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November 8, 2022
Fires set on and near historically Black Jackson State University; arson suspected
At least two of the buildings set ablaze were churches, authorities in Mississippi's capital city said. Another one of the fires broke out on Jackson State’s baseball field.
Election eve Arson spree in black Mississippi Jackson city includes 2 churches
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fires-set-historically-black-jackson-state-university-arson-suspected-rcna56218Fires set on and near historically Black Jackson State University; arson suspected
At least two of the buildings set ablaze were churches, authorities in Mississippi's capital city said. Another one of the fires broke out on Jackson State’s baseball field.
November 8, 2022
Arrested..univ kentucky student in viral video who hit bit student and called racial slurs
November 7, 2022
Truck covered in flags
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1589291143824814081
November 6, 2022
'I need to get out': Arizona family coming apart at the seams over mom's love of Trump
In her New York Times piece, Medina writes about the Broe family of Scottsdale where the political divide has reached the point where Carolyn Broe's daughter Jasmine admitted she needs to move out because "I do consider, like the political atmosphere in the house to be the biggest contributor to my mental health problems,” and added, "I need to get out."
Central to the tension is mother Carolyn, described as a hardcore Republican, her husband, a Libertarian and their two children described as "two Bernie-style Democrats."
"Carolyn Broe, 65, is a Republican and a music teacher who believes a Democratic cabal stole the 2020 election and has been leading the country into collapse. She declares the president a 'treasonous hack' running a 'disaster' of an administration. Her husband is a Libertarian who considers Ronald Reagan the last admirable elected politician. He questions the integrity of the last election but thinks voters should move on. Their two adult children are to the left of the Democratic Party and are open to supporting socialism. They fear that Republicans are destroying democracy," Medina wrote for the Times.
The report adds that tensions within the family grew so great during the 2016 election that Carolyn Broe moved into a hotel.
"Her daughter changes the channel from Fox News before leaving the house — and Ms. Broe changes it back. She received a text meant for her son, offering him $250 a week to help turn out progressive voters, and she wrote back: 'I am worried this money is coming from Zuckerberg! He is courting communist China!'" the report states. "Her children — Jasmine, 26, and JeanRené, 35 — wince when she speaks her views. Her husband — Steve Broe, 67, a practicing Buddhist who teaches management and leadership — calls their political differences 'significant, but not tragic.' The only thing they seem to agree on is that talk of politics has become what they describe as 'triggering,' and the only solution on many days is to avoid talking about it at all."
A family torn apart by the mom's love of trump
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-toxic-2658603913/'I need to get out': Arizona family coming apart at the seams over mom's love of Trump
In her New York Times piece, Medina writes about the Broe family of Scottsdale where the political divide has reached the point where Carolyn Broe's daughter Jasmine admitted she needs to move out because "I do consider, like the political atmosphere in the house to be the biggest contributor to my mental health problems,” and added, "I need to get out."
Central to the tension is mother Carolyn, described as a hardcore Republican, her husband, a Libertarian and their two children described as "two Bernie-style Democrats."
"Carolyn Broe, 65, is a Republican and a music teacher who believes a Democratic cabal stole the 2020 election and has been leading the country into collapse. She declares the president a 'treasonous hack' running a 'disaster' of an administration. Her husband is a Libertarian who considers Ronald Reagan the last admirable elected politician. He questions the integrity of the last election but thinks voters should move on. Their two adult children are to the left of the Democratic Party and are open to supporting socialism. They fear that Republicans are destroying democracy," Medina wrote for the Times.
The report adds that tensions within the family grew so great during the 2016 election that Carolyn Broe moved into a hotel.
"Her daughter changes the channel from Fox News before leaving the house — and Ms. Broe changes it back. She received a text meant for her son, offering him $250 a week to help turn out progressive voters, and she wrote back: 'I am worried this money is coming from Zuckerberg! He is courting communist China!'" the report states. "Her children — Jasmine, 26, and JeanRené, 35 — wince when she speaks her views. Her husband — Steve Broe, 67, a practicing Buddhist who teaches management and leadership — calls their political differences 'significant, but not tragic.' The only thing they seem to agree on is that talk of politics has become what they describe as 'triggering,' and the only solution on many days is to avoid talking about it at all."
November 5, 2022
By Casey Quackenbush
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/the-people-fleeing-austin-because-texas-is-too-conservative.html
To hear Stettin tell it, that is precisely why he is moving out of what Rick Perry once described as the “blueberry in the tomato soup,” a predominantly Democratic city full of liberal expats like himself seeking progressive politics and an urban lifestyle at a red-state cost-of-living discount. “It was easy to just be in Never Neverland, floating with a bunch of other transplants having a good time,” said Stettin, who relocated from Dallas to Austin five years ago.
But then 2020 happened. As the pandemic raged, Governor Greg Abbott banned municipalities including Austin from implementing COVID measures such as mask mandates. The following year, amid a brutal winter storm, the state’s electric grid failed, killing hundreds and leaving millions freezing in the dark, and it has yet to be fixed. That summer, Abbott codified permitless carry and further restricted voting access. This past February, he ordered investigations into the parents of trans children for child abuse. By June, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Texas was ten months ahead, having already effectively banned abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest and topped it with a $10,000 reward for informants.
“It’s like how a frog boils one degree at a time,” Stettin said. “They trigger-banned all abortion and they’re offering a bounty! What more do you need if you are a remotely liberal person to get the fuck out of here?” His destination was Massachusetts. “At least if I’m going to get into an argument with a guy in Boston,” he said, “he’s probably not carrying an AR-15 in his trunk.”
This summer, that anxiety pervaded a stratum of liberal Austin, namely women, LGBTQ+ folks, parents, and people of color who fear a future in Texas and have the means to escape. The overturning of Roe seemed to remove the last obstacle in the state’s march to the far right, which is likely to be cemented in the upcoming election where Beto O’Rourke is way behind Abbott. While the Democratic mayor and the liberal city council institute token measures such as decriminalizing abortion, it’s cold comfort. One 25-year-old woman said she had her tubes tied, fearing the consequences of an unwanted pregnancy. One couple may relocate to the Northeast to carry out their pregnancy. Some job candidates are refusing to relocate. At Stettin’s party, his friend Jeff swiped open his phone to a note entitled “New Austin Cities” — a list of places that are what Austin used to be to him before he moved here from New York. It read, “Pittsburgh, Durham, Boise, Columbus, Jackson Hole, Chattanooga. Factors: Climate change, demographics, economy, location, taxes, nature, weather.” He plans to stick it out at least for now. “Global warming in the next ten years,” he said. “That’s gonna be fucking real.”
Austin Has Been Invaded by Texas The progressive paradise is over for some, and they're fleeing to b
Austin Has Been Invaded by Texas The progressive paradise is over for some, and they’re fleeing to bluer pastures.By Casey Quackenbush
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/the-people-fleeing-austin-because-texas-is-too-conservative.html
To hear Stettin tell it, that is precisely why he is moving out of what Rick Perry once described as the “blueberry in the tomato soup,” a predominantly Democratic city full of liberal expats like himself seeking progressive politics and an urban lifestyle at a red-state cost-of-living discount. “It was easy to just be in Never Neverland, floating with a bunch of other transplants having a good time,” said Stettin, who relocated from Dallas to Austin five years ago.
But then 2020 happened. As the pandemic raged, Governor Greg Abbott banned municipalities including Austin from implementing COVID measures such as mask mandates. The following year, amid a brutal winter storm, the state’s electric grid failed, killing hundreds and leaving millions freezing in the dark, and it has yet to be fixed. That summer, Abbott codified permitless carry and further restricted voting access. This past February, he ordered investigations into the parents of trans children for child abuse. By June, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, Texas was ten months ahead, having already effectively banned abortion with no exceptions for rape or incest and topped it with a $10,000 reward for informants.
“It’s like how a frog boils one degree at a time,” Stettin said. “They trigger-banned all abortion and they’re offering a bounty! What more do you need if you are a remotely liberal person to get the fuck out of here?” His destination was Massachusetts. “At least if I’m going to get into an argument with a guy in Boston,” he said, “he’s probably not carrying an AR-15 in his trunk.”
This summer, that anxiety pervaded a stratum of liberal Austin, namely women, LGBTQ+ folks, parents, and people of color who fear a future in Texas and have the means to escape. The overturning of Roe seemed to remove the last obstacle in the state’s march to the far right, which is likely to be cemented in the upcoming election where Beto O’Rourke is way behind Abbott. While the Democratic mayor and the liberal city council institute token measures such as decriminalizing abortion, it’s cold comfort. One 25-year-old woman said she had her tubes tied, fearing the consequences of an unwanted pregnancy. One couple may relocate to the Northeast to carry out their pregnancy. Some job candidates are refusing to relocate. At Stettin’s party, his friend Jeff swiped open his phone to a note entitled “New Austin Cities” — a list of places that are what Austin used to be to him before he moved here from New York. It read, “Pittsburgh, Durham, Boise, Columbus, Jackson Hole, Chattanooga. Factors: Climate change, demographics, economy, location, taxes, nature, weather.” He plans to stick it out at least for now. “Global warming in the next ten years,” he said. “That’s gonna be fucking real.”
November 5, 2022
Dr. Mobeen Rathore has spent the better part of his career trying to protect the children in his practice from contracting deadly diseases like measles, whooping cough, and polio.
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. Over the years, they saw their hard work pay off: In 2019, the vaccination rate for two-year-old children in Duval was an impressive 98 percent.
But now, the progress that Rathore and his team made appears to be eroding. This year’s survey showed that the Duval vaccination rate has dropped to 92 percent. The pattern in Duval County appears to be even more pronounced for Florida at large. Before the pandemic, the state had been doing pretty well on its decades-long campaign to increase routine childhood immunization rates. An annual state health department survey released in January 2020 found that 93 percent of two-year-olds were up to date on their shots—a major improvement since the first survey of this kind in 2002, when the rate was just 73 percent. This year, the statewide rate had fallen to 81 percent.
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“We noticed that there are more questions” about routine immunizations. “And I think a lot of that, unfortunately, has to do with all the misinformation around the Covid vaccines.”
Many of the false narratives about Covid vaccines’ supposed deleterious effects—infertility, heart problems, AIDS, to name just a few of the most persistent myths—come from social media influencers, some of whom promote the work of anti-vaccine groups. But in Florida, there’s another important source of confusion: state leaders who have soured on Covid vaccines.
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Other Florida pediatricians told me they have also noticed more parents questioning—and even outright rejecting—routine immunizations. One in Tampa, who requested to remain anonymous because her colleagues have been harassed for criticizing the anti-vaccine movement, told me that she has seen a sharp uptick in parents who reject routine vaccinations for their newborns. Many of them, she said, objected to immunizations because they saw them as an inappropriate intrusion by the government into parenting decisions. They told her they were against “anything that’s mandated by a governing body, whether that’s a medical one, like CDC, or the school board.”
Polio? Measles? Florida Is Flirting With an Anti-Vaccine Apocalypse Thanks, DeSantis.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/11/desantis-polio-measles-florida-is-flirting-with-an-anti-vaccine-apocalypse/Dr. Mobeen Rathore has spent the better part of his career trying to protect the children in his practice from contracting deadly diseases like measles, whooping cough, and polio.
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. Over the years, they saw their hard work pay off: In 2019, the vaccination rate for two-year-old children in Duval was an impressive 98 percent.
But now, the progress that Rathore and his team made appears to be eroding. This year’s survey showed that the Duval vaccination rate has dropped to 92 percent. The pattern in Duval County appears to be even more pronounced for Florida at large. Before the pandemic, the state had been doing pretty well on its decades-long campaign to increase routine childhood immunization rates. An annual state health department survey released in January 2020 found that 93 percent of two-year-olds were up to date on their shots—a major improvement since the first survey of this kind in 2002, when the rate was just 73 percent. This year, the statewide rate had fallen to 81 percent.
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“We noticed that there are more questions” about routine immunizations. “And I think a lot of that, unfortunately, has to do with all the misinformation around the Covid vaccines.”
Many of the false narratives about Covid vaccines’ supposed deleterious effects—infertility, heart problems, AIDS, to name just a few of the most persistent myths—come from social media influencers, some of whom promote the work of anti-vaccine groups. But in Florida, there’s another important source of confusion: state leaders who have soured on Covid vaccines.
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Other Florida pediatricians told me they have also noticed more parents questioning—and even outright rejecting—routine immunizations. One in Tampa, who requested to remain anonymous because her colleagues have been harassed for criticizing the anti-vaccine movement, told me that she has seen a sharp uptick in parents who reject routine vaccinations for their newborns. Many of them, she said, objected to immunizations because they saw them as an inappropriate intrusion by the government into parenting decisions. They told her they were against “anything that’s mandated by a governing body, whether that’s a medical one, like CDC, or the school board.”
November 4, 2022
A Surge of Overseas Abortion Pills Blunted the Effects of State Abortion Bans New data suggests that
A Surge of Overseas Abortion Pills Blunted the Effects of State Abortion Bans
New data suggests that abortion has declined about 2 percent in the U.S. since the end of Roe, accounting for people who traveled across state lines or ordered pills online.
As states banned or restricted abortion this summer, the number of American women ordering abortion pills from overseas jumped significantly — enough to offset most of the drop in legal abortions.
Overall, abortion in the United States declined about 2 percent in the first two full months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, accounting for women who traveled to states where it remained legal or ordered pills from overseas, according to a New York Times analysis of data from two studies released this week.
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A separate study, released Tuesday by the medical journal JAMA, found a nearly 120 percent increase in online abortion pill orders from overseas in July and August placed through Aid Access, which operates outside the U.S. health system and is designed to circumvent state abortion bans.
Putting both studies together, there were about 2,000 fewer abortions per month, compared with April, when abortion was legal in every state.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/upshot/abortion-pills-mail-overseas.html
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And since the Dobbs decision, some states have tightened laws regarding medication abortion. They are hard to enforce, though, because the pills come through the mail, and overseas pharmacies are typically outside the jurisdiction of local law enforcement.
November 4, 2022
ST. LOUIS — From a mobile abortion clinic traveling along the Illinois border to more men seeking sterilizations, doctors, advocates and patients are responding in new ways to the post-Roe landscape that has left millions of women unable to get an elective abortion in their home states.
In the past month, radio ad campaigns have been launched in states where abortion is banned to inform listeners how to get medication abortion pills in the mail. And an abortion clinic relocated from Memphis, Tennessee, where abortion is banned, to Carbondale, becoming the nearest abortion clinic for many people across the South.
Midwest Access Coalition, an abortion fund relying on volunteers to help cover travel expenses for women seeking abortions, has tripled its staff since spring, going from two full-time employees to six plus a part-timer.
Dr. Colleen McNicholas, chief medical officer for Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, joined staff on Tuesday in cheering the delivery of a mobile abortion clinic — the first in the U.S. for Planned Parenthood.
“This is truly an all-hands-on-deck moment, where we need everybody to be thinking innovatively and boldly and taking steps to do things a little bit differently,” McNicholas said after touring the 37-foot RV equipped with two exam rooms.
Four months after end of Roe: Mobile clinics, radio ads for home abortions and free vasectomies
https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/health/four-months-after-end-of-roe-mobile-clinics-radio-ads-for-home-abortions-and-free/article_56533af5-323b-5a21-aaa6-061b326e0a9c.htmlST. LOUIS — From a mobile abortion clinic traveling along the Illinois border to more men seeking sterilizations, doctors, advocates and patients are responding in new ways to the post-Roe landscape that has left millions of women unable to get an elective abortion in their home states.
In the past month, radio ad campaigns have been launched in states where abortion is banned to inform listeners how to get medication abortion pills in the mail. And an abortion clinic relocated from Memphis, Tennessee, where abortion is banned, to Carbondale, becoming the nearest abortion clinic for many people across the South.
Midwest Access Coalition, an abortion fund relying on volunteers to help cover travel expenses for women seeking abortions, has tripled its staff since spring, going from two full-time employees to six plus a part-timer.
Dr. Colleen McNicholas, chief medical officer for Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, joined staff on Tuesday in cheering the delivery of a mobile abortion clinic — the first in the U.S. for Planned Parenthood.
“This is truly an all-hands-on-deck moment, where we need everybody to be thinking innovatively and boldly and taking steps to do things a little bit differently,” McNicholas said after touring the 37-foot RV equipped with two exam rooms.
November 4, 2022
St. Clair County, Ill. — LaQuetta Cooper is standing in front of a big, blue RV parked in an industrial lot, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. It looks much like any other RV out on the road — except for the lettering on the side that reads, "Mobile Health Clinic."
Cooper, health care operations director for Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, says the vehicle soon will offer abortion pills to patients in Illinois, cutting down their travel times by driving closer to them.
"The biggest needs that we are seeing is the fact that they have to travel so far to get the care that they need," Cooper says. "This will be helpful so they don't have to travel three to five hours."
The RV was delivered this week in preparation for launching in the coming months. Planned Parenthood first announced its plan to develop the unit about a month ago.
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"This unit really truly is, for us, a demonstration of an act of defiance," she says. "We're here, and we're going to be here, and we're going to continue to show up for people who need us."
Planned Parenthood plans to begin offering abortion pills from the mobile unit later this year and surgical abortions sometime next year, focusing on patients in southern Illinois. Just the Pill has purchased a second mobile clinic and is making plans for a third. The group also intends to offer surgical abortions next year, and is looking at expanding from Colorado into Illinois and Minnesota.
Meeting abortion patients where they are: providers turn to mobile units
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/02/1133454349/meeting-abortion-patients-where-they-are-providers-turn-to-mobile-unitsSt. Clair County, Ill. — LaQuetta Cooper is standing in front of a big, blue RV parked in an industrial lot, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. It looks much like any other RV out on the road — except for the lettering on the side that reads, "Mobile Health Clinic."
Cooper, health care operations director for Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, says the vehicle soon will offer abortion pills to patients in Illinois, cutting down their travel times by driving closer to them.
"The biggest needs that we are seeing is the fact that they have to travel so far to get the care that they need," Cooper says. "This will be helpful so they don't have to travel three to five hours."
The RV was delivered this week in preparation for launching in the coming months. Planned Parenthood first announced its plan to develop the unit about a month ago.
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"This unit really truly is, for us, a demonstration of an act of defiance," she says. "We're here, and we're going to be here, and we're going to continue to show up for people who need us."
Planned Parenthood plans to begin offering abortion pills from the mobile unit later this year and surgical abortions sometime next year, focusing on patients in southern Illinois. Just the Pill has purchased a second mobile clinic and is making plans for a third. The group also intends to offer surgical abortions next year, and is looking at expanding from Colorado into Illinois and Minnesota.
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