The Hijacking of Police Reform by Wealthy Opportunists Resembles the Harm Done to Public Schools
How consultant-grifters profit while watering down police reform and undermining accountabilty to local communities.
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Quelle Surprise: NYT Article on U.S. Contact Tracing Deficiencies Doesn’t Fall for Big Tech’s Claim that Effective Contact Tracing Requires an App, But Fails to See What Good Health Care Has to Do with It
NYT piece on contact tracing doesn’t see what good health care has to do with why some of these efforts elsewhere have worked well.
Read more...Links 7/31/2020
Vaccine Research on Covid-19: An Update
A clinical and not very cheery look at the state of Covid-19 vaccine play.
Read more...Thomas Frank: Liberal Elites Will Create Conditions for Another Trump
Thomas Frank: If Biden and the corporate Democrats continue to deny the concerns of populist movements, they ensure a new Trump will emerge
Read more...Kamala Harris or Susan Rice? The Veepstakes Appears To Have Kicked Out Two Truly Terrible Choices
If having Kamala Harris or Susan Rice isn’t unappetizing enough, as Lambert points out, the Dem VP pick is the presumptive 2024 Prez nominee.
Read more...2:00PM Water Cooler 7/30/2020
COVID-19 in the five problem states ~ Biden’s ground game ~ Trump to postpone election or drop out ~ A taxonomy of state failure ~ GDP (ugh), employment situation, rail) ~ Boeing ~ Chinese seeds ~ DIV Covid vaccine ~ “The Stupids Do Covid!:” ~ Grinding games ~ The riots, forgotten ~ Circus Peanut Jello Salad
Read more...The Consequences of Inequality Can Be Fatal
A compliation of some of the costs of inequality, updated for the Covid-19 era.
Read more...Public Health Experts Fear a Hasty FDA Signoff on Vaccine
Experts have the willies about the rush to get a Covid-19 vaccine approved.
Read more...Rough Ride for Airlines – Full Recovery Moved to 2024: IATA
IATA is unwilling to apply porcine maquillage to airlines. In light of this forecast, what happens when they inevitably need more bailouts?
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Why Bitcoin Is Not a Socialist’s Ally – Reply to Ben Arc
Debunking some major misperceptions about potential roles for Bitcoin and blockchain.
Read more...Links 7/29/2020
Thomas Frank: Corporate Democrats Idolize FDR, but Hate His Policies and the Populists That Supported Him
Thomas Frank discuss how Democrats try to have it both ways, wrapping themselves in FDR’s good name while dissing pretty much everything he stood for.
Read more...Plastics in Oceans Will Triple By 2040, Absent Immediate Drastic Action
Unless we take drastic steps NOW- and stop allowing plastics pushers to set the agenda- plastics in the world’s oceans will triple in twenty years, by 2040.
Read more...US and China Are Both Raising the Military Stakes in the South China Sea
Is the US engaged in military escalation with China, or are recent moves just high stakes posturing?
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