Leonard Peltier: “My Medical Problems are Not Getting Any Better. I am Seriously Hurting.” Native News Online
Humanitarian Camp Raided by Border Patrol and BORTAC, 30+ People Arrested Unicorn Riot
Tulare County California during the Pandemic – the Hard Price of Poverty Resumen
LEE CAMP: Why Housing Is a Human Right
America is not based on hard work. Get it out of your head that this society is set up to be fair. Fair would be everyone with a roof over their head.
The Role of Police in Gentrification The Appeal
A lawsuit alleges Breonna Taylor died because Louisville was trying to arrest its way toward economic redevelopment. Research shows this is common.
White Supremacy Shaped American Christianity, Researcher Says HuffPost
Trump Gives Senior Pentagon Position to Retired General Who Called Obama a ‘Terrorist Leader’ Rolling Stone
Trump fires TVA chair, cites hiring of foreign workers AP
Police committed 125 human rights violations during Floyd protests: Amnesty TheHill (this is a serious undercount, unless they meant on one day in New York City)
DHS Obtained Protesters’ Encrypted Messages, Used Them To Craft ‘Intelligence’ Reports TechDirt
Many Americans Are Convinced Crime Is Rising In The U.S. They’re Wrong. FiveThirtyEight
Palestine
New Report Reveals Israel Demolishes Over 2,000 Palestinian Bedouin Homes per Year MPN
Movement in Palestine Current Affairs
Honduras
Garifuna leaders in Honduras still missing after 16 days Peoples Dispatch
China
Trump Presses Microsoft, TikTok Into A Deal That Neither Wants – Who Profits From It? Moon of Alabama
China Won’t Allow a TikTok ‘Smash and Grab’ by U.S., State Media Warns Bloomberg
Trump calls TikTok a hot brand, demands a chunk of its sale price Tech Crunch
Coronavirus
The Coronavirus Is Airborne. Keep Saying It. Slate
It’s a jarring message, and the right one.
AstraZeneca Gets Protection from Future Product Liability Claims for COVID Vaccine Insurance Journal
John Lewis’ legacy: Four Southern states are still battling for voter rights Scalawag
How the Pandemic Defeated America. A virus has brought the world’s most powerful country to its knees. The Atlantic
Few countries have been as severely hit as the United States, which has just 4 percent of the world’s population but a quarter of its confirmed COVID‑19 cases and deaths. These numbers are estimates. The actual toll, though undoubtedly higher, is unknown, because the richest country in the world still lacks sufficient testing to accurately count its sick citizens. …
“The U.S. fundamentally failed in ways that were worse than I ever could have imagined,” Julia Marcus, an infectious-disease epidemiologist at Harvard Medical School, told me.
Since the pandemic began, I have spoken with more than 100 experts in a variety of fields. I’ve learned that almost everything that went wrong with America’s response to the pandemic was predictable and preventable. A sluggish response by a government denuded of expertise allowed the coronavirus to gain a foothold. Chronic underfunding of public health neutered the nation’s ability to prevent the pathogen’s spread. A bloated, inefficient health-care system left hospitals ill-prepared for the ensuing wave of sickness. Racist policies that have endured since the days of colonization and slavery left Indigenous and Black Americans especially vulnerable to COVID‑19. The decades-long process of shredding the nation’s social safety net forced millions of essential workers in low-paying jobs to risk their life for their livelihood. The same social-media platforms that sowed partisanship and misinformation during the 2014 Ebola outbreak in Africa and the 2016 U.S. election became vectors for conspiracy theories during the 2020 pandemic.
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