2022/11/20

Sunday, November 20, 2022 (#324)

Saturday Sunday Monday 2022-11-18 Anti-abortion groups ask U.S. court to pull approval for abortion drugs (h/t) mifepristone under fire... «The lawsuit, filed in Amarillo, Texas, federal court by the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists and others, said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration lacked authority to approve the drug for abortion when it did so in 2000 and that it failed to study its risks for minors adequately.» They, stunningly, claim that this was somehow bad for "women and girls". 2022-11-19 Musk reinstates Trump's Twitter account after poll: the poll was presumably posted by Musk himself, rather than in a way which would alert all Twitter users of its existence (I never saw it, despite checking Twitter several times that day), which of course means it was only seen by people who follow Musk, or follow people who boosted it -- hardly an unbiased sample. 2022-11-20 Trump snubs Twitter after Musk announces reactivation of ex-president's account 2022-10-19 The Atlantic Not Everyone Should Have a Say «To speed up permitting for energy projects, we’ll need to rethink community input.» 2022-11-18 What Qatar Built for the Most Expensive World Cup Ever - Qatar 2022-11-19 Rights group calls for Samuel Alito to be investigated after claims of leaked 2014 ruling «The claim was contained in a New York Times article in which minister Rob Schenck, an anti-abortion activist, said he was told of the decision weeks before it was announced and had used the information to prepare a public relations push.» The decision in question was apparently the decision where Hobby Lobby was not required to provide «certain contraceptives for their female employees». 2022-11-20 Police: 5 dead, 18 hurt in Colorado gay nightclub shooting 2022-11-20 He 'Put Himself Before Everybody Else': Chris Christie Calls On GOP To Dump Trump 2022-11-19 Texas Gov. Abbott Sending Armored Carriers to the Border: nobody knows why, other than the obvious "political messaging stunt" theory which seems the only possible explanation. 2022-11-19 Biden Administration Approves Loan Relief Applicants Amid Pending Program Appeal «The Biden administration started contacting students who have been approved for student loan debt relief...» 2022-11-18 Biden's administration just asked the Supreme Court to reinstate its student-loan forgiveness plan to 'avoid prolonging this uncertainty for the millions of affected borrowers' 2022-11-05 There’s one big subject our leaders at Cop27 won’t touch: livestock farming by George Monbiot 2018-10-11 The Myth of "Service Resistant" People Living Outside: the "most homeless people choose to be homeless" myth («“That’s crazy to me,” says Rhodes, a Street Roots vendor who experienced homelessness in both Seattle and Portland. “Absolutely no one I know enjoys being homeless. It’s offensive.”»; US/OR/Portland 2022-11-20 The 1.5C climate goal died at Cop27 – but hope must not (h/t): they should propose 1.6C instead. 2022-11-20 Vaccine Breakthrough Could Finally Bring COVID to Its Knees (h/t) «Lots of current vaccines target the spike protein. But none of them specifically target the spine helix. And yet, there are good reasons to focus on that part of the pathogen. Whereas many regions of the spike protein tend to change a lot as the virus mutates, the spine helix doesn’t.» 2022-11-19 Arizona County Will Delay Certification of 2022 Election Results After Court Halts Full ‘Hand Recount’ (h/t) «A legal effort in red Cochise County to conduct a full “hand recount” audit of the ballots was legally quelled, due in part to the efforts of Democratic superlawyer Marc Elias.»