THAT'S NOT WHAT I HEARD

Home composting helps the climate by keeping food scraps from releasing greenhouse gases in landfills. Hiroko Tabuchi details the process in the New York Times: The Compost by My Couch: How (and Why) I Started an Odorless Bin at Home.

​Yes, You Can Compost in City Apartments

My husband once bought me a compost tumbler for Christmas, and my appalled sisters asked, “Is this marriage on the rocks?” But my Ohio neighbors were envious, knowing I’d no longer have to trudge out to the old compost pile in the woods but could toss kitchen scraps into the tumbler beside the back door. It never occurred to me I could compost indoors.
“Our compost box sits in the corner of our living room,” explains New Yorker Hiroko Tabuchi. “We do keep a cover on it to prevent flies, and, in seven years, we’ve never had a problem with insects.” All it takes is a cardboard box, coco peat (available online) and wood ash.
—Karen McCann

PS. Don’t tell my husband; he has a birthday coming up.
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Arthur Lien captures the Supreme Court's first remote sessions for SCOTUSblog.

That's Not What I Heard
There are lots of conspiracy theories out there about the Covid19 virus: it escaped from a Chinese lab. It was deliberately released by the US military. 5G, Bill Gates, GMOs, deep state. Check out this browser extension to help screen out false news sources, and this publication from George Mason University to combat the spread of conspiracy theories of all kinds. (Meanwhile, let's spread this theory.)
—Kathy Sherretts
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Show Me the Money:
• Axios: Trump's tax returns fight reaches the Supreme Court by Sam Baker
Is the president of the United States immune from congressional—and criminal—investigation? Oral arguments (Live broadcast remotely from the justices' and lawyers' homes and offices) is scheduled this week involving efforts by congressional committees and New York prosecutors to obtain Trump’s financial records. Tune in Tuesday on C-SPAN.
• WNYC/ProPublica: Trump, Inc: The Accountants (Podcast/transcript, 38 min)

Voting Counts:
• Verified Voting Foundation: COVID-19 election security recommendations
Alert Resister Christy Smith sent us the Verified Voting Foundation's news roundup for updated information on changing voting policies and primary election dates in the US. She also recommends VoterParticipation.org, which works with election officials to help people register to vote and cast their ballots by mail.

Conservative Character:
• The Lincoln Project: We Are Republicans, and We Want Trump Defeated by George T. Conway III, Steve Schmidt, John Weaver and Rick Wilson
This political action committee was formed in 2019 by several prominent Republicans to prevent Trump's reelection. Last month they announced their endorsement of Joe Biden.

Just for fun: Somewhere, there's baseball...
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Voting in a Pandemic Year
Help make the 2020 election free, fair, accessible, and secure, from the Brennan Center for Justice

Learn More About Candidates and Issues! 

• Progressive Action, Global Exchange (PAGE) 
• Americans of Conscience Checklist
• ClimateRecovery.org

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