Voices, The Peoples News
June 7, 2022
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 To Inform and Educate
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“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing.”
Bene Gesserit in Frank Herbert’s Dune
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# Archaeology
Harvard Has Remains of Almost 7K Indigenous People: The university also holds the remains of at least 19 enslaved people, The Harvard Crimson reports.
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# Border / Immigration
Caravan of Asylum Seekers Departs Southern Mexico for U.S. Border: At least 6,000 people departed from the southern Mexican city of Tapachula Monday hoping to reach the U.S.-Mexico border in search of refuge. Many of the caravan members are from Venezuela and Cuba, two nations that have been deeply affected by U.S. economic sanctions.
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# Children / Youth
U.S. District Judge Janis Jack said Monday she plans to levy “substantial fines” against Texas for failing to comply with her orders to fix its troubled foster care system.
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# Covid / Pandemics / Biologicals
Why Masks Work, but Mandates Haven’t: In U.S. cities where mask use has been more common, Covid has spread at a similar rate as in mask-resistant cities. Mask mandates in schools also seem to have done little to reduce the spread. Hong Kong, despite almost universal mask-wearing, recently endured one of the world’s worst Covid outbreaks.
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Do Covid Precautions Work? Yes, but they haven’t made a big difference.
There is a strong argument for continuing to remove other restrictions, and returning to normal life, now that Omicron caseloads have fallen 95 percent from their peak. If those restrictions were costless, then their small benefits might still be worth it. But of course they do have costs.
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More than 82 million COVID-19 vaccines were discarded by pharmacies and U.S. states, territories and federal agencies, according to a new report.
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Monkeypox FAQ: How is it transmitted? Where did it come from? What are the symptoms? Does smallpox vaccine prevent it? With cases reported in a number of countries, human monkeypox infection is generating global interest and concern as an emerging infectious disease threat even in the midst of a slowly relenting COVID-19 pandemic.
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Defector Rains COVID Aid Down on North Korea Via Balloons: “Right now, hundreds of thousands are getting the virus,” North Korean defector Park Sang-hak told The Daily Beast.
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# Economy / Finance / Trade
‘We’re all afraid’: Massive rent increases hit mobile homes. Rent hikes are now pricing people out of one of the last remaining, affordable places to live.
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Inflation has Fed critics pointing to spike in money supply: Over the past two years, as the Federal Reserve fought to rescue the economy from the clutches of the coronavirus, the central bank’s emergency remedies increased the nation’s money supply by an astonishing 40 percent That was almost four times as much new money as had been created during the two years that preceded the pandemic.
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# Education / Schools
Why Arming Teachers and Militarizing Schools are ‘Terrible’ Ideas:
People who believe this have watched too many movies or played too many video games, writes Brooklyn College policing expert Alex S. Vitale.
Research shows that when guns are introduced into an environment, they produce accidental shootings, suicides and interpersonal violence.
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How to Dismantle For-Profit Colleges, Without Congress: A previously undisclosed memo to the Education Department offers a step-by-step guide to closing predatory schools before they suck up more federal loans.
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A teacher wounded in last month’s school shooting in Texas slammed first responders as “cowards” for standing by outside his classroom while the gunman killed all 11 of his young students as they tried to play dead.
“You have a bulletproof vest, I had nothing. You’re supposed to protect and serve.
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Uvalde Mayor: I Was Asked to Stay Out of Mass Shooting Probe: “I’m asking every day,” Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin said Tuesday after the city council extended a local state of disaster declaration after the May 24 mass shooting.
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# Employment / Labor
Amazon Paid Its CEO 6,474 Times More Than It Paid Its Median Worker Last Year The CEO-worker pay gap surged in 2021 as the “pandemic greed grab”
continued.
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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is a government agency that was established in the 1930s to enforce the National Labor Relations Act. Throughout its history, the NLRB has served as a neutral referee between management and labor in America’s workplaces.
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# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Chemicals / Global Three oil companies have canceled their leases in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The 19.5-million-acre wilderness area is home to 45 species of mammals including polar bears, bowhead whales and caribou and considered sacred by the Indigenous Gwich’in people, according to the Gwich’in Steering Committee.
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# Environment / Climate / Interior / Infrastructure Biden to update ‘sacred’ EJ order that never really worked: The executive order, signed by President Bill Clinton in 1994, was the first governmentwide acknowledgment that environmental and public health burdens fall disproportionately on poor and minority communities. It was also the first time the executive branch accepted that it has the legal authority, and obligation, to blunt those impacts wherever it can.
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Coastal cities are already sinking: New satellite data shows that in many coastal cities around the world, land is subsiding even faster than sea level is rising.
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BlackRock will not be the ‘environmental police’ in ethical investing U-turn. Larry Fink says it’s wrong to ask the private sector to ensure companies they invest in are doing their part to combat climate change.
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President Joe Biden has taken steps to boost the solar industry in the
U.S.: The administration announced plans to pause tariffs on solar panels and use the Defense Production Act to boost the domestic manufacturing of clean energy technology including solar parts.
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Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere Reaches Highest Levels in Millions of Years, NOAA Warns: Carbon dioxide levels are 50% higher than pre-industrial levels, and the amount of carbon dioxide is higher than it has been in millions of years.
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# Environment / Climate / Global
Researchers just found out a tree in Borneo was actually two species.
Indigenous populations have known for centuries. Indigenous people are important stewards of biodiversity, the researchers emphasize — their knowledge should be cherished.
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# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Global Sri Lanka’s botched organic farming experiment illustrates danger of ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to agricultural sustainability. Even though the transition towards organic farming seemed like an environmentally sustainable step forward, the sudden switch was a time bomb https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/05/sri-lanka-organic-farming-crisis/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2D7wMMgiB33Rojnm5iDIcWOEjvAY2XOAad8rqo3gyDa9WkJsGHytrWoyCNGBYp6jD3USj67bGDnDzF5MSeBPguxN-ACoh68z$
# Food / Farming / GMOs / Chemicals / Other Biden Administration Will Allow Nationwide WIC Waivers For Formula:
Expanded flexibilities will provide widest access to both U.S.-produced and imported formulas for families in need https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.usda.gov/media/press-releases/2022/06/06/usda-offering-nationwide-waiver-infant-formula__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2D7wMMgiB33Rojnm5iDIcWOEjvAY2XOAad8rqo3gyDa9WkJsGHytrWoyCNGBYp6jD3USj67bGDnDzF5MSeBPguxN-BjtmfyD$
# General Information / Other News
An ex-member of one of the world’s most dangerous mercenary groups has gone public Wagner Group activities aren’t limited to Ukraine. The organization has also been active across Africa in recent years, Libya, Sudan, Mozambique, Mali and the Central African Republic.
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They Married and Raped Children in the Name of God: The Netflix docuseries “Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey” revisits Warren Jeffs’ predatory FLDS cult, where fundamentalist Mormons married and abused young girls and women. Jeffs is a monster currently serving a life sentence for sexually assaulting two young girls, ages 12 and 15, who were both his wives at the time of his crimes. So Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey offers at least a semblance of justice. Still, there’s little about this story to make one optimistic.
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FBI attempted to ambush a well known reporter and his informant: The FBI Tried to ambush my source, now I’m telling the whole story. I’ve been reluctant to write what I know about the FBI’s scheme because the tale is so complicated that I’m still not sure I fully understand it.
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Extremist Gun Group Says To Prepare For ‘Battle’ At U.S. Capitol Amid Gun Control Talks. The far-right American Firearms Association is telling its supporters to prepare for “battle” at the U.S. Capitol this week amid Senate talks on potential legislation for relatively small gun safety reforms.
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Donald Trump and the White House were “at the center” of events triggering last year’s violent Capitol insurrection, and the House Jan.
6 select committee has uncovered evidence against the former president “about a lot more than incitement,” panel member Rep. Jamie Raskin
(D-Md.) said on Monday.
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# Gov / Politics / US
Free Gas Cards Are GOP’s New Campaign Gimmick, and It’s Legal: Voters in Georgia can’t have water within 150 feet of a polling place. But campaigns are allowed to hand out free gas, just as long as they don’t do this one thing.
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What Biden Is Telling Putin: Biden’s assurance to his Russian audience that “We do not want to prolong the war just to inflict pain on Russia,”
may have been canceled out by his promise to his American audience that Russia must “pay a heavy price for its actions.” The US only supports Ukrainian democracy when it elects a pro-US leader.
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Biden Isn’t Taking His Presidency Seriously: America is in crisis, and President Biden is telling us he can’t do much about it. But he is going to go on Jimmy Kimmel’s show, so that’s reassuring.
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U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, the lead GOP negotiator in the Senate’s efforts to pass bipartisan gun safety legislation, says lawmakers won’t address weapons bans or expanding background checks.
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Gun control: Matthew McConaughey, a Uvalde native, writes in an op-ed:
“Keeping firearms out of the hands of dangerous people is not only the responsible thing to do, it is the best way to protect the Second Amendment. We can do both.”
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White House working towards first presidential meeting with Saudi Arabia, which Biden had vowed to make a ‘pariah’: President Joe Biden and Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, could meet for the first time as soon as next month, multiple sources told CNN. A meeting would … represent a turnabout for a US president who once declared Saudi Arabia a “pariah” with “no redeeming social value.”
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‘Third Party’ Took Mich. Voting Equipment for Several Weeks: Newly obtained records show the state’s probe into voting-system breaches has expanded, with more alarming incidents reported, Reuters reports.
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Matthew McConaughey Calls for Gun Control Reform During Impassioned Speech at White House Briefing. The actor and Uvalde native’s speech was the most direct plea he’s made for reform since 19 children and two teachers were killed in his hometown https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/matthew-mcconaughey-gun-control-white-house-speech-uvalde-shooting-1364295/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2D7wMMgiB33Rojnm5iDIcWOEjvAY2XOAad8rqo3gyDa9WkJsGHytrWoyCNGBYp6jD3USj67bGDnDzF5MSeBPguxN-Ksj4pim$
Of Course the Constitution Evolves, 2nd Amendment Should, Too: What is standing in the way of the common sense gun regulation that super-majorities of Americans want is not the Second Amendment, it’s politics.
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See also: The Second Amendment, Common Interpretation: Modern debates about the Second Amendment have focused on whether it protects a private right of individuals to keep and bear arms, or a right that can be exercised only through militia organizations like the National Guard https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/interpretation/amendment-ii/interps/99__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2D7wMMgiB33Rojnm5iDIcWOEjvAY2XOAad8rqo3gyDa9WkJsGHytrWoyCNGBYp6jD3USj67bGDnDzF5MSeBPguxN-JBnn88-$
# Law Enforcement
Angela Davis Says Black Activist Anthony Gay Is Jailed on False Charges.
In addition to being punished for his mental illness, advocates say, Gay was punished for advocating for himself. Angela Davis along with anti-racist activists across the country say prominent jailhouse lawyer and Black liberation activist Anthony Gay was falsely convicted for a gun crime in order to send Gay back to prison, where Gay and his supporters say he was tortured in solitary confinement for living with untreated mental illness.
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Ex-CIA director watched torture of prisoner: Gina Haspel observed an interrogation with waterboarding at a Thai black site, court testimony has revealed https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.rt.com/news/556632-cia-haspel-torture-black-site/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2D7wMMgiB33Rojnm5iDIcWOEjvAY2XOAad8rqo3gyDa9WkJsGHytrWoyCNGBYp6jD3USj67bGDnDzF5MSeBPguxN-DbCq-Qr$
10-Year-Old Charged With Orlando Woman’s Memorial Day Murder: The girl’s mother was arguing with the woman when she handed her purse, which contained a firearm, to her daughter.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-06-07/10-year-old-charged-with-2nd-degree-murder-in-womans-death__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2D7wMMgiB33Rojnm5iDIcWOEjvAY2XOAad8rqo3gyDa9WkJsGHytrWoyCNGBYp6jD3USj67bGDnDzF5MSeBPguxN-JrWDnx0$
# Legal / DOJ
A feud between two of Texas’ most prominent justice reformers, Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg and Judge Lina Hidalgo, has exploded into a bitter court case.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2022/06/01/426273/attorneys-for-lina-hidalgo-staffer-ask-judge-to-disqualify-da-kim-ogg-from-contract-investigation/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2D7wMMgiB33Rojnm5iDIcWOEjvAY2XOAad8rqo3gyDa9WkJsGHytrWoyCNGBYp6jD3USj67bGDnDzF5MSeBPguxN-Ku5JSpg$
Kim Ogg Blames Rising Crime on Houston Judges. 14 of Her Prosecutors Are Vying to Unseat Them. The lawyers in the district attorney’s office say they decided to run on their own, reflecting internal Democratic divisions over public safety.
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DOJ’s new policy requires officers to stop others from using excessive
force: The Justice Department is updating its use of force policy for the first time in 18 years, saying explicitly that federal officers and agents must step in if they see other officers using excessive force.
The policy takes effect on July 19.
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Ex-Air Force sergeant given decades-long prison term for killing guard during height of BLM protests: In his guilty plea, Steven Carrillo admitted that he had become an adherent of anti-government ideology and wanted to attack federal law enforcement agents in particular.
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Damning Leaks Provide Grim Preview of Thursday’s January 6 Congressional
Hearing: Thursday better hurry up, lest all the cats bolt the bag before the show even begins.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/articles/damning-leaks-provide-grim-preview-of-thursdays-january-6-congressional-hearing/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2D7wMMgiB33Rojnm5iDIcWOEjvAY2XOAad8rqo3gyDa9WkJsGHytrWoyCNGBYp6jD3USj67bGDnDzF5MSeBPguxN-K623e0A$
# Media
Watch live: Matthew McConaughey joins the White House press briefing https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/07/watch-live-actor-matthew-mcconaughey-joins-white-house-press-briefing-on-guns.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2D7wMMgiB33Rojnm5iDIcWOEjvAY2XOAad8rqo3gyDa9WkJsGHytrWoyCNGBYp6jD3USj67bGDnDzF5MSeBPguxN-JJ5dsvM$
The Washington Post Dumpster Fire Is Still Raging: In this week’s edition of Confider, a multi-front war within WaPo is raging, resulting in the suspension of star reporter Dave Weigel and questions about editorial decisions.
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Journalists in Texas Say Uvalde Police Are Actively Obstructing News
Reporters: Officials in Uvalde face increasing accusations of stonewalling the media. “None of us can ever recall being treated in such a manner and our job impeded in such a manner,” says Nora Lopez, executive editor of San Antonio Express-News https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://truthout.org/video/journalists-in-texas-say-uvalde-police-are-actively-obstructing-news-reporters/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2D7wMMgiB33Rojnm5iDIcWOEjvAY2XOAad8rqo3gyDa9WkJsGHytrWoyCNGBYp6jD3USj67bGDnDzF5MSeBPguxN-Ki28R1p$
# Medical / Health Care
Broken system making it harder for hospitals and patients to get some life-saving drugs. Pharmaceutical companies have stopped producing many life-saving generic drugs because they make too little profit.
Middlemen, the group purchasing organizations and drug distributors take their cut. The drug manufacturers end up with just a small fraction of what the patient pays. Many have simply stopped making the least profitable drugs.
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Microplastics found deep in lungs of living people for first time:
Microplastic pollution has been discovered lodged deep in the lungs of living people for the first time. The particles were found in almost all the samples analysed. Researchers are concerned as microplastics cause damage to human cells in the laboratory https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/apr/06/microplastics-found-deep-in-lungs-of-living-people-for-first-time__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2D7wMMgiB33Rojnm5iDIcWOEjvAY2XOAad8rqo3gyDa9WkJsGHytrWoyCNGBYp6jD3USj67bGDnDzF5MSeBPguxN-LZ_AydS$
They thought they bought Obamacare plans. What they got wasn’t
insurance: In fact, it said it right on her card: “THIS IS NOT INSURANCE.” Passione is one of 10 consumers who told KHN that they thought they were buying insurance but learned later that they had been sold a membership to a Houston-based health care sharing ministry called Jericho Share.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/06/07/1103334082/they-thought-they-bought-obamacare-plans-what-they-got-wasnt-insurance*:*:text=In*20fact*2C*20it*20said*20it,sharing*20ministry*20called*20Jericho*20Share__;I34lJSUlJSUlJSU!!On18fmf1aQ!2D7wMMgiB33Rojnm5iDIcWOEjvAY2XOAad8rqo3gyDa9WkJsGHytrWoyCNGBYp6jD3USj67bGDnDzF5MSeBPguxN-LyWfPsJ$ .
Supreme Court Rules Florida Can Claw Medicaid Costs From Legal Damages:
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that Florida’s Medicaid program can seek reimbursement from lawsuit settlement payments that are allocated for the future care of accident victims.
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Newly-Approved Diabetes Drug Found To Also Boost Weight Loss:
Tirzepatide, sold as Mounjaro, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat type 2 diabetes but a study shows it can also help with weight loss, quite dramatically.
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When is a condition ‘chronic’ and when is it a ‘disability?’ The definition can determine the support you get: “Chronic conditions” and “disability” are not just words. They can determine the funding and supports we can access, how we’re treated and how we feel about ourselves.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/when-is-a-condition-chronic-and-when-is-it-a-disability-the-definition-can-determine-the-support-you-get-183365__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2D7wMMgiB33Rojnm5iDIcWOEjvAY2XOAad8rqo3gyDa9WkJsGHytrWoyCNGBYp6jD3USj67bGDnDzF5MSeBPguxN-BNqWKQt$
You no longer need surgery to be diagnosed with endometriosis: By age 44, endometriosis affects around one in nine women and people assigned female at birth https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/you-no-longer-need-surgery-to-be-diagnosed-with-endometriosis-heres-whats-changed-180246__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2D7wMMgiB33Rojnm5iDIcWOEjvAY2XOAad8rqo3gyDa9WkJsGHytrWoyCNGBYp6jD3USj67bGDnDzF5MSeBPguxN-DFklhoq$
Climate change: Is it time to say goodbye to inhaled anesthesia? A review presented at this year’s Euroanesthesia Congress will address the environmental impact of inhaled anesthetic agents and how we can and should manage without them, or at least massively reduce their use.
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Understanding C. diff infection: Clostridioides difficile is a bacterium that causes an infection of the large intestine. The bacterium is often referred to as C. difficile or C. diff.
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Drug combination shows promise against cancer’s ‘death star’ protein: A drug combination targeting multiple mutant versions of cancer’s “death star” protein has shown promise in a small, early-phase clinical trial for some patients with advanced lung, ovarian and thyroid cancer.
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Babies born to mothers who suffered COVID-19 disease during pregnancy seem to exhibit differences in neurodevelopmental outcomes at 6 weeks, according to a preliminary analysis presented in the 30th European Congress of Psychiatry.
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Research may reveal why people can suddenly become frail in their 70s.
Scientists discover ‘catastrophic’ change in blood cell composition, raising prospect of new therapies to slow ageing process https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jun/01/research-may-reveal-why-people-can-suddenly-become-frail-in-their-70s__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2D7wMMgiB33Rojnm5iDIcWOEjvAY2XOAad8rqo3gyDa9WkJsGHytrWoyCNGBYp6jD3USj67bGDnDzF5MSeBPguxN-LdTkrF8$
Weeks Before Abortion Ban, DeSantis Vetoes Millions in Birth Control Funding.
DeSantis’s veto is ‘just another example of his ongoing cruelty to Floridians,’ one Planned Parenthood official said.
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# Military / Global
Ukraine’s position ‘worsened’ in fight for Severodonetsk: Russian forces have been expanding their footprint in the city, though Ukrainian troops remain in control of its industrial zone https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-war-ukraine-says-its-position-has-worsened-a-little-in-severodonetsk-3041838__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2D7wMMgiB33Rojnm5iDIcWOEjvAY2XOAad8rqo3gyDa9WkJsGHytrWoyCNGBYp6jD3USj67bGDnDzF5MSeBPguxN-Fpx1E_F$
US, South Korea fire 8 missiles in response to North Korea’s unprecedented volley https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2022-06-06/north-korea-eight-ballistic-missiles-6247248.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2D7wMMgiB33Rojnm5iDIcWOEjvAY2XOAad8rqo3gyDa9WkJsGHytrWoyCNGBYp6jD3USj67bGDnDzF5MSeBPguxN-GY2B1Vd$
Another Russian general reported killed in action; Britain pledges rocket systems to Ukraine https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-06-06/russian-general-killed-ukraine-6252137.html__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2D7wMMgiB33Rojnm5iDIcWOEjvAY2XOAad8rqo3gyDa9WkJsGHytrWoyCNGBYp6jD3USj67bGDnDzF5MSeBPguxN-GQHMu3X$
# Science
Body versus brain: New evidence for an autoimmune cause of
schizophrenia: Researchers have identified an autoantibody that appears to cause schizophrenia in some individuals. The findings add to the growing body of evidence that schizophrenia could have an autoimmune component.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://neurosciencenews.com/autoimmune-schziophrenia-20754/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2D7wMMgiB33Rojnm5iDIcWOEjvAY2XOAad8rqo3gyDa9WkJsGHytrWoyCNGBYp6jD3USj67bGDnDzF5MSeBPguxN-Ku-qqzt$
# Social
The Other First Responders: As community violence intervention (CVI) workers, our job was to do anything morally, ethically, and legally possible to interrupt violence and broker peace agreements between rivaling individuals and groups. Community violence workers rarely get attention, but they are often at the front lines of acute violence, and need training and help to cope with trauma, a Chicago study has found.
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://giffords.org/lawcenter/report/on-the-front-lines-elevating-the-voices-of-violence-intervention-workers/__;!!On18fmf1aQ!2D7wMMgiB33Rojnm5iDIcWOEjvAY2XOAad8rqo3gyDa9WkJsGHytrWoyCNGBYp6jD3USj67bGDnDzF5MSeBPguxN-PlX-FJK$
# Water
Water treatment plants already remove 99.9% of nanoplastics from drinking water. Researchers in Switzerland from Eawag Aquatic Research and Zurich Water Works launched a project in 2019 to investigate whether local water treatment plants were up to this 21st-century challenge, and they have good news to share.
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Nebraska’s curious ‘canal to nowhere’ just to own the libs? Nebraska Republicans say a new canal will keep their water from being pilfered by Colorado. Water experts say it won’t really do anything to help the Cornhusker State’s water supplies. What’s going on?
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