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from AP (Associated Press)
LEFT-CENTER BIASED, VERY HIGH, News Agency in New York City
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from Conservative Brief
QUESTIONABLE SOURCE, FAR RIGHT BIAS
The Trump administration has picked up two major immigration victories this week at the U.S. Supreme Court that could play a huge role in November’s election. Now, the Supreme Court has issued a ruling against a George Soros-backed group, Open Society International, which was seeking funding from the United States to battle AIDS/HIV around the world. But, according to a law from 2003, no organization can receive funding that does not have a policy “explicitly opposing prostitution and sex trafficking.” As it turns out, OSI does not have such a policy. It appears that the Soros-backed group was unwilling to adopt such a policy and sued the government over free speech grounds. The court held that the Soros-backed group does not have First Amendment protections because foreign citizens outside the U.S. do not possess Constitutional rights.
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from Detroit News
A Henry Ford Health System study shows the controversial anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine helps lower the death rate of COVID-19 patients, the Detroit-based health system said Thursday. Officials with the Michigan health system said the study found the drug “significantly” decreased the death rate of patients involved in the analysis. The study analyzed 2,541 patients hospitalized among the system’s six hospitals between March 10 and May 2 and found 13% of those treated with hydroxychloroquine died while 26% of those who did not receive the drug died.
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A GODLESS GREAT AWAKENING
Why did millions of Americans don surgical masks, insist on an inviolable national quarantine to keep death at bay, then suddenly remove their masks, take to the streets, and protest in close quarters in the name of racial justice? Hypocrisy is one answer. The desire to unseat President Trump by any available means is another. But neither answer goes deep enough. The explanation is identity politics, a fever making America delirious. Identity politics is an American Awakening without God and without forgiveness. Like Christianity, it seeks to overcome the curse of death. Like Christianity, it seeks to overcome sin. Like Christianity, it recognizes that the problem of sin is deeper than the problem of death, and has precedence over it.
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from The Guardian (UK)
LEFT-CENTER, HIGH, British daily newspaper published in London UK
Scots Gaelic could die out within a decade, study finds
Without radical action, Scots Gaelic will be dead within a decade, according to a study. The language is rarely spoken in the home, little used by teenagers, and used routinely only by a diminishing number of elderly Gaels dispersed across a few island communities in the Hebrides.
'We don't live in a communist country!': battle over masks rages in Texas
Coronavirus cases are rising, but despite the exhortations of health experts, many Texans just don’t want to wear a mask.
Scots Gaelic could die out within a decade, study finds
Without radical action, Scots Gaelic will be dead within a decade, according to a study. The language is rarely spoken in the home, little used by teenagers, and used routinely only by a diminishing number of elderly Gaels dispersed across a few island communities in the Hebrides.
'We don't live in a communist country!': battle over masks rages in Texas
Coronavirus cases are rising, but despite the exhortations of health experts, many Texans just don’t want to wear a mask.
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Reverses Stance, Makes Face Masks Mandatory
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order Thursday for Texans to wear face coverings in public spaces in most regions of the state, walking back prior statements on mandatory mask regulations. The order, effective at noon Friday, calls for all Texas residents in counties with 20 or more COVID-19 cases to wear masks when “it is not feasible to maintain six feet of social distancing from another person not in the same household.” Exceptions include children younger than 10, people eating and exercising outdoors, individuals suffering from medical conditions that prevent them from wearing a mask and people driving alone. “Not excepted from this face covering requirement is any person attending a protest or demonstration involving more than 10 people,” a provision in the order reads. First-time violators of the order will be issued a warning, and further violations may result in punishments not exceeding $250. The order stresses that people cannot be jailed for not wearing a mask.
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Individual who tested positive for COVID-19 being held in Spokane County Jail after refusing to self-isolate
According to a statement from Spokane County, Dr. Lutz and Spokane County Board of Commissioners and Director Mike Sparber attempted to find more appropriate housing for this individual, offering alternative options which included offering corrections officers as guards at the hospital or sending him to a more appropriate isolation facility. These efforts were not successful and it was determined that this individual would be brought to the downtown jail and housed under the medical care of the jail to protect the community.
from Huffington Post
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Reverses Stance, Makes Face Masks Mandatory
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed an executive order Thursday for Texans to wear face coverings in public spaces in most regions of the state, walking back prior statements on mandatory mask regulations. The order, effective at noon Friday, calls for all Texas residents in counties with 20 or more COVID-19 cases to wear masks when “it is not feasible to maintain six feet of social distancing from another person not in the same household.” Exceptions include children younger than 10, people eating and exercising outdoors, individuals suffering from medical conditions that prevent them from wearing a mask and people driving alone. “Not excepted from this face covering requirement is any person attending a protest or demonstration involving more than 10 people,” a provision in the order reads. First-time violators of the order will be issued a warning, and further violations may result in punishments not exceeding $250. The order stresses that people cannot be jailed for not wearing a mask.
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from KHQ Local News (NBC Spokane)
Individual who tested positive for COVID-19 being held in Spokane County Jail after refusing to self-isolate
According to a statement from Spokane County, Dr. Lutz and Spokane County Board of Commissioners and Director Mike Sparber attempted to find more appropriate housing for this individual, offering alternative options which included offering corrections officers as guards at the hospital or sending him to a more appropriate isolation facility. These efforts were not successful and it was determined that this individual would be brought to the downtown jail and housed under the medical care of the jail to protect the community.
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from KING 5 (NBC)
Broadcasting & Media Production Company in Seattle, Washington
No mask, no service: Washington businesses must turn away customers without face masks starting July 7
Washington businesses will be required to turn away customers who aren't wearing a face mask starting July 7, Gov. Jay Inslee announced Thursday. The new statewide order is in response to a surge in coronavirus cases. The proclamation comes almost a week after Inslee's statewide mandate took effect requiring people to wear face masks while in public, both indoors and outdoors where six feet of social distancing is not possible.
No mask, no service: Washington businesses must turn away customers without face masks starting July 7
Washington businesses will be required to turn away customers who aren't wearing a face mask starting July 7, Gov. Jay Inslee announced Thursday. The new statewide order is in response to a surge in coronavirus cases. The proclamation comes almost a week after Inslee's statewide mandate took effect requiring people to wear face masks while in public, both indoors and outdoors where six feet of social distancing is not possible.
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from Mises Institute
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
The Disastrous Legacy of Woodrow Wilson
Princeton University has made it official: Woodrow Wilson’s name no longer will have any place on campus. The former president, or at least his memory, now is part of cancel culture, which is sweeping the nation. The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs will replace the former president’s name with “Princeton,” and Wilson College now will be called First College. This hardly is surprising but in many ways discouraging, but not for reasons that many people might assume. Wilson did, after all, leave a sorry legacy of Jim Crow racial segregation and actively sought to damage if not destroy race relations in the United States, so the drive to remove his name is not a surprise given the wave of renaming and destruction of statues and monuments that has dominated the headlines ever since Minneapolis police killed George Floyd. The reason for discouragement is not that the university where Wilson served as president before becoming president of the United States has “canceled” him for his racism—something that no one ever sought to hide when discussing Wilson’s legacy—but rather the stubborn insistence that despite his racial policies Wilson’s record of pushing progressive legislation as well as his role in bringing the United States into World War I should be considered as pluses for his presidency.
RIGHT-CENTER BIAS, MIXED
The Disastrous Legacy of Woodrow Wilson
Princeton University has made it official: Woodrow Wilson’s name no longer will have any place on campus. The former president, or at least his memory, now is part of cancel culture, which is sweeping the nation. The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs will replace the former president’s name with “Princeton,” and Wilson College now will be called First College. This hardly is surprising but in many ways discouraging, but not for reasons that many people might assume. Wilson did, after all, leave a sorry legacy of Jim Crow racial segregation and actively sought to damage if not destroy race relations in the United States, so the drive to remove his name is not a surprise given the wave of renaming and destruction of statues and monuments that has dominated the headlines ever since Minneapolis police killed George Floyd. The reason for discouragement is not that the university where Wilson served as president before becoming president of the United States has “canceled” him for his racism—something that no one ever sought to hide when discussing Wilson’s legacy—but rather the stubborn insistence that despite his racial policies Wilson’s record of pushing progressive legislation as well as his role in bringing the United States into World War I should be considered as pluses for his presidency.
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from NBC News (& affiliates)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS
Jeffrey Epstein Confidante Ghislaine Maxwell Arrested on Sex Abuse Charges
Prosecutors allege Maxwell helped Epstein traffic and abuse underage girls; he died by suicide awaiting trial last year.
AGIA SOPHIA CAN BECOME A MOSQUE BY PRESIDENTIAL DECREE, SUPREME COURT SAYS IN 20-MINUTE SESSION
Following a session that lasted less than 20 minutes today, the Council of State of Turkey, the country’s highest administrative court, declared that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan can change the status of Agia Sophia with just a presidential decree. The Court met today to consider whether the 1934 decree of President Kemal Ataturk that turned Agia Sophia from a mosque into a museum was legally binding and whether it could be overturned. Just as Ataturk changed the iconic building’s status with a legal decree, so can President Erdoğan, the Council reasoned.
Jeffrey Epstein Confidante Ghislaine Maxwell Arrested on Sex Abuse Charges
Prosecutors allege Maxwell helped Epstein traffic and abuse underage girls; he died by suicide awaiting trial last year.
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from Orthodox Christianity – orthochristian.com
Religious Organization in Moscow, Russia
Following a session that lasted less than 20 minutes today, the Council of State of Turkey, the country’s highest administrative court, declared that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan can change the status of Agia Sophia with just a presidential decree. The Court met today to consider whether the 1934 decree of President Kemal Ataturk that turned Agia Sophia from a mosque into a museum was legally binding and whether it could be overturned. Just as Ataturk changed the iconic building’s status with a legal decree, so can President Erdoğan, the Council reasoned.
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from Rolling Stone
[Information from this site may not be reliable.]
The Radical Solution Tucked Into the House Democrats’ New Climate Plan
The Radical Solution Tucked Into the House Democrats’ New Climate Plan
If the COVID-19 disaster has demonstrated one thing, it’s the terrible human toll of not following the science. Had the advice of U.S. public health experts been followed and mask-wearing and social distancing been required early in the pandemic, tens of thousands of lives would likely have been saved. But one of the not-often-discussed consequences of following the science is that you never know where it will take you. Consider the House Democrats’ just-released climate plan. It’s a smart, ambitious, transformative roadmap to managing the climate crisis and using it to build a better world. David Roberts at Vox has a good rundown of the plan and the politics behind it. Leah Stokes, a professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Short Circuiting Policy, has a great thread on the plan’s policy nuances. But buried on page 535 of the plan is what amounts to a call for a federal geoengineering research program.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
Sue Lani Madsen: Direct democracy and Referendum 90
Direct democracy is a messy business. It bypasses the negotiation of the ideal legislative process, which is supposed to result in compromise everyone can live with. When it fails to meet the ideal, the result can be a referendum to let the people exercise their power. ... Last month, Referendum 90, which would repeal a new law on comprehensive sexual education programs in state schools, broke the record with 264,637 signatures – and sponsors did it with an all-volunteer effort in 90 days during a statewide pandemic shutdown.
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Sue Lani Madsen: Direct democracy and Referendum 90
Direct democracy is a messy business. It bypasses the negotiation of the ideal legislative process, which is supposed to result in compromise everyone can live with. When it fails to meet the ideal, the result can be a referendum to let the people exercise their power. ... Last month, Referendum 90, which would repeal a new law on comprehensive sexual education programs in state schools, broke the record with 264,637 signatures – and sponsors did it with an all-volunteer effort in 90 days during a statewide pandemic shutdown.
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