Divorced general thinks bases should be named after officers who understand loyalty Duffelblog
Corporations Are Claiming “Black Lives Matter.” That Would Be News to Their Workers. Jacobin
The Illusion of a Rapid US RecoveryProject Syndicate. James K. Galbraith. Note this appeared before the market crash and advances arguments Galbraith has been consistently making.
Facebook says it doesn’t need news stories for its business and won’t pay to share them in Australia Guardian
MTA’s ‘very expensive’ homeless outreach effort a bust, inspector general finds NY Post
UK marks anniversary of Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 Al jazeera
- The City’s Claudia Irizarry Aponte, Ann Choi and Hiram Alejandro Duran with “COVID Tore Through NYC Homeless Shelters. But Residents Were Kept in the Dark.”
- Poynter’s Harrison Mantas and Cristina Tardáguila with “Fact-Checkers Stand By Maria Ressa, Santos Jr. and Rappler in the Wake of Filipino Court’s Verdict.”
- CNN has hired NFL player Malcolm Jenkins as a contributor. Variety’s Brian Steinberg has the details.
Ars Technica – Section 230 is the legal foundation of social media, and it’s under attack.”…To understand Section 230, you have to understand how the law worked before Congress enacted it in 1996. At the time, the market for consumer online services was dominated by three companies: Prodigy, CompuServe, and AOL. Along with access to the Internet, the companies also offered proprietary services such as real time chats and online message boards. Prodigy distinguished itself from rivals by advertising a moderated, family-friendly experience. Employees would monitor its message boards and delete posts that didn’t meet the company’s standards. And this difference proved to have an immense—and rather perverse—legal consequence…”
JACK WATERFORD. Punishing the ‘undeserving’ – the robo-debt fiasco
Heaven knows how the ultimate costs of the robo-debt fiasco will pan out. So far the Commonwealth has announced that it is paying back about three-quarters of a billion to nearly 400,000 people whose rights were trampled upon.Continue reading
No public interest, it seems, in watching public money burn
The political cynic could easily imagine a string of reasons for ignoring calls for a royal commission or other inquiry into the robo-debt debacle.Continue reading
Baltimore’s ‘Squeegee Boys’: ‘If We Don’t Go Out, We Don’t Eat’ KHN
If it ain’t broke: You share your oldest working gadgets BBC
US, Russia to start nuclear arms control talks this month AP
Europe, Russia and Attitudes Towards the ‘New Cold War’ Between US and China Valdai Discussion Club
Part Three: The schizoid world of a Soviet anti-communist propagandistYasha Levine, Immigrants as a Weapon