Photos show thousands joining the Women’s March in DC to protest Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination Business Insider
Dying Inside. The Hidden Crisis in America’s Jails Reuters
With Zuck’s Blessing, Facebook Quietly Stymied Traffic to Left-Leaning News Outlets: Report Gizmodo
Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous defenders are front-line essential workers The Star
Bolivia
Bolivia militarizes on election eve: Dispatch from the capital La Paz Grayzone
Hours before polls opened in Bolivia, de facto Interior Minister Arturo Murillo launched a massive military show of force, praising security forces for removing “dictator” Evo Morales from power in 2019.
Hours before Bolivia goes the polls, early results system suspended, military mobilization in La Paz Peoples Dispatch
#COVID-19
U.S. is staring down a ‘substantial third wave’ of coronavirus cases. Here are the numbers CNBC
‘The wrong direction’: US reports highest daily coronavirus infections since July Independent
Trump’s COVID-19 treatment would have cost an estimated $650,000 out of pocket Business Insider
The president of a New York college resigns after more than 700 students test positive for Covid-19 CNN
COVID-19: The Case Against Herd Immunity Marcello Ferrada de Noli
Marcello Ferrada de Noli is a professor emeritus of epidemiology. Formerly at Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and Harvard Medical School, he chairs Swedish Doctors for Human Rights, or SWEDHR.
China is back to normal — the US and Europe are not. Here’s how it succeeded. Business Insider
Wuhan, Former Pandemic Center, Emerges as Tourist Hot Spot WSJ
Inside the Fall of the CDC ProPublica
Coronavirus Threatens to Push the Child-Care Industry Over the Edge WSJ
BREAKING—Chris Christie was not only hospitalized, but he was in the ICU for 7-days… and he got special VIP access to Eli Lily’s synthetic monoclonal antibody drug direct from the manufacturer (it’s not available to general public since it’s not FDA approved). That’s privilege. pic.twitter.com/YjSdyrWxFs
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) October 15, 2020
Nord Stream 2 pipeline
Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe Bloomberg
Reparations
12.5 million lives stolen: What is owed Africa Quartz
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The IMF smokescreen Michael Roberts
California Wildfires
California’s record-breaking wildfires consume nearly 1 million acres in a month CNN
White House Reverses Decision And OKs Wildfire Aid For California NPR
California Wildfires Bring On ‘Catastrophic’ Year for Ranchers Bloomberg
Owls, caribou and B.C. forests on the chopping block The Narwhal
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