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Oilers owner’s life-threatening sinus infection part of rise in antibiotic resistance, expert says

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An antibiotic-resistant sinus infection like the one Edmonton Oilers owner Daryl Katz is fighting can slowly poison the entire body, says a microbiologist.

Inoreader – Biden Is The Man! (?)

Recent criticism of Joe Biden for praising Dick Cheney as “a decent man” and Mike Pence as “a decent guy” merely scratches the surface of what’s wrong with the current frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination. His compulsion to vouch for the decency of Republican leaders — while calling Donald Trump an “aberration” — is consistent with Biden’s political record. It sheds light on why he’s probably the worst Democrat running for president. After several decades of cutting corporate-friendly deals with GOP legislators — often betraying the interests of core Democratic constituencies in the process — Biden has a big psychological and political stake in denying that the entire GOP agenda is repugnant.

Source: Inoreader – Biden Is The Man!

Florida law allowing armed teachers largely impotent as schools rebel

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The Guardian finds that none of the state’s largest school districts plan to allow teachers to carry weapons

Florida’s new law allowing teachers to carry guns in their classrooms is largely impotent, research by the Guardian has found, with dozens of school districts across the state rejecting the controversial measure.

Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, signed the bill into law on Wednesday that expands a campus “armed guardian” program established in the wake of the 2018 Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school massacre to include trained teacher volunteers.

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BBC Fires Danny Baker Over Racist Royal Baby Tweet – The New York Times

“To post a pic picturing a 3-day-old baby of mixed heritage as a monkey, then claim it was a joke?” she wrote in tweet. “That’s old-school prejudice and racism at its peak. And for a trusted broadcaster working at a public service broadcaster to feed that prejudice? It’s unacceptable.” Mr. Baker has been fired from broadcasting jobs before, including at Radio 5 Live. The station previously dropped him in 1997, after he said on a soccer show that he would understand if fans physically attacked a referee. But he appeared unrepentant after his dismissal on Thursday, describing the BBC’s phone call to inform him of the decision as “a masterclass of pompous faux-gravity.”

The US replies to Spain on Venezuela: “We don’t do cowboy diplomacy”

he favors torture, water boarding opponents and selling trafficked children.

The United States has reacted to Spain’s criticism of the way it is handling the ongoing crisis in Venezuela, where a recent attempt by interim president Juan Guaidó to lead a military uprising against the government of Nicolás Maduro failed, triggering further violence.

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This madness in Poland is spreading – free media, already under enormous pressure, now facing this: politician (from small right-wing party that supports the ruling party) wants a journalist prosecuted for a tweet of the rainbow Mary https://twitter.com/bart_wielinski/status/1126191947650162688 …

This madness in Poland is spreading – free media, already under enormous pressure, now facing this: politician (from small right-wing party that supports the ruling party) wants a journalist prosecuted for a tweet of the rainbow Mary https://twitter.com/bart_wielinski/status/1126191947650162688 …