And another day of Truss quitting, DOJ needing more money for Jan. 6 probe, slavery on the ballot in 5 states, sexual-assault ER visits increase, school vaccine requirements, gas stove chemicals linked to cancer, asbestos in America, and most plastics are not recyclable comes to a close:
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” — Hannah Arendt
“The magic formula that Republicans have used for decades is to hand you two dollars with their right hand, while stealing your wallet with the other hand. See Republican ‘tax cuts’.” — Steve Redmond
“So sad that gas prices could decide democracy’s fate and our republic’s survival but that’s where we are!” — Laurence Tribe
Deaths
US: 1,092,409 (+378)
World: 6,578,767 (+1737)
Cases
US: 99,037,439 (+50,425)
World: 631,989,826 (+449,657)
DOJ says it needs more money for the Jan. 6 probe. The next spending bill may be its last chance. The Biden administration says it is in critical need of more money to bring the Jan. 6 rioters to justice. But it’s not clear Congress will grant that request in a major funding bill planned for December. And if it fails to do so before the new year, a potential Republican-led House could imperil the resources they need. -- Democracy is literally on the line this election. Vote Democrat up and down the ballot. It’s the only way to be sure democracy survives.
Shock videos of Fla. handcuffing Black voters show true stakes of ‘22 election. Those infuriating videos of Black people arrested by Ron DeSantis' Orwellean voting test force is proof that our liberty is on the Nov. 8 ballot.
Truss quits, but UK’s political and economic turmoil persist. British Prime Minister Liz Truss quit Thursday after a tumultuous and historically brief term marred by economic policies that roiled financial markets and a rebellion in her political party that obliterated her authority.
The Republican nominee for Michigan attorney general is under investigation himself. An attorney general is often called a state's top law enforcement official. But what happens when a candidate running for that office is someone who could face criminal charges? That's playing out right now in Michigan, where Matthew DePerno, a Trump-backed Republican nominee for state attorney general, is under investigation for an alleged plot to seize and tamper with voting machines.
Slavery is on the ballot for voters in 5 US states. More than 150 years after slaves were freed in the U.S., voters in five states will soon decide whether to close loopholes that led to the proliferation of a different form of slavery — forced labor by people convicted of certain crimes. None of the proposals would force immediate changes inside the states’ prisons, though they could lead to legal challenges related to how they use prison labor, a lasting imprint of slavery’s legacy on the entire United States.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett denies attempt to block Biden student loan forgiveness plan from taking effect. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected a challenge to the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness program on Thursday, declining to take up an appeal brought by a Wisconsin taxpayers group. The order is a win for President Joe Biden for now, though there are other challenges in the pipeline making their way up to the high court.
Sexual assault-related ER visits increased more than tenfold since 2006, study finds. The research, published Thursday in JAMA Network Open, showed that those visits increased 1,533% from 2006 to 2019 — a jump from 3,600 annual visits to 55,200. The largest increase occurred between 2015 and 2016, when visits went from about 17,700 to 47,700, according to the findings...The authors speculated that a combination of factors drove the trend: an increased number of sexual assaults, population growth and awareness-raising social movements like #MeToo.
“If every time men had sex, they risked death, physical disability, social shunning, a life altering interruption of their education or career, and the sudden life-long responsibility for another being, I think they’d expect a choice in the matter.” -- Jean Yoo
FACT FOCUS: States, not CDC, set school vaccine requirements. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee on Thursday voted that the agency should update its recommended immunization schedules to add the COVID-19 vaccine, including to the schedule for children. But in the lead-up to the vote by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, false claims spread widely that it would mean the vaccine would be required to attend school. In reality, the CDC doesn’t have the authority to set school immunization requirements, and the vote doesn’t mandate the vaccine for schoolchildren. That’s a decision left to the states. Here are the facts.
With DACA on life support, Microsoft, Apple and other big U.S. firms launch ad campaign to protect 'Dreamers'. Microsoft, Apple, Meta and dozens of other Fortune 500 companies launched an ad campaign Thursday to push Congress to pass a new law that would secure the fate of migrants known as “Dreamers,” part of a last-ditch effort to save the protections as federal courts seem likely to end the executive order that has protected them since 2012.
Chickenpox vaccine has 'practically eliminated' deaths from the disease, CDC report finds. As of 2019, cases among people under 20 have been cut by 97 percent, hospitalizations by 94 percent and deaths by 99 percent.
Children’s hospitals, overflowing with respiratory patients, consider calling National Guard. Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) in particular is on the rise, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cases have spiked, especially in the Northeast and South.
Juvenile dies from brain-eating amoeba after possible infection at Lake Mead. Based on an investigation conducted by the Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD), it is believed the individual — a male under the age of 18 — was exposed to the amoeba at Lake Mead, on the Arizona side, near the beginning of October, and began to develop symptoms roughly a week later. Naegleria fowleri is commonly found in bodies of warm freshwater, such as lakes, rivers, and geothermal water, like hot springs, SNHD officials said in a news release. The amoeba infects people by entering the body through the nose and traveling to the brain. It cannot infect people if swallowed, and it is not spread from person to person.
Gas stoves can leak chemicals linked to cancer, mounting evidence shows. Over time, such exposure might increase a person's risk of blood disorders or reproductive issues, although scientists are still learning about how benzene affects health. The chemical has more conclusively been linked to leukemia, multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. The World Health Organization has said there’s no safe level of benzene exposure when it comes to cancer risk. But benzene isn't the only worrisome chemical that comes from stoves, nor are the emissions limited to California. Decades of research has suggested that gas stoves are a source of indoor air pollution.
Big Plastic Wants You to Think You Can Recycle Your Yogurt Container. In fact, most plastics are not recyclable, largely because there is no market for materials labeled 3 through 7. But that hasn’t stopped the widespread use of the chasing arrows.
The U.S. Never Banned Asbestos. These Workers Are Paying the Price. Now, too late for Saenz, the Environmental Protection Agency appears poised to finally outlaw asbestos in a test case with huge implications. If the agency fails to ban a substance so widely established as harmful, scientists and public health experts argue, it would raise serious doubts about the EPA’s ability to protect the public from any toxic chemicals. To fight the proposed ban, the chemical companies have returned to a well-worn strategy and marshaled political heavyweights, including the attorneys general of 12 Republican-led states who say it would place a “heavy and unreasonable burden” on industry. Lost in the battle is the story of what happened in the decades during which the U.S. failed to act. It’s not just a tale of workers in hardscrabble company towns who were sacrificed to the bottom line of industry, but one of federal agencies cowed again and again by the well-financed lawyers and lobbyists of the companies they are supposed to oversee. It’s the quintessential story of American chemical regulation. — Republicans will always take profit over your health. Always. Vote Democrat up and down the ballot.
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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