Monthly Archives: July 2020

Judy Heumann remembers the day she went to register for kindergarten in 1952. She’d gotten dressed up and her mother had pulled her wheelchair up a flight of stairs before the principal intervened. Her disability, he said, meant she was not allowed to attend the school. Heumann had polio as a child, and it left… 30Continue reading “30 Years After a Landmark Disability Law, the Fight for Access and Equality Continues — TIME”

Send in your photos, please! Today we have a sequence of butterfly development taken by reader David Fuqua, whose captions are indented. My wife, Debra, and I have been staying at home like we are supposed to. We have enjoyed the opportunity to observe the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus). Debra bought […]Continue reading “Readers’ wildlife photos — Why Evolution Is True”

A reporter covering the protests in Portland reflects on fear and trauma, police violence, and her voice as a journalist. ‘I Mostly Feel Like My Voice Matters’: A Portland Journalist on Protests, Police Violence, and Enduring Trauma — Longreads

(WASHINGTON) — The viral pandemic’s resurgence caused the number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits to rise last week for the first time in nearly four months, evidence of the deepening economic pain the outbreak is causing. The increase in weekly jobless claims to 1.4 million served to underscore the outsize role the unemployment insurance system… FirstContinue reading “First Increase in People Seeking U.S. Jobless Aid Since March Pointing to Deepening Economic Pain — TIME”

Originally posted on Trumptimestamp: Where did the personnel for PACT come from? who are they? According to DHS: “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its components will continue to work tirelessly to reestablish law and order.? The Federal Protective Service (FPS) is the lead government agency that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel are… WhoContinue reading “Who are the PACT Stormtroopers in Portland? — Scotties Toy Box”

“The seed of revolution is repression.” Woodrow Wilson Prepare Yourselves Scions of Richard the lll, we the sheep are so tired of your eternal and turbulent days where we walk among wolves, devoured by your lies that suck the life out of us like walking through a field of mud that sucks the boots off […]Continue reading “Prepare Yourselves – a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon — parallax”

MEMO | July 23, 2020 The Israeli occupation army is being sued for exposing residents of a kibbutz to high levels of radiation in a lawsuit that serves to highlight the Zionist state’s discrimination against Palestinians. Farmers in the northern Negev who are said to have been unknowingly exposed to very strong radiation for six […]Continue reading “Israeli army sued for ‘dangerous’ levels of radiation — Aletho News”

It isn’t about me getting beat up. It’s about focusing back on the original intention of all of these protests, which is Black Lives Matter. U.S. Navy veteran speaks out about being attacked by Trump’s secret police in Portland this past weekend — NationofChange

“The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office will not make excuses for crimes committed by law enforcement that demean the democratic freedoms so many Americans have fought and died to preserve.” Philly SWAT cop charged with assault for pepper-spraying kneeling protesters on video — NationofChange

The New Arab Staff Iraq prime minister warns against attacks on Iran from Iraqi soil Kadhimi has clamped down on Iran-linked militias in Iraq [Getty] Date of publication: 22 July, 2020 Iraq Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi has warned outside powers against using his country’s soil as a base to strike neighbouring Iran or as aContinue reading “Iraq prime minister warns against attacks on Iran from Iraqi soil — The Muslim Times”