PLATT-Curated News

Liberals Begin to Revolt against ‘Rock Stupid’ Homelessness Policies 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/denver-voters-reject-homeless-referendum/

GENERAL INTEREST
An Ode to Being Old
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/an-ode-to-being-old?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Tree Older Than Christianity Discovered in North Carolina
https://weather.com/science/nature/video/tree-older-than-christianity-discovered-in-north-carolina?pl=pl-the-latest

‘Empire’ Season 6 Will Be the Show’s Last
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/arts/television/empire-canceled-season-6.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

SNUBBED: Queen Declines To Invite London Mayor Sadiq Khan To Trump State Dinner
https://www.dailywire.com/news/47091/snubbed-queen-declines-invite-london-mayor-sadiq-emily-zanotti?utm_source=cnemail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=051319-news&utm_campaign=position1

Why Don't You Support Israel?
https://www.prageru.com/video/why-dont-you-support-israel/

The Whiskey Collection
https://www.originalgrain.com/pages/whiskey-barrel-behind-the-grain?utm_source=power_inbox&utm_medium=native&utm_campaign=whiskey&pi_adid=462757&pi_clickid=78781838ad5a43898a5ea70a1029c189&pi_creativeid=498918

PHYSICAL HEALTH
Algorithm similar to the ones used by Netflix and Spotify to recommend content can predict who will DIE or have a heart attack with 90% accuracy
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7022667/Netflix-style-algorithm-detect-DIE-heart-attack-90-cent-accuracy.html

WHO AFRO - Outbreaks and Emergencies Bulletin - Week 19/2019
http://newsletters.afro.who.int/outbreaks-weekly-bulletin/97piml770j31hj3oiwqrmm?email=true&a=11&p=54998913

Life-Saving Volunteerism 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0519/united_hatzalah.php3

Early Signs of Multiple Sclerosis and Treatments You Need to Know
https://stuffanswered.com/early-signs-of-multiple-sclerosis-and-treatments-you-need-to-know/?utm_campaign=us-ob-ms-web&imp=47118&utm_medium=paid&utm_source=outbrain&campaign_id=0033466e1f71da72dba3896fb014c7e496&placement=00929583c2306196c8b1a5ccf2c79e6621&utm_content=The+Early+Signs+of+Multiple+Sclerosis&adid=00973f016fda85bee976109b48a7cf46cf&utm_term=000e626f3b893a7dea7c64f969647165c8&kwmt=MSN+US+%28PREMIUM+Header+Bidding%29&scn=MSN+-+US+-+Edge+Homepage+-+PREMIUM+Header+Bidding&ts=20190514015349

MENTAL HEALTH
Scientists Find Another Kind of Dementia 
https://www.newser.com/story/275093/it-looks-like-alzheimers-but-its-something-else.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=att&utm_campaign=rss_science_syn

PARENTING
When patience isn't practical 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0519/when_patience_not_practical.php3

PROGRESSIVES ... OH MY
LOL: Alyssa Milano Didn't Expect Pro-Lifers To Run With Her 'Sex Strike'
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/05/12/alyssa-milano-wants-pro-choicers-go-on-a-sex-strike-but-her-suggestion-backfire-n2546192?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=05/13/2019&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

Female Trans Powerlifter Stripped Of Women's Championship Titles
https://www.dailywire.com/news/47094/female-trans-powerlifter-stripped-womens-emily-zanotti?utm_medium=email&utm_content=051319-news&utm_campaign=position1



HUMOR
The News in Zingers 
http://jewishworldreview.com/0519/hamilton.php3

FINANCIAL
Trump’s policies are doing the exact opposite of what Democrats warned 
https://nypost.com/2019/05/12/trumps-policies-are-doing-the-exact-opposite-of-what-democrats-warned/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Tax Revenue Keeps Rising
See the Wall Street Journal article, below.

BUSINESS
Nike Told Me to Dream Crazy, Until I Wanted a Baby
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/12/opinion/nike-maternity-leave.html

Beware the ‘fix’ that Facebook wants 
https://nypost.com/2019/05/12/beware-the-fix-that-facebook-wants/?utm_campaign=iosapp&utm_source=mail_app

Amazon offers staff $10,000 to quit their warehouse jobs and help start courier businesses that can deliver the company's packages faster
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7023007/Amazon-employees-Well-pay-quit-haul-packages.html

EDUCATION
Why Joe Biden Should Not Apologize for His Opposition to Busing 
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/05/joe-biden-opposition-busing-1970s/

HISTORY
They Sided With Hitler: CNN Host Notes An Important Fact Omitted From Rashida Tlaib's Holocaust Remarks
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/05/13/cnn-pounces-john-king-fact-checks-rashida-tlaib-over-holocaust-comments-n2546246?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=&bcid=3cb4e56ddeac8885c78e874bb1d8f1a4&recip=27077809

ENERGY
Three Mile Island Nuclear Plant to Shut Down
https://weather.com/news/trending/video/three-mile-island-nuclear-plant-to-shut-down?pl=pl-the-latest

TECHNOLOGY
Swarms of automated drones controlled by AI are set to patrol Europe's borders using powerful sensors to detect threats and criminal activity under EU plan
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-7022589/Swarms-automated-drones-controlled-AI-patrol-Europes-borders-using-powerful-sensors.html

DEFENSE
Navy works on 'breakthrough' new attack submarine for 2030s
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/navy-works-on-breakthrough-new-attack-submarine-for-2030s

LAW AND ORDER
Armed gang posed as single women on Tinder to lure men — then allegedly beat and robbed them at gunpoint 
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/armed-gang-posed-as-single-women-on-tinder-to-lure-men-then-allegedly-beat-and-robbed-them-at-gunpoint-2019-05-13

BIG BROTHER
Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0519/alexa_eavesdropping.php3

Outsmarted 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0519/morrow051319.php3

MIDDLE EAST
Four ships 'sabotaged' in the Gulf of Oman amid tensions
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-48245204
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which you can never afford to lose – with the discipline to confront
the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be."
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FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL  (without permission)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tax-revenue-keeps-rising-11557691166?emailToken=74490a54c3ece0d9f5caae2477119d1a55Oo5F8pwiHXSDZ2TzHRf+3BIfI3jV8YJ7L4gqJRUYK51YTrq0XQHxaNg7xoZEr25WSe3SElQfTwlR6kuNrCDw%3D%3D&reflink=article_email_share

Tax Revenue Keeps Rising

The federal deficit is increasing, and the reason is spending.

By

The Editorial Board

May 12, 2019 3:59 p.m. ET

Forms from the Internal Revenue Service for 2018 federal tax return. Photo: Keith Srakocic/Associated Press

You wouldn’t know it from the press coverage, but there’s some modest good news about the federal budget. The deficit is rising, but not as much as feared because tax revenues are increasing due to faster economic growth.