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  Noah Mittman

  

  What Happens When All Your Co-workers Quit?

  thecut.com - Angelina Chapin

  This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. One afternoon in June, coming …

• "The lesson from the past year: Poverty is a policy choice."

  

  Noah Mittman

  

  The big drop in American poverty during the pandemic, explained

  Vox - Dylan Matthews

  In 2020 and 2021, the federal government gave Americans an unprecedented amount of money. A big part of the US’s response to Covid-19 was strengthening the existing safety net, or providing relief specific to particular types of spending, like food or housing. Food stamp/SNAP benefits were raised. …

• We've seen similar reports before; Long COVID is a scary mofo

  

  Noah Mittman

  

  People who contracted Covid may have "substantial" drop in intelligence, according to The Lancet | Boing Boing

  boingboing.net - Mark Frauenfelder

  A new paper published in the peer-reviewed journal The Lancet found that "People who had recovered from COVID-19, including those no longer reporting …

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  Noah Mittman

  

  Don’t Let Anyone Normalize January 6

  The Atlantic - David Frum

  If you can shrug it off as just another incident of Trump talking too much, then you have already signed up for the next incident—and the one after that. While he was president of the United States, Donald Trump tried to overthrow the election of 2020, first by fraud, then by violence. His efforts …

• "'He'll say stuff like this straight to my face whenever he's drinking: ‘You're a real piece of work to be able to sit here and act like nothing ever happened if it wasn't a hoax. Shame on you for bei …

  

  Noah Mittman

  

  I’m a Parkland Shooting Survivor. QAnon Convinced My Dad It Was All a Hoax.

  VICE Asia - David Gilbert

  “I don't know how to help someone that far gone.” Bill’s final semester at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was already difficult enough. He was part of the final graduating class of survivors of the 2018 shooting, and they all had just marked the third anniversary of the …

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  Noah Mittman

  

  I Tried to Make Claims About Election Fraud So Preposterous Trump Fans Wouldn’t Believe Me. It Was Impossible.

  The Intercept - Jon Schwarz

  I was acting as Trump and his minions do: free to say anything, no matter how ridiculous, with no basis in observable fact. The most beautiful and …