Новости за 01.08.2022

For almost an hour, punctuated by my occasional question, Democrat Lucas Kunce hammered home the theme that animates his uphill Senate campaign—the economic “gutting” of his home state of Missouri by greedy corporations and their political enablers.

Joe Manchin hit all five political talk shows Sunday, touting aspects of the Inflation Reduction Act that most Democrats would much rather gloss over—notably, $5 billion to upgrade some coal plants. That pales in comparison to the $370 billion the bill would spend on climate-related measures, but it’s the kind of payoff that the West Virginia senator has the power to demand and get.

I’ve been making some lifestyle changes this past year. First I went vegan. I’d been vegetarian for a decade and a half, but I’ve always loved cheese so much that taking that next step seemed impossible. When I decided to give it a real try last winter, several friends and family members—knowing my passion for dairy—scoffed that I, of all people, could ever stick to a vegan diet. But it turned out to be a perfectly easy transition.

With its June decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization denying the constitutional right to abortion, the Supreme Court introduced a whole host of new and reasonable fears about abortion access and technology. The sheer scale of the data that computers, phones, and other devices collect from users on behalf of tech platforms expands the reach of the law into what was believed to be legally protected territory: if, when, and how to choose to have a child.

The latest phony overdose via so-called “fentanyl exposure”—a bogus epidemic that’s supposedly raged for five years, primarily among cops—included a few telling details you may have missed. In the newest story, a Kentuckian mother of six picked up a dollar from a gas station floor and was instantaneously struck by an alarming array of symptoms that left her and her helpless onlooking husband in fear for her life. Briefly, perhaps, he even feared for his own: The powder the couple insisted must... Читать дальше...