Uber and Lyft play dirty in campaign against California’s AB5

Ridesharing

Michael Hiltzik, “How millions from Uber and Lyft are funding the harassment of a critic,” Los Angeles Times, September 2, 2020, https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-09-02/uber-lyft-veena-dubal-twitter-bullying


Militia


McKeesport


Fig. 1. Photograph by author, September 2, 2020.

2021 to start off with a bang as Donald Trump’s eviction moratorium comes to an end?

Eviction

I’m still not quite sure what to make of it, but it appears Donald Trump has signed an executive order forestalling evictions for people making less than $99,000 per year and having trouble making their rent through the end of the year.[1]

That should keep many of his Trumpsters off the street through the election, long enough perhaps for Trump to get reelected, and through Christmas. So we might have a reprieve, only temporary, but a reprieve from the violence I worried about yesterday.[2] 2021, however, will be a new year.

John Fritze and Nicholas Wu, “Trump administration announces nationwide eviction moratorium through end of the year,” USA Today, September 1, 2020, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/01/trump-imposes-eviction-moratorium-because-covid-19-pandemic/5686402002/


  1. [1]John Fritze and Nicholas Wu, “Trump administration announces nationwide eviction moratorium through end of the year,” USA Today, September 1, 2020, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/01/trump-imposes-eviction-moratorium-because-covid-19-pandemic/5686402002/
  2. [2]David Benfell, “Eviction and race war,” Not Housebroken, September 1, 2020, https://disunitedstates.org/2020/09/01/eviction-and-race-war/