Alex reads a powerful letter from High School 800m Girls National Champion, Ainsley Erzen, published in the Des Moines Register. She calls for those in power to protect women in sports against outside pressure to put them at risk.

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2022/02/03/iowa-girls-sports-ighsau-transgender-policy/6594039001/

In Forbes, an article by Jason Brett reports on the successful test of a CBDC design that can eventually become the U.S. Digital Dollar. The Boston Fed's work with MIT to conduct this test and look to do more in the future.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonbrett/2022/02/07/fed-designs-digital-dollar-that-handles-17-million-transactions-per-second/?sh=345e56021c29

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Positivity Monday!

An article in the New York Post by Dean Balsamini covers how the 86-year-old lifetime Bengals fan, who went viral in a video of him coming to tears after the Bengals AFC Championship victory, had money raised for him to attend this upcoming Super Bowl.

https://nypost.com/2022/02/05/diehard-bengals-fan-james-lipscomb-headed-to-super-bowl-lvi/

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A piece from The Hill by Judy Kurtz reports on Shaquille O'Neal's recent comments where he comes down on vaccine mandates insisting that they're forced.

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/592736-shaquille-oneal-says-people-shouldnt-be-forced-to-get-covid-19

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In a rare moment, we cover two articles. The first article is from CNN by Clare Duffy talking about Amazon raising their price for Prime 17%. The second article is by Adam Cancryn from Politico that covers Joe Biden's plan to continue the pandemic, not downgrade it.

CNN:
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/03/tech/amazon-earnings-q4-2021/index.html

Politico:
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/03/white-house-omicron-next-phase-pandemic-00005033

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An article from The Verge by Justine Calma talks about the EU's "Green" Label grant to nuclear and gas during what they call the "transition" away from fossil fuels.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/2/22914195/eu-nuclear-energy-gas-sustainable-climate-investment

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Whoopi Goldberg knows nothing about the Holocaust and Canadian truckers protest authoritarianism with the Freedom Convoy at Parliament Hill.

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An opinion piece by Mark Hemingway talks about the removal of "Maus" from an 8th grade library and the media storm that followed.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2022/02/01/parental_input_on_education_is_not_book_banning__147121.html

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Welcome to Positivity Monday!

An article in the Buffalo News by Jason Wolf talks about the amazing philanthropic efforts of the Kansas City Chief's fanbase. Now with the New York Giants fanbase included, they have combined to donate at least $479k to Buffalo Bills' QB Josh Allen's Charity.

https://buffalonews.com/sports/bills/chiefs-giants-fans-donate-442k-to-oishei-childrens-hospital-approach-largest-bills-mafia-campaigns/article_c6945a58-807e-11ec-9ce7-7f63cf2e912e.html

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An article from The Canadian Press covers comments from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau the upcoming protest at Parliament Hill featuring a 'Trucker's Convoy' by using key leftist buzzwords.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/trudeau-concerned-trucker-convoy-converging-on-parliament-hill-could-turn-violent-1.5758849

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