America Is Lagging Behind the World in Protecting Meat Workers Bloomberg
Leak reveals $2tn of possibly corrupt US financial activity Guardian
Among those named in reports is Paul Manafort, former political strategist for Donald Trump
Neo-Confederate group members yell ‘white power’ during pro-Trump parade through college campus TheHill
Handcuffed in a Speed Trap: The Indelible Taste of Hate Daily Beast
He never actually said the word “Jew.” I’m not sure if he meant his spit to land on my face when he leaned in and over-pronounced my last name: Blumen-FELD. I got it when he expressed disdain for “how your people live in New York City” and explained that “our people do things differently.”
Supreme? Court
Socialists Have Long Fought to Disempower the Supreme Court. That’s More Urgent Than Ever Now. Jacobin
Trump Says He Is ‘Counting on the Federal Court System’ to Declare Winner on Election Night—Before Many Ballots Are Tallied Common Dreams
#COVID-19
Woman spread coronavirus to 15 people on international flight NY Post
New CDC study highlights threat of coronavirus spread on lengthy flights Daily News
Fighting the COVID Infodemic Project Syndicate
America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral The Atlantic
Why COVID-19 is more deadly in people with obesity—even if they’re young Science
Iran
Pompeo threatens to light the fuse in Persian Gulf Indian Punchline
The US Fifth Fleet announced on September 18 that a Carrier Strike Group comprising USS Nimitz passed through the Strait of Hormuz with the guided-missile cruisers USS Princeton and USS Philippine Sea and guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett. After a gap of some ten months, a US aircraft carrier is being deployed to the Persian Gulf.
China
Sinophobia Inc: Understanding the Anti-China Industrial Complex Qiao Collective
TikTok
Wow, China just seized a US company's local assets in China, gave it to a senior party official, and the whole thing was done in exchange for a $5bn bribe to a charity associated with the party apparatus.
Oh wait, no, got America and China confused in that sentence right there
— Pwn All The Things (@pwnallthethings) September 20, 2020
Climate change
What the Photos of Wildfires and Smoke Don’t Show You ProPublica
Suppressing fires has failed. Here’s what California needs to do instead. MIT Technology Review
Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean. Part Two: Running Low on Oxygen Climate & Capitalism
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