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Author: Prof Patty

  • Prof Patty
  • November 23, 2020November 23, 2020

How to Celebrate Thanksgiving Safely

Writing in Well, the NY Times newsletter, Tara Parker-Pope says, “It’s time to double down on your pandemic safety precautions. Our country is entering a dark phase of the coronavirus

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  • Prof Patty
  • November 21, 2020November 21, 2020

What Trump’s Refusal To Concede Says About American Democracy

By Perry Bacon Jr. At nearly 2:30 a.m. Wednesday, the morning after Election Day 2016, the Associated Press declared Donald Trump the winner of the presidential election. Around

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  • Prof Patty
  • November 21, 2020

CDC recommends against Thanksgiving travel amid surge of coronavirus cases

Brittany Shammas November 19, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. EST With Thanksgiving a week away and coronavirus cases exploding nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday re

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  • November 21, 2020November 21, 2020

Kenosha: How two men’s paths crossed in an encounter that has divided the nation

By Joyce Sohyun Lee, Robert O’Harrow Jr., Elyse Samuels NOVEMBER 19, 2020 In a summer roiled by protests for racial justice, Kenosha, Wis., moved into the national spotlight i

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  • November 21, 2020November 5, 2025

When Will We Throw Our Masks Away? I Asked Dr. Fauci

By Elisabeth Rosenthal Nov. 19, 2020 As a health journalist, a physician and a former foreign correspondent who lived through SARS in Beijing, I often get questions from friends, colleagu

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  • Prof Patty
  • November 21, 2020

13 Mistakes That Shorten Your Laptop’s Life

Marissa Laliberte Updated: Dec. 18, 2019 You never turn it off. You don’t use a surge protector. Too many programs launch when you boot your computer up You never bothered to install antivir

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  • November 21, 2020November 21, 2020

Of Course White Women Voted for Trump Again

By Angelina Chapin@angelinachapin One of the most notable trends to emerge from the 2016 presidential election was the large number of white women who helped solidify Donald Trump’s victory.

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  • Prof Patty
  • November 21, 2020

7 Things You Won’t See in Target Anymore

Deniz Sahinturk Updated: Jun. 17, 2020 Are you a fan of Target? (I am.) Then you’ve probably noticed your shopping trips look a bit different than used to. Due to new health and safety regul

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  • Prof Patty
  • November 21, 2020

The Texas governor who refused to concede after losing a bitter election

Gillian Brockell November 16, 2020, at 7:00 a.m. EST The incumbent refused to concede. He had lost reelection, by a lot, but he claimed it was only because of election fraud. He appealed his case t

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  • November 21, 2020

Do you know (11/17)…

That the December 2020 issue of O Magazine will be the last print issue? That President Trump has yet to concede, even though it is clear that Vice-President Elect Biden has won? “That

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  • November 21, 2020November 21, 2020

‘It’s not real’: In South Dakota, which has shunned masks and other COVID rules, some people die in denial, nurse says

Joel Shannon USA TODAY South Dakota’s high rates of COVID-19 and low virus regulation have sparked criticism even as some dying of the virus there don’t believe it

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  • Prof Patty
  • November 20, 2020

The lowest-paid workers in higher education are suffering the highest job losses

By Danielle Douglas-Gabriel and Alyssa Fowers November 17, 2020 at 10:45 a.m. EST Eugenia Bradford believed her job was safe. After all, she was the only administrative assistant for college advisi

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  • November 20, 2020

Victor Glover will be the first Black crew member on the space station.

By Allyson Waller Nov. 15, 2020, 3:34 p.m. ET In the 20-some years that people have been living aboard the International Space Station, its extended crew has never included a Black astron

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  • November 20, 2020November 20, 2020

The Abnormal Presidency

In a sense, the election was a referendum on Trump’s norm-breaking. Now, as Trump shatters yet another norm by refusing to accept the result of the vote count, the office’s structural weakness,

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  • Prof Patty
  • November 20, 2020November 20, 2020

Watch Out for Salt

Frozen and canned foods are often high in sodium. Read every label. Try to eat fresh, unprocessed foods. Look out for things like pizza and prepared sandwiches. Deli meats and cheeses can be very h

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NY Times

  • Stocks in Record Territory as Investors Shake Off Worries
  • Talks With Iran to Reopen Strait of Hormuz Make Progress, Officials Say
  • The New York City Parking Sticker of Shame Is Back
  • The Suicide Crisis in Wyoming
  • Man Arrested on Suspicion of Arson in Spokane Wildfire
https://youtu.be/PrM5Te05Xmg?si=0u9np_T2c0cLK0L3

NPR

  • Medicaid work rule leaves homeless people in the cold
  • Photos: Wildfires in Spokane lead to thousands of evacuations
  • What would it take to get peptides on the shelf?
  • Defunct part of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will slam into the moon
  • Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky
https://youtu.be/EAys2d29EXo?si=91f17xP95m4KfIls

The Progressive

  • Editor’s Note: Smoking Mirrors
  • Youth-Led Homs Film Society Looks to Rebuild a Divided Syria
  • Anti-Hunger Groups in Connecticut Champion Long-Term Solutions
  • The Urgent Water Crisis in Gaza
  • How ‘The Odyssey’ Was Lost In Translation
https://youtu.be/N82Nk7DIlrA?si=ONHe-_8fZiwYSfSS

FactCheck.org

  • Trump’s Continued Claims of Vandalism at Reflecting Pool Disputed by U.S. Attorney Memo
  • Paul Distorts Fauci’s Diary Entry About COVID-19 and Wet Market
  • Major Driver of Worsening Canadian Wildfires Is Climate Change, Not Forest Mismanagement
  • One Big Beautiful Bill Not (Yet) Driving ACA, Medicaid Declines
  • Trump’s Numbers, July 2026 Update
https://youtu.be/lw037FQ39dg?si=BB5YmOTjtcgXNBjK

Snopes.com

  • Is Trump administration ending Medicare Part D subsidy program?
  • Can Fauci plead the Fifth after Biden pardon? Why it's a legal gray area
  • 8 misleading Fauci claims we've fact-checked
  • CDC didn't say COVID-19 vaccines are 'largest carcinogenic exposure in history'
  • Katie Miller, who called for Fauci's imprisonment, got medical advice from him in 2020
https://youtu.be/5IdfKPqDoQ8?si=3mvpZ-wUPied3C3J

Tradeoffs

  • Meet the Man Launching Trump's Medicaid Work Requirements Months Early
  • A Wyoming Doctor’s Fight to Keep Abortion Legal in Her Deep Red State
  • Call to Mind: Immigration and the Challenge to Belong
  • As Drama at Trump's FDA Subsides, Doubts and Damage Linger
  • Making Medical Decisions with Uncertain Science
https://youtu.be/ZtFJ1NnaJj8?si=X_zFEtGkxkTwMKc8

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