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solarbirdNot as in smells good, but as in stinks of everything.
But I'm most angry about item 7 below. Rowling has been like this, and ramping up for it, the entire. goddamn. time. and it's only a very, very short period of time before she stops pretending not to hate queers in general, too, like that baroness she co-founded that charity with, who recently came out as saying that same-sex relationships "devalue women and girls."
I mean, you don't use the name of the literal inventor of "gay conversion therapy" - a form of torture intended to change queers into straights - as a pseudonym unless you really hate gay people.
Christ. I am so angry at her.
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Police arrest Tacoma woman accused of setting five patrol cars on fire during Seattle protest
By: KIRO 7 News Staff
Updated: June 11, 2020 - 3:26 PM
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/police-arrest-tacoma-woman-accused-setting-five-patrol-cars-fire-during-seattle-protest/RXCU2LUR2NG77CEFKTLLIY5M6I/
SEATTLE — A 25-year-old Tacoma woman was arrested Thursday morning on five federal counts of arson after police say she burned five Seattle police vehicles on fire as protests turned violent in downtown Seattle on May 30.
U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran said in a news release that Margaret Aislinn Channon was taken into custody without incident at her Tacoma home.
Channon is expected to appear in U.S. District Court in Seattle on Friday. Arson is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
“This defendant was captured by multiple cameras using an accelerant, lit like a blowtorch, to start fires in five vehicles -- putting the public at risk and creating the very real possibility of a structure fire amidst the throng of people protesting downtown,” Moran said in a news release. “I commend the painstaking work of law enforcement using a variety of images to identify the defendant and locate her so she can be held accountable.”
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Starbucks bans employees from wearing anything in support of Black Lives Matter
By John Bowden - 06/11/20
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/502252-starbucks-bans-employees-from-wearing-anything-in-support-of-black-lives
An internal memo sent to Starbucks employees last week specifically warned staffers against wearing accessories or clothes bearing messages in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The memo, obtained by BuzzFeed News, reminds staffers that such messages are prohibited under the company's policy against accessories that "advocated a political, religious or personal issue."
Numerous employees told the news outlet, however, that the company regularly allows or even encourages employees to wear pins in support of LGBTQ equality, especially during Pride Month every June.
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Public Citizen
Twitter.com/Public_Citizen
11 June 2020
https://twitter.com/Public_Citizen/status/1271099152706011137
BREAKING: Steven Mnuchin is now flat-out REFUSING to disclose the businesses receiving $500,000,000,000 in bailout funds, claiming the info is "confidential"
4.5 MILLION businesses received government funds. Zero transparency.
Unconscionable, jaw-dropping corruption.
[SECOND TWEET LINKS TO:
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-money/2020/06/11/mnuchin-ready-to-deal-on-new-economic-package-788431
]
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U.S. surgeon general on George Floyd: "That could have been me"
Ursula Perano
11 June 2020
https://www.axios.com/jerome-adams-surgeon-general-george-floyd-3c20339c-98f4-430a-b47a-c8379534e49e.html
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams reflected on the death of George Floyd on Politico's "Pulse Check" podcast Wednesday, noting the similarities between himself and the 46-year-old black man killed by a Minneapolis police officer last month.
What they're saying: "That could be me, pulled over for speeding five miles over the speed limit. That could be me with a busted tail light," Adams said. "That could be me who is just seen as a black man and not as the surgeon general of the United States."
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The Hill
twitter.com/thehill
11 June 2020
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1271180403496194049
Sen. Tom Cotton: "Are we going to tear the Washington Monument down? Are we going to rename it the Obelisk of Wokeness?"
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
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Pentagon’s top general apologizes for taking part in Trump photo at church
11 June 2020
By Dan Lamothe
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/pentagons-top-general-apologizes-for-taking-part-in-trump-photo-at-church/
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s top general apologized on Thursday for his appearing alongside President Donald Trump near the White House after authorities forcibly removing peaceful protesters from the area, saying that it “was a mistake that I have learned from.”
Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the remarks in a prerecorded graduation speech to students at the National Defense University. He has been roundly criticized for thrusting the military into politics by walking alongside the president on June 1 as Trump walked to a nearby church that had been damaged in protests following the police killing of George Floyd.
Milley advised the students that it is important to keep “a keen sense of situational awareness” and that he had failed to do so on June 1, as he walked from Lafayette Square in combat fatigues alongside the president, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and other senior advisers.
“As many of you saw the results of the photograph of me in Lafayette Square last week, that sparked a national debate about the role of the military in civil society,” Milley said. “I should not have been there. My presence in that moment, and in that environment, created the perception of the military involved in domestic politics.”
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alberto
twitter.com/swiftdestroyme6
11 June 2020
https://twitter.com/swiftdestroyme6/status/1270978014378106880
so apparently 'Robert Galbraith', the pseudonym jk rowling used for a series of novels that presented a trans woman as a villain, is the name of a psychiatrist that pioneered "Gay conversion therapy" in the mid 20th century
i rest my case
[EDITOR: motherFUCKER.
I KNEW I knew that name. I _KNEW_ I did. I never looked it up or tried to dig, but it has been bothering me since the first day I heard that pseudonym, the back of my brain saying, "I know that name. Why do I know that name?"
THIS IS WHY.
She's been like this the whole. fucking. time.
Goddammit.
]
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Welcome to the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, where Seattle protesters gather without police
June 10, 2020
By Evan Bush
Seattle Times staff reporter
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/welcome-to-the-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone-where-seattle-protesters-gather-without-police/
Welcome to the CHAZ, the newly named Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, where most everything was free Tuesday.
Free snacks at the No-Cop Co-op. Free gas masks from some guy’s sedan. Free speech at the speaker’s circle, where anyone could say their piece. A free documentary movie — Ava DuVernay’s “13th” — showing after dark.
A Free Capitol Hill, according to no shortage of spray paint on building facades. And perhaps most important to demonstrators, the neighborhood core was free of uniformed police.
A new protest society — centered on a handful of blocks in Seattle’s quirky, lefty Capitol Hill — has been born from the demonstrations that pushed the Seattle Police Department out of its East Precinct building.
On Tuesday, demonstrators hung a banner on the police station: “THIS SPACE IS NOW PROPERTY OF THE SEATTLE PEOPLE.” Teenagers passed a bottle on the exit ramp for police vehicles. A young man carried a long rifle down the sidewalk, despite the mayor’s ban on weapons in Capitol Hill, which has not been clearly enforced.
A man passed out flyers calling for a Thursday meeting to help answer the question now lingering for demonstrators.
“I support this, but what’s next?” said Max Hodges.
That sentiment summarizes a cascade of questions demonstrators now face. Autonomous from what, exactly? Who is leading? How long can it last? Is it a distraction from the larger movement for police accountability and racial justice?
But I'm most angry about item 7 below. Rowling has been like this, and ramping up for it, the entire. goddamn. time. and it's only a very, very short period of time before she stops pretending not to hate queers in general, too, like that baroness she co-founded that charity with, who recently came out as saying that same-sex relationships "devalue women and girls."
I mean, you don't use the name of the literal inventor of "gay conversion therapy" - a form of torture intended to change queers into straights - as a pseudonym unless you really hate gay people.
Christ. I am so angry at her.
- Police arrest Tacoma woman accused of setting five patrol cars on fire during Seattle protest
- Starbucks bans employees from wearing anything in support of Black Lives Matter
- Steven Mnuchin is now flat-out REFUSING to disclose the businesses receiving $500,000,000,000 in bailout funds
- U.S. surgeon general on George Floyd: "That could have been me"
- Fascist Senator Tom Cotton defends racist statues
- Pentagon’s top general apologizes for taking part in Trump photo at church
- 'Robert Galbraith', the pseudonym J.K. Rowling used for a series of novels that presented a trans woman as a villain, is the name of a psychiatrist that pioneered "Gay conversion therapy" in the mid 20th century
- Welcome to the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, where Seattle protesters gather without police
----- 1 -----
Police arrest Tacoma woman accused of setting five patrol cars on fire during Seattle protest
By: KIRO 7 News Staff
Updated: June 11, 2020 - 3:26 PM
https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/police-arrest-tacoma-woman-accused-setting-five-patrol-cars-fire-during-seattle-protest/RXCU2LUR2NG77CEFKTLLIY5M6I/
SEATTLE — A 25-year-old Tacoma woman was arrested Thursday morning on five federal counts of arson after police say she burned five Seattle police vehicles on fire as protests turned violent in downtown Seattle on May 30.
U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran said in a news release that Margaret Aislinn Channon was taken into custody without incident at her Tacoma home.
Channon is expected to appear in U.S. District Court in Seattle on Friday. Arson is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
“This defendant was captured by multiple cameras using an accelerant, lit like a blowtorch, to start fires in five vehicles -- putting the public at risk and creating the very real possibility of a structure fire amidst the throng of people protesting downtown,” Moran said in a news release. “I commend the painstaking work of law enforcement using a variety of images to identify the defendant and locate her so she can be held accountable.”
----- 2 -----
Starbucks bans employees from wearing anything in support of Black Lives Matter
By John Bowden - 06/11/20
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/502252-starbucks-bans-employees-from-wearing-anything-in-support-of-black-lives
An internal memo sent to Starbucks employees last week specifically warned staffers against wearing accessories or clothes bearing messages in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The memo, obtained by BuzzFeed News, reminds staffers that such messages are prohibited under the company's policy against accessories that "advocated a political, religious or personal issue."
Numerous employees told the news outlet, however, that the company regularly allows or even encourages employees to wear pins in support of LGBTQ equality, especially during Pride Month every June.
----- 3 -----
Public Citizen
Twitter.com/Public_Citizen
11 June 2020
https://twitter.com/Public_Citizen/status/1271099152706011137
BREAKING: Steven Mnuchin is now flat-out REFUSING to disclose the businesses receiving $500,000,000,000 in bailout funds, claiming the info is "confidential"
4.5 MILLION businesses received government funds. Zero transparency.
Unconscionable, jaw-dropping corruption.
[SECOND TWEET LINKS TO:
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-money/2020/06/11/mnuchin-ready-to-deal-on-new-economic-package-788431
]
----- 4 -----
U.S. surgeon general on George Floyd: "That could have been me"
Ursula Perano
11 June 2020
https://www.axios.com/jerome-adams-surgeon-general-george-floyd-3c20339c-98f4-430a-b47a-c8379534e49e.html
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams reflected on the death of George Floyd on Politico's "Pulse Check" podcast Wednesday, noting the similarities between himself and the 46-year-old black man killed by a Minneapolis police officer last month.
What they're saying: "That could be me, pulled over for speeding five miles over the speed limit. That could be me with a busted tail light," Adams said. "That could be me who is just seen as a black man and not as the surgeon general of the United States."
----- 5 -----
The Hill
twitter.com/thehill
11 June 2020
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1271180403496194049
Sen. Tom Cotton: "Are we going to tear the Washington Monument down? Are we going to rename it the Obelisk of Wokeness?"
[EMBEDDED VIDEO AT LINK]
----- 6 -----
Pentagon’s top general apologizes for taking part in Trump photo at church
11 June 2020
By Dan Lamothe
https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/pentagons-top-general-apologizes-for-taking-part-in-trump-photo-at-church/
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s top general apologized on Thursday for his appearing alongside President Donald Trump near the White House after authorities forcibly removing peaceful protesters from the area, saying that it “was a mistake that I have learned from.”
Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made the remarks in a prerecorded graduation speech to students at the National Defense University. He has been roundly criticized for thrusting the military into politics by walking alongside the president on June 1 as Trump walked to a nearby church that had been damaged in protests following the police killing of George Floyd.
Milley advised the students that it is important to keep “a keen sense of situational awareness” and that he had failed to do so on June 1, as he walked from Lafayette Square in combat fatigues alongside the president, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and other senior advisers.
“As many of you saw the results of the photograph of me in Lafayette Square last week, that sparked a national debate about the role of the military in civil society,” Milley said. “I should not have been there. My presence in that moment, and in that environment, created the perception of the military involved in domestic politics.”
----- 7 -----
alberto
twitter.com/swiftdestroyme6
11 June 2020
https://twitter.com/swiftdestroyme6/status/1270978014378106880
so apparently 'Robert Galbraith', the pseudonym jk rowling used for a series of novels that presented a trans woman as a villain, is the name of a psychiatrist that pioneered "Gay conversion therapy" in the mid 20th century
i rest my case
[EDITOR: motherFUCKER.
I KNEW I knew that name. I _KNEW_ I did. I never looked it up or tried to dig, but it has been bothering me since the first day I heard that pseudonym, the back of my brain saying, "I know that name. Why do I know that name?"
THIS IS WHY.
She's been like this the whole. fucking. time.
Goddammit.
]
----- 8 -----
Welcome to the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, where Seattle protesters gather without police
June 10, 2020
By Evan Bush
Seattle Times staff reporter
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/welcome-to-the-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone-where-seattle-protesters-gather-without-police/
Welcome to the CHAZ, the newly named Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, where most everything was free Tuesday.
Free snacks at the No-Cop Co-op. Free gas masks from some guy’s sedan. Free speech at the speaker’s circle, where anyone could say their piece. A free documentary movie — Ava DuVernay’s “13th” — showing after dark.
A Free Capitol Hill, according to no shortage of spray paint on building facades. And perhaps most important to demonstrators, the neighborhood core was free of uniformed police.
A new protest society — centered on a handful of blocks in Seattle’s quirky, lefty Capitol Hill — has been born from the demonstrations that pushed the Seattle Police Department out of its East Precinct building.
On Tuesday, demonstrators hung a banner on the police station: “THIS SPACE IS NOW PROPERTY OF THE SEATTLE PEOPLE.” Teenagers passed a bottle on the exit ramp for police vehicles. A young man carried a long rifle down the sidewalk, despite the mayor’s ban on weapons in Capitol Hill, which has not been clearly enforced.
A man passed out flyers calling for a Thursday meeting to help answer the question now lingering for demonstrators.
“I support this, but what’s next?” said Max Hodges.
That sentiment summarizes a cascade of questions demonstrators now face. Autonomous from what, exactly? Who is leading? How long can it last? Is it a distraction from the larger movement for police accountability and racial justice?
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Date: 2020-06-12 03:34 am (UTC)Rowling, to understate, is failing to thrill me in every way possible.
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Date: 2020-06-12 03:50 am (UTC)I fucking hate her now. I was disappointed. I was angry. I was upset. Now I just hate her. She's been doing this for years and dangling it out (and I twigged on it but didn't make the connection, and that's also infuriating) and you know she's just been giggling about it with her evil baroness friend, laughing about how she's "teasing" us with it.
I hate her so much.
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Date: 2020-06-12 12:13 pm (UTC)They say the appropriate trope is "the author is dead to me" and not merely the author has died. ;-)
Yoink, grab the characters and write your own thing. They're not hers anymore, she can't treat people respectfully.
And THAT shows my level of rage, because as a certified library technical assistant, I wouldn't usually violate author's wishes that way, but I will for this.
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Date: 2020-06-12 05:41 pm (UTC)eta: This is very oh-woe-is-me-privileged-white-woman-problems, but there was a video going around my Tumblr a couple days ago of David Tennant reading Ch. 11 of Sorcerer's Stone as one of these lockdown entertainment things. I wanted to watch it because I love me some DT, but it was actually hosted on the Wizarding World site, which I absolutely did not want to visit. So I had to miss out. Wahh.