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.’