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Friday, July 31, 2020

Reading archive 2020-07-31

None dare call it treason, but perhaps one day they will

How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air”: This spring, a team working under the president's son-in-law produced a plan for an aggressive, coordinated national COVID-19 response that could have brought the pandemic under control. So why did the White House spike it in favor of a shambolic 50-state response?


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Labels: Basket of Deplorables, Donald Trump, health

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Reading archive 2020-07-28

Bill Barr’s Unconstitutional Campaign to Reelect the President: The attorney general is using official violence and intimidation to help Trump win a second term.
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Labels: 2020 Presidential Election, Basket of Deplorables, democracy, Republican Party

Monday, July 27, 2020

Reading archive 2020-07-27

National Guard officer says police suddenly moved on Lafayette Square protesters, used ‘excessive force’ before Trump visit: Guard major to testify before Congress that warnings couldn’t be heard, tear gas was used

When Black Lives Matter came to white, rural America: Mentored by an older generation of activists, three young women brought the protest movement to southern Virginia.
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Labels: DC, Donald Trump, military, racism

Friday, July 24, 2020

Reading archive 2020-07-24

Maine Letter Carriers Allege USPS Leadership 'Willfully Delaying' Mail to Sabotage Postal Service From Within: "We're watching the deliberate destruction of the Post Office unfolding in front of us," said one journalist.

Trump-backed postmaster general plans to slow mail delivery
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Thursday, July 23, 2020

Reading archive 2020-07-23

As Summer Takes Hold, So Do the Jumping Worms: These invasive pests, which ravage the soil and damage plant life, are easiest to spot now, in their adult form. But what to do if you see them?

Trump pardons Oregon ranchers who inspired refuge standoff
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Labels: ecology, Oregon

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Reading archive 2020-07-22

Trump has made it very, very easy to believe he tried to leverage his position to benefit his golf club

China vows to retaliate after U.S. orders closure of its consulate in Houston

U.S. and Britain change diplomatic immunity rules in light of Harry Dunn’s death

Taiwan says threat of military clash with China is ‘on the rise’
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Labels: China, Donald Trump, Taiwan, UK

Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Reading archive 2020-07-21

Sorry, but the Irish were always ‘white’ (and so were Italians, Jews and so on)

U.S. accuses China of sponsoring criminal hackers targeting covid-19 vaccine research

Japan helps 87 companies to ‘exit China’ after pandemic exposed overreliance
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Labels: China, Cyber warfare, Japan, racism, trade

Monday, July 20, 2020

Reading archive 2020-07-20

‘No mask, no entry. Is that clear enough? That seems pretty clear, right?’: Lori Wagoner, retail clerk, on trying to enforce a state requirement to wear masks

Superspreading’ events, triggered by people who may not even know they are infected, propel coronavirus pandemic: Most spread the virus to only a few people — or none at all. But studies show a small percentage transmit it with alarming efficiency.

Does the Lincoln Project have a secret agenda? The answer is surprising.

How Netanyahu is already planning for a Biden presidency

‘Woefully uninformed’: Kanye West slammed for saying Harriet Tubman ‘never actually freed the slaves’

U.K. suspends extradition treaty with Hong Kong amid public outrage over human rights in China

Signs increasingly point to sabotage in fiery explosion at Iranian nuclear complex

A Navy vet asked federal officers in Portland to remember their oaths. Then they broke his hand.

DHS authorizes personnel to collect information on protesters it says threaten monuments
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Labels: China, health, Hong Kong, Iran, Israel, policing, Republican Party, UK, WMD

Friday, July 17, 2020

Reading archive 2020-07-17

From dream job to nightmare: More than a dozen women allege sexual harassment and verbal abuse by former team employees at Redskins Park

Anti-vaccination leaders fuel black mistrust of medical establishment as covid-19 kills people of color: The memory of the horrific Tuskegee syphilis study makes some African Americans suspicious of a coronavirus vaccine
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Labels: DC, health, NFL, racism

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Reading archive 2020-07-16

The weird masculinity of Donald Trump

The Plot Against America: The GOP’s Plan to Suppress the Vote and Sabotage the Election: Blocking ballots, intimidating voters, spreading misinformation — undermining democracy is at the heart of Trump’s 2020 campaign


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Labels: 2020 Democratic Primary, Donald Trump, Voter ID laws

Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Reading archive 2020-07-15

How to explain systemic racism to non-liberals like me

Trump uses Rose Garden event for extended campaign-like attack on Biden

The White House Called a News Conference. Trump Turned It Into a Meandering Monologue.: The president spoke in the Rose Garden for 63 minutes. He spent only six of those minutes answering questions from reporters.

The nation is in a downward spiral. Worse is still to come. - "Under the most frivolous person ever to hold any great nation’s highest office, this nation is in a downward spiral. This spiral has not reached its nadir, but at least it has reached a point where worse is helpful, and worse can be confidently expected."

Investigation Uncovers Missteps In Washington, D.C.'s Coronavirus Response

Ghislaine Maxwell had ex-British military as security at New Hampshire estate, prosecutors say

White House distances itself from extraordinary Navarro op-ed criticizing Fauci

Caught in ‘Ideological Spiral,’ U.S. and China Drift Toward Cold War: Relations are in free fall. Lines are being drawn. As the two superpowers clash over technology, territory and clout, a new geopolitical era is dawning.
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Labels: 2020 Presidential Election, China, DC, health, racism, sexual assault

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Reading archive 2020-07-14

Britain bars Huawei from its 5G wireless networks, part of a growing shift away from the Chinese tech giant

When Privet’s Removed, Native Plants and Pollinators Return


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Labels: China, Cyber warfare, ecology, UK

Monday, July 13, 2020

Reading archive 2020-07-13

Falling For Farrakhan? How Black-Jewish Relations Keep Stumbling Over One Man

Malcolm Jenkins calls for focus on racial justice issues after DeSean Jackson’s anti-Semitic Instagram posts

Within the Taliban, clashing views of Afghanistan’s future

A century after a race massacre, Tulsa finally digs for suspected mass graves: The excavation at Oaklawn Cemetery, delayed for months by the pandemic, begins Monday morning.
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Labels: Afghanistan, anti-semitism, hate crime, NFL, Oklahoma

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Reading archive 2020-07-09

How the Smallest State Engineered a Big Covid Comeback: When Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo realized that Washington wasn't going to be much help, she called CVS, Salesforce—and the bishop.
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Labels: health, Rhode Island

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Reading archive 2020-07-08

Confederate Statues Were Never Really About Preserving History

Sweden Has Become the World’s Cautionary Tale: Its decision to carry on in the face of the pandemic has yielded a surge of deaths without sparing its economy from damage — a red flag as the United States and Britain move to lift lockdowns.


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Labels: health, history, Sweden
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