Players are terrified of COVID, but don’t want to speak up for fear of angering the NFL Deadspin
Appeals Court Says Uber and Lyft Must Treat California Drivers as Employees NYTimes
Indigenous Peoples
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Files Request to Stop Dakota Access Pipeline Native News Online
RCMP spent more than $13M on policing Coastal GasLink conflict on Wet’suwet’en territory CBC
Possible mass grave of Tulsa massacre victims found Washington Post
Hundreds of Bags of Asbestos From MTA Sites Found in Trailers in Long Island Backyard NBC News
Trump issues sweeping order for many career federal employees to lose civil service protections Washington Post
Iowa Never Locked Down. Its Economy Is Struggling Anyway. NYTimes
President Trump has blamed Democratic officials’ rules for impeding the recovery. But even where restrictions are few, business is far from normal.
Labor chiefs called ’emergency’ session over Trump’s election threats NBC
#COVID-19
The false promise of herd immunity for COVID-19 Nature
Why proposals to largely let the virus run its course — embraced by Donald Trump’s administration and others — could bring “untold death and suffering”.
“Herd Immunity” Was Originally About Vaccination. Now It Is Neoliberal Violence. TruthOut
Ventilation and air filtration play a key role in preventing the spread of COVID-19 indoors USA Today
President Trump is benefiting from single-payer, single-provider health care. We all should STAT [it’s better than Medicare for all]
The Defense Health Agency, which operates Walter Reed, is one of a handful of single-payer, single-provider health systems in the United States. These are fully socialized health systems.
China, N.Korea stand together ‘for self-protection against US hegemony’ like 70 years ago Global Times
Xi Jinping says China ‘determined to defeat invaders’ in Korean war anniversary speech South China Morning Post
U.S. Broadens Sanctions to Thwart Completion of Russian Gas Pipeline WSJ
New US Command for NATO Naval Battle in Europe Manlio Dinucci
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