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by Causes | 5.28.20

Welcome to Thursday, May 28th, friends...

Yesterday, the U.S. reached the tragic milestone of 100,000 deaths from COVID-19.

The number of victims is so staggeringly large, it is difficult to comprehend the magnitude of this devastation. To help convey just how many American lives have been lost, we put together this infographic:

For a politics-free guide to how to protect you and your loved ones from corona, click on over to our Coronavirus Info Center.

On the Radar

Pompeo: Hong Kong ‘No Longer Autonomous’

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday announced that due to the Chinese Communist Party’s plan to impose a new national security law on Hong Kong, the previously free, self-governing city is “no longer autonomous”. In a statement, Pompeo wrote:

“No reasonable person can assert today that Hong Kong maintains a high degree of autonomy from China, given facts on the ground. Hong Kong and its dynamic, enterprising, and free people have flourished for decades as a bastion of liberty, and this decision gives me no pleasure. But sound policy making requires a recognition of reality… The United States stands with the people of Hong Kong as they struggle against the CCP’s increasing denial of the autonomy that they were promised.”

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is planning to bypass Hong Kong’s elected legislature to impose a law that aims to prevent a recurrence of the widespread protests that erupted last year when Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing chief executive proposed a bill to extradite Hong Kongers to mainland China for trial.

Should the U.S. sanction CCP officials?

Under the Radar

\"Close Them Down\": Trump on Social Media

President Donald Trump threatened to shut down or regulate social media platforms over alleged anti-conservative bias, a day after Twitter fact-checked one of Trump's tweets.

\"Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. ... Clean up your act, NOW!!!!\" Trump tweeted.

Do you support action against social media platforms?

And, in the End…

On this date in 1892, the Sierra Club was organized in San Francisco:

Hope you get to enjoy the outdoors again, soon,

—Josh Herman

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