Goodbye For Now

For reasons unknown to me, my daily essays are no longer appearing here on Facebook. Today, Saturday, I have tried four times to post "The Suppression Syndrome" -- about GOP attempts to restrict voting in various states -- only to have it and all comments disappear.

I have requested but received no explanation from Facebook.

Obviously, under these circumstances, I will no longer be posting to Facebook.

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The latest headlines:

* G-7 countries reach agreement on 15 percent minimum global tax rate (WP)

* U.S. Added 559,000 Jobs in May, but Road to Recovery Is Bumpy -- Many employers report having trouble finding applicants. Economists say the labor market may simply need time to get sorted out. (NYT)

* Biden says it ‘makes sense’ for enhanced jobless aid to end in Sept. -- The position marked a nuanced but important change from last month, when President Biden insisted there was no reason to believe the benefits were discouraging Americans from returning to work. Roughly 15 million Americans are currently receiving some federal unemployment benefits that will end under federal law on Sept. 6. (WP)

* Amid brutal case surge, Afghanistan hit by a vaccine delay (AP)

* U.S. federal judge overturns California's ban on assault weapons (Reuters)

* ‘There is stuff’: Enduring mysteries trail U.S. report on UFOs (AP)

* Black Lives Matter Has Grown More Powerful, and More Divided -- Since the murder of George Floyd, the racial justice movement has received millions of dollars in donations. But some chapters have questioned how those funds are spent. (NYT)

* President Biden’s mandate to boost wind-farm developments as sources of clean energy comes as the administration also takes steps to restore criminal penalties for the accidental killing of migratory birds. (WSJ)

* Maine’s blueberry crop faces climate change peril (AP)

* 40 years ago, the first cases of AIDS were reported in the U.S. (CNN)

* Arthur Staats, child psychologist and father of the ‘timeout,’ dies at 97 (WP)

* On Top Of Everything, Man’s Allergies Also Acting Up (The Onion)