Today's News (2020/6/23) Fascism edition

Very behind, sorry. In-place upgrade exploded our mail server, couldn't fix it, had to start over, tried moving to exim4 from sendmail like everyone and their mothers have told us to, WHELP THAT WAS A MISTAKE (greylistd <<< milter-greylist and for that you need sendmail) so then we spent a bunch of time going back to sendmail.

Works a treat now, though. Anyway. News.

1. Trump pleads with Jay Inslee to ask him to bring in the military to crush protests in Seattle
2. ‘Magically protected’: Why hardcore Trump supporters won’t wear masks at rally
3. Right-wing libertarian and anarcho-capitalist memes from Boogaloos.
4. Some other moments in the eternal Just Joking cycle:
5. Bill Barr’s Above the Law. The Only Answer Is to Impeach Him.
6. So, even when asked if he was just joking, Trump declines to say he was just joking
7. William Barr Has Turned the Justice Department Into a Law Firm With One Client: Donald Trump
8. Trump falsely accuses Obama of treason in latest unfounded attack on his predecessor
9. TRANSCRIPT: John Bolton interview with ABC News' Martha Raddatz
10. Trump being racist in front of Turning Point (young fascists) crowd, to cheers
11. Prosecutor to tell Congress of pressure from ‘highest levels’ of Justice Dept. to cut Roger Stone ‘a break’
12. NEWS: Aaron ZELINSKY, a prosecutor in Stone's case, describes significant political pressure in DOJ.
13. Scoop: House Judiciary prepares to subpoena Attorney General Bill Barr
14. Under the Trump administration's expansion of "expedited removal," ICE can snatch anyone off the street, anywhere in the US, and deport them in days if they can't prove that they're here legally, or have been here for at least two years.

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Today's News (2020/6/23): Police Violence edition

Several examples of why reform is not enough. Policing has to be torn all the way down, most of its work handed off to other civil authorities, and law enforcement re-imagined.

1. The ‘Warrior Cop’ Is a Toxic Mentality. And a Lucrative Industry.
2. Colorado to strip its police force of qualified immunity: Countless officers discussing resigning.
3. When SPD claimed there was a "credible threat" of arson to their building, they PACKED UP & LEFT.
4. Hack Brief: Anonymous Stole and Leaked a Megatrove of Police Documents
5. Inslee appoints task force on race, policing and use of force
6. You cannot reform this.
7. Watch how cops now treat guy who rather famously gave shelter to protesters being attacked by cops in DC a couple of weeks ago.
8. Columbus police are "respectfully" rejecting the mayor's orders not to use tear gas
9. President of Chicago police union indicates he’d use chokeholds even if the city bans them
10. NYPD commissioner: Officers who drove into protesters did not violate use-of-force policy
11. IN THE INTEREST OF TRUTH: New video shows Columbus, Ohio police did not remove teargassed amputee's artificial limbs
12. It’s Time to Defund Police in Albuquerque, And Here’s How We Can Do It

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Today's News (2020/6/23): COVID-19 edition

We're going to end up right back in lockdown. Really are. Unless a miracle occurs and people start wearing the goddamn masks. (Our state is making it mandatory as of Friday. It's overdue.)

1. What they don’t tell you about surviving COVID-19
2. As virus cases rise, will King County have to revert back to Phase 1?
3. An informative thread on Japan vs. US response to COVID-19
4. Two sets of rules in the world
5. In Yakima County, as cases soar, community spread increasingly drives the coronavirus pandemic
6. Twitter.com/weijia asks McEnany why President Trump "uses racist phrases, like 'kung flu'" when discussing coronavirus.
7. Trump to host 4th of July event despite pleas from lawmakers to cancel
8. Florida gov blames coronavirus rise on ‘overwhelmingly Hispanic’ workers
9. The Prison Was Built to Hold 1,500 Inmates. It Had Over 2,000 Coronavirus Cases.
10. Remember this photo of Trump campaign staff without masks 12 days ago?
11. Trump asked if he was "kidding" about slowing down testing: "I don't kid."
12. Scientist Rebekah Jones, fired by Florida for refusing to alter COVID-19 data, reports that Florida is systematically removing cases from tracking to "make everyone think it's over."
13. European Union on verge of banning US travellers over COVID-19 mishandling
14. EXCLUSIVE: Feds About To Bail On Supporting COVID Testing Sites In Texas And Other States
15. The faster a country required masks, the fewer coronavirus deaths it had: study

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Today's News (2020/6/23): Racism, Sexism, Anti-Gay edition

Some good history in here too, particularly going over the 1919-1921 racial purges of Blacks by whites.

1. Tennessean apologizes, launches investigation after 'horrific' ad runs in print editions
2. Senior MPs and LGBT+ activists brand BBC News ‘institutionally transphobic’ in scathing letter to its editorial director
3. After watching video and talking to medics and other folks on the scene, I have a more clear picture of the shooting last night.
4. Hong Kong national security law: suspects could be held indefinitely without trial in special detention facilities [EDITOR: These are functionally black sites.]
5. How J.K. Rowling helped kill a proposed American LGBTQ civil rights law
6. A history of violent white racist purges of Black people between 1919-1921
7. Head of UBC board of governors resigns after liking racist, far-right comments on Twitter
8. Trump’s toxic torrent of environmental rollbacks impedes social justice
9. Kayleigh McEnany denies that Trump’s racist “Kung Flu” remark is racist
10. Justice Alito’s jurisprudence of white racial innocence
11. The Myth of the Kindly General Lee
12. Booker Prize Foundation to retain virulently anti LGBT Baroness Nicholson as "honorary vice president."

( The articles )