Coronavirus Updates: 9 out of 10 deaths are now in people 65 or older

Washington Post

Most people dying of the coronavirus are 65 and older, my colleagues Ariana Eunjung Cha and Dan Keating report. While much of our society has moved on from masking, vaccine mandates and other mitigation efforts, older people and those with compromised immune systems remain at elevated risk from the virus.

According to Cha and Keating, people in this age cohort are dying at “roughly two to three times the rate at which people die of the flu.”

“Some epidemiologists and demographers predict the trend of older, sicker and poorer people dying at disproportionate rates will continue, raising hard questions about the trade-offs Americans are making in pursuit of normalcy — and at whose expense,” Cha and Keating write.

The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday it is pulling emergency use authorization for the monoclonal antibody treatment bebtelovimab because “it is not expected to neutralize Omicron subvariants BQ. 1 and BQ. 1.1.,” the agency said in a statement.

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@ProfFeynman
The stupider you are, the smarter you think you are, and vice versa. The ultimate test of your knowledge is your ability to convey it to another.Teach your children how to think, not what to think. If the purpose of education is to score well on a test, we’ve lost sight of the real reason for learning.

#CRYPTO

“fix the money, fix the world”

Fiat is the Ponzi, #Bitcoin is the solution. If you love somebody tell them to buy bitcoin”. #forthekids #fortheBOOMERS @FossGregfoss @BitcoinConfEUR
#bitcoin insurance on the fiat collapse “profit free risk” @FossGregfoss

BCB077_GREG FOSS & JOE CARLASARE: The Bond Debate

They gave Bernanke a Nobel Prize for fixing the paper jam at the Fed’s printing press?? For fuk’s sake!! This is twisted. He started the QE death spiral that we cannot get ourselves out of. Should be in prison…

Just 7% of retirees reported retiring because their savings were sufficient to fund their retirement, according to Goldman Sachs, $GS, Asset Management.

“If you automate a shitty process, you get faster shit” – @JeffBooth
CBDCs are faster Fiat.

ECB also stands for: Everyone Cooks the Books
#btc is the only true ledger.

No. of Americans holding Bitcoin or crypto has more than doubled since 2020 –
Statista Global Consumer Survey

If you’re not pro bitcoin, you have no shot at being the most popular Senator in the country. All northern states with relatively small populations.
Cynthia Lummis (R-WY): 68%
John Barrasso (R-WY): 65%
Bernie Sanders (I-VT): 65%
John Hoeven (R-ND): 63%
John Thune (R-SD): 62%
*Approval among registered voters in each state. Surveys conducted July 1- Sept. 30, 2022

This is the #SeditionCaucus – the 8 Senators who voted tonight to throw-out the will of the American People.
@tedcruz
@HawleyMO
@SenHydeSmith
@SenatorMarshall
@SenJohnKennedy
@TTuberville
@SenRickScott
@CynthiaMLummis

A conspiracy at the Federal Reserve

America’s Oldest Bank, BNY Mellon, Will Hold That Crypto Now
Founded by Alexander Hamilton, BNY Mellon is the first large U.S. bank to safeguard digital assets alongside traditional investments. The bank will store private keys and provide bookkeeping services equivalent to those offered to fund managers in traditional assets.
BNY Mellon is 238 years old, possesses over $43 trillion in assets under custody or administration worldwide and, in 2021, formed an enterprise Digital Assets Unit to develop digital assets solutions and a platform to bridge digital and traditional asset custody. The bank was granted approval for crypto custody earlier this fall from the New York financial’s authority.
“With Digital Asset Custody, we continue our journey of trust and innovation into the evolving digital assets space, while embracing leading technology and collaborating with fintechs,” said Roman Regelman, CEO of securities services and digital at BNY Mellon.

Did Caitlin Long  just hint at a conspiracy at the Federal Reserve?

Watch what they do not what they say. #Bitcoin

Billionaire banking heir Matthew Mellon died at 54 in 2018 Mellon comes from the Mellon and Drexel families of Bank of New York Mellon and Drexel Burnham Lambert.
According to Mellon’s Linked In account and documents of the SEC, he attended the Wharton School and later worked in fashion, telecommunications and finance, most recently as an adviser for the digital currency company Ripple Labs.
The Fed has been intentionally dubious, while simultaneously securing their footing. Clarity comes once they’re positioned to take the lion’s share. Table scraps for Caitlin and the real innovators.

Bitcoin custody services for me but not for thee!

A SPOT ETF WOULD ALLOW CITIZENS TO BUY AND SELL BITCOIN AS AN ACTUAL MARKET
GARY GENSLER WON’T ALLOW IT
BECAUSE A FUTURES MARKET ETF ALLOWS EVERY BUSINESS AND THE GOVERNMENT TO PERVERT AND MANIPULATE AND RIG THE BTC PRICE INTO OBLIVION.

Grayscale filed a proposal to convert the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust into a spot Bitcoin ETF.

SEC is harming investors, says Grayscale.
The SEC denied Grayscale’s application for a spot Bitcoin ETF.
Grayscale filed its opening legal brief on October 11 at the US Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia Circuit. “The Commission has violated the APA’s most basic requirements by failing to justify its vastly different treatment of Bitcoin Futures ETPs and spot Bitcoin ETPs,” Grayscale added.

Excited to share “Validity Rollups on Bitcoin”, a report I wrote during my participation in @HRF’s ZK-Rollup Research Fellowship. You can find the full report here: https://bitcoinrollups.org
It has been over a decade since bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto first considered how zero knowledge (zk) proof technology could be used to improve upon the electronic cash protocol he invented.

Sequoia Capital, Binance Stand By Equity Funding for Musk’s Twitter Takeover
Makes sense that the VCs & crypto players are still all in on the Elon-Twitter deal, they have that capital on hand. The looming question has always been the banks’ debt financing & their increased cost to finance the deal.

Long-term UK Gilt bonds have posted a total return of -52.3% since Dec 2021. An entire decade of gains wiped out.

A group of Democrats led by @SenWarren want to know how bitcoin mining is affecting the Texas grid and its energy consumers.

Vented Methane Bitcoin Mining

#BLACKROCK

Boston Dynamics is pledging that their designs won’t be used for war.
Airdropped armed robot dog tested in China
The future has arrived and it doesn’t look fun. You don’t shoot an armoured robot dog with bullets, use expanding foam or glue grenades.

Meanwhile, China is perfectly copying their designs and… using them for war.
Blackrock is beholden to China. When the money is bullshit, it is only a matter of time before the mainstream media is flooded with bullshit narratives designed to defend the entrenched interests of “the authorities” Clip from (YouTube banned!) episode WiM210 with former Blackrock portfolio manager Ed Dowd

ESG And GOP Don’t Mix https://globaleconomicreport.com/esg-and-gop-dont-mix/
US Republican Treasurers withdraw $1 Billion from BlackRock Funds in opposition to its position on prioritizing environmental, social, and governance (#ESG) in investment decisions. #KochNetwork’s #ALEC is leading the boycott. After lobbying Congress for pro-China policies, Blackrock became the first foreign company to be preliminarily approved to sell mutual funds in China. That’s not a coincidence.
https://twitter.com/Julija9j/status/1577012374674214912

#NFTs

Wait Look  It’s Captain Hindsight: Selling pet rocks is ok. But not with promise of riches.

RIP $APE YUGA labs Bored-Ape Creator Faces Sec Probe Over Unregistered Offerings
He didn’t register monkey jpgs with the SEC
Next up, years of Congressional hearings where the Bored Ape founders slow walk explain to geriatrics in futility what an NFT is. The sooner the ape floor hits 0 the sooner the bear market ends. In other unrelated news Opensea CFO just literally sold his ape and quit his job 2 days ago.

I am not concerned by anything I see in the markets – Janet Yellen, US Treasury Secretary

PRESIDENT BIDEN:  I don’t think there will be a recession.
ECB President says Europe is not in recession. Delusion is a powerful force…

#COVID

#LongCovid Dr Elisa Perego @elisaperego78
The cardiovascular and thrombotic events, as well as the sudden deaths, which happen after SARS-CoV-2 infection, don’t come from the outer space. We’ve known it since 2020 and 2021: covid comes with prolonged endothelial, vascular, coagulation etc. abnormalities

White House COVID Coordinator @AshishKJha46 is now discussing COVID—highlighting there are new strains popping up, he says, including those that can “evade” existing treatments. ➡️Anyone paying attention knows the looming crisis. Please get the new bivalent #Booster!
The majority of the population, unquestionably accepting comforting lies about COVID being no big deal. 🙊🙉🙈 Now they’re plague rats. ☣️ But soon they’ll have #LongCovid brain, heart, immune damage. 😵🤕♿ This would’ve been way easier: 😷
Scientists pan analysis Florida’s surgeon general posted on COVID-19 vaccines

#POLITICS

Stream the federal district court hearing that could decide whether @MOHELA‘s lawyer, right-wing @AGEricSchmitt, can block 40 million people from receiving student debt relief. #cancelstudentdebt #cancelMOHELA

“Israel literally owned Congress.”
“Most US Jews don’t love Israel.”
“Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.”
––Trump

A former Oath Keeper, Terry Cummings, is testifying. He’s a retired member of the Air National Guard. He went to DC on Jan 6. He brought his AR-15 assault rifle and left it in the Virginia hotel, together with “more weapons/firearms than I had ever seen in one place since being in the military.”

In addition to mandating the release of the last 10 years of tax returns, we must require all future candidates for President (and Congress) to be eligible to obtain a security clearance. The fact that people are subjected to more rigorous background checks at McDonalds is absurd.

Almost immediately after Musk’s pro-Russia tweets (&Musk’s alleged chat w/Putin),
– Ukrainian troops reported that the Starlink devices from Musk’s company started experiencing “glitches”
– Congress MUST investigate whether these glitches
-were sabotage
-cost Ukrainians their lives

@democracynow A hacker group called Guacamaya leaked millions of documents that show the collusion of high-level Mexican military officials with drug cartels. The leak “reveals something that we really suspected was happening,” says journalist Luis Chaparro (@LuisKuryaki).

Joe Biden @JoeBiden
United States government official
158 House Republicans have signed on to a Republican budget that would cut Social Security and Medicare.
I have a different idea: I’ll protect Social Security and Medicare and make them stronger.

President Biden scores a MAJOR win and announces that Honda and LG Energy Solution of South Korea will build a $3.5 billion battery factory in Ohio that will provide 2,200 new good-paying jobs.

When @POTUS took office, Hispanic unemployment was 8.6%.
Today, it is 3.8%, the lowest ever on record.

US Warns Hong Kong over Harbouring Russian Superyacht
How Sanctioned Russian Billionaires Are Trying To Loosen Europe’s Grip On Their Superyachts
Seems Forbes are watching the channel, everything in this article was reported by us, some of it as long ago as August.

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COVID TESTS

HOW TO DO IT CORRECTLY SEE PICTURES
https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1574335412067352577

Swabbing correctly for #COVID19 Most are not.<
1) VERY POS—back of throat, cheeks, roof of mouth & both nasopharyngeal w swab held in place for 10s.
2) NEG—outside portion of nostrils
3) NEG—anterior nares/nasal septum
4) FAINT POS—throat & cheeks
5) Repeated #1

HEALTH

Johnson & Johnson is being sued for billions of dollars for traces of Asbestos found in their Talc Baby Powder; which has led to 40,000+ lawsuits from victims who allegedly contracted Ovarian Cancer & Mesothelioma from J&J’s product.
Here’s what J&J is doing to avoid paying:
Johnson & Johnson shifted all litigation to a shell company called LTL, LLC — then declared bankruptcy. But kept all the assets. Now, cancer patients are dying as they wait for their day in court.

 BTC

Idiot Jeff Bezos’ recreational space trip cost $2,540,000 per minute, and we’re still arguing about #BTC #POW
>El Salvador buys back its debt. British Pound plummets to record low. Maybe President Bukele can now offer some advice to the Bank of England… everything according to the plan… they are heading towards CBDC. First create the problem, then propose the solution to it. Pauperization of sociaty in progress…
Advice: Make BTC legal Tender
Pity the world governments won’t take his advise but then again most politicians are in a cozy Cartel with the Bankers.

JP Morgan: “Bitcoin is worse than tulip bulbs. It won’t end well.”
Also JP Morgan: “We will be offering a bitcoin fund to our clients.”

Jason Lowery ~ I can say that I expect 1 BTC to equal $1M in the 2030’s, but I have no idea what that means in purchasing power.

US Court Authorizes IRS to Issue Summons for Crypto Investors’ Records

LIZ CHENEY / MARK MEADOWS

GARLAND WILL USE THE EVIDENCE FROM THE JAN 6 INSURRECTION TO INDICT TRUMP!!!!

Liz Cheney just said the J6 Committee received the missing Secret Service texts and they prove that some agents LIED to the Committee.

Liz Cheney told the Texas Tribune Fest that if Trump is the Republican nominee in 2024, she won’t be a Republican.

Denver Riggleman says that text messages turned over to the January 6th committee by former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows provide “irrefutable” proof of a plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

REAL TIME THOUGHTS FROM TEXTS FROM MARK MEADOWS SHOWS THE PLOT TO OVERTHROW THE ELECTION
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/denver-riggleman-60-minutes-2022-09-25/
5:20 START LISTENING

Meadows’ text trove revealed a “roadmap to an attempted coup”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/denver-riggleman-january-6-committee-60-minutes-2022-09-25/

“The party told you to reject all evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” 1984, George Orwell

Text messages turned over to the January 6 Committee paint a picture of a full blown conspiracy to overturn the 2020 Presidential election & Mark Meadows was at the center. It’s curious that he just handed them over to the committee though. #DenverRiggleman #GinniThomas
Ginni Thomas, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, texted links tied to QAnon to ex-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, according to former Jan. 6th staffer Denver Riggleman. Riggleman says her actions “should be an eye opener for everybody”

Waldron’s reach extended into the highest levels of the White House and the extent to which Meadows was kept abreast of plans for accessing voting machines, a topic sources tell CNN, and court documents suggest, is of particular interest to state and federal prosecutors probing efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
https://crooksandliars.com/2022/09/mark-meadows-was-updated-coup-plot-access

Yeah, Mark Meadows has probably flipped. He’s in way too deep to get out without turning on the Mango Mussolini. Trump’s chief of staff was kept abreast of plans for accessing voting machines, a topic of particular interest to state and federal prosecutors probing efforts to overturn the 2020 election. https://crooksandliars.com/2022/09/mark-meadows-was-updated-coup-plot-access

A January 6 insurrectionist who received call from the White House has been identified as Anton Lunyk (on the right below). The call was not mentioned in Lunyk’s sentencing or any court documents and he denies connections, of course.
the call came from 202-456-1414, the publicly available number for the White House.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/politics/mysterious-phone-call-white-house-rioter-jan-6/index.html

The cell phone belonged to a 26-year-old Trump supporter from Brooklyn, New York named Anton Lunyk, who traveled to Washington DC the night before January 6 with two friends, Francis Connor and Antonio Ferrigno, according to multiple sources familiar with the investigation, as well as a search of public records.

Rudy Giuliani says everyone close to Trump is ignored, vilified, unemployed, and being thrown in prison.

View From The Insurrection: 1/6/21 *For Journalism Purposes Only*
https://vimeo.com/654284808/774cca3ef6

GOP Senator Ileana Garcia wants to get rid of your right to privacy. This implicates dozens of rights including your right to an abortion, right to contraception, and the right to same-sex marriage.

On Friday afternoon, all University of Idaho employees were informed that any discussion about abortion or birth control that was not completely neutral could result in immediate dismissal, a permanent ban from working for the State of Idaho, a felony charge and fines.

RUSSIAN & ITALIAN FASCISTS

Russian men running for the hills while Iranian women call for the death of the dictator is the most profound contrast.

Daily reminder that the leader of the AMERICAN republican party is under investigation for espionage.

Exit polls show that the first avowed fascist since Mussolini will be the next prime minister of Italy; the apparent victory of Giorgia Meloni, 45, is sending shockwaves across Europe tonight

The new Right Wing Italian Prime Minister
https://twitter.com/aginnt/status/1574267766269353984

Steve Bannon and the New Assolini

Robert Reich ~ The underlying problem is not wage-price inflation. It’s profit-price inflation. The Fed’s rate hikes will hurt average workers by slowing the economy — making it harder for workers to get wage increases and causing many to lose their jobs.

Senator Rick Scott proposes raising taxes on 50% of Americans and wants to END Social Security & Medicare if GOP regain control of CONGRESS! Senator Rick Scott is a SHAMELESS disgrace.😡
We ALL need to vote blue to SAVE Social Security!

BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL, K12 COVID, The Big Read

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BIPARTISAN INFRASTRUCTURE BILL

On November 5, Congress passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, a once-in-a-generation investment in the nation’s physical infrastructure and competitiveness.  This bipartisan legislation will rebuild roads, bridges, ports, and rail; expand access to clean drinking water; help ensure every American has access to high-speed internet; address the climate crisis and advance environmental justice; and support communities that too often have been left behind.  Combined with President Biden’s Build Back Better framework, it will also add, on average, 1.5 million jobs per year for the next 10 years (fact sheets 1 and 2).

Among the highlights for education:

  • Clean water.  Currently, up to 10 million households and 400,000 schools and child care centers lack safe drinking water.  The legislation invests $55 billion to expand access to clean drinking water, eliminate the nation’s lead service lines, and help clean up the toxic chemical PFAS.
  • Broadband access and affordability.  Reliable, high-speed internet is necessary for Americans to do their jobs, participate equally in school learning, and stay connected.  Yet, more than 30 million Americans live in areas where there is no broadband infrastructure that provides minimally acceptable speeds.  The legislation invests $65 billion to help ensure that every American has access to reliable, high-speed internet through an investment in broadband infrastructure deployment.  It will also help lower prices for service and help close the digital divide.
  • Clean school buses.  The legislation will deliver thousands of electric school buses, replacing the yellow school bus fleet.  Investments in zero- and low-emission public transit will drive demand for American-made batteries and vehicles, creating jobs and supporting domestic manufacturing.  It will also help the more than 25 million children and thousands of bus drivers who breathe polluted air on bus rides.  Air pollution is linked to asthma and other health issues that cause students to miss school.

PROMOTE DEMOCRACY AND PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION

Destroying Democracy Is Central to the Privatization of Public Goods

COVID

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially recommends children ages 5- to 11-years-old be vaccinated against COVID-19 with the Pfizer-BioNtech pediatric vaccine.  This recommendation comes after months of rigorous review and the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to authorize emergency use of the vaccine for children.  The COVID-19 vaccine is the best way to keep students safe and protect them against COVID-19, including the delta variant.

Starting this week, the pediatric vaccination program is fully up and running, and there are approximately 20,000 convenient locations where families can go to get their children vaccinated, with more sites coming online in the weeks ahead.  The Departments of Education and Health and Human Services are supporting schools and communities with setting up vaccine solutions that work best for families, including hosting thousands of school-located vaccine clinics; matching school districts with local pharmacy providers; and supporting collaboration between schools, families, and local pediatricians and children’s hospitals.  A joint letter from the agencies delineates three requests of school communities and shares information and resources to help fulfill them.  (Note: First Lady Dr. Jill Biden recently visited a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia — which was the first school to administer the polio vaccine in 1954.)

The Department of Education and CDC are also providing resources to states and schools for testing and other mitigation efforts.  A partnership among the agencies and the Rockefeller Foundation specifically aims to accelerate school-based screening testing for students and staff.  It is making staff available to state health departments to coordinate, execute, and expand school-based testing, contact tracing/case investigation, and related public health activities; holding weekly “office hours” to help schools set up and sustain testing programs; and releasing guidance for districts on using American Rescue Plan (ARP) funding to provide incentives to families to participate in testing programs.

Meanwhile, the Department, in collaboration with CDC, launched a COVID-19 data dashboard to help the public track the impact of COVID-19 on K-12 schools.  The dashboard aggregates — in one location — data on pediatric cases, youth vaccination rates, and schools operating in-person, remotely, or a hybrid of those two.  Data will be updated each week, and, where possible, the information is presented geographically, so that educators and families can understand the impact within their communities.

  1. Coronavirus and the Heart | Harvard Medical School
  2. Like Venom Coursing Through the Body: Mechanism Driving COVID-19 Mortality Identified
  3. Creating dangerous viruses in the lab is a bad way to guard against future pandemics
  4. Study of 6.2 Million Patients Reveals No Serious Health Effects Linked to mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines
  5. FDA approves pill with sensor that digitally tracks if patients have ingested their medication

Biden administration orders federal agencies to fix hundreds of cyber flaws
The federal government has been told to go on a security patching spree. Thanks to a new CISA directive out this week, agencies have six months to fix hundreds of bugs across their networks — and just two weeks to fix bugs from 2021. Each agency patches their own stuff, so some agencies may have fewer bugs to fix than others. The full catalog of vulnerabilities are here (which might also be useful for folks in the private sector).

COVID-19 conspiracy theories thrive on social media platforms, EXCEPT Twitter

#DELETEFACEBOOK
500 doctors demand Facebook disclose data about COVID misinformation

Facebook spent $23.4 million in 2019 on Zuckerberg’s security, private air travel Facebook released its latest regulatory filing that shows executive compensation for 2019.#DeleteFacebook

MILITARY  – NO SHOT NO PROMOTION 

WON’T ALLOW YOU TO REUP CAUSE YOU’LL BE OUT.

Navy prepares to begin discharging sailors who refuse COVID-19 vaccine

Oklahoma Guard goes rogue, rejects COVID vaccine mandate after sudden change of command

U.S. Cyber Command, the NSA sister agency that carries out offensive cyber operations, hijacked the servers of the REvil ransomware group earlier this year. But the compromise wasn’t detected until Cybercom blocked its website traffic a month ago. The operation wasn’t a hack or a takedown but crucially “deprived the criminals of the platform they used to extort their victims.” Well that’s one way to make sure they don’t get paid. One of the group’s leaders confirmed domains were “hijacked from REvil,” and that the authorities were looking for them. “Good luck everyone, I’m off,” the hacker wrote. REvil was behind the ransomware attacks on JBS, Travelex, and Kaseya. The AP has a detailed interview with deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco, who said following the U.S.-Russia tensions over cyberattacks that the U.S. has “not seen a material change in the landscape.”
https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/18/revil-ransomware-group-goes-dark-after-its-tor-sites-were-hijacked/

AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN

Last week, the Department announced approval of two more American Rescue Plan (ARP) Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund state plans — California and Colorado — and distributed remaining ARP ESSER funding to those jurisdictions.  The plans detail how states are using and intend to use ARP ESSER funds to safely reopen and sustain the operations of schools and classrooms and address the essential needs of students, including by equitably expanding educational opportunities for students disproportionately impacted by the pandemic.  Earlier this year, the agency distributed two-thirds of ARP ESSER funding, or $81 billion, to all 50 states and the District of Columbia.  The remaining funding is being made available to states once plans are approved.  To date, 46 plans have been approved (see state-by-state press releases and highlights online).

THE BIG READ

The National Endowment for the Arts’ (NEA) The Big Read, established in 2016, supports Americans reading and discussing a single book in their communities.  Local governments, libraries, school districts, colleges and universities, and non-profit organizations are encouraged to apply for one of an estimated 75 grants to be awarded for programming occurring between September 2022 and June 2023.  Besides the grant, communities will receive resources, including reader’s guides, teacher’s guides, and audio guides featuring commentary from artists, educators, and public figures, and publicity materials.

For this cycle, communities will choose from 15 titles:

  • The Bear(novel) by Andrew Krivak
  • The Best We Could Do(graphic memoir) by Thi Bui
  • Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?(graphic memoir) by Roz Chast
  • Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude(poetry) by Ross Gay
  • Circe(novel) by Madeline Miller
  • The Cold Millions(novel) by Jess Walter
  • Deaf Republic(poetry) by Ilya Kaminsky
  • Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth(memoir) by Sarah Smarsh
  • Homegoing(novel) by Yaa Gyasi
  • Infinite Country(novel) by Patricia Engel
  • Interior Chinatown(novel) by Charles Yu
  • Nothing to See Here(novel) by Kevin Wilson
  • Postcolonial Love Poem(poetry) by Natalie Diaz
  • Sitting Pretty: The View from my Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body(memoir-in-essays) by Rebekah Taussig
  • There, There(novel) by Tommy Orange

The application deadline is January 26, 2022.

JOB FREE EDUCATION

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