'Everyone tested positive': Covid devastates agriculture workers in California's heartland [Click] Translation: Covid is coming for your groceries. “Many who do the low-wage labor that keeps these industries afloat are Latinx and do not speak English, making it difficult for them to communicate with their employers and understand their rights.” News note for the reporter: quite a few of them do not speak Spanish either, but indigenous languages.
I have to say that his DeJoy POS destroying the USPS is like the LAST STRAW for me! This whole cabal of evil from trump, Barr, McConnell, Kushner, Miller, Pompeo et.al., have finally put a BIG DENT in my mental health. I feel exactly like I'm sitting peacefully at home when a crew of men with sledgehammers breaks down the door and starts tearing down the walls of my home. My cries won't stop them, my pleas for mercy won't stop them. They are bent on destruction and destruction they will have. I don't know how to fight back from the position of a powerless citizen with no authority. I see what sparked the French Revolution igniting in my own heart and soul.
OHIO: As of Saturday afternoon, there have been at least 99,969 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 3,668 deaths, and 11,516 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
NBC: Failure wasn't an option on coronavirus aid. It was the only option. [Click] “There was no political incentive — other than public need — for the White House and Congress to reach a deal. So they didn't.” I think the writer overlooks something important: Pelosi offered to split the difference.
I happened across a photo of the tank Fidel Castro used at Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs); I thought it looked a bit odd, so went looking for an identification. Turns out it was a Soviet tank destroyer, quite capable of knocking out the Sherman tanks used by the counter-revolutionaries. That led me to read the Wikipedia article on the Bay of Pigs invasion. I had forgotten how badly the invasion was bungled, but the concluding paragraph really struck me:
After the failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the construction of the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy believed that another failure on the part of the United States to gain control and stop communist expansion would fatally damage U.S. credibility with its allies and his own reputation. Kennedy was thus determined to "draw a line in the sand" and prevent a communist victory in the Vietnam War. He told James Reston of The New York Times immediately after his Vienna meeting with Khrushchev, "Now we have a problem making our power credible and Vietnam looks like the place."
'Everyone tested positive': Covid devastates agriculture workers in California's heartland [Click] Translation: Covid is coming for your groceries. “Many who do the low-wage labor that keeps these industries afloat are Latinx and do not speak English, making it difficult for them to communicate with their employers and understand their rights.” News note for the reporter: quite a few of them do not speak Spanish either, but indigenous languages.
ReplyDeletePelosi Is Playing Hardball on Coronavirus Relief. She Thinks She’ll Win. [Click]
ReplyDeleteNotorious former sheriff, Republican Joe Arpaio, of Arizona has lost the primary.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cnn.com/2020/08/08/politics/joe-arpaio-loses-primary-sheriff/index.html
VT: 1454 known cases (+6)
ReplyDelete58 deaths (3 days)
129 active cases
Total Recovered 1272 (+12)
In Hospital 1 (0)
Tests 101,803 (+841)
I have to say that his DeJoy POS destroying the USPS is like the LAST STRAW for me! This whole cabal of evil from trump, Barr, McConnell, Kushner, Miller, Pompeo et.al., have finally put a BIG DENT in my mental health. I feel exactly like I'm sitting peacefully at home when a crew of men with sledgehammers breaks down the door and starts tearing down the walls of my home. My cries won't stop them, my pleas for mercy won't stop them. They are bent on destruction and destruction they will have. I don't know how to fight back from the position of a powerless citizen with no authority. I see what sparked the French Revolution igniting in my own heart and soul.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to deposit my ballot in a drop box; the only question is whether it will be one near my house or at the County Clerk's office.
DeleteChatting with the postal clerks, I was told that the increase in e-commerce had absolutely swamped them--it was worse than the worst Christmas rush.
OHIO: As of Saturday afternoon, there have been at least 99,969 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 3,668 deaths, and 11,516 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
ReplyDeleteNBC: Failure wasn't an option on coronavirus aid. It was the only option. [Click] “There was no political incentive — other than public need — for the White House and Congress to reach a deal. So they didn't.” I think the writer overlooks something important: Pelosi offered to split the difference.
ReplyDelete'People are ready to see Black women lead': US sees wave of progressive victories by people of color [Click]
ReplyDeleteSouth Dakota super-duper spreader event commences. [Click] Give it two or three weeks to manifest itself over a large part of the country.
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ReplyDeleteI happened across a photo of the tank Fidel Castro used at Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs); I thought it looked a bit odd, so went looking for an identification. Turns out it was a Soviet tank destroyer, quite capable of knocking out the Sherman tanks used by the counter-revolutionaries. That led me to read the Wikipedia article on the Bay of Pigs invasion. I had forgotten how badly the invasion was bungled, but the concluding paragraph really struck me:
ReplyDeleteAfter the failure of the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the construction of the Berlin Wall, and the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy believed that another failure on the part of the United States to gain control and stop communist expansion would fatally damage U.S. credibility with its allies and his own reputation. Kennedy was thus determined to "draw a line in the sand" and prevent a communist victory in the Vietnam War. He told James Reston of The New York Times immediately after his Vienna meeting with Khrushchev, "Now we have a problem making our power credible and Vietnam looks like the place."
I remember seeing the newsreel of Batista's plane arriving in Ciudad Trujillo.
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