Professor Richard Wolff: Coming Economic Crash Will be WORSE Than Great ...

Professor Richard Wolff gives his thoughts on new statistics revealing 32% of households have not yet made their full housing payments for July.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14zbZvXogoM&t=4s

"Vote Him Away #2 (The Liar Tweets Tonight)"

https://youtu.be/JlZg-dObruo

“You just have to have faith”

Responding to the common religious claim. Faith is an unreliable way to find truth, and worse, it allows for dangerous manipulation. I’m now on TikTok. Come join the conversation. 

https://youtu.be/bllFK6HrQVY 

Cartoon: They came from outer space!

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/7/30/1964888/-Cartoon-They-came-from-outer-space

The Criterion Channel’s August 2020 Lineup | The Current | The Criterion Collection

Stuck at home this summer? Don’t let that get you down—our Bad Vacations series makes the case for staying in and watching movies, cataloguing an array of holiday horrors ranging from existential ennui to full-throttle terror.....

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7032-the-criterion-channel-s-august-2020-lineup

Bill Barr Caught Contradicting Himself on Issue of Trump's Criminal Commutation of Stone's sentence

Representative Eric Swalwell grills Attorney General Bill Barr on the topic of Trump's commutation of Roger Stone's sentence. After getting Bill Barr to admit that it would be criminal for the president to give someone a pardon in exchange for that person agreeing not to incriminate the president, Rep. Swalwell walks Barr through facts that plainly show Trump commuted Stone's sentence (reducing it from 40 months in prison down to zero prison time), in exchange for Stone not flipping on/incriminating Trump. After Rep. Swalwell paints Barr into a rhetorical corner, Bill Barr decides that he will deflect by invoking the name . . . Rube Goldberg??? Watch Bill Barr's attempts at evasion crumble... 

https://youtu.be/Zq0YhzzIpWU

Democrats and Republicans take aim at Pompeo over US troop withdrawal from Germany

The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw nearly 12,000 troops from Germany has come under bipartisan attack in the Senate, amid warnings it would disrupt US alliances.....

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/30/us-troops-germany-withdrawal-pompeo-senate-grilling

Wake Up - YouTube

Wait. What year is it? Who's president?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TogbPPyQQM

California landlords are locking out struggling tenants. A 'tsunami of evictions' may be next

As Covid-19 continues to pummel the state, hundreds of thousands of renters are at risk of becoming homeless....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/30/california-covid-19-evictions-landlords-tenants

Trump confronted on his call to delay the election, gives HORRIFIC response - YouTube

BREAKING: Trump was just confronted on his call to delay the election and gave a HORRIFIC response....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8QUY6Ddt7A

How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air” | Vanity Fair

This spring, a team working under the president's son-in-law produced a plan for an aggressive, coordinated national COVID-19 response that could have brought the pandemic under control. So why did the White House spike it in favor of a shambolic 50-state response?....

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/how-jared-kushners-secret-testing-plan-went-poof-into-thin-air

DC Appeals Court Gives Flynn Case New Life, Hands Bill Barr a Defeat in his quest to Dismiss Case - YouTube

The DC Federal Circuit Court of Appeals today rejected Mike Flynn and Bill Barr's attempt to stop the full court - all dozen judges - from hearing the case. A majority of the appellate court judges voted in favor of reviewing the prior decision (by the three-judge panel) in which two of the three judges said Judge Sullivan should be required to dismiss Flynn's case. That opinion has now been "vacated" and all 12 judges will hear the case. The court set an argument in the Mike Flynn case for 9:30 a.m. ET on August 11. ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I33k-KTIc0

Nearly 30 million Americans reported not having enough food last week | TheHill

Nearly 30 million people in the United States reported they did not have enough to eat last week in a new peak since May, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s weekly Household Pulse Survey data. The survey data shows that about 23.9 million of 249 million respondents indicated they had “sometimes not enough to eat” for the week ending July 21 and 5.42 million more indicated they had “often not enough to eat.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/news/509749-nearly-30-million-americans-reported-food-insecurity-last-week-census-data

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Fact check: In 2017, Anthony Fauci warned of potential outbreak

As COVID-19 case counts and deaths continue to climb in the U.S., critics have accused the Trump administration of downplaying the extent of the virus and delaying crucial steps needed to combat the spread. While public health officials warned President Donald Trump early this year about a potential outbreak, social media posts claim Dr. Anthony Fauci sounded the alarm about an infectious disease outbreak years earlier.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/07/29/fact-check-2017-anthony-fauci-warned-potential-outbreak/5494601002/

How to Spot a (Potential) Fasc!st: The Authoritarian Personality Explained

An introduction to The Authoritarian Personality study.
https://youtu.be/vymeTZkiKD0

Vallejo police chief investigates claims officers bent badges to mark on-duty killings

City has long faced scrutiny over high numbers of police shootings, which have left 19 people dead in 10 years
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/30/vallejo-police-shootings-bend-badges

Federal officers to pull out of Portland in a major reversal for Trump administration

The Trump administration is to pull federal paramilitaries out of Portland starting on Thursday in a major reversal after weeks of escalating protests and violence. Oregon’s governor, Kate Brown, said she agreed to the pullout in talks with Vice-President Mike Pence. Brown said state and city police officers will replace Department of Homeland Security agents in guarding the federal courthouse that has become the flashpoint for the protests.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/29/trump-administration-portland-protests-federal-agents

Fox News on Deploying Federal Agents 2020 vs. 2014 | The Daily Show

Tyranny check! Deploying federal agents in 2020 vs. 2014
https://youtu.be/Not-wdJvG-Y

Hateful incidents against Americans of color surge amid pandemic

With at least 40 states in the US reporting increasing coronavirus cases, the worsening pandemic continues to have devastating effects on the health and economic outlook for Americans nationwide. But for many communities of color, it has also sparked a racist backlash. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/29/hate-crimes-americans-of-color-pandemic

Alabama GOP lawmaker faces calls to resign after celebrating KKK leader’s birthday amid tributes to John Lewis - The Washington Post

As ceremonies honoring the life of civil rights legend John Lewis began over the weekend in Alabama, one Republican state lawmaker elected to take part in a local celebration of another prominent figure in Southern history: Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate Army general and the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/28/alabama-republican-lewis-kkk/

‘I want to stand up to Trump’: Portland protesters unleash fury over BLM, Covid-19 and economy

Portland Protesters say they’re demonstrating for multiple reasons as concern grows that the nightly battles play into Trump’s hands
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/29/portland-protests-trump-blm-covid-19-economy

Fact Check: How Violent Are the Portland Protests? - The New York Times

Attorney General William P. Barr said protesters had used fireworks, Tasers, pellet guns and lasers to target federal officers in Portland.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/us/portland-protests-violence-tactics-barr-fact-check.html

Russia used English-language sites to spread Covid-19 disinformation, US officials say

US officials say Russian intelligence services are using a trio of English-language websites to spread disinformation about the coronavirus pandemic, seeking to exploit a crisis that America is struggling to contain ahead of the presidential election in November.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/28/russia-covid-19-disinformation-websites-us-intelligence

Dream Center: DeVos aide Diane Auer Jones helped for-profit Art Institutes, Argosy University, texts and emails show - The Washington Post

For the past year, the Education Department has denied that a top official went out of her way to help Dream Center Education Holdings, owner of the Art Institutes, South University and Argosy University, as the company spiraled into insolvency. But a batch of text messages, emails and letters shed new light on Dream Center’s relationship with Diane Auer Jones, the head of higher education policy at the department, and her efforts to help the company regain accreditation at two of its schools.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/07/28/dream-center-art-institutes-argosy-devos/

Trump Campaign Adviser Jenna Ellis: Separation of Church and State Is a Liberal Lie - The Daily Beast

"The left is going to tell you there's this separation of church and state, and that's just nowhere in the Constitution, nowhere in American law," she declared Monday evening.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-campaign-adviser-jenna-ellis-says-the-separation-of-church-and-state-is-a-liberal-lie

Nina Simone and Emil Latimer - Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair

https://youtu.be/NWmCbEbMmeU

NINA SIMONE on DAVID BOWIE, JANIS JOPLIN and singing STARS (Live at Montreux, 1976)

https://youtu.be/R96jRnBYymU

‘It’s a mess’: Republican senators deride key proposals in GOP virus package - POLITICO

Senate Republicans complained on Tuesday about key provisions in the GOP-authored coronavirus relief bill one day after its unveiling, as Democrats panned the proposal as a non-starter. The jockeying on Capitol Hill underscores how far apart both parties remain — and the treacherous path Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell faces as he confronts internal GOP divisions and kicks off negotiations with Democrats. ....
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/28/republican-senators-gop-coronavirus-package-384522

Lawsuit alleges Trump campaign, fundraising committee shielded millions in payments - The Washington Post

A legal complaint alleges that payments to sub-vendors and individuals through two major firms should have been disclosed to the public....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/lawsuit-alleges-trump-campaign-fundraising-committee-shielded-millions-in-payments/2020/07/28/2a9a5fd0-d03a-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html

‘Ships don’t feed hungry children’: Democrats blast weapons spending in Senate GOP stimulus - POLITICO

The criticism from Lowey and other Democrats indicate that billions more for weapons programs will likely be a source of friction.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/28/stimulus-weapons-spending-defense-384829

Democratic critics look for Biden to break with Wall Street wing on trade - The Washington Post

When former vice president Joe Biden left government in 2017, most Chinese goods entered the country tariff-free, the U.S. had just negotiated a landmark treaty with 11 Pacific Rim nations, and corporate America largely called the shots on the Democratic Party’s trade policies. After more than three years of President Trump’s “America First” administration, that world is long gone. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/28/biden-trade-2020/

Rep. Eric Swalwell NAILS Bill Barr with question he can't escape

https://youtu.be/UvN7C0x_Dr0

Here Are the 4 Most Misleading Statements From Bill Barr’s Contentious House Testimony – Mother Jones

The attorney general is not good at this whole honesty thing. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/07/attorney-general-bill-bar-house-judiciary-committee-misleading-russiagate-stone-trump-mueller/

The Park Police’s Account of Lafayette Square Attack Doesn’t Add Up – Mother Jones

Many questions linger over what led to the events outside in the White House on June 1 in Lafayette Square, wherein US Park Police attacked peaceful protesters with tear gas and excessive force moments before Donald Trump strolled through the park for a photo op in front of a nearby church. The USPP has insisted that the reason for the crackdown wasn’t for Trump’s photo op, but instead to install a new perimeter fence. The agency has also maintained that the protesters weren’t peaceful, which necessitated the use of force and defensive weapons to clear the park. But during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on the incident on Tuesday, both of these assertions were called into question by Democratic lawmakers and a National Guard whistleblower who testified that the USPP engaged in “an unprovoked escalation and excessive use of force.” https://www.motherjones.com/anti-racism-police-protest/2020/07/the-park-polices-account-of-lafayette-square-attack-doesnt-add-up/

William Barr is unethical and dishonest and should be disciplined

“How can you tell when a lawyer is lying?” the old joke begins.
The answer: “Whenever his lips are moving.”

The humor reflects the reality of how an average citizen views the legal profession. It's seen as mendacious and amoral. Of course, the reality is different. While not every lawyer can be an Atticus Finch defending the innocent, most are hardworking and honest. And then there is the attorney general, William Barr, who is scheduled to testify Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee under threat of subpoena.....
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/07/28/william-barr-unethical-deceitful-attorney-general-column/5517466002/

Takeaways from Barr’s testimony before the House Judicial Committee - The Washington Post

Attorney General William P. Barr testified Tuesday for the first time in his tenure in front of a critical congressional audience — a House Judiciary Committee with a Democratic majority — as the Justice Department faces questions from critics who say it is helping President Trump politically in ways ranging from policing and protests to intervening in criminal investigations of Trump allies. ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/07/28/four-early-takeaways-attorney-general-barrs-contentious-congressional-hearing/

How Labor Secretary Scalia Played Chicken With Meatpacking Workers’ Lives – Mother Jones

A typical poultry, pork, or beef plant employs hundreds of people—by and large immigrants, refugees, and people of color—toiling shoulder to shoulder to dismember and break down carcasses moving down the kill line at rates as high as 390 cattle, 1,295 pigs, or 10,500 birds per hour. Meatpacking workers have always faced hazardous conditions and high injury rates, and their tight working conditions make them highly susceptible to viral pathogens. What spreads inside a meat factory doesn’t stay within its walls: By late May, rural counties that had meatpacking plants with COVID-19 outbreaks had average infection rates five times higher than the rest of rural America. As of mid-July, at least 168 meatpacking workers had died from the disease.

“It’s a terrible experiment in achieving herd immunity,” says David Michaels, a professor of occupational health at George Washington University who led the the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) under Obama. By the time the pandemic runs its course, he predicts, “everyone will have become infected” at meatpacking plants. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2020/07/labor-eugene-scalia-meatpacking-osha-stress-carpal-tunnel-coronavirus-covid/

A small federal agency focused on preventing industrial disasters is on life support. Trump wants it gone - Vox

The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board is without enough voting members, and its investigations are stuck in limbo.....
https://www.vox.com/2020/7/28/21336481/chemical-safety-hazard-investigation-board

Minneapolis "Umbrella Man" Was White Supremacist: Cops

Minneapolis investigators said the man is a member of the Hells Angels biker gang who started violence at what had been a peaceful protest. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/olivianiland/minneapolis-umbrella-man-identified

Pelosi, Schumer accuse Trump of self-dealing with money for FBI headquarters | TheHill

Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer on Monday accused President Trump of self-dealing in pressing Senate Republicans to include in their coronavirus relief proposal $1.75 billion to rebuild the FBI headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue in downtown Washington. Democrats suspect Trump is pressing for the money to rebuild the FBI headquarters in downtown D.C. so that it doesn’t move out from its space on 9th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue and leave open a prime piece of real estate that could be occupied by a new hotel that would pose serious competition to the Trump International Hotel across the street. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/509296-pelosi-schumer-accuse-trump-of-self-dealing-with-money-for-fbi-headquarters

Caught Lying About Baseball Invite, President Calls Twitter Criticism “Illegal” and Endorses Demon-Sperm Doctor - Slate

It's this week's Trump Vincibility Watch, and the vincibility is still highly robust.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/trump-vincibility-watch-yankees-twitter-corruption-demon-sperm.html

Trump advisers tell him virus hurting 'our people,' Republicans: WaPo - Business Insider

President Donald Trump was "bored" with the coronavirus pandemic, seeing it — and its average of 850 American deaths, each day, since February — as a distraction from all of the "wins" he wished he could campaign on instead. But then, apparently, senior advisers tried a new approach: They told the president the coronavirus wasn't just killing liberals in blue states but was hurting Republicans and could spread in swing states. "Our people."
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-advisers-tell-him-virus-hurting-republicans-swing-states-wapo-2020-7

The Small Biz Double-Dip: Temp Companies Got Cheap Government Money, Got Paid by Clients for the Same Workers — ProPublica

One of the biggest beneficiaries of the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses were temp agencies. Many have been able to turn the government loans into profits.
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-small-biz-double-dip-temp-companies-got-cheap-government-money-got-paid-by-clients-for-the-same-workers

What PragerU Wants You to Believe about the Republican Party

https://youtu.be/Hf-gzfwC7dk

If Beethoven Composed Billie Eilish's 'Bad Guy'

https://youtu.be/zzO-jVb6lrU

Violin is Better Than Bass (a 3-Movement Symphonic Diss Track)

https://youtu.be/8GimRvjSJSQ

VIOLIN DISS TRACK (Official Music Video)

https://youtu.be/EK_3Cb_mEh4

With Less than 100 Days Until the Election, Trump and the GOP Are Desperate

Seth takes a closer look at the morally and intellectually bankrupt Republican party squabbling over cutting unemployment benefits, sending secret police into American cities and whining about cartoons.
https://youtu.be/iMPP-GR_Bf0

‘Trump Grifts, You Die’: New Ad Rips President For Profiting Amid Pandemic | HuffPost

MeidasTouch hammers Trump family for using the White House to cash in.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-grifts-meidastouch_n_5f1f9af3c5b638cfec4905e8

'White supremacists' arrested while trying to amplify protest violence, Richmond mayor says

We’ve had evidence for some time that right-wing extremists have been lurking at anti-police protests around the nation, amplifying the violence by engaging in vandalism, assaults, and attacks on police—often while pretending to be there to support Black Lives Matter and antifascists leading the protests. This weekend in Richmond, Virginia, police arrested several such saboteurs during a Black Lives Matter protest, according to city Mayor Levar Stoney. “White supremacists” were carrying pro-BLM signs and breaking windows at downtown businesses, Stoney said, but were stopped when BLM protesters pointed them out to police.....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/7/27/1964268/--White-supremacists-arrested-while-trying-to-amplify-protest-violence-Richmond-mayor-says

The Cult of Selfishness Is Killing America - The New York Times - Opinion

The right has made irresponsible behavior a key principle. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/opinion/us-republicans-coronavirus.html

Pharmaceutical executives are getting multimillion-dollar payouts — without even producing a vaccine

Top executives at one company can start exercising options worth up to over $100 million, even if the vaccine never makes it to market.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/corporations/pharmaceutical-executives-are-getting-multimillion-dollar-payouts-without-even-producing-n1235022

Wall of Moms, Black Lives Matter protesters sue Trump administration for use of tear gas, force in Portland - The Washington Post

Protesters who say they were tear-gassed, shot at, pepper-sprayed and assaulted outside a federal courthouse while peacefully demonstrating and rendering aid to others sued the Trump administration Monday over its use of force during nightly demonstrations in downtown Portland. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/27/wall-moms-black-lives-matter-protesters-sue-trump-administration-use-tear-gas-force-portland/

The Republican Unemployment Plan Could Delay Payments by Months - Mother Jones

It would be an administrative nightmare for states—and worse for jobless Americans in need of cash.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/07/the-republican-unemployment-plan-could-delay-payments-by-months/

Exclusive: White House privately warns 11 cities must take “aggressive” action in coronavirus fight

Dr. Deborah Birx, a leader of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, warned state and local leaders in a private phone call Wednesday that 11 major cities are seeing increases in the percentage of tests coming back positive for COVID-19 and should take “aggressive” steps to mitigate their outbreaks. The cities she identified were Baltimore, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, Miami, Minneapolis, Nashville, New Orleans, Pittsburgh and St. Louis. ....
https://publicintegrity.org/health/coronavirus-and-inequality/warning-from-birx-11-cities-must-take-coronavirus-aggressive-efforts/

A Black Florida Family Received A Racist Letter Targeting Their Daughters

Last Thursday, David Sproul came home from work and found a letter in his mailbox that left him angry and his wife in tears. "It's time to take those hideous posters of that ugly fat black girl down off your house," says the anonymous typed note, referring to signs displayed on the Sprouls' home that celebrate the high school graduation of their identical twin daughters, Xanah and Xarah. ....
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/black-twins-racist-letter-florida

What if Trump loses but refuses to leave office? Here's the worst case scenario

The risk of an electoral meltdown is ordinarily rather small, but this November promises a combination of stressors that could lead to epic failure and chaos https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/27/trump-loses-election-what-happens-possibilities

'These are his people': inside the elite border patrol unit Trump sent to Portland

Bortac, a quasi-militarised outfit equivalent to the Navy Seals, has been deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/27/trump-border-patrol-troops-portland-bortac

Anti-fascists linked to zero murders in 25 years

As Trump rails against ‘far-left’ fascism, new database shows leftwing attacks have left far fewer people dead than violence by rightwing extremists https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/27/us-rightwing-extremists-attacks-deaths-database-leftwing-antifa

Urban planning as a tool of white supremacy – the other lesson from Minneapolis

The legacy of structural racism in Minneapolis was laid bare to the world at the intersection of Chicago Avenue and East 38th Street, the location where George Floyd’s neck was pinned to the ground by a police officer’s knee. But it is also imprinted in streets, parks and neighborhoods across the city – the result of urban planning that utilized segregation as a tool of white supremacy. https://theconversation.com/urban-planning-as-a-tool-of-white-supremacy-the-other-lesson-from-minneapolis-142249

John Oliver Exposes Sean Hannity’s Lies About Portland Protesters

The “Last Week Tonight” host revealed how the Fox News pundit misrepresented the “violence” committed by Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland, Oregon. https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-oliver-exposes-sean-hannitys-lies-about-portland-protesters

This Is Not A Test

https://youtu.be/I8FuY1RbfD4

Conservative

Former U.S Navy SEAL Dr. Dan Barkhuff knows Donald Trump isn't a conservative — he's weak. And he's the most easily fixable problem in America today.
https://youtu.be/tlmHVtVIJdU

The Sly Psychology Behind Magicians' Card Tricks | WIRED

Card trick priming technique used by illusionist Derren Brown inspires psychologists. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/07/magic-or-science-subtle-verbal-and-visual-cues-can-influence-card-choices/

White Too Long review: how race trumped American Christianity

Robert Jones wants churches to engage in reckoning, restitution and repentance. But incrementalism has much to recommend it too ....
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jul/25/white-too-long-review-race-trump-american-christianity

Sociologist Michael Sierra-Arévalo On Why Police Expect Danger And How It Drives Brutality (On Point)

Sociologist Michael Sierra-Arévalo spent 1,000 hours with police officers in the field. Ride-alongs, high speed chases, patrols. He says they’re taught to expect danger at every moment on the job. And that expectation is a major driver of police brutality.
Interview:
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2020/07/16/sociologist-michael-sierra-arevalo-on-how-police-expectation-of-danger-drives-brutality

Tom Cotton calls slavery 'necessary evil' in attack on New York Times' 1619 Project

The Arkansas Republican senator Tom Cotton has called the enslavement of millions of African people “the necessary evil upon which the union was built”.  Cotton, widely seen as a possible presidential candidate in 2024, made the comment in an interview with the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette published on Sunday. ....
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/26/tom-cotton-slavery-necessary-evil-1619-project-new-york-times

Religious freedom is no reason to deny people with disabilities the right to equality in the workplace | TheHill

Exactly 30 years ago today, on July 26, 1990, President Bush proclaimed proudly, “With today's signing of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act, every man, woman, and child with a disability can now pass through once-closed doors into a bright new era of equality, independence, and freedom." But can they?
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/509032-religious-freedom-is-no-reason-to-deny-people-with-disabilities-the-right

US intelligence community warns Russia, China, and Iran are trying to influence 2020 election

Russia, China, and Iran are working to interfere in U.S. politics in the run-up to November’s election, according to the U.S. intelligence community. William Evanina, the director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said on Friday that these countries are seeking to undermine faith in the U.S. democratic system.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/us-intelligence-community-warns-russia-china-and-iran-are-trying-to-influence-2020-election

If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention

Facebook and America are now indivisible, says the Observer journalist who broke the Cambridge Analytica scandal – and the world is a sicker place for it ....
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/26/with-facebook-we-are-already-through-the-looking-glass