Tag: COVID-19
Democratic legislators introduce COVID Whistleblower Protection Act
The bill seeks to institute stronger legal whistleblower protections for employees who work for entities that receive COVID-19 relief funds
Corporate media’s leaked Chinese documents confirm China didn’t hide Covid-19
It is important for American journalists to combat these misperceptions, so that the U.S. can learn from China’s response on how to better deal with the current crisis.
Indigenous women call upon Biden to stop pipelines and uphold Indigenous...
““No more broken promises, no more broken Treaties.”
COVID-19 further exposes inequalities in the global financial system
With a greater public awareness of soaring inequality within countries, it is also important to recognize the deep imbalances across the global financial system.
World AIDS Day is grim reminder of an ongoing epidemic, with...
“World AIDS Day Is a Grim Reminder That We Have [Many Pandemics] Going On.”
Over 130 Secret Service officers in isolation due to COVID outbreak
One government official stated that the agency is backtracing to determine whether most of the infections took place during Trump’s campaign rallies or at the White House.
President-elect Biden’s new COVID-19 task force gives the US a fresh...
Will there be a cohesive message from the top?
How immigrant communities are confronting COVID challenges
"With Caribbean people in general, we have a way of adapting to situations [that] we’re put into to make the most out of them.”
A right-wing think tank is behind the controversial Great Barrington declaration...
“Never in the history of public health has herd immunity been used as a strategy for responding to an outbreak, let alone a pandemic."
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.