Biden calls for changing Senate rules to allow voting bills to pass | TheHill

Biden called on the Senate to advance two pieces of federal voting rights legislation: the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. He described both measures as remedies to efforts by Republican-led state legislatures to pass bills making it more difficult for certain groups to vote.

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“I’ve been having these quiet conversations with members of Congress for the last two months. I’m tired of being quiet,” Biden said, pounding the lectern for emphasis.

Biden argued the two bills would directly address some state-level bills that were passed last year to make mail-in voting tougher and give more autonomy to elected officials over counting ballots, or what he deemed “Jim Crow 2.0.”

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) has vowed to take up election legislation in the coming days. If Republicans block it, which is expected, Schumer has said he will bring up a rules change vote by Monday, Jan. 17.

But a handful of moderate Democrats, most notably Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), have been vocal opponents to gutting the filibuster, warning it could backfire if Republicans retake the majority.

“We need some good rules changes to make the place work better. But getting rid of the filibuster doesn’t make it work better,” Manchin told reporters hours before Biden’s speech.

The president did not specifically name Manchin, Sinema, or any other member of the Senate. But he argued history would harshly judge any lawmaker who stood in the way of securing the right to vote at a time when democracy in the U.S. was facing grave threats.

“This is one of those defining moments in American history,” Biden said. “Each one of the members of the Seante is going to be judged by history on where they stood before the vote and where they stood after the vote. There’s no escape.”

Source: Biden calls for changing Senate rules to allow voting bills to pass | TheHill

COVID-19 cases surge in LAPD; more than 800 personnel out – Los Angeles Times

LAPD Chief Michel Moore told the civilian Police Commission during its morning meeting Tuesday that there were 562 new cases among department personnel in the prior week alone, after 424 new cases the week before.

A total of 803 personnel in the department of about 12,200 were out.

Those figures represent a massive increase from the 82 new cases the week ending on Christmas, and from less than 30 new cases per week as recently as a month ago, Moore said. There were 89 officers out sick or quarantining a month ago.

Source: COVID-19 cases surge in LAPD; more than 800 personnel out – Los Angeles Times

Day 32/67, GED in Five Months, Learning Styles, and Polygons

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

 Adulting is also about understanding how you learn most effectively, is it not?  The multiple sides of any issue or problem are sort of like the edges of a many-sided object, aka a polygon, no?

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Start of week 9/18
Day 32 Lesson Plan
Grammar: Essay Writing -keep working on your Introductory Paragraph
Math: Drawing polygons in the coordinate plane
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( Day 31 … Day 33 )

Action Items:

1.) What do you think the concept of multiple learning styles may (or may not) have to do with Adulting?

2.) Share your  thoughts with us, and why you think them, and

3.) Write a book, story, blog post or tweet that uses those thoughts, and then, please tell us about it! If you write a book, once it is published please consider donating a copy to your local public…

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Pfizer booster tied to fewer COVID cases in health workers | CIDRAP

Israeli healthcare workers who received a third dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA COVID-19 vaccine had significantly lower rates of infection in the next 39 days, according to a single-center study yesterday in JAMA.

On Jul 30, 2021, the Israel ministry of health began offering booster COVID-19 vaccines to people 60 and older, later expanding availability to younger residents. In the United States, boosters are now available to people ages 12 and older and for those 5 to 11 with compromised immune systems.

Source: Pfizer booster tied to fewer COVID cases in health workers | CIDRAP

Helsinki, Finland – Day 3 — 100 Country Trek

Market Square – We spent hours here making sure to see every craft store. There are some wonderful Finnish handicrafts here. We buy a couple of lovely wooden hats and a numbered print from a local artist of a reindeer. There are so many fur garments not able wear these anymore. There were lots of […]

Helsinki, Finland – Day 3 — 100 Country Trek

Palm fruits, Ice Apple {thati munjulu)😋😋 cool yummy in Summer season

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Taati Munjalu ‌: Besides Taste, Ice Apples Have These Amazing Health Benefits Too


Ice apple is very similar to litchi fruit in texture and tastes like a slightly sweet tender coconut. It provides the perfect blend of minerals and sugars for the body during the summer season. The fruit is called tadgola in Hindi, nungu in Tamil, taati munjalu in Telugu.

Ice Apple Nutrition:

Ice apple is a low-calorie fruit providing 43 calories per 100 grams ,11 grams of carbohydrates and rich in calcium and phytonutrients. It also contains a minimal amount of fibre, protein, vitamin C, A, E, K, B7 and iron which confers you with a host of healing health benefits.

Some of the benefits of ice apple

1. Ice apple acts as an excellent coolant and naturally cools the body in the summer and regulates the body temperature. It quenches the thirst and provides energy to stay…

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Wet’suwet’en 1/11/2022

LANDBACK Friends

The last time I wrote about the Wet’suwet’en was January 2nd, RCMP Invasion expected on Wet’suwet’en territory. It’s not that the RCMP have left, but there has been a change in tactics. The threat continues.

There’s no question that I am guilty of painting on the street because the reason is so important.

Shawn Selway

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