📰 King Charles III has cancer and is receiving treatment, Buckingham Palace says

"... The palace says the cancer is not related to the king’s recent treatment for a benign prostate condition. It did not say what form of cancer the 75-year-old monarch has."

🔗 apnews.com/article/king-charle

📰 What if Jan. 6 happened again, only much, much worse?

//In a new Sundance documentary, 'War Game,’ politicians and military leaders simulate another contested election, in January 2025, and take it to the extreme.

🔗 washingtonpost.com/entertainme


📰 Learning to sleep like a bear could save your life // Blood clots, bed sores, bone loss — there is a whole host of ailments bears and other hibernating animals appear to avoid. So doctors and veterinarians are probing their deep-sleep ability.

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📰 Rudy ordered to pay $148 million for false 2020 election claims
// Jury finds former Trump attorney and N.Y. mayor must pay damages to two poll workers he defamed by falsely accusing them of election fraud

🔗 washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/20

Today, in


📰 Members of Texas party free to associate with sympathizers / Executive committee rejects banning members who ‘espouse or tolerate antisemitism’ and deny Holocaust, arguing clause is vague

... In a 32-29 vote, the party’s executive committee decided against excluding from their organization those "known to espouse or tolerate antisemitism, pro-Nazi sympathies or Holocaust denial”.

🔗 theguardian.com/us-news/2023/d

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📰 Choosing not to speak up as ‘good friends’ make comments

Q: My husband & I are good friends w/a couple who often make racist comments. I don’t know how to respond since I don’t agree w/their perspective. But I don’t want to offend them by speaking up [....] — Friend

Friend: Oh, for fox’s sake, please offend these monsters with gusto. Then find better people to be your friends.

🔗 washingtonpost.com/advice/2023

📰 With the world on fire, a cowardly, timid news media is a threat to U.S. democracy / News organizations are using cowardly words to describe killing abroad, fascism at home — downplaying the danger to democracy.

🔗 inquirer.com/opinion/commentar


Okay, why is THIS:
>>The US has the highest post-pandemic —and the lowest —of any country in the G7, which includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and European Union.

Not the headline and lede everywhere!!

goodnewsnetwork.org/us-economy

📰 Old African American cemetery yields DNA links to 41,000 new ‘relatives’
//DNA from 27 enslaved people buried near a iron forge was also tied to regions in / Researchers studying the bones of people enslaved in Maryland find clues in the database.

wapo.st/3DEvwwS


📰 Biden’s underrated deal-making prowess strikes again / Recall where the debt ceiling negotiations began and it's hard to conceive of an outcome more favorable to the president

wapo.st/43eQpd3

Well, well, WELL!

📰 Mike ’s firm told to pay $5 million in ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ election-fraud challenge / The founder and offered the money to anyone who could disprove his claim about data he said showed manipulated the 2020 U.S.

By Chris , &

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📰 Opinion: This element is critical to human flourishing — yet missing from the news

wapo.st/3G30n7M

Awesome piece with a bunch of internal links I plan to explore!

📰 World’s oldest bar? Archaeologists find a nearly 5,000-year-old tavern / Archaeologists excavated a site in Iraq dating to around 2700 B.C. in the ancient Sumerian city-state of Lagash that might contain the oldest-known tavern.

wapo.st/3IIDVm9

I hope constituents melt the phone lines of their legislative members w/complaints over this.

📰 Arizona Republicans exempt lawmakers from the state’s law / , stung by the public scrutiny of ’s emails and the work of the , retreats into secrecy.

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📰 The price paid by this generation of is rising by the day. And as the repression deepens, their demands are becoming more radical.

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