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Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Have You Heard

How Pronouns Became Landmines: The Conservative War on Trans Youth
TweetThe culture wars found a new target in 2021: trans youth. More than 100 laws were proposed to restrict the rights of trans individuals, especially kids. In this episode of Have You Heard, we’re joined by teacher, trans activist and co-host...
5 days ago

9/11 + 20
Only a few years after 9/11, I visited an old industrial facility that had been restored to operating condition. One of the machines there is an attrition mill, which consists of two steel disks, rotating at high speed in opposite directions...
13 hours ago
Down the Drain
Twenty years it’s been, as of yesterday. Twenty years and Afghanistan is down the drain, the Taliban back in charge. At least a comprehensive malignant menace like Bin Laden is dead, with his corpse – supposedly – dropped into the deep...
2 days ago
ChicagoBoyz Waiting Room Series: 36 – With Bonus Covid Observation
Uh oh, we all know what that is… I took a walk with the “pups” through one of our fields today as I so often do. Mind you, the “pups” are 130 pounds each. We just have always called them that. Anyways on this walk that I have taken the pups...
8 days ago

Sky News Journalist Offers to Write a Check To Anyone Who Can Decipher What The Heck Joe Biden is Saying
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on September 13, 2021 | Sundance | 171 Comments This is funny. Sky News host Rita Panahi says she will “personally write a cheque” for anyone who can decipher what Joe Biden is...
8 minutes ago
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken Attempts to Justify State Dept. Action in Afghanistan Crisis – 2:00pm Livestream Links
Posted originally on the conservative tree house on September 13, 2021 | Sundance | 173 Comments Secretary of State Antony Blinken is testifying before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the handling of the U.S. military...
38 minutes ago
The Next US Civil War
Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest Re-Posted Sep 13, 2021 by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Marty, You have been right about everything! This nightmare has unfolded exactly as you said it would globally not just here in the USA and nobody...
21 hours ago

Last Call Before Perils and Security Dangers of CA's Recall Election Day: 'BradCast' 9/13/2021
On today's BradCast: Election Day for the California Gubernatorial Recall is tomorrow, though many have already voted across the nation's most populous state with Vote-by-Mail ballots. And we also share some thoughts on 9/11 that may be...
13 hours ago
Sunday 'Not Forgetting' Toons
Please support the work of editorial cartoonists here. * * * Perry Dorrell blogs as PDiddie at Brains and Eggs, usually on topics concerning the strange brew of Texas politics. He's also on Twitter @PDiddie...
2 days ago
CA SoS Asks Election Experts to be 'Cheerleaders' for State Recall Election Security Procedures: 'BradCast' 9/10/2021
On today's BradCast: There's an old idiom about the importance of "knowing the room" you're talking to. It seems the California Sec. of State and/or her office may be unfamiliar with that old idiom. At least based on the bizarre request they...
4 days ago

Happy birthday to our national anthem
It was on this day in 1814 that an American lawyer and poet named Francis Scott Key wrote what was to become his most famous poem, “Defence of Fort McHenry,” while on board a British Navy ship in Chesapeake Bay. Key had been negotiating with...
an hour ago
Chihuahua or blueberry muffin?
Without my glasses, it’s hard to tell.
a day ago
Monday chuckles
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Hot Mic Catches Israeli Health Minister Admitting Vaccine Passports Are About Coercion
Unaware that he was on a hot mic and being broadcast live on a TV station, Israeli health minister Nitzan Horowitz admitted that vaccine passports were primarily about coercing skeptical people to get the vaccine...
11 hours ago
Michigan Health Care System Says Workers With Natural Immunity Don't Need Vaccine
Late last month, we first reported on a groundbreaking new study that appeared to "end the debate" on the subject of natural vs. vaccine-induced immunity. The study found that, when it comes to preventing serious infection with the delta variant, natural...
11 hours ago
Report: 14 Israelis infected with COVID despite 3rd vaccine dose
9 days after Israel kicked off campaign for third vaccine dose, Health Ministry statistics reveal 2 people hospitalized despite booster shot
11 hours ago

We’ve Neglected The Role Of “Psychological Richness” When Considering What Makes A Good Life, Study Argues
By Emma Young. Psychological richness is related to, but different from, happiness and meaning, researchers find.
6 hours ago
Young Australians Who Couchsurf Experience High Levels Of Psychological Distress
By Emma L. Barratt. Regular couchsurfers without stable home may need to be "hypervigilant" to potential threats, contributing to stress.
a day ago
The Medusa Effect: We Ascribe Less “Mind” To People We See In Pictures
By Emma Young. And we ascribe even less mind to those we see in pictures of pictures.
4 days ago

Clarksburg School in Clarksburg, Maryland
This turn-of-the-century schoolhouse was in continuous operation between 1909-1972. The earliest record of activities at the school are from a 1938 meeting at which parents, teachers, and the principal, Mary Morningstar, were present...
38 minutes ago
Ekranoplan Lun in Derbent, Russia
Ekranoplan is a Russian word describing so-called "ground-effect-vehicles." They look like planes but are able to move over the surface by gaining support from the reactions of the air against the surface of the earth or water. "Lun" is a huge...
2 hours ago
Podcast: The Mirror Lab
Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit a spinning furnace tucked under the football stadium at the University of Arizona, designed to help...
3 hours ago

#Elxn44 Roundup
The latest from Canada's federal election campaign.- Khalden Dhatsenpa and Gavin Armitage-Ackerman write about the need to treat housing as a human right rather than a commodity. - PressProgress reports on an internal Health Canada report...
17 hours ago
Monday Afternoon Links
Assorted content to start your week.- Cory Neudorf writes about the need for layers of COVID-19 protection now to avoid extreme measures like lockdowns due to the collapse of our health care system. And CBC News reports on the necessarily appalled...
17 hours ago
On narrow targets
At this stage of the federal election campaign, the seemingly wide range of outcomes is entirely an artifice of a first-part-the-post system with multiple parties contending for seats. Barring a drastic change in the last week of the campaign...
2 days ago