The Unemployment Crisis Is a True National Emergency The Intercept
US: Families of Police Brutality Victims March in New York City teleSUR
No More Deaths medical station raided with massive show of force by Border Patrol in Arivaca, Arizona CENSORED NEWS
Indigenous Peoples
Trump Administration Appeals Court Decision That Favored Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Mashpee Enterprise
Coronavirus
Pandemic’s weight falls on Hispanics and Native Americans, as deaths pass 150,000 Washington Post
Coronavirus pandemic causes another health concern — closed public restrooms Washington Post
Majority Of Americans Wear A Mask In Public
We Need to Talk About Ventilation The Atlantic
Strikingly, in one database of more than 1,200 super-spreader events, just one incident is classified as outdoor transmission, where a single person was infected outdoors by their jogging partner, and only 39 are classified as outdoor/indoor events, which doesn’t mean that being outdoors played a role, but it couldn’t be ruled out. The rest were all indoor events, and many involved dozens or hundreds of people at once. Other research points to the same result: Super-spreader events occur overwhelmingly in indoor environments where there are a lot of people.
COVID-19 Data Dives: Why Arguments Against SARS-CoV-2 Aerosol Transmission Don’t Hold Water MedScape
1/ Should we call it “Airborne” or “Aerosol” transmission?
Term “airborne” appears to be quite divisive. I’ve reached out to scientists on both sides of debate, asked for reasons why they think we should do one or the other. Many thoughtful responses, this thread summarizes it
— Jose-Luis Jimenez (@jljcolorado) August 2, 2020
Rush To Produce, Sell Vaccine Put Kids In Philippines At Risk NPR
Smash white supremacy
Urban planning as a tool of white supremacy – the other lesson from Minneapolis The Conversation
Enslaved people’s health was ignored from the country’s beginning, laying the groundwork for today’s health disparities The Conversation
Abolish police
Burns, bloody wounds, broken bones: Injuries mount at Portland protests Oregon Live
Mask Off: LA Sheriff’s Department Parties in Hollywood KNOCK.LA
US sheriffs rebel against state mask orders even as Covid-19 spreads Guardian
Amazon says police demands for customer data have gone up Tech Crunch
Cuba
Lula and other international personalities join call to give Nobel Peace Prize to Cuban doctors Peoples Dispatch
Palestine
At 3am on Thursday in Ramallah, Israeli forces stormed the home of Mahmoud Nawajaa Jewish Voice for Peace
‘I want Battir to go to hell’: Settlers move in on Palestinian World Heritage site +972 Magazine
Palestinians in the West Bank agricultural village of Battir are encountering armed Israeli settlers trying to push them off their land.
China
TikTok – How The White House Helped U.S. Investors To Raid A Chinese Company Moon of Alabama
This is purely a raid against a Chinese company to rob it of a successful part of its business. This raid was carried out by U.S. investors with intensive help from the U.S. government.
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner earned at least $36 million in outside income last year, new disclosures show Washington Post
Media’s ‘Cancel Culture’ Debate Obscures Direct Threats to First Amendment FAIR
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