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Said it’s a “grave evil”.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/grave-evil-pelosi-denied-holy-204134877.html

United States Congressman Madison Cawthorn (R-North Carolina) has lost his bid to remain in office for another term in Tuesday’s primary election. He lost to Chuck Edwards, a three-term GOP state senator.

Edwards narrowly defeated Cawthorn, attaining 33.4 percent of the total vote in North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District GOP primary. Caw…[Read more]

Blog 4: Comparing the United States to Ancient Rome

The ancient empire of Rome are comparable and analogous in many ways. While a lot of the aspects aren’t exactly similar, the differences in the issues each face are generally only different due to the era and technology around which these problems occur. The f…[Read more]

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/100513-science-evolution-darwin-single-ancestor

Using computer models and statistical methods, biochemist Douglas Theobald calculated the odds that all species from the three main groups, or “domains,” of life evolved from a common ancestor—versus, say, descending from several different l…[Read more]

https://medium.com/@astrophysicsinprogress/the-multiverse-a301c04aa51f

Multiverse Level 1–A level 1 multiverse is essentially an extension of our universe and is expected to have the same laws of physics and physical constants that govern our reality. There exists a rough estimate of the distance of the next closest universe from ours. A…[Read more]

https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7wmbx/massachusetts-trader-joes-union

In their letter to Trader Joe’s CEO Dan Bane, workers at the Hadley, Massachusetts, store referenced a March 2020 letter Bane wrote to employees calling then-nascent unionization efforts a “distraction” and that unions “drive discontent” at companies. In the letter, Bane wrot…[Read more]

https://jacobinmag.com/2022/05/ice-surveillance-data-dmvs-immigration-citizens-palantir

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has long been a magnet for controversy over its cruel treatment of migrants. But there’s another, potentially more alarming reason to worry about it: ICE has slowly transformed into a vast domestic spying agency t…[Read more]

https://theintercept.com/2022/05/12/abortion-roe-v-wade-francis-schaeffer-evangelical-christians/

Schaeffer emerged at just the right moment. Until the late 1970s, evangelicals were a small and badly splintered group, and most of them adhered to a mystical theology that focused on the apocalypse and the “rapture” and the second coming of Jes…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/17/dark-money-dark-money-sanders-calls-dnc-ban-super-pac-cash-primaries

“The Democratic leadership has, appropriately, condemned Republican ‘dark money’ super PACs which spend huge amounts of money to elect their right-wing candidates,” Sanders (I-Vt.) wrote in a letter to DNC Chair Jamie Harrison. “I am…[Read more]

Body Armor Helped the Buffalo Shooter Carry Out His Rampage. This Bill Could’ve Banned It

A “good guy with a gun” tried to stop the massacre at Tops supermarket in Buffalo, but was foiled by the assailant’s bulletproof vest and helmet.

When an 18-year-old began his alleged white supremacist rampage Saturday afternoon, a secur…[Read more]

https://www.alternet.org/2022/05/americans-spike-health-insurance-costs/

The nonprofit group Families USA estimates in an issue brief published Monday that “health insurance premiums are slated to shoot up by more than 53% next year for 14 million people who buy their own insurance from health insurance marketplaces.”

“The total cost increase…[Read more]

https://truthout.org/articles/capitalism-is-to-blame-for-how-quickly-us-covid-deaths-reached-1-million/

The answers are spread across a broad palette of shame and disgrace that, brushstroke by bloody brushstroke, combined to paint a mural of a nation in pinwheeling decline. COVID did not do this to us. Like water, it made for the lowest places…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/16/median-pay-top-ceos-hits-record-147-million-workers-strike-over-starvation-wages

Rising CEO pay stands in stark contrast to the grim economic realities that ordinary workers are facing nationwide as inflation—driven in large part by corporate profits—erodes modest wage gains and expiring pandemic aid…[Read more]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/15/caesars-favourite-herb-was-the-viagra-of-ancient-rome-until-climate-change-killed-it-off

Of all the mysteries of ancient Rome, silphium is among the most intriguing. Romans loved the herb as much as we love chocolate. They used silphium as perfume, as medicine, as an aphrodisiac and turned it into a…[Read more]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/covid-19-testing-is-collapsingand-it-will-blow-up-in-our-faces

Thanks to vaccines and lingering antibodies from past infection, these surges are nowhere near as bad—or as deadly—as previous surges. Amid an overall global decline in COVID, the USA saw an uptick in infections, from a year-low of 30,000 daily new cas…[Read more]

https://truthout.org/articles/privacy-experts-warn-data-from-period-tracking-apps-may-soon-be-used-against-you/

Privacy policies — specifically, whether the apps sell information to data brokers, use the data for advertising, share it for research, or keep it solely within the app — vary substantially among companies.

“Does it encrypt? What’…[Read more]

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/postsecondary/features/mars_life_feature_1015.html

In July, 1996, it was announced that Dr. David McKay, along with a team of scientists at Johnson Space Center (a division of NASA), had discovered possible fossils of bacteria in a meteorite named ALH84001 that came from Mars. It was found in the Allen…[Read more]