Distraction is a strategy

Distraction is a strategy to make us forget what is important.  Here are five stories we all need to pay attention to: 

Current efforts at Homeland Security and ICE to increase deportations

https://thinkprogress.org/trump-administration-immigrants-test-128ddf67348f/

Imagine if DesMoines, or Jackson, or Orlando, or Akron or Sioux Falls were destroyed by a disaster how FEMA might respond:

https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2018/07/02/puerto-rican-evacuees-face-uncertainty-as-fema-extends-housing-aid-to-july-5

Pre-existing conditions are still at thing, and still at risk:

https://www.columbiamissourian.com/opinion/guest_commentaries/guest-commentary-i-m-a-small-farmer-from-iowa-why/article_56790e92-8ed0-11e8-b90a-436dbd84dba7.html

Why where you live, and your race, gender, housing, and income matters and may prevent you from getting affordable coverage.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/17/629441555/health-insurers-are-vacuuming-up-details-about-you-and-it-could-raise-your-rates

Why is the alt-right gathering to ‘celebrate’?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/07/23/white-nationalists-alt-right-rally-washington-charlottesville/796998002/