Morning Reads for Don’t Put all Your Eggs in One Omelet Day
Hi, folks, and happy Friday! Yes, this is a real one: Don’t Put all Your Eggs in One Omelet Day, a play (of course) on the phrase, “Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket.” If I were celebrating, I’d have eaten an omelet for breakfast, leaving at least one egg in the carton. But, alas, I grabbed an Rxbar on the way to work. Such is life!
Let’s get on to the news.
Pat Conroy
- As I mentioned on Wednesday, AJC reporter Patricia Murphy is on a political road trip around the state. Today, her dispatch comes from Savannah. (Alternate link.)
- Georgia has granted a license to Spaceport Camden.
- The University System of Georgia appointed an advisory group last year to look at renaming some buildings that currently honor problematic figures. So far, there’s been little action from the group. (Alternate link.)
- Georgia’s jobless rate has started to tick upwards just as the state is pulling back the federally-funded $300/week assistance bump.
- Brian Kemp has released his first 2022 campaign ad, and if you had “Stacey Abrams” and “liberal mob” on your bingo card, you’re well on your way to a win. (Alternate link.)
- Agnes Scott College has some new trustees and a new board chair.
- The delta variant now makes up 12% of COVID cases in Georgia. Please, if you haven’t already, go get vaccinated! (Alternate link.)
Alice Walker
- Zalia Avant-garde from Louisiana made history by being the first Black American to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. (Alternate link.)
- The end date for military operations in Afghanistan has moved up to August 31st.
- In the discovery process of a wrongful death trial against Remington brought by Sandy Hook parents, the gunmaker has filed more than 18,000 files depicting cartoons and emoji unrelated to the case.
- A judge has ruled that the victims of the 2019 synagogue shooting in San Diego can sue Smith & Wesson.
- Yes, the Supreme Court swerved to the right during this term.
- A new report from the U.S. Energy Information Agency states that American can cut 40% of methane emissions from oil and gas production without spending additional money.
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer detain most pregnant and postpartum migrant women. (Alternate link.)
- A study by the Mozilla Foundation has found that most of YouTube’s problematic content is recommended by the platform’s own algorithm.
- The Wall Street Journal has looked into the mismatch between available workers and jobs available. (Alternate link.)
- QAnon has receded from major social media platforms, but it’s still lurking around.
- Pfizer and the Centers for Disease Control disagree on the need for COVID booster shots.
- Research out of China shows that the delta variant of COVID grows more rapidly inside people’s respiratory tracts and to much higher levels.
- Two American citizens and ex-Colombian military members are responsible for the assassination of Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse.
- A factory fire in Bangladesh has killed 52 people.
- Japan has banned spectators from the Tokyo Olympics.
Flannery O’Connor
- Guam’s new tourist niche: Vaccinations for foreign travelers.
About Author
Holly Croft
Holly is an archivist at one of Georgia's institutions of higher learning. In a past life, she was a legislative assistant on Capitol Hill. She cares a lot about records management, open records laws, and privacy laws. Political persuasion? It's complicated. What's not complicated is that she's proudly equal parts Bulldog and Tar Heel.
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“You have to break eggs to make an omelet.” When I hear that saying, I feel like an egg.
Congratulations to Ms. Zalia Avant-garde on her win and for having a very cool name.
Google the winning word ‘murraya’ and see what happens.
Murraya is a genus of flowering plants in the citrus family, Rutaceae. It is distributed in Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands.[2] The center of diversity is in southern China and Southeast Asia.
So? How about the animated confetti and bees and bee-colored spellings? I tell you, that google is worth every penny.
The labor union that represents Social Security employees also welcomed the firings.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday fired the commissioner of Social Security after the official refused to resign, and Biden accepted the deputy commissioner’s resignation, the White House said.
Biden asked commissioner Andrew Saul to resign, and his employment was terminated after he refused the Democratic president’s request, a White House official said.
Deputy Commissioner David Black agreed to resign, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters.
Both officials had been put in place under President Donald Trump, a Republican.
Ralph de Juliis, spokesperson for the American Federation of Government Employees SSA General Committee and Council 220 President, said employee morale and agency operations had suffered under Saul and Black’s leadership.
“President Biden made the right call to send these Trump appointees packing,” de Juliis said.
Get rid of all the Trumpers, they are poison. Nothing good came of Donald Trump. He is a cancer to our Constitution.
Your last sentence says it all. Yes, all the Trumpers should be fired because they are a cancer and they embrace treason.
Kemp’s ad is just sad. Stacey Abrams must live rent free in the heads of Republicans. Nobody believes him about the elections when everybody knows the bill DOES NOT increase access to voting. The big question is how many of Kemp’s voters have died since 2018 either due to COVID or old age or are planning on staying home in 2022.