Today's News (2020/6/16): Fascism Fuckery edition

These are all short today. I've been swamped doing other things, and honestly, that's better for my health, but this is necessary. Here's what I've managed to wedge in.

1. Gun-toting Trump supporters attack George Floyd protesters in rural Ohio town
2. Vehicles striking protesters — 19 times recently — raise echoes of 2017 Charlottesville attack
3. ‘New Mexico Civil Guard’ militia members arrested after shooting at Albuquerque protest: report
4. Bethel implements curfew as protesters, counter-protesters again clash
5. Florida protester Oluwatoyin Salau, 19, found dead in Tallahassee after going missing
6. Airman charged with murder of federal officer at courthouse

( The articles )

Today's News (2020/6/16): Police Violence edition

These are all short today. I've been swamped doing other things, and honestly, that's better for my health, but this is necessary. Here's what I've managed to wedge in.

This tweet is the latest update to the Greg Doucette police violence thread as of end of day June 16.

1. How could police keep...doing this?
2. Police brutality against people protesting police brutality is radicalizing people against the police.
3. Less than two months ago, Garrett Rolfe, the officer who killed Rayshard Brooks, took a 9-hour de-escalation course.
4. Deputy seen in video punching man was previously fired
5. Police injure journalists covering Portland protests
6. OHSU Volunteers Arrested, Assaulted by Police During Portland Protests
7. Two Police Unions Spread A False Rumor That Shake Shack Workers Intentionally Poisoned Three NYPD Cops
8. What Happened to Adrian Schoolcraft
9. New video contradicts claim that 'no one choked' Manuel Ellis

( The articles )

Today's News (2020/6/16): COVID-19 edition

These are all short today. I've been swamped doing other things, and honestly, that's better for my health, but this is necessary. Here's what I've managed to wedge in.

1. An 'alarming' exodus: public health officials fighting coronavirus depart amid growing threats, nonstop work
2. Florida bars and restaurants close just a week after reopening
3. Florida attempted a small pop culture event last weekend and it went exactly as you would expect. Because Florida.
4. Republican congressman who just announced he has the coronavirus refused to wear a face mask on the House floor 2 weeks ago
5. Arizona Governor Won't Require Mask Use as Coronavirus Cases Spike, Says People Need to 'Learn to Live' With Virus
6. Church tied to Oregon's largest coronavirus outbreak
7. Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug

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Today's News (2020/6/16): Everything Else edition

These are all short today. I've been swamped doing other things, and honestly, that's better for my health, but this is necessary. Here's what I've managed to wedge in.

1. They are masked, and marching silently, to help limit the potential to spread coronavirus. This is chilling and powerful.
2. Exclusive: Trump aims to sidestep another arms pact to sell more U.S. drones
3. It's not so hard to imagine a life without police
4. Let's talk about how the Confederacy survived the Civil War
5. How modern ambulances came from defunding the police
6. A group of 4 Seattle Proud Boys came out to support trans hate group Wolf
7. Abolish Oil
8. Trump administration blocks tribes from protecting their waters
9. Federal Executions Set To Resume After Nearly 2-Decade Hiatus
10. Staff at JK Rowling’s publishing house are refusing to work on her new children’s book over her relentless anti-trans tirade
11. Katy Montgomerie fact-checking response to J.K. Rowling's long anti-trans article

( The articles )

Today's News (2020/6/17): Fascism and Treason Edition

More fascism, more treason by Donald Trump and his administration.

1. Trump asked China’s Xi to help him win reelection, according to Bolton book
2. Trump is in favour of China's Muslim concentration camps
3. Justice Department seeks emergency order to block publication of Bolton’s book
4. Trump Wants to Find, Prosecute Person Who Leaked His Trip to the Bunker: NYT
5. Mark S. Zaid analysis of emergency order filing
6. 'Wednesday night massacre' as Trump appointee takes over at global media agency
7. An officer was gunned down. The killer was a ‘boogaloo boy’ using nearby peaceful protests as cover, feds say.

( The articles )

Today's News (2020/6/17): Police Violence edition

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The police keep giving us more reasons to demand they be defunded, disbanded, and the very concept of law enforcement rebuilt from the ground up. Particularly how they're threatening to react to any budget cuts, or accountability - by saying they'll stop investigating murders, assaults, and rape.

Defund and disband is the only reasonable response.

As of time of posting (end of day 2020/6/17), this is the end of Greg Doucette's thread of police violence.

1. Minneapolis PD surrounded by badly-built four-level-tall cement-block barricade
2. Ex-Atlanta police officer who shot Rayshard Brooks charged with murder
3. [DISPUTED IN STORY] Atlanta Police walkout following murder charge against officer who shot Rayshard Brooks
4. Atlanta Police disputes rumors of mass walkouts
5. LAPD’s union explicitly says the first thing they’d cut is 911 response times and rape investigations, not the millions they spend on military machinery and spying. They agree with us: their purpose is never protecting communities.
6. The LAPD has managed to roll back decades of hard-fought reforms, ⁦writes Joel Rubin, who covered that struggle for the Los Angeles Times
7. King County Labor Council expels Seattle police union
8. A couple of specific Portland police attacks on people, included here because they asked people share it
9. Portland police repeatedly shoot into the backs of protesters complying with orders to depart. Again: while complying, they are repeatedly shot in the back by police with "crowd control" munitions, at least some of which appear to be smoke grenades
10. Inside The Dangerous Online Fever Swamps Of American Police: Cops have a far-right media ecosystem of their own, where they post racist memes, spread disinformation and call for violence against antifa.

( The articles )

Today's News (2020/6/17): COVID-19 edition

All of this is pretty well in line with my April 21 writeup of the Republican plan for COVID-19 through the election. They may have other plans in addition to the April 21 plan, but that one's still in effect just the same.

1. Most of Feds' Remdesivir to Be Distributed by End of Month
2. Oregon sees record daily number of COVID-19 cases
3. ‘Getting sick has gotten political’: One Yakima woman’s struggle to say the coronavirus’ hurt is real
4. Texas Governor Says 'No Reason Today To Be Alarmed' As Coronavirus Cases Set Record
5. ‘Of course not’: Fauci says he personally wouldn’t attend Trump’s Tulsa rally, citing coronavirus
6. Face masks will no longer be required for White House staff
7. COVID-19 is surging in Florida. Don’t deny why, Gov. DeSantis. Act responsibly
8. Mike Pence's coronavirus claims go from bad to worse
9. Arizona Sheriff Who Refused to Enforce Lockdown Now Has COVID-19
10. Dr. Sanjay Gupta fact-checks Vice-President Mike Pence's statements on COVID-19

( The articles )