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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Rural Mississippi Led the Nation in Covid-19 Infection Rates Last Week | The Daily Yonder

While Covid-19 infection and death rates generally dropped in rural areas last week, Mississippi reported a rural Covid-19 infection rate 67% higher than

Source: Rural Mississippi Led the Nation in Covid-19 Infection Rates Last Week | The Daily Yonder

Pandemic fears surge in wake of ‘concerning’ bird flu outbreak at mink farm | Science | News | Express.co.uk

Health experts fear the captive mammals – concentrated together in a way that facilitates the kind of spread that wouldn’t happen in nature – could allow the virus to adapt to mammals.

Source: Pandemic fears surge in wake of ‘concerning’ bird flu outbreak at mink farm | Science | News | Express.co.uk

IRS Free File | Internal Revenue Service

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Source: IRS Free File | Internal Revenue Service

Five Members and Associates of White Supremacist Gang Sentenced to Life in Prison for Racketeering, Kidnapping, and Murder | OPA | Department of Justice

According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, the defendants were leaders, members, and associates of the 1488s, a violent, prison-based Neo-Nazi gang that operated inside and outside of state prisons throughout Alaska. The 1488s use Nazi-derived symbols to identify themselves and their affiliation with the gang, including a 1488 “patch” tattoo which depicts an Iron Cross superimposed over a swastika. The tattoo can only be awarded to members who gained full membership by committing acts of violence on behalf of the gang. The gang enforced discipline through written rules and a code of conduct, including the boast that “the only currency we recognize is violence and unquestionable loyalty.”

Source: Five Members and Associates of White Supremacist Gang Sentenced to Life in Prison for Racketeering, Kidnapping, and Murder | OPA | Department of Justice

Stream 385,000 Vintage 78 RPM Records at the Internet Archive: Louis Armstrong, Glenn Miller, Billie Holiday & More | Open Culture

We may have yet to develop the technology of time travel, but recorded music comes pretty close. Those who listen to it have experienced how a song or an album can, in some sense, transport them right back to the time they first heard it. Open Culture, openculture.com
— Read on www.openculture.com/2023/01/stream-385000-vintage-78-rpm-records-at-the-internet-archive.html

If it’s a fight they want, it’s a fight they’ll get Meduza responds to the Russian authorities’ decision to outlaw our journalism — Meduza

Meduza has been declared an “undesirable” organization in Russia. In other words, our newsroom’s work is now completely banned in the country our founders call home. 
— Read on meduza.io/en/feature/2023/01/26/if-it-s-a-fight-they-want-it-s-a-fight-they-ll-get

Which Conspiracies Spread Most – NeuroLogica Blog

Grand conspiracy theories are a curious thing. What would lead someone to readily believe that the world is secretly run by evil supervillains? Belief in conspiracies correlates with feelings of helplessness, which suggests that some people would rather believe that an evil villain is secretly in control than the more prosaic reality that no one
— Read on theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/which-conspiracies-spread-most/