Wednesday, August 17th, 2022

Time	Event
11:48p	(Satire) Psychic hallucinations (satire) *[Thugs] Claim Unarmed Black Man They Shot Was Attacking Them With Psychic Hallucinations.* If an Onion page appears blank, try disabling JavaScripts entirely, telling LibreJS to blacklist the scripts that it accepted by default, or using a browser such as lynx that doesn't implement JavaScript. (Comment on this)
11:48p	All election-related news articles should be gratis to read Proposing that all election-related news stories should be gratis to read. I'd add that they should be viewable with wget and lynx. (Comment on this)
11:48p	Salman Rushdie attacked by assassin An assassin attacked Salman Rushdie with a knife as the latter was about to give a talk. Rushdie is seriously injured, and may lose an eye. But he can still think, and still speak. (Comment on this)
11:48p	Danger posed by Republican abortion persecution Senator Warren has launched a Senate investigation of the danger that Republican abortion persecution poses to pregnant Americans, including those that do want to have a baby, and those that don't. (Comment on this)
11:48p	Air pollution *Even low levels of air pollution can damage health , study finds.* Don't panic, though — a tiny concentration of air pollution will normally do a tiny amount of harm, which is hard to measure without a sample of millions. In the absence of any standard of perfection (keep air pollution under level L and it will do exactly zero damage), how should we decide how much to work to reduce air pollution? It's a matter of how the danger from air pollution stacks up against all the other dangers we face. Suppose we decide to spend a billion dollars on public health, which allocation of funds would we rationally expect to make the biggest improvement? Part of that plan could be spending to reduce air pollution. (Comment on this)
11:48p	Democrats' climate bill *The Democrats' climate bill is a historic victory. But we can't stop here.* (Comment on this)
11:48p	Bullshitter's bullshit defenses The bullshitter's supposed defenses for taking the secret government documents home are bullshit. That does not imply he will be prosecuted. The government may be satisfied with having recovered the documents. But it is important for him to be prosecuted. (Comment on this)
11:48p	Blocking use of Espionage Act against journalists Three members of Congress propose to block using the Espionage Act against journalists. However, their bill would not offer a public-interest defense to protect whistleblowers. (Comment on this)
11:48p	Europe wildfires so far Europe's wildfires have burned 2500 square miles so far this year, breaking the record. (Comment on this)
11:48p	Heat above 100F *Weeks of heat above 100F will be the norm in much of US by 2053, study [predicts].* (Comment on this)
11:48p	Westerners as hostages Putin is using westerners in the Ukrainian army as hostages, employing his sock puppet regime, the "Donetsk People's Republic", to threaten to kill them. If it goes ahead with this, those responsible, from Putin on down, should face charges of murder. In the mean time, it would be appropriate to send commando teams to seize officials involved in this hostage plot, so as to offer to trade them for the hostages. (Comment on this)
11:48p	Urgent: Make Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz testify US citizens: call on Congress to make Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz testify about blatant union-busting. (Comment on this)
11:48p	Child tax credit Congress has failed to extend the increase the child tax credit, which is about to expire. Millions of Americans whose income is insufficient will suffer terribly from this. (Comment on this)
11:48p	Threats from Republicans against federal agencies Republican followers of the wrecker are making lots of threats against the FBI and other federal agencies. And against individual agents. I think they are nerving each other for another violent fascist uprising, with the wrecker leading them on again. (Comment on this)
11:48p	Reducing enormous CEO salaries Actions that Biden could take to reduce the enormous salaries that corporate CEOs often get nowadays. (Comment on this)
11:48p	All rainwater contains PFAs PFAs have spread through the world to the point that they are present in rainwater everywhere. There is nowhere on Earth that rainwater meets the new EPA standard for acceptable levels. (Comment on this)
11:48p	Urgent: Stop unmonitored proxy wars US citizens: call on Congress to stop the Pentagon's unmonitored proxy wars. Here's a description of unmonitored proxy wars. The US has built up a world-wide secret program of training military proxy forces in many countries. The US sends them on missions to fight anyone that the US considers enemies. (Comment on this)

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