the white supremacist violence that has increasingly become normalized in the country today. The Buffalo shooting, experts say, is not a dangerous turning point for the country, but a continuation of the broad violence Black people in the U.S. have experienced for centuries. “This is the product of America’s culture of violence, its deeply entrenched racism.”
US warns abortion ruling could increase extremist violence. Violence could come from either side of the abortion issue or from other types of extremists seeking to exploit tensions, according to a memo directed to local government agencies from the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis. It’s an added element to what is already a volatile environment in the U.S., where authorities have warned repeatedly over the past two years that the threat posed by domestic extremists, such as the gunman who committed the racist attack over the weekend in Buffalo, has surpassed the danger from abroad.
US supreme court abortion reversal would be global ‘catastrophe’ for women. The probable demise of abortion as a federal right in the US will be a “catastrophe” for women in low and middle-income countries, with an emboldened anti-choice movement likely to raise renewed pressure on hard-won gains, doctors and activists have warned.
Senate Democrats press tech firms on abortion-related location data. Concern is growing that cellphone tracking data could be used to target both patients and abortion providers if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
Biden invokes Defense Production Act for formula shortage. President Joe Biden on Wednesday invoked the Defense Production Act to speed production of infant formula and authorized flights to import supply from overseas, as he faces mounting political pressure over a domestic shortage caused by the safety-related closure of the country’s largest formula manufacturing plant. The Defense Production Act order requires suppliers of formula manufacturers to fulfill those orders before other customers. Biden is also authorizing the Defense Department to use commercial aircraft to fly overseas formula supplies that meet federal standards to the U.S., in what the White House is calling “Operation Fly Formula.”
192 Republicans vote against $28 million for baby formula shortage. -- And then these Republicans pontificate to the American people that the Biden Administration is “out-of-touch” and not doing anything to help with this situation. Fucking douche bags.
What to do if you test positive for Covid-19 now. Another reason for the increased number of infections is that people are engaging with one another more, including indoors and without masks. Any time such interactions occur, there is risk of transmission. Again, this is not to say that people should never associate with one another, but rather, to be aware of the risk and to take precautions, especially for those with immunocompromise and others at higher risk for severe disease. -- That’s all most of us have been asking from our fellow Americans. We’re being ignored.
A third of US should be considering masks, officials say. COVID-19 cases are increasing in the United States — and could get even worse over the coming months, federal health officials warned Wednesday in urging areas hardest hit to consider reissuing calls for indoor masking. Increasing numbers of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations are putting more of the country under guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that call for masking and other infection precautions.
Long Covid symptoms in older Americans are often difficult to recognize, experts say. Bell, 70, is among millions of older adults who have grappled with long covid — a population that has received little attention even though research suggests seniors are more likely to develop the poorly understood condition than younger or middle-aged adults. Long covid refers to ongoing or new health problems that occur at least four weeks after a covid infection, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Much about the condition is baffling: There is no diagnostic test to confirm it, no standard definition of the ailment, and no way to predict who will be affected. Common symptoms, which can last months or years, include fatigue, shortness of breath, an elevated heart rate, muscle and joint pain, sleep disruptions, and problems with attention, concentration, language, and memory — a set of difficulties known as brain fog...Only now is the impact on older adults beginning to be documented. In the largest study of its kind, published recently in the journal BMJ, researchers estimated that 32% of older adults in the U.S. who survived covid infections had symptoms of long covid up to four months after infection — more than double the 14% rate an earlier study found in adults ages 18 to 64. (Other studies suggest symptoms can last much longer, for a year or more.)
Idaho attorney general loses GOP primary. Former U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador has won Idaho’s Republican attorney general primary, beating a longtime incumbent who had been criticized by the far right for not taking a more activist role.
Kansas Supreme Court upholds Republican congressional map. Republicans on Wednesday improved their chances of flipping the only Kansas congressional seat held by a Democrat, when the state’s highest court upheld the new congressional map they drew.
One in six killed by pollution worldwide, study finds. Pollution caused one in six deaths worldwide in 2019, a new study has revealed – more than the annual global tolls for war, malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, drugs or alcohol. The study, published Tuesday by the Lancet Commission on pollution and health, found pollution kills 9 million people every year – nearly three quarters of them due to harmful air.
Why monkeypox cases are rising in Europe. The virus spreads through close contact, both in spillovers from animal hosts and, less commonly, between humans. It was first found in monkeys in 1958, hence the name, although rodents are now seen as the main source of transmission. Transmission this time is puzzling experts, because a number of the cases in the United Kingdom - nine as of May 18 - have no known connection with each other. Only the first case reported on May 6 had recently travelled to Nigeria. As such, experts have warned of wider transmission if cases have gone unreported.
World’s oceans at most acidic level in 26,000 years, climate report warns. The world's oceans grew to their warmest and most acidic levels on record last year, the World Meteorological Organization said, as United Nations officials warned that war in Ukraine threatened global climate commitments.
As climate change-fueled megadrought edges eastward, Nebraska’s Republican-controlled Legislature this year voted to move forward with a plan that stunned Colorado state leaders. The Cornhusker State wants to divert water in Colorado by invoking an obscure, 99-year-old compact between the states that allows Nebraska to seize Colorado land along the South Platte River to build a canal. Nebraska’s plan underscores an increasing appetite throughout the West to preemptively secure water as winter snows and year-round rainfall diminish, forcing states to reallocate increasingly scarce flows in basins such as the South Platte and its better-known cousin, the Colorado River.
U.S. men's and women's teams strike equal pay deal with governing body. U.S. Soccer becomes the first federation in the world to equalize FIFA World Cup prize money awarded to both women's and men's teams for participation in their respective World Cups…The CBAs, the first of their kind, will run through 2028, covering the next two World Cups and Olympic cycles. They will also keep the players among the highest-paid national team players in the world, U.S. Soccer said. Under the new agreement, the USMNT and USWNT will have identical performance-based bonuses for all games and competitions.
Happy, by species, is an Asian elephant. But is she also a person? That’s the question before New York’s highest court in a closely watched case over whether a basic human right can be extended to an animal.
Texas parents sue Apple alleging alert on AirPods caused son's hearing damage. The boy's eardrum was torn when an Amber Alert was emitted much louder than the volume he had set his AirPods Pro on, the suit alleged.
Ringling Bros. announces comeback tour without animal acts. “The Greatest Show on Earth” is making a comeback featuring extraordinary humans and no animal acts five years after shutting down its three-ring circus, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey announced Wednesday.
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