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To: Sdgla who wrote (1341141)	2/4/2022 8:23:43 PM
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To: Sdgla who wrote (1341141)	2/5/2022 5:29:59 AM
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I hope you got some sleep BOY...I DID!! You were certainly triggered last night...thanks for the show!! hehe

To: Sdgla who wrote (1341141)	2/5/2022 5:31:42 AM
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the TRUMP virus has killed 900,000 Americans....very sad!!!

To: Sdgla who wrote (1341141)	2/5/2022 5:34:39 AM
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Today, Joe Biden wraps up his first year as President. For the last 12 months, President Biden has been grappling with the unenviable task of curtailing the ongoing COVID pandemic, restoring a waning economy, and solving the country's entrenched and divisive social issues. It has been a taxing year for the President, who has led his administration through a year of notable ups-and-downs. Nonetheless, the 46th resident of the White House has reason to be proud of his first year at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as despite the series of obstacles and challenges, Biden's administration has also achieved marked success. As his freshman year draws to a close, Newsweek looks back on his major achievements over the last year. NEWSWEEK NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP > 1) $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure packageOne of Biden's flagship victories of the last year was the approval of a $1.2 trillion infrastructure package which drastically increased investment in the national network of bridges and roads, airports, public transport, national broadband internet, as well as waterways and energy systems. The bipartisan bill was passed by the House in November by 228 votes to 206, with 13 Republicans breaking ranks to join the Democrats in support of the bill. Biden initially released the proposed bill in March, which was first approved by the Senate in August. Chin Up: The Democrats Just Had a Big Voting Rights Win READ MORE Chin Up: The Democrats Just Had a Big Voting Rights Win NEWSWEEK SUBSCRIPTION OFFERS > In a White House statement released at the time, the Biden administration claimed the bill would help tackle growing inflation by easing supply chain disruptions. Republicans and moderate Democrats feared the bill's high budget would likely contribute to the ballooning inflation, despite a group of 15 Nobel Prize-winning economists backing the bill. In a video Tweeted on November 8, Biden said: "We're doing so much with this legislation. It's going to make it easier for companies to get goods to market more quickly and reduce supply chain bottlenecks, now and for decades to come." 2) The $1.9 trillion COVID relief dealIn March, the Biden administration passed a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package designed to help the country combat the ongoing COVID pandemic. The package provided direct payments of up to $1,400 to many struggling U.S. citizens, temporarily extended unemployment support by $300 per week, channeled approximately $20 billion into the COVID vaccination program, as well as providing $25 billion in rental support and a further $350 billion into state, tribal and local relief efforts. The legislation was also designed to tackle child poverty and nutritional issues across the country. The bill invested almost $30 billion in restaurants and hospitality and raised the maximum Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program support by 15 percent. Additionally, an extra $120 billion were invested into K-12 schools across the nation. Additionally, 209 million Americans have received the full dose of the COVID vaccination and 249 million — 74 percent of the U.S. population — have received at least one dose of the vaccine. 3) Highest appointment of federal judges since ReaganBiden has appointed 41 federal judges in his opening year at the White House. This is more than double those appointed by his predecessor Donald Trump and is the most a president has appointed in their freshman year since Ronald Reagan in 1981. The president has also been mindful of issues of representation in his appointments over the last year, as 80 percent of the new federal judges are women and 53 percent are people of color. In the long run, the federal judiciary's new look could have a lasting effect, as the lower courts are believed to be the trial stage for future Supreme Court contenders. Since he was sworn in last January, Biden has nominated a total of 73 individuals to federal judgeships. 4) Halt on Federal ExecutionsPresident Biden is an opponent of the federal penalty and therefore reinstated a national freeze on federal executions, which had been in place for 17 years until former president Donald Trump ended the pause. In July, the Biden administration opted to restore the pre-Trump status quo and imposed a suspension on federal executions while the Department of Justice assesses the existing procedures and policies. The pause does not enable the President to halt executions at state level, though the Biden administration has vowed to eradicate capital punishment at federal level. Prior to Biden's pause, there had been 13 federal executions under Trump. 5) Commitment to Combating Climate ChangeDuring his presidential campaign and since taking office, Biden has been a vocal supporter of the need for a greater effort to tackle the climate crisis. Shortly after coming to power, Biden re-joined the international Paris Climate Accord, which Trump had parted ways with, allowing the U.S. to continue to work with global players in the worldwide drive to deter the climate's deterioration. Last November, the President joined an additional agreement aimed at reversing deforestation as well as presenting a 100-country strong pledge to reduce greenhouse emissions by at least 30 percent by 2030. Additionally, in December, Biden ordered all government agencies to immediately halt the financing of new international carbon-intensive fossil fuel projects, and instead work towards clean energy use. Despite the Biden administration's commitment to tackling the climate crisis, the U.S. did not sign a global pledge designed to end the use of coal power that was announced at the COP26 summit. WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 20: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers his inaugural address on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. During today's inauguration ceremony Joe Biden becomes the 46th president of the United States.ROB CARR/GETTY IMAGES

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Conservatives more likely to believe false news, new study finds Political conservatives are more likely to believe untrue news reports than liberals are, researchers reported Wednesday. It's the latest in a series of studies that show people on the political right tend to not only be targeted by fake news, but to believe it's correct. The small but intensive study, conducted by communications specialists Kelly Garrett and Robert Bond at Ohio State University, shows more engaging but false stories tended to support beliefs held by conservatives, while viral news stories that were also true tended to support beliefs held by liberals. It does not cover the pandemic period, although the research team is running a similar study now looking at pandemic information and misinformation The idea that U.S. conservatives are uniquely likely to hold misperceptions is widespread but has not been systematically assessed," Bond and Garrett wrote in the journal Science Advances. They came up with a system for analyzing news and social media reports, and used social media monitoring service YouGov to bounce the headlines off 1,200 volunteers who agreed to report their feelings about the reports between January and June of 2019. "Every two weeks, we retrieved social media engagement data for 5,000 news stories that had the most engagement in the past seven days," they wrote. Each article was carefully fact-checked. "They all had a connection to U.S. politics in some way," Garrett told CNN. People who identified as independent politically were excluded from the panel, and Garrett and Bond tried to keep the same people on the panel from month to month for consistency. "Consistent with other studies, we find that American conservatives are more likely than liberals to hold misperceptions," they wrote. The most viral stories tended to appeal to conservatives, they found. Just 10% were biased toward liberal points of view. "The topics were selected on the basis of social media engagement, suggesting that these are the very issues that Americans were most likely to encounter online," they added. "Analyses suggest that conservatism is associated with a lesser ability to distinguish between true and false claims across a wide range of political issues and with a tendency to believe that all claims are true. The study also shows that conservatives' propensity to hold misperceptions is partly explained by the political implications of this widely shared news. Socially engaging truthful claims tended to favor the left, while engaging falsehoods disproportionately favored the right." Conservatives were a little less likely to believe stories that were actually true, the researchers found. "It's tempting to try and read this as evidence that conservatives are more biased or somehow psychologically predisposed to misperceptions. We can't say that," Garrett said. It might be that conservatives are being targeted more. "We have evidence the media environment is shaping peoples' misperceptions," he added. "Our data suggests that the composition of the media environment is playing a great role now." Garrett and his colleagues are now studying a panel of volunteers looking at pandemic information and misinformation. he has not looked at any of the data yet, but suspects he will find what other studies have also shown -- that people who identify as conservative are also more vulnerable to misinformation about the pandemic and vaccines. President Biden noted this Wednesday in urging more Americans to get vaccinated. "Getting the vaccine is not a partisan act. The science was done under Democratic and Republican administrations. Matter of fact, the first vaccines were authorized under a Republican President and widely developed by a Democratic President -- deployed by a Democratic President," Biden said in a televised speech. It's not clear what can be done to reduce the load of false information. Although sometimes it's obvious that a report is a lie, often it appears people honestly believe the false information they are spreading is true, Garrett said. Social media companies have said they are trying to do more to put the brakes on the spread of false information, and Garrett said studies indicate that fact-checking works, too -- although not necessarily immediately. "It's not that a single fact-checking message is going to move people en masse from one belief to another," he said. And that would be illogical anyway -- people are not likely to say "'they're right and everything I thought before was wrong,'" Garrett said. But over time they add up." Individuals can also make a difference with polite engagement. "When you see someone online, it can feel like shouting into the wind wind to try and introduce a fact check," Garrett said. "But the scientific research suggests that challenging inaccuracies, speaking up when someone says something that isn't true, can make a difference