The Best of the Week’s News:

• The Trump campaign makes an all-out push to disenfranchise Pennsylvanians as election-defenders call out a potential bid to steal the state’s electoral votes. (NYT, New Yorker)
   
• Republican voter intimidation is already being felt at the polls. (In These Times)
   
• Video surfaces of Philadelphia police beating the driver of an SUV with a child in the back seat. (Philly Inquirer)
   
• Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross was secretly on the board of a Chinese-US joint venture while heading up trade policy. (Foreign Policy)
   
• In Duterte’s Philippines, fake news meets red-baiting and turns lethal. (Rest of the World)
   
• Millions of people still haven’t received their stimulus checks. (ProPublica)
   
• The Trump administration has rolled back over 125 environmental safeguards including opening “America’s Amazon” to timber sales to China. (WaPo, Outside)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• How these tenants evicted their landlord. (NYT)
   
• Trump boasts that he sent a death squad to gun down a U.S. citizen on U.S. soil. The suspect was getting into his car when officers rolled up and shot him without warning, spraying nearby homes with bullets. (KATU, NYT) 
   
• California prisoners were put to work sewing masks, but not allowed to wear them, as an outbreak spread through their factory. (LA Times)
   
• How Silicon Valley brought piecework back. (Dissent)
   
• A high-stakes plan to save the Supreme Court (Slate)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Who will stand up for Black women? (The Nation)
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• Worker injuries at Amazon have risen every year for the last four years, totaling over 14,000 serious injuries. (Reveal) 
   
• Police in the Bronx kettled and beat peaceful protesters in violation of international law, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. (HRW)
   
• The GOP-connected firm that bungled New York’s absentee ballots will get a do-over. (The City)
   
• How Trump summoned a red state army to DC and could do it again. (WaPo)
   
• House Democrats pass a $2.2 trillion COVID relief package and put pressure on the GOP Senate majority to end the most unequal recession of our time. (Politico, WaPo)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• At least 15 women were subjected to questionable reproductive surgeries in ICE detention, lawyers say. (USA Today)
   
• A federal judge temporarily blocks DeJoy’s overhaul of the USPS, calling it “voter disenfranchisement.” (CNN)
   
• OSHA is failing to protect workers from COVID hazards on the job. (HuffPo)
   
• Bill Barr puts in a good word for political interference in prosecutions. (Slate)