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True.  Kshama Sawant’s first win (in an all-city election) was not determined until five days after election day.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/brace-blue-shift/615097/

This sort of late-breaking Democratic vote is the new, though still underappreciated, normal in national elections. Americans have become accustomed to…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/10/trump-trade-policies-and-mishandling-coronavirus-pandemic-have-wiped-out-us

“Additionally, the U.S. trade deficit in manufactured goods rose significantly between 2016 and 2019,” Scott said. A country’s balance of trade is the difference between the value of its imports and exports over a certain…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/10/privacy-advocates-demand-ban-facial-recognition-schools-response-damning-study

FR “is likely to mimic the impacts of school resource officers (SROs), stop-and-frisk policies, and airport security,” all of which “purport to be objective and neutral systems, but in practice they reflect the structural…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/08/10/americas-death-march

A hyper-nationalism always infects a dying civilization. It feeds the collective self-worship. This hyper-nationalism celebrates the supposedly unique virtues of the race or the national group. It strips all who are outside the closed circle of worth and humanity. The world…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/08/10/within-healthcare-usa-risk-and-reward-have-never-been-more-out-kilter

If you happen to provide healthcare services to actual Covid-19 patients—as a nurse or a doctor, an orderly or a physician’s assistant—this has been the year from hell. Amid the worst worldwide pandemic in over a century, you’v…[Read more]

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/08/10/how-did-americans-become-such-wimps?

Not only are we perfectly willing to toss grandma in an early grave on Trump’s say-so, but we are supine as he openly engineers the destruction of social security and medicare, and of the post office, on behalf of himself and the billionaire class he represents. T…[Read more]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4xqv/marss-weird-glowing-atmosphere-pulses-exactly-3-times-a-night-nasa-discovers

The arrival of spring and fall on arth is marked by milder temperatures and the respective sprouting and shedding of leaves. Spring and fall on Mars, in contrast, is signaled by the Martian atmosphere weirdly emitting exactly…[Read more]

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This pamphlet has six parts:

I. How the ‘old normal’ of U.S. health care is breaking up

II. The inadequate response to…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/64496-does-your-state-want-to-cut-carbon-emissions-these-old-laws-could-be-standing-in-the-way

Under Massachusetts’ utility laws, if a potential customer requests gas service, the utility that serves their area must provide it. This common provision in public service law, often referred to as a…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/64489-border-agents-are-allowed-to-operate-100-miles-inside-the-us-that-should-worry-us

If you were under the notion that America’s borders are our international boundary lines with Mexico and Canada, think again. The US government’s notion of “borders” has long been much more legally expansi…[Read more]

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/astronomers-use-hubble-during-an-eclipse-to-detect-life-on-earth

During a lunar eclipse, if you were standing on the Moon you’d see the Earth blocking the Sun. Some sunlight passes through Earth’s atmosphere, though… and this is sounding familiar. We don’t have a telescope on the Moon that can do this, but that’s…[Read more]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/10/no-one-should-go-hungry-sidewalk-fridges-of-free-food-help-americans-survive-pandemic

In May, two months after Marianne Pita recovered from Covid-19, she heard about a fridge set up on a street corner not far from her house in the Bronx. Neighbors and local businesses could donate food – homemade, s…[Read more]

https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/64461-indigenous-forest-defenders-turn-to-high-tech-tools-to-protect-amazon-and-its-iconic-jaguar

An estimated 130,000 jaguars are left in the wild, where the solitary cats roam alone across 18 range countries, largely in the Amazon basin.

The species are particularly vulnerable to habitat…[Read more]

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