LEADS

Has a pandemic changed America or revealed its heart?
https://www.rollcall.com/2020/05/07/has-a-pandemic-changed-america-or-revealed-its-heart/

A Black man was lynched this year. His killers have yet to be charged
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/05/06/nation/black-man-was-lynched-this-year-his-killers-have-yet-be-charged/

They Lynched Ahmaud Arbery In Georgia. A Prosecutor Convicted *Him*.
https://www.wonkette.com/ahmaud-arberys-murder-pisses-us-off

'They were performing a lynching in the middle of the day:' Family of slain Brunswick jogger calls for justice after video leaked
https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/parents-of-ahmaud-arbery-jogger-killed-in-brunswick-to-release-statement/77-20ae65e3-a2cb-45f7-9aa1-354fd8b065bf

Protesters Seek Justice For Sean Reed After Indianapolis Police Officer Allegedly Caught Joking About Shooting Black Man
https://www.newsweek.com/sean-reed-justice-indianapolis-police-shooting-facebook-1502502

Dumb And Corrupt Cops Risk Losing Our Support
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2020/05/07/dumb-and-corrupt-cops-risk-losing-our-support-n2568260

America’s Police Prepared for the Wrong Enemy
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/06/police-coronavirus-social-distancing-enforcement-nypd/

'Incomprehensible': Confrontations over masks erupt amid COVID-19 crisis
https://abcnews.go.com/US/incomprehensible-confrontations-masks-erupt-amid-covid-19-crisis/story?id=70494577

Customers shot 2 McDonald's employees after being told to leave due to coronavirus restrictions
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/06/us/mcdonalds-employees-shot-coronavirus/index.html

Armed Protesters Arrested Outside Bar, Demand State Reopen Now
https://hotair.com/archives/karen-townsend/2020/05/06/armed-protesters-arrested-outside-bar-demand-state-reopen-now/

Armed protesters escort Michigan lawmakers into state capitol
https://www.wnem.com/news/armed-protesters-escort-michigan-lawmakers-into-state-capitol/article_0bb83d0e-9060-11ea-8432-fb96702c1577.html

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wants to ban guns from state Capitol after coronavirus lockdown protests
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-michigan-gov-whitmer-wants-to-ban-guns-from-state-capitol-20200507-rcvux5tw3bfbhgy6fxwbhkcd4i-story.html

Michigan Republican Lawmakers Sue Gov. Whitmer over State of Emergency Extension
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/michigan-republican-lawmakers-sue-gov-whitmer-over-state-of-emergency-extension/

Missouri Patriots Use Open Government Laws to Expose ‘Social Distancing’ Snitches
https://www.redstate.com/streiff/2020/05/07/832486/

The United Kingdom’s contact tracing app could be a preview of America’s digital tracing future
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/5/6/21247955/united-kingdom-nhs-contact-tracing-app

Isle of Wight contact tracing app 'fails to work on four-year-old phones', residents say
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/07/isle-wight-contact-tracing-app-fails-work-four-year-old-phones/

Coronavirus: India's contact tracing app comes under fire
https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-indias-contact-tracing-app-comes-under-fire/a-53355647

North Dakota launched a contact-tracing app. It's not going well.
https://mashable.com/article/north-dakota-contact-tracing-app/

Harrisburg University Researchers Claim Their 'Unbiased' Facial Recognition Software Can Identify Potential Criminals
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200505/17090244442/harrisburg-university-researchers-claim-their-unbiased-facial-recognition-software-can-identify-potential-criminals.shtml

University Deletes Press Release Promising ‘Bias-Free’ Criminal Detecting Algorithm
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7kpzeg/university-deletes-press-release-promising-bias-free-criminal-detecting-algorithm

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Issues New Title IX Rules To Protect Free Speech, Due Process for Accused Students
https://reason.com/2020/05/06/betsy-devos-title-ix-due-process-college-sexual-misconduct/

Opinion: Rolling back Title IX threatens racial and gender justice
https://www.ajc.com/blog/get-schooled/opinion-rolling-back-title-threatens-racial-and-gender-justice/HLXwfxxBt4Xm9jyNKsUuDL/

Critics alarmed by US nuclear agency's bid to relax rules on radioactive waste
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/07/nuclear-regulatory-commission-radioactive-waste

The Trump Administration Is Reversing Nearly 100 Environmental Rules. Here’s the Full List.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-environment-rollbacks.html

Trump Vetoes Bill To Limit Military Powers Against Iran, Calling It 'Very Insulting'
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/06/851702742/trump-vetoes-bill-to-limit-military-powers-against-iran-calling-it-very-insultin

Trump Doubles Down On Plan To ‘Terminate’ Obamacare In SCOTUS Case
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-obamacare-terminate-supreme-court-case

AP Exclusive: Admin shelves CDC guide to reopening country
https://apnews.com/7a00d5fba3249e573d2ead4bd323a4d4

It Sure Looks Like the Trump Administration Used Some Bad, High School–Level Math to Justify “Reopening” the Economy
https://slate.com/business/2020/05/trump-models-coronavirus-dumb.html

Trump Wants a Quick Reopening. Data His Own White House Is Examining Shows It Could Be a Disaster
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-wants-a-quick-reopening-data-his-own-white-house-is-examining-shows-it-could-be-a-disaster

Blame China. Remake economy: Trump pivots to new election message amid pandemic
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-election/blame-china-remake-economy-trump-pivots-to-new-election-message-amid-pandemic-idUSKBN22J1GT

Trump Says US Coronavirus Outbreak Worse Than Pearl Harbor, 9/11: 'Could've Stopped In China'
https://www.ibtimes.com/trump-says-us-coronavirus-outbreak-worse-pearl-harbor-911-couldve-stopped-china-2971780

Lab Theory of Wuhan Virus Cooked Up in a Neocon Lab
https://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2020/05/06/lab-theory-of-wuhan-virus-cooked-up-in-a-neocon-lab-n2568349

Cold, Crowded, Deadly: How U.S. Meat Plants Became a Virus Breeding Ground
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-05-07/coronavirus-closes-meat-plants-threatens-food-supply

Coronavirus Pandemic: Human Cost of Culling’ Livestock and ‘Depopulating’ Farms
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/coronavirus-pandemic-human-cost-of-culling-livestock-depopulating-farms/

Poultry Farming, COVID-19, and the Next Pandemic
https://quillette.com/2020/05/05/poultry-farming-covid-19-and-the-next-pandemic/

POLITICS and FLEAS

On the Same Day Sen. Richard Burr Dumped Stock, So Did His Brother-in-Law. Then the Market Crashed.
https://www.propublica.org/article/burr-family-stock

Loeffler Got Lucrative Parting Gift From Public Company en Route to the Senate
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/us/politics/kelly-loeffler-compensation.html

Top Republican fundraiser and Trump ally named postmaster general, giving president new influence over Postal Service
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/top-republican-fundraiser-and-trump-ally-to-be-named-postmaster-general-giving-president-new-influence-over-postal-service-officials-say/2020/05/06/25cde93c-8fd4-11ea-8df0-ee33c3f5b0d6_story.html

FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS

A Lost ‘Little Africa’: How China, Too, Blames Foreigners for the Virus
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/05/05/a-lost-little-africa-how-china-too-blames-foreigners-for-the-virus/

Thailand’s ‘five families’ poised to profit on the plague
https://asiatimes.com/2020/05/thailands-five-families-poised-to-profit-on-the-plague/

Coronavirus and Crime – Lethal Combo for Mexico’s Riviera Maya
https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/coronavirus-crime-mexico-riviera-maya/

PANDORA'S BOXCUTTER

How Climate Change Is Contributing to Skyrocketing Rates of Infectious Disease
https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-infectious-diseases

Oceans Are Record Warm, Which Likely Means Stronger Hurricanes & Larger Wildfires
https://cleantechnica.com/2020/05/06/oceans-are-record-warm-which-likely-means-stronger-hurricanes-larger-wildfires/

One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years – study
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/05/one-billion-people-will-live-in-insufferable-heat-within-50-years-study

Polar vortex to bring blast of cold air and May snow to eastern US amid heat wave in the West
https://q13fox.com/2020/05/06/polar-vortex-to-bring-blast-of-cold-air-and-may-snow-to-eastern-us-amid-heat-wave-in-the-west/

Phoenix reaches highest temperature so far this year at 106 degrees, tying record set in 2018
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix-weather/2020/05/06/valley-weather-highest-temperature-year-106-degrees-wednesday/5179781002/

California’s heat wave could be deadlier because of coronavirus, officials say
https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article242554541.html

Coronavirus Proves Only Structural Changes Can Avert Climate Apocalypse
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7wjwz/coronavirus-proves-only-structural-changes-can-avert-climate-apocalypse

THE MEDIA SCRUM

Florian Schneider 1947 – 2020: almost every musician working today owes a debt to the Kraftwerk innovator
https://www.nme.com/features/florian-schneider-tribute-obituary-kraftwerk-2660704

Florian Schneider: the enigma whose codes broke open pop music
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/may/06/florian-schneider-the-enigma-whose-codes-broke-open-pop-music

Dave Greenfield, a punk Rick Wakeman, made The Stranglers sound like no other band
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/dave-greenfield-punk-rick-wakeman-made-stranglers-sound-like/

A Tribute To Dave Greenfield
http://www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2020/05/06/a-tribute-to-dave-greenfield/

ODDS, ENDS

Why the tooth fairy — and other imaginary friends — are essential personnel right now
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/05/06/why-tooth-fairy-other-imaginary-friends-are-essential-personnel-right-now/

Bring back Satan: what the devil tells us about the world we live in—and why we need him now
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/bring-back-satan-what-the-devil-tells-us-about-the-world-we-live-in-and-why-we-need-him-now

First US Space Force recruitment video wants you to find your purpose off the planet
https://www.cnet.com/news/first-us-space-force-recruitment-video-wants-you-to-find-your-purpose-off-the-planet/

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