The Times obtained Donald Trump’s tax information extending over more than two decades, revealing struggling properties, vast write-offs, an audit battle and hundreds of millions in debt coming due. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/27/us/donald-trump-taxes.html

Launching NowThis Earth—covering our changing planet, biodiversity, extreme weather, and more—so we can better inform, change, challenge, and act https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1310658710503673856

While relics of the communist era and older buildings still awaiting better times can be found in many eastern towns, it’s harder to find leftovers of the heavily fortified 1,378-kilometer (856-mile) Berlin Wall border that divided East from West Germany, stretching from the Baltic Sea to the western tip of Czechoslovakia. https://apnews.com/article/east-germany-germany-archive-85bb57fe4bf646ab9ed2951568873ef9

Read the whole thread!!! After the attacks in El Paso that POTUS was complicit in the deaths of Americans for his refusal to recognize his language was in the shooter's manifesto. Tonight, he was given the opportunity to condemn White Supremacy - he refused. https://twitter.com/NeuSummits/status/1311159791704846337

Elizabeth Neumann – the former Assistant Secretary for Threat Prevention in Trump's DHS – says that the U.S. is "less safe today" because of Trump's actions. - https://twitter.com/RVAT2020/status/1298669972026204160

A former top Department of Homeland Security official who resigned in April says the Trump administration is creating the conditions for domestic extremism to flourish in the United States. https://www.npr.org/2020/09/02/908347989/former-dhs-official-white-house-failed-to-take-far-right-extremism-seriously

Just more proof that we're officially living in the future https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1311713234961854470

Court Rules Edward Snowden Must Pay More Than $5 Million From Memoir And Speeches : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/01/919261319/court-rules-edward-snowden-must-pay-more-than-5-million-from-memoir-and-speeches

Major German supermarket chains Lidl and Edeka have stopped or reduced sales of Haribo products as they battle with the sweetsmaker over prices. https://p.dw.com/p/3jIsO

Paris is in danger of going back into lockdown next week after the French government said the coronavirus pandemic was worsening in the capital. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/02/europe/paris-lockdown-coronavirus-europe-intl/index.html

Analyst: The US is 'a pitiful pariah on the world stage'. Global affairs analyst Max Boot and military and diplomatic analyst retired Rear Adm. John Kirby share the details https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/10/04/national-security-risks-president-trump-coronavirus-positive-boot-kirby-nr-vpx.cnn

Michelle Obama makes a final argument for Americans to support Joe Biden. https://youtu.be/5l_Xz2MIh4s

America's Medical Supply Crisis - Why was the United States left scrambling for critical medical equipment as the coronavirus swept the country? With the Associated Press, FRONTLINE investigates the fragmented global medical supply chain and its deadly consequences. https://mastodon.online/@a1leint/104993281737266132

Rethinking cocoa cultivation in Ghana
Yields are falling in major cocoa exporter Ghana. Small farmers don't cut down old trees to grow new ones. Instead they encroach on surrounding forest. A Dutch organization is helping them to live and work sustainably. https://p.dw.com/p/3jI5z

He is still sick. He is still contagious. He is still defiant. And now he is again happily vomiting his bile on social media and via his surrogates on national television.
https://www.playboy.com/read/trump-sick-in-mind-and-body

Billions worldwide worry that they will be seriously harmed by consuming unsafe food and water, and nearly as many expect it to happen to them in the next two years, according to the new Lloyd's Register Foundation World Risk Poll. https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/321662/half-world-worries-food-water-safety.aspx

UK ambassador who called Trump administration ‘inept’ speaks out
Former UK envoy to the US, Kim Darroch, on how he learned to deal with the Trump White House. https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-bottom-line/2020/10/8/with-elections-approaching-what-are-us-allies-thinking/

REGN-COV2 is designed to provide a passive immunization by using synthetic neutralizing antibodies. The drug was developed using a cell line derived from fetal tissue.
Given the fierce resistance of the Trump administration to research involving fetal tissue, it seems extremely hypocritical that the US leader, who has widespread support from anti-abortion campaigners, has lauded REGN-COV2 as a heavenly gift.
https://p.dw.com/p/3ji1o

Governments across Europe are ratcheting up restrictions to try to beat back a resurgence of the coronavirus that has sent new infections on the continent to their highest weekly level since the start of the pandemic. https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-pandemics-geneva-france-europe-40521fb6080e35bc4aae4144bf3652bc

Angela Merkel: Europe must learn coronavirus lessons as situation gets 'serious'
The chancellor's warning comes as Europe reports its highest number of infections since the outbreak began. All 16 German state premiers are set to meet Merkel on Wednesday to discuss new rules to contain the virus. https://p.dw.com/p/3jrsZ