And another day of a slew of subpoenas, threats from China, millions of children at risk of losing Medicaid coverage, the Doomsday Glacier, a Marburg virus outbreak, superbugs, male birth-control, and the meaning of casual dating comes to a close:
“It’s impossible to overstate the enormity of the damage caused by Fox News.” -- Andrew Weinsten
Pence says he will fight subpoena as far as Supreme Court. “Never before in American history has a vice president been summoned to appear in court to testify against the president with whom they serve,” he said. -- There’s always a first time for everything, you waste of flesh. Just because it hasn’t been done before doesn’t mean it can’t be done now. Pence should not get off scot-free because he was the fucking VP. If the law doesn’t apply to everyone in the country, including elected officials such as the President and Vice President of the country, then we don’t live in a free country governed by laws. We live at the whim of whoever is “governing” the country.
Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows subpoenaed by special counsel in Jan. 6 investigation. Special counsel Jack Smith’s office is seeking documents and testimony related to January 6, and Meadows received the subpoena sometime in January, the source said. An attorney for Meadows declined to comment.
House Republicans subpoena Apple, Facebook and Google over content moderation. Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio sent the subpoenas to the CEOs of Google parent Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook parent Meta and Microsoft requesting documents and communications “referring or relating to the moderation, deletion, suppression, restriction or reduced circulation of content.” The subpoenas also demanded documents specifying the employees responsible for developing or executing content policies and any communications with people outside the executive branch about policies or decisions about content moderation. -- Unlike Pence, I’m betting these CEOs will have to abide by their subpoenas.
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz says he will not face federal sex trafficking charge. U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz's office on Wednesday said federal prosecutors had told his attorneys that he would not be criminally charged following an almost three-year-long sex-trafficking investigation. A Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment. -- Of course. There are two, probably even three, judicial systems in this country. The powerful get away with almost anything they want.
China threatens US entities over downing of balloon. China says the balloon was a unmanned weather airship that was accidentally blown off course and accuses the U.S. of overreacting in bringing it down with a missile fired from an F-22 fighter jet.
Study shows ‘striking’ number who believe news misinforms. Half of Americans in a recent survey indicated they believe national news organizations intend to mislead, misinform or persuade the public to adopt a particular point of view through their reporting. The survey, released Wednesday by Gallup and the Knight Foundation, goes beyond others that have shown a low level of trust in the media to the startling point where many believe there is an intent to deceive. -- Thanks Fox News. Fucking it up for everyone, even those that don’t watch your shitty channel.
Michigan State students’ training kicked in during shooting. When the texts began coming in about a shooter at Michigan State University, training that many students started receiving as schoolchildren automatically kicked in. -- That sentence shows what a sad state of affairs we have in this country regarding gun culture.
Mississippi Cops Shot a 15-Year-Old in the Head. Four Months Later, They Haven’t Released The Video. There are a lot of questions about the killing. The Gulfport police say McMillan turned toward officers after they instructed him to drop a weapon. But witnesses say he was unarmed when an officer shot him, and that he went several minutes without medical care as blood poured from his head. “I did not see a gun on him,” Deborah Stout, an Uber driver who witnessed the shooting, said in a video posted on Facebook. “He was coming out of the store with his hands up.” Four months later, amid conflicting accounts, the city still has not released body-cam footage of the incident or even named the officer who pulled the trigger. McMillan’s family and supporters have no way to determine what actually happened. “It’s been agonizing” to go so long without the information, Mateen tells me. “For them not to release it to the public, like they should, it lets me know they’re trying to hide something.”
Millions of children are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage starting in April. The majority of American children now receive their health insurance through Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, according to a new report published Wednesday by the Georgetown Center for Children and Families. But that could change starting this spring. As many as 6.7 million children are at risk of losing that coverage once states restart their reviews of recipients’ eligibility, according to Georgetown. — Healthcare is a right, not a privilege.
UnitedHealthcare Tried to Deny Coverage to a Chronically Ill Patient. He Fought Back, Exposing the Insurer’s Inner Workings. More than 200 million Americans are covered by private health insurance. But data from state and federal regulators shows that insurers reject about 1 in 7 claims for treatment. Many people, faced with fighting insurance companies, simply give up: One study found that Americans file formal appeals on only 0.1% of claims denied by insurers under the Affordable Care Act…Those records offer an extraordinary behind-the-scenes look at how one of America's leading health care insurers relentlessly fought to reduce spending on care, even as its profits rose to record levels. — Such bullshit. It shows how capitalism is bad for most humans. Healthcare is a right, not a privilege, and certainly it’s not to just make some wealthy fucking individuals wealthier. The recorded conversation is appalling.
2nd Amendment sanctuary measure overturned in Oregon. Local governments in Oregon can’t declare themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries and ban police from enforcing certain gun laws, a state appeals court decided Wednesday, in the first court case filed over a concept that hundreds of U.S. counties have adopted in recent years.
Man allegedly left naked on concrete floor in jail for days died of suspected hypothermia, lawsuit says. Tony Mitchell was a pretrial detainee at the Walker County Jail from Jan. 12 until his death Jan. 26, according to a federal complaint filed Monday in U.S District Court for Northern Alabama. Mitchell's mother sued after a corrections employee showed her surveillance video of her son's time in custody that contradicted what she had been told by officials, the suit says.
Skinny robot documents forces eroding Doomsday Glacier. Scientists got their first up-close look at what’s eating away part of Antarctica’s Thwaites ice shelf, nicknamed the Doomsday Glacier because of its massive melt and sea rise potential, and it’s both good and bad news. Using a 13-foot pencil-shaped robot that swam under the grounding line where ice first juts over the sea, scientists saw a shimmery critical point in Thwaites’ chaotic breakup, “where it’s melting so quickly there, there’s just material streaming out of the glacier,” said robot creator and polar scientist Britney Schmidt of Cornell University. Before, scientists had no observations from this critical but hard-to-reach point on Thwaites. But with the robot named Icefin lowered down a slender 1,925-foot (587-meter) hole, they saw how important crevasses are in the fracturing of the ice, which takes the heaviest toll on the glacier, even more than melting. “That’s how the glacier is falling apart. It’s not thinning and going away. It shatters,” said Schmidt, lead author of one of two studies in Wednesday’s journal Nature.
Ohio train derailment leaves toxic chemicals behind. Residents in the town of East Palestine, Ohio, are dealing with the fallout from a dangerous chemical spill after a train derailed earlier this month.
Equatorial Guinea confirms first Marburg virus outbreak, at least nine dead. Equatorial Guinea has confirmed its first outbreak of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious and deadly disease similar to Ebola, following the deaths of at least nine people, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday...Marburg virus disease can have a fatality rate of up to 88 percent, according to the WHO. There are no vaccines or antiviral treatments approved to treat it.
Superbugs are a leading global health risk: UN report. Superbugs are now a leading global health risk, according to a major U.N. report published Tuesday. Major industries like the pharmaceutical and agricultural industries are largely responsible for this growing threat, inadvertently driving dangerous pathogens to evolve to outsmart currently available medications, the report said.
Girl with deadly inherited condition is cured with gene therapy on NHS. Teddi Shaw was diagnosed with metachromatic leukodystrophy (MLD), an inherited condition that causes catastrophic damage to the nervous system and organs. Those affected usually die young. But the 19-month-old from Northumberland is now disease-free after being treated with the world’s most expensive drug, Libmeldy.
Experimental male birth-control drug shows promise in new study. Lab results show that a new “on-demand” male birth control drug can temporarily prevent sperm from maturing and swimming in mice.
What does 'casual dating' mean these days? Because although casual dating and hook-up culture are inextricably linked and the ideas are often used interchangeably, it’s clear that the term "casual" doesn’t only refer to one night stands anymore.
James Webb telescope captures a Milky Way-like galaxy a billion light-years away. The star system, LEDA 2046648, sits a billion light-years away from ours in the constellation Hercules; it contains thousands of galaxies, trillions of stars and countless planets.
RIP Raquel Welch. She was 82.
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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