Federal health dept. says marijuana should be downgraded to Schedule 3 drug (arstechnica.com)
If DEA accepts HHS's rescheduling recommendation, it could ease marijuana access.
Donald Trump vows to lock up political enemies if he returns to White House (www.theguardian.com)
Former president tells Glenn Beck he would have ‘no choice’ but to lock up opponents ‘because they’re doing it to us’
San Francisco bakery sparks debate by refusing to serve armed police (www.independent.co.uk)
Business says it doesn’t serve anyone who is armed
A white man fatally shoots 3 Black people at a Florida store in a hate crime, then kills himself (abcnews.go.com)
Jacksonville's sheriff says a white gunman who killed three people at a Dollar General store was racially motivated and hated Black people
Sarah Palin says US civil war ‘is going to happen’ over Trump prosecutions (www.theguardian.com)
Former vice-presidential nominee condemns prosecutors over ‘travesty’ and says ‘we’re not going to keep putting up with this’
Biden administration to urge Americans get new COVID-19 boosters (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Moderna said on Thursday its updated vaccine is effective against the Eris and Fornax COVID-19 variants
Woman sentenced to nearly 22 years in prison for trying to mail Trump ricin (www.axios.com)
A woman who mailed then-President Trump a threatening letter that contained ricin weeks before the 2020 election was sentenced to 262 months in prison on Thursday, the Department of Justice announced.
Trump's legal advisers urge him to cancel press conference to refute Georgia allegations: Sources (abcnews.go.com)
Trump's promised press conference to refute the allegations in the indictment handed up by the Fulton County DA's Office is now in doubt, multiple sources said.
Former Trump adviser blames Jews for dying in Auschwitz (www.jpost.com)
Michael Flynn, a Christian nationalist who previously served as US national security advisor under Donald Trump, said that Jews were willingly given to the Nazis and said there were no guards.
Man who set fire to Planned Parenthood sentenced to 10 years in prison (thehill.com)
The man who pleaded guilty to setting a Planned Parenthood location on fire in Peoria, Ill., was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday. Tyler Massengill pleaded guilty to burning the office in Fe…
YouTube starts mass takedowns of videos promoting “harmful or ineffective” cancer cures (www.theverge.com)
It’s attempting to streamline its health moderation policies.
Trump tells Georgia witness not to testify (www.axios.com)
Daily Beast has picked up the story: Kansas Newspaper Slams ‘Gestapo Tactics’ After Police Raid - Update: Co-Owner Has Died (www.thedailybeast.com)
“We will be seeking maximum sanctions under the law possible,” Marion County Record’s publisher said after the entire local police department seized reporting materials....
Illinois Supreme Court finds assault weapons ban constitutional (abcnews.go.com)
The Illinois Supreme Court found the state's assault weapons ban constitutional. It was passed after the Highland Park shooting last year.
US inflation cooling as consumer prices rise moderately again (www.reuters.com)
Higher rents were mostly offset by declining costs of goods such as motor vehicles and furniture.
This doctor said vaccines magnetize people. Ohio suspended her medical license. (www.cleveland.com)
Sherri Tenpenny is no longer a licensed physician after airing fringe comments and ducking investigators.
Religious Objections Over Pronouns Test High Court’s New Stance (news.bloomberglaw.com)
A revived legal dispute over a Christian music teacher’s refusal to use students’ preferred names and pronouns will offer an early test of the US Supreme Court’s new standard for religious accommodations in the workplace.
A critique of the 'Divided America' Trope (www.axios.com)
We seriously need to start pushing back on this Divided America Trope. It is absolute propaganda....
United States vs. Trump, Docket #67656604-15 (www.courtlistener.com)
This is brutal for team ShitGibbon.
WikiLeaks publishes "The Intolerance Network", over 17,000 documents from right-wing campaigning organisations globally (wikileaks.org)
The data covers the work of organisations HazteOir and CitizenGO, comprising documents which date from 2001 to 2017 like spreadsheets of donors and members, strategy and planning documents, letters, financial charts and legal and training documents. HazteOir was first founded in 2001 in Spain to campaign for right wing values,...
Paul Reubens, actor best known for playing Pee-wee Herman, dies aged 70 (www.theguardian.com)
The actor died Sunday night, years after he had been diagnosed with cancer, according to his team
The first US nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia (apnews.com)
ATLANTA (AP) — A new reactor at a nuclear power plant in Georgia has entered commercial operation, becoming the first new American reactor built from scratch in decades.
‘I’m not wanted’: Florida universities hit by brain drain as academics flee (www.theguardian.com)
Ron DeSantis’s slew of laws attacking teaching of race and gender issues sees state’s colleges struggle to fill faculty posts
Houston ISD to eliminate librarians and convert libraries into disciplinary centers at NES schools (abc13.com)
Students at dozens of Houston ISD schools will return in a few weeks without librarians and to former libraries that have been converted into disciplinary spaces.
UFO hearing key takeaways: What a whistleblower told Congress about UAP (www.cbsnews.com)
A former military intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower told House lawmakers that Congress is being kept in the dark about unidentified anomalous phenomena.
