Category Archives: Daily Digest

• Trump Tests Positive for Covid-19, and the World Shudders
• US futures and global markets rattled after Trump tests positive for coronavirus
• Britain is risking a car-crash Brexit of food shortages, another recession and isolation
• The covid-19 recession is the most unequal in modern U.S. history
• “No, Not Trump, Not Ever”: Second Debate Moderator Worked For Biden, Tweeted Resistance Screed
• How One Piece of Hardware Took Down a $6 Trillion Stock Market
• Texas governor restricts mail-in ballot drop-off locations
• The Attack On Voting In The 2020 Elections
• A 911 caller said a Latino man was kidnapping a white child. The toddler was his grandson
• Covid-19’s stunningly unequal death toll in America, in one chart
• N.Y.C.’s School Testing Plan May Miss Large Outbreaks, Study Finds
• The data scientist exposing US white supremacists: ‘This is how you fight Nazis’
• Millions of Americans risk losing power and water as massive, unpaid utility bills pile up
• World’s richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of poorest 50%, says Oxfam
• How the oil industry made us doubt climate change

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• Laughter May Be Effective Medicine for These Trying Times
• This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic
• How to Talk to a Friend Who ‘Doesn’t See the Point’ in Voting This Year
• Watch Adorable 5-Week-Old Panda Cub Crawl to Its Mother in National Zoo Video
• Why Male Baboons Benefit From Female Friends
• A Smarter Fall Cleanup
• Mayors of 12 Major Cities Commit to Divest From Fossil Fuel Companies, Invest in Green and Just Recovery from COVID-19 Crisis
• An Ancient Town Submerged: Hasankeyf Underwater

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• Our Finite World: Reaching the End of Early Stimulus – What’s Ahead?
• Disney is laying off 28,000 employees as pandemic hammers its theme parks
• Global Food Shortages Are Becoming Very Real, And US Grocery Store Chains Are Preparing For Worst Case Scenarios
• Visual Capitalist: Charting the $1.7B Transfer of Military Equipment to Police Departments
• Mapped: The Countries With the Most Military Spending
• Democratic Sweep Will Unleash New $7 Trillion Fiscal Stimulus
• James Howard Kunstler: Civil War 2.0: “The Country Is Now Out Of Its Mind”
• An Epic Moment of National Shame: The Debate Was an Embarrassment for the Ages
• American Thinker: Two Crucial Things Emerged From The First Presidential Debate
• The Bad Daddy: Talking to kids about the protests, riots, and looting.
• Kym Robinson: The Individual Against The Odds
• Excess Mortality Data Shows Trump Is Lying About Covid-19 Being More Deadly in Europe
• Denmark Nears Pre-COVID Normality: No Masks Or Distancing In Schools, Just Common Sense
• Chief Science Officer for Pfizer Says “Second Wave” Faked on False-Positive COVID Tests, “Pandemic Is Over”
• Australian develops effective Triple Therapy to treat COVID-19
• Trump issues fresh rare earth mining executive order
• Today’s Energy Predicament – A Look at Some Charts
• Restaurant owners left reeling as Glass Fire devastates Wine Country

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• The Election Has Already Been Hijacked & The Winner Decided: ‘We, The People’ Lose
• Brooklyn Voters Receive Absentee Ballot Envelopes With Wrong Voter Names And Addresses
• Why Does Everyone in America Think They’re Middle Class?
• Veteran, War Hero, Defendant, Troll
• I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There.
• The Fed Has Given Big Business A Huge Advantage
• Charles Hugh Smith: Helicopter Money And The End Of Taxes
• NY Attorney General Says Cops Should Stop Making Traffic Stops, Ignore Warrants
• Minneapolis City Council Backtracking On Pledge To Dismantle PD Amid Spike In Crime
• The Court of God: How a Catholic Secret Society Took Over SCOTUS
• South Korean-Built Mini Nuclear Reactors That “Won’t Melt Down” Approved For US
• ‘We’ve always known ours was contaminated’: the trouble with America’s water

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• 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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