And another day of excuses, negative views, Sinema benefiting the rich, FL recruiting vets to teach, hot nights, drought and electricity supplies, Scotland to provide free period products, and fungal infections resisting medication comes to a close:
“They are domestic terrorists. If your goal is strike fear into your fellow Americans through threats of violence and acts of violence you are a terrorist.” -- Fred Wellman
Deaths
US: 1,062,343
World: 6,454,572
Cases
US: 94,688,168
World: 595,168,628
Trump’s Excuses for Hoarding Classified Documents Are Getting More Absurd. You can’t work from home for a job you no longer have.
Rand Paul calls for repealing the Espionage Act. — Paul is such trash. Read the responses to his tweet. They point out all his hypocrisy.
Americans have increasingly negative views of those in the other political party. Since 2016, growing numbers of people in each party simply don't like people in the other party. They increasingly see people with differing political views as closed-minded, dishonest, unintelligent and even immoral…Majorities of Democrats, Republicans and independents who lean toward either party say they do so because of the harm the other side could do to the country. — Because each group wants a much different America than the other group. One group wants equality and freedom for all people, and the other group desires white Christian Nationalism to rule the country.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, the Arizona Democrat who single-handedly thwarted her party’s longtime goal of raising taxes on wealthy investors, received nearly $1 million over the past year from private equity professionals, hedge fund managers and venture capitalists whose taxes would have increased under the plan. — Kyrsten Sinema is trash.
Florida hopes to recruit veterans to address dire teacher shortage. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is directing the state’s Department of Education (DOE) to allow veterans to receive a temporary five-year teaching certificate while they earn a bachelor’s degree. The certificate will allow veterans to become mentor teachers for a minimum of two years. In order to be eligible, veterans must have served a minimum of four years of military service with an honorable or medical discharge, earned a minimum of 60 college credits with a 2.5 grade point average, received a passing score on a Florida subject area exam and cleared a background check. -- Never forget that DeSantis created the dire teacher shortage in the first place.
“When DeSantis says teacher requirements are too rigid, what he’s actually saying is it needs to be easier to install unqualified teachers who can indoctrinate children using conservative ideology and revisionist history. They scream ‘groomers’ at the top of their lungs as they want curriculums to deny the existence of the LGBTQ community and this country’s history of slavery. Not to mention turn schools into shooting ranges.” -- Adam Best
Hot nights: US in July sets new record for overnight warmth. Scientists have long talked about nighttime temperatures -- reflected in increasingly hotter minimum readings that usually occur after sunset and before sunrise -- being crucial to health.
Climate change: Drought highlights dangers for electricity supplies. The ongoing drought in the UK and Europe is putting electricity generation under pressure, say experts. Electricity from hydropower - which uses water to generate power - has dropped by 20% overall. And nuclear facilities, which are cooled using river water, have been restricted. There are fears that the shortfalls are a taste of what will happen in the coming winter.
Italy’s Lake Garda shrinks to near-historic low amid drought. Italy’s worst drought in decades has reduced Lake Garda, the country’s largest lake, to near its lowest level ever recorded, exposing swaths of previously underwater rocks and warming the water to temperatures that approach the average in the Caribbean Sea.
In rare move, school librarian fights back in court against conservative activists. A Louisiana school librarian is suing two men for defamation after they accused her of advocating to keep "pornographic" materials in the parish library's kids' section. It's a rare example of an educator taking legal action against conservatives who use extreme rhetoric in their battle against LGBTQ-themed books. Amanda Jones, a librarian at a middle school in Denham Springs, Louisiana, filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday, arguing that Facebook pages run by Michael Lunsford and Ryan Thames falsely labeled her a pedophile who wants to teach 11-year-olds about anal sex…“I’ve had enough for everybody,” Jones said in an interview. “Nobody stands up to these people. They just say what they want and there are no repercussions and they ruin people’s reputations and there’s no consequences.” — That’s the problem. There is not enough fighting back against them. Go Amanda Jones!
Christian school bans five-year-old child because of same-sex parents: ‘She’s not a good fit’. Jennifer and Emily Parker were recently informed their adopted child Zoey could no longer attend the Bible Baptist Academy during a meeting with the principal. The blow came just a week before she was set to attend after finishing pre-kindergarten. The Louisiana couple adopted their five-year-old niece on 3 August after she lost both her parents, according to Jennifer in an interview with KPLC…In a statement, the school told reporters that it was “committed to instructing and living in accordance” with the teachings of the Bible and is committed to teaching students that marriage is between a man and a woman.
Scotland to be first country to provide free period products. Scotland will become the first country in the world to protect the right to access free period products with a new law which is set to go into effect on Monday.
New York restricts families from sending packages to inmates. As part of an effort to keep illegal drugs and other contraband out of state prisons, New York is taking away one of the few pleasures of life behind bars: It will no longer let people send inmates care packages from home. Under the new policy, which the state began phasing in last month, friends and family aren’t allowed to deliver packages in person during prison visits. They also won’t be allowed to mail boxes of goodies unless those come directly from third-party vendors.
As fungal infections grow resistant to medication, desperate patients try drug after drug. Aspergillus and another fungus, Candida auris, are growing resistant to the treatments frequently used to fight them — in particular, a class of drugs called azoles. "If we lose that drug class because of resistance, we’re in for big trouble," said Darius Armstrong-James, an infectious disease physician at Royal Brompton Hospital in the U.K.
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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