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COVID
Drug cocktail touted by Trump to treat coronavirus increases chance of death by 27%, study shows
Covid Gag Rules at U.S. Companies Are Putting Everyone at Risk
Why is every single govt agency that would have had any sort of positive impact on the coronavirus absolutely broken?
Staff were told not to reveal infections at Amazon, McDonald’s, Delta, Cargill, Target, Cheesecake Factory, & REI, among 100s of firms that prohibited or punished talk of Covid cases or concerns,according to workers, complaints & documents.
A tiny Texas company is running most U.S. drive-thru Covid-19 testing
COVID-19 Vaccine: Latest Updates
LG unveils battery-powered air-purifying face mask
SCHOOLS
4th Circuit: Judge blocks DeVos on federal aid rule
U.S. District Judge James Donato Temporarily Blocks DeVos From Diverting Pandemic Aid to Private Schools “An executive agency like the Department has no authority to rewrite Congress’s plain and unambiguous commands under the guise of interpretation,” Donato wrote in a 15-page ruling Wednesday night. Donato dismissed the Education Department’s reading of the CARES Act as “interpretive jiggery-pokery’ in the extreme.” Because Congress specified the exact formula for distributing pandemic-relief aid to non-public schools, the Education Department has no power to impose its own conditions, Donato concluded.
Donato acknowledged that providing some aid to private schools is in the public interest, and he said Congress provided for that in the CARES Act by requiring that such aid be distributed under the same formula as provided for under Title I. The judge also noted that private schools have had access to additional funding in the form of forgivable loans through the Paycheck Protection Program created by the CARES Act.
The judge concluded there is “a strong public interest in safeguarding our nation’s public schools from the pandemic, and giving school districts access to the funds that Congress authorized for this very purpose.” The preliminary injunction will only apply to plaintiffs who sued DeVos over the policy. The plaintiffs include California, Maine, Michigan, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Hawaii, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Washington D.C., the New York City Board of Education, Chicago Board of Education, Cleveland Board of Education and San Francisco Unified School District.
Virginia School Board’s Transgender Bathroom Policy Is Unconstitutional, Court Rules
The ruling is a victory for LGBTQ rights advocates and Gavin Grimm, who was forbidden from using facilities that aligned with his gender identity.
Court rules that Virginia school’s transgender bathroom ban is unconstitutional
Facebook Sues 2 Developers for Privacy Violations, Fake Engagement
Facebook sues developers who violated terms to collect user data, sell fake ‘likes’
Awwww some Fake Tears From Zuckerberg
Facebook apologizes to users, businesses for Apple’s monstrous efforts to protect its customers’ privacy
Facebook: Apple iOS 14 could cut Audience Network revenue in half
Election
This abomination may be the most visible misuse of official position for private gain in America’s history. It is an abuse of the power entrusted to this man, the breach of a sacred trust. It is the civic equivalent of a mortal sin—maybe a religious one too. And it is a harbinger
- Why is murder an appropriate response to property damage But property damage isn’t an appropriate response to murder?
- Fascism creates the environment for a booming economy and all the trains run on time.
- White Proud Boy Kyle Rittenhouse killed 2 people in the Kenosha Protest and walked past the police with his gun – everything was just honky dory – no problem here.
- Hurricane Laura Topples Confederate Statue After Vote to Keep it
- Let them eat cake. #RNCConvention2020
- If police brutality doesn’t end, neither do protests. Welcome to the new normal.
- The sheriff of Kenosha is openly advocating concentration camps: ‘warehouse’ them for life, he says. See it for yourself. I’m not exaggerating.
- White supremacists and militias have infiltrated police across US… with data to prove it. More than a dozen states and hundreds of police officers.
- We should do the McCarthy trials, but for QAnon belief systems. “Have you ever taken the digital soldiers oath?” QAnon is White Supremacy Lite: all the hate, none of the guilt.
- A methodology of dissemination of propaganda — Goebbels for the right, Bernays for the left.
- From the @FBI, the handbook of Homegrown Violent Extremist Mobilization Indicators (2019)
THE WALL
- Only 30 miles of new wall has actually been built.
- Most of this (25 miles) is what’s called “secondary wall”, which is constructed to reinforce the primary border barrier.
- The border with Mexico is about 2,000 miles long.
POLICE
Billy Bragg – All You Fascists
Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose
KRS-One – Sound of da Police
Power to the People