Category Archives: Daily Digest

• IRS may put cryptocurrency question at the top of 1040 to catch cheaters
• Eighteen Million Meals: A Look Inside New York City’s Emergency Food Aid Stockpile
• The return of CHAZ: Riots in Seattle lead to looting
• Goodbye To All That: Are Our Rituals Of “Prosperity” Increasingly Meaningless?
• The World’s Space Agencies Are on a Quest to Deflect a (Harmless) Asteroid
• O.U.R. Receives $150,000 to $350,000 in PPP Funds
• The Students Left Behind By Remote Learning
• Out There, Nobody Can Hear You Scream
• Dr. Malcom Kendrick: False positive tests
• Record fish kill at Lake Norman tops 7,000
• May 2020: Global temperatures tie for record hottest

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• Stephen Roach says that negative net domestic saving in the US and a soaring current-account deficit will weaken the greenback fast
• Cruise Critic: ‘Urgent Need for Ships to Start Sailing’ from Florida, Federal Maritime Commission Says
• Why Silicon Valley CEOs are such raging psychopaths
• The disruption con: why big tech’s favourite buzzword is nonsense
• Inside eBay’s Cockroach Cult: The Ghastly Story of a Stalking Scandal
• Charles Hugh Smith: The Road To Nowhere – Whatever Can’t Be Politicized Ceases To Exist
• Highly-Educated Americans Are By Far The Most Closed-Minded; Gallup
• USA Watchdog: Evil Covid Lies & People Died – Chris Martenson
• Twenty-one states are reporting increased Covid-19 cases as experts warn of a fall surge
• Forecasting Intelligence: Herd Immunity And The Politics Of Recovery
• Nuclear plants in Arabian Sea face tsunami risk
• Mexican farmers revolt over sending water to US during drought
• Trump Administration Moves To Expand Development In Alaska’s Tongass National Forest

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• How Do You Know If You’re Living Through the Death of an Empire?
• SEC Raises Bar for Shareholder Resolutions
• Stakeholder Capitalism Gets a Report Card. It’s Not Good.
• At Pentagon, Fears Grow That Trump Will Pull Military Into Election Unrest
• ‘There will be an orderly transition’: McConnell dismisses Trump’s refusal to commit to peaceful transfer
• We Aren’t Nationally Mourning The 200,000 COVID-19 Victims Because If We Did It Would Be A Reckoning
• Among people of color asked to join Covid-19 vaccine trials, worries about inequities run deep
• Comparative experimental evidence on compliance with social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Here’s How the Pandemic Finally Ends
• Bezos breaks his climate pledge
• Why dangerous ‘forever chemicals’ are allowed in US drinking water

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• Judge says 2020 census must continue for another month
• Johnson & Johnson’s Vaccine Advances, Sparking Optimism in Race
• Coronavirus patient Richard Misior leaves hospital COVID-19 ward after six months
• France doubles paid paternity leave to 28 days
• A therapeutic non-self-reactive SARS-CoV-2 antibody protects from lung pathology in a COVID-19 hamster model
• See It: MTA Workers Build Illegal ‘Man Cave’ In Grand Central Terminal; ‘Few Would Have The Chutzpah’
• Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2020 winners
• What is ‘friluftsliv’? How an idea of outdoor living could help us this winter

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• How International Banks Pushed Venezuela To The Brink Of Bankruptcy
• Ex-Louisville police Officer Brett Hankison charged with wanton endangerment in Breonna Taylor case
• 2 Louisville officers shot amid Breonna Taylor protests
• China’s US dollar debt defaults climb as coronavirus, US tensions hit firms’ bottom lines
• The Election That Could Break America
• Protesters clash with police in Belarus after Lukashenko sworn in again
• The FBI Has Arrested Two New York Antiquities Dealers for Falsifying Ownership Histories Using Dead Collectors’ Names
• Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine is fourth to begin Phase 3 trials in the United States
• Operation Warp Speed advisers held investments in COVID vaccine firms, records show
• Covid-19: What it’s like getting a ‘weak positive’ test result for coronavirus
• Global Climate Groups Issue Guidance To Finance Giants on Aligning with Paris Agreement Goals

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• U.S. reaches 200,000 coronavirus deaths
• FinCEN: Why gold in your phone could be funding drug gangs
• N.Y.P.D. Officer Is Accused of Spying on Tibetans for China
• Louisville under state of emergency as city braces for Breonna Taylor decision
• He fought wildfires while imprisoned. California reported him to Ice for deportation
• North Carolina Nurses Win Union In Landslide After Bitter Opposition
• Pentagon used taxpayer money meant for masks and swabs to make jet engine parts and body armor
• Dr. Malcom Kendrick: More COVID19 news from Sweden
• The Public-Shaming Pandemic
• Thanks to anti-COVID efforts, expert says South Africa “didn’t have a flu season this year”
• ‘Zombie’ storm Paulette regains some strength, adding to weird 2020 weather

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• Here’s How The Supreme Court Will Function With Eight Justices Leading Up To The Election
• Buzzfeed: The Fincen Files
• Keith Payne: The psychology of inequality and political division
• The Bill For America’s $50 Trillion Gluttony Of Inequality Is Overdue
• $2.50 a Year in Interest? That’s What $5,000 in Savings Gets
• 1920: The Crash That Cured Itself
• Bitcoin & The Tragedy Of Monopolized Fiat Money
• Strategic Culture: Kennedy’s U.S.-Russia Joint Space Vision Must Be Revived
• Covid-19’s long shadow: ‘The light at the end of the tunnel just isn’t there’
• ‘It didn’t have to be this way’: Nurses describe brutal toll of treating coronavirus patients in America
• Housekeepers Face a Disaster Generations in the Making
• ProPublica: What the Photos of Wildfires and Smoke Don’t Show You
• Earth Observatory: Record Flooding In Sudan
• Opinion: Neonicotinoids pose undocumented threats to food webs

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• US billionaires’ wealth grew by $845 billion during the first six months of the pandemic
• Ranked: The World’s Richest Families in 2020
• Army National Guard major told Congress feds requested heat ray and stockpiled ammunition before clearing DC protest
• Charles Hugh Smith: This Is Why Inflation Will Rip Everyone’s Face Off
• Mises Institute: Inflation as a Tool of the Radical Left
• ‘There’s not a comparable year’: Homicides are up 52% in Chicago amid COVID-19, with majority involving people of color
• Murders Have Soared While Other Violent Crime Declined, FBI Finds
• A Progressive Prosecutor Faces Off With Portland’s Aggressive Police
• Armed Oregon Residents Set Up Roadblocks After Fire Was Ignited Intentionally, Police Say
• C.D.C. Testing Guidance Was Published Against Scientists’ Objections
• US reinfection case raises question: how long does Covid immunity last?
• What BP Got Wrong About Global Oil Demand
• Why There Are So Many Wildfires in California, but Few in the Southeastern United States
• New studies confirm weakening of the Gulf Stream circulation (AMOC)
• UPDATE: Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ Likely Contaminate More Than 700 Military Sites

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• Why some US cities are plotting a ‘green recovery’ after the pandemic
• After final U.S. Congress primary in Delaware, a record-breaking 298 women U.S. House nominees will be on ballots this November
• A Volunteer Archaeologist Just Discovered the Oldest Example of Religious Graffiti Ever Found in Britain
• Airline workers have lower rates of COVID-19 than the general population — and airline CEOs say it’s proof that flying is safe
• The Rise Of Molds
• NASA Funds Eight New Projects Exploring Connections Between the Environment and COVID-19
• Mathematicians may have unlocked the secret of how “stone forests” form
• How to Help Victims of the California Wildfires

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• U.S. Image Plummets Internationally as Most Say Country Has Handled Coronavirus Badly
• Tracking America’s recovery
• Exclusive: The Billionaire Who Wanted To Die Broke Is Now Officially Broke
• We mailed 100 letters to test the Postal Service. The verdict: Spotty at best, dismal at worst
• Military Police Leaders Weighed Deploying ‘Heat Ray’ Against D.C. Protesters
• Senators Call Google ‘Monopoly Upon Monopoly’ as DOJ Case Nears
• How the Promise of Normalcy Won the 1920 Election
• Conservative group used a bunch of teens to evade Twitter and Facebook moderation
• The Crushing Reality of Zoom School
• Claims of ‘coronavirus death squads’ as Colombia is rocked by nine massacres in just two weeks
• U.S. Shale Production Continues To Decline
• Bird populations in US and Canada down 3bn in 50 years
• Mass deaths of migratory birds reported in New Mexico
• British Military Prepares for Climate-Fueled Resource Shortages

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