09 May 20
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Michele L. Norris | We Cannot Allow the Normalization of Firearms at Protests to Continue
Michele L. Norris, The Washington Post
Norris writes: "This we know: Black or brown people gathering in the streets or at the statehouse with rifles and body armor would not be tolerated."
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Trump Administration Buries Detailed CDC Advice on Reopening
Jason Dearen and Mike Stobbe, Associated Press
Excerpt: "The Trump administration shelved a document created by the nation's top disease investigators with step-by-step advice to local authorities on how and when to reopen restaurants and other public places during the still-raging coronavirus outbreak."
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Jobless Rate Soars to 14.7%, Worst Level Since Great Depression
Anneken Tappe, CNN
Tappe writes: "With much of the American economy in self-imposed shutdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, April's colossal surge in unemployment delivered a historic blow to workers."
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Republican Senators Want to Halt Immigration, Just When the Economy Needs It Most
Karen Ho, Quartz
Ho writes: "Four Republican senators are pressuring US president Donald Trump to further restrict work visas due to coronavirus job losses, arguing foreign students and specialized workers take jobs away from Americans."
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Aimee Stephens Brought the First Major Trans Rights Case to the Supreme Court. She May Not Live to See the Decision.
Katelyn Burns, Vox
Burns writes: "When Aimee Stephens told her boss in 2013 that she planned to transition to female, she was fired from her job. Stephens then sued her former employer for sex discrimination."
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Colombia: The Green Erasure of Indigenous Life
Christina Noriega, NACLA
Noriega writes: "A wind energy boom on Colombia's Caribbean coast threatens to continue the dispossession of Indigenous communities - with a green veneer."
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Billions Could Face Temperatures Inhospitable to Life in the Next 50 Years, Study Finds
Joe Purtell, NBC News
Purtell writes: "A third of the global population - 3.5 billion people - could be living in temperatures inhospitable to human life in the next 50 years because of climate change, a study released Monday found."
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