From the ACLU:  Since COVID-19 hit prisons, tens of thousands of people incarcerated in federal facilities have been allowed to serve their sentences at home under the CARES Act. They have started planning futures, gotten jobs, signed leases, and reintegrated with their families and communities. Now over 4,000 of these individuals may be sent back because of a Trump memo issued right as he left office. Forcing thousands of people back to prison in this way would be cruel, legally unnecessary, ineffective at making us safer, and cost taxpayers millions.

Book Review: Rituals. Killers. Wars. & Sex.

   By Pete Johnson

Richard S. Ehrlich's book, "Rituals. Killers. Wars. & Sex. -- Tibet,
India, Nepal, Laos, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka & New York," is a
compilation of his experiences as an American foreign correspondent
based in Asia.

Ehrlich's introduction says his "news stories portray fragments of
people and their distant voices."

As a result the book is fragmented.

Although it is divided into four chapters, the chapters are not
related to each other, so it is really four stories.

The four stories -- the title of the book, "Rituals. Killers. Wars. &
Sex" -- are related to each other geographically, as they are stories
originated in Asia.

The four stories are interesting, they are a window into the dark
underbelly of Asia.

Chapter 1 "Rituals" describes four specific bizarre Asian rituals
involving death.

This reader was completely unaware of all four of these practices,

Here’s what happened at the August Free Press Second Saturday Cyber-Salon on August 14 with the theme “Radical Nutrition.”

Watch the recording here.

Cyber-salon host and Free Press Board member Mark Stansbery introduced the first speaker, Eriyah Flynn of Vegan Shift. She spoke about veganism, stressing that it is a consciousness, not simply a diet choice. Veganism is a way to live fairly and equally with all earthlings, not to embody human supremacy over animals. She mentioned several informative videos, includingCowspiracy.

The August 9 hour-long CNN program Being… AOC about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a case study in how corporate media covers – or, rather, covers up – socialism. The reddest or pinkest thing about this debut of CNN’s new Being… series were AOC’s lips. More time was spent bantering about the 31-year-old’s lipstick, fashion sense and being a magazine cover girl than her leftwing politics.

CNN’s Dana Bash was positively bashful about asking America’s most famous living female socialist about her ideology. The only time socialism per se was actually alluded to at all was in a clip from a Fox News show that referred to the leftist congressmember as a “socialist” in a chyron. And when AOC and Bash trod down a Bronx street an older white male passerby booed Ocasio-Cortez, denouncing her as a “communist.”