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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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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><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Amelia Bedelia, Meet Samuel Alito</strong> - What the Supreme Court Justice’s leaked draft opinion reveals about originalism. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/amelia-bedelia-meet-samuel-alito">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>DeafBlind Communities May Be Creating a New Language of Touch</strong> - Protactile began as a movement for autonomy and a system of tactile communication. Now, some linguists argue, it is becoming a language of its own. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/deafblind-communities-may-be-creating-a-new-language-of-%20touch">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What the “Life of the Mother” Might Mean in a Post-Roe America</strong> - “We are going to see more deaths and more injuries,” Ghazaleh Moayedi, an ob-gyn in Dallas, said. “I don’t have to speculate about that at all.” - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-medicine/what-the-life-of-the-mother-might-mean-in-a-post-roe-%20america">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Jamil Jan Kochai Reads “Occupational Hazards”</strong> - The author reads his story from the May 23, 2022, issue of the magazine. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-writers-voice/jamil-jan-kochai-reads-occupational-hazards">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Jamil Jan Kochai on Résumés as Stories</strong> - The author discusses “Occupational Hazards,” his story from the latest issue of the magazine. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/books/this-week-in-fiction/jamil-jan-kochai-05-23-22">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-vox">From Vox</h1>
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<li><strong>Lebanon is in political crisis. Sunday’s elections won’t change that.</strong> -
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Lebanon Holds First Parliamentary Elections Since 2019 Protests. | Marwan Tahtah/Getty Images
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In 2019 protesters chanted for revolution; instead they got continued corruption and negligence.
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Lebanon’s parliamentary elections on Sunday hold the possibility of change — however slight — from the corruption, negligence, and stagnation that have <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-financial-explainer-idCAKCN2DT0OY">crashed the country’s economy</a>, provided relative impunity for the devastating 2020 Beirut port explosion, and allowed the extremist group Hezbollah to pick up a greater proportion of seats in the legislature.
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Sunday’s turnout within Lebanon could top 60 percent, a 10 percent increase over the numbers in 2018’s parliamentary elections. That, combined with high turnout from the Lebanese diaspora in places like Dubai and Paris, could mean that opposition groups pick up as many as 10 seats in the 128-seat parliament, according to Osama Gharizi, senior program advisor with the Middle East and North Africa Center at the US Institute for Peace. “A sharp increase in voters here would likely drive a large portion of new groups into parliament for the first time on Sunday,” Gharizi, who is based in Beirut, told Vox via email. “The acute economic and governance crises afflicting the country since 2019 should mean a higher turnout than in 2018, which stood at nearly 50 percent.”
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Those crises include rampant inflation and high poverty — according to the <a href="https://www.unescwa.org/sites/default/files/news/docs/21-00634-_multidimentional_poverty_in_lebanon_-
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policy_brief_-_en.pdf">United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia</a>, more than 80 percent of the country’s population of <a href="https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=LB">6.8 million</a> now live in some form of poverty as measured by twenty different indicators, like access to sanitation, health insurance, and school attendance as well as financial indicators like income and wealth. Lebanon’s financial devolution has been years in the making. Staggering debt due to financial mismanagement under central bank governor Riad Salameh, as well as withdrawal of Saudi support due to the increasing influence of Hezbollah and Iran, and political unwillingness to make reforms in exchange for foreign aid, all contributed to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-
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financial-explainer-idCAKCN2DT0OY">the implosion of the economy</a>.
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Lebanese people, fed up with the government’s response to the economic crisis it had created, began protesting on October 17, 2019; a proposed tax on the messaging service WhatsApp was the final straw. They demanded the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/23/world/middleeast/lebanon-protests.html">entire government resign</a>, chanting “all of them means all of them,” occupying many of downtown Beirut’s iconic but still bullet-scarred buildings, and demanding an end to the sectarian divisions which pitted the population against each other while enriching the political elites and keeping them in power.
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However, the emergence of the Covid-19 virus put a damper on the protests’ momentum until the August 2020 <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-58705687">Beirut port explosion</a>, which killed at least 218, injured more than 7,000, and <a href="https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/08/03/they-killed-us-inside/investigation-august-4-beirut-blast">displaced hundreds of thousands</a>. Independent investigations, and many Lebanese, maintain that <a href="https://www.hrw.org/video-photos/interactive/2021/08/02/lebanon-evidence-implicates-officials-beirut-blast-
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targeted">political negligence</a> is responsible for the blast; government officials failed to properly store the 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate that exploded after a fire broke out in the warehouse where it was being stored. In the aftermath, neighbors fed each other, delivered medicine, and organized to make home repairs. The government was nowhere to be found because officials had resigned en masse. Nearly two years on, there’s still no <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/16/analysis-how-judge-bitar-probe-shook-lebanon-leaders">justice</a> for the citizens of Beirut, since politicians have <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/faltering-beirut-port-
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blast-probe-faces-risk-new-obstruction-2022-01-17/">shut down two successive investigations.</a>
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Lebanon’s government structure doesn’t make political change easy
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Lebanon’s parliament serves a four-year term and its structure is divided along sectarian lines, between Muslim and Christian seats; although there is religious diversity in Lebanon, religious minority groups like the Druze must fit into either the Muslim or Christian constituency, and are given seats proportional to their population. Executive offices are always filled by one of the three primary religious constituencies — the prime minister is always a Sunni Muslim, the speaker of parliament is Shia, and the president is always a Maronite Christian. The religious confessional system, which has existed in some form for the duration of Lebanon’s modern history, was codified into law under the <a href="https://peacemaker.un.org/sites/peacemaker.un.org/files/LB_891022_Taif%20Accords.pdf">1989 Taif Accords</a>, which laid out the conditions for the end of the 15-year-long civil war.
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The division of political office along sectarian lines was ostensibly intended to keep the peace between religious groups after the brutal civil war, but it has also perpetuated corrupt <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/world/middleeast/saad-hariri-lebanon-
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quits.html">political dynasties</a> and enabled impunity for kleptocratic players that have allegedly used the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/business/lebanon-riad-salameh.html">fragile country’s assets as their own personal coffer</a>. The Taif Accords also give <a href="https://www.presidency.gov.lb/English/PresidentoftheRepublic/Pages/Constitution.aspx">broad power to the president</a>, allowing them to dismiss the prime minister and cabinet, and to dissolve parliament, creating the conditions for the abuse of power and cronyism which have long plagued Lebanese politics.
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As Gharizi told Vox, Lebanon’s “electoral system is skewed [in] favor of the traditional ruling parties. This shouldn’t be all that surprising since they are the ones who devised it in 2017. It is based on proportional representation (PR) and was first used in the 2018 elections.” While some civil society groups were in favor of the change because it could allow candidates from non-traditional groups to participate in the government, he said, “the traditional ruling parties inserted details into the electoral system that essentially negates the benefits,” including a preferential vote for an individual within a coalition, which Gharizi said helps “secure the election of traditional leaders.”
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Furthermore, electoral districts “match the constituencies of traditional ruling parties” — parallel in theory to gerrymandering in the US — and Lebanese election tradition stipulates that people vote in their ancestral villages, which, Gharizi said, “precludes the emergence of a strong concentration of opposition constituencies.”
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Because Lebanon’s economic issues are so deeply intertwined with the widely-acknowledged corruption of the political elites, the status quo can’t change until the political institutions do. That kind of change seemed to be fomenting when Saad Hariri, a Sunni Muslim politician, former prime minister, and the scion of the Hariri political dynasty, announced he was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/world/middleeast/saad-hariri-lebanon-
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quits.html">resigning from politics this past January</a> and urged his supporters to boycott the election. The younger Hariri, who took office after the 2005 assassination of his father Rafik while he was serving as prime minister, is perhaps best known internationally for <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/world/middleeast/lebanon-hariri-
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model.html">giving millions of dollars to a young South African model</a> in between his prime ministerial terms. Hariri, who resigned as prime minister during the 2019 protests, was then appointed in a caretaker capacity by President Michel Aoun in October 2020; nine months later, he resigned again, unable to form a new government.
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While Hariri’s retirement from politics carried with it the risk of further stagnation and disarray, it was also an admission of sorts, that under his leadership and the leadership of his political class, Lebanese society had suffered — and Hariri and his ilk were doing nothing to stop it.
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Can Sunday’s vote make any inroads?
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No one election will make the sweeping change that Lebanon needs and that the Lebanese people have been demanding for years now. While Gharizi acknowledged the anger and frustration most Lebanese feel, he also told Vox that “the clientelist and patronage networks of traditional ruling parties run deep, meaning many still rely and have become ever more dependent on, given the current economic crisis,<strong> </strong><a href="https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1299599/voters-at-several-polling-stations-make-claims-of-getting-paid-
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for-their-vote.html">the largess of the parties for basic needs</a>.” That dependence “ensures that traditional ruling parties are able to more easily mobilize their supporters to the polls than nascent opposition newcomers, thereby guaranteeing a certain level of control and influence in the next parliament and government,” he said.
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That means that although Hariri’s <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/rival-sits-out-
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lebanons-election-now-hezbollah-could-fill-void-2022-05-09/">Future Movement party</a> didn’t put forward any candidates, other traditional political stakeholders did, including the Shia Hezbollah movement, which held 71 parliamentary seats going into the elections and whose supporters <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/15/lebanon-votes-polls-national-election-parliament">reportedly threatened election observers</a> from the Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections. But other traditional parties have resorted to unsavory methods to ensure victory too, according to Gharizi.
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“Traditional ruling parties have reverted to tried and tested campaign strategies ensconced in fear, sectarian rhetoric and clientelism to mobilize voters,” he said. “Opposition groups are painted by ruling parties as being supported and funded by either traditional rivals or by international actors, or as being too weak to protect the community from the ‘other.’”
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Ultimately, any change for Lebanon will come from independent leaders, detached from the leadership that has had a stranglehold on the country for decades. But the opposition movement is new, unused to political organizing, and developing platforms and strategies, while traditional parties have relied on their divisive sectarian messages, Gharizi said. But the fact that independent candidates have even participated in this election in any sort of significant number “is in and of itself a key milestone in Lebanon’s political development and continues the gradual, long-term process to overhaul Lebanon’s anachronistic political system that began with the events of October 2019,” according to Gharizi.
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While the emergent political actors have finally had a chance to run campaigns, <a href="https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/621366/rr-lebanon-analyzing-voter-
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turnout-260422-en.pdf;jsessionid=8918960B209BCE742EA3F90354F9B103?sequence=1">a recent Oxfam report cites</a> the “inability to present a unified, strong political discourse that makes them a serious alternative to the current ruling elites” as a major setback for those groups. In the absence of strong political platforms and meaningful coalitions — not to mention funding to support campaigns — the report cautions, dissatisfaction with the ruling class is simply not enough to get independent candidates elected, much less dismantle the entire corrupt and divisive system.
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Ultimately, the outcome of this critical election depends on turnout, as Gharizi told Vox. But as of 6:30 pm local time, according to Sami Atallah, the founding director and head of research at the Beirut-based think tank The Policy Initiative, turnout was low — only 37.5 percent. “While Sunnis were expected to boycott, surprisingly Shia and Christians had lower turnout as well. High level of voter apathy,” <a href="https://twitter.com/samiatallah1/status/1525888601799663619">he tweeted Sunday.</a>
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As of 6:30pm nb, turnout of 37.5% is low compared to the 2018 election of 49%. While Sunnis were expected to boycott, surprisingly Shia and Christians had lower turnout as well. High level of voter apathy <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Lebaneseelections2022?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Lebaneseelections2022</a>
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— sami atallah (<span class="citation" data-cites="samiatallah1">@samiatallah1</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/samiatallah1/status/1525888601799663619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 15, 2022</a>
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Preliminary results should be available as soon as Monday.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Summer Lee could be the latest addition to the Squad</strong> -
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Pennsylvania state Rep. Summer Lee is competing in a Democratic primary for the state’s 12th Congressional District. | Courtesy of Summer Lee Campaign
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The state House representative could add to progressive gains this cycle.
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<a href="https://www.cityandstatepa.com/personality/2022/04/q-state-
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rep-summer-lee/365763/">Pennsylvania House Rep. Summer Lee</a> could become the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/7/17/20696474/squad-congresswomen-trump-pressley-aoc-omar-tlaib">latest addition to the Squad</a> if she wins her Democratic primary on Tuesday.
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Lee, <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-
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and-politics/2019/1/29/18188601/justice-democrats-alexandria-ocasio-cortezes-aoc">one of six challengers backed by the Justice Democrats</a>, a progressive PAC, is running to fill an open seat in Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District vacated by Rep. Mike Doyle. It’s a <a href="https://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/us-house-district-12-jerry-
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dickinson-steve-irwin-summer-lee-william-parker-and-jeff-woodard/Content?oid=21593958">safe Democratic seat that includes Pittsburgh</a> and the surrounding suburbs, and it’s poised to be a <a href="https://www.axios.com/2022/02/27/house-progressives-midterms-democrats">key pickup for progressives</a>, should Lee win her race this week.
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Lee is currently up against four other candidates in the race, <a href="https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-local/2022/05/10/democratic-candidates-pennsylvania-12th-congressional-
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district-doyle-lee-irwin-dickinson-parker-woodard/stories/202205100134">including attorney Steve Irwin</a>, <a href="https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2022-03-17/irwin-scores-backing-of-regions-top-two-dems-in-12th-
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congressional-district-race">who’s backed by Doyle</a> and many establishment Democrats in the area. Lee, meanwhile, has the support of <a href="https://triblive.com/local/bernie-sanders-stumps-for-summer-lee-at-pittsburgh-rally/">local progressives</a> as well as national <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/10/ocasio-cortez-endorses-
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strong-progressives-allam-and-lee-congress">leaders like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)</a> and <a href="https://triblive.com/local/bernie-sanders-stumps-for-summer-lee-at-pittsburgh-rally/">Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)</a>.
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There’s little publicly available polling on the race, but <a href="https://www.emilyslist.org/news/entry/emilys-list-poll-shows-summer-lee-with-25-point-lead-in-pa-12-primary">a recent poll from Emily’s List</a>, which endorsed Lee, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/12/emilys-list-
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poll-progressive-candidate-pennsylvania-house-primary-00024702">has her leading the field</a> (many voters in the survey, however, were still undecided). If Lee were to win, her victory would help progressive Democrats continue to build power in Congress: In 2020, candidates including <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/11/4/21538719/cori-bush-
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ritchie-torres-jamaal-bowman-election-results">Reps. Cori Bush (D-MO) and Jamaal Bowman (D-NY)</a> won their races, bolstering the party’s left flank.
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Given <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/3/2/22957261/texas-
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primary-results-2022-abbott-beto-paxton-bush-cesar-cisneros">Austin city council member Greg Casar’s primary win</a> in Texas’ 35th Congressional District, a safe seat for Democrats, a Lee win would give House progressives at least two new members. And with increased numbers comes increased sway over policy, or, if the GOP retakes the House, greater ability to shape how Democrats respond to a Republican majority.
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Gains in the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/05/us/politics/election-primary-results.html">progressives’ bloc in 2020</a> enabled the group to have more leverage over what policies to focus on and the timing of key votes this term. For example, progressives initially <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/9/30/22700697/house-progressives-infrastructure-
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vote">delayed a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill</a> in order to push consideration of social spending legislation. In 2022, progressives are eyeing more victories in places like Pennsylvania, Texas, and New York — all of which could help them strengthen their hand even further.
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Summer Lee has helped build a progressive movement in western Pennsylvania
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Lee is a progressive in the mold of many Squad members: She backs more ambitious policies including Medicare-for-all, a Green New Deal, and packing the Supreme Court. She has emphasized, too, her own experiences with issues like air pollution, and the need for systemic change in order to promote environmental justice.
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Irwin, Lee’s main competitor, has taken a more moderate stance and stressed his commitment to working with Democratic leadership and <a href="https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-
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state/2022/05/12/the-war-in-the-12th-district-bernie-sanders-summer-lee-democratic-party-
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pittsburgh/stories/202205120151">building broad coalitions to pass policy</a>. The difference has been evident on subjects like climate: While Lee has focused on promoting a transition to renewable energy, for example, <a href="https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2022-05-11/a-week-before-the-primary-12th-congressional-district-
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candidates-square-off-in-wtae-debate">Irwin</a> was the only candidate in a recent debate to talk about the ongoing role of natural gas.
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“In a lot of ways, that race ends up reflecting many of the same clashes that are visible in the rest of the Democratic Party,” said Allegheny College political science professor Tarah Williams. “There’s a big conversation between the two campaigns about how much compromise needs to happen in order to get policy achieved.”
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Recent tension in the race has centered on millions in outside <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/12/trailer-empire-strikes-back-wave-pac-money-buries-left-wing-
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democrats/">spending on political ads</a>, including those <a href="https://www.wesa.fm/politics-
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government/2022-04-28/pro-israel-group-attacks-lee-as-bad-democrat-without-mentioning-israel-or-its-own-support-for-
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gop">paid for by AIPAC’</a>s super PAC, a pro-Israel group <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/akela_lacy/status/1517576185378742274">backing Irwin</a>. The AIPAC- affiliated group has expressed concern that <a href="https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-705690">Lee wasn’t supportive enough of Israel</a>, something <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2022/04/summer-lee-pushes-back-against-charges-that-shes-
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anti-israel/">she has pushed back on</a>, while defending past remarks she’s made about the <a href="https://www.wesa.fm/politics-government/2022-04-20/pennsylvania-12th-congressional-district-israel-
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pittsburgh">country’s treatment of Palestinians</a>.
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The ads, which have been widely criticized by local leaders as well as Sanders, question Lee’s backing of President Joe Biden. Notably, however, they leave out the fact that Lee <a href="https://triblive.com/local/regional/gainey-other-dems-call-out-attack-ads-against-summer-lee-
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in-12th-district-race/">campaigned for Biden in the general election</a>.
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In addition to being the only woman and elected official running in this primary, Lee would be the <a href="https://19thnews.org/2022/04/summer-
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lee-us-house-candidate-pennsylvania/">first Black woman to represent Pennsylvania in Congress if elected</a>. Her candidacy builds on a burgeoning progressive movement that <a href="https://19thnews.org/2022/04/summer-lee-us-house-
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candidate-pennsylvania/">she has helped foster in western Pennsylvania</a>.
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“There is a movement there in Allegheny County to move on from the old guard of leadership that’s been there for decades,” says Justice Democrats’ spokesperson Usamah Andrabi.
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Lee could help expand progressive power in Congress
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A Lee victory would help grow progressive power in Congress, adding to recent wins in this cycle and last.
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In addition to Casar’s win, progressive immigration attorney Jessica Cisneros was able to force Rep. Henry Cuellar into a runoff for <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/2/26/22948098/cisneros-cuellar-democrats-texas-
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primary-latinos-2022">Texas’ 28th Congressional District</a>. Justice Democrats have also backed organizers Kina Collins in Illinois’ Seventh District, Rana Abdelhamid in New York’s 12th District, and Odessa Kelly in Tennessee’s Seventh District in upcoming primaries.
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Six new staunch progressives could seriously strengthen progressives’ influence in Congress. This term, progressives were able to have more sway given Democrats’ narrow majority in the House. They’ve used that power to push for more expansive stimulus checks and to bargain for more aggressive prescription drug legislation.
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If Republicans retake House control, as they’re widely expected to, progressive power would be somewhat diminished, as Democrats would no longer control the agenda. However, they’d likely play a key role in leading Democrats’ anti-GOP messaging, and helping to counter investigations of the Biden administration as well. In the past, progressives were among the first to begin pushing for Trump’s impeachment and among the most vocal opponents of policies like family separations.
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With greater numbers, progressives would be able to mount even stronger rhetorical campaigns to push back against a GOP-controlled House. They’d also be able to put more pressure on party leaders to take these types of stances.
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New progressives like Lee could also bolster the subgroup of more liberal members within the Progressive Caucus, known as the Squad. Currently, the Squad includes Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Jamaal Bowman, and Cori Bush. If all six Justice Democrat candidates win this cycle, its size could double, giving them more sway as a bloc within a bloc.
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With the exception of Cisneros, the challengers are also in safe Democratic districts, meaning they could have a long-term impact on the ideology and priorities of the Democratic Party if reelected. “The bigger the bloc, the bigger the potential you have to have weight in the Democratic Party, the stronger your negotiating power,” says Leah Greenberg, a co-executive director of progressive advocacy group Indivisible.
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In the past, members of the Squad have broken from the broader Progressive Caucus membership. When a vote was held on a bipartisan infrastructure bill last year that decoupled it from a vote on a larger social spending bill that included a tax cut for families with children and funding to fight climate change, for instance, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/06/us/politics/defectors-infrastructure-bill-squad.html">all six lawmakers voted against it</a>. Progressives hope that in similar situations in the future, those six lawmakers will have even more company.
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“I think about all the communities in Pennsylvania that have not seen the type of representation that I’m looking to bring and to offer — folks who will value and really lift up poor working folks, and Black and brown folks, and I recognize there’s a cohort of people who’ve already been fighting for that,” <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/the-mehdi-hasan-show/watch/this-state-lawmaker-may-be-the-squad-s-next-
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member-139821125869">Lee said in an MSNBC interview</a>. “And it would be an honor to join that.”
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<li><strong>Bill Gates knows philanthropy alone can’t solve inequality</strong> -
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Bill Gates at the Global Investment Summit in London, in October 2021. | Leon Neal/WPA/Getty Images
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The billionaire and public health leader answers five of Recode’s questions about pandemic prevention and economic disparities.
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The WHO estimates that the Covid-19 pandemic has killed <a href="https://www.vox.com/23058380/covid-19-who-
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excess-death-total-toll-vaccine-variant">almost 15 million people</a> worldwide — not just from the virus, but as an indirect result of the crisis, such as being unable to get other kinds of medical care because hospital systems were overburdened. But it didn’t have to be so catastrophic. Experts say its impacts were exacerbated by a number of factors: The world was ill-prepared for a pandemic, many countries were slow to develop and provide access to Covid-19 tests, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/5/10/23064197/bill-gates-pandemic-prevention-covid">economic inequality</a> made everything worse.
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Low- and middle-income countries are still struggling to access lifesaving vaccines, putting these populations at continued risk of contracting the virus. In the US, one <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.11.23.21266759v1">preprint paper</a> found that working-class Americans were five times more likely to die from Covid-19 than college-educated Americans. Overall, the pandemic has also <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/research/pandemic-divergence-a-short-note-on-covid-19-and-global-income-
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inequality/">widened global income inequality</a>, in part because rich countries have been able to <a href="https://www.vox.com/22348364/united-states-stimulus-covid-coronavirus">provide more economic relief</a> to their residents while poorer nations have had far fewer tools to recover.
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Two years after Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, Bill Gates has written <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/704751/how-to-prevent-the-
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next-pandemic-by-bill-gates/"><em>How to Prevent the Next Pandemic</em></a>, a book that outlines how the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation co-founder and global health expert believes the world should prepare for future health crises — including how we can tackle the enduring problem of economic inequality that puts already-vulnerable people at even greater risk. In the US, <a href="https://www.vox.com/22600143/poverty-us-covid-19-pandemic-stimulus-checks">poverty rates fell in 2021</a> due to pandemic relief spending like stimulus checks and the expanded child tax credit. But since then, <a href="https://www.povertycenter.columbia.edu/forecasting-monthly-poverty-data">poverty has risen again</a>, with <a href="https://www.povertycenter.columbia.edu/news-internal/monthly-poverty-january-2022">child poverty rates sharply rising</a> after the expiration of the expanded child tax credit, which gave many parents a monthly cash benefit from July to December of 2021.
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Here are five ideas Gates explored with Recode over email about how to factor in economic inequality when preparing for the next pandemic. The interview has been lightly edited for clarity.
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In your book, you mention how people are wary of the great influence wealthy philanthropists have today — while also acknowledging that many governments didn’t adequately step up when the pandemic hit.
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How can we ensure that the government is able to step up next time? Do you see it as mostly a matter of funding the right agencies (and would that require higher taxes)? Is it a matter of political will? Is it something else?
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I’m hopeful that after the past two years — with millions of lives lost and trillions of dollars of economic impact — every country now understands that they need to be more prepared at a government level. Philanthropy can help test new ideas and mobilize resources faster than the government, but pandemic prevention needs to be funded and supported for the long term, and it requires global collaboration. The world can’t and shouldn’t rely on philanthropy to lead that.
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In my book, I write that governments need to prepare for outbreaks and prevent pandemics the way they fund preventative measures and practice for fires and earthquakes. To end preventable diseases and prevent emerging diseases from becoming pandemics, governments will need to increase their investments in R&D for vaccines and therapeutics, integrated disease monitoring, and well-funded multilateral organizations, like the World Health Organization (WHO). They’ll also need to make bigger investments to improve primary health care in all countries.
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The natural place for government funding to go is the WHO, since it was created to coordinate global response to health issues. Philanthropy can’t be a voting member of the WHO. It’s up to each member country to decide that the WHO needs to focus on pandemic prevention. But right now, the WHO is not funded to do a lot of work on pandemics. It doesn’t have a significant full- time staff. It doesn’t require countries to go through drills. That needs to change if the world wants to get serious about making Covid the last pandemic.
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Do you think there will always be a need and a space for private philanthropy to coexist with governments? What, if anything, about the relationship between the private and public sectors needs to change? How do we get there? Who needs to change it?
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Governments play the most critical role in protecting people from infectious diseases and other serious health risks. But I do believe there’s a role for philanthropy to play — for example, we can fund initiatives that governments or the private sector can’t or won’t. Most global health issues, like malaria, need to be solved outside of traditional market-based systems, because they’re never going to be profitable for the private sector. During the Covid pandemic, global collaboration between scientists, philanthropists, and global health institutions (like <a href="https://www.who.int/initiatives/act-accelerator">the ACT Accelerator</a>) developed, tested, and deployed safe and effective vaccines faster than ever before. That’s a great example of how the three sectors can work together to solve these big problems.
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How might public policies need to change so we’re better prepared for the next pandemic, and what role do you see billionaires/other wealthy philanthropists playing in that?
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One of the biggest tragedies that the world learned through Covid is that governments have not invested enough in the tools they need to effectively prepare for a pandemic. Countries need to step up and develop policies and invest more in enhancing disease monitoring, funding R&D, and strengthening health systems. What I’m trying to do, and the foundation is doing, is to help catalyze new ideas, particularly ones that will help give equitable access to lifesaving tools for people in lower- income countries, who are often left behind as new health innovations come to market. We also play a role in drawing in the private sector by helping companies secure financing to produce tests, therapeutics, and vaccines for low- and middle-income countries.
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The public discourse around Covid-19 has been extremely polarized and politicized. What’s your takeaway on the role misinformation versus good, reliable information plays in public health outcomes?
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I’m concerned about the spread of misinformation and conspiracy theories about public health because it’s causing people to question their own doctors and to question science. It’s understandable that people are looking for easy answers because it’s been a very scary two years. And I think most people are worried about their own health and the health of their families and loved ones. They’re coming from the right place, but they’re being pulled in by false information.
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How big a role would you say economic inequality plays in disease outcome? It has impeded vaccine and drug access in low- to middle-income countries, but we’ve seen even within the US that Black and brown communities were some of the hardest hit by Covid-19.
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How do we make sure economic inequality isn’t such a major factor in surviving the next pandemic?
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Melinda and I started the Gates Foundation more than two decades ago because we were horrified by the inequity in health around the world. There has been phenomenal progress since then, but even today, a child born in Nigeria is about 28 times more likely to die before her 5th birthday than a child born in the United States.
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When Covid emerged, these existing health inequities helped it become a global catastrophe. In my book, I suggest a plan that includes three key measures. First, we need to enhance disease monitoring by developing early warning systems that catch new viruses and outbreaks coordinated across borders, and the world needs to stand up <a href="https://www.gatesnotes.com/Health/Meet-the-GERM-team">the GERM team</a>, a paid, full-time group committed to pandemic prevention. [Editor’s note: The Global Epidemic Response and Mobilization team is a permanent disease outbreak watchdog group that Gates’s book proposes we create.]
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Second, we need to invest more in R&D for next-generation vaccines and effective treatments, and ensure manufacturing capacity in every region of the world. And we have to strengthen global health systems by investing in primary health care, especially in low- and middle-income countries, but also within low-income communities in wealthy countries.
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There are programs that focus on equitable health outcomes, like the Global Fund and Global Polio Eradication Initiative, Gavi, the Global Financing Facility, and CEPI. Fully funding those organizations would make a big impact in health equity around the world. [Editor’s note: These are all global health programs that the <a href="https://www.gatesfoundation.org/">Gates Foundation</a> has funded. <a href="https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/">The Global Fund</a> is a public-private partnership that finances the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. The <a href="https://polioeradication.org/">Global Polio Eradication Initiative</a> is a WHO-led public-private partnership that seeks to immunize all children at risk for polio. <a href="https://www.gavi.org/">Gavi</a> is a public-private partnership that strives to improve vaccine access in low-income countries. The <a href="https://www.globalfinancingfacility.org/">Global Financing Facility</a> is a World Bank-led public-private partnership that focuses on promoting the health and nutrition of women and children. And <a href="https://cepi.net/">CEPI</a>, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, is a public-private partnership that invests in vaccine research.]
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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>Forest Flame, Disruptor, Lake Tahoe, The Sovereign Orb, De Villiers, and Stormy Ocean shine</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>Bangladesh firm in reply after Mathews falls for 199</strong> - Sri Lanka were bowled out for 397 in the first Test</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>Djokovic, son win titles on the same day, Serb dubs it a ‘sunshine double’</strong> - Italian Open winner Novak Djokovic said his son, Stefan, won a tournament on the same day, calling it a “sunshine double” that he would cherish forever</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>Mandhana, Harmanpreet, Deepti to captain in Women's T20 Challenge</strong> - Veteran India cricketers Mithali Raj, Jhulan Goswami and Shikha Pandey are the notable absentees in the squads</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>PSG’s Kylian Mbappe wins Ligue 1’s best player award for 3rd time</strong> - Kylian Mbappe, who scored 25 league goals for PSG this year, was named the best player of the 2021 Ligue 1 season, but refused to disclose whether he would join Real Madrid in the summer</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>Corbevax private market price down to ₹250 a dose</strong> - With taxes and administration charges, the COVID vaccine will cost ₹400</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>Explained | The Gyanvapi Mosque-Kashi Vishwanath dispute and the current case</strong> - The decades-old Gyanvapi mosque- Kashi Vishwanath case reached the Supreme Court on May 13 after a local court in Varanasi directed that a videography survey at the religious complex be allowed to continue</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>India, Nepal agree to build hydroelectric power plant</strong> - The power plant agreement is among six deals concluded between India and Nepal during the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's fifth visit to the Himalayan nation, India's Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement</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>Covid mask rule partially eased for EU air travel</strong> - Masks are no longer required on many EU flights, but countries including Germany, Italy and Spain keep the rule.</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>Eurovision 2022: Russian vote hacking attempt foiled, police say</strong> - Italian police say pro-Russian hackers targeted the contest, which was won by Ukraine.</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>McDonald’s to leave Russia for good after 30 years</strong> - The chain opened in Moscow in 1990 as the Soviet Union was opening its economy to Western brands.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How to build a wormhole in just 3 (nearly impossible) steps</strong> - Planning a trip to the Andromeda Galaxy? Not so fast. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1846054">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The 2023 Nissan Z first drive</strong> - Is it a remastered classic or an old platform pushed too far? - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1854343">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The tech sector teardown is more catharsis than crisis</strong> - The rules of the game are changing for venture-backed startups. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1854178">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How a French satellite operator helps keep Russia’s TV propaganda online</strong> - Eutelsat refused to stop Russia from broadcasting state-run programming. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1854302">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>McLaren is joining Formula E next season</strong> - McLaren will take over Mercedes’ Formula E team for the start of Gen3. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1854332">link</a></p></li>
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She whispered in my ear “turn off the light and shove it in my arse”. I guess I should have waited for the bulb to cool down first.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/karatekid430"> /u/karatekid430 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/uqre2k/the_other_night_my_wife_and_i_were_getting_busy/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/uqre2k/the_other_night_my_wife_and_i_were_getting_busy/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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“You always feel like you have to pee. And most of the time, you stand at the toilet and nothing comes out!”
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“Ah, that’s nothin’,” said the 70-year-old. “When you’re seventy, you can’t even crap anymore. You take laxatives, then you sit on the toilet all day and nothin’ comes out!”
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“Actually,” said the 80-year-old, “80 is the worst age of all!”
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“Do you have trouble peeing too?” asked the 60-year-old.
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“No, not really. I pee every morning at 6:00. I pee like a racehorse on a flat rock; no problem at all.”
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“Do you have trouble crapping?” asked the 70-year-old.
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“No, I crap every morning at 6:30.”
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With great exasperation, the 60-year-old said, "Let me get this straight. You pee every morning at 6:00 and crap every morning at 6:30.
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So what’s so tough about being 80?"
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“I don’t wake up until 7:00!”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Informal-Talk9487"> /u/Informal-Talk9487 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/uqkysv/sixty_is_the_worst_age_to_be_said_the_60yearold/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/uqkysv/sixty_is_the_worst_age_to_be_said_the_60yearold/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/fhqwhgadsz"> /u/fhqwhgadsz </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/uqbewu/damn_girl_are_you_a_piñata/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/uqbewu/damn_girl_are_you_a_piñata/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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An Afghan, an Albanian, and Algerian, an American, an Andorran, an Angolan, an Antiguan, an Argintine, an Armenian, an Australian, an Austrian, an Azerbaijani, a Bahamian, a Bahraini, a Bangladeshi, a Barbadian, a Barbudans, a Batswanan, a Belarusian, a Belgian, a Belizean, a Beninese, a Bhutanese, a Bolivian, a Bosnian, a Brazilian, a Brit, a Bruneian, a Bulgarian, a Burkinabe, a Burmese, a Burundian, a Cambodian, a Cameroonian, a Canadian, a Cape Verdean, a Central African, a Chadian, a Chilean, a Chinese, a Colombian, a Comoran, a Congolese, a Costa Rican, a Croatian, a Cuban, a Cypriot, a Czech, a Dane, a Djibouti, a Dominican, a Dutchman, an East Timorese, an Ecuadorean, an Egyptian, an Emirian, an Equatorial Guinean, an Eritrean, an Estonian, an Ethiopian, a Fijian, a Filipino, a Finn, a Frenchman, a Gabonese, a Gambian, a Georgian, a German, a Ghanaian, a Greek, a Grenadian, a Guatemalan, a Guinea-Bissauan, a Guinean, a Guyanese, a Haitian, a Herzegovinian, a Honduran, a Hungarian, an I-Kiribati, an Icelander, an Indian, an Indonesian, an Iranian, an Iraqi, an Irishman, an Israeli, an Italian, an Ivorian, a Jamaican, a Japanese, a Jordanian, a Kazakhstani, a Kenyan, a Kittian and Nevisian, a Kuwaiti, a Kyrgyz, a Laotian, a Latvian, a Lebanese, a Liberian, a Libyan, a Liechtensteiner, a Lithuanian, a Luxembourger, a Macedonian, a Malagasy, a Malawian, a Malaysian, a Maldivan, a Malian, a Maltese, a Marshallese, a Mauritanian, a Mauritian, a Mexican, a Micronesian, a Moldovan, a Monacan, a Mongolian, a Moroccan, a Mosotho, a Motswana, a Mozambican, a Namibian, a Nauruan, a Nepalese, a New Zealander, a Nicaraguan, a Nigerian, a Nigerien, a North Korean, a Northern Irishman, a Norwegian, an Omani, a Pakistani, a Palauan, a Palestinian, a Panamanian, a Papua New Guinean, a Paraguayan, a Peruvian, a Pole, a Portuguese, a Qatari, a Romanian, a Russian, a Rwandan, a Saint Lucian, a Salvadoran, a Samoan, a San Marinese, a Sao Tomean, a Saudi, a Scottish, a Senegalese, a Serbian, a Seychellois, a Sierra Leonean, a Singaporean, a Slovakian, a Slovenian, a Solomon Islander, a Somali, a South African, a South Korean, a Spaniard, a Sri Lankan, a Sudanese, a Surinamer, a Swazi, a Swede, a Swiss, a Syrian, a Taiwanese, a Tajik, a Tanzanian, a Togolese, a Tongan, a Trinidadian or Tobagonian, a Tunisian, a Turkish, a Tuvaluan, a Ugandan, a Ukrainian, a Uruguayan, a Uzbekistani, a Venezuelan, a Vietnamese, a Welshman, a Yemenite, a Zambian and a Zimbabwean all go to a nightclub…
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With a scowl, she pulled up google and proved to me that the earth is, in fact, tilted at a 23.5 degree angle.
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