Hurricane Ida: Black, indigenous and working-class Louisianans can’t afford to leave, corporations raise prices FightBack! News
Gulf Coast communities — already contending with Covid-19, racism and lingering damage from last year’s hurricanes — now face added pollution risks from the fossil fuel industry as Hurricane Ida nears amid build-out of gas export and plastic-manufacturing plants.
Nearly 1 million homes along the Gulf Coast might be damaged or destroyed by Hurricane Ida Business Insider
Dallas’ Hidden History of Terror Texas Observer
The [book] begins with the bombings. The 1950s terror spree that racist Dallasites unleashed on Black residents who’d dared buy homes in a then-white neighborhood.
Bigler’s Gambit: How the California Gold Fields Gave Rise to Global Anti-Chinese Politics History News Network
Nearly 70 People Arrested for Resisting Line 3 at Rally Outside Minnesota Governor’s Mansion Common Dreams
Minnesota Law Enforcement Shared Intelligence on Protest Organizers With Pipeline Company The Intercept
#COVID19
Is Vaccine Immunity Waning? David Leonhardt
It may not really be waning much — which means universal booster shots may do little good.
Largest real-world study of COVID-19 vaccine safety published Medical Xpress
When the New Covid Surge Struck, Mississippi Was Uniquely Unprepared NYTimes
A year and a half after Sweden decided not to lock down, its COVID-19 death rate is up to 10 times higher than its neighbors Business Insider
According to US Supreme Court, Right to Buy an Election More Protected Than Right to Vote in One Common Dreams
China
How China built the best high-speed rail ever DW
Afghanistan
9 family members killed after US strike in residential area of Kabul, eyewitnesses say CNN
These kids are among 9 killed in today’s US airstrike in Kabul. US airforces had said they targeted ISIS-K suicide attackers. pic.twitter.com/EbwaRFjQ8i
— Tajuden Soroush (@TajudenSoroush) August 29, 2021
This short two-minute clip of Australian troops murdering an unarmed villager is a far more accurate picture of the realities of the Afghanistan🇦🇫 occupation than any of the pictures of soldiers kissing babies and protecting children we're being inundated with right now. pic.twitter.com/KKfSXeFThz
— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) August 25, 2021
Are the Navy SEALs actually awful at their jobs? Washington Post
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