LEADS

This Brutal Pesticide Creates a 'Circle of Death.' So Why Is It Making a Comeback?
https://www.audubon.org/magazine/spring-2020/this-brutal-pesticide-creates-circle-death-so-why

America’s Air Is Getting Worse: Here’s Why
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidcarlin/2020/05/24/americas-air-is-getting-worse-heres-why/

Covid-19 Flares Up in America's Polluted ‘Sacrifice Zones’
https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-flares-americas-polluted-sacrifice-zones/

The world sacrificed its elderly in the race to protect hospitals. The result was a catastrophe in care homes
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/26/world/elderly-care-homes-coronavirus-intl/index.html

As nation tries to exhale, coronavirus still carrying infection, death into nursing homes, data show
https://abcnews.go.com/US/nation-exhale-coronavirus-carrying-infection-death-nursing-homes/story?id=70873926

On a Scottish Isle, Nursing Home Deaths Expose a Covid-19 Scandal
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/world/europe/coronavirus-uk-nursing-homes.html

A Lesson from Sweden on How Not to Respond to COVID-19
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2020/05/26/a-lesson-from-sweden-on-how-not-to-respond-to-covid-19/

Special Report: Bolsonaro brought in his generals to fight coronavirus. Brazil is losing the battle
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-brazil-response-sp/special-report-bolsonaro-brought-in-his-generals-to-fight-coronavirus-brazil-is-losing-the-battle-idUSKBN2321DU

Coronavirus Is Killing Brazil's Isolated Indigenous Peoples at a Staggering Rate
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep4ngz/coronavirus-is-killing-brazils-isolated-indigenous-peoples-at-a-staggering-rate

Mexico City records thousands more deaths than usual, amid doubt over official Covid-19 toll
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/26/mexico-city-records-thousands-more-deaths-than-usual-amid-doubt-over-official-covid-19-toll

Coronavirus in Yemen hard to gauge amid "chaos," so experts left to count graves
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-in-yemen-covid-hard-to-gauge-amid-war-experts-count-graves-in-aden/

Tracing 'patient zero': why America's first coronavirus death may for ever go unmarked
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/26/us-coronavirus-patient-zero-100000-deaths

On the front lines of the pandemic, grocery workers are in the dark about risks
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/05/24/grocery-workers-coronavirus-risks/

As Meatpacking Plants Reopen, Data About Worker Illness Remains Elusive
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/business/coronavirus-meatpacking-plants-cases.html

Activists Battle Nebraska’s COVID Secrecy On Packing Plants
https://iowastartingline.com/2020/05/25/activists-battle-nebraskas-covid-secrecy-on-packing-plants/

Coronavirus hit meat plants just as workers were being asked to speed up
https://www.startribune.com/coronavirus-hit-meat-plants-just-as-workers-were-being-asked-to-speed-up/570758212/

Worker shortage concerns loom in immigrant-heavy meatpacking
https://apnews.com/db42b45724befc83b2371450f149c711

North Carolina hair salon declines to serve meat plant workers over coronavirus fears
https://thehill.com/regulation/labor/499454-north-carolina-hair-salon-declines-to-serve-meat-plant-workers-over

Missouri salon may have exposed 140 customers to coronavirus
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/missouri-salon-may-have-exposed-140-customers-to-coronavirus

Alabama Beachgoers Belittle Coronavirus Threat On Busy Memorial Day Weekend
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beachgoers-coronavirus-alabama_n_5eccdab9c5b6aa0910b69059

‘An international example of bad judgment’: Local officials stunned by raucous Memorial Day festivities
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/26/memorial-day-weekend-crowds-coronavirus/

Facing death threats and no pay, mayors are the front-line commanders of the coronavirus pandemic
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/26/coronavirus-mayors-front-line-commanders-pandemic/5242787002/

The Pandemic Is Driving America's Schools Toward A Financial Meltdown
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/26/858257200/the-pandemic-is-driving-americas-schools-toward-a-financial-meltdown

POLITICS and FLEAS

Twitter Must Cleanse the Trump Stain
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/opinion/trump-scarborough-twitter.html

Husband of deceased Scarborough staffer asks Twitter to delete baseless Trump claims
https://www.axios.com/trump-tweets-scarborough-staffer-death-twitter-delete-936c7d26-6df7-4faf-a3ee-506c437864f4.html

Twitter is silent on President Trump’s tweets about a baseless Joe Scarborough conspiracy theory
https://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2020/twitter-is-silent-on-president-trumps-tweets-about-a-baseless-joe-scarborough-conspiracy-theory/

Trump, who spent Memorial Day without a face mask, shares tweet criticizing Biden for wearing one
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/26/trump-biden-mask-coronavirus/

‘Lesser-of-two-evils’ vote that helped Trump beat Hillary now boosting Biden
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/may/25/joe-biden-winning-lesser-two-evils-vote-helped-don/

The voters Joe Biden needs to win the election, explained
https://www.vox.com/2020/5/26/21264719/joe-biden-election-coalition

The general election scenario that Democrats are dreading
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/26/2020-election-democrats-281470

FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS

'Our product is used on occasion to kill people': Palantir's CEO claims its tech is used to target and kill terrorists
https://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-claims-the-companys-tech-is-used-to-target-and-kill-terrorists-2020-5

China Builds Massive Spying Capacity in Africa
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/china-builds-massive-spying-capacity-in-africa/

Russian jets in Libya: Why Haftar's MiGs will 'change nothing' on the ground
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/russian-jets-libya-why-haftars-migs-wont-tip-balance-battle-tripoli

How the Taliban Outlasted a Superpower: Tenacity and Carnage
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/world/asia/taliban-afghanistan-war.html

PANDORA'S BOXCUTTER

This Early Human 'Eden' Was So Lush, Even Migratory Animals Didn't Bother to Move
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-evidence-of-ancient-eden-for-animals-hidden-at-the-edge-of-africa

Human activity threatens billions of years of evolutionary history, researchers warn
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/world/species-loss-evolution-climate-scn-intl-scli/index.html

All five of Earth's largest mass extinctions linked to global warming
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2244353-all-five-of-earths-largest-mass-extinctions-linked-to-global-warming/

THE MEDIA SCRUM

A dodgy dossier? How News Corp hyped a US government reading list into a China coronavirus 'bombshell'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/26/a-dodgy-dossier-how-news-corp-hyped-a-us-government-reading-list-into-a-china-coronavirus-bombshell

This NBC Executive Became a Conspiracy King and a Pro-Trump Media Boss
https://www.thedailybeast.com/nbc-executive-chris-kitze-became-a-boss-at-epoch-times-pro-trump-outlet

Former CBS News president: Most major cable news outlets 'unrelentingly liberal' in 'fear and loathing' of Trump
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/499478-former-cbs-news-president-cnn-msnbc-unrelentingly-liberal-in-fear-and-loathing

President Trump hits Fox News in tweet as network continues to embrace Democrat message
https://www.lifezette.com/2020/05/president-trump-hits-fox-news-in-tweet-as-network-continues-to-embrace-democrat-message/

Watching Kayleigh McEnany Beat Up the Corrupt Press Is a Never-Ending Delight
https://pjmedia.com/columns/stephen-kruiser/2020/05/25/watching-kayleigh-mcenany-beat-up-the-corrupt-press-is-a-never-ending-delight-n422727

Ronan Farrow’s Botched Journalism is Troubling. The Response to It Has Been Worse
https://quillette.com/2020/05/25/ronan-farrows-botched-journalism-is-troubling-the-response-to-it-has-been-worse/

The New Model Media Star Is Famous Only to You
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/business/media/new-model-celebrity.html

Joe Rogan Is the New Mainstream Media
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/25/opinion/joe-rogan-spotify-podcast.html

ODDS, ENDS

The Illusion of Certainty: Ahmaud Arbery’s death was horrible—but was it racist?
https://www.city-journal.org/ahmaud-arbery-shooting

Justice Department launching investigation into Ahmaud Arbery's death as a hate crime, family's attorneys say
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ahmaud-arbery-killing-hate-crime-justice-department-investigation/

Video shows Minneapolis cop with knee on neck of motionless, moaning man who later died
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-shows-minneapolis-cop-with-knee-on-neck-of-motionless-moaning-man-he-later-died/

Central Park ‘Karen’ Seen Calling Police On Black Man Apologizes After Viral Outrage And Job Suspension
https://www.bet.com/news/national/2020/05/26/central-park-karen-seen-calling-police-on-black-man-apologizes.html

Viral Videos Show The Rise Of ‘Karen’ Is The New, Old Threat To People Of Color
https://thesource.com/2020/05/26/viral-videos-show-the-rise-of-karen-is-the-new-old-threat-to-people-of-color/

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