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So, When Will YOU Hit Your Musical ‘Peak and Paralysis Age’?
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2018/06/08/deezer-study-musical-paralysis-peak/


U.S. Army Veteran Deported to Mexico After 2 Tours in Afghanistan
http://time.com/5215153/army-veteran-deported-tammy-duckworth/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-button-sharing


The secret to a meaningful life is simpler than you think
[The definition of the meaning of life that resonates with me is to maintain the interdependent web of life. ]
https://qz.com/1310792/the-secret-to-a-meaningful-life-is-simpler-than-you-think/

Reality L. Winner, a former Air Force linguist who was the first person prosecuted by the Trump administration on charges of leaking classified information, pleaded guilty on Tuesday as part of an agreement with prosecutors that calls for a sentence of 63 months in prison.
Ms. Winner, who entered her plea in Federal District Court in Augusta, Ga., was arrested last June and accused of sharing a classified report about Russian interference in the 2016 election with the news media.
Ms. Winner, who is now 26, has been jailed since her arrest
Defendants facing such charges are not permitted to argue to jurors that they should vote to acquit because the disclosure was in the public interest.
[Why was the NSA keeping the fact that Russia was waging cyber war on our voting system secret? I would say it was the NSA that was harming the U.S., and aiding a foreign adversary by keeping this information secret.]


Modified polio vaccine helps fight deadly brain tumors
Some patients with 'dismal' diagnosis were alive as long as six years later
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/modified-polio-vaccine-helps-fight-deadly-brain-tumors-n886486


Judge Tosses City Climate Change Lawsuits Against Big Oil
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-26/city-climate-change-suits-against-big-oil-tossed-by-u-s-judge


Neil Gorsuch Declares War on the Voting Rights Act
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/abbott-v-perez-neil-gorsuch-says-the-voting-rights-act-does-not-prohibit-racial-gerrymandering.html


'Squeezed' Explores Why America Is Getting Too Expensive For The Middle Class
She reports on how the costs of housing, child care, health care and more have far outpaced salaries and how that's changing the lives of middle-class Americans, as well as life in American cities.
[Of course, if it's too expensive for the middle class, it's way too expensive for the lower wage class.]
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/26/623367320/squeezed-explores-why-america-is-getting-too-expensive-for-the-middle-class


From Facebook, info on immigration matters from an immigration lawyer
https://www.facebook.com/eric.pavri/posts/10156217680941180


It's funny we used to be able to get enough workers who were citizens. It's shameful that we think it's ok to allow big business farmers to underpay, cheat, and mistreat immigrants under the guise of niceness, really that we are not willing to pay a decent wage.


In his new memoir, Facts and Fears: Hard Truths From a Life in Intelligence, Clapper describes evidence that Russian President Vladimir Putin swayed the election in a bid to secure Trump’s election as “staggering.”
http://www.newsweek.com/evidence-russia-tipped-election-trump-staggering-says-former-us-intel-chief-940086


Remembering when a baker turned away Joe Biden and received praise from conservatives
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny-news-biden-baker-sarah-huckabee-red-hen-20180626-story.html


Ex-Republican Operative Steve Schmidt: 'The Party of Trump Must Be Obliterated. Annihilated. Destroyed'
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/steve-schmidt-party-of-trump-obliterated-w521978


Young Trump staffers are complaining they can't date in DC because everyone hates them
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-staffers-are-complain-that-they-cant-date-in-dc-2018-6
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/22/trump-millennial-supporters-washington-dc-218833


I was often harassed by conservatives at work. I would try to react calmly and rationally. If I finally got fed up and gave them some of their own medicine, they would act hurt and try to make me feel guilty for being mean to them. When I pointed out that I was treating them the same way they had been treating me, several times they would say that since I was a liberal, I was supposed to be nicer than them!
What they didn't realize is that I come from a mean, hateful family, so I know how to be mean and hateful. I have chosen to develop better ways of relating, but I have found that being nice to mean people tends to cause them to get worse. I read that sadists don't like people who let them get away with it because it makes them feel guilty.


The Red Hen Affair: Demands for 'civility' are almost always aimed at shutting down free speech
Many of the staff were LGBTQ individuals upset, understandably, at the Trump administration’s documented hostility to LGBTQ rights. She took a staff vote, which came down on the side of asking Sanders to leave.
Wilkinson and Sanders both say the 86-ing was handled politely and in private. Sanders left quietly.
The next day, however, she confirmed the episode in a tweet, in which she named the restaurant, gave its location, and took a sidelong swipe at Wilkinson. For some reason, many progressives seem to think this shows that Sanders dealt with the episode with “class.”
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-civility-20180625-story.html


Trump's history of health code violations at his businesses comes under fire after he blasts 'filthy' restaurant that kicked out Sarah Huckabee Sanders
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-mar-a-lago-health-code-violations-resurface-after-red-hen-attack-2018-6


A farm bill that opponents say would harm endangered species, land conservation efforts, small-scale farmers and food-stamp recipients passed the U.S. House of Representatives 213 to 211, with every House Democrat and 20 Republicans voting against it, The Center for Biological Diversity reported.
https://www.ecowatch.com/farm-bill-passes-house-2580286425.html


Farmers in America are killing themselves in staggering numbers
The suicide rate in the field of farming, fishing and forestry is 84.5 per 100,000 people -- more than five times that of the population as a whole. That's even as the nation overall has seen an increase in suicide rates over the last 30 years.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-farmers-rising-suicide-rates-plummeting-incomes/


Five Pacific islands lost to rising seas as climate change hits
six other islands had large swaths of land washed into the sea and on two of those, entire villages were destroyed and people forced to relocate, the researchers found.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/10/five-pacific-islands-lost-rising-seas-climate-change


Five years after a mysterious virus wiped out millions of starfish off the western coast of North America, causing them to lose legs, dissolve into fleshy goo and taking various species to the brink of disappearance, scientists have announced a remarkable reversal.
In what the authors of a new study say may be an example of evolution in action, a species appears to have evolved genetic resistance to a virus decimating it.
Researchers theorize the disease is a densovirus, which has existed in the region for decades, but may have proliferated in response to climate change impacts such as warmer waters or ocean acidification.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/25/starfish-sea-stars-melting-disease-return