July 31, 2020
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On March 31, three weeks after the World Health Organization designated the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic, a DHL truck rattled up to the gray stone embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Washington, D.C., delivering precious cargo: 1 million Chinese-made diagnostic tests for COVID-19, ordered at the behest of the Trump administration.
Normally, federal government purchases come with detailed contracts, replete with acronyms and identifying codes. They require sign-off from an authorized contract officer and are typically made public in a U.S. government procurement database, under a system intended as a hedge against waste, fraud, and abuse.
This purchase did not appear in any government database. Nor was there any contract officer involved. Instead, it was documented in an invoice obtained by Vanity Fair, from a company, Cogna Technology Solutions (its own name misspelled as “Tecnology” on the bill), which noted a total order of 3.5 million tests for an amount owed of $52 million. The “client name” simply noted “WH.”
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July 31, 2020
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The Republican deficit peacockery over saving American lives and livelihoods is reaching new levels of absurdity. Absurdity and cruelty, which is nothing new, but the degree to which they will use any excuse to destroy Social Security and Medicare is truly surreal. The Washington Post explored how far down the rabbit hole some of them are exploring by detailing the “Eagle Plan.”
This is just a nutso. It’s a 29-page memo explaining how to steal from Social Security to give people $10,000 now, and it’s written by—get this—by Paul Touw, chief strategy officer to U.S. State Department undersecretary Keith Krach. Yes, the State Department—which doesn’t make domestic policy. But there’s this: “Krach is close to Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, and a senior adviser. Kushner and Krach served together on the presidential delegation to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in January.” So of course the White House Council of Economic Advisers is reviewing it, because it’s coming from Prince Jared. Never mind that it’s insane.
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I wouldn’t want Kushner looking at me like that if I fell into that older American bucket.
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July 31, 2020
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July 30, 2020
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Cañon de Fernandez State Park is a natural protected area in the northern Mexican state of Durango. It covers 17,000 hectares straddling the Nazas River in Lerdo Municipality, right in the middle of the Chihuahuan Desert.
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An image of Nazas River in Cañon de Fernández, Durango, Mexico
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July 30, 2020
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The identities of Orange County’s oldest ‘Jane Doe’ murder victim and her killer are now known thanks to DNA, officials say.
She was known as “Jane Doe” for 52 years. Now, Anita Louise Piteau of Augusta, Maine, is known to be the victim of Huntington Beach’s longest-running cold case. Her killer, Johnny Chrisco, was also identified through familial DNA, according to the Huntington Beach Police Department.
Anita left her home to come to Hollywood, according to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office. She wanted to see where movies were made, and kept in touch with her family by mail. “She had every intention of returning home,” Kimberly Edds of the OCDA’s office told Patch. Her last correspondence was in February of 1968.
They never heard from her again.
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© Huntington Beach Police Photo Anita Piteau was at last identified thanks to the DNA Doe Project.oe
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July 30, 2020
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July 29, 2020
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Garden of the Gods is a public park located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States. It was designated as a National Natural Landmark in 1971.
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An image of the Garden of the Gods park in Colorado Springs, Colorado
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July 29, 2020
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Mars is the darling of many planetary scientists, who continue to visit it through increasingly advanced robotic explorers. But don’t forget that our planetary neighbor is adorned with two moons: puny Phobos, a lumpy mass 17 miles across; and diminutive Deimos, just 9 miles long. Their names in ancient Greek may mean “fear” and “dread’, but the aesthetics of these Lilliputian space potatoes inspire anything but.
They don’t look anywhere near as interesting as the volcanic or icy-ocean moons of Jupiter and Saturn, nor is their desolation as extreme or diverse as Earth’s moon. But that hasn’t stopped generations of planetary scientists from being eager to get a closer look at the ramshackle duo.
The Soviet Union and, later, Russia have tried three times to reach Phobos, but software errors and launch disasters have doomed every attempt. Scientists in the U.S. have tried and, so far, failed to convince the powers-that-be at NASA that a mission to the two moons will be worthwhile. The next great hope is Japan, which is aiming to launch a heist mission to Phobos in 2024 that will try to steal some of its rocks.
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A close-up view of Phobos, the larger of Mars’s two moons. It is 17 miles across.Credit…NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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July 29, 2020
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July 28, 2020
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Near the end of the 19th century, New Yorkers out for a drink partook in one of the more unusual rituals in the annals of hospitality. When they ordered an ale or whiskey, the waiter or bartender would bring it out with a sandwich. Generally speaking, the sandwich was not edible. It was “old desiccated ruin of dust-laden bread and mummified ham or cheese,” wrote the playwright Eugene O’Neill. Other times it was made of rubber. Bar staff would commonly take the sandwich back seconds after it had arrived, pair it with the next beverage order, and whisk it over to another patron’s table. Some sandwiches were kept in circulation for a week or more.
Bar owners insisted on this bizarre charade to avoiding breaking the law—specifically, the excise law of 1896, which restricted how and when drinks could be served in New York State. The so-called Raines Law was a combination of good intentions, unstated prejudices, and unforeseen consequences, among them the comically unsavory Raines sandwich.
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Three men feast on free lunch in this drawing by Charles Dana Gibson. Image from the Public Domain.
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