John Prine – Summer’s End

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More Than 3,600 US Health Care Workers Have Died in the Pandemic’s First Year

More than 3,600 U.S. health care workers perished in the first year of the pandemic, according to “Lost on the Frontline,” a 12-month investigation by The Guardian and KHN to track such deaths. Lost on the Frontline is the most complete accounting of U.S. health care worker deaths. The federal government has not comprehensively tracked this data. But calls are mounting for the Biden administration to undertake a count as the KHN/Guardian project comes to a close. The project, which tracked who died and why, provides a window into the workings — and failings — of the U.S. health system during...

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'Tucker Must Go': ADL Demands Tucker Carlson Be Fired For Discussing 'Replacement Theory'

Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt on Friday declared that Tucker Carlson "must go" for daring to calmly discuss how Democrats importing voters dilutes the voting power of current American citizens and is a form of disenfranchisement. Source / BlackListed News

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Putting Biden’s Gun Control Claims To The Truth Test

There were so many lies in Vice President Kamala Harris’ and President Joe Biden’s presentations on guns Thursday that it is hard to know where to start. One thing is certain, though: The media fact-checkers won’t question their claims. Source / BlackListed News

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Biden Nominee To Head ATF Was Involved In Waco Massacre, Oklahoma City Bombing, Ruby Ridge and Fast & Furious

Joe Biden’s anti-Second Amendment nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) has a background ripe with controversy. Source / BlackListed News

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In Wake of Amazon Union Vote, Progressives Urge Action on Filibuster and PRO Act

Amazon’s victory over an against-the-odds unionization effort at its warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama is intensifying pressure on Senate Democrats to swiftly eliminate the 60-vote legislative filibuster and pass the PRO Act, a proposed revamp of employer-friendly U.S. labor law that would ban many of the tactics the tech behemoth used to crush the organizing drive. Endorsed by President Joe Biden and passed by the House of Representatives last month, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act has yet to receive a vote in the upper chamber as several members of the Democratic caucus — including Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Angus...

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Corporations Criticize Georgia’s Racist Voting Bill After Giving Big to GOP

Corporate America is clashing with GOP leaders over Georgia Republicans’ bill to overhaul voting laws, representing another break between the two forces that have long been closely aligned. A slew of corporations have denounced the legislation over measures that civil rights groups argue that would restrict voting access for people of color. Delta Air Lines and Coca Cola, both headquartered in Georgia, are among some 100 companies to release statements opposing the bill. Major League Baseball moved its All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver in response to outcry over the law. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — a top...

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Republicans Ready Battle for State-Level Court Takeovers in Texas

After a slate of 19 Black women swept judicial elections in Houston in 2018, some Republicans called for a constitutional amendment to end judicial elections. That effort has failed so far, but a new bill in the Texas legislature could slash the number of appellate courts, which include more Democrats now than they have in decades. The state’s 14 appellate courts have jurisdiction — sometimes overlapping — in civil and criminal cases appealed from trial courts. State Sen. Joan Huffman (R) introduced a bill, S.B. 11, that makes small changes to appellate court districts. But voting rights advocates say the...

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Joe Biden: America's Biggest Gun Salesman

Joe Biden: America's Biggest Gun Salesman Op-Ed by Roger L. Simon via The Epoch Times With his new - most likely unconstitutional - executive orders regarding weapons, Joe Biden is cementing his place as America’s leading gun salesman... President Joe Biden speaks during an event on gun control in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on April 8, 2021. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Gun sales have been wildly up all year. He just pushed them to a new level. It’s almost as if he were marketing director for Smith & Wesson. (As America’s president he might have made...

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Visualizing The Plunging Purchasing Power Of The US Dollar

Visualizing The Plunging Purchasing Power Of The US Dollar The purchasing power of a currency is the amount of goods and services that can be bought with one unit of the currency. For example, one U.S. dollar could buy 10 bottles of beer in 1933. Today, as Visual Capitalist's Govind Bhutanda notes, it’s the cost of a small McDonald’s coffee. In other words, the purchasing power of the dollar - its value in terms of what it can buy - has decreased over time as price levels have risen. Tracking the Purchasing Power of the Dollar In 1913,...

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A Self-Loathing Ruling Class Cannot Endure

A Self-Loathing Ruling Class Cannot Endure Authored by Conrad Black via AmGreatness.com, The U.S. now has an official regime of lies, supported by an almost worthlessly dishonest media, and scores of millions of Americans brainwashed into the false view that they live in an evil country... Not every aspect of the onslaught of self-hate that has broken over America, warped its media, and turned most of the academy - and even apparently, most of its elementary and secondary schools - into centers of reorientation designed to convince Americans their national past is loathsome hypocrisy, is bad. Every country...

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Why are the unions isolating the most important health care strike in America?

Despite a well-financed and coordinated campaign of intimidation and strikebreaking by hospital management, striking nurses are not receiving strike pay from the MNA. Source / World Socialist Web Site

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Financial speculation threatens Australia’s Whyalla steelworks

Citibank, acting on behalf of Credit Suisse, has filed an insolvency application against GFG’s OneSteel Manufacturing, which operates the Whyalla steelworks and GFG’s Tahmoor Coal. Source / World Socialist Web Site

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Hurricanes lose to Crusaders at Sky Stadium

Wes Goosen scores for the Hurricanes. Photo from RNZ by Photosport Report from RNZ The Crusaders have won the second golden-point Super Rugby Aotearoa match this weekend, with a 30-27 victory over the Hurricanes at Sky Stadium in Wellington. The scores were level 17-17 at halftime and 27-27 after 80 minutes, both teams each scoring Source / Wellington Scoop

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Light quake southwest of Wellington

Wellington.Scoop There was a light earthquake near Wellington late at 10.58 last night. Geonet said it was magnitude 4.1 and was 25km southwest of the city. It was at a depth of 12km. More than 6300 people reported that they felt the quake – as far north as Auckland. Of the total, 319 said it Source / Wellington Scoop

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John Prine – Summer’s End

The post John Prine – Summer’s End appeared first on CounterPunch.org. Source / CounterPunch

More Than 3,600 US Health Care Workers Have Died in the Pandemic’s First Year

'Tucker Must Go': ADL Demands Tucker Carlson Be Fired For Discussing 'Replacement Theory'

Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt on Friday declared that Tucker Carlson "must go" for daring to calmly discuss how Democrats importing voters dilutes the voting power of current American citizens and is a form of disenfranchisement. Source / BlackListed News

Putting Biden’s Gun Control Claims To The Truth Test

There were so many lies in Vice President Kamala Harris’ and President Joe Biden’s presentations on guns Thursday that it is hard to know where to start. One thing is certain, though: The media fact-checkers won’t question their claims. Source / BlackListed News

Biden Nominee To Head ATF Was Involved In Waco Massacre, Oklahoma City Bombing, Ruby Ridge and Fast & Furious

Joe Biden’s anti-Second Amendment nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) has a background ripe with controversy. Source / BlackListed News

In Wake of Amazon Union Vote, Progressives Urge Action on Filibuster and PRO Act

Corporations Criticize Georgia’s Racist Voting Bill After Giving Big to GOP

Republicans Ready Battle for State-Level Court Takeovers in Texas

Joe Biden: America's Biggest Gun Salesman

Visualizing The Plunging Purchasing Power Of The US Dollar

A Self-Loathing Ruling Class Cannot Endure

Why are the unions isolating the most important health care strike in America?

Despite a well-financed and coordinated campaign of intimidation and strikebreaking by hospital management, striking nurses are not receiving strike pay from the MNA. Source / World Socialist Web Site

Financial speculation threatens Australia’s Whyalla steelworks

Citibank, acting on behalf of Credit Suisse, has filed an insolvency application against GFG’s OneSteel Manufacturing, which operates the Whyalla steelworks and GFG’s Tahmoor Coal. Source / World Socialist Web Site

Hurricanes lose to Crusaders at Sky Stadium

Light quake southwest of Wellington

Welcome to Disrupt

D!SRUPT is a curated hub of independent news analysis, aggregated from the far corners of the Web.