Stuff You Should Know |Lexual Says May 2021| (Patreon)

Ready for another deep dive into this crazy planet? Let's talk about COVID-19:1 Year Later, Biden, politics, Q Anon, voter suppression, accusations of the genocide of Tigrayans in Ethiopia, and other domestic and global issues. This video essay was supposed to be released in Mid-may but due to a personal loss experienced by my video editor, it was postponed. As a result, there are lots of updates listed below.

Also, closed captions will be functioning by or around 1PM today when this video is made public on youtube.

Sources and Further Reading

• World COVID Updates 
• Beers, flights, and discounts: The growing list of vaccine freebies 
• What happened to the $45 billion in rent relief? 
• Dropouts In Italy 
• QAnon Isn’t Going To Take Over Congress In 2020. But It’s Found A Home In The GOP. 
• QAnon Candidates Are Winning Local Elections. Can They Be Stopped? 
• America's Satanic Panic Returns — This Time Through QAnon 
• QAnon casualties: Families torn apart by conspiracy theory 
• https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/world/middleeast/israel-apartheid-palestinians-hrw.html
• Everything you need to know about Israel-Palestine
• U.S. Jews have widely differing views on Israel 
• Indiana Senate Bill 34 
• Tulsa Co. DA: No charges filed for driver who drove through crowd on I-244 
• Proposed bill would make protesters convicted of an offense ineligible for student loans 
• Iowa House votes to increase penalties for protest-related crimes, broaden immunity for police  
• "An All-Out Assault on Black People": Civil Liberties Groups Sue DeSantis Over Anti-Protest Law 
• Florida's anti-protest law faces lawsuits from NAACP, others 
• Lawsuits against 5 bills signed by DeSantis defended at taxpayers’ expense 
• Ron DeSantis’ misleading claim about crime, police funding | PolitiFact 
• With the Atlanta mayor out, the race for City Hall is just beginning 
• The harsh spotlight on Black women leading big cities 
• Atlanta Mayor Cites Triumphs, Disappointments In Decision Not To Run For Reelection 
• When the going gets tough, these Buckhead residents get secession fever 
• Buckhead's push to break from Atlanta advances, but is it the right move? 
• What history and state law say about the push for Buckhead to become its own city 
• Their Own Private Idaho: Five Oregon Counties Back a Plan to Secede 
• Greater Idaho and the ugly history of Northwest secession movements 
• Biden's Infrastructure Plan 
• COVID-19 was pervasive in the media’s early coverage of the Biden administration 
• India’s crisis has Africa’s Covid-19 vaccine drives scrambling 
• India and Covid Crisis 
• China’s vaccine outreach in Africa is falling short of Beijing’s pledges 
• Vaccine inequality exposed by dire situation in world’s poorest nations 
• Countries in Africa fear they could become the next India as vaccine supplies dwindle 
• SA paid Covax R280 million 5 months ago – and hasn't received a single vaccine dose yet 
• Zimbabwe To Sell Licences To Kill Endangered Elephants 
• Migrants at The US Texas Border 
• Families and Children at US Border  
• Immigration was a top focus of early Biden coverage, especially among outlets with right-leaning audiences 
• Most Americans Are Critical of Government’s Handling of Situation at U.S.-Mexico Border 
• Child migrants: Massive drop in children held by border officials 
• Many Families Torn Apart at Southern U.S. Border Face a Long and Uncertain Wait 
• Why Biden's ICE Is Still Deporting People 
• Fewer Children Detained at Southern Border in April 
• Late at night, the U.S. is expelling migrants back into dangerous Mexico border cities 
• Mexican Law Halts U.S. From Turning Back Some Migrant Families 
• The US may still be helping Saudi Arabia in the Yemen war after all 
• Foreign policy scholars and American public agree that U.S. standing abroad is important 
• Ethiopia's Tigray conflict: Tens of thousands attend anti-US rally 
• Six months of Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict: A timeline 
• 'Our season': Eritrean troops kill, rape, loot in Tigray 
• A grave humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Ethiopia. ‘I never saw hell before, but now I have.’ 
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