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News & Views | 9/30/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"If you believe in democracy, if you believe in the Constitution and in the rule of law, Trump has got to go."

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A new report on plants and fungi features images of the Pitcairn Island's yellow fatu (Abutilon pitcairnense), left, and the Cayman sage (Salvia caymanensis), right. (Photos: RBG Kew)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
"At a time of rapid biodiversity loss, we are failing to access the treasure chest of incredible diversity on offer and missing a huge opportunity for our generation."


Debate moderator and Fox News anchor Chris Wallace directs the first presidential debate between U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University on September 29, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo: Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"The people stealing everything won last night's debate."


Demonstrators protest the possible extradition of jailed WikiLeaks whistleblower Julian Assange from Britain to the U.S. on September 7, 2020 at Old Bailey court in London. (Photo Richard Baker/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
A former warden at ADX Florence has described doing time in the Colorado prison as "a fate worse than death."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"He's been blocking the original HEROES Act for 138 days. As always, his priorities are appalling."


In this long exposure photo, the LNU Lightning Complex fire continues to burn in the ridges near Chemise Road in Healdsburg, California on August 21, 2020. (Photo: Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
The resolution's success, said one organizer, "is a testament to the social movement power demanding both transformative climate action and concrete steps to remedy the legacy of systemic racism."


U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers arrest an undocumented Mexican immigrant during a raid in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn on April 11, 2018 in New York City. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"President Donald Trump, in need of another dose of fear to keep his sputtering reelection bid afloat, is now, officially, throwing the kitchen sink of chauvinism at American voters."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Like just about everything else he has said over the last five years, Donald Trump's claims on lowering drug prices in last night's debate, particularly his outrageous claim about insulin, were nothing but spin and lies."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump has repeatedly made it clear that he considers violent white supremacists to be a valued part of his base, even after people are murdered."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"This is a clear voter suppression tactic," said one critic after the president urged his backers to show up at polling places and "watch very carefully."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"They talked about climate for 10 minutes and 30 seconds. This is an existential threat we have 10 years to address. We need a climate debate."

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This combination of pictures created on September 29, 2020 shows US President Donald Trump during the first presidential debate with Democratic Presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, on September 29, 2020. (Photos: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

by Michael Winship
If Trump stays in office, can The Purge be far behind?


Agroecology has been lauded as an approach that should guide the transformation of food and agriculture systems. (Photo by Wendy Stone/Corbis via Getty Images)

by Nina Isabella Moeller, Francois Delvaux
A profound transformation of food systems is needed and such a shift must happen rapidly to constructively address the multiple crises that are threatening humanity.


On August 27, 2020 Nlets cleared my record, but to this day I still have not received a formal apology and Nlets still cannot answer how did this mistake happen. (Photo: Craig Sunter/flickr/cc with overlay)

by David Canton
As the battle to restore voting rights in Florida continues, I experienced Florida Voter Suppression 2.0.


Donald Trump speaks during the first presidential debate against former Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University on September 29, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)

by Thom Hartmann
The only winner of last night's "debate" was dictatorship and oligarchy.


If we're going to make it through two more of these, we're going to have to adopt a survivor's mentality, be on our guard and brace ourselves for a slightly different version of the same kind of vitriol. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by Melanie McFarland
In the first confrontation between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, democracy lost and the audience took a beating.


We will continue to fight for access to reproductive health care for people in federal custody and beyond. (Photo: Victoria Pickering/Flickr/cc)

by Brigitte Amiri, Meagan Burrows
The fight for Ms. Doe’s vision of “reproductive freedom for all” is far from over, including for others trapped in immigration detention.

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