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The MoJo Daily newsletter, Monday through Friday. [View in browser]( [Mother Jones Daily Newsletter](     July 15, 2022 It's a Friday in the year 2022 and I've once again found myself anxious with the same low-key paranoia we've all harbored for more than two years. Yep, rising Covid rates: The [sixth wave,]( if you're counting. When everyone, including myself, is just so fed up. The issue arises as I head to a pal's birthday dinner tonight, at a restaurant that bills itself as something between an intimate supper club and a venue to meet strangers. I have some reservations about the place beyond Covid; it sounds a tad too earnest for me. But smack in the middle of another wave, I'm wondering if the BA.5 variant is prompting you to once again adjust plans. Or are we just over this? The mood seems to be a general shrug. But when my kid's second week of daycare was abruptly shut down due to an outbreak—apparently the first time the infant room was forced to close since the start of Covid, wow my luck!—I can't help but feel that any drop in vigilance is going to bite me in the butt. So, I'd love your thoughts. How are you responding to the current wave? Are you internally screaming or meh-ing? Anyway, wish me luck at this dinner. —Inae Oh Advertisement [Mud\WTR, Inc.]( [Top Story] [Top Story]( [How Close to Death Does a Person Have to Be to Qualify for An Abortion Ban Exemption?]( That's the next legal fight brewing between states and the feds. BY MADISON PAULY SPONSORED CONTENT BY Heifer International   Help Families Move from Poverty to Power with Heifer International Heifer International believes in the power of people — the power to overcome, to flourish, to thrive. But when overwhelmed by poverty, this power often seems unattainable. Since 1944, Heifer has provided people with the resources, education and opportunity they need to lift themselves out of poverty — and discover their power. [Learn more here](. [Trending] [Don't fall into the collusion trap on Trump and January 6]( BY DAVID CORN   [Elizabeth Warren slams "foreign influence" at liberal-leaning think tank]( BY DAN FRIEDMAN   [Will you keep fighting for abortion rights in the deep South?]( BY LAURIE BERTRAM ROBERTS   [Climate change is killing the crappy fake lake of my youth]( BY STEPHANIE MENCIMER Advertisement [Mud\WTR, Inc.]( [Special Feature] [Special Feature]( [I went to Lauren Boebert’s restaurant and all I got was a bad cheeseburger and her lies]( The Colorado congresswoman has built her reputation as a certain kind of working-class hero. Her employees tell a different story. BY ABIGAIL WEINBERG [Fiercely Independent] Support from readers allows Mother Jones to do journalism that doesn't just follow the pack. [Donate]( Did you enjoy this newsletter? Help us out by [forwarding]( it to a friend or sharing it on [Facebook]( and [Twitter](. [Mother Jones]( [Donate]( [Subscribe]( This message was sent to {EMAIL}. To change the messages you receive from us, you can [edit your email preferences]( or [unsubscribe from all mailings.]( For advertising opportunities see our online [media kit.]( Were you forwarded this email? [Sign up for Mother Jones' newsletters today.]( [www.MotherJones.com]( PO Box 8539, Big Sandy, TX 75755