pinboard September 23, 2020

• Twitter
  RT @alienelf: "Instead, the media has largely ignored the policy successes out of Africa. In doing so, Western media is reinforcing colonial narratives of Black inferiority and the inability of Black nations to govern themselves at all, much less govern better than resource-rich White nations"
• 380 whales dead in worst mass stranding in Australia's history | Environment | The Guardian
  RT @guardianeco: More than 450 whales now stranded in Tasmania after rescuers discover pod of 200 dead
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/22/covid-funds-pentagon/?outputType=amp
  RT @Public_Citizen: BREAKING: The Pentagon funneled nearly $1,000,000,000 of taxpayer money meant for masks and medical equipment to defense contractors building jet engines and body armor.
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/climate/climate-change-future.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur)
  RT @NYTScience: The most sobering message: the world still hasn’t seen the worst of it. Gone is the climate of yesteryear, and there’s no going back.
• Untitled (https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/517587-gop-will-ask-supreme-court-to-limit-mail-voting-in-pennsylvania-in?rnd=1600797517)
  RT @johnkruzel: SCOOP: Republicans plan to ask the Supreme Court to review a major state court ruling that extended the due date for mail ballots in Pennsylvania, teeing up SCOTUS’ first post-RBG test
• Johnson & Johnson Begins Phase 3 Trial of Covid-19 Vaccine – The New York Times
• Opinion | Africa has defied the covid-19 nightmare scenarios. We shouldn’t be surprised. – The Washington Post
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• Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In. The Next Moves Will Be Crucial. – The New York Times
• Twitter
  RT @JaneMayerNYer: “A hearing IF NEEDS Be”? Wut? Are they going to try to skip the hearings?
• Twitter
  RT @limlouisa: Hong Kong police are introducing media accreditation in a huge step backwards for press freedom in HK. This allows police to decide who is a journalist, drastically raising the risks for freelancers. h/t @IlariaMariaSala
• Untitled (https://www.axios.com/debate-topics-trump-biden-bebbf74c-168d-4184-a88f-b00e52af6cde.html?utm_campaign=organic&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=twitter)
  RT @JaneMayerNYer: Are we going to sit through another presidential election in which debate moderators fail to ask about climate change? Commission releases topics for first presidential debate
• Restaurateurs struggle as recovery stalls and coronavirus surges – The Washington Post
• Abandoned Hotels & Resorts | Abandoned America
• Trick of the Trade: Isopropyl Alcohol Vapor Inhalation for Nausea and Vomiting
• We Live in a Potemkin Autocracy Now – The Atlantic

  The White House memo declaring New York City, Portland, and Seattle “anarchist jurisdictions” isn’t federalism; it’s half-baked feudalism.

• Twitter
  RT @Pinboard: A recurring theme of the Trump administration is people failing to stand up for what was right while in their influential jobs, and then writing "coulda, shoulda" books about their experience in order to cash in

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