This is a hard read. And they didn’t mention whether anything is happening on the family’s social media, like it does with COVID victims.

https://wapo.st/45fTESY

(Gift link.)

https://www.wral.com/story/nc-supreme-court-justice-michael-morgan-won-t-run-for-reelection-in-2024/20867634/

There goes one of the two remaining Democrats.

https://www.npr.org/2023/05/17/1176753190/rep-cori-bush-introduces-bill-on-reparations-for-black-americans

$14 tril seems cheap. More like a first installment, maybe.

https://herereadthis.blog/2022/06/25/on-reparations-back-of-the-envelope-calculations/

Interesting story.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article269988142.html

«The advisory committee initially considered the proposed marker for Spicely in December. Some members were uneasy commemorating what was essentially a lynching without being able to say what impact it had on the state.

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Others made the connection between Spicely and Rosa Parks, whose arrest for refusing to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 became a flashpoint in the civil rights movement. As Spicely and others show, the story didn’t begin there, said Watson Jennison, a professor at UNC Greensboro.

“It changes the narrative about when the civil rights movement begins,” Jennison said. “It’s not Rosa Parks in ‘55. Instead, it’s all these Black men and women in the ‘40s who are doing similar struggles on an individual basis. So it really leads to something much larger.”

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They decided to see how other historical markers referred to Jim Crow, and a staff member took a few minutes to search the database of all 1,600 markers. It was then that they realized the phase had never appeared on a state historical marker.

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On Tuesday, the advisory committee voted to approval the final language:

“Booker T. Spicely 1909-1944

Black U.S. Army soldier shot nearby in 1944 for resisting Jim Crow laws on a bus. Aftermath of killing helped revitalize North Carolina’s NAACP.”»

…And the marker is now up: https://abc11.com/historical-marker-black-soldier-murdered-booker-t-spicely/14129841/

https://www.propublica.org/article/find-out-why-health-insurance-claim-denied

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/05/14/democrats-religion-census-secular-00095858

«The other shift in American religion that may be working against the Democrats is in the state of Texas. While pundits have long believed that Texas would turn blue in the next decade — the Religion Census throws cold water on such a conjecture.

In many counties that are close to the border with Mexico, religion saw big gains between 2010 and 2020. The one that grabbed national headlines in 2020 was heavily Hispanic Zapata County. Clinton took it by 44 points in 2016, while Biden only bested Trump by 11 points in 2020. The Religion Census indicates that the share of Zapata County that was part of a congregation was 31 percent in 2010. Just 10 years later, it had risen to 65 percent

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the shifts in the religious landscape make it more likely that the GOP can hold off Democratic advances in important states like Texas and Florida. As more Hispanic immigrants come to those areas who are deeply religious and culturally conservative, Democratic messaging on social issues will not appeal to these types of votes.»

https://www.statnews.com/2023/05/10/opioid-addiction-buprenorphine-treatment/

And the beat goes on. Courtesy of Mastodon.

For those not familiar with StatNews, it’s a solid website for medical news.

https://www.foodandwine.com/chartreuse-shortage-monks-impact-7496114

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/3/23709297/microsoft-edge-force-outlook-teams-web-links-open

Of course.