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Orange skies in blue states

From the Wire September 16, 2020

ORANGE SKIES IN BLUE STATES What’s wrong with a healthy orange glow? By Khalil Bendib | September 16, 2020  

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Pandemic no more

From the Wire July 22, 2020

By Khalil Bendib | July 22, 2020 Khalil Bendib is the OtherWords.org cartoonist.

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Posted in Editorial/opinon OtherWords Political Cartoons While we were looking elsewhere

I can’t breathe

From the Wire June 3, 2020

Call it political brutality. By Khalil Bendib | June 3, 2020

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The film— entitled "Message from the Future II: The Years of Repair"— is a sequel to last year's "A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez" and runs with the idea that the year 2020 became an "historic turning point" for the world, one in which "the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic and global uprisings against racism drive us to build back a better society in which no one is sacrificed, and everyone is essential." (Image: The Leap/The Intercept/Illustration by Moll Crabapple)

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Investing $2 trillion in US clean energy and infrastructure could create millions of ‘good jobs’
From the Wire 2020-10-20
 "We don't have to choose between a strong economy or a healthy environment—we can have both," says an EPI data...
Indigenous Women to Financial CEOs: Stop abetting ‘climate-wrecking’ tar sands sector or expect more resistance
From the Wire 2020-10-20
"Join us putting the proverbial nail in the coffin of these dying unneeded industries." — Joye Braun, Cheyenne River Sioux...
Montana judge rules Trump’s illegal land manager’s decisions are invalid. ‘The Pendley Fire’
Meteor Staff 2020-10-19
Illegal, unconfirmed acting official charade has consequences. Meteor staff Monday, October 19, 2020 Late last Friday, federal district judge Brian...
Promise or peril? Importing hydropower to fuel clean energy transition
From the Wire 2020-10-19
U.S. states hope to tap Canada’s network of large dams to meet low-carbon goals, but do better options exist closer...
Amid US sanctions, Venezuelan oil tanker at risk of spilling 1.3 million barrels and devastating Caribbean ecosystems
Mac England 2020-10-19
This is five times the Exxon Valdez spill off the coast of Alaska. "The Caribbean Sea would never be the...
Oil giant refreezing rapidly melting permafrost to keep arctic drilling alive
From the Wire 2020-10-19
The effort represented such "mindless idiocy" for many that 350.org ran a "help us out with this caption" contest in...

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Getting the lead out
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by Wade Rathke September 29, 2020 New Orleans   We have to take progress where we can get it in...
New report details flooding/contamination risks at uranium mine near Grand Canyon
Meteor Staff 2020-05-01
April 28, 2020 Flagstaff, Ariz.    The Grand Canyon Trust reports serious problems at the Canyon Mine uranium mine south of...
Climate change threatens drinking water quality across the Great Lakes
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Pandemic shines a light on critical water issues — 40% of the Navajo Nation lacks running water, will Congress fund solutions?
From the Wire 2020-04-19
Clean water is essential during the COVID-19 health crisis, but so far Congress hasn’t directed funds to help water utilities...
Emerging climate-fueled megadrought in Western US may rival any over past 1,200 years
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Meteor Staff 2020-03-14
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2020-10-18
by Wade Rathke October 18, 2020 Pearl River   With hardly two weeks before the election in the United States, it’s...
Payment is coming due for a Deal with the Devil
2020-10-16
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2020-10-15
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Call it political brutality

ANOTHER HATED SYMBOL There are some edifices the Trump administration is perfectly willing to topple. By Khalil Bendib | July 1, 2020
ANOTHER HATED SYMBOL There are some edifices the Trump administration is perfectly willing to topple. By Khalil Bendib | July 1, 2020

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“Trumpcare” does not exist. Nevertheless Facebook and Google cash in on misleading ads for “garbage” health insurance.
From the Wire
The thousands of “Trumpcare” ads Facebook and Google have published show that the shadowy “lead generation” economy has a happy...
Why do nonwhite Georgia voters have to wait in line for hours?
From the Wire
Their numbers have soared, and their polling places have dwindled. The state’s voter rolls have grown by nearly 2 million...
Inside the fall of the CDC
From the Wire
How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation...
New eyewitness accounts: Feds didn’t identify themselves before opening fire on Portland antifa suspect
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Local law enforcement officers deputized as U.S. Marshals have given conflicting accounts of the shooting. Witnesses say they heard no...
Four types of scandals utility companies get into with money from your electric bills
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When power companies across the country fight for favorable legislation, sometimes their efforts cross the line and customers pay the...
Inside the utility company lobbying blitz that will hike electric bills
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Democrats who campaigned against Virginia’s largest public utility, Dominion Energy, swept into office. Then the company’s lobbying efforts kicked into...
Debt collectors have made a fortune this year. Now they’re coming for more.
From the Wire
After a pause for the pandemic, debt buyers are back in the courts, suing debtors by the thousands. by Paul...
The Kushners’ Freddie Mac loan wasn’t just massive, it came with unusually good terms, too.
From the Wire
Despite a history of underperforming properties, Kushner Companies received a near-record sum from a government-backed lender. Should it default, taxpayers...
Veteran, War Hero, Defendant, Troll
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A ban from Facebook has apparently done little to slow Brian Kolfage, charged last month for defrauding thousands in a...
The Obama Justice Department had a plan to hold police accountable for abuses. The Trump DOJ has undermined it.
From the Wire
The Trump administration has not aggressively enforced existing agreements to monitor abusive law enforcement agencies, emboldening them to fight reforms....
A real vaccine before the election? It’d take a miracle.
From the Wire
There is a small chance that Pfizer’s vaccine trial will yield results by Nov. 3. But it could still take...
The Federal Government promised Native American students computers and internet. Many are still waiting.
From the Wire
Native American students in BIE operated schools were forced to start the school year without adequate technology, sometimes sharing a...
Foreign Masks, Fear and a Fake Certification: Staff at CSL Plasma Say Conditions at Donation Centers Aren’t Safe
From the Wire
Trump’s FDA authorized emergency use of plasma therapy for COVID-19, despite a lack of proof that it saves lives. Staff...
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, ‘advocate for equality and reason,’ dead at 87
From the Wire
On her deathbed, she told her granddaughter: "My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a...
Oil Companies Are Profiting From Illegal Spills. And California Lets Them.
From the Wire
California may be a global leader on combating climate change, but state regulators have allowed companies like Chevron to make...
ICE deported a woman who accused guards of sexual assault while the Feds were still investigating the incident
From the Wire
The DHS and DOJ inspectors general are investigating allegations that ICE guards assaulted detainees in camera blind spots. DHS instructed...
No Democrats allowed: a conservative lawyer holds secret voter fraud meetings with state election officials
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Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky, whose work about voting fraud has been discredited, has been conducting private meetings for Republicans...
Climate change will force a New American Migration
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Wildfires rage in the West. Hurricanes batter the East. Droughts and floods wreak damage throughout the nation. Life has become...
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission confirms a pattern of age discrimination at IBM
From the Wire
A sweeping decision by the EEOC could cost the tech giant millions in settlements or make it the target of...
A refining plant in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. New research indicates that industrial air pollution may explain the disproportionate rate of coronavirus deaths in West Baton Rouge and other parishes in the state’s chemical corridor. (Patrick Dennis/The Times-Picayune and The Advocate)
New research shows disproportionate rate of coronavirus deaths in polluted areas
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The type of pollution emitted by many chemical plants in Louisiana's industrial corridor is correlated with increased coronavirus deaths, according...
Rushing Barrett confirmation McConnell pushes Senate to ignore Covid relief taks
From the Wire
 "Mitch McConnell is rushing to steal a Supreme Court seat before the election. Senate Republicans would rather help him do...
Funding mental health first responders to reduce police violence
From the Wire
Proposal by Katie Porter The co-sponsors cited research showing people with mental illnesses are 16 times more likely to be...
Billionaire wealth has surged by $931 billion during seven months of pandemic, economic collapse
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'The Gilded Age is here again' "The juxtaposition between surging billionaire wealth and the imploding livelihoods of ordinary Americans is...
Investing $2 trillion in US clean energy and infrastructure could create millions of ‘good jobs’
From the Wire
 "We don't have to choose between a strong economy or a healthy environment—we can have both," says an EPI data...
National Guard spy plane monitored racial justice protest in sleepy Sacramento suburb where Commander lives
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Gov. Gavin Newsom's office has acknowledged that the surveillance "should not have happened." by Brett Wilkins, staff writer Tuesday, October...
As deadline for Covid relief deal looms, poll shows voters support $2 trillion stimulus by 51-point margin
From the Wire
The new survey shows 72% of likely voters—including 56% of Republicans—support an ambitious coronavirus relief package. by Jake Johnson, staff...
Older COVID patients battle ‘brain fog,’ weakness and emotional turmoil
From the Wire
by Judith Graham October 20, 2020 [caption id="attachment_15598" align="aligncenter" width="1170"] Tom Stevens and his wife, Virginia, were hospitalized with COVID-19...
Supreme Court blocks GOP effort to curb ballot deadline in Pennsylvania
From the Wire
'One of the Most Significant Rulings' of 2020 "This decision could have easily gone the other way if Amy Coney...
Justice Department sues Google in antitrust case
From the Wire
The filing, announced Tuesday morning, accuses the tech giant of violating law to stifle competition. by Andrea Germanos, staff writer...
“Trumpcare” does not exist. Nevertheless Facebook and Google cash in on misleading ads for “garbage” health insurance.
From the Wire
The thousands of “Trumpcare” ads Facebook and Google have published show that the shadowy “lead generation” economy has a happy...
Montana judge rules Trump’s illegal land manager’s decisions are invalid. ‘The Pendley Fire’
Meteor Staff
Illegal, unconfirmed acting official charade has consequences. Meteor staff Monday, October 19, 2020 Late last Friday, federal district judge Brian...
Amid US sanctions, Venezuelan oil tanker at risk of spilling 1.3 million barrels and devastating Caribbean ecosystems
Mac England
This is five times the Exxon Valdez spill off the coast of Alaska. "The Caribbean Sea would never be the...
As pandemic surges in US, Trump says ‘People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots’
From the Wire
"People are tired of a science-denying president that has allowed over 218,000 people to die from Covid," responded Rep. Mark...
Oil giant refreezing rapidly melting permafrost to keep arctic drilling alive
From the Wire
The effort represented such "mindless idiocy" for many that 350.org ran a "help us out with this caption" contest in...
Judge strikes down Trump effort to slash food stamps for 700,000 Americans
From the Wire
Victory for 'Basic Human Decency' "There's a lot of competition for Vilest Policy Ever, but slashing food stamps during a...
Police stockpile ‘less-lethal’ munitions
From the Wire
Caught off guard, agencies place emergency orders for riot gear By Chris Halsne and Sasha Fernandez / IRW Friday, October...
Lindsey Graham openly violates committee rules to schedule vote on Barrett nomination
From the Wire
'This Is Unprecedented' "Senator Graham just further proved the illegitimacy of this sham process by again breaking the rules to...
Most home health aides ‘Can’t afford not to work’ — Even when lacking PPE
From the Wire
Home health aides flattened the curve by keeping the most vulnerable patients — seniors, the disabled, the infirm — out...
Inside the fall of the CDC
From the Wire
How the world’s greatest public health organization was brought to its knees by a virus, the president and the capitulation...
Sergio Escobar, and his sister, Mariana Escobar, join about 100 other protesters during a Harley Rouda rally against changes to the United States Postal Service in Newport Beach, California, on August 18, 2020. The event was organized by Indivisible OC. (Photo: Jeff Gritchen/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register)
US Postal Service agrees to reverse changes that slowed mail nationwide
From the Wire
"We are ensuring mail services will be immediately restored," said Montana's Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock. by Kenny Stancil, staff writer...

ICE & The Border Wall

Stories about ICE

‘Know who didn’t get a F***ing Break? The children’: Outrage over Melania Trump’s recorded comments on imprisoned kids
2020-10-02
The first lady accused parents and children of lying about the violence they faced in their home countries and claimed...
Trump plan for pre-election ICE raids condemned as xenophobic and cruel ‘publicity stunt’
2020-09-30
"President Donald Trump, in need of another dose of fear to keep his sputtering reelection bid afloat, is now, officially,...
Activists help ICE detainee avoid deportation following alleged sterilization procedure at Georgia facility
2020-09-16
Pauline Binam, a Cameroonian who has lived in the U.S. since the age of two, was detained at an ICE...
Lawmakers demand probe into ‘horrifying’ allegations of neglect, mass hysterectomies at ICE Detention Center
2020-09-16
"These allegations are part of a larger pattern of reproductive injustices conducted by ICE officials." by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer...
ICE deported a woman who accused guards of sexual assault while the Feds were still investigating the incident
2020-09-16
The DHS and DOJ inspectors general are investigating allegations that ICE guards assaulted detainees in camera blind spots. DHS instructed...
Rights groups condemn ICE amid whistleblower’s allegations of unwarranted hysterectomies
2020-09-15
'Forced Sterilization Is Genocide' The complaint alleges numerous health and safety violations in regards to Covid-19 in addition a disturbing...
‘We sent 500 tests. They don’t answer calls’: Inside ICE’s coronavirus testing disaster
2020-09-11
Internal emails show ICE rebuffed New Mexico public health officials offering to help contain COVID-19. by Patrick Michels and Laura...
ICE guards “systematically” sexually assault detainees in an El Paso detention center, lawyers say
2020-08-14
Allegations include guards attacking victims in camera “blind spots” and telling them that “no one would believe” them in ICE...
ICE is making sure migrant kids don’t have COVID-19 — Then expelling them to “prevent the spread” of COVID-19
2020-08-10
The administration has used infection risk to justify expelling thousands of children without legal protections. But it’s only expelling kids...
Her rapist threatened to make her “disappear.” Instead of asylum, ICE put her in a hotel and sent her back.
2020-08-04
Thousands of migrant children — including babies — have been expelled by the Trump administration since March. Some have been...

Stories about the Border Wall

Native American man shot protesting Trump border wall, others tear gassed, arrested by US agents on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
2020-10-13
"It's obscene and offensive to us that local and state governments move to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day while the federal...
Trump plan for pre-election ICE raids condemned as xenophobic and cruel ‘publicity stunt’
2020-09-30
"President Donald Trump, in need of another dose of fear to keep his sputtering reelection bid afloat, is now, officially,...
Activists help ICE detainee avoid deportation following alleged sterilization procedure at Georgia facility
2020-09-16
Pauline Binam, a Cameroonian who has lived in the U.S. since the age of two, was detained at an ICE...
Lawmakers demand probe into ‘horrifying’ allegations of neglect, mass hysterectomies at ICE Detention Center
2020-09-16
"These allegations are part of a larger pattern of reproductive injustices conducted by ICE officials." by Lisa Newcomb, staff writer...
ICE deported a woman who accused guards of sexual assault while the Feds were still investigating the incident
2020-09-16
The DHS and DOJ inspectors general are investigating allegations that ICE guards assaulted detainees in camera blind spots. DHS instructed...
Rights groups condemn ICE amid whistleblower’s allegations of unwarranted hysterectomies
2020-09-15
'Forced Sterilization Is Genocide' The complaint alleges numerous health and safety violations in regards to Covid-19 in addition a disturbing...
‘We sent 500 tests. They don’t answer calls’: Inside ICE’s coronavirus testing disaster
2020-09-11
Internal emails show ICE rebuffed New Mexico public health officials offering to help contain COVID-19. by Patrick Michels and Laura...
ICE guards “systematically” sexually assault detainees in an El Paso detention center, lawyers say
2020-08-14
Allegations include guards attacking victims in camera “blind spots” and telling them that “no one would believe” them in ICE...
GAO Says Top Trump DHS Officials Wolf and Cuccinelli appointed illegally
2020-08-14
Democratic lawmakers said the GAO decision "paints a disturbing picture of the Trump administration playing fast and loose by bypassing...
ICE is making sure migrant kids don’t have COVID-19 — Then expelling them to “prevent the spread” of COVID-19
2020-08-10
The administration has used infection risk to justify expelling thousands of children without legal protections. But it’s only expelling kids...

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