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Trump’s ‘Don’t be afraid of Covid’ tweet may be the most irresponsible
“Don’t be afraid of Covid.”
No. Be afraid of tweets that could kill people.
11:37 a.m. Arizona time on Monday, Oct. 5 — you’re going to want to write that down.
That’s when President Donald Trump tweeted what may be the single most irresponsible thing ever posted on social media.
“I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M.,” he tweeted. “Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!”
Source: Trump’s ‘Don’t be afraid of Covid’ tweet may be the most irresponsible
Instagram begins to label posts from ‘state-controlled media’

A few months ago, Facebook began labeling posts by state-controlled media — a move it had announced a year ago. Now the company is bringing a similar warning to Instagram, as spotted by journalist Casey Michel. Instagram has begun rolling out new “state-controlled media” labels—here are the ones for Kremlin outlets aimed at younger Americans: pic.twitter.com/vyUySA1zbW — Casey Michel 🇰🇿 (@cjcmichel) October 5, 2020 Some of these accounts, including Redfish and In the Now, have hundreds of thousands of followers. The label appears quite prominently on the accounts’ profiles, as well as every single post — right under the account…
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Breonna Taylor’s Family Calls for Kentucky Governor to Dump AG Daniel Cameron, Assign New Special Prosecutor to Case

Days after Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron released 15 hours of audio from grand jury proceedings related to the killing of Breonna Taylor, attorneys for Taylor’s family are calling for Gov. Andy Beshear to appoint a new special prosecutor.
Texas Police Officer Fired After Sharing ‘Stop Resisting’ Meme That Featured a Black Man Lying in a Coffin

A Fort Worth, Texas, police officer found himself unemployed Thursday because he was stupid enough to think that, even with a national spotlight continuing to air out police practices in America, he could get away with sharing a meme on Facebook that featured a Black man in a casket as a warning of what happens when…
26 Farmworkers In Shoreham Test Positive For COVID-19
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Updated: 5:44 p.m. In Shoreham, 26 farmworkers at Champlain Orchards have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the orchard’s owner, Bill Suhr.
Ella Fitzgerald, The Lost Berlin Tapes
In 1962, Ella Fitzgerald performed a show in Berlin, just two years after the famous performance that earned the jazz great two Grammys for masterfully butchering the lyrics to Mack the Knife. The recording for the ‘62 Berlin show was presumed lost until it was recently rediscovered in the archive of a record executive.
Early this year, Mr. Field and Ken Druker, a vice president at Verve — which survives today under the auspices of Universal Music Group — were digging through a rediscovered trove of live recordings that Granz had stashed away decades ago. They came across an apparently untouched reel-to-reel, with yellowed Scotch tape still holding the box shut, featuring a concert Fitzgerald had given in Berlin two years after that first famous outing.
Upon inspection, they found that recordings had been made in both mono and stereo — a rare stroke of luck. They listened, and the quality was excellent. Using a new engineering software that allowed him to more precisely isolate the instruments and Fitzgerald’s voice, Mr. Field filled out the low end and brought her singing to the front.
The result of their discovery is The Lost Berlin Tapes, now available in stores and various streaming plaforms. Here’s Fitzgerald singing Mack the Knife from that performance:
And the whole album on Spotify:
(via @tedgioia)
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Detroit Bus Drivers Strike over Violent Attacks
Chill – protect your drivers and riders.
Detroit bus drivers, the first essential workers in the country to strike for safety during the pandemic, pulled a wildcat work stoppage again Friday, angry over escalating violence against drivers. Often the attacks are triggered, they said, by a driver’s request that a passenger wear a mask.
Afua Hirsch: ‘Don’t sell off history with slave links – use it to educate’

Broadcaster and writer Afua Hirsch is fronting the documentary Enslaved with actor Samuel L Jackson.
300 NYC Public And Private Schools In 9 “Hotspot” ZIP Codes Will Go Remote On Tuesday
A family walks in Borough Park on October 4, 2020
Governor Andrew Cuomo said he wouldn’t recommend sending children to those schools. [ more › ]

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