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September 23, 2020

Day Two of Comprehensive Anarchy! As Breonna Taylor’s murderers go unpunished, Louisville prepares for Dissent At Scale. Also, local anarchists in NYC interviewed about the new designation, Robert F Kennedy’s grandson turns out to be a whistleblower on COVID-19 and a list of 42 revenue streams for struggling artists, musicians and DJs. It’s Wednesday, September 23rd, and this is the Tea.

A Cop Was Charged With Firing Into Breonna Taylor's Neighbor's Apartment. No One Was Charged With Actually Killing Her (BuzzFeedNews) One officer was charged with a thing that has nothing to do with the death of the 26 year old EMT. Not sure what else to say. Stay safe out there if you’re protesting and use a burner phone.

Think federal cops in Portland are scary? Cops use 'jump-out boys' all the time. (Guardian) With protests starting to build again, a reminder that the kidnap tactics that felt so horrifying over the summer, are standard weekday behavior from cops in Baltimore and NYC.

Local Anarchists Miffed By Trump's Designation Of NYC As Anarchist Jurisdiction (Gothamist) This had to be a fun piece to research. From the anarchists:

"We denounce Trump's attempt to scapegoat anarchists, distract from his disastrous regime in the run-up to the election, and pit other leftists and progressives against us so that we fight each other rather than building the world we want to see."

Robert F. Kennedy's Grandson Was the Whistleblower for Jared Kushner's COVID-19 Taskforce (Yahoo! News) This report, summarizing the New Yorker piece on it, shows just how lazy the writers for 2020 have gotten, blending the plot lines:

But what he saw in his time working under Kushner compelled him to send an anonymous report to Congress detailing the inner workings of the White House COVID-19 Supply-Chain Task Force—despite having signed a nondisclosure agreement. It "was like a family office meets organized crime, melded with Lord of the Flies," Kennedy said. "It was a government of chaos."

Managers at Major Index Provider, Sushi Restaurant Charged With Insider Trading (Institutional Investor) We finally busted people for Insider Trading! $900,000 worth! We nabbed…an index manager and a sushi restaurant manager. Close up shop, great work boys.

OnlyFans Stars Say TikTok Is Making Them Rich (The Verge) Exposure can be monetized if you know where eyeballs are. This time, a single viral video, that TikTok makes sure you have early in your use with it, causes explosions in subscriber counts.

Music piracy hasn’t gone away - It’s just changed shape (MusicBusinessWorldwide) While the number of stream ripping sites has gone down, the amount of stream ripping has skyrocketed.

With Deutsche Bank’s help, an oligarch’s buying spree trails ruin across the US heartland (ICIJ) International Consortium of Investigative Journalists shine a huge light on Deutsche Bank’s shenanigans and their effect on the places that should hate it the most. Instead, it’s the favored bank of the president they adore.

Are Dogs Really Learning How To Speak? (Mel Magazine) I am continually intrigued by training dogs to communicate using multi-idea phrases using these buttons. If this idea is totally new to you, you’re going to flip when you see what these dogs can do.

42 Revenue Streams (Future Of Music) Does what it said on the tin, I had no idea so many of these existed.

Modern mindfulness meditation has lost its beating communal heart (Psyche) Long, esoteric concept, but extremely correct on the need for meditating from a place of compassion and loving kindness. Based on a paper coming out in Perspectives on Psychological Science.

Song of the Tea: Going sunny & old school this week. Flume & Ta-ku now that we’re just over the hump!

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