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Poor Marjorie Taylor Greene! Not too long ago, this taxpayer-funded troll knew how capture the news cycle for days with a glib comparison of public health officials to the Nazi brass or a shameless equivalence of COVID-19 mitigation measures to the Holocaust. She regularly drew juicy denunciations from famous Democrats. She even got the Anti-Defamation League and Holocaust Museum…Continue Reading

I have never been a beer person. I’ve tried and failed (or, rather, it failed me). I’ve sipped fruity IPAs that are supposed to taste like a dichotomy of bitter sunshine or juicy pineapple mixed with volcanic ash (all I tasted was ash), Oktoberfest beers to get back to my German roots, and light summer ales (or maybe they…Continue Reading

White House staff repeatedly found “wads of printed paper” clogging former President Donald Trump’s toilet in his residence, raising suspicions that Trump had flushed documents, according to a new book from New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman. Trump, who reportedly had a habit of tearing up documents and failing to follow federal document preservation laws,…Continue Reading

Local “We need to recognize that choosing a career in teaching is as important as joining the military.” Brenda Cassellius David L. Ryan / The Boston Globe, File Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius is calling on the federal government to take a range of actions to address the ‘critical’ shortage of teachers and staff…Continue Reading

National “The thing I want from them is the truth. What happened? So I can stop worrying about it and stop thinking about it.” In September, Teresa Sperry, 10, proudly told her father that her teacher had assigned her to be the ‘class nurse.’ Courtesy of Nicole Sperry. By Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post February 10,…Continue Reading

COVID The FDA could soon approve Pfizers two-dose series for children 6-months to 4-years-old, before clinical trials for the full three-dose course are complete. Pediatric doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at a COVID-19 vaccination site in Chicago, Nov. 20, 2021. (Taylor Glascock/The New York Times) By Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times Service February 10, 2022…Continue Reading

COVID If cases continue to fall and no new variants arise, the country “could be heading toward what we would consider more normality,” Fauci said. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks during an event on Dec. 8, 2020. Susan Walsh / Associated Press, AP By Sheryl Gay Stolberg,…Continue Reading