Saturday, August 29, 2020
The FBI warned for years that police are cozy with the far right. Is no one listening?
"[W]hite supremacists and far-right militants have committed far more attacks and killed more people in the US over the last 10 years than any foreign terrorist movement."
Friday, August 28, 2020
Praise for alleged Kenosha shooter proliferates on Facebook despite supposed ban
"One fundraiser for Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, was shared more than 17,700 times by groups with more than 3.9m aggregate followers."
#DeleteFacebook
#DeleteInstagram
#DeleteWhatsapp
#dezuckyourlife
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Covid-19 Proves It’s Time to Abolish ‘Predictive’ Policing Algorithms
"[A]lgorithms meant to foresee where crime will occur only justified massive and often violent deployment to neighborhoods already suffering from poverty and disinvestment."
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Donald Trump Jr. Pictured at 'We Build the Wall' Event With Neo-Nazi Collaborator Jack Posobiec
"Posobiec, for his part, described Trump Jr. as being 'redpilled [as fuck].'"
When spark meets sprawl: Building in wildlands increases fire risk
"In flood zones, real estate agents are required to tell you about flood hazard, but we don’t do that with fire hazard."
AUSTIN’S VOTE TO “REIMAGINE” POLICING PROMPTS THREATS FROM STATE OFFICIALS
"[F]unds [are] being reallocated to workforce development, housing for the homeless, and substance abuse treatment, as well as to address food insecurity and increase health care access."
Facebook’s Ban on Far-Left Pages Is an Extension of Trump Propaganda
"For Facebook to treat even militant, antiracist, antifascist organizing as a violence comparable to that of white supremacist militias is a statement, in no uncertain terms, about which lives it deems to matter."
Monday, August 24, 2020
'There Is No Political Solution': Accelerationism in the White Power Movement
"Accelerationists aren’t part of a new movement. They’re just an iteration more inclined toward terroristic violence than has existed in recent decades."
Sunday, August 23, 2020
Fashion's dirty secret: how sexual assault took hold in jeans factories
“The global awakening around #MeToo is an opportunity to seize this moment and use it as momentum to be a leader in this space. It has taken a while for the [garment] industry to wake up to the severity of the issue [of sexual violence], but now there is no time to waste in addressing it.”
Thursday, August 20, 2020
White House Plants Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theorists Among Reporters in Briefing Room
"Trump solicited a question each day this week from one of the guests invited by his press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, to stand at the back of the room — where representatives of One America News, The Epoch Times and Gateway Pundit compromised the health of reporters by violating social distancing and mask-wearing guidelines."
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
The State of Women’s Suffrage – 100 Years Later
"Black women, in particular, have suffered disproportionately from voter suppression tactics that have made it harder for them and other women of color to vote. It is also important to note that while the 15th Amendment gave Black men the right to vote in 1870, five years after slavery was abolished, Black women – and all other women – did not receive voting rights until half a century later."
Sports teams tackle voting crisis with plan to turn arenas into polling stations
Considering the fact that many arenas are built using tax incentives, this is a good start in terms of giving back:
Saturday, August 15, 2020
Millions in US face losing water supply as coronavirus moratoriums end
"Our country is in crisis, people are hurting and our leaders are failing us. No one should have to worry about being denied water because they have fallen behind on their bills – especially amid a global pandemic."
Trump admits he is undermining USPS to make it harder to vote by mail
“The president of the United States is sabotaging a basic service that hundreds of millions of people rely upon, cutting a critical lifeline for rural economies and for delivery of medicines, because he wants to deprive Americans of their fundamental right to vote safely during the most catastrophic public health crisis in over 100 years.”
Friday, August 14, 2020
The Furious Hunt for the MAGA Bomber
"Sayoc's extremism followed almost the precise arc that for years had troubled national security officials who watched young men radicalized online by ISIS. But this time, the rhetoric wasn't coming from YouTube videos made in Syria and shared through encrypted chat rooms. Sayoc's poison had come right from the mouth of a US president, his allies, and the Facebook and Twitter posts that he'd consumed in the back of his white van. Sayoc's lawyers later assembled a record of the dozens of presidential tweets attacking the specific targets of the mail bombs."
Thursday, August 13, 2020
Foodies and Factory Farmers Have Formed an Unholy Alliance
This is the only argument I need on the subject:
"The environmental case for plant-based imitation meats is too strong to dismiss. Conventional feedlot beef in the United States emits 20 times more greenhouse gas—mostly methane when the cows belch—per pound of edible protein, compared to plant-based sources. Grass-fed beef is even worse for the climate, since it takes longer for these animals to reach a market weight, ensuring even more methane emissions per pound of production. This makes the carbon footprint of an Impossible Burger almost 90 percent smaller than that of a real beef burger, according to its manufacturer. It is also 87 percent less dependent on water and 96 percent less dependent on land. A life-cycle analysis of the Beyond Burger shows similar gains, with 90 percent less greenhouse gas emitted and 46 percent less energy required, along with 99 percent less water and 93 percent less land, compared to real burgers from American beef."
"The environmental case for plant-based imitation meats is too strong to dismiss. Conventional feedlot beef in the United States emits 20 times more greenhouse gas—mostly methane when the cows belch—per pound of edible protein, compared to plant-based sources. Grass-fed beef is even worse for the climate, since it takes longer for these animals to reach a market weight, ensuring even more methane emissions per pound of production. This makes the carbon footprint of an Impossible Burger almost 90 percent smaller than that of a real beef burger, according to its manufacturer. It is also 87 percent less dependent on water and 96 percent less dependent on land. A life-cycle analysis of the Beyond Burger shows similar gains, with 90 percent less greenhouse gas emitted and 46 percent less energy required, along with 99 percent less water and 93 percent less land, compared to real burgers from American beef."
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
CONSERVATIVE OPERATIVES FLOAT PLAN TO PLACE RETIRED MILITARY, POLICE OFFICERS AS GOP POLL WATCHERS ON ELECTION DAY
"Encouraging law enforcement to monitor polls is another old tactic that partisan operatives are trying to use to stop Americans from exercising their constitutional right to vote."
What If Trump Won’t Leave?
"If they don’t believe in Covid-19 or in wearing masks, and do believe in unproven drugs, what makes anyone think they’ll believe Trump lost the election?"
Saturday, August 8, 2020
Ted Cruz’s Hearing on Anarchist Protest Violence Was a Total Farce
"[W}hile the Trump administration has sought to demonize and target antifa, reports amassed of deadly white supremacist violence and substantive threats — including to the police themselves."
NURSING HOME MAGNATE COZIED UP TO TRUMP AS DEATHS ROSE IN HIS FACILITIES
"In the spring, as residents died, Scheiner and TL cozied up further to an administration that would decide whether or not to mete out accountability to an industry that accounted for at least 40 percent of coronavirus deaths."
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/08/trump-scheiner-nursing-homes-covid-19/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
https://theintercept.com/2020/08/08/trump-scheiner-nursing-homes-covid-19/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter
Four women lead an impassioned movement to rename schools honoring Confederate leaders
"It is these three schools named after Confederate soldiers that were used to maintain white supremacy and deny Black people their constitutional rights."
Morality > country > party
“But it’s a problem that U.S.-Cuba policy for the entire Democratic Caucus is determined by the campaign strategy for races representing less than 0.005% of the U.S. population. With the economic downturn from the pandemic causing food shortages, this systemic flaw could be lethal for Cubans.”
The Innocence Project
"The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck at Cardozo School of Law, exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice...
The Innocence Project's mission is to free the staggering number of innocent people who remain incarcerated, and to bring reform to the system responsible for their unjust imprisonment. "
#abolishthedeathpenalty
Disregarding the Virus and Victims’ Families, Trump Rushes to Execute as Many People as Possible
"[T]he executions were yet another show of state violence staged to bolster the president’s image."
Thursday, August 6, 2020
Facebook employees collected evidence showing the company is giving right-wing pages preferential treatment when it comes to misinformation.
“It appears that policy people have been intervening in fact-checks on behalf of *exclusively* right-wing publishers, to avoid them getting repeat-offender status.”
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
Daughters of the bomb: my reckoning with Hiroshima, 75 years later
"On the 75th anniversary of the A-bomb, a Japanese American writer speaks to one of the last living survivors – and traces connections from Malcolm X to the fight to end nuclear war."
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
A Summer Camp Covid-19 Outbreak Offers Back-to-School Lessons
Koughbaya:
"[R]ecommendations regarding the use of masks and increasing ventilation whenever possible, were not followed."
"[R]ecommendations regarding the use of masks and increasing ventilation whenever possible, were not followed."
In Chicago, a Steep Rise in Suicide Among Black People
“These Black communities have been dealing with all the things poverty creates: violence, poor mental and physical health, drug use, suicide.”
Farmworkers are getting coronavirus. They face retaliation for demanding safe conditions.
"There are still no national mandates to protect workers — only nonbinding guidelines from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. That’s a problem, said Armando Elenes of United Farm Workers, which supports the workers at Primex."
Prosecutor says Trump investigation is broader than hush-money payoffs
“[T]here were public allegations of possible criminal activity at Plaintiff’s New York County-based Trump Organization dating back over a decade."
Hygiene Theater Is a Huge Waste of Time
"Many bars, indoor restaurants, and gyms, where patrons are huffing and puffing one another’s stale air, shouldn’t be open at all. They should be shut down and bailed out by the government."
The 'shecession': why economic crisis is affecting women more than men
"[F]rom February to May, 11.5 million women lost their jobs compared with 9 million men because of business closures intended to stop the spread of Covid-19. By the end of April, women’s job losses had erased a decade of employment gains."
Monday, August 3, 2020
The Hate-Fueled Rise of r/The_Donald—and Its Epic Takedown
"The_Donald’s ban is the most direct action a major social media site has taken against Trump or his supporters. And it only took Reddit five years to do it."
The Goopification of grapes: why 'clean wine' is a scam
"Dr Creina Stockley sighs when she hears this over Zoom. 'I’ve been in the industry for close to 30 years and this comes up periodically, just under different names' – 'minimal intervention' is one she remembers – 'it’s a marketing exercise.'
A pharmacologist and lecturer at the University of Adelaide, Stockley is a world authority on wine additives and processing aids, the heart of this issue."
A pharmacologist and lecturer at the University of Adelaide, Stockley is a world authority on wine additives and processing aids, the heart of this issue."
Anti-abortion centers receive at least $4m from US coronavirus bailout
"Crisis pregnancy centers often operate out of storefronts with the look and feel of full-service reproductive health clinics. However, the organizations often provide 'sham' medical treatments such as abortion 'reversal' pills, oppose modern birth control methods and exaggerate medical risks of abortion to persuade women not to have them."
Sunday, August 2, 2020
HOW COPS CAN SECRETLY TRACK YOUR PHONE
"Both the DEA and the Marshals possess airplanes outfitted with so-called stingrays or dirtboxes: powerful technologies capable of tracking mobile phones or, depending on how they’re configured, collecting data and communications from mobile phones in bulk."
If you have to transmit in the clear, use an encrypted protocol.
The Unemployment Crisis Is a True National Emergency
"[A]s soon as the government cash started flowing, spending began to recover, and it’s now more than 90 percent of normal. In poorer zip codes, it’s returned to almost 100 percent."
#UBI
REPS. OCASIO-CORTEZ, LIEU INTRODUCE AMENDMENT TO CURTAIL FEDERAL CRACKDOWN ON PROTESTERS
"The United States of America should not have secret police. "
Saturday, August 1, 2020
AI-Generated Text Is the Scariest Deepfake of All
"If used maliciously, there is no unaltered original, no raw material that could be produced as a basis for comparison or evidence for a fact-check."
I'm a tech dummy, but could blockchain be adapted to authenticate original content?
AP Exclusive: Migrant kids held in US hotels, then expelled
"Lawyers and advocates say housing unaccompanied migrant children in hotels exposes them to the risk of trauma as they’re detained in places not designed to hold them and cared for by contractors with unclear credentials."
DOJ Report Highlights Desperately Needed Reforms in Ala. Prisons
"The violence outlined by the DOJ demonstrates deep and persistent failures by the leadership of the Alabama Department of Corrections."
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