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"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. If a man; holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterward, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of [wo]men that call in question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it—the life of that man is one lengthy sin against mankind."
― WK Clifford, The Ethics of Belief
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Historical:
"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. If a man; holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterward, keeps down and pushes away any doubts which arise about it in his mind, purposely avoids the reading of books and the company of [wo]men that call in question or discuss it, and regards as impious those questions which cannot easily be asked without disturbing it—the life of that man is one lengthy sin against mankind."
― WK Clifford, The Ethics of Belief
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Historical:
- The Supreme Court is on the Verge of Killing the Voting Rights Act ― FiveThirtyEight
- Oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years ― The Guardian
- Why is so little known about the 1930s coup attempt against FDR? ― The Guardian
- ‘Hunted’: one in three people killed by US police were fleeing, data reveals ― The Guardian
- The staggering scope of U.S. gun deaths goes far beyond mass shootings ― WaPo
- Cacophony of dunces: When the Supreme Court trashed the Constitution ― salon
- American Rasputin ― The Atlantic
- The Truth Never Mattered at Guantánamo ― The Intercept_
- The Supreme Court is Not Supposed to Have This Much Power ― The Atlantic
- Birth of a "Troll Nation": Amanda Marcotte on how and why conservatives embraced the dark side ― salon
- FreeDOS puts out first new version in six years ― The Register
- Repub's have dropped the mask — they openly support fascism. What do we do about it? ― salon
- The Plot Against American Democracy that isn’t Taught in Schools ― RS
- America is now in fascism’s legal phase ― The Guardian
- Trump's Next Coup has Already Begun ― The Atlantic
- Google’s Union-Busting Methods Revealed ― Project Censored
- Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung to breathe ― npr
- Vikings landed in North America more than 470 years before Columbus, new research ― CBS News
- Republicans claim to fear left-wing authoritarianism — but there's no such thing ― salon
- Blast From the Past ― FP
- The Confederacy was an Antidemocratic, Centralized State ― The Atlantic
- What Happened after the Liberation of Auschwitz ― Smithsonian Magazine
- A New Report Adds Evidence that Trump was a Russian Asset ― SLATE
- Who Killed More: Hitler, Stalin, or Mao? ― The New York Review of Books
- Ransacking the Republic ― Walter M. Schaub Jr.
- What Thucydides Knew About the US Today ― Edward Mendelson
- Disinformed to Death ― Jonathan Freedland
- The five universal laws of human stupidity ― QUARTZ
Interesting Tech: - Modified John Deere makes tracks as world's first ammonia-fueled tractor ― New Atlas
- New treatment breaks down toxic PFAS "forever chemicals" in hours ― New Atlas
- Waste plastics from old cars "flashed" into graphene to go in new cars ― New Atlas
- Pre-made stem cells may be pulled off the shelf to treat aggressive cancer ― New Atlas
- Stem cell therapy set for human trials after reversing Parkinson's in rats ― New Atlas
- This AI-Designed Enzyme Can Devour Plastic Trash in Hours ― Forbes
- A new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine ― MIT News
Green: - Climate change: New idea for sucking up CO2 from air shows promise ― BBC
- Satellite power grid would beam energy around the globe just like data ― New Atlas
- Blowhole wave energy could soon be world's cheapest clean power ― New Atlas
- Before/After: These glaciers lost an area the size of Manhattan every 10 years since 1931 ― CNN
- Work begins on Mammoth, the world's largest CO2 direct air capture plant ― New Atlas
- Researchers run a gas turbine on pure hydrogen in world first ― New Atlas
- Causeway removal meant big jump in juvenile salmon ― KOMO News
- As the Planet Warms, Let’s be Clear: We are Sacrificing Lives for Profits ― pressenza
- DOE announces multi-billion-dollar project to kick-start a CO2 removal industry in US ― CNN
- This AI-Designed Enzyme Can Devour Plastic Trash in Hours ― Forbes
- The first US offshore wind farm has had no negative effect on fish, finds groundbreaking study ― electrek
- There’s still a way to reach global goal on climate change ― AP
- Wind & Solar Generated a Record 10% of the World’s Power in 2021 – Victory for Paris Agreement ― GNN
- This potent planet-warming gas just set another record for the second year in a row ― CNN
- IPCC Sixth Assessment Report ― IPCC
- Wind and solar reach milestone as demand surges ― BBC
- Satellite data shows entire Conger ice shelf has collapsed in Antarctica ― The Guardian
- Europe moves towards renewables in its divorce from Russian gas ― New Atlas
Science Faction: - Scientists Have Discovered an Enzyme That Converts Air Into Electricity ―ScienceTechDaily
- Earth’s Core Has Stopped and May Be Reversing Direction, Study Says ― VICE
- As Omicron mutates wildly the virus shows first signs of convergent evolution ― New Atlas
- Antibody “master key” discovery could neutralize all COVID variants ― New Atlas
- Antibody to prevent malaria infection aces first human trials ― New Atlas
- New clues to how COVID may trigger immune damage in the brain ― New Atlas
- New CRISPR tool corrects mutations by copying genes between chromosomes ― New Atlas
- CoVac-1 Vaccine Demonstrates Potential to Prevent Severe COVID-19 in Patients with Cancer ― Targeted Oncology
- Global effort realizes first 100% complete sequence of human genome ― New Atlas
- No link between cell phone use and brain tumors, long-term Oxford study finds ― New Atlas
- Meet Horridus, the world's best-preserved and most complete Triceratops ― New Atlas
- Student finds fossil of 170-million-year-old winged reptile on Scottish island ― BBC
- Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case ― nature
- A Psychedelic May Soon Go to the FDA for Approval to Treat Trauma ― Scientific American
Surprising News: - Congressman Says Alien UFO Tech Is Being 'Reverse Engineered' in Secret ― Newsweek
- How microplastics are infiltrating the food you eat ― BBC
- Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet's traffic per second ― New Atlas
- Evolution in action as frogs in Chernobyl exclusion zone turn black ― New Atlas
- COVID-19 increases risk of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s & stroke, study finds ― New Atlas
- US overdose deaths hit record 107,000 last year, CDC says ― Reuters
- Stanford study links marijuana use to increased heart attack risk ― New Atlas
- The UFO briefings on Capitol Hill have begun. Lawmakers aren’t impressed ― POLITICO
- Bodybuilding star Cedric McMillan dies at 44 ― NBC News
- COVID-19, overdoses pushed US to highest death total ever ― WaPo
- Dinosaur fossil from asteroid strike that caused extinction found, scientists claim ― BBC
- Major Birth Defects Linked with Fathers’ Use of Diabetes Drug Metformin ― SciTechDaily
- Inside the Chaotic Charter Schools Run by For-Profit Accel Schools ― Naked Capitalism
- E. Antarctica registers temp's 70 deg. above normal, as ‘unprecedented heat wave’ baffles ― MSN
- COVID-19 has now been found in 29 kinds of animals, has scientists concerned ― The Philadelphia Inq.
- ‘Something’s coming’: is America finally ready to take UFOs seriously? ― The Guardian
- Moderna announces 3 new mRNA vaccine targets including herpes and cancer ― New Atlas
- First patients of pioneering CAR T-Cell therapy ‘cured of cancer’ ― The Guardian
Medical News: - How pesticides impair our senses ― BBC
- Psilocybin Therapy Changes Brain Wiring in Depressed People, Study Finds ― GIZMODO
- Fourth COVID-19 mRNA vaccine dose approved for all older Americans ― New Atlas
- Long COVID study indicates “something concerning is happening” ― New Atlas
- Arthritis drug reduces mortality in severe COVID-19, huge clinical trial finds ― Science
- New super-bug treatment disables drug resistance in deadly bacteria ― New Atlas
- COVID-19 raises risk of mental health problems in year after infection ― New Atlas
- World 1st: Hope for paralyzed as Israeli lab spinal cords restore mice mobility ― Times of Israel
- How a hyperactive cell in the brain might trigger Alzheimer's disease ― npr
- Man gets genetically-modified pig heart in world-first transplant ― BBC
- Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Infects the Kidneys and Contributes to Tissue Scarring ― SciTechDaily
'Lunatic News': - Texas GOP approves measure declaring Biden ‘was not legitimately elected’ ― The Hill
- ‘Shoot them in the back of the head’: Evangelical preachers ratchet up anti-LGBTQ hate rhetoric ― Daily KOS
- Republicans are Wasting No Time Pushing Dystopian Post-Roe Laws ― DB
- Stew Peters film ‘Watch the Water’ ridiculously claims COVID-19 is snake venom ― POLITIFACT
- Book Banning Efforts Surged in 2021 ― NYT
- Who are the Heartlanders and why do they insist the Book of Mormon took place in U.S.? ― The Salt Lake Tribune
- Florida Senate passes a controversial schools bill labeled 'Don't Say Gay' by critics ― npr
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Thursday - 9/Mar/2023 - Retired army general Petr Pavel inaugurated Czech president ― WaPo
- Afghanistan blast: Taliban governor killed in his office ― BBC
Tuesday - 22/Feb/2022 - Trump Investigations ― AP
Thursday - 5/Jan/2023 - Trump’s Troubles Mount as Special Counsel Gets New 2020 Evidence ― Bloomberg
Wednesday - 21/Dec/2022 - Trump should face justice just like anyone else would, argues Rep. Raskin ― npr
Wednesday - 30/Nov/2022 - House committee receives Donald Trump’s federal tax returns from IRS ― CNN
Sunday - 20/Nov/2022 - U.S. Justice Dept. names war crimes expert as special counsel for Trump probes ― Reuters
Thursday - 13/Oct/2022 - Jan. 6 committee votes to subpoena former President Donald Trump ― NBC News
Saturday - 8/Oct/2022 - New Abortion Bans Put on Hold by Courts in Arizona and Ohio ― Bloomberg
Tuesday - 4/Oct/2022 - Rising cases of variants BQ.1 and XBB could make COVID drugs all but useless, study finds ― salon
Sunday - 2/Oct/2022 - Ukraine reclaims full control from Russia of logistics hub, asserts further gains ― Reuters
- Petraeus: US would destroy Russia’s troops if Putin uses nuclear weapons in Ukraine ― The Guardian
Wednesday - 21/Sept/2022 - NY sues Trump, company and family...widespread fraud claims, seeks at least $250 million ― CNBC
Saturday - 17/Sept/2022 - This Time, It’s Republicans on the Defensive on Social Issues ― NYT
Friday - 12/Sept/2022 - Moscow Officials Urge Putin to GTFO: ‘Everything Went Wrong’ ― DB
Thursday - 6/Sept/2022 - Steve Bannon faces state indictment in N.Y., will surrender Thursday ― WaPo
Thursday - 1/Sept/2022 - Judge tosses suit from former Trump adviser over Russia surveillance ― POLITICO
Tuesday - 23/Aug/2022 - Kansas landslide referendum result preserving abortion rights confirmed by ballot recount ― MarketWatch
- U.S. IRS launches security review after threats, misinformation on social media ― Reuters
Sunday - 22/Aug/2022 - Before/After: These glaciers lost an area the size of Manhattan every 10 years since 1931 ― CNN
- DOJ must make public memo analyzing...to charge Trump in Russia investigation, fed. appeals court rules ― CNN
Sunday - 12/Aug/2022 - U.S. House gives Biden a win with massive bill on climate change, drug prices ― Reuters
- FBI seized top secret documents in Trump estate search ― AP
Tuesday - 9/Aug/2022 - FBI searches Trump's Florida home as part of presidential records probe ― Reuters
Monday - 8/Aug/2022 - Ahmaud Arbery’s murderers sentenced to life, 35 years on hate crimes charges ― Reuters
Wednesday - 3/Aug/2022 - Kansas voters preserve abortion access in high-turnout primary ― abc News
Monday - 1/Aug/2022 - U.S. Drone Strike in Kabul Kills Top Qaeda Leader ― NYT
Friday - 29/July/2022 - Exxon and Chevron Report Record Profits on High Oil and Gas Prices ― NYT
Tuesday - 26/July/2022 - Justice Dept. investigating Trump’s actions in Jan. 6 criminal probe ― WaPo
Sunday - 24/July/2022 - Jan. 6 committee could ‘contemplate a subpoena’ for Ginni Thomas ― WaPo
Saturday - 23/July/2022 - WHO declares global health emergency over monkey-pox outbreak ― Reuters
Wednesday - 20/July/2022 - Republicans help pass House gay marriage bill ― BBC
Monday 18/July/2022 - Judge blocks enforcement of pre-Roe abortion ban in West Virginia ― Al Jazeera
Monday - 11/July/2022 - Judge won't delay Steve Bannon's trial after last-minute offer to cooperate with Jan. 6 panel ― NBC News
Sunday - 10/July/2022 - Jan. 6 panel: Ex-White House lawyer spoke of 'Trump’s supreme dereliction of duty' ― NBC News
Saturday - 9/July/2022 - Cacophony of dunces: When the Supreme Court trashed the Constitution ― salon
Thursday - 7/July/2022 - Seven Pa. lawyers involved in Trump’s legal fight to overturn the 2020 election are hit with ethics complaints ―The Philadelphia Inq.
- Trump foes James Comey and Andrew McCabe were reportedly subjected to rare and rigorous IRS audits ― NBC News
Wednesday - 6/July/2022 - Former White House counsel Cipollone to testify before Jan. 6 committee ― WaPo
- The omicron sub-variant now dominating the U.S. is ‘the worst version of the virus that we’ve seen’ ― Fortune
Tuesday - 5/July/2022 - Fulton grand jury subpoenas Giuliani, Graham, Trump campaign lawyers ― The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
- Russian parliament passes first vote on war economy measures ― Reuters
- Former deputy press secretary for Trump to testify at an upcoming Jan. 6 committee hearing ― CNN
- Two senators call for FTC probe into TikTok over U.S. data access ― Reuters
Saturday - 2/July/2022 - Trump's social media company gets subpoenaed ― AXIOS
Friday - 1/July/2022 - Hutchinson was one of the witnesses Trump world sought to influence, sources say ― CNN
- New York moves to ban concealed guns in many places, including Times Square ― Reuters
Wednesday - 29/June/2022 - Novavax COVID vaccine surprisingly effective against all Omicron variants ― New Atlas
Tuesday - 28/June/2022 - Mark Meadows’ Role as Key Co-Conspirator in Trump Coup Comes into View ― LA Progressive
- Why Putting Trump on Trial Redeems American Justice ― The Crime Report
Monday - 27/June/2022 - Sanctions Push Russia to First Foreign Default Since Bolshevik Revolution ― WSJ
Sunday - 26/June/2022 - Sievierodonetsk falls to Russia after one of war's bloodiest fights ― Reuters
Saturday - 25/June/2022 - Tech companies will cover travel expenses for employees' med. procedures, including abortion ― Seattle Times
- Biden signs bipartisan gun control bill into law ― CBS News
- A stunning moment in American history decades in the making will reshape politics ― CNN
Friday - 24/June/2022 - This map shows where abortion is illegal, protected, or under threat across all 50 US states ― INSIDER
Thursday - 23/June/2022 - GOP Rep. asked for Trump to Pardon All 147 Repub's Who Voted to Overturn Election ― RS
- Confidence in U.S. Supreme Court Sinks to Historic Low ― Gallup
Wednesday - 22/June/2022 - New CV sub-variants escape antibodies from vaccination & prior Omicron infection, studies suggest ― CNN
Tuesday - 21/June/2022 - 7 takeaways from the fourth day of the January 6 hearings ― CNN
- Biden calls for 3-month suspension of gas and diesel taxes ― AP
Monday - 20/June/2022 - Texas GOP approves measure declaring Biden ‘was not legitimately elected’ ― The Hill
Friday - 17/June/2022 - 15,000 Russian Millionaires Are Trying To Exit The Country Amid War In Ukraine, U.K. Says ― Forbes
Tuesday - 14/June/2022 - Yellowstone NP shuts to visitors due to ‘extremely hazardous conditions’ following rainfall, flooding ― CNBC
Monday 13/June/2022 - 7 takeaways from Monday's January 6 hearing ― CNN
Friday - 10/June/2022 - Ginni Thomas pressed 29 Ariz. lawmakers to help overturn Trump’s defeat, emails show ― WaPo
Wednesday - 8/June/2022 - The Supreme Court is Not Supposed to Have This Much Power ― The Atlantic
Tuesday - 7/June/2022 - Longtime Trump assistant Rhona Graff "cast doubt" on his sworn statement, N.Y. attorney general says ― NYT
Monday - 6/June/2022 - American Rasputin ― The Atlantic
- Proud Boys leader Tarrio, 4 top lieutenants charged with seditious conspiracy in widening Jan. 6 case ― WaPo
- The Jan. 6 Committee Can’t Convict Trump—but It Could Help Bankrupt Him ― DB
- Fake Trump electors in Ga. told to shroud plans in ‘secrecy,’ email shows ― WaPo
Friday - 3/June/2022 - Before Jan. 6, Aide Warned Secret Service of Security Risk to Pence ― NYT
- Grand jury indicts former Trump adviser Peter Navarro for contempt of Congress ― CNN
- 911 dispatcher fired after allegedly hanging up on store employee during Buffalo shooting call ― NBC News
Friday - 27/May/2022 - Uvalde Live Updates: ‘It Was the Wrong Decision,’ Police Say of Delay in Confronting Gunman ― NYT
- Latest White House plan would forgive $10,000 in student debt per borrower ― WaPo
- Southern Baptist leaders release a previously secret list of accused sexual abusers ― npr
Thursday - 26/May/2022 - Donald Trump, Ivanka and Don Jr. must testify in NY AG's investigation, appeals court rules ― NY Daily News
Wednesday - 25/May/2022 - DOJ probe of fake elector plot seeks info. about Trump's top lawyers and advisers ― CNN
- Russia pounds Ukraine's east as town buries dead in mass grave ― Reuters
Tuesday - 24/May/2022 - Ukraine: 200 bodies found in basement in Mariupol’s ruins ― AP
- Shooting at a Texas elementary school leaves 19 students and 2 teachers dead ― CNN
- Putin’s Own Men are Already Discussing Who will Replace Him ― DB
- Exxon must go to trial over alleged climate crimes, court rules ― The Guardian
Monday - 23/May/2022 - Zuckerberg sued by DC attorney general over Cambridge Analytica data scandal ― The Guardian
- Russian officer reveals why he risked it all to quit Putin's war ― CNN
Friday - 20/May/2022 - Eastman provides new details of Trump’s direct role in legal effort to overturn election ― POLITICO
- Russia to cut Finland’s natural gas in latest energy clash ― Reuters
Tuesday - 17/May/2022 - US agrees to ease Trump-era sanctions on Cuba ― BBC
Monday - 16/May/2022 - Florida judge orders officials to use new congressional redistricting map ― The Tributary
- The Little Red Boxes Making a Mockery of Campaign Finance Laws ― NYT
- Ukraine can win this war, NATO chief says; Finland and Sweden move to join military alliance ― CNBC
Sunday - 15/May/2022 - Ukraine Launches Counteroffensive to Disrupt Russian Supply Lines ― WSJ
- 10 killed in "racially motivated" mass shooting at Buffalo supermarket, FBI says ― CBS News
Saturday - 14/May/2022 - Alabama transgender youth can use medicine during transition, judge rules ― Reuters
Thursday - 12/May/2022 - US overdose deaths hit record 107,000 last year, CDC says ― Reuters
- Jan. 6 committee subpoenas Kevin McCarthy, other Trump House allies ― NBC News
- DeSantis judge signals FL congressional map-unconstitutional-diminishing Black representation ― CNN
Tuesday - 10/May/2022 - Nearly Encircled, Ukraine’s Last Stronghold in Luhansk Resists Russian Onslaught ― WSJ
Monday - 9/May/2022 - Here's what the White House's grim coronavirus warning means for you ― CNN
Saturday - 7/May/2022 - How the future of Roe is testing Roberts on the Supreme Court ― WaPo
Friday - 6/May/2022 - I Simply Refuse’: Wiretaps Catch Putin’s Troops Breaking Own Tanks in Sabotage Scheme ― DB
Thursday - 5/May/2022 - More infectious Omicron sub-variant BA.2.12.1 rapidly spreading across US ― New Atlas
- Internet providers end challenge to California net neutrality law ― Reuters
Tuesday - 3/May/2022 - What happens if Roe v Wade is overturned by Supreme Court ruling ― BBC
- Exhausted evacuees from Mariupol steel plant reach safety in Ukrainian city ― Reuters
- Employers post record 11.5 million job openings in March ― The Hill
Monday - 2/May/2022 - Ukraine Spy Boss Declares War will End in Putin’s Death ― DB
Sunday -1/May/2022 - Mexico: Rail link worth billions won’t go through Texas after Abbott used trade as ‘political tool’ ― Dallas Morning News