3 reasons why #civilsociety is essential to #COVID19 recovery https://bit.ly/2XKJTKr

is this a joke?!

it’s *Trump* who spent weekend in basement. it was *Biden* who was out talking w/ protesters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/us/politics/joe-biden-protests-quarantine-virus.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Tale of two city tabloids

First on CNN… here is The Lincoln Project’s scathing new TV ad, “Flag of Treason.” $500k ad buy for spot which will run in Florida, Wisconsin, Michigan and DC, group says. Hits Trump’s record on race and inability to unite the nation. https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/31/politics/lincoln-project-new-ad-trump-race/index.html

I really just witnessed a hit and run by the LAPD on live television #protests2020

Joe Biden out in PPE comforting protestors, while other Democrats have been peppered-sprayed during these rallies.

Donald Trump hid in a bunker from protestors, as Republicans remain radio silent.

Make the GOP hurt in November.

People are hurting.

This lady — visibly upset — went in for the hug on this Louisville, Kentucky police officer.

He accepted.

It lasted nearly a minute.🌎❤️

“rubber bullets” are not made of rubber. They are jacketed in it but they have a metal core and they can kill you stone dead. Often they are steel-cored 12 guage shotgun slugs, people have lost whole limbs to them.

Trump’s warning that “vicious dogs” would attack protesters conjured centuries of racial terror.

The racist practice of attacking black people with dogs extends back to slavery. https://wapo.st/3eIABp9

I wish the entire country could see what is happening outside of the White House right now

Here is one Police reform that should happen immediately. Policemen and women should start dressing like Police again. No more BDU’s, bloused combat boots or other military accoutrements. Shoes, trousers, collared shirts. Think Mayberry not Fallujah.

Has Trump made America great again yet?

MAGA is a terrorist organization.

‘The norms have broken down’: Shock as journalists are arrested, injured by police while trying to cover the story https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/journalists-at-several-protests-were-injured-arrested-by-police-while-trying-to-cover-the-story/2020/05/31/bfbc322a-a342-11ea-b619-3f9133bbb482_story.html

The richest 400 Americans sit on $3 trillion—the size of the entire UK economy.

The billionaire class now pays a lower tax rate than people living paycheck to paycheck.

The looting of America has been going on for over 40 years—and the culprits are the ultra-rich.

-District Attorneys
-Attorney Generals
-Judges
-Prosecutors
-Police Commissioners
-Sheriffs

Are all elected positions or appointed by elected officials.

VOTE!

video of police hurting me in DC. I was supporting a CNN cam had my creds on police knew I was media. I was on the side out of the way trying to let cops pass me. police pinned me, an officer hits my knee with a baton while another officer had me pinned. I’m hurt but ok. @mkraju

Trump turning off the lights at The White House describes the current situation in America perfectly. Nobody’s home.

#BunkerBoy

Fact Checker: President Trump made 19,127 false or misleading claims in 1,226 days https://wapo.st/2Uep7Cn

A pandemic with no end in sight, 40 million Americans out of work, a breakdown in multilateral cooperation, low trust in institutions, and the largest wave of civil unrest since 1968.

The Trump White House’s response:

We need a national database of decertified police officers. No more dangerous cops getting a new job two towns away.

Data from Minnesota police showed three-fifths of those subjected to neck restraints and then rendered unconscious were black. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/minneapolis-police-rendered-44-people-unconscious-neck-restraints-five-years-n1220416

Zuckerberg’s post illustrates one of today’s classic oligarch moves: use the audacity of your purported do-gooding to distract people from your ongoing complicity in the harm that makes that do-gooding necessary.

“That leaves Bush holding the biggest stick here. ‘The Lincoln Project’ and a new group called ‘Republican Voters Against Trump’ have set the table for Bush to speak up. If he announces he is voting for Biden, it will change some votes.” https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/500395-juan-williams-bush-could-strike-blow-for-biden

“The problem goes far beyond qualified immunity. Politicians criminalize practically everything in daily life and then tell police ‘be nice’—or maybe mandate that cops attend sensitivity training.” https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/cops-kill-because-we-gave-them-the-legal-framework-to-do-it/

Believing that this an “is there anything he could say..” moment reallllly misunderstands the last four years—but explains a lot in terms of political reporters’ daily gymnastics to explain away and normalize an abnormal and dysfunctional and bigoted person. But they try. Hard.