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19 May 20
David Sirota | Health Insurance Companies Are Pissing on You and Saying It's Raining
David Sirota, Jacobin
Sirota writes: "Even during a pandemic, health insurance companies are both raking in huge profits and cooking up new ways to justify denying their customers' claims. Do we really want to keep using public resources to prop up a barbaric system like this instead of establishing Medicare for All?"
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David Sirota, Jacobin
Sirota writes: "Even during a pandemic, health insurance companies are both raking in huge profits and cooking up new ways to justify denying their customers' claims. Do we really want to keep using public resources to prop up a barbaric system like this instead of establishing Medicare for All?"
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Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden. (photo: Boston Globe)
As Biden Crafts US Coronavirus Response Proposals, Warren Has His Ear
Trevor Hunnicutt, Joseph Ax and James Oliphant, Reuters
Except: "Presumptive Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden has been speaking regularly with former rival Elizabeth Warren on public health and economic relief ideas as he crafts more ambitious proposals aimed at helping Americans through the coronavirus crisis."
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Trevor Hunnicutt, Joseph Ax and James Oliphant, Reuters
Except: "Presumptive Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden has been speaking regularly with former rival Elizabeth Warren on public health and economic relief ideas as he crafts more ambitious proposals aimed at helping Americans through the coronavirus crisis."
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Harry Harris, the U.S. ambassador to South Korea, congratulated the Korean armed forces for the new arrival of an RQ-4 Global Hawk surveillance drone via Twitter. (photo: @USAmbROK)
Trump Administration Quietly Adds Foreign Arms Sale to List of "Essential Work"
Taylor Barnes, In These Times
Barnes writes: "Buried on the 18th page of a recently updated federal government memo defining which workers are critical during the Covid-19 pandemic is a new category of essential workers: defense industry personnel employed in foreign arms sales."
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Taylor Barnes, In These Times
Barnes writes: "Buried on the 18th page of a recently updated federal government memo defining which workers are critical during the Covid-19 pandemic is a new category of essential workers: defense industry personnel employed in foreign arms sales."
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The Arbery family. (photo: CNN)
Police Tried to Tase Ahmaud Arbery in 2017 Incident, Video Shows
Sam Levine and Oliver Laughland, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Police attempted to use a Taser on Ahmaud Arbery, the slain Georgia jogger, after questioning why he was sitting alone in his car in a park one morning in November 2017, according to records and a police video obtained by the Guardian."
Sam Levine and Oliver Laughland, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Police attempted to use a Taser on Ahmaud Arbery, the slain Georgia jogger, after questioning why he was sitting alone in his car in a park one morning in November 2017, according to records and a police video obtained by the Guardian."
Alexis Wong, a Hong Kong-based trader, says she's never faced a more dicey business than dealing in masks during a pandemic. (photo: Anthony Kwan/WP)
'No Offense, but Is This a Joke?' Inside the Underground Market for Face Masks.
Desmond Butler, Juliet Eilperin and Tom Hamburger, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Alexis Wong, a Hong Kong-based trader who's been exporting medical masks since the early days of the covid-19 crisis, says the business brings out every species of crook. But she likes to joke that the market for the iconic N95 mask is in perfect balance."
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Desmond Butler, Juliet Eilperin and Tom Hamburger, The Washington Post
Excerpt: "Alexis Wong, a Hong Kong-based trader who's been exporting medical masks since the early days of the covid-19 crisis, says the business brings out every species of crook. But she likes to joke that the market for the iconic N95 mask is in perfect balance."
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Therese Kelly, a longtime Amazon employee, said many safety measures were not followed at the warehouse in Hazle Township, PA. She tested positive for Covid-19. (photo: Michelle Gustafson/NYT)
'Way Too Late': Inside Amazon's Biggest Outbreak
Karen Weise, The New York Times
Weise writes: "Therese Kelly arrived for her shift at an Amazon warehouse on March 27 to find her co-workers standing clustered in the cavernous space."
Karen Weise, The New York Times
Weise writes: "Therese Kelly arrived for her shift at an Amazon warehouse on March 27 to find her co-workers standing clustered in the cavernous space."
They were awaiting a buildingwide announcement, a rarity at the complex known as AVP1. Over a loudspeaker, a manager told them what they had feared: For the first time, an employee had tested positive for the coronavirus.
Some of the workers cut short their shifts and went home. Ms. Kelly, 63, got to work, one of the hundreds of thousands of Amazon employees dealing with the spike in online orders from millions of Americans quarantined at home.
In the less than two months since then, the warehouse in the foothills of the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania has become Amazon’s biggest Covid-19 hot spot. More employees at AVP1 have been infected by the coronavirus than at any of Amazon’s roughly 500 other facilities in the United States.
With meatpacking plants reducing processing capacity nationwide, U.S. hog farmers are bracing for an unprecedented crisis: the need to euthanize millions of pigs. (photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Millions of Pigs Will Be Euthanized as Pandemic Cripples Meatpacking Plants
Tim Mak, NPR
Mak writes: "With meatpacking plant closures and reduced processing capacity nationwide, America's hog farmers expect an unprecedented crisis: the need to euthanize millions of pigs."
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Tim Mak, NPR
Mak writes: "With meatpacking plant closures and reduced processing capacity nationwide, America's hog farmers expect an unprecedented crisis: the need to euthanize millions of pigs."
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