Today's News (2020/6/6): The Furtive Fashism edition

The fascism edition, including some of the places where white militia have shown up. Spoiler: it's where BLM people aren't.

1. Rep. Justin Amash Wants To End Qualified Immunity. Where Are the Republicans?
2. Fox News reports that stock markets tend to rise after police murder Black people
3. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette removes protest and police brutality stories from website following protests from union members
4. There’s something consistent about these people gathered to support the suspended police officers from Buffalo.
5. Salman Rushdie: I’ve seen dictators rise and fall. Beware, America.
6. We need to talk about fascism and America.
7. Esper, Milley refuse to testify before the House next week
8. Facebook removes nearly 200 accounts tied to hate groups
9. Exclusive: He quit his Facebook job because of Zuckerberg's inaction on Trump's posts
10. Tucson creates new ordinance to deter aggressive 'First Amendment auditors' [EDITOR: It's hard to imagine this is a real article in a real newspaper, but it is]
11. In Klamath Falls, Oregon, victory declared over antifa, which never showed up

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Today's News (2020/6/6): the Police Violence edition

One of the big items here is polling of police - the vast majority of whom are white men - on race relations and protests. The numbers are... well. They're everything you didn't want to assume, but kind of expected.

1. [NEW YORK CITY] Police attacked Stonewall AGAIN.
2. [PHILADELPHIA] Philadelphia Police Inspector Joseph Bologna will face assault charges in the beating of a Temple student at a protest [EDITOR: Police staging "blue flu" walkout in protest of charges]
3. [DES MOINES] 'Des Moines is not immune to this': Iowa protesters march for racial justice — and get results
4. [NEW YORK CITY] Bruce Springsteen and the NYPD
5. [DENVER] A federal judge in Denver has blocked police from using chemical agents or shooting “projectiles of any kind” at peaceful protesters.
6. [DENVER] More on the judicial ruling against the Denver police department
7. [SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA] Man who trains San Jose police about bias severely injured by riot gun during George Floyd protest
8. [MINNEAPOLIS] Minneapolis City Council to vote Friday on first changes to police
9. How The Police See Issues Of Race And Policing [EDITOR: It might be even worse than you think.]
10. [SEATTLE] Seattle PD dragging mother out of her car while her 9 year old is in the backseat. Officer tells her she has “multiple counts of assaulting an officer. You assaulted me and you assaulted another officer” at a protest couple days ago.
11. [PORTLAND] Mayor Wheeler wants PPB to limit use of CS gas

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Today's News (2020/6/6): the Racism, anti-LGBT, and COVID-19 edition

No separate COVID-19 edition today, because there's really only one story I wanted to drop in. It's item 11 here.

In other news, incel terrorism is still a thing, Republicans are still racist and corrupt, white guys can kill African Americans and it's really hard to get charges even when it's on video. So that's fun.

1. Republicans fear Trump may cost them Senate
2. “We played your game... and you dropped bombs on us.”
3. is this... a #seattleprotest
4. let me tell how many live in fear of the "Bret Stephens Policy."
5. 'Whitestone Wolverine' charged with attempted murder after attack on Black Lives Matter protestors
6. Apropos of absolutely nothing at all, I want to pick out some highlights of Lindsey Graham's long history of attacking the rights and livelihoods of LGBTQ people.
7. Trump Shushes Black Reporter Asking What He’s Doing About Systemic Racism
8. The FBI Says A Guy Blew His Hand Off With A Bomb Possibly Planned For An Attack On "Hot Cheerleaders"
9. An Omaha bar owner won't face charges for fatally shooting a 22-year-old black protester, but has been evicted from the downtown property where he operated two businesses
10. ‘Don’t Forget the White Women!’: Members Say Racism Ran Rampant at NOW
11. Iowa House Republicans pass, along party lines and with maximally limited debate, bill giving employers immunity from lawsuits related to workers contracting Covid-19 on the job.
12. J.K. Rowling came out as a TERF today

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