NEWS AND COMMENTARY REFERENCE LIST
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subject |
Date/more topic
info |
author |
pub |
title |
url |
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Public health |
22/1/4 |
John Anderer |
StudyFinds |
“Newly
discovered nanoparticle linked to COVID, cancer, dementia” |
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Public health |
22/1/5 |
Colson et al |
Medxriv |
(B.1.640.2
variant southern France, IHU) |
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GLBT |
22/1/5 |
Chris Johnson |
Washington Blade |
(Grenell emails
Trump – decriminalize homosexuality overseas) |
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Environ/issues |
22/1/8 |
Richie Hertzberg |
The Hill |
(Strip mine
reclamation with purple plants) |
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Democracy |
22/1/9 |
Jason Stanley |
Guardian |
America is in
fascism’s legal phase |
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Public Health |
22/1/22 |
Grady McGregor |
Fortune |
What is ‘stealth
Omicron’? The rise of the subvariant is alarming some scientists who say it
needs its own Greek letter |
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Public Health |
22/2/7 |
Melody Screiber |
NPR |
“Discovery of
HIV variant shows virus can evolve to be more severe — and contagious” (Does
not say mode of transmission, blood contact only, has changed) |
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National
security |
22/2/24 |
Eric Lagatta |
Columbus
Dispatch |
“Dublin man
admits to conspiring with 2 other white supremacists to attack U.S. power
grids” |
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Internet
Security |
22/2/26 |
Heather Kelly |
Washington Post |
“Social media
companies push Ukrainian users to add safeguards” |
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GLBT |
22/3/5 |
Barnett/Maass |
EFF |
Ghana’s
anti-LGBTQ bill/Twitter and GB must speak up/bill penalizes even statements
one is gay by anyone |
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GLBT |
22/3/8 |
Alex Cooper |
Advocate |
Russian Orthodox
priest, Pride Parades, and Russia-Ukraine war |
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Internet
Security |
22/3/10 |
Trust Zone |
Trust Zone |
How to unblock
Facebook in Russia with VPN |
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International |
22/3/17 |
Glenn Greenwald |
Substack (subcr) |
The NYT Now
Admits the Biden Laptop - Falsely Called "Russian Disinformation" -
is Authentic |
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International |
22/4/8 |
Ellie Cook |
Express Co |
Russia sends
ominous warning on 'destruction' of Finland in major threat |
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Internet
Security |
22/3/25 |
Chris Stokel Walker |
Business Insider |
How UkraineTakeShelter earned the Ire of the Internet |
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Public health |
22/4/15 Immune
exhaustion |
Nagarkatti |
Conversation |
Why we can’t
‘boost’ our way out of the COVID-19 pandemic for the long term |
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Copyright/speech |
EU
Copyright/directive |
McSherry,Schmon |
EFF |
“The EU's
Copyright Directive Is Still About Filters, But EU’s Top Court Limits Its Use” |
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Right to life |
Leak |
Gerstein/Ward |
Politico |
Supreme Court
has voted to overturn abortion rights, draft opinion shows |
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Copyright/DMCA |
Host/telecom
liability |
Jon Brodkin |
Ars Technica |
“Every ISP in
the US has been ordered to block three pirate streaming services” |
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GLBT |
22/5/11 Trans
treatment |
Aviva Stakl |
BuzzfeedNews |
“Meet The
“Fringe Extremists” Pushing Flawed Science To Target Trans Kids” |
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GLBT |
22/5/11 |
Jon Brown |
Yahoo!Finance |
Rachel Levine's
claim all agree on 'gender-affirming care' is slammed by doctors 'in hiding' |
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GLBT/Roe |
22/5/11 |
Adam Liptak |
NYTimes |
“If Roe Falls,
Is Same-Sex Marriage Next?” |
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Public Health |
22/5/17 Covid _
T cells |
Peng et al |
Frontiers in
Immunology |
“Sharing CD4+ T
Cell Loss: When COVID-19 and HIV Collide on Immune System” |
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Issues/racism |
22/5/17 |
Nicholas Confessire |
NYTimes |
“How Tucker
Carlson Stoked White Fear to Conquer Cable” |
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Issues/filial |
22/5/17 |
Jesse Yeung et
al |
CNN |
Indian couple
sue only son for not giving them grandchildren |
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Public
health/mothers |
22/5/29 |
Melody Schreiber |
Time |
How Parents
Should Handle the Baby Formula Shortage, According to (3) Pediatricians |
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Issues/abortion/replacement |
22/5/29 |
Jasmine
Aguilera, Agibail Abrams |
Time |
What the Buffalo
Tragedy Has to Do with the Effort to Overturn Roe |
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National
security/power grid |
22/5/31 |
Jason Morton |
Medium |
Why A Carrington
Event Would End Life As We Know It And The $7 Trillion It Would Take To Return
To Normal |
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Free
speech/downstream liability |
22/5/31 |
Christoph Schmon and Hadley Petersen |
EFF |
Platform
Liability Trends Around the Globe: From Safe Harbors to Increased
Responsibility |
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Copyright |
22/6/20 |
CCB |
Copyright Claims
Board |
Open to receive
claims as of June 16, 2022 |
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Copyright |
22/6/20 |
Mitch Stolz |
EFF |
Copyright
"Small Claims" Quasi-Court Opens. Here's Why Many Defendants Will Opt Out |
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Copyright |
22/6/20 |
Mitch Stolz |
EFF |
EFF Warns
Another Court About the Dangers of Broad Site-Blocking Orders |
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Public health |
22/6/21 |
Shin Jie Yong |
Medium |
Evidence of
Covid-related Original Antigenic Sin Has Finally Surfaced |
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Public health |
22/6/21 |
Shun Jue Yong (Malaysia) |
Medium |
Effectiveness of
Monkeypox Vaccine Is Questionable, Especially When the Virus Has Mutated |
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Public health |
22/6/21 |
David Axe |
Daily Beast |
This May Be the
COVID Variant Scientists Are Dreading |
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WMDs, public
safety, national security |
22/7/22 |
Laura Strickler
et al |
NBC News |
Ease of
obtaining radioactive materials |
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Public safety,
gun control, standing to sue |
22/7/22 |
Hannah Wiley |
LA Times |
CA passes gun
law parallel to TX abortion ban |
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Public health,
coronavirus origins |
22/7/27 |
Carl Zimmer and
Benjamin Mueller |
NYTimes |
New Research
Points to Wuhan Market as Pandemic Origin |
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Public health,
coronavirus origins |
22/7/27 |
Jen Christiansen |
CNN (there is an article in National
Geographic 2022/8 where I am having difficulty making the subscription pull
it up, caught in a loop) |
New studies
agree that animals sold at Wuhan market are most likely what started Covid-19
pandemic |
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(ret) filial
responsibility laws |
22/7/28 |
Noam Levey |
NPR, All Things
Considered |
Nursing homes
are suing friends and family to collect on patients' bills |
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(iss) Public health coronavirus origin |
22/7/29 |
Laura Ungar |
AP |
New studies
bolster theory coronavirus emerged from the wild |
22/7/26 + TheHill YT rebuttal video |
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(iss)constitutional amending process |
22/8/2 |
Grace Panetta
and Brent F. Griffith |
Business Insider |
Republicans'
next big play is to 'scare the hell out of Washington' by rewriting the
Constitution. And they're willing to play the long game to win. |
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(iss) free speech online (with regard to suddenly
‘illegal’ activity) |
22/7/28 |
Katherine Trendacosta Contains important
sublinks to Wired and Vice for details |
EFF (Electronic
Frontier Foundation) |
Serious issues
with social media and even infrastructural company censorship after SCOTUS
overturns Roe v Wade. |
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(iss) stripmining, climate
change, flooding |
22/8/6 |
Phil McCausland |
NBC News |
Abandoned mines
and poor oversight worsened Kentucky flooding, attorneys say |
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(iss) affirmative action, quotas by race, as a proxy for
diversity in medicine, education |
22/8/5 |
Heather
MacDonald |
Wall Street
Journal |
Woke Medical
Organizations Are Hazardous to Your Health |
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(bill)
risk-sharing, common good, solidarity, individual sacrifice of freedom “the
vulnerable” |
22/7/31 |
Maggie Mills |
Common Dreams |
We Are Not 'In
This Together': The Biden Adminstration's Covid-19
Policy Is Still Killing Vulnerable People |
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(bill) copyright
(transformative fair use?), lghtq, “moral rights” |
22/8/8 |
James Factora |
Them (Conde Nast) |
A Texas Church
Put on an Illegal Hamilton Show with an Anti-LGBTQ+ Sermon |
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(iss) (affirmative action) (reverse discrimination,
reparation) |
22/8/15 |
Philip Caldwell |
Washington Free
Beacon |
Minnesota Public
Schools Changes Rules To Lay Off White Teachers Before Minorities (layoff least senior teacher who is white,
although there is a teacher shortage?) |
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(Last updated: Saturday,
May 7, 2022)