Amazon workers march to Jeff Bezos’ mansion, calling for higher wages, protections LATimes
Minnesota
‘You can see the disrespect’: Workers at Amazon center in Minnesota walk out, claiming rushed work conditions, unjust firing. Sahan Journal
Trump riles up Minnesota supporters with racist attack on Somali refugees Salon
Drop in labor force participation cut unemployment rate Axios
The drop in the unemployment rate last month to 7.9% from 8.4% was more the result of people dropping out of the labor force — or giving up looking for work — than it was people finding jobs.
There are currently more confirmed cases of corona virus in the White House than in New Zealand, Taiwan & Vietnam COMBINED. #SoMuchWinning
— Tom Morello (@tmorello) October 4, 2020
Schadenfreude, a German loanword that came into English in the mid-19th century, means the experience of pleasure or or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles and failures of another.
Trumped
Trump is receiving dexamethasone, a steroid usually given to patients with severe Covid-19 STAT
This seems like a good time to point out that dexamethasone can cause agitation, paranoia, mania and even psychosis. For real. https://t.co/TvxkMmfmw9
— David Juurlink (@DavidJuurlink) October 4, 2020
Trump’s Biggest Advantage in Fighting Off Covid: His Wealth
Both Photos of Donald Trump Working Amid Hospitalization Were Taken 10 Minutes Apart Pop Culture
Trump in Walter Reed Photo-Op Appears to Sign Blank Paper to Show He’s Well and ‘Relentless’
Deep clean
Three NC Establishments Close to Deep Clean After Ivanka Trump Visit Daily Beast
Super-spreading
Super-spreading events initiated the exponential growth phase of COVID-19 with ℛ0 higher than initially estimated Royal Society Open Science
Notre Dame’s President Went Unmasked at White House, Then Tested Positive. Now He’s Under Fire. Chronicle of Higher Eduction
As cold weather arrives, U.S. states see record increases in COVID-19 cases Reuters
No Talking’ signs should be on NYC subway, disease experts say NY Daily News
Coronavirus: Paris to shut bars and raise alert to maximum BBC
Breonna Taylor
Here’s How the Attorney General Put the Fix in for the Cops Who Killed Breonna Taylor Daily Beast
A week after warning, ICE detainee dies from COVID-19 AJC
Trump fraud, not voter fraud
Mail found in Greenville ditch did not include any Wisconsin ballots Milwaukee Sentinel
Is Capitalism a Disease? Richard Levins – from Monthly Review, Sept. 1, 2000
The growing gap between rich and poor make many technical advances irrelevant to most of the world’s people. Public health authorities were caught by surprise by the emergence of new diseases and the reappearance of diseases believed to be eradicated. In the 1970s, it was common to hear that infectious disease as an area of research was dying. In principle, infection had been licked; the health problems of the future would be degenerative diseases, problems of aging and chronic diseases. We now know this was a monumental error. The public health establishment was caught short by the return of malaria, cholera, tuberculosis, dengue, and other classical diseases. But it was also surprised by the appearance of apparently new infectious diseases: the most threatening of which is AIDS, but also Legionnaire’s disease, Ebola virus, toxic shock syndrome, multiple drug resistant tuberculosi, and many others. Not only was infectious disease not on the way out, but old diseases have come back with increased virulence and totally new ones have emerged.
Letter Opposing J.K. Rowling’s Transphobia Signed by More Than 1,500 Publishing Professionals Harpers
Ex-Twitter CEO says selfish capitalists will be ‘shot in the revolution’ NYPost – note to headline writer, there are only selfish capitalists
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