Today's News (2020/6/25): Fascism Fraud edition

The Fascism edition is the smallest today. Too bad it's not because it's no longer a thing.

1. Donald Trump tweets about five-year-old video clip shown currently with current protests by Hannity and Carlson on FOX.
2. State Department: White supremacist terror 'on the rise and spreading'
3. Proud Boy member arrested on probation violation after visiting Seattle’s CHOP
4. Black 18-Year-Old Attacked With Lighter Fluid, Racial Slurs In Downtown Madison

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Today's News (2020/6/25): Police Violence Edition

You can't reform this. Tear it down, give most functions to other kinds of agencies entirely, re-imagine law enforcement from the ground up. It's the only way.

1. 3 North Carolina police officers fired over racist rants [EDITOR: MUCH WORSE THAN THE HEADLINE. Calls for mass extermination of Black people.]
2. Fired Wilmington cop: “We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them f—— ni—–. I can’t wait. God, I can’t wait.”
3. The California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training is required by law to "conspicuously" publish all law enforcement training materials. They're refusing. Because copyright.
4. 538: The data seems to overwhelmingly point to a criminal justice system riven by racial bias.
5. Why The City Of Seattle And Their Police Department Is In Trouble

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Today's News (2020/6/25): COVID-19 edition

And now we're back to the bigger ones. Unfortunately.

New cases per day are basically the same as peak. So literally all progress? Wiped the fuck out. Due in large part to Trump, and the entire Republican governing hierarchy for going along with him.

1. Here's Thurston County WA Sheriff John Snaza declaring himself and his department above the law
2. Mnuchin doesn't understand or lies about COVID-19 spread, pick one
3. Shutdowns didn't tank the economy; fear of COVID-19 did.
4. More lies and racism from Donald Trump, with correction
5. Idaho Reps’ Bogus ‘Special Session’ To Limit Guv’s COVID Authority Ends With A Whimper
6. The US badly needs a wake-up call on the coronavirus pandemic
7. New research explores how conservative media misinformation may have intensified the severity of the pandemic
8. AZ councilman Guy Phillips at an Anti-Mask Rally, shouting: "I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" before ripping off mask.
9. Trump says the coronavirus is 'going away.' His own task force disagrees.
10. Texas Governor Says ‘Massive’ Virus Outbreak Sweeping the State
11. Brad Parscale, Other Trump Staff in Quasi-Quarantine After Tulsa COVID Cases
12. In the middle of a PANDEMIC, AG Paxton Files Brief Asking SCOTUS to Declare Obamacare Unlawful

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Today's News (2020/6/25): Everything Else edition

More variety in this than usual, including some interesting material on how the US is completely blowing negotiations in China. I mean, completely.

1. Gargamel pretty sure the Smurfs are up to no good.
2. It’s on “the Chinese themselves to recognize that they have an obligation.”
3. The US Didn’t Bring Freedom to South Korea — Its People Did
4. This lawsuit against Twitch would be hilarious of it wasn't so viciously misogynistic.
5. WikiLeaks Founder Charged With Conspiring With LulzSec & Anonymous Hackers
6. Trump tweets about plan for BLM mural in front of his Tower
7. Former health-care exec whistleblower on lies he told about Canadian health care
8. ‘The noose was real’ – NASCAR releases photo from Talladega
9. Fact check: Breaking down Trump's false claims about DACA and the Supreme Court's ruling
10. Arizona GOP official Paul Peterson pleaded guilty to selling Pacific Islander babies
11. I saw a woman in a QAnon Facebook group earnestly ask for help with her tinnitus

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