2022 Gardening Guide: What to do from January to June to keep your summer blooming protector

It’s just that I’m an official person! Lapham Quarterly

Dissolving genres: finding new ways to write about the world Literary Center

Shubra Beoula: Little-Known Egyptian Village BBC

Can Gauguin be redeemed? No, would he want to be redeemed?absolutely not bystander

We Owe Wilkie Collins’ “The Woman in White” Crime readings. Posting this still German 2018 in honor of Wilkie Collins’ birthday: January 8, 1824. His doorstop novel is perfect for curling up on a cold winter weekend. Try a woman in white or a moonstone.

Dostoevsky’s Favorite Murder new republic

what’s below Vanity Fair

FBI arrests man accused of stealing manuscript of unpublished book now

The worst tech of 2021 MIT Technology Review

Pakistan: Heavy snow traps drivers in cars, killing many BBC.The three largest mountain ranges in the world – the Hindu Kush, Karakoram and Himalayas meet in Pakistan, where the valleys often rise above 14,000 feet, the highest point in the continental United States mountain range

How a musical form inspired by the song of a camel driver in Punjab-Sindh became popular in Bangladesh scroll

India continues plans to bring cheetahs back, but experts brace for bad news electric wire

How Voice Recorders Help Pinpoint Important Bird Habitat Yale Climate Connection

Bird Law turns out lights on city-owned buildings to save feathered friend City

Have archaeologists finally discovered the long-lost Temple of Hercules? jerusalem post

What Aristotle can teach us about building a better society prospect

#Coronavirus disease

How Biden and Boris Johnson are agreeing on virus policy now

Ventilation made easy Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. News that you can use.

Walmart and Kroger raise prices on at-home Covid tests after White House deal expires NBC

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Experts predict as many as 5 million people will lose their jobs due to COVID next week, straining businesses and transportation as U.S. daily cases hit second-highest of 900,832: Omicron peak expected at end-January daily mail

New York reports more than 90,000 COVID cases, breaking another state record New York Post

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Omicron explosion causes service to crash nationwide Associated Press

After 27,000 flight cancellations, airlines still finding upper hand against omicron, weather Wapo

U.S. hospitals struggle to match Walmart pay as employees flee omicron face maximum

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A small Florida company gets more scarce Covid treatments than some big hospitals, raising fairness concerns statistics

Florida is seeing a surge in COVID cases and hospitalizations, but the state has the second-lowest death rate in the nation. How is this going? WeChat

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German anti-Vaxxers community on the Black Sea coast Mirror

Omicron surge: number of copies doubled, time doubled spend in india

How mistakes and inaction are spreading deadly Covid variants around the world Bloomberg

Okinawa reports 1,759 new coronavirus cases; Tokyo 1,224 Japan Today

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Kamala Harris admits that two years after the pandemic, people are ‘in some kind of discomfort’ and America ‘hopes to get back to normal’ – draws parallels to Jimmy Carter’s infamous 1979 speech Daily Mail. Dear Biden Administration: His virus doesn’t care.

today, @CDC Director Say:
“The vast majority of deaths (over 75%) occurred in people with at least 4 comorbidities. So these people were unwell to begin with, and yes, in the context of Omicron, that’s really encouraging news. “

This is the eugenicist. pic.twitter.com/zd3iBQTH0J

— Matthew Cortland, JD (@mattbc) January 8, 2022

Joe Biden: I’m hiding five quick tests in chocolate bars across the country.The winner will receive a full tour of my factory and a lifetime supply of chocolates pic.twitter.com/1T3pPj3UuY

– Julia Air (@binchcity) January 8, 2022

Citigroup is headquartered in New York City. For those hailing its new policy of laying off all unvaccinated workers during the pandemic, who will lose their jobs thanks to the banking giant’s decision. Is this really something to cheer about?

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 8, 2022

Students in Auckland have started petitions for more testing, KN95 masks for everyone and outdoor dining areas at every school, or switch to distance learning.

If the demands are not met, the students say they will go on strike starting Jan. 18. #oakduhttps://t.co/UFcPb6OBsp

— Ashley McBride (@ashleynmcb) January 8, 2022

Class struggle

Low-skilled, easily replaceable workers must return to work immediately or our society will collapse McSweeney (Jen)

The Criminal Justice Issue No One Talks About: Brain Injury Marshall Plan

How Farm Workers Can Organize to Close the Pay Gap capital and main

Jon Ossoff hopes to snub Pelosi by pushing for congressional stock trading ban New York Post

climate

carbon footprint scam mashable indian

Is LED lighting more energy efficient than window lighting? Environmentalist

Lakes are losing ice caps faster than ever – and what that means for us Narwhal

Biden administration

US is building, not dismantling, GTMO prison facility Responsible governance

Biden and GOP may be bipartisan by elevating Big Pharma’s pick to head of FDA The truth came out. Lest you have any doubts about who is calling the shots.

Julian Assange

What do I misunderstand about Julian Assange Consortium News

supply chain

New York Harbor struggles to reduce rare standoff amid Covid labor woes Bloomberg

wake up watch

Too awake to travel to write? critic

Black Lives Matter

Georgia Judge Makes Strong Statement Before Sentencing Ahmaud Arbery Murderer to Death YouTube (klg25)

Whole Foods claims constitutional right to ban Black Lives Matter masks Yahoo re Šilc: “This should be fun. Rich Rocket Boys vs Brothers.”

big brother is watching you

France orders Google and Facebook to offer one-click cookie rejection Ars Technica

Can’t trust the people who helped build Facebook to reform Facebook. I really don’t know why anyone takes this crap seriously. https://t.co/UYpKfLQ6Gf

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) January 9, 2022

Jeffrey Epstein affair

Witnesses say Virginia Giuffre told me in 2001 that she slept with Prince Andrew guardian

waste watch

Spread of Omicron to disrupt U.S. waste and recycling business starting in 2022 waste diving

The big unsolved problem of lithium battery BBC

old blight

Labour will use private providers to reduce NHS waiting lists, says Streeting BBC

Acquittal of ‘Colston Four’ who toppled slave trader statue sparks UK culture war France 24

How Putin’s Russia Helps China and India Get Along South China Morning Post

new cold war

Ukraine-Russia crisis: US refuses to withdraw troops german wave

Blinken is just laying straight here, and the declassified documents have quelled the bogus controversy. But the media-NGO fact-checkers ignore this lie because their job is to hype the Cold War for their sponsors, not to undermine it.https://t.co/ZxqfSnxWeT

— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) January 8, 2022

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan is nothing Craig Murray

Putin’s nightmare? Qantas

In Kazakhstan, Russia’s imperial expansion – at the expense of China Asia Times

Syria

Humanitarian warmongers simply don’t care about US sanctions killing Afghans Jacobin

India

India’s new reproductive law sparks debate diplomat

China?

Rare Earths: The Fight for the Fuels of the Future diplomat

Why does the Yangtze River have its own protection law? International News Service

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