McCarthy’s Threat to Telecoms Warrants Immediate Ethics Committee Inquiry
Via: Hallux • Op/Ed • 5 Comments • 1 Like • 3 years ago
“The House GOP leader’s conduct also suggests lawmakers’ investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection is on the right track.”
Liz Cheney named vice-chair of House panel investigating Capitol attack
Via: Hallux • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 3 years ago
“Announcement is likely to increase criticism of three-term House member from lawmakers closely aligned with Trump”
Israel was down to a handful of daily COVID cases. Now it's around 11,000. What happened?
Via: Hallux • News & Politics • 25 Comments • 5 Likes • 3 years ago
“"This is a very clear warning sign for the rest of the world, if it can happen here, it can probably happen everywhere."”
Scott Stinson: It takes a particular lack of shame to fake a disability at the Paralympics
Via: Hallux • Sports • 4 Comments • 2 Likes • 3 years ago
“Athletes are classed by degree of disability, but someone could ratchet down their performance and be placed in a lower class. This is the...”
First Nations leaders endorse Liberal candidate while at an NDP event
Via: Hallux • Anishinaabe - The First People • 3 Comments • 3 years ago
“We need an Ininiw voice in there.”
From a factory in China to a supplier in Chicago
Via: Hallux • World News • 4 Comments • 3 Likes • 3 years ago
“One stuck box of fertiliser captures the global supply chain crisis, which is preventing economic activity, hiking costs.”
Invasive earthworms are remaking our forests, and climate scientists are worried
Via: Hallux • Environment/Climate • 8 Comments • 3 Likes • 3 years ago
“Worms are radically changing our forests’ soils and depleting terrestrial carbon stocks”
After Afghanistan’s last Jew refused to leave, his would-be Jewish rescuers helped dozens of other Afghans escape instead
Via: Hallux • Religion & Ethics • 24 Comments • 2 Likes • 3 years ago
“Zebulon Simantov, Afghanistan’s last Jew, has not left Kabul, despite the best efforts of some Jewish figures and organizations.”
The Disturbing New Hybrid of Democracy and Autocracy
Via: Hallux • Op/Ed • 11 Comments • 2 Likes • 3 years ago
“In Poland and elsewhere, rulers—and the oligarchs who help them—have figured out how to create a one-party state without the hassle of staging a coup.”
Trump lawyers sanctioned by US judge in ‘frivolous’ election suit
Via: Hallux • News & Politics • 6 Comments • 7 Likes • 3 years ago
“Judge: Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and other Trump lawyers should have checked the former president’s false voter fraud claims”
