NEWS AND COMMENTARY REFERENCE LIST
Here is a list of news articles and commentaries or editorial opinions that I’d like visitors to pay attention to.
I’ll present them in reverse chronological order without comment.
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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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(iss) climate change |
22/8/23 |
Matthew Cappuccim Capital Weather Gang |
Washington Post |
Five 1,000-year rain events have struck the U.S. in five weeks. Why? |
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(int) Russian aggression |
22/9/21 |
Patrick Smith |
NBC News |
Putin mobilizes more troops for Ukraine war, threatens nuclear retaliation and backs annexation of Russian-occupied land |
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(Last updated: Saturday, May 7, 2022)