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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Republican Senators Trail Democratic Challengers in Arizona, Iowa, Maine and North Carolina

GOP Senators Martha McSally in Arizona, Joni Ernst of Iowa, Susan Collins in Maine and Thom Tillis in North Carolina all appear to be falling behind their Democratic rivals, according to the latest polling averages compiled by Real Clear Politics. McSally trails her challenger, Mark Kelly, by about 5 points, while Ernst lags behind Theresa Greenfield by an average of 1 point. Sara Gideon is ahead of Collins by about 2.5 points, and Tillis trails Cal Cunningham by an average of 4.2 points.

Source: Republican Senators Trail Democratic Challengers in Arizona, Iowa, Maine and North Carolina

Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response – BBC News

Trials involving 1,077 people showed the injection led to them making antibodies and T-cells that can fight coronavirus.

The findings are hugely promising, but it is still too soon to know if this is enough to offer protection and larger trials are under way.

The UK has already ordered 100 million doses of the vaccine.

 

Source: Coronavirus: Oxford vaccine triggers immune response – BBC News

Who Are Those Guys? — The Weekly Sift

Customs and Border Protection has finally claimed the anonymous federal law enforcement agents who have been abducting people off the streets in Portland. But it still won’t say who they are or exactly what they’re doing. Often, when the Trump administration is described in totalitarian terms, it’s hyperbole, or at least debatable. So, for example, […]

Who Are Those Guys? — The Weekly Sift

Open Thread | Open The Schools? Are👏You👏Kidding👏Me👏 — 3CHICSPOLITICO

I would love for the kids to back to school. I want Peanut back in schoo!. But, we need to be mindful of why schools closed in the first place. Those other countries cited as examples of why we should open ours—-THEY HANDLED THEIR BUSINESS AND TOOK CARE OF COVID-19. Their daily case load doesn’t […]

Open Thread | Open The Schools? Are👏You👏Kidding👏Me👏 — 3CHICSPOLITICO

Enter The Police State

Intolerable invasion of rights by the Federal government upon US citizens!

In Saner Thought

That is a term that is batted around anytime the police are involved….but what the Hell does it really mean?

A state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic, and political life of the people, especially by means of a secret police force.

When protestors are kidnapped into unmarked cars and bystanders are told they will be shot if they are followed, you can be sure that the warnings of impending fascism are not exaggerated.

Does that sum it up nicely for you?

If not then this infographic may be of some small help as well…..

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What makes me want to post on this situation now is the things happening in Portland Oregon……

Video footage and first-hand accounts of unidentified federal law enforcement officials snatching up Black Lives Matter protesters in Portland, Oregon and throwing them into unmarked vehicles drew nationwide attention and outrage…

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Decolonising museums: the new network opening up the diversity debate in the Netherlands — Repeating Islands

A report by Hannah McGivern for The Art Newspaper. The Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands’s national museum of art and history, is preparing a major slavery exhibition spanning four continents and three centuries. A show at Rembrandt’s former home focuses on overlooked black figures in 17th-century Dutch art. And the Rotterdam art centre known for 30 years […]

Decolonising museums: the new network opening up the diversity debate in the Netherlands — Repeating Islands

Portland protests: Navy veteran speaks out after video of federal officers beating him goes viral | The Independent

Footage then showed Mr David standing still in front of the officers with his hands down at his side. He was carrying nothing in his hands and only had a backpack on him holding his ID and wallet.

One officer then started beating him with a baton when another sprayed pepper spray in his eyes, which encouraged the man to finally step away from the federal agents and move back towards the crowd.

The moment went viral after it was first shared on Twitter, with people calling Mr David “Captain Portland” and commending him for not moving when officers used aggressive force.

“That guy is a brick. And wow. Can’t believe that is how someone harmless-looking is treated,” one Twitter commenter wrote after viewing the footage.

Footage stopped with Mr David walking away, but that wasn’t the end for him.

 

 

Source: Portland protests: Navy veteran speaks out after video of federal officers beating him goes viral | The Independent

Portland-area rabbis call on Homeland Security to withdraw federal agents – The Jerusalem Post

Portland has been the site of protests against racial inequality and police brutality for the past 50 nights, in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the hands of police officers in Minneapolis o

Source: Portland-area rabbis call on Homeland Security to withdraw federal agents – The Jerusalem Post