With so many crazy things happening, sometimes things fall through the cracks. Here are some headlines that you may find interesting and worth discussing. Please feel free to post ‘headlines’ you would like to share that we may have missed.
Afghanistan:
An Animal Rescue Group Is Racing To Get Hundreds Of Pets Out Of Afghanistan By Aug. 31
Wing Nut Bobblehead Promotes Fear: “They’re going to rape white women!”
President Biden/Biden Administration:
Supreme Court Orders The ‘Remain in Mexico’ Policy Reinstated For Asylum-Seekers
Biden receives inconclusive intelligence report on covid origins
The report falls short of concluding whether the coronavirus jumped from animal to human, or might have accidentally escaped from a lab in China
Congress:
COVID-19 Updates/COVIDIOTS:
How to Trigger a ‘Fullish’ Wing Nut: Remind him again his ‘one and done’ isn’t really done. Roll up your sleeve, ‘fullish’ Wing Nut.
Bigly Concepts: Johnson & Johnson says booster shot provides ‘rapid and robust’ Covid antibody increase
Johnson & Johnson said a booster shot of its vaccine provides a nine-fold increase in Covid antibodies.
New Covid-19 vaccinations have topped 400,000 people per day throughout August, CDC data shows
Oregon issues outdoor mask mandate regardless of vaccination status
The order goes into effect on August 27.
Should’ve Got the Vaccine:
What a dog gone shame 😇:
Pay attention, Wing Nuts:
Unvaccinated people over 29 times more likely to be hospitalized with Covid, CDC report finds
The study of over 40,000 Covid cases in Los Angeles County also found that unvaccinated people were nearly five times more likely to be infected.
Newscasts:
Must See TV:
The American Taliban/MAGAts/Wing Nuts/Gunz!:
Secret Service warned Capitol Police about violent threats 1 day before Jan. 6
The documents shed further light on the intelligence failures by the Capitol Police in the days before the riot.
Florida dad accused of pushing student, twisting her arm during school mask dispute
The father, known for protesting Broward County Public Schools’ mask mandate, has been charged with child abuse, authorities said.
Live from JFK:
A Woman Who Coughed On Store Food, Claiming She Had Coronavirus, Gets A Jail Sentence
Capitol riot suspect charged with assault after allegedly throwing photographer over wall
Benjamen Scott Burlew is accused of yelling at, grabbing, dragging and ultimately pushing Associated Press photographer John Minchillo over a low stone wall on the Capitol grounds.
The Former Guy:
Trump family, senior aides target of demands by Jan 6. committee
The wide-ranging requests provide a window into the comprehensive way the House committee appears to be investigating the attack.
- The House select committee charged with investigating the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol demanded on Wednesday records of the communications related to the assault between federal officials and a host of Trump staffers and allies, including some family members.
State News:
Oklahoma gubernatorial candidate charged with raping, kidnapping woman
Paul Tay, 58, was arrested after police allege he locked a woman inside his car, hit her with a pipe and sexually assaulted her at his house.
Misdemeanor??? South Dakota AG to take plea deal after fatally striking man with his car, prosecutor says
Jason Ravnsborg will avoid a trial and take a plea for misdemeanor traffic charges in a crash in which he hit and killed a man walking alongside the highway.
N.Y. Gov. Hochul adds 12k deaths to total coronavirus tally in show of ‘transparency’
“Transparency will be the hallmark of my administration,” Hochul said. “It’s not hard to do. You just get the information out there.”
