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Trade masks for body armor? First news out of California this morning was a magnitude 4.2 earthquake rumbling off the coast about 10 miles south of Malibu Beach: The fire department “completed a strategic 470 square-mile survey of the City of Los Angeles following the 4.2M earthquake near Malibu. No damage or injuries were reported and normal operational mode has resumed,” it said. Relax, Southern California. Just another earthquake. Not another mass shooting. The latter will be along presently. You know, “normal operational mode.” CNN reported on the epidemic mass shootings already this year: The scenes of agony and horror are increasingly all too familiar in America. In fact, 39 mass shootings have taken place across the country in just the first three weeks of 2023, per the Gun Violence Archive. Communities from Goshen, California, to Baltimore, Maryland, are reeling while others brace for the possibility of such violence in their own backyards.
Musk afirmou que o problemático piloto automático seria ‘a diferença entre a Tesla valer muito dinheiro ou basicamente zero’.
The post Exclusivo: Vídeo mostra acidente de carro da Tesla horas após Elon Musk anunciar ‘piloto automático’ appeared first on The Intercept.
1. Angel Cake
2. Just Like Heaven
3. Genoise Sponge
4. A Japanese Dream
5. Charlotte Sometimes
6. Charlotte Royale
7. Icing Sugar
8. Mirror Glaze
9. Piggy in the Mirror
10. Cornish Pasties
11. Baked Alaska
12. Fire in Cairo
13. Black Forest Gateau
14. A Forest
15. The Hanging Garden
16. Small Edible Flowers
17. The Caterpillar
18. Clootie Dumpling
19. The Baby Screams
20. Syllabub
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Foods from The Great British Bake Off: 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13, 16, 18, 20
Songs by The Cure: 2, 4, 5, 9, 12, 14, 15, 17, 19
Both: 7
Welcome to my Wednesday Blog, back after a short haitus of nothing much going on. But now… The Wild Cards: Drawing of Cards Trade Paperback is Out Now! The collected volume of #1-#4 of Wild Cards: Drawing of Cards by myself and artists Mike Hawthorne and Enid Balam is in your comic and book stores now. I’m ... Read More
Lobbyists for tech giants asked Congress to focus less on Facebook, Google, and Amazon. Congress was happy to oblige.
The post Big Tech to Congress: Listen to Taylor Swift and Go After Ticketmaster, Not Us appeared first on The Intercept.
Former CIA analyst Fulton Armstrong told The Guardian that, in Cuba, “a lot of the so-called independent journalists are indirectly funded by the US”. They spread anti-government disinformation with the support of the NED.
The post US Funds ‘Independent Journalism’ in Cuba to Spread Propaganda, Ex-Spy Admits appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Despite the "trust the science" mantra during the current pandemic, everyone should expect to see the data, all of it, minus any selective gloss. Who pays and for what makes a difference.
The Good Law Project and MPs have fired off a complaint to the Charity Commission alleging major rule breaches by the Global Warming Policy Foundation
Labour’s announcement that it would abolish the UK’s unelected second chamber is a headline-grabbing idea with little thought of the problems involved, writes AC Grayling
The West’s recent approval of more military assistance for Kiev risks nuclear nightmare, fails Ukrainian expectations and rebukes the World War II history enshrined in a prominent Soviet war memorial in Berlin.
The post Scott Ritter: The Nightmare of NATO Equipment Being Sent to Ukraine appeared first on scheerpost.com.
Despite the lack of universal healthcare coverage in the US, the country spends significantly more on healthcare related costs than comparable countries.
The post Debt, Overcrowding, or Death: America’s Very Broken Healthcare System appeared first on scheerpost.com.
And the Non-Binary and Transgender Folks Among Us, Too.
The post Who Will Speak Up for My Child, the Drag Queen? appeared first on scheerpost.com.
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost It took almost 10 years of teaching before I finally grasped the extent to which secondary American history textbooks fostered misunderstanding and confusion. The depth of the problem became apparent following class discussions of a 12-page reading assignment on the “Origins of the Cold War.” When I made […]
The post Missing Links: The Legacy of Textbook History appeared first on scheerpost.com.
- by Karen Levy
- by Psyche Film
In the second episode of Dissent, host Jordan Smith and Elizabeth Wydra of the Constitutional Accountability Center discuss how the independent state legislature theory could upend democracy.
The post Dissent Episode Two: Judicial Adventurism appeared first on The Intercept.
- by Derek Scott
3 cups chopped cooked corned beef3 cups chopped cooked potatoes¼ cup chopped onion½ cup milkSalt and pepper¼ cup fat or cooking oilQuick Tomato Sauce, see below Combine corned beef and next 3 ingredients. Season to taste with salt and paper. Heat fat in a skillet. Spread corned beef mixture evenly in skillet; heat and brown […]
Another week, another case where the Metropolitan Police is accused of failing to take timely action to protect women from a serial rapist. Sian Norris reports
At a 2022 event, Tisha Emerson discussed encouraging more women undergraduates to study economics by promoting feelings of relevance and belonging, plus a growth mindset.
The post-war story of industrial relations is one of change. Trade union membership was high in the 1950s, and a significant number of those members were Tory voters. When Churchill came back into office in 1951, he took a cautious approach in search of stabilising the wounded post-war economy. Despite significant but localised unrest in […]
Kudos to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) for having excelled once again with such acuity.