The Summer QAnon Went Mainstream

Ali Breland Mother Jones
QAnon is an extremely useful right-wing political project that can be used to justify fighting against social progress. But the main catalyst of its current round of growth is probably the coronavirus.

The 'Great' Reopening: Setting America’s Schools Up to Fail

Belle Chesler TomDispatch
I expect to watch with terror as many of our nation’s schools, woefully unprepared, open in the midst of a pandemic. Exhausted and heartbroken, I will worry nonstop about the students and teachers walking through those doors.

How Physics Erases the Beginning of the Universe

Ethan Siegel Forbes
It’s one of the most remarkable achievements of science of all: that we can go back billions of years in time and understand when and how our Universe, as we know it, came to be this way.

Martinez-Cuevas: Reckoning with Labor Law’s Racist Roots

Marina Multhaup onlabor
Workers working in the fields.
The Washington Supreme Court is currently deliberating a case that could have major economic effects for our most vulnerable workers while beginning to unravel one long-standing piece of our nation’s white supremacist history.

Nominative Determinism--A found poem*

Ellaraine Lockie Poetrysuperhighway.com
Nominative determinism, explains poet Ellaraine Lockie about a certain president, is the hypothesis that people gravitate towards areas of work that fit their name.

Trump Might Cheat. Trump Will Cheat. Activists Are Getting Ready.

Michelle Goldberg The New York Times
Election sabotage needs to be met with the largest protests yet. “A show of numbers in the streets — and actions in the streets — may be decisive factors in determining what the public perceives as a just and legitimate outcome.”