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News & Views | 10/13/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"That laugh should give you nightmares."

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Judge Amy Coney Barrett is sworn in to begin her Supreme Court nomination hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 12, 2020. (Photo: Erin Schaff/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
"This is why so many people, including many parents who send their children to conversion therapy, think being LGBTQ is a choice. As judges know, language matters."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"We are the party that stands for the working poor," said the California Democrat.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
Civil rights organizations on Tuesday vowed to make sure Virginia residents are able to vote in the November elections after—for the second time in a recent presidential election year—the state's online voter registration portal crashed.


Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett listens during the second day of her confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill on October 13, 2020 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Greg Nash via Pool/Getty Images)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"This shouldn't be a hard question. The fact that she would not answer it is deeply troubling."


A dozen land and water protectors were arrested after Border Patrol and Arizona State Troopers used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse a Native American ceremony on Indigenous Peoples' Day on October 12, 2020. (Photo: Rafael Samanez/O'odham Anti Border Collective)

by Kenny Stancil, staff writer
"It's obscene and offensive to us that local and state governments move to celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day while the federal government blows up our sacred sites, steals our kids, militarily occupies our communities, and shoots at Native Americans."


Commuters in Dhaka, Bangladesh contend with floodwaters following heavy rains on October 12, 2020. (Photo: Nayan Kar/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images)

by Brett Wilkins, staff writer
Political and business leaders are being "willfully negligent" as natural disasters nearly double this century, the world body's special representative for disaster risk reduction said Monday.


William Barr

by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Barr appears to embrace an autocratic view of the power of the executive branch, specifically presidential power."


A worker installs solar panels at the Solarpark Eggersdorf solar park on September 4, 2012 near Muencheberg, Germany.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Solar "is on track to set new records for deployment every year after 2022."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
An ongoing battle in Texas over voters' access to absentee ballot drop-off locations illustrates the consequences of President Donald Trump's relentless focus on stacking the judicial branch with conservative appointees.



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Never forget that when given a chance to remove this man, 247 of 248 Republican senators and reps voted to keep Trump in office."

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"Seniors, people with disabilities and all Social Security beneficiaries know that their costs have gone up more than 1.3 percent over the last year," writes Altman. "They know that their prescription drug prices have gone up more than 1.3 percent. They know their out of pocket costs for doctors’ visits have gone up more than 1.3 percent." (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

by Nancy J. Altman
After lifetimes of work, Americans have earned their Social Security. It is well past time they get a raise.


Facebook has the power, and the responsibility, to stop violence from these armed groups before it starts.(Photo: Getty)

by Jessica J. González, Igor Volsky
Facebook has tools that gather ready audiences for voter disinformation and conspiracy theories, and it uses algorithms that seem designed intentionally to amplify and spread divisive messages, regardless of their accuracy.


Donald Trump at Regent University on October 22, 2016 in Virginia Beach, Virginia

by Luisa Deprez, John Dorrer
We can no longer afford to wait as climate changes, economic systems malfunction, and enflamed social divisiveness bear down on humanity with unprecedented, irreversible consequences.


As president he has assaulted not only the First Amendment but also virtually every other aspect and institution of our country that preserves us as a republic. (Photo: Christopher Michel, noamgalai / Shutterstock.com)

by Daniel Ellsberg
Whatever reservations you might have about Joe Biden, the fact remains that his victory over Trump would mean that our country will have dodged a bullet—preventing the destruction of our Constitution as a functional document and averting irreversible damage to human civilization in the next four...


Even under the best circumstances the U.S. will feel the results of the Trump administration’s disregard and misuse of science for years to come. (Photo: Getty Images)

by Katherine Wilkinson
Voting President Donald Trump out of office is only the first step.


What evidence exists by polls and other measurements of public opinion suggest that Sanders would have been a stronger candidate than Clinton in 2016 and Biden in 2020, but for reasons suggested above, adhering to the bipartisan consensus was more important or Democrats than winning elections. (Photo:Jonathan Newton /The Washington Post via Getty Images)

by Richard Falk
If Biden wins, the bipartisan consensus is reaffirmed, while if Trump somehow prevails, the bipartisan will be further weakened, and even threatened by replacing the consensus with a right-wing policy agenda.

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