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[Link] Mafia hitman escapes from federal custody in Florida
Read: 2/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
A New York mobster who killed three people and attempted to kill two others has escaped from federal custody after recently being moved to a halfway house, according to the Bureau of Prisons.
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[Link] Senator forced to backtrack after saying Republicans will repeal Obamacare
Read: 9/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
The Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson said Republicans should try again to repeal the Affordable Care Act if they take back power – then retreated, under fire from the Biden administration.
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[Link] Dwayne Johnson appears to withdraw Joe Rogan support after N-word video
Read: 8/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Dwayne Johnson, the actor and former wrestling star known as The Rock, has retracted what had seemed his unconditional support for Joe Rogan, amid continued fallout from the controversial podcaster’s use of racist language.
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[Link] Childless QAnon Influencer Ron Watkins Is Berating ‘Communist’ School Boards
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
Of course schools are not teaching their kids to be racist or spreading “transexual propaganda,” whatever that means. Perhaps Watkins would know that if he had a child enrolled in an Arizona public school, which he doesn’t. Because he doesn’t have a child at all.
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[Link] Adult Male With Omicron Variant Attended New York Anime Convention
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
During a White House press briefing, press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that a vaccinated adult male infected with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 attended an anime convention in New York City’s Javits Center.
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[Link] WHO Names New Variant Of Concern ‘Omicron,’ U.S. Issues Travel Ban
Read: 26/11/2021 www.vice.com
The U.S. and Canada are banning and restricting travel from southern Africa after the World Health Organization named a new, potentially more infectious COVID-19 variant that’s been spreading in the region. On Friday the WHO announced the new B.1.1.
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[Link] North Dakota Republican forced to skip anti-vaccination rally after getting Covid
Read: 8/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A North Dakota Republican who organized a rally to oppose Covid-19 vaccine mandates said he would not attend the event – because he was infected with Covid-19.
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[Link] California town declares itself a ‘constitutional republic’ to buck Covid rules
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A northern California town has declared itself a “constitutional republic” in response to Covid-19 health restrictions imposed by the governor, in the latest sign of ongoing strife between the state’s government and its rural and conservative regions.
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[Link] House Democrats Back Off Targeting Billionaire Tax Schemes and Swap in New Nicotine Levy
Read: 6/11/2021 theintercept.com
A new version of the Build Back Better Act that the House Rules Committee released Wednesday was amended to protect tax avoidance schemes used by the ultrawealthy in their estate planning.
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[Link] The Great Cop Vax Mandate Apocalypse That Never Happened
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
When New York City announced that city workers—including cops–would have to be vaccinated against COVID-19, there was howling, threats, and promises that thousands would walk off the job or retire, turning the city into a dangerous, crime-ridden hellscape.
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[Link] Pro-vaccine Fox News host receives support from CNN anchor over death threats
Read: 1/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The CNN anchor Jake Tapper reached across the political aisle on Friday to support Neil Cavuto, a Fox News host who received death threats after pleading for viewers to get vaccinated against Covid-19.
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[Link] Millions of Americans Say They’d Quit Their Jobs to Avoid Lifesaving Vaccine
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The hesitancy is, unsurprisingly, driven almost entirely by currently unvaccinated workers.
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[Link] The People Who Left Their Offices to Work From Boats
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
The future of work isn’t work from home; it’s work from wherever you want. For some people, that’s an apartment; for Brad Abbott, that’s a boat. Abbott starts his day in the historic Vineyard Haven Harbor, waking up on the boat he lives on with his family.
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[Link] Former Adviser Says Trump Let Thousands Die of COVID for no Reason
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. One of former President Donald Trump’s key coronavirus advisers thinks his administration could have prevented up to 40 percent of U.S. coronavirus deaths with a better pandemic response.
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[Link] Hundreds of HelloFresh Workers Are Unionizing in New Jersey
Read: 21/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Wednesday, the union filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board for a union election at the HelloFresh distribution center in Newark. HelloFresh is the largest meal-kit provider in the United States. Its factory workers are also unionizing at a nearby facility in Totowa, New Jersey.
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[Link] Northern Territory chief minister and US senator Ted Cruz in Twitter spat over Covid vaccines
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Northern Territory chief minister, Michael Gunner, has hit back at US senator Ted Cruz who criticised the Northern Territory’s vaccine policy, telling the firebrand Texan conservative “you know nothing about us”.
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[Link] Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo Is Getting Fired
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Art Acevedo had a busy six months as the chief of the Miami Police Department: He unknowingly took a photo with a Proud Boy, said the city was run by “Cuban mafia,” and made enemies for pushing the COVID vaccine on officers.
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[Link] Texas governor bans all vaccine mandates, including from private businesses
Read: 13/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order late Monday prohibiting all state entities, including private businesses, from requiring people to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
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[Link] Unvaccinated patients are getting kicked off organ transplant waitlists
Read: 13/10/2021 arstechnica.com
A growing number of medical facilities across the country are directing coveted organ donations to patients who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, pushing people who remain unvaccinated down or even off of transplantation waitlists.
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[Link] ‘Save Australia’ protest erupts in New York
Read: 5/10/2021 www.news.com.au
Australia became the surprising focal point of an American anti vaccine mandate protest march for teachers in New York City overnight, with hundreds of demonstrators chanting “Save Australia” and some waving Aussie flags.
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[Link] Rikers Island Inmate Calls Into Radio Show to Talk About How Bad It Is
Read: 1/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. “The only way you get a medical appointment is by laying on the floor, and they have to come get you in a stretcher.
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[Link] Brazil’s Health Minister Flipped Off New York Protesters—Then Tested Positive for COVID
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Marcelo Queiroga is the fourth health minister to deal with the coronavirus pandemic in Brazil and, some said, the most serious. But his behavior on a trip to New York this week was anything but serious.
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[Link] Alabama Had More Deaths Than Births Last Year Because of COVID-19
Read: 20/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. More people died in Alabama than were born there in 2020, a grim reminder of the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as an unprecedented crisis in the state’s history.
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[Link] Texas couple denied service at restaurant for breaking ‘no mask’ rule
Read: 20/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
Natalie Wester spoke to CBS DFW, a local TV station, about her experience with her husband, Jose, and a few friends. Last week, she said, the Westers went to Hang Time, a bar and restaurant in Rowlett, 20 miles outside Dallas, for a rare outing.
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[Link] Reddit Just Banned One of the Biggest Subreddits for COVID-19 Misinformation
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
A week after its CEO said that COVID misinformation wasn’t much of a problem on the site, Reddit has reversed course and banned r/NoNewNormal, a subreddit it said was responsible for massive amounts of COVID-19 misinformation on the site.
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[Link] Anti-Maskers Exposed Themselves to COVID at Their Own Protest
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Everyone who attended an August 16 city council meeting in Independence, Missouri, where a proposed school mask mandate was voted down has potentially been exposed to COVID, the city said in a tweet Monday.
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[Link] A Texas School District Shut Down After 2 Teachers Died of COVID
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Connally Junior High seventh-grade social studies teacher David McCormick, 59, died of COVID-19 on August 24, Connally ISD assistant superintendent Jill Bottelberghe told Fox News.
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[Link] The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Was a Total COVID Disaster—Again
Read: 27/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. It turns out that when hundreds of thousands of people get together during a global pandemic, hospitals are going to suffer the consequences. And South Dakota is learning that for the second year in a row.
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[Link] Trump Booed at His Own Rally For Telling His Supporters to Get Vaccinated
Read: 23/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The reason? Trump told people to go get vaccinated.
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[Link] Mississippi Hospitals Are on the Brink of ‘Total Failure’ Because of the Delta Variant
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] It’s Back to School in the Apocalypse, and Parents Are Losing Their Minds
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. It’s back-to-school season during the apocalypse, and Americans are celebrating by losing their minds.
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[Link] GOP Finally Backs Unemployment Benefits, But Only for the Unvaccinated
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Wisconsin Republicans have been fighting for months to limit or eliminate unemployment benefits for their state in the face of the coronavirus. But they’ve found one group they want to help: the unvaccinated.
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[Link] Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Not to Worry About COVID: ‘We Can’t Live Forever’
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. At least 619,729 Americans, 21,219 Georgians, and 247 people in Marjorie Taylor Greene’s home county have died as a result of COVID-19 since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the New York Times.
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[Link] GOP Finally Backs Unemployment Benefits, But Only for the Unvaccinated
Read: 14/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Wisconsin Republicans have been fighting for months to limit or eliminate unemployment benefits for their state in the face of the coronavirus. But they’ve found one group they want to help: the unvaccinated.
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[Link] Ron DeSantis Is Pretending Not to Know Florida Needs Emergency Ventilators
Read: 11/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Things have gotten so bad that this week, multiple outlets have reported that the federal government is sending hundreds of ventilators to the state to help fight the surge. But Florida Gov.
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[Link] While Delta spreads, Republicans deflect and resort to Trump demagoguery
Read: 9/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
As America reaches the milestone of 70% of adults with at least one dose of a vaccine, the highly contagious Delta variant is surging. Public health officials are trying to keep the focus on the urgent need for more vaccinations.
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[Link] The COVID Cruise Ship Saga Is Really Not Going Well for Ron DeSantis
Read: 9/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ attempts to ban vaccine passports have been a sinking ship for awhile, and now they’ve finally hit rock bottom.
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[Link] ‘The Pied Piper leading us off a cliff’: Florida governor condemned as Covid surges
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Florida governor Ron DeSantis earned a new moniker this week as the resurgent coronavirus continued to wreak havoc on his state: the “Pied Piper of Covid-19, leading everybody off a cliff”.
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[Link] How to Check if the Business That Won’t Pay You a Fair Wage Got a PPP Loan
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Summer’s ugliest trend is bosses pinning the blame for business interruptions on “lazy” workers.
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[Link] ‘Copyright Troll’ Lawyer Seeks to Reduce 14-Year Prison Sentence Due to COVID Pandemic
Read: 31/7/2021 torrentfreak.com
Paul Hansmeier, one of the lead attorneys behind the controversial Prenda Law firm, has asked the court for a reduction of his 14-year prison sentence. The disbarred lawyer says that he faced extraordinarily difficult living conditions in prison due to the COVID pandemic.
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[Link] Republicans used to laud ‘personal responsibility’. Not with Covid
Read: 31/7/2021 www.theguardian.com
“It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions,” declared Ronald Reagan at the 1968 Republican National Convention.
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[Link] Laura Ingraham says Capitol police beaten by Trump mob have ‘nobody to blame but themselves’
Read: 30/7/2021 www.independent.co.uk
Fox News' Laura Ingraham attacked Capitol Police officers on her Wednesday night show. Following a speech about her perceived failures of Dr Anthony Fauci, she went on to discredit officers: “Fauci has no one to blame but himself, ditto for the Capitol police who testified on Wednesday”.
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[Link] Biden asks Congress to extend COVID-19 eviction ban set to expire this week
Read: 30/7/2021 www.reuters.com
WASHINGTON, July 29 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden asked Congress on Thursday to extend a moratorium on evictions to protect millions of U.S. renters and their families that is set to expire this week amid a deadly rise in coronavirus infections, the White House said.
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[Link] Olivia Rodrigo Visits Joe Biden's White House to Support Youth Vaccine Initiative
Read: 30/7/2021 www.teenvogue.com
Olivia Rodrigo is teaming up with President Joe Biden in an effort to promote COVID-19 vaccinations.
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