Week in review, 04/03 - 04/09

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Global COVID-19 death toll surpasses three million; record rises in heavily-populated Brazil, India

‘The highly contagious Covid-19 variant first identified in the UK has now been reported in every state in the US, and experts are concerned spreading variants could send cases surging’

Scientists at Stanford University uncover new ‘double mutant’ COVID strain, believed to originate in India

‘Staggering’ number of children - about 40,000 - estimated to have lost at least one parent to COVID, research letter reveals

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‘Facilitating the spread of COVID-19 is an expanded and globalizing antiscience movement that began modestly under a health freedom banner adopted by the Republican Tea Party in Texas.’ Antiscience must be silenced, or else we are heading for a new Dark Ages

So tired of these unholy s**tbags and morons. Knowingly spreading disease is not a basic human right: Republicans whine about vaccine passports, claiming they are an intrusion on personal freedom

Exposing ‘the anti-vaxxers as devoid of logic or consistency,’ just as all conspiracy theorists, political partisans, and most everyone else are: Anti-vaxxer rages at vaccine passports but can’t explain why he wears clothes or follows the speed limit

Forty-six COVID cases linked to one indoor bar gathering in rural Illinois county

No hurry here to go anywhere or see anyone: Nearly half of the respondents in American Psychological Association survey say they feel uneasy about returning to normal life once (if) the pandemic ends

Northeastern University in Boston to require all students have proof of COVID vaccinations before returning to campus in the fall; medical and religious exemptions permitted

‘The Biden administration next week will launch a funeral assistance program that will provide up to $9,000 to cover the burial costs of each American who died of covid-19 — the largest program of its type ever offered by the federal government’

Bored with all of these raging lunatics and all of their bulls**t. Lock them all up and forget them: Trump fails to come to the aid of sniveling toady Matt Gaetz during the embattled congressman’s ‘hour of greatest need’

The Trump 2020 campaign hoodwinked #Cult45 faithful into making recurring donations that most of them could not afford

‘Corporations can punish political opponents by giving campaign donations to their friends, but not in adopting business practices they believe are in their own interest?’ Jennifer Rubin: Republicans defend corporate speech - unless it supports voting rights

Without comment, the U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear appeal from Alex Jones over Connecticut court sanction in Sandy Hook defamation lawsuit

‘(T)he racial and cultural anxieties that lay beneath the riot at the Capitol are not going away.’ Fears of white people losing out permeate Capitol rioters’ towns, study finds

Am not into yoga or Hinduism, but this is obviously absurd and a good illustration of how America has become a global laughing stock: Alabama lawmakers fail to overturn ban on yoga in public schools

Big baby who refused a temperature check and threw a fit over it at Disney World cries ‘I paid $15,000’ as he is hauled off to jail

‘The son of a California man who choked to death during an amateur taco eating contest at a minor league baseball game is suing the event’s organizers for negligence’

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Rest in Peace, Prince Philip: The Duke of Edinburgh and husband of Queen Elizabeth II dies at age 99

‘Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a law allowing him to potentially hold onto power until 2036, a move that formalizes constitutional changes endorsed in a vote last year’

Biden administration weighing all options on U.S. participation in the 2022 Beijing Olympics: And the not-so-loyal opposition will just keep on calling him ‘China Joe’ - no matter how tough he is with the Chinese - because they are that obtuse

China extends its hold on disputed waters in the South China Sea by building artificial islands and swarming said waters with vessels

‘An Iranian cargo ship believed to be a base for the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and anchored for years in the Red Sea off Yemen has been attacked, Tehran acknowledged Wednesday’

Wreck of USS Johnston discovered 77 years after its sinking at the Battle of Leyte Gulf

Nolan Arenado. Photo: MLB.com

Coors Field in Denver chosen as new host of the 2021 MLB All-Star Game

Nolan Arenado is awesome. The performance he gave in his first game as a Cardinal at Busch Stadium will be remembered for decades to come

The San Diego Padres have been in existence since 1969. And never has a Padres pitcher delivered a no-hitter. Until now, as San Diego native Joe Musgrove pitches the first no-hitter in franchise history on Friday night

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