A massive thread of police violence

This tweet is the current tail of over 200 instances of severe police violence. This one in particular is police pepper spraying into an elevator of apartment dwellers going home, one of whom is a mother carrying a baby. (Cop: "I DON'T CARE! GET OUT!")

If this were propaganda, it would be over-the-top cartoonish, but as it is reality, it is not. It is merely grim.

Scrolling from the first tweet DOES NOT WORK, the thread is too long and has broken Twitter's threading. Scrolling _back_ from the bottom, however, _does_ work.

At the moment, threadroller is apparently keeping up. But there have been reports of issues.

Today's News (2020/6/3): Fascism Rampant Edition

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First post today - the Fascism Rampant edition - keeps getting delayed because I keep having to put more things in it. I'm cutting it off here for now. This is mostly but not exclusively Trump fascism, but a couple of lower-level actions are also included.

That memo from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that David Martin posted wasn't really to the armed forces. It was really to Donald Trump.

1. White House Officials Asked If They Could Take Over D.C.’s Local Police
2. Trump Press Secretary lies, says peaceful crowd was assaulting police
3. Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva Says Curfew Will Continue “Until The Organized Protests Are Gone”
4. This man started an account where he tweets exactly what the president tweets. He just got suspended.
5. The FBI Finds ‘No Intel Indicating Antifa Involvement’ in Sunday’s Violence
6. Federal law enforcement of some kind, but they won’t identify themselves, and all insignias and name plates have been removed.
7. Police shove, make AP journalists stop covering protest
8. NY Times publishes opinion piece by Senator Tom Cotton calling for the military to crush protest. [EDITOR: Our cancellation of our subscription has never been more validated. We will never return.]
9. Use of medical helicopter to target protesters is under investigation, National Guard says
10. ‘Uncomfortable Mission’: Pentagon Tries to Retreat From Trump’s Call to ‘Dominate’ Protests
11. Trump use of Justice Department to investigate political opponents
12. Police assaults on journalists, a thread
13. Tucker Carlson and Fox News: "violent young men with guns" are coming for you
14. CBS News: Trump wants to use military against protesters
15. CBS's David Martin obtained this memo from General Mark Milley to the armed forces
16. Defence Secretary Mark Esper opposes invocation of the Insurrection Act.
17. Damien Patton, CEO of tech surveillance company Banjo, once helped KKK shoot up a synagogue: Report
18. Army: Esper reverses plan to send active-duty troops home
19. The law enforcement presence in DC right now is unlike anything I’ve ever seen.
20. CIA veterans who monitored crackdowns abroad see troubling parallels in Trump handling of protests
21. James Mattis Denounces President Trump, Describes Him as a Threat to the Constitution
22. Gun-toting members of the Boogaloo movement are showing up at protests

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Today's News (2020/6/3): Police Violence Rampant Edition

Today we have an edition specifically for police violence. I wasn't going to go though the 200+ item list compiled on twitter and linked here; some of them are items already posted, but many, many are not, like the incident of pepper spraying apartment dwellers in their own elevator while going home.

That thread is still being updated.

1. A protester knelt down to tell police he loves and respects them. They threw him in jail.
2. Crazy video of Jo Ling Kent in what appears to be a war zone but is actually Seattle
3. This thread is literally HUNDREDS of sourced and documented grotesque cases of police violence.
4. Trump and tear gas in Lafayette Square: A memo from the protest front lines
5. Police using expired gas grenades - which makes the more dangerous, not less
6. Washington State Patrol apologizes for officer’s ‘Don’t kill them, but hit them hard’ instruction regarding Seattle protesters
7. Trump’s Handling of the US Protests Plays Right Into China’s Hands
8. LAS VEGAS passes measure without notice banning bags, large purses, camera bags, strollers, and so on, from all demonstrations

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Today's News (2020/6/3): COVID-19 Edition

Remember COVID19? Yep, still a thing.

1. Who’s wearing a mask? Women, Democrats and city dwellers
2. Neo-Confederate Group Moves Ahead with Conference Amid Covid-19 Outbreak
3. Hydroxychloroquine failed to prevent healthy people from getting COVID-19 in trial
4. A mysterious company’s coronavirus papers in top medical journals may be unraveling
5. Surgisphere, a tiny startup that claims to be providing large real world data for scientific health studies, is probably fabricating data at scale.

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Today's News (2020/6/3): Anti-Fascism is Intrinsically Good Edition

Lots of white supremacy and lower-level politics, and also a long and slow route towards denying LGBT people health care has made its way though process. Plus another dictatorship sees a power vacuum and opportunity.

1. Anyone except the black guy
2. Meghan McCain fact-checked by neighbor after claiming her neighborhood ‘is eviscerated and looks like a war zone’
3. Iowa Rep. Steve King defeated in GOP primary
4. Thousands of protesters laying on the Burnside Bridge with their hands behind their back (Portland, Oregon)
5. Breaking News: President Trump announces on Twitter the Republican National Convention will not be held in Charlotte
6. Seattle CPC (police) accountability meeting.
7. Governor Hutchinson (Arkansas) quietly signed today declaring a state of emergency
8. Seattle-area protests: Mayor to meet with protest leaders today as demonstrators prepare for sixth day of action after George Floyd’s death
9. A final rule that would remove women seeking abortions and LGBT people from the ACA’s non-discrimination protections cleared OMB yesterday.
10. Kpop stans take '#WhiteoutWednesday' away from the neoNazis
11. White House official account tweets picture of Chabad Jewish community security barriers as "weapons" placed by "antifa".
12. N.K. threatens to scrap inter-Korean military agreement unless Seoul takes action against anti-Pyongyang leaflets

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