12 May 20
A Special Funding Appeal From Mark Twain
“The liberty of the Press is called the Palladium of Freedom, which means, in these days, the liberty of being deceived, swindled, and humbugged by the Press and paying hugely for the deception.”
- Mark Twain, 1870
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11 May 20
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Andy Borowitz | Bill Barr Tests Negative for Integrity
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "In a test result that he called 'a tremendous relief,' the Attorney General, Bill Barr, has tested negative for integrity, Barr confirmed on Friday."
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Then-national security adviser Michael Flynn talks to others in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 13, 2017. (photo: Jabin Botsford/WP)
DOJ Alumni's Statement on Flynn Case, Almost 2000 Signatories
DOJ Alumni, Medium
Excerpt: "Attorney General Barr has once again assaulted the rule of law, this time in the case of President Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn."
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People wait in line to enter a supermarket which has limited the number of shoppers due to the coronavirus, in Brooklyn on 10 April. (photo: Guardian UK)
"Weaponized and Racialized": Police Departments Use COVID-19 to Target Black and Brown Communities
Democracy Now!
Excerpt: "Black and Brown communities are being disproportionately targeted in response to the spread of COVID-19 - and it's not only in New York City."
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A man speaks with a library worker after receiving an unemployment form in Miami Beach, Florida. (photo: Marco Bello/Reuters)
How Unemployment Systems Are Failing Workers Around the Nation
Colin Lecher and Mia Sato, The Markup
Excerpt: "As the COVID-19 crisis shuts down businesses across the country, total unemployment claims have now passed 30 million. And with unemployment benefits agencies buckling under the strain of new applicants, even that figure is likely a severe undercount."
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Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms: 'It's 2020 and this was a lynching of an African American man. (photo: Kevin D Liles/Kevin D. Liles)
Ahmaud Arbery: Atlanta Mayor Accuses Trump of Inciting Racist Acts
Ed Pilkington, Guardian UK
Pilkington writes: "The Democratic mayor of Atlanta has called the death of Ahmaud Arbery, who was shot and killed by two white men in February, a 'lynching.'"
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Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro. (photo: AP)
Venezuela Captures 14 Mercenaries in the Last 24 Hours
teleSUR
Excerpt: "Venezuelan State Security Forces captured in the last 24 hours a total of 14 mercenaries involved in an armed maritime incursion."
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Carbon emissions. (photo: unknown)
Carbon Emissions Turned Back 10 Years
Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz, YES! Magazine
Loeffelholz writes: "Data show coronavirus countermeasures have resulted in a record drop in fossil-fuel demand and created an opening for a clean-energy transition."
EXCERPT:
It is a world in which renewable energy makes up a greater share of energy use, and carbon emissions are turned back to levels from a decade ago. Researchers at the Paris-based International Energy Agency, which last week released its Global Energy Review 2020, say any lasting effects “will be determined by the duration of lockdown measures and the recovery paths taken.”
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