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Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Monday which will halt temporary work visas until the end of the year, Wall Street Journal reports. This order will impact skilled workers coming from out of the country who apply for an H-1B visa, seasonal workers who receive a H-2B visa, H-4 for spouses […]
All Californians are now required to wear a face covering whenever they are outside, KTLA reports. California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued the statewide order earlier today after Los Angeles County reported a new record number of coronavirus cases (2,126) on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the state as a whole appears to be trending in the wrong direction with confirmed […]
As if a global pandemic and the persistence of racist ideologies masquerading as policing and/or “heritage” weren’t enough, 2020 is also bringing us another presidential election. If you’re unfortunate enough to also remember how everything ultimately shook down for the United States back in 2016, then you need no reminder of what’s at stake as Americans once […]
Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti has been receiving heavy criticism over the LAPD’s aggression during the protests that have been taking place. In order to quell some of the people’s warranted demands for some form of police reform, he and the L.A. City Council has decided to cut $100-$150 million from the LAPD’s budget and reinvest it into black communities. […]
According to a report from BuzzFeed News, the Drug Enforcement Agency will be allowed to “conduct covert surveillance” and collect info on people protesting the killing of George Floyd. This new authority was reportedly spelled out in a relatively brief two-page memorandum acquired by the aforementioned media outlet, and says that the DEA is seeking […]
To add even more fuel to the blazing trash fire that is 2020, we now have to worry about the Senate fucking us all over by failing to prohibit warrantless surveillance of internet search and browsing records in connection with the Patriot Act. Earlier this month, Senators Ron Wyden (a Democrat repping Oregon) and Steve Daines (a Republican repping […]
Protesters decided to end a gathering outside the Governor’s Mansion in Frankfort, Kentucky by hanging an effigy of Gov. Andy Beshear from a tree, CNN reports. Per Facebook, the protest was a Patriot Day Rally to exercise Second Amendment rights. Gerry Seavo James, a freelance journalist who was on the scene to document the rally, told CNN that toward the end of the […]
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has announced the complete lifting of the country’s nationwide state of emergency. “Today the government will lift the state of emergency across the nation,” Abe said on Monday, per NHK. “We’ve set some of the most strict criteria in the world to lift the declaration, and we concluded that prefectures […]
A new study shows that if the U.S. had enforced social distancing guidelines one week earlier in March, around 36,000 fewer people would have died from COVID-19. The research comes from Columbia University disease modelers who say if the country had started issuing lockdowns on March 1, two weeks before many stay-at-home orders had taken effect, […]
On Monday, governors from the U.S.’s three most populous states (California, Texas, and New York) all indicated that pro sports could actually come back to those places at some point soon, but without fans. Soon being a relative and subject-to-change term, of course. Those three states have 32 big four sports teams between them. And, […]
