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Monday Night Owls: Nearly 80% of U.S. wealth owned by millionaires and billionaires

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Kenny Stancil at Common Dreams writes—Analysis Shows Nearly 80% of US Household Wealth Owned by Millionaires and Billionaires:

In an analysis of 2019 government data released Monday, policy analyst and blogger Matt Bruenig found that last year, millionaires and billionaires owned 79.2% of all household wealth in the United States despite constituting just under 12% of the population.

NYC food vendors demand more permits and an end to police harassment

Maria Marín migrated to the United States two decades ago. The 47-year-old left her home of Veracruz, Mexico, seeking safety and better opportunities. Back then, her oldest daughter was only 7 months old, she says. For the past 17 years, Marín has been a street vendor in Bushwick, Brooklyn, a predominantly working-class and low-income, immigrant, and Latinx neighborhood.

‘A horror show’: House members detail abuses against women at Georgia immigration prison

Top House Democrats who on Saturday inspected the immigration prison where women who were horrifically operated on without their consent have been detained called the Georgia facility “a horror show,” and said that officials forbade them from bringing in their own phones to record personal testimonies from detainees. Legislators shared everything they learned from the women immediately following the visit anyway.

California fire season has been a nightmare, and it’s not over

Greetings from Northern California, where we just had a weekend of warm, dry weather—which means we are vulnerable to disastrous wildfires.

Indeed, a new fire just started on Sunday in Santa Rosa, only about an hour north of where I live. And we are all nervously eyeing what may happen next.

This has been the worst season for wildfires on the West Coast, ever. Climate change is here, and the effects will get worse.

Witnesses recall NYPD officers unmasked ‘screaming in people’s faces’ as they arrested protesters

Nationwide protests have continued for months in efforts to spread awareness of consistent police brutality and racial injustice in the country. Following the heartbreaking grand jury decision to not pursue charges against the cops who killed Breonna Taylor, protests erupted across the country this week. While an overwhelming majority of these protests are peaceful, police-initiated violence on demonstrators and bystanders of these movements continue to be shared on social media.

The Atlantic Daily: ‘Trump Seems Tongue-Tied’

Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.DREW ANGERER / GETTYOver the weekend, a key piece of the president’s self-mythology crumbled, when The New York Times published a damning report on Trump’s tax returns.

Vaccine Chaos Is Looming

Editor’s Note: The Atlantic is making vital coverage of the coronavirus available to all readers. Find the collection here. On the day that a COVID-19 vaccine is approved, a vast logistics operation will need to awaken. Millions of doses must travel hundreds of miles from manufacturers to hospitals, doctor’s offices, and pharmacies, which in turn must store, track, and eventually get the vaccines to people all across the country.

Wildfires Burn Through California’s Wine Country

Thousands of residents have evacuated ahead of fast-moving wildfires that erupted over the weekend in California’s Napa County. The Glass Fire and Shady Fire grew quickly, invading wine country and destroying homes and vineyards. Much of Northern California remains under a red flag warning for the next 24 hours. Gathered here are images of the fires from the weekend, in a state already coping with multiple disasters.

Trump Has Nothing Else up His Sleeve

When voters say they want politicians to run the government like a business, they should stipulate which business. Surely not the Trump Organization. A blockbuster New York Times report yesterday suggested that either the president’s real-estate empire is a boondoggle that’s losing millions of dollars a year, or it’s a massive tax-avoidance scheme. (Or perhaps it’s some of both.

‘Every Family Is Kind of Cultlike’

Miranda July’s cinematic output has always been concerned with human connection. Her first two features, 2005’s Me and You and Everyone We Know and 2011’s The Future, are crucial tales of generational malaise in a diffuse, internet-dominated culture.

Planned Parenthood CEO: Trump’s SCOTUS Pick Could Overturn Roe v. Wade & Kill Obamacare

President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court could threaten reproductive rights across the U.S., according to Planned Parenthood president and CEO Alexis McGill Johnson. Barrett, who once called abortion “always immoral,” would give conservatives a decisive 6-3 advantage on the top court if she is confirmed by the Senate, and President Trump has openly promoted her nomination by suggesting she would help overturn the landmark 1973 ruling in Roe v.

How “Extremist” Amy Coney Barrett Could Reshape the Supreme Court & Hand Trump the Election

As President Trump nominates conservative federal judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat, we look at how an emboldened 6-3 conservative majority on the Supreme Court could dramatically loosen gun laws, hurt immigrant communities and play a possibly central role in deciding a close presidential election. “Her religious conservatism is not what’s extreme about her.