Kenosha march demands justice for Jacob Blake and victims of killer Kyle Rittenhouse FightBack! News
Journalist Quits Kenosha Paper in Protest of Its Jacob Blake Rally Coverage NYTimes
The journalist, Daniel J. Thompson, a digital editor who said he was the only full-time Black staff member at the paper, which covers southeastern Wisconsin, said the headline did not accurately sum up the article and gave a false impression of the rally itself, which he Donald
Trump compares cops shooting civilians in the back to golfers who ‘choke and miss three-foot putts’ Daily Mail
LA Cops Shoot And Kill Dijon Kizzee Following Alleged ‘Bicycle Code Violation’ NewsOne
‘I’m still hurting’: encounter with Phoenix police leaves teenage girl with permanent burn scars Guardian
Hidden in Plain Sight: Racism, White Supremacy, and Far-Right Militancy in Law Enforcement The Brennan Center
DHS Chief Chad Wolf Tells Tucker Carlson the Feds Are ‘Working On’ Corruption Charges Against BLM Leaders Daily Beast
U.S. Faces A ‘Perfect Storm’ Of Political Violence Heading Into November Election HuffPost
Joe Biden Condemns Riots: ‘Setting Fires Is Not Protesting’ Reason
Former NASA astronaut Leland Melvin remembers the police stop that made him sweat CNN
Schools
Teachers could hold strike authoritization vote, union head says Newsday
Coronavirus
How Trump Sowed Covid Supply Chaos Wall Street Journal
America’s Death Gap David Leonhardt
Here’s a jarring thought experiment: If the United States had done merely an average job of fighting the coronavirus — if the U.S. accounted for the same share of virus deaths as it did global population — how many fewer Americans would have died? The answer: about 145,000.
Capitalist crisis
The Loan Company That Sued Thousands of Low-Income Latinos During the Pandemic ProPublica
Nord Stream 2 Troubles: An Uncertain Future for the German-Russian Pipeline Der Spiegel
Belarusian crisis through the lens of Ukraine New Cold War
Abenomics: a review Michael Roberts
Japan was already in a classic economic recession before COVID-19 hit the world economy. Real GDP had already fallen in the last quarter of 2019.
He was re-elected w/55% of the vote months later. He’s been sheriff for 18 yrs. A hideous would-be genocidaire leads law enforcement for Kenosha County. This moment is critical b/c it lays bare the truth abt the danger Black ppl face in this country. Now choose where you stand. https://t.co/ueVFJb8dkq
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) August 31, 2020
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