WEEKEND OF OCTOBER 23-25, 2020 Despite the recent influx of Puerto Ricans in the wake of Hurricane Maria, the Democrats’ longtime voter registration edge in Florida is disappearing, dwindling to just 134,000 over Republicans ahead of Election Day, the thinnest margin in recent history. In 2012, Democrats had a 535,987 voter edge and Obama won. In 2016, Democrats had a 327,428 voter edge and Trump won. Presidential Election Interactive Map   | |
Weekend Read: Dismantling Democracy: The forty-year attack on government, ....and the long game for the common good. by Donald Cohen. Since the 1970s a constellation of aligned conservative institutions, grassroots issue groups, academics, intellectuals, industry leaders, and politicians has been enormously successful at shifting fundamental attitudes toward government and its basic role in American society. These groups have focused on winning the hearts and minds of the people not with detailed policy prescriptions but with a set of beliefs and conventional wisdom, a vaguely defined national philosophy that protects the privileges of the wealthy and powerful. Amazon or Thrift Books Fascist Culture, Critical Pedagogy, and Resistance in Dark Times. CounterPunch “We’re Not a Democracy”. ... Four years ago, the nation tumbled down the Trump rabbit hole. We’ve been lost in the dark so long it‘s hard to know which way is up. Intercept How To ‘Weaponize’ Misleading Narratives About Voting: Lessons from Trump-Linked PILF Playbook. ... Using internal emails, sworn testimony, and other documents, Snopes was able to break down exactly how the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) worked to "generate, create, organize and weaponize" misleading narratives. Snoops “Herd Immunity” Was Originally About Vaccination. Now It Is Neoliberal Violence. TruthOut Surprise
“Air Ambulance” Bills Are the Latest Nightmare in Private Health Insurance.
... On top of skyrocketing medical costs, many Americans face staggering surprise
bills for “air ambulances.” What’s no surprise is that the private
equity industry is deeply implicated in this nightmare — and spending heavily
to make sure no one puts a stop to it. Jacobin
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Six: The Looting of the Nation Part
Seven: Climate Carnage Parents of 545 children still not found three years after Trump separation policy. ... Lawyers struggling to find parents deported to Central America, says ACLU, after US government removed 1,030 children in 2018. Guardian Brennan’s Nuremberg Defense: One More Whitewash of the CIA’s Torture Program, CounterPunch US Wasted Billions of Taxpayer Dollars in Afghanistan From 2018 to 2019. ... US government oversight authority released its latest report. AntiWar Trump State Department Plan to Declare Human Rights Groups 'Anti-Semitic' Slammed as 'Desperate,' 'Obscene'. ... The designation would target humanitarian organizations including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and Oxfam, sources said. CommonDreams Biodiversity is an Asset Worth Bending Over Backwards to Protect. CounterPunch Upwards of 40% of all native plants are now considered at risk of extinction, according to a new report from the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew. OCTOBER
22, 2020 Large-Scale Permafrost Thawing. CounterPunch Chomsky: OPCW cover-up of Syria probe is ‘shocking’. ... Noam Chomsky says that the OPCW’s cover-up, under US pressure, of a Syria chemical weapons probe raises “very severe suspicions.” Gray Zone Part
Five: Courting Corporate Theocracy 'Vote These Monsters Out': Trump Officials Weigh Deep Funding Cuts to Covid-19 Relief, Newborn Screenings in Democrat-Led Cities "Besides shameless graft, Trump's central agenda is tormenting the people who didn't vote for him." CommonDreams influence over the lives of millions. Intercept The Coup Already Underway. CounterPunch Chomsky: from nuclear weapons to Iran, Trump’s worst threats are dangerously ignored. Gray Zone The US Is Missing a Chance to Tackle Climate Crisis and Pandemic Relief Together. TruthOut Journalists Should Stop Relying on Cops’ Lies. ... American police departments are addicted to lying, and journalists are entrusted with reporting what’s happening in the world. Those journalists can’t take police at their word and act as cops’ stenographers. Jacobin OCTOBER
21, 2020 Chris Hedges: The Politics of Cultural Despair. ... It is despair that is killing us, eating into the social fabric, rupturing social bonds, and manifesting in self-destructive pathologies. ScheerPost When Does Incompetence Become a Crime? CounterPunch 75 ways Trump made America dirtier and the planet warmer. ... In the past four years, Trump has shredded environmental protections for American lands, animals and people. Guardian Only
Class War Can Stop Climate Change. ... A new report shows that the world’s
top 1 percent is responsible for double the emissions of the entire bottom half
of the planet. The message is clear: to fight climate change, we have to fight
the ruling class. Jacobin
Bolivians Return Evo Morales’s Party to Power One Year After a U.S.-Applauded Coup. ... Right-wing forces cheered by the U.S. tried to destroy one of Latin America’s most vibrant democracies. Voters just restored it. Intercept How
Trump Got Played By The Military-Industrial Complex. ... The president promoted
defense jobs in swing states, pushed through arms sales and gave industry figures
top jobs. He didn’t get the political boost he wanted. HuffPost
The
Details of Worker Abuse at One of the World’s Largest Logistics Companies
Are Appalling. ... A report compiled by an international network of unions exposes
ruthless worker exploitation at XPO Logistics, the global transportation giant
headquartered in Connecticut. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, the company’s
mistreatment and repression have only gotten worse. Jacobin
Dark Money & Barrett Nomination: The Link Between Big Polluters & the War on ACA, Roe & LGBT Rights. DemocracyNow The Squad Is Growing: A New Crew of Left Challengers Is Bringing Movement Politics to Congress. ... It’s not just AOC, Omar, Pressley and Tlaib. This crop of organizers-turned-politicians -- alongside the Squad—plans to usher in a progressive revival in the House of Representatives. ITT Black Civil Rights Leaders Fear Barrett “Invites a Return to a Racist Past”. Intercept The TMX Pipeline Threatens First Nations People. It Must Be Stopped. TruthOut
OCTOBER 20, 2020 Critics Say Deregulatory Rush Shows Even If Defeated the Trump White House Willing to 'Scorch the Earth Before They Go'. ... From bomb trains to biometrics to workers' rights, the administration is pushing for last-minute rollbacks that could prove hard for its successor to overturn. CommonDreams After The Donald, The Deluge? CounterPunch Public Schools Are Starting to Charge “Fees” for “Childcare”. ... In an alarming trend, financially strapped school districts across the country are introducing “fees” for looking after students. We need to stop the COVID-19–era privatization of public schools. Jacobin Jeremy
Scahill: “Trump Is Not the Root of the Problem, He Is a Product of American
Imperial History”. DemocracyNow
More Traces of Cancer-Causing PFAS in Arctic Raise Alarm Over Global Spread. TruthOut Scott Morrison’s “Gas-Fired Recovery” Is Doubling Down on Fossil Fuels in Australia. ... The Liberal Party’s plan for a “gas-fired recovery” is not just the product of climate change denialism. It’s a class-conscious scheme to guarantee the profitability and continued hegemony of mining and fossil fuel capital long into Australia’s future. Jacobin Sheldon Whitehouse Made the Case That Amy Coney Barrett's Nomination Is a Bag Job. ... It was planned and executed by a vast and single-minded network of which no parallel exists on the other side. CommonDreams The
Real Hunter Biden Bombshell Is That the Tech Monopolies Now Officially Decide
Which News Stories You Get to See. ... The most important part of the New York
Post's dubious Ukrainegate story has nothing to do with Ukraine: It's Facebook
and Twitter's partisan rush to censor the story, a reminder of the tech monopolies'
growing threat to a free press. Jacobin
Goodbye civil rights: Amy Coney Barrett's America is a terrifying place. ... With her confirmation all but inevitable, how bad will Barrett be? It’s hard to say for sure – but it doesn’t look good. Guardian Bolivians Return Evo Morales’s Party to Power One Year After a U.S.-Applauded Coup Right-wing forces cheered by the U.S. tried to destroy one of Latin America’s most vibrant democracies. Voters just restored it. Intercept COVID Has Led People to Save More. Now Economists Are Upset.. TruthOut
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17, 2020 - April 17, 2020 - New Mexico Unveils App for Behavioral Health Support. ... provides free 24-hour crisis and non-crisis support and access to behavioral health professionals. Click here April
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