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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="covid-19-sentry">Covid-19 Sentry</h1>
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<li><strong>Analysis of The Development of Religious Educational Tourism Potentials Through Wayang Kaca Painting in Nagasepaha Village, Buleleng</strong> -
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Existence of Wayang Kaca painting in Nagasepaha Village was a long history. There are a lot of potential can be found especially before the Covid-19 pandemic era although it is has decreased product purchase significantly. It turns out that the potential for a typical Wayang Kaca painting does not directly make Nagasepaha Village immediately called a Tourism Village. coupled with the reality of understanding deep philosophical meaning that has not been maximized. When examined in more depth, the existence of wayang Kaca painting is an appropriate medium in providing education and preservation for tourists who will own it. This research was conducted using descriptive qualitative method. The researcher made in-depth observations of the paintings to obtain strategies that could be applied. One strategy that can be developed is using the concept of educative tourism and the involvement of local communities in maintaining the existence of their identity.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://osf.io/seycp/" target="_blank">Analysis of The Development of Religious Educational Tourism Potentials Through Wayang Kaca Painting in Nagasepaha Village, Buleleng</a>
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<li><strong>Building Blocks of Understanding: Constructing a Reverse Genetics Platform for studying determinants of SARS-CoV-2 replication.</strong> -
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To better understand viral pathogenesis, host-virus interactions, and potential therapeutic interventions, the development of robust reverse genetics systems for SARS-CoV-2 is crucial. Here, we present a reverse genetics platform that enables the efficient manipulation, assembly, and rescue of recombinant SARS-CoV-2. The versatility of our reverse genetics system was demonstrated by generating recombinant SARS-CoV-2 viruses. We used this system to generate N501Y and Y453F spike protein mutants. Characterization studies revealed distinct phenotypic effects, impact on viral fitness, cell binding, and replication kinetics. We also investigated a recently discovered priming site for NSP9, which is postulated to produce a short RNA antisense leader sequence. By introducing the U76G mutation into the 5-UTR, we show that this priming site is necessary for the correct production of genomic and subgenomic RNAs, and also for efficient viral replication. In conclusion, our developed reverse genetics system provides a robust and adaptable platform for the efficient generation of recombinant SARS-CoV-2 viruses for their comprehensive characterization.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.05.578560v1" target="_blank">Building Blocks of Understanding: Constructing a Reverse Genetics Platform for studying determinants of SARS-CoV-2 replication.</a>
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<li><strong>Second Boost of Omicron SARS-CoV-2 S1 Subunit Vaccine Induced Broad Humoral Immune Responses in Elderly Mice</strong> -
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Currently approved COVID-19 vaccines prevent symptomatic infection, hospitalization, and death from the disease. However, repeated homologous boosters, while considered a solution for severe forms of the disease caused by new SARS-CoV-2 variants in elderly individuals and immunocompromised patients, cannot provide complete protection against breakthrough infections. This highlights the need for alternative platforms for booster vaccines. In our previous study, we assessed the boost effect of the SARS-CoV-2 Beta S1 recombinant protein subunit vaccine (rS1Beta) in aged mice primed with an adenovirus-based vaccine expressing SARS-CoV-2-S1 (Ad5.S1) via subcutaneous injection or intranasal delivery, which induced robust humoral immune responses (1). In this follow-up study, we demonstrated that a second booster dose of a non-adjuvanted recombinant Omicron (BA.1) S1 subunit vaccine with Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) agonist RS09 (rS1RS09OM) was effective in stimulating strong S1-specific immune responses and inducing significantly high neutralizing antibodies against the Wuhan, Delta, and Omicron variants in 100-week-old mice. Importantly, the second booster dose elicits cross-reactive antibody responses, resulting in ACE2 binding inhibition against the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 variants, including Omicron (BA.1) and its subvariants. Interestingly, the levels of IgG and neutralizing antibodies correlated with the level of ACE2 inhibition in the booster serum samples, although Omicron S1-specific IgG level showed a weaker correlation compared to Wuhan S1-specific IgG level. Furthermore, we compared the immunogenic properties of the rS1 subunit vaccine in young, middle-aged, and elderly mice, resulting in reduced immunogenicity with age, especially an impaired Th1-biased immune response in aged mice. Our findings demonstrate that the new variant of concern (VOC) rS1 subunit vaccine as a second booster has the potential to offer cross-neutralization against a broad range of variants and to improve vaccine effectiveness against newly emerging breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 variants in elderly individuals who were previously primed with the authorized vaccines.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.05.578925v1" target="_blank">Second Boost of Omicron SARS-CoV-2 S1 Subunit Vaccine Induced Broad Humoral Immune Responses in Elderly Mice</a>
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<li><strong>GOING OUT NORMALLY DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC: INSIGHTS ABOUT THE LACK OF ADHESION TO SOCIAL DISTANCING</strong> -
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The population’s adhesion to measures to ensure social distancing represents a great management challenge. Evidence has shown that social distancing is effective. However, it is challenging to separate government measures from social distancing driven by personal initiatives. Theory: It is possible that the output of protective behaviors, such as adherence to protective measures and staying in social isolation, is influenced by individual characteristics, such as personality traits or symptoms of mental distress of anxiogenic nature. We hypothesized that individuals with more expressive symptoms of fear or anxiety would have a more protective behavioral tendency in terms of risk exposure, leaving less home during the pandemic. In contrast, individuals with greater emotional stability, as they feel more secure and with a lower perception of risk, could go out more often. Material and Methods: A total of 2709 individuals from all regions of Brazil participated in the study (mean age = 42 years; 2134 women). Correlation analysis was performed to investigate the relationships between personality traits according to the big five model and Psychopathological Symptoms (BSI). Then investigate how people that go out usually differ from people that stay at home, in both symptoms and personality traits. Finally, to investigate the predictors for going out usually, we use multiple regression analysis, using gender, marital status, level of education, and personality traits. Results: During the second wave of COVID-19 in Brazil, individuals with higher emotional stability tended to leave home more than those with more expressive levels of anxiogenic dysregulation. These results reinforce the role of both personality traits and psychopathological symptoms in prophylactic behavior during COVID-19 pandemics.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/v2gd9/" target="_blank">GOING OUT NORMALLY DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC: INSIGHTS ABOUT THE LACK OF ADHESION TO SOCIAL DISTANCING</a>
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<li><strong>Predictors of psychological distress and prevalence of self-reported mental disorders across healthcare professionals and the general population during the COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil</strong> -
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Background: Knowing the rate of psychological distress and mental disorders, its severity, and factors associated with psychological distress is strategical during the COVID-19 pandemic. Method: We analyzed online cross-sectional data from 164,881 health professionals and from 5,635 participants from the general population in Brazil. The Global Severity Index (GSI) from the Brief Symptom Inventory, self-reported diagnosis of mental disorders, sociodemographic characteristics, and factors related to COVID-19 (physical health status, diagnosis and contact history, perceptions and concerns, and precautionary measures) were compared between samples. Multiple regression analysis was used to investigate factors related to GSI scores. Results: Psychological distress was high or very high in 13.4% of health professionals and in 31.4% of the general population. Health professionals reported a lower rate of mental disorders (36%) compared with the general population (44.7%). Age (younger) and gender (female) predicted higher psychological distress for health professionals and economic class (lower) and household size (more members) for the general population. People with higher GSI scores reported to have experienced more physical symptoms associated with COVID-19, feeling less productive at work, being afraid of transmitting the coronavirus to the family, fear of financial difficulties, and feeling that home relations were worse during the pandemic outbreak. Limitations: Internet access in Brazil depends on sociodemographic factors, biasing the recruitment towards people with greater education level and income. The male vs. female unbalance (1:4) is a factor to account for when interpreting data. Prevalence of psychiatric disorders was self-declared. Conclusions: Psychological distress at the first wave of COVID-19 was associated with sociodemographic features and an anxious perception of experiences and thoughts associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/szhnx/" target="_blank">Predictors of psychological distress and prevalence of self-reported mental disorders across healthcare professionals and the general population during the COVID-19 outbreak in Brazil</a>
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<li><strong>Longitudinal Profile of Post traumatic symptoms in HealthCare Workers during COVID-19 pandemic: A latent transition model</strong> -
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Introduction: Pandemics have the potential to be considered traumatic event, increasing the risk of developing post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in some populations, such as Health Care Workers. However, few longitudinal studies have evaluated the impact of prolonged exposure to the risk imposed by COVID-19. Methods: We evaluated the levels of post-traumatic stress symptoms and psychological distress in a Brazilian HealthCare Workers’ sample (n = 1398) in three waves of assessment: from May to June 2020 (Wave 1), December 2020 to February 2021 (Wave 2) and May to August 2021 (Wave 3). Results: Using Latent Profile Analysis (LPA), it was identified two profiles: high-PTSS profile (Wave 1 - 23%; Wave 2 - 64% and Wave 3 - 73%) and low-PTSS (Wave 1 - 77%; Wave 2 - 36% and Wave 3 - 27%). Then, we used Latent Transition Analysis (LTA) to examine changes in symptom profiles over time, including gender, psychiatric diagnosis history, and pandemic-related fears as covariates. Results show that being female, working with fear of contamination, and fearing financial problems were strong predictors of changes in the profile from low-PTSS to high-PTSS. In addition, regardless of the initial profile, the participants had a high probability of being in the high-PTSS in the long run. Conclusion: There is a clear risk for HealthCare Workers to feel traumatized during a stressful critical healthcare condition.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/gysq2/" target="_blank">Longitudinal Profile of Post traumatic symptoms in HealthCare Workers during COVID-19 pandemic: A latent transition model</a>
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<li><strong>ASSOCIATION BETWEEN EMOTIONAL STABILITY AND SUICIDALITY IN A BRAZILIAN SAMPLE OF THE GENERAL POPULATION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND THE MODERATION ROLE OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP</strong> -
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Introduction: Emotional stability is considered to be a protective factor for suicidal behavior. Nonetheless, suicidality is the result of a complex interaction of protective and risk factors, a key one being financial difficulties. Objective: We aimed to investigate the association between emotional stability and suicidality in Brazilian individuals during the COVID-19 pandemic and the moderation role of financial hardship. Method: A total of 2140 participants, 79.4% women, answered an online survey from November 2020 to January 2021, containing questions about suicidality as well as concerning economic hardship. The personality data was assessed with the TIPI. We used Pearson chi-square to compare categorical variables and Student t-test to compare continuous variables. Finally, we conducted multiple regression and moderation analysis using SPSS PROCESS v3.5 Macro model 1. Results: The participants who reported not having presented a wish to die, suicide intent, or suicide attempt in the previous month showed a significantly higher level of emotional stability. There was a significant interaction with financial hardship (p=0,006) for suicide attempt as the outcome, with significant association between emotional stability and suicide attempts only in the absence of financial hardship. Conclusion: The presence of financial hardship may suppress the protective role of emotional stability in suicidal behavior.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/c5ayf/" target="_blank">ASSOCIATION BETWEEN EMOTIONAL STABILITY AND SUICIDALITY IN A BRAZILIAN SAMPLE OF THE GENERAL POPULATION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND THE MODERATION ROLE OF FINANCIAL HARDSHIP</a>
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The COVID-19 pandemics were an event where there was a rupture of the life pattern and people felt helpless and suffering, creating a need for basic things such as medical care and shelter against the environmental conditions. The healthcare professionals faced an unknown potential threat to life that made them work in an intense and fearful routine facing fatigue and the fear to carry the disease to their families. In order to evaluate their Quality of life, we undertook a survey in the first months of the pandemics with logistical support of the Health ministry in Brazil reaching more than 200,000 varied health professionals, with quality of life data available to 97,379 . We segregated the professionals by their reported area in Medical doctor, psychologists, social worker, nurses, pharmaceutic/biochemistry, nutritionists, physiotherapist, and speech therapists. Here we describe the findings of the reported quality of life and the features more related to the worsening of the quality of life. The different professions report a diverse quality of life, suggesting a more heterogeneous pattern of impairment. The social relations domain of quality of life was the most affected in or sample Knowing the target population and the features related to worsening of quality of life might help to prepare the professionals for what they must face and to improve mental health in this population.
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The rapid emergence of divergent SARS-CoV-2 variants has led to an update of the COVID-19 booster vaccine to a monovalent version containing the XBB.1.5 spike. To determine the neutralization breadth following booster immunization, we collected blood samples from 24 individuals pre- and post-XBB.1.5 mRNA booster vaccination (~1 month). The XBB.1.5 booster improved both neutralizing activity against the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 strain (WA1) and the circulating Omicron variants, including EG.5.1, HK.3, HV.1, XBB.1.5 and JN.1. Relative to the pre-boost titers, the XBB.1.5 monovalent booster induced greater total IgG and IgG subclass binding, particular IgG4, to the XBB.1.5 spike as compared to the WA1 spike. We evaluated antigen-specific memory B cells (MBCs) using either spike or receptor binding domain (RBD) probes and found that the monovalent booster largely increases non-RBD cross-reactive MBCs. These data suggest that the XBB.1.5 monovalent booster induces cross-reactive antibodies that neutralize XBB.1.5 and related Omicron variants.
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The preservation of antigen spatial conformation is crucial for inducing the high-quality neutralizing responses. Although the receptor-binding domain (RBD) antigen in SARS-CoV-2 vaccines shows satisfactory conformation preservation, it remains susceptible to the immune escape. Therefore, exploring conformational epitopes beyond the RBD region to achieve cross-neutralization becomes an attractive topic. In this study, we used a DNA prime-protein boost regimen to obtain potent humoral responses. Further analysis revealed that boosting antibody responses targeting conformational non-RBD region is crucial for enhancing cross-neutralization against the Wuhan-01, Delta and Omicron subvariants. Via analyzing the distribution of conformational epitopes, and quantifying epitope-specific binding antibodies, we verified a positive correlation between the proportion of binding antibodies against the N-terminal domain (NTD) supersite (a conformational non-RBD epitope) and SARS-CoV-2 neutralization potency. The current work highlights the importance of conformational non-RBD-specific binding antibodies in mediating viral cross-neutralization and provides a new insight in overcoming the immune escape of SARS-CoV-2 variants.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.04.578544v1" target="_blank">DNA Prime-Protein Boost Targeting Conformational Non-RBD Region for Broad Cross-Neutralization</a>
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The SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein mediates virus attachment to human host cells by binding angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and heparan sulfate (HS) proteoglycans. To elucidate the structure, dynamics, and functional consequences of these interactions, we carried out microsecond-long all-atom molecular dynamics simulations, followed by random acceleration molecular dynamics simulations, of the fully glycosylated spike:ACE2 complex with and without heparin chains bound. We find that heparin, a model for HS, promotes structural and energetic stabilization of the active conformation of the spike receptor binding domain (RBD) and reorientation of ACE2 toward the N-terminal domain in the same spike subunit as the RBD. Spike and ACE2 N-glycans exert synergistic effects, promoting better packing, strengthening the protein:protein interaction, and prolonging the residence time of the complex. ACE2 and heparin binding trigger rearrangement of the S2' functional site through allosteric interdomain communication. HS thus has a multifaceted role in facilitating SARS- CoV-2 infection.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.05.578888v1" target="_blank">The accomplices: Heparan sulfates and N-glycans foster SARS-CoV-2 spike:ACE2 receptor binding and virus priming</a>
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<li><strong>Who Can I Count On: Honor, Self-Reliance, and Family in the United States and Iran</strong> -
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People in honor cultures take measures to uphold their reputations. However, it is unclear how aspects of honor vary between societies. Here, we explore the tension between competing views about honor – honor as self-defense narrowly defined in terms of self-reliant tendencies vs. honor broadly defined by demonstrations of strength and virtue. The former suggests that self-reliance, in demonstrating the ability of the individual to defend themself, is a crucial component of honor, while the latter allows the importance of self-reliance in honor to vary depending on moral and cultural factors. To examine these implications, we conducted studies in the U.S., where self-reliance is virtuous, and in Iran, where individual agency must be balanced against the interests of kin. Americans (Studies 1, 2; n = 978) who endorsed honor values tended to ignore governmental COVID-19 measures because they preferred relying on themselves. In contrast, honor-minded Iranians (Study 3; n = 201) adhered to public-health guidelines and did not prefer self-reliance. Moreover, honor-minded Iranians endorsed family-reliance, but did not moralize self-reliance (Study 4; n = 107), while honor-minded Americans endorsed family-reliance and moralized self-reliance (Study 4; n = 120). Results suggest that local norms may shape how honor is expressed across cultures.
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The current study sets out to examine the extent to which college students’ trajectories of mental health symptoms (depression, social anxiety, impulsivity, and aggression) and problematic alcohol use changed as the COVID-19 pandemic progressed; we hypothesize increases in all levels and slopes of all outcomes over time following the pandemic’s onset. We also hypothesize greater mental health symptoms and problematic alcohol use (i.e., higher levels of and increases in outcomes over time) following COVID-19 among individuals who experienced higher levels of loneliness, financial strain, and health anxiety at the time of the pandemic’s onset.
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🖺 Full Text HTML: <a href="https://osf.io/6c8y2/" target="_blank">Examining enduring effects of COVID-19 on college students’ internalizing and externalizing problems: A four-year longitudinal analysis</a>
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Exposure to nature is increasingly regarded as a key part of human health, and the recognition that urban environments must provide access to green spaces for the wellbeing of citizens. The beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 led to many governments issuing stay-at-home orders and closing parks, limiting the options of accessible green spaces for people seeking to safely socialise and cope with stress. Here, we gain a global perspective on how quickly people returned to nature (visiting parks and beaches) in comparison to necessities (accessing groceries and pharmaceuticals) and luxury activities (retail purchases and recreation) following COVID-19 lockdowns using Google Mobility data. We found that people from around the world returned to nature 76 days after peak lockdown, 28 days after people returned to necessities and 77 days before the return to luxuries. Central Asia, Europe, and Northern America returned to nature before necessities. These patterns held even after seasonally-detrending the data. We further found a strong negative correlation between the speed people pulsed back to nature and the strength of government response measures. ¬Combined, our data support the value of nature to people and the need to consider access to green and natural space for human well-being. At the same time, the large-scale return to nature also highlighted the need to promote messages on how to minimise the impacts of human activities in these spaces. We advocate for building and protecting green spaces, combined with strong eco-education, to foster pro-environmental behaviour.
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Emotions play a crucial role in information processing. Prior studies indicate that high-arousal emotions may elicit rapid, intuitive thinking, tricking people into judging misinformation as truthful. Yet, few studies have distinguished prior affective state from emotional reactions to false news, both of which may influence belief in falsehoods in different ways. Replicating and extending Martel et al. (2020), we conducted a pre-registered online survey in Austria (N = 422), investigating associations of emotions and discernment of false and real news related to COVID-19. We found no associations of affective state with discernment, but different emotional responses to false and real news — namely, more anger and less joy for false news. A curvilinear relationship of anger with discernment showed that both participants who were good and bad at discerning real from false news responded with anger. The automated analysis of 5,613 open-ended textual responses suggested that anger may have arisen for different reasons in these different groups. It seemed to also arise when people recognized the false news as such, not only when people accepted it. We conclude that studies need to distinguish between prior affective state and emotional response to misinformation and consider individuals’ prior beliefs as determinants of emotions.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Study to Learn About a Combined COVID-19 and Influenza Shot in Healthy Adults</strong> - <b>Conditions</b>: Influenza, Human, SARS-CoV-2 Infection, COVID-19 <br/><b>Interventions</b>: Biological: BNT162b2 (Omi XBB.1.5)/RIV; Biological: BNT162b2 (Omi XBB.1.5); Biological: RIV; Other: Normal saline placebo <br/><b>Sponsors</b>: Pfizer <br/><b>Not yet recruiting</b></p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Open-label, Multi-centre, Non-Inferiority Study of Safety and Immunogenicity of BIMERVAX for the Prevention of COVID-19 in Adolescents From 12 Years to Less Than 18 Years of Age.</strong> - <b>Conditions</b>: SARS CoV 2 Infection <br/><b>Interventions</b>: Biological: BIMERVAX <br/><b>Sponsors</b>: Hipra Scientific, S.L.U; Veristat, Inc.; VHIR; Asphalion <br/><b>Recruiting</b></p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Balance Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Long COVID</strong> - <b>Conditions</b>: Post-COVID-19 Syndrome; Long COVID <br/><b>Interventions</b>: Behavioral: Balance Acceptance and Commitment Therapy <br/><b>Sponsors</b>: King’s College London <br/><b>Not yet recruiting</b></p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Assessing the mitochondrial safety profile of the molnupiravir active metabolite, β-d-N4-hydroxycytidine (NHC), in the physiologically relevant HepaRG model</strong> - CONCLUSIONS: Overall, NHC does not cause direct mitochondrial toxicity in HepaRG cells at clinically relevant concentrations, but may induce minor cellular perturbations. As HepaRG cells have increased physiological relevance, these findings provide additional assurance of the mitochondrial safety profile of NHC.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Identification of CD8 T-cell dysfunction associated with symptoms in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and Long COVID and treatment with a nebulized antioxidant/anti-pathogen agent in a retrospective case series</strong> - CONCLUSIONS: Here, in this small study, we present two observations that appear potentially fundamental to the pathogenesis and treatment of Long COVID and ME/CFS. The first is that both disorders appear to be characterized by dysfunctional CD8 T-cells with severe deficiencies in their abilities to produce IFNγ and TNFα. The second is that in a small retrospective Long COVID and ME/CFS case series, this immune dysfunction and patient health improved in parallel with treatment with an…</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Arbidol attenuates liver fibrosis and activation of hepatic stellate cells by blocking TGF-β1 signaling</strong> - Chronic liver diseases (CLD) impact over 800 million people globally, causing about 2 million deaths annually. Arbidol (ARB), an indole-derivative used to treat influenza virus infection, was extensively used during COVID-19 pandemic in China. In recent years, studies have shown that ARB, compared to other antiviral drugs, exhibits greater liver-protective efficacy, indicating a potential hepatoprotective effect beyond its antiviral activity. However, the mechanism remains unclear. In this…</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) binds with spike protein and inhibits the entry of SARS-CoV-2 into host cells</strong> - CONCLUSIONS: Our investigations suggest that this interaction of GAPDH interferes in the viral docking with hACE2 receptors, thereby affecting viral ingress into mammalian cells.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>TREG cells and CXCR3+ circulating TFH cells concordantly shape the neutralizing antibody responses in individuals who have recovered from mild COVID-19</strong> - Regulatory T (TREG) cells are involved in the antiviral immune response in patients with COVID-19; however, whether TREG cells are involved in the neutralizing antibody (nAb) response remains unclear. Here, we found that individuals who recovered from mild but not severe COVID-19 had significantly greater frequencies of TREG cells and lower frequencies of CXCR3+ circulating TFH (cTFH) cells than healthy controls. Furthermore, TREG and CXCR3+ cTFH cells were negatively and positively correlated…</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Influenza vaccine compatibility among hospitalized patients during and after the COVID-19 pandemic</strong> - INTRODUCTION: Following the significant decrease in SARS-CoV-2 cases worldwide, Israel, as well as other countries, have again been faced with a rise in seasonal influenza. This study compared circulating influenza A and B in hospitalized patients in Israel with the influenza strains in the vaccine following the 2021-2022 winter season which was dominated by the omicron variant.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Molecular docking as a tool for the discovery of novel insight about the role of acid sphingomyelinase inhibitors in SARS- CoV-2 infectivity</strong> - Recently, COVID-19, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its variants, caused > 6 million deaths. Symptoms included respiratory strain and complications, leading to severe pneumonia. SARS-CoV-2 attaches to the ACE-2 receptor of the host cell membrane to enter. Targeting the SARS-CoV-2 entry may effectively inhibit infection. Acid sphingomyelinase (ASMase) is a lysosomal protein that catalyzes the conversion of sphingolipid (sphingomyelin) to ceramide….</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Evaluation of the inhibitory potential of bioactive compounds against SARS-CoV-2 by in silico approach</strong> - CONTEXT: The COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 19) pandemic brought on by the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) has stimulated the exploration of various available chemical compounds that could be used to treat the infection. This has driven numerous researchers to investigate the antiviral potential of several bioactive compounds from medicinal plants due to their reduced adverse effects compared to chemicals. Some of the bioactive compounds used in folklore…</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Host Receptor Targeting to Treat Covid-19</strong> - Not long after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was identified as the cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19), in vitro experiments revealed that SARS-CoV-2 infection of human cells depended on the binding of the viral spike protein to the human cell-surface receptor angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE-2).¹ Additional experiments demonstrated that infection could be blocked by inhibiting transmembrane protease, serine 2 (TMPRSS2), which is a host enzyme that…</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Randomized Trial of Nafamostat for Covid-19</strong> - A Randomized Trial of Nafamostat for Covid-19Nafamostat mesylate is a potent in vitro antiviral that inhibits the host transmembrane protease serine 2 enzyme used by SARS-CoV-2 for cell entry. Morpeth et al report the results of an open-label randomized clinical trial of nafamostat for noncritically ill patients with Covid-19.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A photocontrolled one-pot isothermal amplification and CRISPR-Cas12a assay for rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants</strong> - CRISPR-Cas technology has widely been applied to detect single-nucleotide mutation and is considered as the next generation of molecular diagnostics. We previously reported the combination of nucleic acid amplification (NAA) and CRISPR-Cas12a system to distinguish major severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) variants. However, the mixture of NAA and CRISPR-Cas12a reagents in one tube could interfere with the efficiency of NAA and CRISPR-Cas12a cleavage, which in turn…</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Repurposing screen identifies novel candidates for broad-spectrum coronavirus antivirals and druggable host targets</strong> - Libraries composed of licensed drugs represent a vast repertoire of molecules modulating physiological processes in humans, providing unique opportunities for the discovery of host-targeting antivirals. We screened the Repurposing, Focused Rescue, and Accelerated Medchem (ReFRAME) repurposing library with approximately 12,000 molecules for broad-spectrum coronavirus antivirals and discovered 134 compounds inhibiting an alphacoronavirus and mapping to 58 molecular target categories. Dominant…</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Terpenes and cannabidiol against human corona and influenza viruses-Anti-inflammatory and antiviral in vitro evaluation</strong> - The activity of the terpenes and Cannabidiol (CBD) against human coronavirus (HCoV) strain OC43 and influenza A (H1N1) was evaluated in human lung fibroblasts (MRC-5 cells). Also, we examined whether these ingredients inhibit pro-inflammatory cytokines in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). The tested preparations exhibited both anti-inflammatory and antiviral effects. The combination of terpenes was effective against both HCoV-OC43 and influenza A (H1N1) virus. The addition of CBD…</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Plasma and urine proteomics and gut microbiota analysis reveal potential factors affecting COVID-19 vaccination response</strong> - The efficacy of COVID-19 vaccination relies on the induction of neutralizing antibodies, which can vary among vaccine recipients. In this study, we investigated the potential factors affecting the neutralizing antibody response by combining plasma and urine proteomics and gut microbiota analysis. We found that activation of the LXR/FXR pathway in plasma was associated with the production of ACE2-RBD-inhibiting antibodies, while urine proteins related to complement system, acute phase response…</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Red recombination enables a wide variety of markerless manipulation of porcine epidemic diarrhea virus genome to generate recombinant virus</strong> - Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) is a member of the genera Alphacoronavirus that has been associated with acute watery diarrhea and vomiting in swine. Unfortunately, no effective vaccines and antiviral drugs for PEDV are currently available. Reverse genetics systems are crucial tools for these researches. Here, a PEDV full-length cDNA clone was constructed. Furtherly, three PEDV reporter virus plasmids containing red fluorescent protein (RFP), Nano luciferase (Nluc), or green fluorescence…</p></li>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Friendship Challenge</strong> - How envy destroyed the perfect connection between two teen-age girls. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/the-friendship-challenge">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Art World Before and After Thelma Golden, by Calvin Tomkins</strong> - When Golden was a young curator in the nineties, her shows, centering Black artists, were unprecedented. Today, those artists are the stars of the art market. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/the-art-world-before-and-after-thelma-golden">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Teen’s Fatal Plunge Into the London Underworld</strong> - After Zac Brettler mysteriously plummeted into the Thames, his grieving parents were shocked to learn that he’d been posing as an oligarch’s son. Would the police help them solve the puzzle of his death? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/a-teens-fatal-plunge-into-the-london-underworld">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Photos from a Late-Stage Abortion Clinic</strong> - At a clinic in Maryland, desperate patients arrive from all over the country to terminate their pregnancies. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/12/a-safe-haven-for-late-abortions">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What SCOTUS Has to Decide About Trump and Disqualification</strong> - The Justices are about to consider whether Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment is enough to keep the former President off the ballot. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/what-scotus-has-to-decide-about-trump-and-disqualification">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>Can Colorado disqualify Trump from its ballot? 4 ways the Supreme Court might rule.</strong> -
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US President Donald Trump stands with newly sworn-in Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett during a ceremonial swearing-in event on the South Lawn of the White House, October 26, 2020, in Washington, DC. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
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The Court’s GOP-appointed majority is very likely to rule for Trump. But it also matters how they rule for Trump.
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On Thursday, the <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus">Supreme Court</a> hears oral arguments in <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/trump-v-anderson/"><em>Trump v. Anderson</em></a>, the case asking whether former <a href="https://www.vox.com/donald-trump">President Donald Trump</a>’s role in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol disqualifies him from seeking the presidency.
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The Colorado Supreme Court previously <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/12/20/24009521/supreme-court-donald-trump-colorado-ballot-insurrection-fourteenth-amendment-anderson-griswold">ruled that Trump must be removed from the ballot</a> in that state, under a provision of the Constitution that prohibits former high-ranking officials who engage in “insurrection” from serving again. That decision is now on appeal to the justices.
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This is just <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/4/4/23664866/donald-trump-indictment-alvin-bragg-jack-smith-stormy-daniels-new-york-georgia">one of four criminal prosecutions of Trump</a>, and Trump is <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/9/7/23862786/trump-e-jean-carroll-defamation">also a defendant in several high-dollar civil suits</a>. But for today, let’s zoom in on this one.
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Broadly speaking, there are several different ways <em>Anderson</em> could come down. The most likely scenario is that he is definitively allowed to run for president again.
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Alternatively, there are several ways the Court could punt this case — effectively ruling that Colorado’s courts were wrong for some reason specific to Colorado. They could do this in a way that has broader implications for US election law. Or they could do it in a way that doesn’t, potentially allowing some other state to declare Trump disqualified from the ballot.
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Finally, there is at least some chance that the Court could rule against Trump and order him disqualified. This outcome would require at least two of the Court’s Republican appointees to vote to remove the leader of the Republican Party from the 2024 ballot, so it is not especially likely. But it could theoretically happen.
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Outcome 1: Total Trump victory
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Let’s start with the most likely outcome first. This Court is <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/7/8/23784320/supreme-court-2022-term-affirmative-action-religion-voting-rights-abortion">highly partisan</a>, and Republican appointees control a supermajority of its seats. So most of the justices are likely to be sympathetic to Trump.
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Also, the justices probably won’t want to leave the question of whether Trump is disqualified unresolved, lest they have to hear a very similar case again in just a few weeks.
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There are some <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/2024/1/3/24022580/supreme-court-donald-trump-ballot-insurrection-fourteenth-amendment-colorado-anderson">legitimate legal arguments to be made that Colorado has overstepped</a>. But Trump’s lawyers don’t make them. The biggest obstacle to a total Trump victory is that his team <a href="https://www.vox.com/e/23818943">makes a very weak case for this outcome in their brief</a>.
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The Constitution uses the phrase “<a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv">officer of the United States</a>” to describe former officials who are disqualified from serving again if they engage in insurrection. Trump’s primary argument to the Supreme Court is that the president — the highest-ranking officeholder in the United States — does not count as such an officer.
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The premise of this argument is that the framers of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment, the post-Civil War amendment that <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/11/23712477/supreme-court-debt-ceiling-fourteenth-amendment-unconstitutional-kevin-mccarthy-joe-biden">functioned as a treaty</a> between the victorious Union and the traitorous Confederate states, intended to ban insurrectionist former senators, representatives, governors, state lawmakers, and potentially even city council members from serving in office again. But if a former president betrays his oath of office, that’s fine.
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Trump also makes some other arguments in favor of leaving him on the ballot. He argues, for example, that disqualifying him would violate the First Amendment. But his brief <a href="https://www.vox.com/e/23818943">spends only about two pages</a> laying out a very thin version of this argument.
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So, while most of the justices are probably going to want to rule in Trump’s favor, his legal team gave them very little to work with.
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Outcome 2: A temporary Trump victory, but with bad implications for US election law
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There are also several ways the Court could reverse the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision<em> </em>while leaving the door open to another court disqualifying Trump again in the near future.
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Trump’s brief, for example, argues for a legal theory known as the “<a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/6/27/23775378/supreme-court-moore-harper-john-roberts-independent-state-legislature-north-carolina-bush-gore">independent state legislature doctrine</a>” (ISLD), which would give the justices an unprecedented new power to overrule state supreme courts’ interpretations of their own state’s election laws. It then argues that the Colorado Supreme Court misread that state’s election law, and that the justices should correct this alleged error.
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The ISLD, however, is an <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/4/23481063/supreme-court-moore-harper-independent-state-legislature-doctrine-elections">extraordinarily radical doctrine</a>. In its strongest form, the ISLD neutralizes all state constitutional provisions that protect the right to vote, and gives state legislatures unprecedented power to determine federal elections even over the objection of state governors and state courts. Even in its weaker forms, the ISLD would trigger a flood of federal litigation challenging virtually any state election decision that Republicans dislike.
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Indeed, this doctrine is so dangerous that a group of retired admirals and generals recently warned the Court that the ISLD “undermines election integrity and <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-1271/243970/20221026122043996_Ret.%20Admirals%20AmicusBrief%20-%20Moore%20v.%20Harper.pdf">exacerbates both domestic and foreign threats to national security</a>.” Last term, the Court heeded this warning, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/2023/6/27/23775378/supreme-court-moore-harper-john-roberts-independent-state-legislature-north-carolina-bush-gore">rejected a lawsuit seeking to invigorate the ISLD</a>.
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Still, a line in that ruling indicates there’s at least some risk that the Court could revive this alarming doctrine in extreme circumstances — which could mean in this case.
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Outcome 3: A one-off, temporary victory for Trump
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The Court could also reverse the Colorado Supreme Court on narrow grounds that are unlikely to have many implications for future election disputes. The justices could say, for example, that Colorado’s courts <a href="https://www.vox.com/scotus/2024/1/3/24022580/supreme-court-donald-trump-ballot-insurrection-fourteenth-amendment-colorado-anderson">failed to provide Trump with adequate due process</a> before removing him from the ballot.
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The problem with this outcome, however, is that it would not resolve the question of whether another court could remove Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment. Indeed, depending on what the Supreme Court’s opinion says, Colorado could potentially give Trump another trial and then remove him from the ballot all over again.
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Outcome 4: Trump loses!
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Finally, it is always possible that the Supreme Court could rule that Trump must be removed from the ballot because he engaged in an insurrection. It is also possible that Trump could be abducted by space aliens.
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If either of these low-probability events occurs, that would most likely mean that Trump could not seek the presidency in 2024. Given the Court’s partisan breakdown, however, it’s unclear which of these improbable events is more likely to occur.
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<em>This story appeared originally in Today, Explained, Vox’s flagship daily newsletter. </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/pages/today-explained-newsletter-signup"><em><strong>Sign up here for future editions</strong></em></a><em>.</em>
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<li><strong>What to do when you’re completely overwhelmed by climate anxiety</strong> -
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How to act in service of the planet — and your values.
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When the subject of <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate">climate change</a> is <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/how-to-think-clearly-about-climate-change.html">a catastrophe in itself</a>, it becomes incredibly easy to catastrophize the fate of the planet. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/28/crazy-off-the-charts-records-has-humanity-finally-broken-the-climate">Alarming</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/20/climate/global-warming-ipcc-earth.html">news headlines</a>, the increased frequency of <a href="https://www.vox.com/natural-disaster">natural disasters</a>, and politicians’ failure to promote genuine solutions may lead some to believe in an inevitable future in which <a href="https://www.vox.com/climate/23870591/fall-climate-el-nino-hurricane-wildfires">extreme temperatures and weather events</a> are constant and <a href="https://www.vox.com/22951182/climate-change-report-ipcc-un-adaptation-warming">currently populated parts of the globe are uninhabitable</a>. It’s important not to turn a blind eye to the effects of climate change, but to view these events realistically rather than project future probabilities as fact.
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When we catastrophize — or think of the worst-case outcome — our body internalizes our stressful thoughts, whether they’re based in reality or not, says <a href="https://selfsustain.com/about/">Thomas Doherty</a>, a licensed psychologist who specializes in environmental approaches to <a href="https://www.vox.com/mental-health">mental health</a>. “That creates a positive feedback loop of more stress, more catastrophizing, which then inhibits my performance,” he says, “which, of course, makes me less and less empowered. We have to be careful about that. Realistic thinking about a catastrophe is a different thing. We have to build our capacity to think about catastrophes.”
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To help you walk this line between staying in touch with reality and not succumbing to despair, climate-aware therapists offer their advice, from accepting nuance to finding strength in community.
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Accept reality — and the feelings that come with it
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Climate catastrophizing often begins when thinking about a very real event, be it a flood halfway around the world or threats to wildlife in your town. These are valid concerns that bring about reasonable emotions, Doherty says.
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Instead of getting caught up in what <em>could</em> happen in the future, face the grief, the anger, or the frustration of what has already occurred, says <a href="https://www.maiakiley.com/">Maia Kiley</a>, a licensed marriage and family therapist who provides climate-aware therapy. Acknowledge the effects of climate change you’ve already witnessed — maybe it was a drought that impacted your town. Let yourself experience whatever emotions surface. However, don’t let the sadness overcome you or deny your feelings. Use it as motivation to contribute to changing the future. “It’s important for people to face a certain amount of reality,” Kiley says, “and then also to see that the story is still being written and they do have power.”
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Find an understanding friend, a climate-aware therapist or a local <a href="https://www.climate.cafe/">Climate Cafe</a>, where people discuss all things climate, and share exactly what you’re feeling and what concerns you, regardless of how big or small the worry feels, says licensed clinical psychologist <a href="https://www.barbaraeasterlin.com/">Barbara Easterlin</a>, the co-president of the <a href="https://www.climatepsychology.us/">Climate Psychology Alliance of North America</a>. Try to feel the depths of those emotions, she says.
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Other aspects of reality you must face are those who <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2023/08/09/why-some-americans-do-not-see-urgency-on-climate-change/">deny the existence of climate change</a> and the people and institutions — including those at the highest positions of power — who have acknowledged its existence but decided not to do anything about climate change. Turn to your emotions and ask yourself pointed questions, says <a href="https://www.kateschapira.com/">Kate Schapira</a>, author of the forthcoming book <a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/lessons-from-the-climate-anxiety-counseling-booth-how-to-live-with-care-and-purpose-in-an-endangered-world-kate-schapira/20335657?ean=9780306831676"><em>Lessons from the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth</em></a>. How do those people and institutions make you feel? What do you usually do when you feel those emotions? What are those feelings inspiring you to do? These solutions should always involve talking with other people, Schapira says. “Action that’s individualist,” says licensed clinical social worker <a href="https://www.rebeccaburnsweston.com/">Rebecca Weston</a>, co-president of the <a href="https://www.climatepsychology.us/">Climate Psychology Alliance of North America</a>, “I don’t think it necessarily makes anyone feel better.” (More on how to find a community later.)
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|
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Get to the root of your emotions
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After accepting your feelings around climate change, determine what the catastrophic thought is trying to tell you, Easterlin says. What exactly are you afraid of? What is your worst fear? By no means are any of your concerns unfounded, Easterlin stresses.
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Maybe you panic about the potential for heat stroke and death or that you may be displaced by disaster. Then consider the likelihood of that loss happening tomorrow. “The world is not going to end tomorrow,” Easterlin says. “That is an irrational fear. What is true is that there’s a lot of uncertainty. There’s anxiety that underlies uncertainty.”
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Perhaps you’re concerned about the safety of your home and loved ones in the event of a hurricane, wildfire, extreme heat, or floods. Consider how you want to prepare before disaster strikes and how you’ll show up if it does, Schapira says. This might include talking to a few neighbors about what you’ll do if you lose power and being ready to act on that plan if the power does go out. “[It’s about] looking into where the thing that you are good at and the thing that you have relationships about, or could have relationships about, crosses paths with what’s needed,” Schapira says.
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Doherty suggests setting a timer for 20 minutes to <a href="https://www.vox.com/even-better/23778284/tips-cope-climate-anxiety">map out a </a><a href="https://www.redcross.org/get-help/how-to-prepare-for-emergencies/make-a-plan.html">specific disaster plan</a>: evacuation routes, knowing where you keep flashlights and nonperishables in your home. It can be helpful to write this down. Of course, you may not have the luxury of time and resources to make these plans. <a href="https://disasterphilanthropy.org/resources/people-experiencing-poverty/">Jobs that pay a livable wage and government programs</a> and funding that support disaster recovery are solutions that individuals simply cannot make plans for.
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Through this thought exercise, you’ll be able to identify your values. There are three basic values that inspire environmental action, Doherty says: concern about yourself and your loved ones, concern about others, and concern about nature. Which of those are most important to you? (It may be all of them.) “That’s your engine, that’s your core,” Doherty says. “No matter what happens in the world, you’re going to stay with your values.”
|
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Working through your emotions, values, and sharing your fears with others ensures you’re acting with intention and not letting fear guide you or prevent you from making constructive choices.
|
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|
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Create a plan for action
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|
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An effective strategy for minimizing climate-related catastrophic thinking is to find a <a href="https://www.vox.com/23152123/climate-actions-individuals-can-take">community of like-minded people who are doing positive work</a>. Knowing that you are not alone in your concerns about the future of the planet is empowering, Weston says. Additionally, being a part of a group who believes we collectively have the ability to avert some of the most extreme effects of climate change can blunt catastrophic thinking, says Doherty.
|
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|
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Think small at first. Getting involved within your community is both more accessible and ensures your actions will carry greater impact. Organizations and groups of neighbors in the South, for example, have <a href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/01/organizers-aim-to-improve-the-souths-climate-resilience/">created spaces for residents</a> to find water and shelter during extreme weather events and collectively fought <a href="https://capitalbnews.org/houston-pipeline-mental-health/">against environmental racism in their community</a>. Try searching for climate-focused groups in your town on <a href="https://www.vox.com/google">Google</a> or <a href="https://www.vox.com/facebook">Facebook</a>.
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Let your values guide you when selecting an organization. If you care about <a href="https://www.vox.com/energy">clean energy</a>, can you find a local group that’s working to transition businesses and homes in your area to alternative energy? Your love of animals may inspire you to seek out a group focusing on preservation of native species. Consider your skills and the amount of time you’re able to devote, too. Maybe your background as a copywriter makes you best suited to draft emails to city council members on behalf of the organization.
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Another exercise to help you identify your interests includes imagining the best-case scenario, Kiley says. Ask yourself, “What if all our actions helped ensure the vitality of the earth, helped to make the planet safe and equitable for all?” What steps would you take to make that dream a reality? When people consider their role in changing the course of climate change, they become more motivated to act, Kiley says.
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Control the information you consume
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People who are in the habit of catastrophizing may spend a lot of time reading upsetting news, which further feeds their anxiety. While you shouldn’t cut yourself off from staying informed altogether, balance <a href="https://www.vox.com/media">the media</a> that worries you with stories of people, scientists, or organizations who are making positive strides toward climate change, Kiley says. Knowing the government officials and departments who oversee sustainability and disaster preparedness in your town or city can help remind you that there are people actively working on these issues, Doherty says.
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Keeping up with major climate change stories will help keep you informed and you’ll have a better sense for when this same information is being repackaged as sensationalist or alarming (often on social media and in mass media that don’t regularly report on climate change), Doherty says. “Once in a while, a news story will knock me off my balance, but most of them don’t,” he says. “Most of the stories are not new. Most of the stories are journalists just rediscovering knowledge that I already know. So once you do this work, you can say ‘I know,’ and that’s a very powerful thing to say.”
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Accept the unknown, including the potential for positive moments
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A hallmark of catastrophizing is all-or-nothing thinking — that because <a href="https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature">Earth’s temperature has risen 2 degrees Fahrenheit</a>, the planet will certainly perish, for instance. “When we paint a story of inevitability,” Weston says, “it leaves out all of human agency. It leaves out all of the uncertainties.” It’s important to keep open the possibility of human intervention and innovation, the possibility that your actions could allow your children to have a better life.
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“We’re still participants in this story,” Kiley says. “It’s not set in stone yet how it’s going to end.”
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<li><strong>Cities have always been havens for immigrants. So why are they struggling now?</strong> -
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<img alt="Blankets and suitcases cover the floor as migrant families are left to sleep at Boston’s international airport." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/5yVtvtF0T2gKfY663LWpSqT2zcw=/681x0:7512x5123/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/73121506/1975050446.0.jpg"/>
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Migrants spend the night on the floor at Boston’s Logan International Airport on January 24, 2024. | Matt Stone / MediaNews Group / Boston Herald via Getty Images
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Congressional inaction has created a broken immigration system. But cities can do more for migrants, too.
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Come nighttime in Boston, some migrant families with no place to stay are <a href="https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/01/26/logan-airport-migrant-unhoused-shelter-emergency">put in cabs</a> and sent to Logan International Airport — where, according to some estimates, more than 100 people, some of them children, sleep by baggage claim. During the day, they’re directed to Massachusetts’s <a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2023-09-20/quincys-new-welcome-center-sees-outpouring-of-community-support-for-migrant-families-employees-say">family welcome centers</a>, set up by the state to help recent arrivals with housing and other services, only to make their way back to the airport for another night.
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For some families, this cycle goes on for <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/01/26/metro/migrants-waiting-at-logan/">more than a week at a time</a>, turning part of the airport into a de facto shelter. It’s a symptom of the state’s <a href="https://apnews.com/article/massachusetts-homeless-family-shelters-migrants-c735539b261fe7ac03859c392c7ab95c">broader immigration problems</a> and just one example of how cities across the country have been struggling — and, in many cases, failing — to meet the basic needs of a growing migrant population.
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The Biden administration <a href="https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/biden-three-immigration-record">has presided</a> over a <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/22/border-patrol-migrant-encounters/">record number of migrant arrests</a> at the southern border. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2024/01/06/biden-migrants-us-mexico-border/">More than 2 million people</a>, the majority of them families, have been released into the country by US Customs and Border Protection over the last three years while they await legal proceedings to determine whether they will be deported. Roughly 6 million people have been taken into custody at some point over the same time period.
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In city after city — from <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/nyregion/nyc-homeless-shelters-migrants.html">New York</a> to <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-cb-migrant-chicago-20230610-ecdgpx3kzzhkdeo5nazqiywuga-story.html">Chicago</a> to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/09/03/dc-migrants-buses-hotels-update/">Washington, DC</a> — their arrival has made evidence of the United States’ broken immigration system more visible, as in the case of Boston’s airport. Because despite these cities’ histories of attracting and becoming homes to immigrants, many of them have been caught largely unprepared to handle the sudden increase in the number of migrants reaching their jurisdictions.
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“As the resources get more scarce, as the infrastructure becomes more overwhelmed, and particularly because of the lack of coordination, what we are seeing are more extreme events happening, including encampments at Logan Airport — something that would’ve been inconceivable a year ago and is now happening in our own backyard,” said Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, the executive director of <a href="https://lawyersforcivilrights.org/what-we-do/">Lawyers for Civil Rights</a>, a legal advocacy organization that has been providing assistance to migrants in Boston.
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The federal government shoulders much of the blame for the crisis: For years, Congress has failed to reform immigration laws. It has failed to ease bottlenecks, such as application processing times for people looking to work and stay in the United States. And it has failed to adequately fund services that help migrants navigate the many bureaucratic hurdles that come their way. As a result, far too many migrants are left in legal limbo for far too long.
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Democratic mayors and governors, who often like to pride themselves on being more pro-immigrant than their Republican counterparts, have been scrambling to adjust to that new reality as local and state governments are met with the high financial costs of hosting the growing migrant populations. That’s led some Democratic leaders, such as New York City Mayor Eric Adams, to declare that <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/18/eric-adams-new-york-asylum-seekers-00078319">“there’s no more room”</a> for asylum seekers in their jurisdictions, increasing pressure on the Biden administration to do more to address the problem.
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Instead of passing blame and waiting around for Congress to act, there’s more that cities and states, along with the Biden administration, can do to alleviate some of the stresses on the immigration system and better help migrants integrate into communities across the United States.
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How northern cities became central to the country’s immigration crisis
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Over the last couple of years, many cities have seen a sharp increase in the number of migrants — most of whom come from Central and South American countries but who are also coming from all over the globe, including China and India. (Regardless of where they come from, they may be fleeing their home countries for similar reasons, including conflict, persecution, and poverty.)
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New York City, for example, has attracted more than <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/nyc-migrant-crisis-explained.html">150,000 migrants since 2022</a>, straining services like the city’s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/nyregion/nyc-homeless-shelters-migrants.html">already struggling shelter system</a> and further exposing ongoing issues that have long burdened existing residents — like, say, the dearth of affordable housing.
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“It’s an unprecedented crisis,” said Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute. “We have never had this number of people come in such short periods of time.”
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Most of the released migrants are in <a href="https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/biden-three-immigration-record#interior">active deportation proceedings</a>, which <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/11/world/americas/mexico-border-routes.html">can take years to resolve</a>. During that time, they can stay in the United States but have to navigate a patchwork of laws and safety nets to stay afloat. Some migrants <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-tps-border-asylum-venezuela-temporary-status-2fa052ceacb020b861bb82332912bc92">can get work authorization</a>, for example, while others can’t. And though federal benefits <a href="https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/cities-struggle-migrant-arrivals-new-york">are harder to come by</a> than in the past, states provide varying levels of services, from <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/30/nyregion/nyc-homeless-shelters-migrants.html">housing</a> to <a href="https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/fact-sheet/key-facts-on-health-coverage-of-immigrants/:~:text=In%20general,%20lawfully%20present%20immigrants,status%20before%20they%20may%20enroll.">health care</a> to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/09/18/1199099781/thousands-of-migrant-kids-are-starting-school-in-nyc-is-the-system-prepared">education</a>.
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“New York has been welcoming migrants from its very inception, and so people expected that, even though there is a significant crisis at the border, that this would not affect New York in any different way than prior chapters have,” Chishti said. “But it all changed, and it changed not necessarily because of the numbers … it changed because it happened in a very dramatic, very visible, and very targeted way.”
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In 2022, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/operation-lone-star-engineers-install-new-strategic-border-barrier">started busing thousands of migrants</a> out of his state to Democratic-run cities <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/texas-gov-greg-abbott-divided-democrats-immigration-migrant-busing-rcna128815">without notice</a>. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, also a Republican, has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/09/politics/desantis-migrant-flights/index.html">pulled similar stunts</a>. These programs are political theater: “There’s no talking around it that Governor Abbott used this as a politically motivated attack on blue states and blue cities in the country,” Chishti said.
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More than <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/texas-transports-over-100000-migrants-to-sanctuary-cities#:~:text=Since%20the%20launch%20of%20Operation,more%20than%2034%2C700%20felony%20charges.">100,000 people have been shuttled</a> across state lines this way, and there have been allegations that migrants were <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/13/bexar-county-sheriff-migrants-marthas-vineyard-visas/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CBased%20upon%20the%20claims%20of,because%20the%20investigation%20is%20ongoing.">lured to participate in these programs under false pretenses</a>. The saga has resulted in <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/06/06/ron-desantis-texas-sheriff-criminal-charges-migrants">lawsuits</a> — and tragedy. A 3-year-old girl <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/jismary-alejandra-barboza-gonzalez-autopsy-migrant-girl/#textMigrant20girl2C2032C20on20buspneumonia2C20intestinal20disease2C20autopsy20findstextCHICAGO20CBS202D2D20A203intestinal20disease2C20an20autopsy20determined">died of pneumonia</a> while riding a bus from Texas to Illinois; the journey was part of Abbott’s program.
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What started out as a crass political ploy has been followed by a sustained migration pattern that adds to the backlog for cities’ support services. But it’s also true that the busing programs — which have <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-texas-officials-stymied-nonprofits-efforts-to-help-migrants-they-bused-to-northern-cities/">failed to solve migrants’ struggles</a> but succeeded in getting Democratic mayors and governors to pressure the Biden administration on immigration — were only made possible by the absence of any <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/03/politics/white-house-chicago-migrant-crisis-tension/index.html">serious planning effort</a> to connect migrants to jurisdictions that have the infrastructure, capacity, and preparedness to support them.
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“We are seeing a complete lack of federal coordination and anemic federal support,” said Espinoza-Madrigal, who represents migrants in a <a href="https://www.capecodtimes.com/story/news/courts/2022/09/20/ron-desantis-sued-migrants-flown-marthas-vineyard-massachusetts-alianza-americas-lawsuit/8066091001/">lawsuit</a> filed after they were flown from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard. “The unfolding migrant crisis is the result of federal neglect.”
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What more can cities do?
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Pointing fingers at federal lawmakers is certainly warranted, but city and state leaders’ hands aren’t tied. “The argument by New York is that immigration is a federal responsibility — like, ‘This is not our responsibility.’ That isn’t really true,” said Yael Schacher, the director for the Americas and Europe at Refugees International. “New York is going to reap enormous benefits. Yes, it’s a federal responsibility to decide who comes in and who has to go … but after people are here, that’s everybody’s responsibility.”
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That’s not to say that the federal government should take its time in addressing this issue. While it has <a href="https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IN/IN12132">not necessarily left states and cities</a> to fund migrant assistance programs on their own, it has fallen far short of providing the financial assistance that those jurisdictions actually need. Schacher pointed out that Congress has also <a href="https://www.nilc.org/issues/economic-support/overview-immeligfedprograms/#:~:text=The%20%E2%80%9Cqualified%E2%80%9D%20immigrant%20category%20includes,of%20at%20least%20one%20year">drastically restricted migrants’ access</a> to social programs over the years, and that’s put considerably more pressure on local governments.
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As of now, Congress doesn’t seem interested in passing any new immigration laws. On Wednesday, the Senate <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/02/07/us/congress-ukraine-israel-aid?smid=url-share">failed</a> to pass an <a href="https://www.vox.com/politics/2024/2/5/24062710/senate-immigration-bill-border-security-ukraine-2024">an aggressive and fairly right-wing immigration deal</a>, which would have <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/04/senate-border-bill-israel-ukraine/">dramatically clamped down on border security</a>, made it harder for people to qualify for asylum, and streamlined the work authorization process. House Republicans had <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/02/04/1226427234/senate-border-deal-reached">declared</a> it “dead on arrival” before the votes were cast.
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Without Congress, it’s unlikely that the federal government will be able to sufficiently support local governments and nonprofit organizations providing support services to migrants. But money is not the only thing that’s missing.
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For the cities receiving a large share of migrants, two things in particular have made this migration wave impose such a high financial cost. First, there has been a notable rise in the number of <a href="https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/biden-three-immigration-record#interior">migrant families with children</a>, who are more vulnerable and rely more heavily on public services than those arriving alone. Second, many of those among the current wave of migrants coming to the United States don’t have relatives or friends who already live here and can help them settle in.
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“We are seeing a large number of families without immediate contacts or connections in the United States,” Espinoza-Madrigal said. “This generates a host of challenges. It means that people don’t have someone to rely on immediately upon arrival. It means that the state and federal government need to coordinate much more aggressively around housing and other immediate needs.”
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As experts told Vox, one of the most pressing needs for cities, states, and the migrants they’re accepting is better coordination at all levels: Cities should be working with surrounding counties to share the responsibility of housing migrants and financing the services they need; states should form regional consortiums to strategically plan where migrants can settle; and the federal government should play a more active role in finding appropriate jurisdictions to send migrants to, such as those where migrants have existing family networks or those with a city or organization willing to help them find housing and employment opportunities.
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That’s hardly an unheard-of concept. In fact, it’s how the federal government <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-refugee-resettlement-is-a-crucial-part-of-us-migration-strategy/#:~:text=Refugee%20resettlement%20involves%20transferring%20refugees,state%20with%20higher%20economic%20capacity.">handles refugee resettlement</a>, working with existing family networks, nonprofits, and religious organizations to properly match refugees with strong support systems.
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“We desperately need regional coordination for the migrant crisis to be more effectively addressed and resolved,” Espinoza-Madrigal. He noted that within Massachusetts, there is “minimal coordination,” and nonprofits from other cities in the state are constantly reaching out to his organization to ask for help finding basic services like access to translators. “Why can’t the commonwealth create a clearinghouse where technical assistance, translation support, and other guidance can be coordinated and curated in a much more effective and organized manner?”
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Some government initiatives have worked well and could serve as a model for more ambitious planning, Espinoza-Madrigal said. For example, when Massachusetts partnered with the federal government and hosted work authorization clinics for two weeks, the number of <a href="https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2024/01/04/report-more-mass-migrants-are-getting-work-permits-but-the-shelter-waitlist-is-growing/">work permits for migrants in the state surged</a> — from roughly 800 in mid-December to over 2,700 by the end of 2023.
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State governments should also partner with their neighbors. That way, instead of New York City sending migrants upstate, as its mayor <a href="https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/08/24/hochul-wont-force-upstate-shelter-migrants/">planned to do</a>, it could work with jurisdictions in New Jersey or Connecticut to help people settle in the immediate metro area, so that surrounding counties could help cover some of the financial costs imposed on New York and migrants with work authorization could still access job opportunities in the region. That would ultimately benefit all jurisdictions involved because it would help address regional labor shortages and broaden participating jurisdictions’ tax bases.
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And the federal government should be more thoughtful in deciding where to direct migrants when they leave federal custody, taking into consideration things like housing affordability and job opportunities.
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“We know there are some places in this country, like St. Louis, for example, who are dying for workers and actually have housing,” said Schacher, from Refugees International. “For people who have relatives or friends, this isn’t as big of an issue, but for people who actually don’t have a place to go and what they need most is affordable housing and the possibility of a job, then maybe they should be directed towards certain places.”
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For its part, the Biden administration is aiming <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-refugee-cap-2024-biden-latin-america/">to admit more refugees</a> from Latin America, potentially giving some migrants who would otherwise opt to cross the border without prior authorization an alternative entry point into the country. But that level of coordination and planning ought to be applied to all migrants. “We have so much less political will to think of these folks as refugees in this political environment,” Schacher said.
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In the end, that’s what’s stopping a lot of cities and states from more competently resettling migrants — not just congressional inaction, but that lack of political will, too.
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ranji Trophy | Confident Pondicherry takes on Jammu & Kashmir</strong> - Captain Rohit, who missed all the matches with a rib fracture, is fit and all set to return to lead the home side</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>England midfielder Lingard joins South Korea’s FC Seoul</strong> - The 31-year-old, a World Cup semi-finalist with England and Europa League winner with Manchester United, has been a free agent since leaving Nottingham Forest at the end of last season.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Accused of rape, Varun withdraws from FIH Pro League, takes urgent leave to fight legal battle</strong> - Varun has been booked by the Bengaluru Police after a woman accused the defender of sexually abusing her multiple times when she was a minor</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>From Beed to Benoni— the incredible journey of Sachin</strong> - Sachin Dhas’ knock of 96 in a thrilling chase against South Africa ensured India entered the showpiece event’s summit clash for a fifth consecutive time</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Messi plays in Inter Miami loss to Vessel Kobe in Tokyo; Hong Kong still seethes at his absence</strong> - Inter Miami’s opponent, J-League champion Vissel Kobe, won Wednesday’s match 4-3 in a penalty shootout after 90 minutes of play ended in a 0-0 draw</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Robert Bruell as Richard Feynman Chair Professor at MGU</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Senior official inspects water flow in the Cauvery</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Here are the big stories from Karnataka today</strong> - Welcome to the Karnataka Today newsletter, your guide from The Hindu on the major news stories to follow today. Curated and written by Nalme Nachiyar.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>District Central Library to hold TNPSC Group IV model exam</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>CPI(M) condemns Centre for infringing on the rights of States and using central agencies against leaders of Opposition parties</strong> -</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Putin challenger barred from Russia’s election</strong> - Russia’s election commission has rejected anti-war challenger Boris Nadezhdin as a presidential candidate.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Volcano spews lava in new Iceland eruption</strong> - For the third time in recent weeks, Iceland’s Reykjanes peninsula witnesses a spectacular eruption.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Watch: Iceland volcano sends fountains of molten rock skyward</strong> - Lava and smoke is spewing from a new eruption in the Reykjanes peninsula.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>World breaches 1.5C warming threshold for full year</strong> - The last 12 months were the hottest on record, temporarily sending the world past a deeply symbolic mark.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>McCann suspect to stay silent in German rape trial</strong> - Convicted sex offender Christian Brückner is due in court next week, accused of five offences.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis</strong> - Analysis heavily weighs how hard the brands’ laptops are to take apart. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2001838">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Disney invests $1.5B in Epic Games, plans new “games and entertainment universe”</strong> - Major move continues Disney’s decades-long, up-and-down relationship with gaming. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2001877">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>We may now know who’s behind the lead-tainted cinnamon in toddler fruit pouches</strong> - At least 413 people, mostly young children, in 43 states have been poisoned. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2001859">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What I learned from the Apple Store’s 30-minute Vision Pro demo</strong> - Despite some awe-inspiring moments, the $3,500 headset is a big lift for retail. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2001718">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Report: Apple is testing foldable iPhones, having the same problems as everyone else</strong> - Don’t expect these clamshell-style foldables in 2024 or 2025 or maybe ever. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=2001782">link</a></p></li>
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An atheist was taking a walk through the woods.
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What majestic trees! What powerful rivers! What beautiful animals!" he said to himself.
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As he was walking alongside the river he heard a rustling in the bushes behind him. He turned to look and saw a 7-foot grizzly charging towards him. Running as fast as he could up the path, he looked over his shoulder and saw that the bear was closing in on him.
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Every time he looked, the bear was closer.
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He tripped, fell to the ground, and rolled over to pick himself up but saw the bear right on top of him, reaching for him with his left paw and raising his right paw to strike him.
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At that instant the Atheist cried out: “Oh, my God!…”
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Time stopped.
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The bear froze.
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The forest was silent.
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As a bright light shone upon the man, a voice came from the sky: “You deny my existence for all of these years, teach others that I don’t exist, and even credit creation to a cosmic accident. Do you now expect me to help you out of this predicament? Am I to count you as a believer?”
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The atheist looked directly into the light, and replied: “It would be hypocritical of me to ask You to treat me as a Christian now, but perhaps could You make the BEAR a Christian?”
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“Very well,” said the voice.
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The brilliant light went out.
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The sounds of the forest resumed.
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Then the bear brought both paws together, bowed his head and said, “Lord, bless this food, which I am about to receive from thy bounty through Christ our Lord. Amen.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PathologicalLaura"> /u/PathologicalLaura </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1alie5b/god_and_the_atheist/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1alie5b/god_and_the_atheist/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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The priest tells the congregation the news and after the service a woman comes up to him crying: “This is terrible news father, just terrible. You can’t leave us. Refuse the move, tell the bishop to find someone else for the other church.”
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The priest puts his arm on the woman’s shoulder and says “I realize this is difficult news for you Mrs. Johnson, but who knows? Maybe the next priest for this parish will be even better than me.”
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“Oh sure,” Mrs. Johnson says in hysterics. “That’s what they told us the last time.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/AssociationSubject85"> /u/AssociationSubject85 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1alml6o/a_priest_is_told_by_the_bishop_he_is_being_moved/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1alml6o/a_priest_is_told_by_the_bishop_he_is_being_moved/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>I was at the airport waiting for my bags when I saw a man collapse and fall on the luggage carousel.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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I was worried, but he…came around slowly,
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/porichoygupto"> /u/porichoygupto </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1alpasy/i_was_at_the_airport_waiting_for_my_bags_when_i/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1alpasy/i_was_at_the_airport_waiting_for_my_bags_when_i/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Age gap shenanigans</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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An older man and young woman are both sitting at a bar, separately enjoying their drinks. The man catches the young lass smiling at him, so he moves to the seat next to her snd offers to buy her a drink. She accepts.
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They continue to converse for quite a while. The conversation flowing effortlessly. Eventually, the woman tells the man that her place is close by, and she has a bottle of wine they can share and keep the conversation going.
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Once at her place, the sparks begin to fly. She never thought she’d be so attracted to an older man. But he’s handsome, funny, and just seems like a good guy. And the gentleman can’t believe such a beautiful young woman is showing such interest in him. His confidence is through the roof.
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Things take another turn as the pair take the party to her bedroom. After the intimate deed is done, they are laying in bed.
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The man props himself up on his elbow and says, “I must apologize. If I knew you were a virgin, I would have taken things slower. A nice dinner. A show. Just a nice time out on the town”.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">
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The woman props herself up on her elbow. “I need to apologize too. If I knew you could still get it up, I would’ve taken my underwear off!”
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Edit: words
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Spaceace91478"> /u/Spaceace91478 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1alc9ur/age_gap_shenanigans/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1alc9ur/age_gap_shenanigans/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What do tofu and dildos have in common?</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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They are both meat substitutes
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mfwcl2003"> /u/mfwcl2003 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1alip90/what_do_tofu_and_dildos_have_in_common/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/1alip90/what_do_tofu_and_dildos_have_in_common/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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