As you watch this video, recall those Republicans who have dismissed this insurrection, calling it non-violent or a visit by tourists.
White House, intelligence agencies, Pentagon issue reports warning that climate change threatens global security
“We assess that climate change will increasingly exacerbate risks to U.S. national security interests as the physical impacts increase and geopolitical tensions mount about how to respond to the challenge,” the document states. It also concludes that while momentum to reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases is growing, “current policies and pledges are insufficient” to meet the goals that countries laid out in the landmark Paris climate accord.
[Of course, we’ve known this for years.]How AT&T helped build far-right One America News
A Reuters review of court records shows the role AT&T played in creating and funding OAN, a network that continues to spread conspiracy theories about the 2020 election and the COVID-19 pandemic.
OAN founder and chief executive Robert Herring Sr has testified that the inspiration to launch OAN in 2013 came from AT&T executives.
“They told us they wanted a conservative network,” Herring said during a 2019 deposition seen by Reuters. “They only had one, which was Fox News, and they had seven others on the other [leftwing] side. When they said that, I jumped to it and built one.”
Now we have definitive proof that masks really are effective.
This week, a group of scientists from Yale, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and other institutions published the final results of a randomized study of community-wide masking behavior in Bangladesh.
Their conclusion? Masks work, period. Surgical masks are particularly effective at preventing coronavirus transmission. And community-wide mask wearing is excellent at protecting older people, who are at much higher risk of severe illness from COVID-19.
Right-Wing Madness: Gunshot Victims Left Waiting as Horse Dewormer Overdoses Overwhelm Oklahoma Hospitals
“The ERs are so backed up that gunshot victims were having hard times getting to facilities where they can get definitive care and be treated,” Dr. Jason McElyea said.
For the sake of society at large, something must be done about right-wing madness.
Texas Has Stirred Up a Storm With Its Latest Anti-Abortion Law
Texas Makes Abortion Even More Difficult to Obtain
Texas anti-abortionists have passed a harsh new anti-abortion law in Texas. To circumvent existing law, they’re offering a “bounty” of $10,000 to any private citizen who files a civil lawsuit against any woman obtaining an abortion after ~6 weeks.
Opponents are encouraging others to clog up the Texas reporting hotline…by going here.
Outrageous Hospital Pricing
This year, the federal government ordered hospitals to begin publishing a prized secret: a complete list of the prices they negotiate with private insurers.
The insurers’ trade association had called the rule unconstitutional and said it would “undermine competitive negotiations.” Four hospital associations jointly sued the government to block it, and appealed when they lost.
They lost again, and seven months later, many hospitals are simply ignoring the requirement and posting nothing.
But data from the hospitals that have complied hints at why the powerful industries wanted this information to remain hidden.
It shows hospitals are charging patients wildly different amounts for the same basic services: procedures as simple as an X-ray or a pregnancy test.
Driver Eats Bagel While Tesla Car on Autopilot Crashes Into Fire Truck
Some Veterans Say Republicans are Blocking Their Ability to Vote
While Republicans give lip service to respecting our veterans, they prove the validity of the axiom “talk is cheap”.
Senators this week left Washington for a month-long summer break after Republicans blocked consideration of a Democratic bill to expand voting access across the nation, arguing that it would give the federal government too much power in local elections that should be controlled by the states.
But some veterans argued that refusing to move the bill forward is actually an attack on those who served in uniform and risked their lives to defend the right to vote.