In a blow to the climate movement, US power companies are ramping up their coal consumption due to surging natural gas prices.

DENNIS PRAGER (HOST): I'm broadcasting from my home because I'm not going into the station as I have COVID. I was tested positive last week and I have been steadily improving. At no point was I in danger of hospitalization. I have received monoclonal antibodies, that's Regeneron. I have, of course, for years -- a year and a half, not years -- been taking hydroxychloroquine from the beginning, with zinc. I've taken z-pack, azithromycin, as the Zelenko protocol would have it. I have taken ivermectin. I have done what a person should do if one is not going to get vaccinated. It is infinitely preferable to have natural immunity than vaccine immunity and that is what I have hoped for the entire time. Hence, so, I have engaged with strangers, constantly hugging them, taking photos with them knowing that I was making myself very susceptible to getting COVID. Which is, indeed, as bizarre as it sounded, what I wanted, in the hope I would achieve natural immunity and be taken care of by therapeutics. That is exactly what has happened. It should have happened to the great majority of Americans. The number of deaths in this country owing to COVID is a scandal which one day will be clear to Americans. The opposition of therapeutics on the part of the CDC is owing to the corruption of the belief in the value of vaccine and only vaccine. Whether it is because of all the money that goes into the CDC from the pharmaceutical companies or a simple unquestioning faith in vaccines, or both, only God knows. So, I have walked the walk on this matter and here I am.

"More of Guam's public officials have become, by some measures, richer during the pandemic...." Not massively rich, mind you, because it's Guam. But this is probably true across the country....

Bates College administration pressured campus newspaper The Bates Student on Wednesday to remove an article from its website featuring interviews with five Bates employees trying to unionize adjunct faculty and non-managerial staff. The campus workers announced their attempt to unionize on October 5, citing low pay, poor working conditions, and declining staff retention. If the union drive succeeds, approximately 650 faculty and non-managerial staff will become a chapter of the Maine Service Employees Association-SEIU Local 1989, forming the Bates Educators and Staff Organization, or BESO. The students’ original October 13 article detailed dire working conditions during the more severe months of the pandemic, Bates administration’s use of intimidation tactics, and the benefits of unionization. According to staff members at The Bates Student, the paper’s managing editor, who wrote the story, took her article down at the behest of Bates’s media relations specialist Mary Pols and the administration the same day it was posted. The following day, an edited version of the story was published to The Bates Student’s website. In the new story, pro-union information and worker quotes were replaced with anti-union talking points and comments from Bates administration. The new version of the story highlighted that the “college has chosen not to remain silent on the unionization efforts” and quoted an email from college President Clayton Spencer that read: “No one can make an informed choice if they hear only one side of a story. That is simply not how deliberative processes or democratic elections work, particularly at an educational institution.” Spencer’s comment was featured online as the article’s pull quote.

Last week, Valve updated the Steam rules to prohibit games based on blockchain that issue cryptocurrency or NFTs, or let users exchange them. It was an unusually proactive move for a company that typically takes an "anything goes" approach to what happens on the platform, and then reverses course only when people point out the entirely foreseeable problems or it gets yelled at loudly enough. As much as I would like to give Valve credit here for assessing the downsides of blockchain technology and refusing to contribute to an environmentally disastrous speculative bubble with no compelling use case in games -- which is our stated reason for limiting coverage of blockchain start-ups -- it doesn't seem like that has anything to do with Valve's reasoning. Valve hasn't yet explained why it's banning NFT and blockchain games, but a developer of one such game has given us some indication. "Steam's point of view is that items have value and they don't allow items that can have real-world value on their platform," Age of Rust developer SpacePirate Games said on its Twitter account last week as it spread news of the blockchain ban.

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“The only person who gets fired is the Black person who was quiet the entire time,” the employee responded.

Thousands marched on Friday to highlight continuing outages, rising bills, and concerns about the privatization of the power grid on the island.

Colin Powell, the first Black US secretary of state whose leadership in several Republican administrations helped shape American foreign policy in the last years of the 20th century and the early years of the 21st, has died from complications from Covid-19, his family said on Facebook. He was 84.

Tens of thousands of wooden stakes poking up from British Columbia's shoreline have smashed a long-held stereotype of Canada's First Nation people.

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A half-century of neglecting fragilities in production and a confluence of disruptions have brought us to this point. At least once over the past 18 months, when you tried to order something online or visited a retail store, you have probably experienced something Americans are not supposed to feel: scarcity. Shortages of all kinds have lingered and even worsened over the past 18 months, in every product imaginable: Hot tubs, automobiles, books, fertilizer, plastic pipettes for labs, paint, semiconductor chips, place mats, french fries at Burger King, emergency supplies for disaster aid, aluminum cans, and yes, once again, toilet paper. One might have assumed that, after the worst lockdowns of 2020 ended, these disruptions would subside, and supply chains would ramp back up to their usual pace. And one could further have assumed that supply would catch up to spikes in demand once mass vaccinations began. But it takes time to untangle something that becomes so tangled, time for a shortage on one side of the world to appear on the other. There are manufacturing plants and ships and ports and containers and airplanes and trucks and trains and warehouses and retail locations that all have to be managed just right, and just in time, under our current nothing-in-excess style of how we get only as many goods as we need in any one location. The supply snarls we’re seeing today are a function of those previous lockdowns, misaligned inventories of things like shipping containers, continued COVID protections that extend manufacturing and shipping delays, and extreme weather. But more important than all of these is the state of global production. With its thin margins and consolidated structure, the globalization of production magnifies disruptions of any type. This is why getting what you desire when you desire it is no longer a certain bet. And we haven’t even really begun to grapple with this problem, despite a cataclysmic pandemic that should have shaken us into shape.

"We need immigration in our industry to continue to have enough team members," Domino's Pizza CEO Ritch Allison told CNBC's Jim Cramer.

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The covid patient in Room 107 was bleeding internally and near death. So Robin Pressley, transfer coordinator at Stillwater Medical Center, was working fast to try to find an ICU bed at a larger hospital for Johnnie Novotny, a 69-year-old retired gas plant operator who had developed a hematoma and needed more specialized care than doctors at this modest rural hospital could provide. Pressley knew that other hospitals in the region were already choked with covid patients due to a summer surge driven by the highly infectious delta variant and the state’s large numbers of unvaccinated residents, like Novotny. But she also knew that Novotny’s life depended on her success. After 34 years in nursing, Pressley had developed ways to deal with the stress of her job. So, on this August day, she loaded her diffuser with calming lemongrass oil and pulled out a piece of putty she uses as a makeshift stress ball and began squeezing. Then she fired up her two computer screens, picked up one of her three phones, and started dialing.