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June 25, 2021

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Sha’Carri Richardson Wins Gold & Carl Nassib Becomes First Openly Gay NFL Player. The Music’s Back in This Region. A Crime On The Bayou. Buy, Borrow, Die: How America's Ultrawealthy Stay That Way. How Quantum Mechanics Helps Birds Find Their Way.

June 25, 2021

Chauvin Gets 22.5 Years for Murder of George Floyd

Brett Wilkins Common Dreams

"While this may help heal our grieving community, this rare moment of consequence for killings by police does not represent justice."

June 25, 2021

New Evidence Senior Trump Aides Knew Jan. 6 Rally Could Get Chaotic

Joshua Kaplan and Joaquin Sapien ProPublica

Text messages and interviews show that Stop the Steal leaders fooled the Capitol police and welcomed racists to increase their crowd sizes, while White House officials worked to both contain and appease them.

June 25, 2021

Mitch McConnell Warns That Voting Bill Would Bring U.S. to the Brink of Democracy

Andy Borowitz The New Yorker

“They want to turn the United States of America that we love and cherish into a democracy.”

June 25, 2021

Every Billionaire Is a Failure

Christine Emba The Washington Post

Instead of debating tweaks at the edges of our tax system, what we should be doing is stretching ourselves to imagine a world where billionaires are impossible.

Sha’Carri Richardson Wins Gold & Carl Nassib Becomes First Openly Gay NFL Player

June 25, 2021

Fastest-woman-ever Sha’Carri Richardson wins gold at the Olympic trials, Carl Nassib comes out as first openly gay NFL player, and the Supreme Court rules that the NCAA must lift restrictions on education-related benefits for college athletes. #DailyShow #RoyWoodJr #MichaelKosta

The Music’s Back in This Region. Will the Pandemic Follow?

June 25, 2021

Post-pandemic life has started in the U.S. with bars, restaurants and concert halls filling with people and it’s bringing the party back to a region renowned for its live music scene.

A Crime On The Bayou (2021) | Trailer

June 25, 2021

Attorney Richard Sobol stands up to a racist legal system to defend Gary Duncan, a Black teenager wrongfully accused of assaulting a boy in 1966 New Orleans. In select theaters now.

Buy, Borrow, Die: How America's Ultrawealthy Stay That Way

June 25, 2021

Some of the wealthiest Americans use a strategy called Buy, Borrow, Die to dramatically reduce their tax bills while their fortunes continue to grow.

June 25, 2021

Angela Davis, America’s Best-Known Black Radical, Joins the Country’s Most Radical Union

Peter Cole CounterPunch

Davis’ induction makes more visible the long and deep ties connecting African Americans to the labor movement and anti-capitalist politics, particularly in the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.