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Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Cheers to This Facebook Engineer With a Blazing Resignation Letter
"Facebook is 'an organization that is profiting off hate in the US and globally'."
Monday, September 7, 2020
How to Vote by Mail and Make Sure It Counts
"Regardless of why you may want to vote by mail, we're going to show you how, including the deadlines you need to hit for every state to make sure your ballot gets there on time."
Oregon has had 100% vote-by-mail since 2000.
Friday, September 4, 2020
Breadth of rightwing Portland protest network reveals energized Trump base
"Proud Boys, who are promoting a rally in the city on 26 September. Further truck rallies are now advertised for 7 and 19 September."
This isn't just going to go away with a Biden victory in November.
This isn't just going to go away with a Biden victory in November.
Thursday, September 3, 2020
CDC tells health officials to expect a coronavirus vaccine by November
"Critics fear the Trump administration has politicized the vaccine development process and that the president is seeking to rush a vaccine before election day, and may push for the release of a vaccine that has not undergone all the necessary safety tests."
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."
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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.”
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