On Sparks Before the Prairie Fire

Greeley nursing home residents protest pandemic lockdown: “I’d rather die of COVID than loneliness”

Intel: Turkish F-16s spotted on runway in Azerbaijan

The Great Barrington Declaration and the “modified Swedish approach”

Saudis to Palestinians: Stop being losers and cut a deal — or else;

Daylight reveals the damage to businesses and homes after last night’s rioting in Wauwatosa, WI

Scarlet fever is making a comeback after being infected with a toxic virus, researchers say

California Governor’s office: When you go out to eat, wear a mask ‘in between bites’

15 Percent of Tibet’s Population Transferred to Chinese Training Centers as Mass Labor Program Expands: Report

Russia’s Curious Silence in Nagorno Karabakh: Missing in Action or Biding Its Time?

Do Masks Really Work? Here’s What the Charts Tell Us

‘Long Covid’: Why are some people not recovering?

Stats Hold a Surprise: Lockdowns May Have Had Little Effect on COVID-19 Spread

Bedouins in Egypt retreat to more traditional way of life to face COVID-19

What Germany’s Coronavirus Response Has Taught Us

What Destroyed All of the Major Bronze Age Cities?

This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic

Another story that shocks only because it appears in the New York Times. Vilified Early Over Lax Virus Strategy, Sweden Seems to Have Scourge Controlled

Is The War Over Nagorno-Karabakh Already At A Stalemate?

When a conflict stalemates, you can either wind it down or wind it up….. Cities Under Fire as Armenia-Azerbaijan Fighting Intensifies

The Surgisphere Scandal: What Went Wrong?

American Hostage’s Family Blasts Star NY Times Reporter’s ‘Lies’

India Staggers Under the Coronavirus Burden

The migrants, mostly young men, say they are trying to escape poverty made worse by the coronavirus pandemic. Mexico believes their arrival is linked to the upcoming US elections.

Biden Said 6,114 Military Service Members Died From Covid. The Real Number Is 7.

Inside Minnesota’s COVID Morgue

The shocker is that this is in the New York Times. The Truth About Today’s Anarchists

Here’s The Latest On Federal Agencies’ Targeted Harassment Of The Federalist

I wonder how much of this is straight reporting and how much is slander. Inside a California Covid Revolt

Armenian PM Claims Evidence of Turkish Support for Azerbaijan

Seriously? Moderator of Second Presidential Debate Served as an Intern for Joe Biden

Guess How the Times Knows So Much About Tax Losses Trump Uses

GCHQ discovered ‘nationally significant’ vulnerability in Huawei equipment

War Between Armenia and Azerbaijan Threatens to Drag in Bigger Participants Also Russia Says Syria, Libya Fighters Deployed to Karabakh Conflict

Virginia Forces Christian Ministries to Adopt ‘Government Ideology’ or Pay $100K

Why I’m Leaving California

Where’s The Pork? Mapping $2.3 Trillion in Federal Grants (FY2017–FY2019) | OpenTheBooks Oversight Report

Filipinos make up 4% of nurses in the US, but 31.5% of nurse deaths from COVID-19

The AP Stylebook Now Doesn’t Want a Riot to Be Called a ‘Riot’

How the NFL is playing through COVID-19, and in the process, exposing the ‘casedemic’

This post buries the lead. You have to get half way through before you read….. Here’s what they did: They bought insurance. And it wasn’t only these two chit-chatters who bought insurance — it was the entire department and, moreover, they bought the insurance on the taxpayers’ dime:

AP Analysis: Dark days ahead for Lebanon as crisis bites

The thing that is not spelled out (because the author supports Trump?) is the most likely reason he was able to roll the money forward is deferred losses. I have always thought that the main reason Trump did not want to show his tax returns is that they show he was not as great a businessman as he likes to portray himself. People are misreading the New York Times’ article about Trump’s taxes

Heavy Losses as Armenia-Azerbaijan Defy Calls for Calm