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Joe Biden’s Mask Mandate Is Only The Beginning

Syracuse University Warns Students That They May Be Punished For Not Acting To Confront “Bias Motivated” Speech or Conduct

Insane Model Means Colorado’s COVID-19 Policies Are Essentially Based On Tarot Cards

Insect apocalypse? Not so fast, at least in North America

Local Residents Push Back Against Violence, Looting In Neighborhoods Across The Country

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Xi calls on Chinese not to waste food as crop shortage fears grow

Foxconn says trade war means China can no longer be ‘the world’s factory’

Who Owned the Chemicals that Blew Up Beirut? No One Will Say

More companies are adopting paid menstrual leave policies

Its not cultural appropriation when they do it. Snark aside, I wish they had focused more on the guy recreating American work wear from the 50s How Japan Copied American Culture and Made it Better

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What’s wrong with the mail

Coming soon, to a country near you Note: UK deaths per million are at 685 and US is at 500. Assuming (and it is a dangerous assumption for a couple of reasons) that we hit the drop off point at similar level then we have a ways to go yet. Sweden seems to have hit it around the 570 mark and we are a lot closer to that. But a lot depends on how you count COVID deaths among other things.

Report: New York State’s Corona Nursing Home Deaths Under-Counted By Thousands

NPR fires weatherman for comparing Seattle riots to Germany in 1938 on his personal blog

Nothing noteworthy in this article except the chart was kinda of cool. Why Beirut’s ammonium nitrate blast was so devastating

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The price of peace: Why Japan scrapped a $4.2bn US missile system

Why Are Children Less Susceptible to COVID-19?

Arrest of Wagner Mercenaries in Belarus: Foiled Coup or Political Theater?

When Poland saved Europe

If clear chains of command and simple clear ideas are the key to success, what does this interview tell you? A View from the CT Foxhole: Chris Costa, Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism

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Seattle Mayor Again Blames Trump After Rioters Blew Open a Police Station Using a Van Full of Explosives. I know it seems like it is just Conservative media saying things like this but with the New York Times starts publishing things like Abolish the Police? Those Who Survived the Chaos in Seattle Aren’t So Sure you know the tipping point is starting to be reached.

DOE RFI for Trump Executive Order on Bulk-Power System Grapples with National Security Implications of Evolving U.S. Electrical Grid

There’s a Mountain of Evidence That Hydroxychloroquine Is an Effective Treatment for COVID-19 VS Statement from Yale Faculty on Hydroxychloroquine and its Use in COVID-19

Travel updates: Spain cracks down on nightclubs and Paris tightens face mask laws

Should Judge Sullivan Be Disqualified from Flynn Case? An Appeals Court Is Asking

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Binaries for Me, Spectrums for Thee

Read it before it is taken down. AUGUST 6, 2020 HEALTH OFFICER STATEMENT

How Bill Gate Thinks. Most of it is what you would expect but this part did jump out at me. There’s this thing where the health worker jams the deep turbinate, in the back of your nose, which actually hurts and makes you sneeze on the healthy worker. We showed that the quality of the results can be equivalent if you just put a self-test in the tip of your nose with a cotton swab. The FDA made us jump through some hoops to prove that you didn’t need to refrigerate the result, that it could go back in a dry plastic bag, and so on.

The Coronavirus Moralizing Has to Stop

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Lebanon’s Chernobyl moment

Study questions benefit of cholesterol drugs

Baby Boomers Are Experiencing Greater Cognitive Decline Than Previous Generations, Study Finds

They will be asking a for a bail out soon because they are broke due to no tourism industry and everyone wanting to leaveCheckpoints will be set up at New York City’s tunnels and bridges to trace travelers from 35 COVID hotspot states and enforce 14-day quarantine – and anyone who flouts it risks a $10,000 fine

Police body camera footage proves George Floyd’s death is not as simple as the media say it is