now this is serious! Inaction in Washington has idled the bureau that regulates craft beer manufacturers, dealing a blow to a $76 billion industry and disappointing discerning drinkers.
Shutdown: T.S.A. Agents Refuse to Work, Raising Fears of Airport Turmoil
Airport security screeners are opting out in rising numbers during the partial shutdown of the government and their absence is starting to put a strain on airports.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Curbs Executives’ Ties to Industry After Conflict-of-Interest Scandals
good move even if closing barn door after horse left… The cancer center will now bar top officials from sitting on outside boards of for-profit companies, and is conducting a wide-scale review of other policies.
News Analysis: As U.S. Exits Syria, Mideast Faces a Post-American Era
for now and with this isolationist fool of a President The pending withdrawal from Syria is the latest example of a broader American disengagement from the Middle East. Russia and Iran are filling the void.
A proud moment …Congratulation love…Hiva
I am unable, not share this overwhelming moment of my life. The year started with some exciting encounters, that included the finding of the woman whom I am named after Nadia. Zoe, our beloved dog, almost disappeared and was found by the tremendous efforts of my darling brother.
As life moves on, and my children are stepping out to their future, I felt as if a journey of life just rewound itself as Hiva stepped in her first career. Somehow all those challenges, trembling threats, unbearable difficulties, almost impossible attempts to make it amid storms of turbulence. Sounds of insistence that I will not make it … we will not make it. Somehow as Hiva is entering her own “I” definition of her universe, I feel this moment untie me from that chain of us into a new chain of Hiva’s own path.
I feel as if God finally smiles…
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As government shutdown drags on, where is Senator McConnell? | Reuters – House should propose $2.5 billion for increased border security to move forward and get government back to work…
Democratic Senator Joe Manchin, who helped negotiate an end to an earlier shutdown, said this of McConnell’s absence from negotiations: “Basically, that’s what’s holding everything up.” Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, is passing shutdown-ending spending bills in her chamber, including one on Friday. If McConnell would only put those measures on the Senate floor for a vote, Democrats argue, senators from both parties would support them. That would then pressure Trump, according to the Democrats, to sign the bills into law and reopen government, even if the measures lacked the $5.7 billion in wall funding he is demanding. McConnell has made clear this will not happen.
Source: As government shutdown drags on, where is Senator McConnell? | Reuters
‘Irish history is moving rapidly’: backlash to abortion law fails to emerge

Besides a fleeting protest in Galway, abortion has become available in 22 of Ireland’s 26 counties with barely a fuss
Ireland voted by a landslide to legalise abortion – but turning that social revolution into medical reality has fallen largely on the shoulders of just 200 GPs.
Related: Apprehension on all sides before launch of Irish abortion services
Britons make 170,000 antisemitic Google searches a year, study finds
by how many people – would give us better information.

Research shows 10% of these searches involve violent phrases such as ‘Jews must die’
At least 170,000 antisemitic Google searches are made in the UK every year, with 10% of them involving violent phrases such as “Jews must die” or “kill Jews”, research has revealed.
The analysis for the Community Security Trust (CST) showed that while most of the searches are for jokes mocking Jewish people, the most common negative stereotypes claim Jews are “evil” and “racist”.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Democratic Colleagues Seem Pretty Scared of Her

Conservatives are not the only ones who are collectively losing their goddamn minds over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, turns out. According to Politico, Ocasio-Cortez is “already making enemies in the House Democratic Caucus,” and “some of its members are mounting an operation” to bring her “into the fold,” which I…
Saudi Women, Tired of Restraints, Find Ways to Flee – The New York Times – Want to be free – Canada, not USA!
Often aided and inspired by social media, an increasing number of young Saudi women are taking enormous gambles to escape the country, rights groups say.
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