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Author: Kintsugi

  • Kintsugi
  • January 18, 2021

How to Delete 99 Percent of Your Digital Footprint

Joe McKinley Updated: Mar. 06, 2020 It is possible to make yourself “disappear” from the Internet, says Porch.com security expert Robert Siciliano. But, he warns in an infor

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  • January 18, 2021January 18, 2021

We Tried Rotisserie Chickens From 6 Grocery Stores—Here’s Our Favorite

By Sarra Sedghi  The grocery store rotisserie chicken is queen in terms of convenience. The cooked bird is cheaper than a whole raw chicken and elevates the simplest meals. Most important

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  • January 13, 2021January 13, 2021

Visualizing the U.S. Population by Race

By Iman Ghosh The American population is a unique mosaic of cultures—and almost 40% of people identify as racial or ethnic minorities today. In this treemap, we use data for 2019 f

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  • January 13, 2021

Has the President Committed Treason?

What is sedition? According to the Cambridge Dictionary, sedition is “language or behaviour that is intended to persuade other people to oppose their government”. While Donald Trump currently h

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  • January 13, 2021January 13, 2021

Worse Than Treason

No amount of rationalizing can change the fact that the majority of the Republican Party is advocating for the overthrow of an American election. JANUARY 4, 2021 Tom Nichols Author of&nbs

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  • January 4, 2021January 4, 2021

Plus-Size Clothing Should Fit Women’s Bodies, So Why Is That So Often Not The Case?

By Gianluca Russo Dec. 15, 2020 The art of finding the perfect fit clearly is costly, from collecting data to the process of hiring fit models. As Chan explains, there is so much that goes int

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  • January 4, 2021

Thinking About Post-Covid Travel?

Global Entry Application and Interview: How Not to Screw It Up By now, you’ve learned all the differences between Global Entry and TSA PreCheck, and are ready to bite the bullet and commit t

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  • January 4, 2021January 4, 2021

What are Your Goals for 2021?

We see over and over that we make resolutions at the start of the new year. Resolutions that are rarely kept, but sound good when we are struggling with them. I have goals. Here are mine for 2021.

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  • January 4, 2021January 4, 2021

20 Cookbooks for 2020

At the end of the year, people spend a lot of time writing lists of “the best of” so I am thinking about my “best of” list. Cooking has kept me sane when I wanted to be crazy, well, not wan

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  • December 30, 2020December 30, 2020

Who was the real Jesus? Here’s what archaeology tells us.

BY KRISTIN ROMEY PHOTOGRAPHS BY SIMON NORFOLK (This is why I subscribe to Nat Geo! This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.)

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  • December 30, 2020

Rockefeller Foundation built on a fossil-fuel fortune becomes largest philanthropist to shun oil investments

By  Rachel Koning Beals Dec. 19, 2020 The Rockefeller Foundation, a 107-year-old philanthropy built by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, says it will completely break with the fossil-fuel indust

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  • December 30, 2020December 30, 2020

10 Hiding Spots Burglars Always Look First

Marissa Laliberte Under the mattress Bedroom closet Dresser drawers Portable safe Medicine cabinet Read more HERE.

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  • December 30, 2020

A Black doctor alleged racist treatment before dying of covid-19: ‘This is how Black people get killed’

Fenit Nirappil – The Washington Post – Thursday, December 24, 2020 Struggling to breathe and pausing between sentences, Susan Moore mustered enough energy to record herself from her hospital be

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  • December 30, 2020December 30, 2020

The secret history of black Santas

By Brian Wheeler BBC News, Washington DC Published 9 December 2016 In the overheated post-election atmosphere, Santa Claus is seen by some as another cherished cultural institution under attac

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  • December 30, 2020

New Labor Department rule would let employers distribute tips more widely.

Dec. 22, 2020, 6:42 p.m. ET Dec. 22, 2020 By Noam Scheiber Under the so-called tip pools authorized by the new rule, the tips of waiters and waitresses can be shared with back-of-the-house wor

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NY Times

  • Lesson Learned From Iran War: Reduce Reliance on Strait of Hormuz
  • Triumph of the Tasteless
  • 2 Deadly Earthquakes Hit Venezuela, and Why Chemo Drugs Could Soon Be Rationed
  • Iraq’s New Leader Faces Resistance Trying to Bring Militias Under State Control
  • U.S. Inflation Problems Are Far From Over
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NPR

  • A volunteer otter watcher helped make a scientific discovery
  • Leading Lebanese conservationist dies after an Israeli airstrike on her home
  • Butterflies may hold clues to longer lives
  • A new app could help streamline loon data by enabling citizens to log observations
  • A new study rewrites the history of the plague
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The Progressive

  • Queer Media Workers Navigate an Uncertain Landscape
  • The U.S. Supreme Court May Continue the Culture War Around Religion and LGBTQ+ Personhood
  • Mohammad Sabaaneh’s Desperate and Defiant Vision
  • When a Bullet Enters an Ordinary Moment
  • Trump’s Deal with Iran Is Good Enough
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FactCheck.org

  • How Trump’s Preliminary Deal with Iran Compares with His Rhetoric
  • No Evidence for Trump’s Right to Try Claim
  • The Shaky Assumptions Behind Trump’s Over $500 Billion in Projected Drug Savings
  • Trump Makes Unsupported Claims About Drug Flows
  • Trump’s Inaccurate Anecdote on ‘Right to Repair’ Cars
https://youtu.be/FA8AZSMEOD0?si=uBmpaQx4ZdqASMpy

Snopes.com

  • Don't fall for fake image of Donald and Ivanka Trump with Epstein
  • Investigating claim Trump got exclusive access to potent obesity drug retatrutide
  • Did JPMorgan Chase fire DEI executive who stole Knicks trash can? What we know
  • Trump blamed 'vandals' for reflecting pool damage without providing evidence
  • Misleading posts compare Obama Presidential Center's ID requirement to voter ID laws
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Tradeoffs

  • With Millions Expected to Lose Coverage, States Look for New Ways to Prevent Medical Debt
  • Medicaid Overhaul Complicates States’ Plans to Bring Care Into Jails and Prisons
  • Where Did the No Surprises Act Go Wrong? And Can It Be Fixed?
  • Mental Health Courts Offer People Facing Prison an Imperfect Alternative
  • A Closer Look at a Widely Despised Health Insurance Policy
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