The Fundamentals

For the week of October 21.2024

Oct 28, 2024

Welcome to the weekly newsletter, where I share my musings on world events. I’ll also use this to identify those deserving of our collective side-eye. I’ll share thought-provoking online gems or things that make me laugh (because we need both). And sometimes, I may include personal nonsense. I hope this brightens your week and makes you think.

Nonsense

What’s Goin’ On?

The New York Liberty, the WNBA team, won its first championship.

Jennifer Lawrence is pregnant with her second child.

The Central Park Five are suing Donald Trump for stating that they killed someone and plead guilty. This is false, and they were exonerated.

Infants died at higher rates in the US following the Supreme Court decision that revoked the federal right to an abortion. This should not be a surprise; activists have told us this for years.

Thelma Mothershed Wair of the Little Rock Nine died at age 83.

John Kinsel Sr., one of the last surviving Navajo Code Talkers, died at age 107.

DiGiorno has a Thanksgiving Pizza? Ew.

Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Worst-case climate change modeling hasn’t prepared us for the complex system collapse we will experience if the carbon sink fails.

Rudy Giuliani must turn over control of his Manhattan penthouse apartment, sports memorabilia, and a 1980 Mercedes, etc., to Georgia election workers whom he defamed. Excuse me while I… Hahahahahahahahahahahhaahaahahahahhahaha.

The White House proposed a rule that birth control, condoms, and the “morning after” pill would be fully covered by private health insurance without a prescription.

Denny's will shut down 150 of its locations. Theater kids everywhere are in shambles.

E. coli food poisoning has been linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder and has sickened at least 49 people in 10 states.

The office of the Secretary of Transportation announced a $50 million penalty against American Airlines for numerous serious violations of the rights of wheelchair users.

Per the C.D.C., gun violence is the leading cause of death for children and teens in the U.S.

Elizabeth Francis, the oldest living person in the U.S. and one of the oldest people in the world, died at the age of 115.

President Biden issued an apology for the federal boarding school program. The program sent Native children to assimilation camps where they faced widespread physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, and many died. It’s about time the government acknowledged these atrocities. I hope the apology is followed with concrete support for the many Tribal Nations. An apology is the bare minimum.

L.A. prosecutors recommended resentencing Erik and Lyle Menendez in the 1989 killings of their parents.

An Arizona man was arrested in the three-time shooting of a Democratic National Committee office in suburban Phoenix. He had more than 120 guns and over 250,000 rounds of ammunition in his home, leading law enforcement to believe he may have been planning a mass casualty event.

Seven Civil Rights protesters had their arrest records cleared.