The Best of the Week’s News:

• Baby chicks smother and rot in their packages as Trump’s cuts plunge a major USPS sorting facility into chaos and squalor. (LA Times)
   
• Some Friends: Posh Brooklyn Friends day school claims unions are against their “Quaker values.” (In These Times)
   
• Meatpacking plants were warned for years to get ready for a pandemic, now they say they couldn’t have known. (ProPublica)
   
• Kids are being stashed in hotels in a shadow immigration system. (WHYY)
   
• Millions struggle to survive without their $600/wk pandemic UI supplement. (Guardian) 

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Top NRA execs accused of multi-million-dollar fraud in lawsuit by NY AG to disband the gun group. (The Trace)
   
• Target’s delivery workers says tip “glitches” are shorting their pay. (WaPo)
   
• Civilian sailors known as CIVMARs are  succumbing to despair, trapped on Navy ships without basic hygiene supplies under a sweeping COVID control order, their union warns. (Navy Times)  
   
• Daisy Coleman, a 23-year-old survivor of the infamous Maryville Rape case, has died by suicide. (NYMag)
   
• Trump supports housing segregation, unfortunately, many white liberals do, too. (The Nation)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Millions of renters face eviction if Congress doesn’t act by Saturday. Some landlords illegally initiated eviction proceedings even before the moratorium expired. (Video) (ABC, NYT)
   
• The constitutional crisis deepens as Oregon state lawmakers demand that the federal government withdraw its shadowy agents from Portland. Judge blocks federal agents from arresting legal observers. (PBS, KVAL, Nation, AP)
   
• Thousands of workers walked off the job, Monday as part of the Strike for Black Lives. (Yahoo)
   
• Nationwide testing backlogs may be hiding the true spread of COVID-19, experts say. What looks like a plateau could instead be a maxed-out system. (NYT)
   
• Jobless claims rise as the fate of the $600/week enhanced unemployment benefit remains undecided. (CNBC)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• More than 40% of staff at a massive ICE detention facility have tested positive for COVID-19. (USA Today)
   
• OSHA has only issued one citation for a COVID safety violation and unions are demanding to know why the agency isn’t stepping up. (CNBC)
   
• An in-depth investigation into everything that’s wrong with Florida’s COVID-19 data. (COVID-19 Tracking Project)
   
• In a historic win for tribal sovereignty, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that eastern Oklahoma remains a reservation because Congress never revoked the treaty that created it. (ICT, SCOTUS Blog)
   
• The death of Sha-asia Washington, a 26-year-old Brooklyn woman who died after a C-section is reviving urgent concerns about maternity care for Black women. (The City)
   
• Indigenous-led research reveals new secrets about the mysterious Spirt Bears of British Columbia. (NYT/Flickr)