Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Mary Ziegler and Scott Lemieux both warn of the many other rights in imminent danger due to both the fact of the elimination of abortion rights by the Republican-dominated U.S. Supreme Court, and the excuses made for it. – Dylan Scott discusses how the decision will lead
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The Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Is It Just Me?
It’s really no biggie – if you weren’t in the front seat. Two men died when the Chinese Tesla clone pushed through a wall and plunged three storeys to the street below. “After the incident we immediately began to work with the public security department to find the cause of
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Cannons – Fire For You
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Assorted content to end your week. – Kit Yates weighs in on the work which still needs to be done to avoid further waves of COVID-19. And Marsha Barber writes that we can tell from even the limited information still being released that it’s delusional to suggest we’re out of
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The black robed Mullahs of the Supreme Court of Evangelistan have ruled. They cut their teeth on dismantling affirmative action and voter rights but yesterday they moved into the big leagues. Yesterday, a reliably rightwing court, did what it was expected of them. They struck down New York’s somewhat
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Americans Have a "General Right" to Pack Heat – US Supreme Court versus Gun Control
Clarence Thomas wrote the majority judgment. No surprise there. The Supreme Court said Thursday that Americans generally have a right to carry a handgun outside the home for self-defense and that a New York law requiring special need for such a permit is too restrictive. The vote was 6
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Jon Henley writes that COVID is surging across Europe as governments and people alike ignore desperate warnings not to let their guard down. And Eric Topol writes about the reality that reinfection produces even worse outcomes than initial exposure – even as governments
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Danielle Hitch, Aryati Yashadhana and Evelyne de Leeuw write that long COVID is following the path of acute COVID-19 in having a disproportionate effect on disadvantaged communities. Catherine Gewertz discusses the need for schools to plan for a large number of students afflicted
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: Going Dark. Chris Hedges and the Road to Hell.
It has been some time since Chris Hedges was a happy camper. That said, he outdid himself in his latest column, The Triumph of Death, in which the opening paragraph neatly sums up our predicament: It is hard to be sanguine about the future. The breakdown of the ecosystem is well
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Dhruv Khullar interviews Ashish Jha about what’s to come in the COVID-19 pandemic – including the desperate need for mitigation measures to reduce an unsustainable amount of spread. And Alexander Quon reports on the increase in COVID deaths in Saskatchewan from 2021 to 2022
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Thomas Walkom points out that most Canadians have far more reason to fear an austerity-fuelled recession than any foreseeable level of inflation. J.W. Mason points out that the U.S. Fed is similarly looking to squeeze workers over inflation that has nothing to
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The final official debate of the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign was the first I had the opportunity to see, and I’d hoped that it would result in some meaningful and constructive contrast. But instead, the debate and its aftermath looked largely to push both candidates toward the key traps for
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Dianna Chang et al. examine the correlation between social and political factors and COVID-19 spread and mortality. And Crawford Kilian discusses how Canadian society has failed the basic test of looking out for each other’s well-being, while Teresa Wright reports on the imminent
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JJ Wilde – Mercy
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Assorted content to end your week. – Mary Ward and Lucy Carroll report on New South Wales’ warning of the potential for COVID-19 reinfection as the newer Omicron variants become dominant. Zoe Swank et al. find that people with long COVID may have viral reservoirs in their bodies for a
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Wency Leung talks to public health experts about what still needs to be done to rein in the COVID pandemic, while Aisha Dow discusses the importance of continuing to mask even when it’s not required. And Justin Fox reports on the impact
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Elon Musk says he would support Ron DeSantis for president of the United States. Informed of this new and powerful follower, the radical rightwing governor expressed his deep gratitude. “I’m focused on 2022,” DeSantis, a Republican, said at a press conference in Madeira Beach, Florida. “But with Elon Musk
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Of all the regions reeling from global warming, few equal the Barents Sea. The Barents is a shallow sea, the territorial waters of both Norway and Russia. It is rich in both fish stocks and fossil fuels. While the Arctic is no stranger to warming, the Barents is the
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Devi Sridhar writes that a responsible plan for the impending COVID wave would involve masking, improved ventilation, booster shots and a plan for the growing scourge of long COVID – even as most Canadian provinces range from uninterested to hostile toward anything of
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