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Year: 2022

  • Prof Patty
  • January 23, 2022January 23, 2022

More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation.

By Julie Zauzmer Weil, Adrian Blanco and Leo Dominguez 1/10/22 From the founding of the United States until long after the Civil War, hundreds of the elected leaders writin

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  • Prof Patty
  • January 20, 2022January 20, 2022

Enjoy 5 Days of Free Admission to America’s National Parks in 2022

According to an NPS release, the annual free admission days “are designed to encourage discovery and visitation of the country’s variety of national parks. With at least one in e

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  • Prof Patty
  • January 20, 2022

Biggest Social Security Changes for 2022

by John Waggoner, AARP, December 28, 2021  5.9 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to monthly retirement checks and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) checks.  Medicare Par

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  • Prof Patty
  • January 20, 2022

78 Riddles for Adults That Will Test Your Smarts

Hedy Phillips Updated: Nov. 22, 2021 Two in a corner, one in a room, zero in a house, but one in a shelter. What am I? Go HERE for the answer, and more stumpers.

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  • Prof Patty
  • January 20, 2022

31 Things to Get Rid of in January

old or expired makeup (toss most used makeup after 3 months) kitchen appliances you don’t use (ice cream makers, special waffle irons, cake pop makers, bread machines, etc.) fast food stuff (sauc

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  • Prof Patty
  • January 20, 2022

Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit

I Fell in Love with Dried Beans So Much I Joined a Bean Club  By Stacey Ballis December 28, 2021 Canned beans are a great time-saver, but it can be difficult sometimes to get the rig

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  • Prof Patty
  • January 20, 2022January 20, 2022

Want to help kids thrive? Focus on these 5 aspects of health

By Lois M. Collins@Loisco  Jan 4, 2022, 10:00pm MST While experts have known for years that children do best when they get plenty of sleep, a new study from BYU published in the jour

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  • Prof Patty
  • January 20, 2022January 20, 2022

Neiman Marcus Cookies

Makes about 12-15 cookies. Ingredients ½ cup butter ½ cup sugar ½ cup plus 3 tbsp brown sugar 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla 1 cup and 2 tbsp flour ½ tsp baking powder ½ tsp baking soda ½ tsp salt 1 ¼

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  • Prof Patty
  • January 20, 2022January 20, 2022

Did you know…

Maya Angelou Becomes First Black Woman on a Quarter Lawsuit Says 16 Elite Colleges Are Part of Price-Fixing Cartel (including 2 of my alma maters) The Red Cross says there’s a blood shortage nat

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  • Kintsugi
  • January 17, 2022January 17, 2022

Zora Neale Hurston

Novelist, folklorist, dramatist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston wrote in her memoir, Dust Tracks on a Road, that she was born on January 7, 1891, in Eatonville, Florida,

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  • Kintsugi
  • January 17, 2022January 17, 2022

These 5 Walmart, Kroger, ALDI and Other Grocery Store Foods Are Being Pulled From Shelves

BY AMANDA MCDONALD JANUARY 10, 2022 Packaged Salads Beef Sticks  Infant Formula Read the entire list HERE.

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  • Kintsugi
  • January 17, 2022January 17, 2022

Freebies To Grab In Early 2022 That Will Make You Oh-So Happy

By Katie Smith December 27, 2021 You can check out free samples in a variety of categories, including beauty and food, at Freeflys. There is a free sandwich from Jimmy John’s in your future

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  • Kintsugi
  • January 17, 2022January 17, 2022

Sidney Poitier, First Black Man to Win Best Actor Oscar and a Titan of Cinema, Dead at 94

By Alynda Wheat (@AlyndaWheat) Updated January 07, 2022 10:57 AM Poitier died Thursday evening. With a staggering list of accolades, including an Academy Award, a Presidential Medal of Fr

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  • Kintsugi
  • January 17, 2022

Marian Anderson

Famed contralto Marian Anderson made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 7, 1955, as Ulrica in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera. She was the first

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  • Kintsugi
  • January 17, 2022January 17, 2022

11 Things in Your Freezer You Should Toss Out

Carrie Madormo Updated: Dec. 21, 2021 Smelly ice cubes Forgotten freezer meals Stale coffee beans Freezer-burned meat Unrecognizable leftovers Read the entire list HERE. Originally P

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NY Times

  • Here’s What the New Virginia House Map Looks Like
  • Here’s Where the National Fight Over Gerrymandered Maps Stands
  • With $116 Million Gift, National Gallery Will Send Its Art Around Nation
  • Federal Appeals Court Upholds Texas Ten Commandments Law
  • Serial Rapist Pleads Guilty to 2 Murders After Chewed Gum Links DNA to Crimes

NPR

  • Instead of civil war, a naked mole rat colony changed queens peacefully
  • A mine despoiled the beauty of the rainforest. This Goldman Prize winner took action
  • The Little Probe That Could: Why Voyager 1 Matters, and Why NASA Just Switched Part of It Off
  • Photos: How overfishing in Southeast Asia is an ecological and human crisis
  • How a Japanese poet's diary helps scientists reconstruct solar cycles

The Progressive

  • No Place Like Home
  • Trump’s High Gas Prices Are No Accident
  • Community Solar Puts People in Charge
  • On Chicago’s Trains, Homeless Outreach Workers Meet People Where They Are
  • Citizen Journalists Shine a Light on Gaza

FactCheck.org

  • We Won a Webby People’s Voice Award
  • What Do We Know About ‘Birth Tourism’?
  • Elon Musk Amplifies Baseless Claim About COVID-19 Vaccine
  • An Attack Over ICE in the Massachusetts Democratic Senate Race
  • Politicians Say Glyphosate Weedkiller Causes Cancer But Evidence Not Clear-Cut

Snopes.com

  • Is John Thune 'no longer considering' SAVE America Act in Senate, as Rep. Anna Paulina Luna claimed?
  • Image claiming to show Trump's intact ear after assassination attempt is fake. Here's proof
  • Photo shows Israeli soldier smashing Jesus statue in Lebanon
  • Unpacking WSJ report claiming aides kept Trump out of Situation Room during rescue of two US airmen in Iran
  • State Department reportedly sent $1.25B to Trump's Board of Peace. Officials stay mum

Tradeoffs

  • Should People Who Want GLP-1s Have to Work for Them?
  • High Health Care Costs Are Fueling a New Fight Over Old Laws
  • Trump's Pick to Quiet the Chaos at HHS
  • Generic Drugs Head to the Supreme Court
  • Inside the Urgent Care Boom

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