H/T Graphic: Buzzflash.com On the very day that “52,000 new cases were reported in the United States, the highest total since the start of the pandemic” and “record-shattering numbers of new cases were reported Wednesday in six states — California, Georgia, Texas, Alaska, North Carolina and Arizona” — in 45 states, seven-day averages of new … Read more
Coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci issued a stark warning on Tuesday to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, telling them he wouldn’t be surprised if the US sees new cases of coronavirus rising to a level of 100,000 a day. Fauci warns Congress that new US coronavirus cases could rise to 100,000 a day: “We … Read more
Another day, another ad from the Lincoln Project. The latest, “Which Side of History” starts off with the historic event of the Mississippi State Legislature voting to do away with its flag which glorified the Confederacy. The ad then shifts to Donald Trump and his contrarian world view to what was happening in Mississippi and … Read more
[Cross-posted from Inequality.org] You don’t hear much about millionaires these days in America. Which makes some sense. Add up all our nation’s personal wealth, divide by our number of people, and we have an average wealth per person in the United States today of about $300,000. At that average, a family of three worth a … Read more
What does “defund the police” mean to you? Following the tragic and unnecessary deaths of George Floyd, Dion Johnson, Rayshard Brooks, Carlos Ingram Lopez and others at the hands of law enforcement officers, there have been calls to “defund the police.” Often the same people who say “defund the police” also add “that doesn’t mean … Read more