The more that comes out about the disaster CNN committed with its Criminal Trump townhall, the worse CNN looks. Read this and wonder, is the new head of CNN trying to turn it into Fox? I think we should all watch closely and see what happens next.
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Audience members were advised against booing and disrespecting former President Donald Trump during the disastrous CNN town hall on Wednesday, according to a Thursday report from Puck News.
Republican political consultant Matthew Bartlett told Puck’s senior political correspondent, Tara Palmeri, that while many members of the audience applauded the former president, “there were also people that sat there quietly disgusted or bewildered,” estimating that the audience was split in half.
“The floor manager came out ahead of time and said, Please do not boo, please be respectful. You were allowed to applaud,” Bartlett said. “And I think that set the tone where people were going to try their best to keep this between the navigational beacons, and that if they felt compelled to applaud, they would, but they weren’t going to have an outburst or they weren’t going to boo an answer.”
Bartlett also said that the GOP frontrunner often “lost the audience” when he spoke about the Jan. 6 insurrection or the 2020 election, despite it appearing that audience was consistently in support […]
This is what the nearly daily mass murders are doing to the country’s soul. When do you think we will wake up to what our obsessive gun psychosis is doing to us? Or will we wake up?
A mourner prays at the makeshift memorial at Nashville’s Covenant School on Monday, a day after the shooting there. Credit: Johnnie Izquierdo / The Washington Post
Jeremy Hammer was at a crowded college party in Virginia last month when he heard a loud bang. There were gasps, followed by a scream. Then everyone began rushing toward the exits.
Hammer remembers feeling terrified. “It was one of those moments where you’re like, ‘Oh my God, it’s my turn.’” It took a minute to grasp that the noise was not a gunshot, but a burst balloon.
Jen Panos is a mother of three in California. She finds herself noting what her kids are wearing to school. If there is a shooting, she thinks, she needs to be able to identify their bodies. “I walk myself through it: What am I going to do if this comes for us?” she said.
Kat Vargas and her husband, a firefighter, live in Texas. They too have a plan for what to do in the event of a shooting: Vargas would cover their youngest, while […]
Munira Z. Gunja, Evan D. Gumas, and Reginald D. Williams II, Senior Researcher, International Program in Health Policy and Practice Innovations | Research Associate, International Health Policy and Practice Innovations | Vice President, International Health Policy and Practice Innovations - The Commonwealth Fund
Stephan:
I wonder if the women in America really understand just how bad female healthcare is in the United States for all women but particularly for women of color. Here is some solid data on maternal mortality comparing the U.S. with other developed nations. It is horrifying. If you are going to have a baby, particularly if you live in a Red state, your life is at risk in a way it would be in no other developed nation in the world. It is so bad that if I were a woman of color I would visit family or friends in a Blue state for my delivery. There are third world countries with better maternal mortality statistics than the U.S.
The maternal mortality rate in the United States has for many years exceeded that of other high-income countries. Data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show rates worsening around the world in recent years, as well as a widening gap between the U.S. and its peer nations.
New international data show the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. continues to exceed the rate in other high-income countries. In 2020, the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. was 24 deaths per 100,000 live births — more than three times the rate in most other high-income countries. In the Netherlands, almost no women died from maternal complications.
The U.S. maternal mortality rate is exceptionally high for Black women. It is more than double the average rate and nearly three times higher than the rate for white women.
The U.S. maternal mortality rate has been on the rise since 2000 and has spiked in recent years. The COVID-19 pandemic challenged health systems across the world and may have Read the Full Article
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson, Reporter - National Observer (Canada)
Stephan:
What I see going on in the world today is fear, resentment, and anger because the world is changing. Climate change is occurring, gender and sexuality issues are altering, the nature of employment has radically altered, race relations are eliminating White privilege. And I think men who like to feel in control, particularly White men, are in a state of crisis because they feel disempowered. That’s why they become MAGAts, and why democracy in America in under peril.
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Valentine’s Day on Twitter is typically a day when most people flood the platform with sappy tweets and acerbic quips on singledom. Not Jordan Peterson. The right-wing provocateur marked the day by trolling 20-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg with a creepy tweet about her new book on climate solutions.
“What’s the carbon footprint of the book, dearie?” goaded the 60-year-old climate denier before ironically suggesting she was “so important, such niceties don’t apply.” The post was one among a flood of similar attacks on Thunberg — cue her epic December Twitter battle with professional misogynist and alleged sex trafficker Andrew Tate — by right-wing male climate deniers.
That is no coincidence. Researchers have found a tight relationship between harmful forms of masculinity, right-wing extremism and the refusal to deal with the climate crisis. Fostered by the fossil fuel industry, this confluence has been dubbed “petro-masculinity” by Cara Daggett, a Virginia Tech professor and climate sociologist, to describe a form […]
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — Situationships. “Sneaky links.” The “talking stage,” the flirtatious getting-to-know-you phase — typically done via text — that can lead to a hookup.
High school students are having less sexual intercourse. That’s what the studies say. But that doesn’t mean they’re having less sex.
The language of young love and lust, and the actions behind it, are evolving. And the shift is not being adequately captured in national studies, experts say.
For years, studies have shown a decline in the rates of American high school students having sex. That trend continued, not surprisingly, in the first years of the pandemic, according to a recent survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The study found that 30% of teens in 2021 said they had ever had sex, down from 38% in 2019 and a huge drop from three decades ago, when more than half of teens reported having sex.
The Associated Press took the findings to teenagers and experts around the country to ask for their interpretation. Parents: Some of the answers may surprise you.
