Teachers Union Berated Trump for Reopening Schools, Now It's Praising Biden For Doing the Same

The same teachers’ organization that roundly condemned Donald Trump’s attempts to prematurely reopen schools are now applauding Biden’s decision to do the same, even as the coronavirus pandemic reaches new levels. Source / BlackListed News

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What Filing Tax Returns Taught Me About Racism in the US

It’s time to add race into the tax conversation. I used to believe in the redistributive power of the federal income tax. On its face, income taxation is progressive. This means that higher-income earners pay a larger portion of their income in taxes than lower-income earners, which should decrease socioeconomic inequalities. However, after joining the team of a small credit union in Oakland, California, and offering free tax help to low-income families, I became much more critical of our inadequate tax system. Nearly everyone who files taxes cares about the answer to the same question: “Do I owe money, or do...

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Trump-Linked Lobbyists Made Big Money From Clients Seeking Last-Minute Pardons

Washington lobbyists with close ties to outgoing President Donald Trump were paid lucrative sums by clients angling for last-minute pardons from the president. Matthew Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union and a close Trump ally, brought in the largest haul. According to a lobbying filing released Thursday night, Schlapp was paid a whopping $750,000 since mid-December to lobby Trump to pardon Parker Petit, a top Republican donor who served as Georgia finance chairman for Trump’s 2016 campaign. Petit was convicted of securities fraud in November and faced up to 20 years in federal prison. Trump ultimately didn’t pardon Petit,...

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State-By-State Breakdown Of 897 US Hospitals At Risk Of Closing

State-By-State Breakdown Of 897 US Hospitals At Risk Of Closing By Alya Elison of Becker Hospital Review More than 500 rural hospitals in the U.S. were at immediate risk of closure before the COVID-19 pandemic because of financial losses and lack of reserves to maintain operations, according to a report from the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform. Nearly every state had at least one rural hospital at immediate risk of closure before the pandemic. In 22 states, 25 percent or more of rural hospitals were at immediate risk, according to the report. The hospitals identified as being...

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Preview Of Biden's Executive Orders For Next Week

Preview Of Biden's Executive Orders For Next Week Next week President Biden will continue his blitz of executive actions after signing 17 such directives in his first week covering a range of issues - much of which were aimed at undoing various Trump initiatives ranging from immigration to climate policy. Via The Economist ...whether he knows what he's signing or not for 'his' agenda. #JoeBiden : "I don't know what I'm signing..."
🙄🙄 pic.twitter.com/IA1GTFlYHN — .𝓑𝓲𝓭𝓲𝓼𝓱𝓪 (@bidishalolo) January 23, 2021 For his second week in office, Biden plans on signing another flurry of executive actions, going further on climate and immigration, while...

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Morgan Stanley Asks What To Do About All This Optimism

Morgan Stanley Asks What To Do About All This Optimism By Andrew Sheets, chief global strategist at Morgan Stanley A new year. A new presidential term. Both events are traditionally passages from the old to the new, when we look back and look ahead. And both serve as useful and necessary reminders: While it’s a new year and the US has a new president, many of the themes and challenges facing the market look highly familiar. One of those themes is our belief in stronger growth and reflation. That won’t be my focus today, but it matters. Morgan Stanley’s...

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Teamsters union shuts down Hunts Point strike in New York City

Fearing the strike was becoming a catalyst for a broader movement of the working class against social inequality and the criminal response to the pandemic, the unions and the Democrats rushed to shut down the struggle. Source / World Socialist Web Site

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World Bank details economic and social impact of coronavirus in Sub-Saharan Africa

Death rates in 20 countries are higher than the global average of 2.2 percent, rising by more than 30 percent in the past month in Nigeria, Egypt and South Africa. Officials in Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo said hospital capacity and oxygen supplies were running out. Source / World Socialist Web Site

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Johnson government warns UK COVID-19 strain more deadly as hospitals buckle under pressure

The Johnson government has been able to oversee such death and destruction only because they are governing in a de facto coalition with the Labour Party and the trade unions. Source / World Socialist Web Site

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One dead after boat capsizes in Days Bay

Report from RNZ A person died after a boat capsized in Days Bay yesterday afternoon. Emergency services were called just after 4pm. Police said the person could not be revived and died soon after. Wellington Free Ambulance staff treated one other person with minor injuries. A rescue helicopter also attended. The death will be referred Source / Wellington Scoop

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Alexei Navalny opens a new protest season in Russia and rattles the Kremlin

A wave of protests swept across Russia on Saturday — in what appears to be the most significant challenge to Vladimir Putin’s authority in a decade. At least 100,000, likely much more, took to the streets of over a hundred towns and cities over eleven time zones, in the middle of a pandemic, in temperatures that in one case reached minus 50, and despite credible threats and occasional reality of a violent crackdown. Source / The Independent - World

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Israeli health minister says not country’s job to give vaccine to Palestinians in occupied territory

UN has previously called on Israeli government to provide jabs to those in occupied West Bank and Gaza Source / The Independent - World

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Rioters set fire to Dutch coronavirus testing centre as new curfew comes into effect

Riot police called in to help in Urk while thousands fined on first night of new curbs Source / The Independent - World

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Watercare Water Supply Update

Rainfall: Yesterday Past 7 days Hūnua Ranges 0mm 22.5mm Waitākere Ranges 0mm 25.5mm Dam storage (in total):n to Today: 64.74% Yesterday: 64.88% Normal for this time of year: 86.5% Water consumption: Target for ... Source / Scoop NZ - Regional

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UPDATE- Lake Terrace Collision, Taupo: Information Incorrectly Released

Police yesterday advised a person had died following a collision between a cyclist and a vehicle on 22 January in Taupo. This information was not correct and the person remains in a stable condition in hospital. We sincerely apologise to this person, ... Source / Scoop NZ - Regional

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Teachers Union Berated Trump for Reopening Schools, Now It's Praising Biden For Doing the Same

The same teachers’ organization that roundly condemned Donald Trump’s attempts to prematurely reopen schools are now applauding Biden’s decision to do the same, even as the coronavirus pandemic reaches new levels. Source / BlackListed News

What Filing Tax Returns Taught Me About Racism in the US

Trump-Linked Lobbyists Made Big Money From Clients Seeking Last-Minute Pardons

State-By-State Breakdown Of 897 US Hospitals At Risk Of Closing

Preview Of Biden's Executive Orders For Next Week

Morgan Stanley Asks What To Do About All This Optimism

Teamsters union shuts down Hunts Point strike in New York City

Fearing the strike was becoming a catalyst for a broader movement of the working class against social inequality and the criminal response to the pandemic, the unions and the Democrats rushed to shut down the struggle. Source / World Socialist Web Site

World Bank details economic and social impact of coronavirus in Sub-Saharan Africa

Johnson government warns UK COVID-19 strain more deadly as hospitals buckle under pressure

The Johnson government has been able to oversee such death and destruction only because they are governing in a de facto coalition with the Labour Party and the trade unions. Source / World Socialist Web Site

One dead after boat capsizes in Days Bay

Alexei Navalny opens a new protest season in Russia and rattles the Kremlin

Israeli health minister says not country’s job to give vaccine to Palestinians in occupied territory

UN has previously called on Israeli government to provide jabs to those in occupied West Bank and Gaza Source / The Independent - World

Rioters set fire to Dutch coronavirus testing centre as new curfew comes into effect

Riot police called in to help in Urk while thousands fined on first night of new curbs Source / The Independent - World

Watercare Water Supply Update

Rainfall: Yesterday Past 7 days Hūnua Ranges 0mm 22.5mm Waitākere Ranges 0mm 25.5mm Dam storage (in total):n to Today: 64.74% Yesterday: 64.88% Normal for this time of year: 86.5% Water consumption: Target for ... Source / Scoop NZ - Regional

UPDATE- Lake Terrace Collision, Taupo: Information Incorrectly Released

Police yesterday advised a person had died following a collision between a cyclist and a vehicle on 22 January in Taupo. This information was not correct and the person remains in a stable condition in hospital. We sincerely apologise to this person, ... Source / Scoop NZ - Regional

Welcome to Disrupt

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