Today's News (2020/6/11): Fascism Fewer edition

I've been busy today, so this is probably not as comprehensive as it should be.

1. Trump, Inslee trade Twitter barbs over Capitol Hill protest zone known as CHAZ
2. Conservative Operatives Float Plan to Place Retired Military, Police Officers as GOP Poll Watchers on Election Day
3. Joe Biden Has Already Considered What He’ll Do If Trump Refuses To Leave The White House
4. Senate panel approves dozens of subpoenas targeting origins of Russia probe

( The articles )

Today's News (2020/6/11): Police Violence edition

Seattle PD are so pissed off their little plan to empty the East Precinct building, wait for someone to burn it, then sweep in and do a live-fire or gods know what ultraviolent crackdown didn't pan out. So mad.

(If you're wondering: it's fine. The protesters aren't stupid. They've been guarding it and talking about turning it into a community centre, but now that their big plan didn't work the cops want the building back.)

1. [SEATTLE] Seattle PD reports of "armed guards" at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone "extorting business" a complete and total lie, as literally anyone not them could tell you
2. [LOS ANGELES] Collection of racist posts by LAPD officer Melanie Senneff
3. [SEATTLE] Laura Eberhart, the young mother who was pepper-spayed by Seattle Police while her small child was in the car, had court yesterday and was not charged with a single thing. Police accused her of assaulting an officer at a protest days before.
4. Police Tactics Are Putting Protesters at Higher COVID Transmission Risk
5. [SEATTLE] Their plan to get someone to burn the empty East Precinct building down, Seattle police now want their building back

( The articles )

Today's News (2020/6/11): COVID-19 edition

Now that the DJIA has dropped over 1800 points in a day over this, I guess people are remembering COVID-19 exists.

Pretty sure the US is just gonna let it kill everybody it can. Really am.

Christ, what a shitpile of a country.

1. New coronavirus cases almost double after reopening, says Alabama expert
2. Alarming rise in virus cases as states roll back lockdowns
3. Amy Acton, Ohio's embattled health director, resigns amid COVID-19 crisis
4. ARIZONA: "We are not going to be able to stop the spread, but we can’t stop living."
5. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announces, effective June 16, restaurants no longer have
6. limits on patrons or party numbers, as well as many other removal of COVID-19 controls
7. If you're looking to attend President Trump's rally in Tulsa next Friday, you must first agree not to sue him if you get coronavirus
8. Coronavirus infections appear to spike in U.S. even as they decline elsewhere
9. [IOWA] Gov. Reynolds lifts 50 percent capacity restriction for bars, restaurants starting Friday
10. Coronavirus has killed 5 poultry plant workers and infected more than 200 other employees on Maryland’s Eastern Shore

( The articles )

Today's News (2020/6/11): Potpourri edition

Not 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.

1. Police arrest Tacoma woman accused of setting five patrol cars on fire during Seattle protest
2. Starbucks bans employees from wearing anything in support of Black Lives Matter
3. Steven Mnuchin is now flat-out REFUSING to disclose the businesses receiving $500,000,000,000 in bailout funds
4. U.S. surgeon general on George Floyd: "That could have been me"
5. Fascist Senator Tom Cotton defends racist statues
6. Pentagon’s top general apologizes for taking part in Trump photo at church
7. '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
8. Welcome to the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, where Seattle protesters gather without police

( The articles )

by the way

i managed to write some more

Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Conflict
Edda 18: The First Day of the First Year (Year Zero, Dawn)

4200 words

very soon