
Western wildfires
An estimated 500,000 people in Oregon forced to flee wildfires Marketplace
Oregon Can’t Fight Wildfires Because Its Helicopters Were Sent To Afghanistan MPN
Most wildfire coverage on American TV news fails to mention link to climate crisis Guardian
They Know How to Prevent Megafires. Why Won’t Anybody Listen? ProPublica
A seventy-word primer: We dug ourselves into a deep, dangerous fuel imbalance due to one simple fact. We live in a Mediterranean climate that’s designed to burn, and we’ve prevented it from burning anywhere close to enough for well over a hundred years. Now climate change has made it hotter and drier than ever before, and the fire we’ve been forestalling is going to happen, fast, whether we plan for it or not.
Coronavirus
Harvard Study Suggests Virus Impact On Young People Is Underestimated Gothamist
Coronavirus might’ve been in Los Angeles as early as December, according to new research Mic
Six Months Into the Pandemic, Transit Workers Are Still Dying—With No End in Sight TAP
Indoor Dining Returns Soon. Here’s Why Some Restaurant Workers Are Terrified. Grub Street
Planned NYC 9/11 Jet Flyby Prompts Anger: ‘Everybody Hates This’ Patch
Decision To Honor 9/11 With Low-Flying Warplane Canceled Amid Backlash Gothamist
Biden says US must maintain small force in Middle East, has no plans for major Defense cuts Stars and Stripes
Indigenous Peoples
Change NFL Team’s Name and Logo, says Native Coalition in Kansas City Native News Online
Standing Rock Water Protector Red Fawn Fallis Released from Federal Prison Native News Online
Im/migrants & refugees
ICE flew detainees to Virginia so the planes could transport agents to D.C. protests. A huge coronavirus outbreak followed. Washington Post
ICE Guards “Systematically” Sexually Assault Detainees in an El Paso Detention Center, Lawyers Say ProPublica
The Racial Disparity in Unemployment Benefits RAND
Screwing with the Unemployment Statistics Dave Lindorff
From Hoovervilles to Trumpvilles: Homeless Crisis Deepens Counterpunch
Billionaires for Trump
Peter Thiel Met With Racist Fringe As He Bet On Trump Political Wire
Facebook board member Peter Thiel reportedly had dinner with a key white nationalist figure in 2016 and said he ‘really enjoyed’ meeting him Business Insider
Here Are The Billionaires Backing Donald Trump’s Campaign Forbes
Here Are the Billionaires Funding Trump’s Voter Suppression Lawsuits Sludge
Tucker Carlson: “If we’re going to survive as a country, we must defeat” Black Lives Matter Salon
ELECTION 2020: As Concerns Mount Over Integrity of US Elections, So Does Support for International Poll Monitors Consortium News
Former NSA Director Who Oversaw Spying Program Joins Amazon’s Board Of Directors
China
Guo Wengui – So Anti-Chinese that even US Establishment Cannot Stomach Him NEO
Colombia
Colombia erupts in protests against police violence Peoples Dispatch
Colombia: Death Toll Rises to 13 in Protests Over Police Abuse teleSUR
Pat Robertson says Black Lives Matter wants a “lesbian… Marxist revolution” LGBTQ Nation
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