Lilia Yapparova, Reporter - Reader Supported News | The New York Times
Stephan:
Putin is a global villain, and I have suspected he was doing what is described in this article, but could find no evidence of it. Now an excellent New York Times reporter has broken the story. Putin is having people all over the world assassinated. The take away for me, is that it confirms the United States is not dealing with Putin properly. We should be making a much stronger effort to help Ukraine because nothing is going to take him out of power but the Russian people. Forcing Putin to lose his war will bring him down.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. Credit: Alexander Kazakov / AFP
In November 2022, my editors asked me to be careful about what I ate and stop ordering takeout. Initially, I didn’t think much of it. But I soon realized the importance of their advice when, just one month later, my colleague Elena Kostyuchenko discovered she had been poisoned in Germany, in a probable assassination attempt by the Russian state.
Such stories have become routine. Last year, an investigative journalist, Alesya Marokhovskaya, was harassed in the Czech Republic; in February, the bullet-riddled body of a Russian defector, Maxim Kuzminov, was found in Spain. In both cases, the Kremlin was assumed to be involved. Russian opposition figures know well that even in exile they remain targets of Russia’s intelligence services.
But it’s not just them who are in danger. There are also the hundreds of thousands of Russians who left home because they did not want to have anything to do with Vladimir Putin’s war […]
DAVID BAUDER and LINLEY SANDERS, Reporters - Associated Press
Stephan:
Ronlyn and I are also tired of the news, and in talking about it have agreed, as to why we feel this way. Our conclusion is the U.S. news corporations only cover three or four stories a day, and say very little about what is going on in the rest of the world. Even more importantly, with the exception of a few television commentators like Lawrence O’Donnell and Rachel Maddow, the election is treated like a horserace between two basically normal politicians. It is not, and how anyone can believe it is, is really is dumbfounding. Donald Trump and his family are criminal at a level that if I were writing another novel I would not create such characters because I wouldn’t believe such people would be credible. And yet there they are, in our faces every day, with no proper assessment in the media as to how villainous and corrupt they are.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK — When her husband turns on the television to hear news about the upcoming presidential election, that’s often a signal for Lori Johnson Malveaux to leave the room.
It can get to be too much. Often, she’ll go to a TV in another room to watch a movie on the Hallmark Channel or BET. She craves something comforting and entertaining. And in that, she has company.
While about half of Americans say they are following political news “extremely” or “very” closely, about 6 in 10 say they need to limit how much information they consume about the government and politics to avoid feeling overloaded or fatigued, according to a new survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and USAFacts.
Make no mistake: Malveaux plans to vote. She always does. “I just get to the point where I don’t want to hear the rhetoric,” she said.
The 54-year-old Democrat said she’s most bothered when she hears people on the news telling her that something she saw with her own […]
Almost every day now I am seeing research studies like this one that make it clear that as a culture, and remember that culture is a creation of collective individual choices, fostering wellbeing is no longer a priority. As this report says, “Rural Americans tend to have higher rates of smoking, obesity, and chronic conditions at age 60, setting the stage for poorer health outcomes in later years.” Then add to that the rise of “medical deserts, so that it becomes hard to get help and you can see a major trend emerging in rural America.
Researchers warn that people opting for “the simple life” of rural America are actually living shorter lives. Credit: FORMAT / Unsplash
Key Results
The key finding was a significant gap in quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) between urban and rural residents, especially for men. Urban men at age 60 could expect 17.5 quality-adjusted years of life, compared to only 15.7 for rural men. For women, the gap was smaller but still present (19.3 years for urban women vs. 18.7 for rural women). The study also found that this gap has widened over the past two decades, with rural residents seeing little to no improvement in QALE while urban residents have made gains.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA —For many Americans, moving to the country is a lifelong dream to finally escape the stress of busy city life. Unfortunately, a new study warns that people opting for “the simple life” of rural America are actually living shorter lives.
Researchers at the University of Southern California have discovered a growing divide in health […]
Traitor Trump, fascist Speaker Johnson, and the rest of the MAGAt politicians, are obsessed about subordinating women; it tells you a lot about their own sense of manhood. And they think suppressing women angry about having the MAGAt government taking over control of their body can also be used to rig the election. Thom Hartmann has it exactly right. And yet we also know that millions of woman are comfortable being reduced to handmaidens and will vote for both Trump and Johnson.
Former President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson Credit: Mike Johnson / X
Republicans don’t want women to vote. They now think they may have a strategy that could help make that happen.
House Speaker Mike Johnson and former president Donald Trump were pushing the SAVE Act (Safeguard American Eligibility Act), demanding it be part of must-pass legislation to fund the federal government for another year (the funding runs out at the end of this month and then the shutdown begins).
It died in the House a few nights ago, but, like a bad penny, you can bet it’ll return. Now they’re pushing for it in the Senate, with a version authored by Joe Manchin, his final goodbye kiss to — or future bet on — the Republicans.
Trump, on his failing, Nazi-infested social media site, ranted Tuesday that Republicans must get “every ounce” of the SAVE Act passed […]
The hysterical censorship of the MAGAts is becoming quite frightening in the sense of preserving democracy and having an intelligent educated electorate. They are now trying censor or ban dictionaries as this article describes. Dictionaries! That’s how frightened about a third of the White population has become. As I have said, I think this is all a reaction to the unconscious precognition they have about the radical changes climate change is going to cause. They live in a fantasy of White supremacy, male dominance, enthral to a man who is a kind of cartoon villain, who tells them he knows how to fix it, how to make the world familiar to them again.
A person looks at the free banned books during the MoveOn Banned Bookmobile Tour stop outside of Sandmeyer’s Bookstore in the South Loop on July 13, 2023, in Chicago, Illinois. Credit: Eileen T. Maslar / Chicago Tribune / Getty
It may have started off as an ordinary fall school day at a high school in the Wentzville School District of Missouri in 2022, but when a police officer entered the school library, the day took an unsettling turn. The school librarian didn’t know why the officer was there until he approached her and explained that he was investigating a complaint — she had been accused of distributing pornography to students.
The librarian listened as the officer told her that certain books in her collection, like The Handmaid’s Tale and Gender Queer: A Memoir, had triggered the accusations he had come to investigate. She was dumbfounded. These books were not pornography as someone had charged; they were award-winning works of literature and personal memoirs that explored themes of identity, gender […]
