And another day or Christian Nationalists close to running the country, the most lawless county in TX, Omicron subvariant worries, Covid ages organs, community college students face housing and food insecurities, running out of helium, and 'ejaculate responsibly' comes to a close:
“The Republican Party is the most dangerous organization in human history.” — Noam Chomsky
Deaths
US: 1,092,548
World: 6,582,821
Cases
US: 99,087,548
World: 632,909,744
Christian Nationalists Are Closer Than You Think to Running America. They’re part of a sprawling constellation of Christian nationalist organizations, operatives, officeholders, militias, lawyers, and fundraisers, whose tangled connections and hyper-local focus obscure a powerful, well-coordinated operation—perhaps the most tactically effective political project, left or right, in today’s United States. Christian nationalism, the movement to unite church and state, is hitting a new post-Roe stride…Central to the heart of the conference is a claim made by nearly every speaker: there is “no separation of church and state.”
The Most Lawless County in Texas. Suzanne Wooten did the impossible and became the first candidate to defeat a sitting judge in Collin County. What followed is the unbelievable, epic tale of the craziest case in the history of jurisprudence. — Holy shit this is crazy. And yes, it even has ties to Greg Abbott. The corruption is just fucking insane.
Boris Johnson drops out of race to be next UK prime minister. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced Sunday he will not run to lead the Conservative Party, ending a short-lived, high-profile attempt to return to the prime minister’s job he was ousted from little more than three months ago.
Omicron subvariants pose a new threat to people with immune deficiencies. Troubling recent reports reveal the emergence of new omicron subvariants that not only evade AstraZeneca’s Evusheld, the antibody drug authorized to prevent Covid infection, but also the sole antibody drug that has retained effectiveness as treatment for Covid, Eli Lilly’s bebtelovimab. “It scares the hell out of us.”
If you had COVID, several of your organs could be aging 3-4 years faster, study shows. Dr. Al-Aly gathered data from millions of people across the country. Their studies on kidney outcomes in long COVID, long COVID in the brain and long COVID in the heart had similar patterns. All pointing to multiple human organs aging faster after COVID. The majority happening among people who were hospitalized but also some with mild COVID symptoms. "Almost by three to four years in the span of just one.”
‘Ejaculate Responsibly’ author Gabrielle Blair wants to shift the focus of abortion conversations from women to men. Gabrielle Blair, a mother of six and creator of the popular blog Design Mom, says that the best way to address unwanted pregnancies that lead to abortion is actually quite simple. “Men are causing the pregnancies. Men are doing this through irresponsible ejaculations, and they could easily change that,” Blair tells Yahoo Life. “I wanna shift it away from women's bodies, women's decision making, controlling women, and shift it toward what men could be doing to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Because they have a lot of control. Way more than we've ever specified or given them credit for.”
Student loan forgiveness was ‘dangled in front of us:’ How 700,000 borrowers were cut out of Biden’s plan. The move affected borrowers with older federal loans that, through no fault of their own, are held by private lenders instead of the government. The loans are at the center of a lawsuit making its way through the courts, challenging the legality of Biden’s debt relief program.
Community college students, especially students of color and student parents, experience high levels of food and housing insecurity, according to a new report. The report, released Wednesday, found that a fifth of students cut back on or skipped meals in the month prior to the survey because of costs. Almost a third of respondents ran out of food and didn’t have the money to buy more during that time…Unstable housing was also a prevalent issue among survey respondents. More than a quarter of students, 27 percent, reported that they were unable to pay one of their rent or mortgage payments in full during the last year. A similar share, 28 percent, couldn’t fully pay their utility bills during that time period. Meanwhile, 14 percent of respondents struggled with housing insecurity. Student parents were more likely to face all of these challenges compared to their classmates.
Our Young Men Deserve Better Than MAGA Masculinity. I don’t think we can fathom what so many of MAGA America’s sons are likely to grow into:
men with a dangerous sense of entitlement when it comes to the bodies of women.
men for whom violent, hateful, objectifying words about women are viewed as normal.
men who believe that money and power and their penises give them license to do whatever they want with a woman regardless of what she wants.
men who inherit a religion that dehumanizes women.
men for whom the very idea of consent is irrelevant.
men who believe they will get rewarded for their misogyny and sexism and moral filth, because they’ve watched it happen.
men who grow to have no value for gentleness and sensitivity and empathy.
Judge rules for California baker over same-sex wedding cake. A California judge has ruled in favor of a bakery owner who refused to make wedding cakes for a same-sex couple because it violated her Christian beliefs. -- Religion promotes, allows, and encourages prejudice.
1 in 4 Americans plan to pass on Thanksgiving this year, according to new survey. High turkey prices -- coupled with inflation and job loss -- may be the root of the cause.
The world is running out of helium. Here's why doctors are worried. Liquid helium, the coldest element on Earth, is needed to keep the magnets in MRI machines running. Without it, doctors would lose a critical medical tool.
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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