Trump is royally fucking up everything and is still the frontrunner
Indiana journalist loses eye to tear gas canister during demonstrations against George Floyd's death
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/500467-texas-journalist-loses-eye-to-tear-gas-canister-during
California police officer kills man on his knees, mistaking hammer for gun. The officer who shot him dead aimed from inside his squad car and shot through his own windshield to strike the 22 year-old five times.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-vallejo-ca-police-officer-kills-unarmed-22-year-old-on-his-knees-20200604-ib27psiyvnckvcrphk4fu64nai-story.html
WH Press Secretary says police who attacked Australian journalists had right to defend themselves from cameras
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/donald-trump-s-press-secretary-says-police-who-attacked-australian-journalists-had-right-to-defend-themselves
Police Shot a Black Student in the Head With a Bean Bag Round and Fractured His Skull
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/akzvjg/police-shot-a-black-student-in-the-head-with-a-bean-bag-round-and-fractured-his-skull
Ahmaud Arbery was hit with a truck before he died, and his killer used a racial slur: The allegations came as Dial outlined the events that led to Arbery's death and told the court that before Arbery was shot, the three men charged in his murder engaged in an elaborate chase, hitting the 25-year-old jogger with a truck as he repeatedly tried to avoid them. As Travis and his father Gregory McMichael attempted to head him off, Arbery turned and ran past the truck of Bryan, who filmed the killing, and Bryan struck Arbery with the side of his truck, Dial said.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/us/mcmichaels-hearing-ahmaud-arbery/index.html
Florida officer put on leave after kneeling on black man's neck during arrest | A video of a May incident involving a Sarasota police officer kneeling on a black man’s neck surfaced online Monday as protests continued nationwide over the death of George Floyd
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/501122-florida-officer-put-on-leave-after-kneeling-on-black-mans
Chokeholds with hands, arms, knees, etc, should have been banned decades ago. Arrests should be FAST. Not a 20 step procedure requiring people to be laid on the ground.
Thousands of Immigrant Children Were Sexually Abused In U.S. Detention Centers
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/27/us/immigrant-children-sexual-abuse.html?smid=fb-share
An audit of thousands of old case files by Ukrainian prosecutors found no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of Hunter Biden, the former prosecutor general, who had launched the audit, told Reuters.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-ukraine/ukraine-found-no-evidence-against-hunter-biden-in-case-audit-former-top-prosecutor-idUSKBN23B2RB
Voting feels inadequate in our darkest moments. I recognize that. When you’re watching a man’s death on a video loop, hearing him say “I can’t breathe.” When those words echo what another man said in his last moments, his life also taken by the police. When a woman who saved lives is shot dead in her home in a botched police raid. When a black man is murdered for jogging, his killers left free to celebrate. When you know there is a list of deaths (Native American, African-American, Latin American, etc) so long that most people can’t keep all the names in their head. To say that the answer is to go cast a ballot feels not just inadequate, but disrespectful. “Go vote” sounds like a slogan, not a solution. Because millions of us have voted. And too many still die. And Democrats keep losing. Despite record-setting historic turnout. Because too many Democrats keep refusing to vote for THEIR OWN DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES. VOTE BLUE.
"What do Black people want?" They want what all human beings want. They want safety in their lives for themselves and their families. ("Stop killing us.") They want the basics: a decent job at a living wage, affordable housing, access to health care, effective education, justice before the law. There is no difference in Blacks' needs and wants because they are human needs and wants. The police in Minneapolis did not recognize George Floyd as a fellow human being. America and Americans of all colors must do better, must demand change and work for it.
Democrats lack simplicity. They tend to ramble on and on. I suggest very simple slogans, songs, symbols, etc. Democrats should have idea contests to find what works. For example, they could try:
1) Use songs, like "Democracy is coming to the USA" (L.Cohen)
2) Use catchwords, like WE (Democrats) vs ME (Trump)
3) Use hand signs, like Trump's "OK" sign to mock him
4) Use the inverted US "distress" flag
After years of making unsubstantiated claims about widespread voter fraud, Pres. Trump now facing an elections fraud complaint in Florida following WashingtonPost report that he tried to register to vote w/ an out-of-state address
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/president-trump-tried-to-register-to-vote-in-florida-using-an-out-of-state-address/2020/06/03/687d0014-a4f2-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html
American Airlines will boost July flights 74% from its current schedule as U.S. consumers rush back to flying more quickly than expected
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-04/american-air-to-boost-flying-74-on-surprise-demand-rebound
The NBA’s Board of Governors has approved a 22-team format for restarting the league season in late July at the Disney campus near Orlando, Florida
https://apnews.com/dde03d4960f5ef9a8d1549f59b27b99c
Local And Federal Authorities Spend Years In Court Fighting Claims of Excessive Force and Misconduct After Mass Arrests of Protesters
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/protest-arrests-police-brutality-lawsuits-take-years
Grassley says he is placing holds on two Trump administration noms until he gets answers regarding the firing of two watchdogs: ICIG Atkinson & State Dept. IG Linick. This comes after Grassley made clear last month he was not satisfied by the explanation he received from WH: Im placing holds on 2 Trump Admin noms until I get reasons 4firing 2 agency watchdogs as required by law Not 1st time ive raised alarm when admins flout IG protection law Obama did same& got same earfull from me All I want is a reason 4 firing these ppl CHECKS&BALANCES
https://twitter.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1268600667171586048?s=20
But McCarthy also emphasized that he doesn't want all police officers to be maligned or painted w/ a broad brush.
Just like we shouldn't judge someone based on the "color of their skin," we shouldn't judge someone based on the "color of their uniform," he says.
"I thought that guy I was following while he was jogging was a threat to my truck so I hit him with it."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/us/mcmichaels-hearing-ahmaud-arbery/index.html
Florida Supreme Court Removes Assault Weapons’ Ban From November Ballot
https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/florida-supreme-court-removes-assault-weapons-ban-from-november-ballot-based-on-technicality/
Trump campaign ad, tomorrow: Ukraine Found...Evidence Against Hunter Biden
Biden: Congress Must Ban Police Chokeholds Now
https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-biden-says-congress-must-ban-police-chokeholds-now
A Massive Oil Spill in the Arctic Has Turned a River Red | Russia declared a state of emergency after a power plant spilled 20,000 metric tons of oil and diesel fuel into a river in the Arctic Circle. The possible cause: melting permafrost due to climate change.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ep4x54/a-massive-oil-spill-in-the-arctic-has-turned-a-river-red
Biden close to clinching
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries
People are sawing through and climbing over Trump’s "border wall"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/trump-border-wall-vulnerable/2020/06/04/ccd40e5e-a66e-11ea-8681-7d471bf20207_story.html
Germany requires all petrol stations to provide electric car charging, penalises ownership of large polluting combustion-engined SUVs.
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-germany-autos-idAFL8N2DH3RO
Hydroxychloroquine fails to prevent COVID-19 in rigorous study
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus-prevention-covid-19-study/
Nearly 43 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits during the pandemic
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/04/economy/unemployment-benefits-coronavirus/index.html
ProPublica Wins RFK Human Rights Journalism Award for Border Patrol Coverage https://propublica.org/atpropublica/propublica-wins-rfk-human-rights-journalism-award-for-border-patrol-coverage
Democratic senators say police crackdowns at home undermine US response to Hong Kong
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/501228-democratic-senators-say-police-crackdowns-undermine-us-response-to-hong-kong#.Xtlk2JjtvYw.twitter
"The previous highest-ranking Latina on the Biden campaign, Vanessa Cardenas, who left as national coalitions director last fall, said, “They didn’t expand the circle of voices that are truly making decisions.”" - you were fired because you were an antisemite defending criminals and terrorists, the general Democratic party does not tolerate racist mentally ill alt-left trash like you
“It’s not surprising that a number of state actors are targeting our elections. We’ve been warning about this for years. Our job at CISA is to make sure they’re not successful."
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/04/google-hackers-trump-biden-campaign-301304
Supreme Court asked to reconsider immunity available to police accused of brutality
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-asked-to-reconsider-immunity-available-to-police-accused-of-brutality/2020/06/04/99266d2c-a5b0-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html
The civil war inside The New York Times between the (mostly young) wokes the (mostly 40+) liberals is the same one raging inside other publications and companies across the country. The dynamic is always the same. (Thread.)
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1268628680797978625
The Old Guard lives by a set of principles we can broadly call civil libertarianism. They assumed they shared that worldview with the young people they hired who called themselves liberals and progressives. But it was an incorrect assumption.
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1268628682521878529
The New Guard has a different worldview, one articulated best by @JonHaidt
and @glukianoff. They call it "safetyism," in which the right of people to feel emotionally and psychologically safe trumps what were previously considered core liberal values, like free speech.
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1268628683952185346
Perhaps the cleanest example of this dynamic was in 2018, when David Remnick, under tremendous public pressure from his staffers, disinvited Steve Bannon from appearing on stage at the New Yorker Ideas Festival. But there are dozens and dozens of examples.
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1268628685273419776
I've been mocked by many people over the past few years for writing about the campus culture wars. They told me it was a sideshow. But this was always why it mattered: The people who graduated from those campuses would rise to power inside key institutions and transform them.
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1268628686472990720
I'm in no way surprised by what has now exploded into public view. In a way, it's oddly comforting: I feel less alone and less crazy trying to explain the dynamic to people. What I am shocked by is the speed. I thought it would take a few years, not a few weeks.
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1268628688301633537
Here's one way to think about what's at stake: The New York Times motto is "all the news that's fit to print." One group emphasizes the word "all." The other, the word "fit."
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1268628689547386882
W/r/t Tom Cotton's oped and the choice to run it: I agree with our critics that it's a dodge to say "we want a totally open marketplace of ideas!" There are limits. Obviously. The question is: does his view fall outside those limits? Maybe the answer is yes.
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1268635549390319617
If the answer is yes, it means that the view of more than half of Americans are unacceptable. And perhaps they are.
https://twitter.com/bariweiss/status/1268635553160933377
"The Trump administration is building what increasingly looks like a fortress around the WhiteHouse. This morning, crews began extending metal fencing, a steel wall ... giving this area the look of something out of an authoritarian country."
https://twitter.com/Porter_Anderson/status/1268660680728731648
If Democrats wanted to hand the suburbs back to Trump, I'm not sure I can think of a better way to do it than even partially embracing this "defund the police!" and "abolish the police!" idiocy.
Officer: "If I quit and then all the police department is white, how does that help?”
Protestor: “It doesn’t."
Officer: "It doesn't."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/06/04/dc-protests-black-police-officer-george-floyd/
Black Lives Matter with the ACLU is suing Trump and Barr over the clearing of Lafayette Square on Monday using tear gas, pepper spray capsules and rubber bullets on peaceful protesters.
https://www.acludc.org/en/news/civil-rights-groups-sue-trump-barr-tear-gassing-peaceful-protesters-outside-white-house
Apparently a broadcast camera didn't constitute a "readily identifiable journalist marking," per this statement from the @usparkpolicepio union (to say nothing of how the people standing around peacefully in the streets apparently constituted "violent protestors").
https://twitter.com/RebeccaRKaplan/status/1268669991559315457
Opinion editor at the Washington Post, who ran oped-ed by Iranian terrorist Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, doesn't think a US Senator should have access to op-ed pages: New York Times spokesperson says a review of the process leading up to the publication of the Tom Cotton op-ed "made clear that a rushed editorial process led to the publication of an Op-Ed that did not meet our standards."
https://twitter.com/oliverdarcy/status/1268670723696005123
The NYT is actually reducing the number of opposing opinions they'll run because the journalists they employ complained about hearing opposing opinions? You might never convince me this is real. I really don’t understand the decision to reduce the number of published op-eds. That redistributes space to regular contributors. It makes that page more "elitist", not less. I'm saying this as someone who would cheer if Tom Cotton dropped dead.
If the NYPD is arresting so many people for curfew violations that judges can't get the arraignments done, the logical answer (and the one that respects people's rights) is to prohibit detention for curfew violations and to tell the NYPD to do a better job prioritizing arrests: YS Judge James Burke rules NYPD can now keep anyone (peaceful protestors arrested for curfew and criminal looters) detained for over 24 hours given these are extraordinary times. “It’s a crisis within a crisis", he said. "All writs are denied, BK, BX and manhattan"
https://twitter.com/BryanLlenas/status/1268637787881975809
NYPD argued for need of “extreme measures to maintain order,” “majority were for burglary and looting"... "these are unprecedented times", there is "rage against the police department". These people have been "throwing bricks at police officers", "slashing officers".
https://twitter.com/BryanLlenas/status/1268644881733468171
NYPD attorney admitted that because of the volume of arrests, social distancing has not always been possible, but that they have been given soap and masks.
"I won't call them protesters, I'll call them rioters".
https://twitter.com/BryanLlenas/status/1268644883285278720
Texas Republicans call on county Republican chair to resign for saying Floyd's death was staged
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/501193-texas-republicans-call-on-county-gop-chair-to-resign-for-saying-floyds
Vandalism and theft aren’t helping | America has a great tradition of civil disobedience. Looters aren’t following it.
https://www.vox.com/2020/6/4/21278048/civil-disobedience-looting-vandalism
Man who drew bow and arrow on Salt Lake City protesters charged with three felonies
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/06/04/man-who-drew-bow-arrow/
FBI opens an investigation into the death of Breonna Taylor
https://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-opens-investigation-death-breonna-taylor/story?id=70829091
DPD Chief Hall says charges will not be pursued on the hundreds of protesters who were detained after marching onto the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge on Monday night
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2020/06/02/dallas-police-chief-renee-hall-says-demonstrators-broke-law-when-they-walked-onto-margaret-hunt-hill-bridge/
Tom Cotton gets his Insurrection Act proposal out widely. He causes the New York Times newsroom to turn against each other. And he gets to brandish now that the Times chastised it, after the fact. Danny Ocean couldn't have done better.
Any neck restraint, any police restraint above the shoulders, of any kind, should be banned. Today.
The PLO and Hamas adopted a policy in which they reward the families of Palestinians who have killed or attempted to kill Jews. This is one way that these governments incentivize terrorism. The Israeli government demolishes homes that these families are given as a means of disincentivizing committing terrorist acts to obtain reward money. How do I feel about that? It’s pretty draconian. But it’s also crazy and telling that Israel’s enemies reward their citizens for murdering their neighbours. What do you expect from a society that feels humiliated, though? Defeated - and by Jews of all people? That’s got to sting. But nevertheless you’ve got to look out for your citizen’s safety as Israel, and given that safety is the #1 political priority of the land I don’t see this cycle of Humiliation vs. Security ending any time soon.
Senate Targets Obama With in Subpoena Vote, Putting Virus & Protests in Back Seat
https://www.courthousenews.com/senate-targets-obama-with-in-subpoena-vote-putting-virus-protests-in-back-seat/
Please put Obama back in front of the Senate to speak. Remember when Obama went to the Republican lunch they had at some retreat? He talked with them with no notes are any paper to refer to and embarrassed them beyond belief. He stood and answered every question they had. They never asked him back. The last thing Republicans want to do is put Obama, brilliant, articulate, likable, and charismatic Obama, in front of the Senate for what will be must-watch TV. He'll destroy them. I would pay good money to watch that. C-Span would hit their yearly audience targets in one night.
They've got nothing aside from the fact that the FBI was rightly and with just cause conducting an investigation into foreign interference in the election, which affected an opposite-party campaign under his watch for an election he wasn't even running in. They haven't even proven that he directed them to open the investigation personally. Even if he had, it was still legit because there is evidence of foreign interference and what was he supposed to do just ignore it? There's no there there.Not to mention that meanwhile the same FBI was also publicly investigating Clinton over her emails. Funny how they'll subpoena Obama but Trump got a pass on testifying before Mueller. Go ahead. The nation at this point would very much like a precedent to be set for issuing a subpoena on a former president.
NYC reports no new coronavirus deaths for first time since mid-March
https://nypost.com/2020/06/04/nyc-reports-no-new-coronavirus-deaths-for-first-time-since-mid-march/
Bernie's absence from Senate continues. Wasn’t present for votes this week - last vote in March.
Trump tweets a letter from his former attorney directed at his former defense secretary where he says the Lafayette Park protesters “are not real” and are “terrorists.”
Trump cancels planned weekend trip to Bedminster, NJ amid nationwide protests
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/04/trump-bedminster-protest-301717
The New York Times just isn't up to the Trump-era challenge | Two years ago when The New York Times eliminated its public editor position after the ombudsman wrote two tough critiques of the paper's "timid" Russia hacking coverage in 2016, executives at the publication suggested the Times didn't need an internal watchdog to hold the staff accountable, because that's what Twitter does today. The reasoning was a dopey dodge, since short tweets raising concerns about the paper's performance obviously don’t carry the same weight as 900-word columns published in the Times and written by a full-time public editor. But on the off chance that retreating Times executives actually meant what they said about Twitter holding the paper accountable, then Memorial Day weekend proved to be a strong example as the daily was absolutely pummeled by tweets for days, roundly and loudly criticized for some atrocious Trump-era reporting. "It truly is a weekend of wtf for the @nytimes," tweeted journalist Soledad O’Brien. "Bad reporting. Poor framing. Terrible editing. Bad decision making. Just a mess." Indeed, the rhetorical Twitter beatdown helped shine a spotlight on the fact that the Times, and specifically its Washington bureau, simply isn't up to the task of covering Donald Trump’s presidency. These are extraordinary times, as the radical Republican shreds norms on a near-daily basis. But the Times cannot, or will not, rise to the occasion. Instead of brave, groundbreaking reporting we get timidity, and we get Times reporters still coddling dishonest Trump-era sources, such as former White House communications director Hope Hicks. It's all part of the Times's current-day identity crisis: The newsroom knows it should be unabashedly critical and confrontational, and that's how the paper markets itself under Trump. But in reality, the paper’s reporters and editors are too timid to regularly deliver the goods. Note that I'm not writing an entire column detailing all the Trump-era missteps at CNN, or the Washington Post, or CBS News, or the Los Angeles Times. I'm not suggesting those news operations are without fault, because they definitely are not. But I am saying there is no major news outlet in America today that so consistently advertises its shortcomings the way the Times does, and there's no other news organization that so staunchly refuses to concede missteps. A cult-like defense now permeates the newsroom, where staffers remain convinced every Times critic is naïve and misguided, and can't possibly understand how the sophisticated players at the paper are keyed into the Trump-era truth. But wait! The Times has won Pulitzer Prize awards for its Trump reporting, so that proves the paper is doing a great job, right? Nope. What that proves is that Times journalists who operate outside the paper's Washington bureau often score with important and deeply reported investigations into Trump's disturbing past, while the Times's Beltway crew works to normalize his presidency. Two egregious Times articles in particular stunned media observers in recent days. One was a deeply peculiar article about former White House communications director Hope Hicks and how she faces, as the Times put it, an "existential choice" of whether or not to comply with a congressional subpoena. The news article also featured an oddly glamorous, stylized photo of Hicks. Think about the mindset that the piece even required, both from the reporter who wrote it, (Maggie Haberman) and the editor who oversaw the article—the mindset being that of course, members of Trump's inner circle have a "choice" of whether they want to comply with a congressional subpoena, as if that's the legal norm for you and me. Think about how deep into the dysfunctional game of normalizing Trump you have to be to even think about framing the Hicks story the way the newspaper did. (The puff piece was also riddled with missteps, and follows a long line of fawning Hicks coverage at the Times.) The Hicks article really did seem to capture how badly the paper has lost touch with its calling, and the dangerous consequences of those failures. "When a respected paper such as @nytimes calls this an ‘existential’ question, rather than a question about complying with the law, we have a very serious problem with our democracy," stressed Princeton University historian, Julian Zelizer. "This is what it looks like to become dysfunctional." The other piece that produced Twitter howls was an in-depth Times article, complete with a timeline, that documented the array of insults Trump has used to describe Democratic candidates. All the article did was amplify Trump's idiocy by repeating his childish taunts about his political opponents and treating them as important news. (They're not, and the press shouldn't treat them as such.) But honestly, that’s not all that's been glaringly wrong with the paper recently. Late last week, after Trump used Twitter to share a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the Times completely ignored the incident in its write-up of what the paper claimed was a Both Sides "war of words" that had broken out between Trump and Pelosi as they questioned each others' fitness for office. Please note that Pelosi questioned Trump's fitness based on his erratic behavior and comments, while Trump questioned Pelosi's fitness based on a manipulated video. Yet the Times treated those as equal. This train of timidity travels on and on. Last month while covering a Trump rally where he told a ghastly lie about Democrats supporting infanticide, the Times could only summon enough courage to call Trump's hideous declaration "a standard, and inaccurate, refrain." Back in February, Trump told a gargantuan lie when he claimed that 72% of arrested undocumented immigrants don't show up for mandatory court appearances. He was off by 70 points: The actual figure is 2%. The Times politely labeled that a "false statement." The daily has been extraordinarily reticent in telling the truth about Trump being a pathological liar. That's when the paper hasn’t been busy hyping White House talking points. In late March, having read not one page of Robert Mueller's report on his Russia investigation, the Times rushed to announce that Trump had been exonerated and that Mueller's conclusions had provided Trump with a "powerful boost" toward reelection. The Times made that sweeping conclusion having only been given Attorney General William Barr's four-page press release, which we now know was riddled with false spin. The New York Times is the most famous and powerful news organization in America. It’s a shame the newspaper’s not up to the Trump-era challenge. || Eric Boehlert is a veteran progressive writer and media analyst, formerly with Media Matters and Salon. He is the author of Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush and Bloggers on the Bus. You can follow him on Twitter @EricBoehlert. This post was written and reported through our Daily Kos freelance program.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/5/29/1861136/-The-New-York-Times-just-isn-t-up-to-the-Trump-era-challenge
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/31/new-york-times-public-editor-239000
https://www.nationalmemo.com/hopes-choice-critics-blast-new-york-times-for-weepy-coverage-of-hicks-subpoena/
https://twitter.com/maassp/status/1133378627289133056
https://twitter.com/jedshug/status/1133570245950676992?s=21
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/business/media/pulitzer-prizes.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/us/politics/hope-hicks-subpoena.html
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1132627140808249346?s=21
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/style/hope-hicks-donald-trump.html
https://twitter.com/julianzelizer/status/1132614104101851136
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/26/us/politics/trump-tweets-democrats.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/trump-wont-stop-coining-nasty-nicknames-for-his-foes--but-the-media-must-stop-amplifying-them/2019/05/15/fa49cb52-7727-11e9-b3f5-5673edf2d127_story.html?utm_term=.be14377562f3
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/23/us/politics/impeaching-trump-nancy-pelosi.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/28/us/politics/trump-abortion-fact-check.html
https://twitter.com/EricBoehlert/status/1096055046192668672
https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1109977906388832256
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/4/21/1851538/-After-the-Barr-hoax-press-has-no-reason-to-ever-believe-Trump-team-again
The entire planet is having trouble breathing, the entire planet is murderous
The White House is now surrounded by nearly 2 miles of fencing and barricades
https://theweek.com/speedreads/918373/white-house-now-surrounded-by-nearly-2-miles-fencing-barricades
The people shouldn’t be scared of their government. The government should be scared of its people.
Law Enforcement Seizes Thousands of Masks Sent to Help Protect Protesters From Coronavirus (because they hope it will force protestors to leave)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/06/05/criminal-law-enforcement-seizes-thousands-masks-sent-help-protect-protesters
Nashville judge orders Tennessee to permit vote by mail for all registered voters
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2020/06/04/nashville-judge-orders-tennessee-permit-vote-mail-all-residents/3144766001/
Twitter Removes Trump Campaign Tribute To George Floyd Claiming Copyright Complaint
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/501270-twitter-removes-trump-campaign-tribute-to-george-floyd-claiming-copyright
Qatar, the owner of this propaganda mouthpiece has been building stadiums and megalomaniac skyscrapers with slave labor for years upon years now, and I bet you won't read an article about it on AJ because their fake concerns about human rights are the same as those of Iran, NK, China, and Russia who condemned US police brutality. They are super creative and sensitive when it comes to obsessing with Israel but when their own dictatorship violates human rights on right and left they won't publish a word.
The NYT have published op-eds from Putin and the second in command of the Taliban (a wanted terrorist with a $5m bounty on his head). Those were filled with false information as well. It wasn't wrong for the NYT to publish his opinion in their opinion section, as it was clearly marked as an opinion instead of news. This isn't about giving fascism a platform; he's a US Senator, he already has a platform, and polls are showing a plurality of Americans agreeing with him. The NYT has a consistent policy of publishing what is notable and sparking debate, and it's sad to see them go back on that to appease a generation of mentally ill terrorist trash. According to a A rated pollster by 538, 58% of Americans support the deployment of troops to aid response to protests with 30% opposing. And even among demographics normally associated with left of center politics, a non-trivial number of "self identified liberals" (40%), voters under 34 (43%), and even African Americans (37%) fully or partially support doing exactly what Tom Cotton is suggesting.
https://assets.morningconsult.com/wp-uploads/2020/06/01181629/2005131_crosstabs_POLICE_RVs_FINAL_LM-1.pdf
There IS a valuable discussion to be had on this, whether we should be sending American soldiers into our cities to help quell protests. And if anything, what the last week has shown is that the National Guard has done a far better job at de-escalating and policing than the actual police have. As publishing of the Taliban and Putin have shown, it didn't matter to the NYT whether the person writing the piece is a fascist or a terrorist, what matters is whether their opinions sparks legitimate and valuable debate, and I think a discussion on something as important as invoking the Insurgent Act belongs in that category.
Charles Barkley: "I thought the negative reaction from every talking head on television and some of his teammates was overkill. I never heard a bad word about Drew Brees in my life. He made a mistake."
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2894851-charles-barkley-shaquille-oneal-address-drew-brees-comments-on-kneeling
The Republican-controlled IRS is refusing to collect billions in back taxes owed by super ultra-rich Americans
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/report-rich-americans-owe-billions-of-dollars-in-back-taxes-to-irs-125447531.html
Trump really celebrated the unemployment rate going from 14% to 13% and 100,000+ covid-19 deaths
I've resigned as a member of the reddit board, I have urged them to fill my seat with a black candidate, + I will use future gains on my Reddit stock to serve the black community, chiefly to curb racial hate, and I’m starting with a pledge of $1M to @kaepernick7’s @yourrightscamp
https://twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/1268943036228292608
Donald Trump, Sept. 28, 2015: "That is the biggest joke there is in this country. The unemployment rate is probably 20 percent, but I will tell you, you have some great economists that will tell you it's a 30, 32. And the highest I've heard so far is 42 percent."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/03/10/19-times-trump-called-the-jobs-numbers-fake-before-they-made-him-look-good/
At the time Trump said this, unemployment was 5%, under Obama.
40,000 Americans were allowed to return from China WITHOUT being tested...they helped spread the virus throughout the country. REPUBLICANS DID NOT shut down the spread from China.
I honestly don't trust his former boot lickers. They were all to eager to push his lies while working for him, but now that the USS Trump is sinking, they're just rats fleeing a sinking ship. Unless one of these people straight up, in front of a camera, says something akin to "I was wrong, I put my morals aside and peddled lies to the American public.", unless I hear that I'm just going to assume that they're just trying to rehab their image. Honestly I think the only one of Trump's former sycophants to acknowledge the horrible shit they did was Michael Cohen... before going to jail for lying for Trump. And Cohen had been a Democrat for years and was at one point pro-Obama and worked for the Obama campaign.
Controversial Confederate monument in Mobile, Ala., comes down In a surprise move, the Alabama city took down a statue of Confederate Admiral Raphael Semmes.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/501295-confederate-monument-in-mobile-alabama-comes-down
Bernie still missing. Yesterday the Senate adjourned until Monday, when it will be 75 days since he last turned up to vote. I do hope he's alright physically. However, he has a job to do. It could be he's getting some long overdue cardiac rehab. He did have a heart attack last fall.
Jobs rebound because 99% of everything is back open
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/economy/may-jobs-report-2020-coronavirus/index.html
Russia Declares State of Emergency in Siberia After 18,000 Tonnes of Diesel Fuel Spilled in Arctic
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-declares-state-of-emergency-in-siberia-after-18-000-tonnes-of-diesel-fuel-spilled-1.5598006
"Most pork plants have resumed production, but Preisler says 'it's too early to tell' whether farmers will be forced to kill more of their pigs." Because, you know, it's not like that's what they do normally.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/06/05/869724349/farmers-find-ways-to-save-millions-of-pigs-from-slaughter
Per polling, majorities are pro-police, but also pro-protest and anti-Trump. There is that key portion of the electorate that thinks the cops are doing okay, thinks the protests are good and dislikes Trump, which the media is ignoring. Police GOOD. Protests GOOD. Rioting BAD. Trump BAD.
Negotiators for the city of Minneapolis agree with the state to ban the use of chokeholds by police. Police would also be required to report and intervene anytime they see an unauthorized use of force by another officer.
https://apnews.com/ce3c4c56b683ae47d26bec1045a35fb7
Chokehold was illegal in Eric Garner's case, police walked free
Appeals court upholds order to restore reporter’s White House press pass
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/05/brian-karem-white-house-press-pass-303395
56% of registered voters believe police behaving appropriately or not aggressively enough
http://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/NPR_PBS-NewsHour_Marist-Poll_USA-NOS-and-Tables_2006041039.pdf
Want to #DefundThePolice? If your house or wife or husband or children or school or job or church or synagogue or mosque or park or neighbourhood or any person/pet/place/etc you love were under attack from a shooter, would you want a social worker or negotiator to arrive in response to your 911 or a squad of armed policemen?"
This guy is just profoundly fucked in the head. I mean there's no other words for it. He is just fucked in the head. This is a diseased mind. Trump's comment that George Floyd is looking down and saying it's a great day is offensive on its own. “Hopefully, George is looking down right and saying this is a great thing that’s happening for our country. It’s a great day for him, it’s a great day for everybody.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-george-floyd-press-conference-today-job-numbers-a9551426.html
George Floyd’s last words, “I can’t breathe,” have echoed across our nation and around the world. For the President to try to put any other words in his mouth is frankly despicable.
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1268973258537402371
Park Police contradict the White House's claims that it didn't use tear gas on protesters, admit they were 'incorrect' in saying pepper balls aren't tear gas
https://www.businessinsider.com/park-police-contradict-the-white-house-on-tear-gas-usage-on-protesters-2020-6
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has ordered the remainder of active duty troops who were brought to the Washington, DC, area to return to their home base. Esper has ordered guardsmen in DC to not carry arms, a decision made without the White House, where Trump wanted them armed
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/pentagon-disarms-guardsmen-in-washington-dc-in-signal-of-de-escalation/2020/06/05/324da91a-a733-11ea-8681-7d471bf20207_story.html
Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan donating $500,000 to help Atlanta's black community | In the aftermath of George Floyd's death, Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan is donating $500,000 toward a GoFundMe fundraiser he established, aimed at advancing lives in the black community of Atlanta.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/29271194/falcons-quarterback-matt-ryan-donating-500000-support-atlanta-black-community
The African American unemployment rate went up to 16.8% in May jobs report, while the unemployment rate for whites went down, according to the Labor Dept. And unemployment overall is still higher than it was during the Great Depression. What a win.
Entire BPD Emergency Response Team (57 officers) resigns from team in support of suspended officers who were suspended for shoving a 75 year old protestor to the ground.
https://www.wivb.com/news/local-news/buffalo/entire-bpd-emergency-response-team-resigns-in-support-of-suspended-officers/
There is very clear video--the push, the walking past the bleeding man after. And yet the police union president, at a time of trying to hold public trust: "They were simply doing their job.I don't know how much contact was made. He did slip in my estimation. He fell backwards."
Trump And His Press Secretary Voted Illegally | Kayleigh McEnany was living in Washington, but voted in Florida. Trump used an address he promised Palm Beach officials would not be a residence.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-maralago-illegal-residence_n_5eda78e6c5b66ef1a9246821?rmg
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday ordered the state police training program to stop teaching officers how to use a hold that can block the flow of blood to the brain. | Newsom issued his order to the state Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. The commission provides curriculum for training law enforcement officers throughout California. The decision on using the hold is up to police agencies.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/california/newsom-orders-end-to-carotid-hold-training/2304364/
Federal Agents Release Coronavirus Masks Seized From Black Lives Matter Protesters
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-lives-matter-masks-coronavirus-postal-service_n_5eda7c7cc5b66ef1a924730d
The media carried Trump's BS presser (which was nothing more than a free campaign rally). At the same time, they did not show Joe Biden's press conference. They are giving Trump FREE media while refusing the same courtesy to his opponent. In 2016, the media gave Trump billions in free media. The media clearly wants Trump re-elected. Trump gave an hour press conference full of lies, and when it's carried live, too many people at home don't know he's lying. And I want to say a word about two lies he told today. 1). Black unemployment. Trump said he's responsible for the fall of Black unemployment (FYI during the pandemic, Black unemployment has SPIKED .1%) Obama/Biden cut Black unemployment in half (because of the Republican-led recession). Black unemployment just continued to decline under Trump; he did NOTHING to earn praise for not screwing up the Obama/Biden economy. 2). The VA Choice Act. Trump took credit for it again. Obama (Biden) signed the VA Choice Act in 2014. Trump did NOT sign it. I try not to pile on the media because we’re better than Trumpers, but it’s so frustrating, the media really is fake news full of lies. They absolutely would benefit under another 4 years of Trump. Going back to a sane, normal POTUS isn’t as exciting to report about.
Mexico protester sets police officer on fire as man's death in custody triggers demonstrations
https://www.newsweek.com/mexico-protester-sets-police-officer-fire-demonstrations-ignite-over-mans-death-custody-1508918
The French military and allied forces in Mali have killed the longtime leader of al-Qaida's North African arm, who commanded jihadists in his native Algeria and then spread their movement across Africa's Sahel region, France's defense minister said.
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/06/05/world/africa/05reuters-france-sahel-qaeda.html
Public health experts called for social distance. Now many say it’s time for social justice. despite relentlessly warning against mass protests during a pandemic. Trump easily wins re-election because Democrats are liars who defend criminals.
People have wondered why there haven't been more protests in front of the Trump International Hotel. Most reasonable expression perhaps is protestors are focused on the White House as the ultimate symbol of power, rather than a narrow focus on Trump.
Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance announced Friday that his office will decline to prosecute protest arrests on charges of unlawful assembly and disorderly conduct.
N.C. Supreme Court Rules Over 100 Death Row Inmates Have Chance to Prove Racism Affected Their Sentences | In a sweeping decision released Friday, the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that over 100 death row inmates have the opportunity to prove racism affected their sentences because they had filed a claim under the state’s Racial Justice Act (RJA) before it was repealed in 2013. If the defendants win their hearings, they’ll be re-sentenced to life without parole.
https://time.com/5849203/north-carolina-death-row-surpeme-court-racism/
The NBPA informed players today that NBA/NBPA will conduct coronavirus testing every night during resumed season -- likely mouth swabs/light nasal swabs and not full invasive nasal swab. Minimum seven days quarantine for a player if positive.
https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1269015423808417792
Trump Shushes Black Reporter Asking What He’s Doing About Systemic Racism
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-shushes-yamiche-alcindor-for-asking-what-hes-doing-about-systemic-racism
Indian police on Friday arrested a man accused of causing the death of a pregnant elephant that died after biting a pineapple stuffed with explosives
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elephant-killed-explosive-pineapple-india-man-arrested/
Biden formally clinches Democratic presidential nomination
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries
A cyclist on a Maryland trail who was captured on video roughly grabbing a young woman while she posted fliers against police brutality was arrested and charged Friday with three counts of second-degree assault, the police said. The Maryland-National Capital Park Police said the cyclist, Anthony Brennan III, 60, of Kensington, Md., was tracked down after the agency received hundreds of tips from people who had seen the video, which has been viewed more than 29 million times on Twitter.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/-maryland-cyclist-assault-anthony-brennan.html
Trump is insisting on abandoning Charlotte because the governor is a Democrat, that is the only reason. "Democrats won't let Republicans run the Republican National Convention the way we want" is the campaign rhetoric.
Covid-19 Depletes Europe’s Nazi+Fasctic Historic Memory | “The memory is vanishing, and the coronavirus is accelerating this process,” said Rita Magnani, who worked with Mr. Negri, at the local chapter of the National Association of Italian Partisans. “We are losing the people who can tell us in first person what happened. And it’s a shame, because when we lose the historical memory we lose ourselves.” | The virus, which is so lethal to the old, has hastened the departure of these last witnesses and forced the cancellation of anniversary commemorations that offered a final chance to tell their stories to large audiences. It has also created an opportunity for rising political forces who seek to recast the history of the last century in order to play a greater role in remaking the present one. Throughout Europe, radical right-wing parties with histories of Holocaust denial, Mussolini infatuation and fascist motifs, have gained traction in recent years, moving from the fringes and into parliaments and even governing coalitions. The Alternative for Germany is looking to capitalize on the economic frustration the coronavirus crisis has triggered. In France, the hard-right National Rally had the country’s strongest showing in the last European Parliament elections. And in Italy, the birthplace of fascism, the descendants of post-fascist parties have grown popular as the stigma around Mussolini and strongman politics has faded. Italy is especially vulnerable to the loss of memory. It has endured a severe epidemic and has the oldest population in Europe. It is also a politically polarized place where areas of consensus in other countries are constantly relitigated, with recollections of Nazi and fascist atrocities countered with retorts of summary executions by Communist partisans. In the three quarters of a century following Italy’s defeat and de facto civil war with Mussolini’s short-lived Nazi puppet state in the north, the people who lived through the war and fascism have offered a living testimony that shined through the muddle. That generation was to get a final close-up and megaphone on the 75th anniversary of the war’s end, in Italy and throughout Europe. To mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, Germany had spent more than a year booking flights and hotels and organizing wheelchairs and oxygen tanks for 72 survivors and 20 American soldiers who liberated the camps. For five days starting on April 29, they were to meet one another and tell their stories. The pandemic made that impossible. | In the meantime, as the virus upsets all of modern life, it is also severing connections to the past. In Spain, José María Galante, 71, survived the Spanish Civil War and the regime of the dictator Francisco Franco, and spent recent years trying to bring his torturer, Antonio González Pacheco, a policeman known as “Billy the Kid,” to justice. But in March, Mr. Galante died of the virus. Weeks later, the virus also killed Mr. Pacheco, 73. “It’s a huge loss for all those who believed that Spain should not silence its past,” said Mr. Galante’s longtime partner, Justa Montero. When the virus killed Henry Kichka, a 94-year-old Belgian writer and Auschwitz survivor, on April 25, the Belgian politician Charles Picqué wrote “a great witness of Shoah left us,” and that it was “now up to the young generations to continue his battle against hate.” In Italy, it’s more than just the memory of the fascist era that risks being shut away, as the country debates what to do with its vulnerable elders. For months, officials have debated what policy to adopt for the country’s older at-risk population, including those who rebuilt the country after the war, fueled its boom and endured the domestic terrorism of the 1970s — itself an echo of the civil war. In a gerontocracy like Italy, proposals to encourage the elderly to stay inside would mean shutting away much of the political, academic, industrial and business elite. | “Firsthand testimony is valued over indirect testimony,” he said. “There is already an attempt underway to remove the history of resistance. That effort will be sped up when the witnesses are gone.” The families of other partisans said they themselves only felt the full weight of that history now that the people who lived it had died. “You know how it is, when someone’s well, it seems like a fable, what they say about the past,” said Teresa Baroni, 86, who lost her husband, Savino, to the virus in March. “And then they are gone and it doesn’t seem like a fable anymore.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/world/europe/coronavirus-europe-italy-elderly-deaths.html
When the U.S. government’s official jobs report for May came out on Friday, it included a note at the bottom saying there had been a major error indicating that the unemployment rate was 3 percentage points higher than the widely reported 13.3 percent rate. The unemployment rate was 16.3 percent.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/05/may-2020-jobs-report-misclassification-error/
Without the Marshall Plan, the GATT, NATO, the European Coal and Steel Community, etc. etc. etc. the victory at D-Day would have been as fruitless as the equally heroic Allied victories of 1917-18. "Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war." On this day in 1947, Secretary of State Marshall surprised his audience at Harvard University by delivering one of the most consequential speeches of the 20th Century. People expected non-political remarks, after all it was an acceptance speech for his honorary degree. It turned out to be making history. Reaching out to yesterday’s enemies, helping devastated nations of Europe recover from the ravages of World War II cleared the path to decades of peace and prosperity. Wise words, eternally: “It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world, without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace”. And it’s all been destroyed by Trump and Republicans in the last few years.
https://www.marshallfoundation.org/marshall/the-marshall-plan/marshall-plan-speech/
Trump’s tweets and retweets reached 200 on the nose yesterday, amid criticism over his handling of the George Floyd protests. That’s most tweeting in a single day. Previous presidential record: 142, amid impeachment debate in January. He’s over 460 for the week.
Judge in Jeffrey Epstein who has refused to release grand jury records has ties to those with a stake in keeping them secret.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article243320521.html
German Neo Nazis Are Getting Explosives Training at a White Supremacist Camp in Russia
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5pqk4/german-neo-nazis-are-getting-explosives-training-at-a-white-supremacist-camp-in-russia
NFL decision to permit kneeling protest by players enrages Donald Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/06/nfl-decision-to-permit-kneeling-protest-by-players-enrages-donald-trump
Really bad decision, there's a difference between relocating confederate statues to museums/galleries/warehouses and another to outright ban the confederate insignia: U.S. Marine Corps Orders Confederate Flag Ban Including on Bumper Stickers, Mugs And T-Shirts
https://www.newsweek.com/us-marines-confederate-flag-racism-monuments-protests-1509148
Banning coffee mugs & t-shirts didn't magically end all Nazism in Germany. And it certainly isn't going to magically end American style White supremacy. If anything, censorship of their preferred symbols will just fuel their martyr complex.
Kansas technical school cancels Ivanka Trump's upcoming speech
http://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/kansas-technical-school-cancels-ivanka-trump-s-upcoming-speech-20200606-p55050.html?espv=1
The Trump campaign removed a 'make space great again' video ad after former NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg called it 'political propaganda' for using images of her family
https://www.businessinsider.com/astronaut-karen-nyberg-calls-out-trump-for-political-propaganda-2020-6
Trump Erupts After Attack Target Lisa Page Joins MSNBC As National Security Analyst
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lisa-page-donald-trump-peter-strzok_n_5edb44cfc5b6cb861f71900b
Democrats to Propose Broad Bill to Target Police Misconduct and Racial Bias
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/us/politics/democrats-police-misconduct-racial-bias.html
Chicago Mayor Calls Out Officers Who Turn Off Body Cams, Says 'We Will Strip You of Your Police Powers'
https://www.newsweek.com/chicago-mayor-calls-out-officers-who-turn-off-body-cams-says-we-will-strip-you-your-police-1509167
As thousands gather near White House, Trump is there with no events. He was supposed to be in Bedminster this weekend but plans were scrapped after aides considered the "bad optics" of going to the NJ golf club as protests grow.
The White House, which has sole access to the US military weaponry, is now a fortress, surrounded by more than a mile of fencing, scared of unarmed protestors
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/06/06/white-house-fence-protests-dc/
Current and former intel officials are finding similarities between events at home and the signs of decline they were trained to detect in other nations. Ex-CIA analyst: "This is what autocrats do. This is what happens in countries before a collapse."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/cia-veterans-who-monitored-crackdowns-abroad-see-troubling-parallels-in-trump-handling-of-protests/2020/06/02/7ab210b8-a4f6-11ea-bb20-ebf0921f3bbd_story.html
Top Trump campaign adviser amplified a video of a chainsaw-wielding racist who yelled the n-word at protesters The tweet she rt’d said “That’s how to do it”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/06/racist-boosted-by-trump-aide-mercedes-schlapp-race-protests-sweep-nation-304633
Trump and Republicans are furiously re-tweeting tweets of kkkersand neo-nazis and designated alt-right domestic terrorist hate groups.
The BLM needs to purge this kind of bigotry, which discredits their cause. Wait until they see the numbers for Asians.
https://twitter.com/LakerGMC/status/1269377341739929601
Democrats orchestrated marches (Baltimore, Ferguson) before the 2016 election and Trump blew Democrats off the electoral map. Democrats orchestrated marches on Trump's inauguration day and that backfired (a million people is a joke when 136,669,276 people voted)
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and Native Organizations Encouraged by Recent Decision in Mashpee v. Bernhardt and Now Call on DOI for Recommitment to Tribal Sovereignty | Yesterday, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia rendered a decision in favor of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in the case of Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe v. Bernhardt. In its opinion, Judge Paul L. Friedman ruled: The Court will grant the Mashpee Tribe’s motion for summary judgment and deny the federal defendants’ and defendant-intervenors’ motions for summary judgment. Furthermore, because the Secretary of the Interior’s September 7, 2018 Record of Decision is arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, and contrary to law, the Court remands the matter to the Secretary of the Interior for a thorough reconsideration and re-evaluation of the evidence before him consistent with this Opinion, the 2014 M-Opinion, M-37209 – its standard and the evidence permitted therein – and the Department’s prior decisions applying the M-Opinion’s two-part test.
http://www.ncai.org/news/articles/2020/06/06/mashpee-wampanoag-tribe-and-native-organizations-encouraged-by-recent-decision-in-mashpee-v-bernhardt-and-now-call-on-doi-for-recommitment-to-tribal-sovereignty
https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2020cv1002-36
Trump Plans to Withdraw Some U.S. Troops From Germany, a Key NATO Ally
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/world/europe/trump-troops-europe-nato-germany.html
A lawyer is tweeting videos of police using force at protests. There are more than 350
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-06-06/twitter-videos-lawyer-police-use-of-force-protesters
Suspended Buffalo officers charged with second-degree assault
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/501471-suspended-buffalo-officers-charged-with-second-degree-assault
The mayor of Minneapolis was booed and dismissed by mentally ill deranged Democrats once he refused to commit to defunding the police department. No one would be happier to see defunding the police being a wedge issue for Democrats in November than Donald Trump and Republicans.
A former housekeeper at Trump's Las Vegas hotel claims she was fired for refusing to work Sundays so she could attend church. She is now suing over alleged religious discrimination.
https://time.com/5847248/trump-hotel-maid-fired-refusing-working-church-sundays/
My fiancé's restaurant—which had planned on reopening as late as the beginning of May—closed permanently bc our county exec wouldn't give an end date for the lockdown. A week later it was ok to protest. Many more have suffered far worse. I'm furious.
https://twitter.com/SeanDurns/status/1269297647724052480
Marine lance corporal and recipient of two Purple Hearts stands alone at Utah Capitol with 'I can't breathe' covering his mouth
https://kutv.com/news/local/utah-marine-stands-alone-at-utah-capitol-with-i-cant-breathe-covering-his-mouth
On call, Clyburn warned against using defund police rhetoric, and others spoke out too including Cicilline and Bass. AOC, who has previously spoke out in favor of defunding and slashing NYPD budget, urged her colleagues to try to understand the debate and not mock it, per sources
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1270105156588384256
ESPN has obtained a copy of MLB’s proposal today to the players. Here are the pertinent details:
- 76-game season
- $1,431,716,000 in potential compensation (75% of the full prorated salary of $1,909,436 over 76 games)
- Up to 8 playoff teams per league (at MLB’s discretion)
https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1270103657988665344
Joe Biden met privately with family members grieving the loss of George Floyd. Rev. Sharpton said the meeting took place before Floyd's funeral and burial because Biden didn't want to strain the private, family affair with a massive security operation.
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-joe-biden-meets-privately-george-floyd-family-before-funeral-20200608-zsrsi7ty2nb4lok2q5rvl63pye-story.html
The new hires mark a formal return for the "Trump originals" who the president has leaned on throughout his administration. Many of them were key political architects of his 2016 victory — sticking with Trump despite grim polling numbers not unlike what he is facing now.
Exactly: “I don’t support defunding the police … It’s not defunding, but it is questioning how resources are spent,” Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin says about the House Democrats police reform bill.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/politics/democrats-police-legislation/index.html
Want to know exactly what happened when protesters were cleared from Lafayette Square? The Post reviewed hours of video, from every angle, and has new details on which agencies and weaponry were used. The Washington Post combines video, police transmissions and maps to take you inside the havoc wreaked on H St. minutes before Trump crossed it. Includes the detail that as they prepared for clashes, D.C. cops were told over their radios that CS teargas may soon be used. Reporters later found spent CS gas canisters at the scene. Authorities continue to deny it was fired.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/06/08/timeline-trump-church-photo-op/
A Virginia man arrested Sunday for driving his truck into a crowd of protesters "is an admitted leader of the Ku Klux Klan and a propagandist for Confederate ideology."
https://www.richmond.com/news/local/crime/henrico-prosecutor-hanover-man-who-drove-into-protest-is-admitted-kkk-leader/article_54776922-5870-5657-8900-eb2969ae9140.html
Trump Throws Tantrum After CNN Poll Shows Biden Crushing Him By Nearly 15 Points
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-throws-tantrum-after-cnn-poll-shows-biden-crushing-him-by-nearly-15-points
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