Today's News (2020/7/19): Fascism edition

Been a bad week. Psychologically, too.

1. Militarized Federal Agents from a patchwork of outside agencies have begun policing Portland
2. Who are these federal officers sent to Portland to deal with protesters?
3. USA Today: Navarro’s anti-Fauci column didn’t meet standards [EDITOR: THEN WHY PUBLISH IT?! and yet.]
4. Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets
5. Sebastian Gorka Argues For Superiority Of “Whiteness”
6. Federal Homeland Security admits Portland officials asked them to leave and instead they responded with a hostile military occupation.
7. The Authoritarian Operation in Portland Is Only a Dress Rehearsal
8. "Feds Stay Clear! Moms Are Here!"
9. 'This could happen in your city': Portland mayor issues stark warning over Trump admin's use of federal troops to quell protests
10. Portland mayor: Presence of federal troops is escalating violence
11. US protests: Oregon takes legal action against federal agents
12. Trump refuses to commit to election results if he loses
13. Rudy Giuliani: Black Lives Matter is going to take away “your property” and give it to Black people
14. DHS Under Boss: We’re Taking This National
15. Oregon Attorney General Sues to Stop Federal Arrests of Portland Protesters
16. Acting DHS boss Chad Wolf changed his avatar to this pseudo-military pic a couple days ago.
17. Multnomah County commissioner and ER doctor reports attack from occupying Federal police
18. Portland protests: Federal agents 'abuse power' in arrests
19. Trump’s agents are sweeping peaceful citizens off the streets. This is not America.
20. Border Patrol does not believe they are a civilian law enforcement agency. They believe they are kin to the Marine Corps.
21. The Border Patrol Was Responsible for an Arrest in Portland. An internal memo, obtained exclusively by The Nation, details a coordinated program of domestic counterinsurgency.
22. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Says President Trump Is Invading Portland as an Election Stunt
23. U.S. officials dismiss Portland leaders’ calls to leave city

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Today's News (2020/7/19): Police Violence edition

A Mega-Thread of Greg Doucette's police violence posts, for easier navigation. But it's not up to date. This is the latest post at time of edit.

1. NEW YORK CITY: Police charge homeless man they punched in the face with violent felony assault on the officer, specifically for the officer's hand "swelling" as a result of the punch.
2. LOS ANGELES: Police attack wheelchair-bound man, break his wheelchair
3. PORTLAND: Federal police occupation forces strike ex-Navy protester with baton, use pepper spray and tear gas outside courthouse in Portland
4. LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY: Breonna Taylor was briefly alive after police shot her. But no one tried to treat her.

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Today's News (2020/7/19): COVID-19 edition

It's like they're trying to infect as many people as possible.

1. Kemp bans cities, counties from mandating masks
2. Coronavirus data has already disappeared after Trump administration shifted control from CDC
3. In separate rallies, Utahns protest mask mandate and demand in-person classes
4. Georgia gov sues to end cities’ defiance on mask rules
5. OK. Time for a thread on masks.
6. New survey reveals how many Washingtonians are following statewide mask mandate
7. Profile of a killer: Unraveling the deadly new coronavirus
8. Report: Trump Wants To Block Funding For Virus Testing, CDC In Next Stimulus Package
9. White House Chief of Staff lies about Fauci statements, Meadows says Fauci wrong to compare coronavirus to 1918 pandemic
10. A large study from South Korea suggests that children over 10 are very effective spreaders of COVID.
11. I keep getting asked "can we reopen schools," "what's going to happen with universities, my son is starting at..." No one asks WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO RE-OPEN THEM.

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Today's News (2020/7/19): Everything Else edition

And finally.

1. The United States Needs a New Foreign Policy
2. Trump says of Hong Kong "we just lost a competitor"
3. Couple who held guns on Black Lives Matter protestors sued to keep gays out of their neighborhood, destroyed Jewish temple's educational beehive project
4. Seeing ‘Black Lives Matter’ written in chalk, one Yakima County town declares it a crime
5. McConnell has ‘given up’ on Trump’s re-election and is making plans to handcuff Biden: columnist
6. A proposed anti-trans rule would let homeless shelters judge who’s a woman
7. Queen Charlotte Lodge representative threatens Haida representatives in the water
8. Crowd of protesters marches through downtown Seattle and Capitol Hill; police report arrests, vandalism

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