In 2019, Alan Hostetter posted a 20-minute "sunset gong meditation" on his YouTube channel. By 2020, he was fighting Caifornia's lockdown rules, allegedly messaging with militia members and saying in another YouTube video that "tyrants and traitors need to be executed as an example." He now faces charges in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Hostetter's case demonstrates how conspiracy theories and coronavirus protests funneled some people straight to the insurrection.
It multiplies faster, which means you can infect others sooner. The viral load gets higher — the average person infected with the delta variant had about 1,000 times more copies of the virus in their respiratory tracts than those infected with the original strain. The delta variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus is perfectly adapted to cause outbreaks in unvaccinated populations.
Newly released tape and documents from the investigation into Oscar Grant's shooting by BART transit police suggest major errors were made. That includes failing to look into aggressive, escalating tactics by Officer Tony Pirone, the first officer on the scene. Detectives also failed to get an immediate statement from Officer Johannes Mehserle, before he'd locked in on a legal strategy. Read the story or listen to it here.
In test runs using 2,500 workers, researchers in Iceland found support for cutting a few hours off of employees' work weeks but keeping their paychecks the same. The workers in the study reported improved well-being, while they got just as much done at the office — in some case becoming even more productive.
"Critical race theory" seemded to pop into existence as a buzzword this year, pushed by conservative media. But this debate — which is blaring fury at school board meetings across the country — has been burbling for decades. It even got first-term president Bill Clinton to withdraw a Justice Department nominee. (Consider This)
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Companies know that consumers see and detest price increases, so when things get tight for them, they look for alternatives. One that usually flies below shoppers' attention: Keeping the price the same, but reducing how much product is in the box. It's called shrinkflation, and it's happening right now. (The Indicator From Planet Money)
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