The Best of the Week’s News:

• Wildfires in California have already smashed all records, consuming 2.2 million acres…and the fire season has barely even started. (LiveScience, Buzzfeed)
   
• While the U.S. grapples with widespread hunger, France will keep paying up to 84% of the salaries of workers furloughed by COVID-19 until next summer. (NYT, ABC)
   
• Michelle Goldberg on what the Woodward tapes reveal about Trump’s lies. (NYT)
   
• Why is the DOJ getting involved in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against Trump? (MoJo)
   
• At least 9 people have been killed in anti-police brutality protests in Colombia. (CBC)

• The garbage workers of New Orleans continue their strike because Black lives matter. (Discourse Blog) 
   
• The Trump administration had a naturalization ceremony at the RNC, but they disenfranchised up to 300,000 people by delaying their ceremonies until after the election. (WaPo)
   
• Unionized professional athletes are striking to protest police brutality and teaching a lesson about the power of labor. (Nation) 
   
• Armed right-wing extremists stormed the Idaho state legislature, pushing past police and shattering a glass door to pack the gallery. (NPR)
   
• Detroit’s embattled nursing home workers delay their strike, despite the urgent needs of their membership. (Dissent)

The Best of the Week’s News:

• Donald Trump announced that he would veto aid to the U.S. Post Office so that we “can’t have universal mail-in voting.” (Vox, WaPo)
   
• With mail slowing nationwide, the U.S. Postal Service is removing mail sorting machines from facilities around the country without explanation. (ABC7, Vice)
   
• The USPS says it’s unlikely that it will be able to process mail-in ballots in the critical swing state of Pennsylvania by Election Day. (NBC)
   
• Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, a major Trump donor with no prior postal experience, is invested in competitors to the Post Office. (Verge, CNN)
   
• Cherry crush: Undocumented workers struggle to pick 24 billion cherries in 8 weeks (NYT) 

The Best of the Week’s News:

• John Lewis’s final letter to the nation passed the civil rights torch to the Movement for Black Lives. (NYT)
   
• It’s illegal for bosses to ask their workers about their plans to organize, but a third of Fortune 500 companies are using online surveys to identify and crush “union hotspots.” (One Zero)
   
• Tenants in Philadelphia are being evicted without warning by an opaque, heavily privatized system. (Philly Inquirer)
   
• How can television contextualize, dramatize, and analyze the Black Lives Matter moment?, asks Wesley Morris, naming five Hillman Prize-winners as scholars to ground this project in reality. (NYT)
   
• Unable to delay the election, Trump schemes to derail it. (The Nation)