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Among the evening network newscasts‚ ABC News continues its unparalleled run as the most stridently and shamelessly pro-Biden. Tonight’s report on the latest student loan handout might as well have come from the White House’s comms shop. Watch the report in its entirety as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Wednesday‚ February 21st‚ 2024: DAVID MUIR: The other major headline of the White House today involves the president canceling $1.2 billion in student loan debt‚ more than 150‚000 student borrowers. This was a campaign promise‚ of course‚ and he continues to push forward on this. MARY BRUCE: He does‚ David. And starting today‚ 153‚000 student borrowers will be receiving an email from President Biden‚ telling them that their student loans are being forgiven- wiping out $1.2 billion in loans. Now‚ to qualify‚ you must be enrolled in the president's signature repayment plan‚ and have a low original balance‚ less than $12‚000. And have been making payments for at least ten years. Now‚ this is a far cry from what the president initially promised‚ but after the Supreme Court struck down his initial plan last year‚ the president is well aware that voters and Americans are feeling frustrated and he wants to show that he is still trying to fulfill this pledge‚ David.  David: All right‚ Mary Bruce with us tonight as well on the breaking headlines. Mary‚ thank you.  Seriously‚ this might as well have come from the White House’s comms shop‚ or even Obamabro podcast colloquy.  David Muir might as well have kicked over to Mary Bruce‚ known around these parts as the Biden administration’s chief apple polisher‚ by saying “Mission Accomplished”‚ or “Promise Kept”. In fact‚ I wouldn’t be shocked if portions of this report end up making it into a Biden campaign ad. It’s that egregious.  “He continues to push forward on this”‚ says Muir. Bruce concurs with this laughably transparent framing of Biden as a strong executive. Then‚ after Bruce recites some of the terms and conditions of this latest bailout‚ she moves to reassure the base that the president is “still trying to fulfill this pledge”‚ despite being struck down by the mean old Supreme Court. Above all else is the instinct to Protect The Precious against attacks from conservatives. What we’ve just witnessed is sheer pro-administration propaganda disguised‚ not even cleverly or discreetly‚ as news.  

The remains of San Geminiano‚ the “vanished church” that moved around Piazza San Marco in Venice for centuries before its final destruction in 1807‚ have been discovered under the iconic main square. So far archaeologists have discovered pieces of the medieval pavements and walls and a brick tomb containing the skeletal remains of seven people. The tomb dates to the 7th or 8th century‚ predating construction of Piazza San Marco itself. Tradition has it that the first San Geminiano church was built by order of the Byzantine general Narses in the mid-6th century A.D. in appreciation of Venice’s contributions to his reconquest of Ravenna. Saint Mark the Evangelist wasn’t even the patron of Venice then (Saint Theodore was)‚ so there was no Piazza San Marco. For that matter‚ there weren’t even any doges until the 8th century‚ and it was only in the 9th century‚ after the relics of St. Mark were smuggled out of Abbasid-ruled Alexandria in a basket filled with pork by Venetian merchants‚ that Mark became the city’s new patron. The Church of San Geminiano burned down in 976 and a new one built in the first decade of the 11th century. That one burned and collapsed after an earthquake in around 1108. The reconstructed church was then demolished in the late 12th century to accommodate the expansion of Piazza San Marco. It was relocated to another location on the newly-expanded Piazza. The 12th century church was demolished in the early 16th century and the new one relocated again. This last one would stand until 1807 when it was demolished by Napoleon to make way for a new wing of the long colonnaded buildings that embrace three sides of the piazza. With all its movement‚ the exact locations of the original church and its immediate descendants were lost. Archaeologists unearthed the ruins in the center of the Piazza while working on the restoration of its paving stones. The brick tomb emerged first‚ then the wall and paving remnants. The excavation is now complete and the remains will be analyzed in the lab while the piazza’s paving stones are returned to their place over the early Christian remains of Venice.

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