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4 months, 1 week ago

Property owners profiting as Maui residents are forced from their homes

Honolulu Civil Beat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on Hawaii. That’s one of the lessons I learned from this crisis.” State officials pointed to a sharp drop in eviction cases filed in court since the fire as evidence that the governor’s order is “doing what it was designed to do: stop unlawful evictions and keep families and survivors housed.” …

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4 months, 4 weeks ago

The backlash to Butler: Who will pay for the attempted assassination attempt on Trump?

Salon

Former president Donald Trump and German Führer Adolf Hitler share many qualities: A far right ideology, a mythos centered around a Big Lie, a predilection for theatrics. which attacks experts and science and democratic institutions," "The goal is chaos uncertainty — fourth generation psychological warfare, which I wrote about in the cult of Trump, which attacks experts and science and …

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7 months ago

Pacific workers move from farms to service stations in expansion of Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme

ABC

In short: A group of Fijian nationals have been employed in Queensland service stations amid a local worker shortage. A group of Fijian nationals have taken up work in service stations in regional Queensland as the federal government allows more industries to recruit workers from Pacific nations. Wessel Petroleum, which owns 19 service stations between Townsville and the Sunshine Coast, …

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11 months, 1 week ago

Research gives insight into importance of sleep and intricacy of brain

Hindustan Times

A group of academics from the arts and sciences came up with a theory that may account for the complexity of the brain as well as the importance of sleep. After their 2019 paper, Hengen and Wessel theorized that learning, thinking and being awake must push the brain away from criticality and that sleep is perfectly positioned to reset the …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Ashli Babbitt: Trump’s ‘manufactured martyr’

The Independent

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Ashli Babbitt In an interview with …

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2 years, 1 month ago

The Kids Showed Up To Save Democrats Again

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Early data shows young people showed up in larger-than-anticipated numbers in this year’s midterm elections, potentially providing the margin Democrats needed to blunt the GOP’s much-ballyhooed red wave and proving it’s time for a shift in how the country discusses youth voting. “We can start to retire some of the myths that have persisted around young people …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Marina’s magical run ends with loss to Buckley in CIF Division 5 final

LA Times

Marina’s Jordan Packer and Jenna Zaffino jump for a block against Buckley’s Tate Drageset in the CIF Southern Section Division 5 girls’ volleyball final at Cerritos College on Saturday. Marina’s Lyndsey Wessel spikes the ball during the CIF Southern Section Division 5 girls’ volleyball championship match against Buckley at Cerritos College on Saturday. We were clicking on all cylinders, even …

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3 years, 3 months ago

'Kindergarten Changes People': Letter to NYT Editor From 'One-time Anti-Vaxxer'

News 18

Letters to editors provide an interesting platform to readers of a publication to voice their concerns and share their opinion on relevant issues. https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1437526877808128000?s=20 https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1437532566945341441?s=20 However, a recent letter to the editor of The New York Times is written by a former anti-vaxxer who has expressed their opinion on the current discourse. Patrick Flynn from the Ridge area of New …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Child Tax Credit: Millions of parents could soon get up to $3,600 per child

CBS News

The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, signed into law by President Joe Biden, is aimed at shoring up the pandemic-stricken economy through fiscal measures like expanded unemployment aid and direct stimulus checks. But the legislation also includes a relatively novel measure that offers a form of guaranteed income to parents of children under 18, or what one expert calls "a …

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4 years ago

The four keys that could unlock procrastination

BBC

The four keys that could unlock procrastination Alamy Procrastination gets the best of all of us, to the detriment of our work, happiness and health. As part of his PhD at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, Wessel developed a system comprising four simple “reflection points” that target the psychological roots of the problem. Wessel developed a system comprising four simple …

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4 years, 4 months ago

Forensic scans used to solve mystery of WWII ship HMAS Patricia Cam's resting place

ABC

Hospital scans of a crook of timber from a remote beach may give clues to the whereabouts of a bombed World War II ship that led to the heroic survival of some onboard, but the tragic death and beheading of others. Key points: The HMAS Patricia Cam was bombed and sunk by the Japanese in NT waters in 1942 Nine …

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