Watch this case! It’s likely to be the one that gets to the US Supreme Court first and that settles Trump’s eligibility to be president again and to run for the GOP nomination despite Section 3 of the 14th Amendment
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BREAKING: Donald Trump has just painted himself in a corner. If he declassified top secret nuclear documents, he’s a national security threat. If he lied, then he committed obstruction of justice. Trump is f*cked.

Congratulations from this Proud Dad to Nehalem and her 2020 classmates upon their Tufts University commencement, two years late! 👩‍🎓❤️🐘🎉

Having covered the devastation of the Japan and Indian Ocean tsunamis, I would rather die in my car trying to escape than climb into one of these capsules.

1/ HOW COVID TRANSMISSION WORKS: the short version

I believe it is extremely important to communicate clearly how transmission really happens.

Then, one can understand easily real ways to limit transmission. And it reduces resistance to e.g. masks.

Whoa, this study showed that patients visiting their doctor after a flu patient are more likely to get the flu. Lingering virus in the exam room?

I've meaning to write a 'COVID endgame' thread for a while and I apologize this is somewhat delayed compared to media interviews like science.org/content/articl… and statnews.com/2021/09/20/win… and to recent seminars like youtube.com/watch?v=VErVD_…. 1/17

In Kabul, ⁦Nabih⁩ describes the family of one of the bombing victim burying their loved one. latimes.com/world-nation/s…

Oregon viewed fewer hospital rooms as a good thing, building a model healthcare system with the fewest licensed beds per capita in the nation. Now as the Delta variant sweeps unvaccinated rural areas, the state is desperate for more. google.com/amp/s/www.lati…

Tonight I helplessly held the hand of and stroked the hair of a beautiful 14 year old girl as she exited this world. She was looking forward to starting high school and eventually becoming a veterinarian. It was so senseless! I truly believe she could have been saved if her

The fall of Afghanistan is painful to watch, especially for US veterans who have served there, as we found by talking to several. latimes.com/world-nation/s…

Watch a Washington state ferry collide with a containment boom being towed across Elliott Bay today, in this time-lapse video. Washington State Ferries

Today, Richard Read of the Los Angeles Times reported on the high #COVID19 vaccination rates among American Indian and Alaska Native communities: latimes.com/world-nation/s…. Getting vaccinated is the most important thing we can do to protect ourselves and prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Experts predicted they would shun the shots, but Native Americans have the nation’s highest Covid-19 vaccination rate. I tagged along with nurses on a Montana reservation. latimes.com/world-nation/s…

Sometimes, it turns out, a fish does need a bicycle - or rather, a ride on a truck, as I learned following sockeye salmon on a journey around a dam and across Idaho. The question is whether the endangered fish can be saved. latimes.com/world-nation/s…

Hey, check out my foray into audio, hear bald eagles screech as I describe life behind a virtual Iron Curtain on Point Roberts, a crazy patch in our national quilt. Col. Gustavo Arellano gave me a turn at the mic, and Shannon Lin 林容瑄 magically produced the show.tinyurl.com/d6ezbek8

The old saw 'You can't get there from here' is actually true for residents of Point Roberts, Wash., trapped on a Canadian peninsula behind the U.S.-Canada border closure. Now their tiny patch of land is about to become a food desert. tinyurl.com/xe2jppum

Kauai is a public health success story, a place that kept the coronavirus at bay. But the pandemic has left the Hawaiian island with a widening gap between rich and poor. google.com/amp/s/www.lati…

An insightful story by Hal Bernton. Hal and I were writing six months ago about the split between Portland anarchists and the social justice movement that WaPo described today. bit.ly/2R8rvfl

Long before Ethan Nordean led the Proud Boys march on the Capitol, he washed dishes at his father’s restaurant. Some residents of their Puget Sound community objected to his extremism. “Silence is part of what brought Hitler to power,” one resident warned.lat.ms/3wdj2pZ