Georgia family demands arrests 2 months after son shot dead AP
The Killing of Ahmaud Arbery NYTimes
Coronavirus
NYC nurse claims coronavirus patients are ‘literally being murdered’ Daily Mail
Disproportionately black counties account for over half of coronavirus cases in the U.S. and nearly 60% of deaths, study finds Washington Post
Karl Marx in Wuhan: how Chinese socialism is defeating COVID-19 Invent The Future
The Public Is Astonishingly United The Atlantic
A poll from The Washington Post and the University of Maryland released yesterday finds that eight in 10 Americans oppose reopening movie theaters and gyms; three-quarters don’t support letting sit-down restaurants and nail salons reopen; and a third or less would allow barber shops, gun stores, and retail stores to operate. An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll last week found similar numbers.
New Jersey lawmaker proposes $20M burial fund for coronavirus victims Politico
Editorial: Air Pollution Was Already Killing Us. Then Came the Coronavirus. Why Won’t the EPA Act? Texas Observer
Gilead Lobbying Rose As Interest In COVID-19 Treatment Climbed NPR
VERIFY: What is remdesivir? WUSA9
Labor
American Meat Workers Are Starting to Quit With Plants Reopening Bloomberg
Young Black Missisippians join May Day protests for workers rights, COVID-19 protections Scalawag
Giant Hospital Corporation Takes Advantage of Coronavirus to Fight Nurses’ Union Drive The Intercept
72 UFWC Members Dead – After Strike, 12 S.C. Chicken Workers Fired – NOLA Garbage Workers Strike Payday Report
‘Stop throwing us bare bones’: US union activism surges amid coronavirus Guardian
Jobless
Layoffs Start Turning From Temporary to Permanent Across America Bloomberg
Study: 71 percent of jobless Americans did not receive their March unemployment benefits Vox
Approved for unemployment, but unable to collect, NJ residents get desperate pressofatlanticcity.com
The COVID-19 crisis has already left too many children hungry in America Brookings
Top Republican fundraiser and Trump ally named postmaster general, giving president new influence over Postal Service Washington Post
Protesters Say the Police Use Social Distancing to Justify Crackdown NYTimes
Economic Blow Of The Coronavirus Hits America’s Already Stressed Farmers KHN
Why the Small-Business Bailout Went to the Big Guys Bloomberg
Indigenous Peoples
Coastal GasLink pipeline construction continues during pandemic — and so does resistance Ricochet
Venezuela
New Details Emerge Linking US to Latest Coup Attempt in Venezuela MPN
There is strong evidence to suggest that both Juan Guaidó and the U.S. government were intimately involved in a botched weekend insurrection.
Captured American Mercenary Appears to Be Really Into Qanon Vice
Biden Sides With Trump, Bolton, and Pompeo in Backing Coup Effort in Venezuela Common Dreams
French farmers sound alarm in cheese market meltdown Politico Another glut.
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