It takes 270 Electoral College votes to pick a president; states representing 165 Electoral College votes have already joined the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.
RUMOR? or TRUE?: A proposed 'COVFEFE Act' in Congress would preserve Emperor Trump’s tweets as presidential records. (June 2017)
The creators of the "South Park" TV show say that they'll no longer satirize Donald Trump because he is no longer funny. (Feb 2017)
Netflix now has more subscribers than all the other cable TV providers combined: Netflix has 50.9 million, the others have 48.0 million.
Beginning with Columbine in 1999, more than 135,000 students attending at least 164 primary or secondary schools in the U.S.A. have experienced a shooting on campus.
~~ per story in the Washington Post
People of color purchased 45% of movie tickets in USA in 2015.
The Japanese word for stress is 'stress'.
NEED A JOB? DEPT.
There are 30 openings for machinists at Zimmer Biomet in Warsaw, Indiana.
~~ per story in the Washington Post
There were 13 billionaires on the list when Forbes Magazine debuted their Forbes 400 Richest Americans issue in 1982; today, all 400 are billionaires.
U.S. hiring slowed in March as employers added only 98,000 jobs (while 250,000 jobs per month are needed to keep up with population growth).
HEALTH NEWS DEPT.
Mumps infections in the U.S. spiked from 229 in 2012 to over four thousand in 2016.
Obesity rates have doubled since 1980 in 73 countries, with major blame attributed to exportation of the Western fast food diet.
Nearly half of Americans between 18 and 59 years of age have one of 40 types of H.P.V. (human papilloma virus), with 25% of men and 20% of women having a high-risk (for cancer) strain.
~~ per C.D.C. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
SENATE STUPIDITY DEPT.
On June 22, the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate revealed their written-in-secret 'Trump Doesn't Care' health bill.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said:
"I’ll fight this mean, scary, reckless, shameful, heartless Senate G.O.P. health care bill every way I can."
Sen. Bernie Sanders said:
"Let us be clear and this is not trying to be overly dramatic: Thousands of people will die if the Republican health care bill becomes law."
Barack Obama said:
"Simply put, if there’s a chance [that] you might get sick, get old, or start a family – this bill will do you harm."
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