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June 6, 2020
This 83 year old woman holds a sign that says "Defend black voices" as the marchers walk by...
This 83 year old woman holds a sign that says “Defend black voices” as the marchers walk by and cheer for her. “I’m so proud of you young people,” she says.
https://twitter.com/PaigePfleger/status/1269065746178506754
https://twitter.com/PaigePfleger/status/1269065746178506754
June 6, 2020
Mayor Bowser with more shade:
https://twitter.com/MurielBowser/status/1269090846160412672
June 6, 2020
It took all 50 states, the Amish, K-Pop stans, 13 other countries, witches, Anonymous...
https://twitter.com/jemelehill/status/1268999177536585728
June 6, 2020
https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1269085030137114624
Someone pitched this. Someone dug up these data. Someone made this graphic. Someone approved this.
Someone pitched this.
Someone dug up these data.
Someone made this graphic.
Someone approved this.
@SusanLiTV fronted it.
Someone dug up these data.
Someone made this graphic.
Someone approved this.
@SusanLiTV fronted it.
https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1269085030137114624
June 6, 2020
And the Youth Shall Lead Us: Nashville, Tennesee
Teenagers join pantheon of Nashville youth who harnessed peaceful protests to urge change
On Thursday, Jade Fuller, Nya Collins, Zee Thomas, Kennedy Green, Emma Rose Smith and Mikayla Smith — ages 14 through 16 — claimed their place among generations of young people in Nashville who used peaceful protests to push social change.
The six teenagers organized the region's largest protest against racism and police brutality in recent memory.
Together, the organizers led tens of thousands of people on a miles-long march around the city, through brutal heat and pouring rain, with a simple message.
"Not one more."
With tears in their eyes, they chanted the names of several black men and women police have killed in recent years.
George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Daniel Hambrick.
They marched, they said, to keep that list from growing, and to force changes within police departments.
Their work mirrored the famed student-led protests that desegregated Nashville lunch counters in the 1960s and made the city a hub of the civil rights movement.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/06/04/teens-lead-nashville-march-protest-george-floyd/3151774001/
On Thursday, Jade Fuller, Nya Collins, Zee Thomas, Kennedy Green, Emma Rose Smith and Mikayla Smith — ages 14 through 16 — claimed their place among generations of young people in Nashville who used peaceful protests to push social change.
The six teenagers organized the region's largest protest against racism and police brutality in recent memory.
Together, the organizers led tens of thousands of people on a miles-long march around the city, through brutal heat and pouring rain, with a simple message.
"Not one more."
With tears in their eyes, they chanted the names of several black men and women police have killed in recent years.
George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery. Daniel Hambrick.
They marched, they said, to keep that list from growing, and to force changes within police departments.
Their work mirrored the famed student-led protests that desegregated Nashville lunch counters in the 1960s and made the city a hub of the civil rights movement.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2020/06/04/teens-lead-nashville-march-protest-george-floyd/3151774001/
June 6, 2020
Coincidentally, I am re-watching Community.
And here we are.
As Abed would say: "interesting"
Hunh, I just decided to check out for the night to watch TV... the message via my Amazon firestick:
Black lives matter: Amazon stands in solidarity with the Black communityCoincidentally, I am re-watching Community.
And here we are.
As Abed would say: "interesting"
June 5, 2020
Ya think? Good lawd, the level of attempted cover-up is just sickening.
Cuomo Now Admits He Was Wrong To Downplay NYPD's Excessive Use Of Force
Source: TPM
Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) dramatically walked back his previous defense of the New York Police Department during a press conference Friday, admitting that video evidence documenting the excessive use of force to contain protests is verifiable and “undeniable.”
Cuomo’s Friday admission was a significant reversal from his remarks just a day earlier. When asked by reporters on Thursday about instances of police abuse — documented en masse in online videos that show police officers shoving and bludgeoning protesters, journalists, and passersby with batons — Cuomo instead accused the media of launching a partisan attack. He then admonished New Yorkers for showing “disrespect” for police.
“Police bludgeon peaceful protesters with batons for no reason? That’s not a fact,” Cuomo said Thursday. “They don’t do that. Anyone who did do that would be obviously reprehensible if not criminal.”
The governor pulled up a different set of facts during his Friday press conference when he flashed a video clip of a 75-year-old man in Buffalo, New York being pushed to the ground by police.
Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ny-gov-denies-excessive-use-force-protests
Ya think? Good lawd, the level of attempted cover-up is just sickening.
June 5, 2020
https://twitter.com/hayesdavenport/status/1269024369570791425
Video posted of LAPD officers outraged over proposed cuts following protests addressing...
https://twitter.com/jasmineviel/status/1268961412241473539https://twitter.com/hayesdavenport/status/1269024369570791425
June 5, 2020
Kayleigh McEnany cast Florida ballots in 2018 using her parents' Tampa address, even though she...
Kayleigh McEnany cast Florida ballots in 2018 using her parents' Tampa address, even though she lived in D.C. and had a NJ license.
Trump cast a Florida ballot this year using a biz address in Palm Beach, where he had promised the gov't he would not live.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1269007344077287424
Trump cast a Florida ballot this year using a biz address in Palm Beach, where he had promised the gov't he would not live.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1269007344077287424
As They Scream Voter Fraud, Trump And His Press Secretary May Have Voted Illegally
WASHINGTON – Even as they both attack the idea of voting by mail, President Donald Trump and his new press secretary may have voted by mail illegally, using residential addresses on their registrations that were not their residences.
Kayleigh McEnany cast Florida ballots in 2018 using her parents’ address in Tampa, even though she lived in Washington, D.C., and held a New Jersey driver’s license. Trump cast a Florida ballot this year using a business address in Palm Beach, where he had promised the town government he would not live.
“If Florida is not really your primary residence, than it’s inappropriate for you to be registered as a voter in Florida,” said Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, a fellow at the Brennan Center and a professor at Stetson University in Florida.
McEnany did not respond to HuffPost queries about either her or her boss’s voter registration discrepancies. Providing false information on a registration in Florida is a felony punishable by up to five years in state prison.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-maralago-illegal-residence_n_5eda78e6c5b66ef1a9246821?rmg
WASHINGTON – Even as they both attack the idea of voting by mail, President Donald Trump and his new press secretary may have voted by mail illegally, using residential addresses on their registrations that were not their residences.
Kayleigh McEnany cast Florida ballots in 2018 using her parents’ address in Tampa, even though she lived in Washington, D.C., and held a New Jersey driver’s license. Trump cast a Florida ballot this year using a business address in Palm Beach, where he had promised the town government he would not live.
“If Florida is not really your primary residence, than it’s inappropriate for you to be registered as a voter in Florida,” said Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, a fellow at the Brennan Center and a professor at Stetson University in Florida.
McEnany did not respond to HuffPost queries about either her or her boss’s voter registration discrepancies. Providing false information on a registration in Florida is a felony punishable by up to five years in state prison.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-maralago-illegal-residence_n_5eda78e6c5b66ef1a9246821?rmg
June 5, 2020
Home of Richard Spencer, white nationalist.
Angry white guy alert. Whitefish, MT
https://twitter.com/crazy_birdldy79/status/1268699363095621633Home of Richard Spencer, white nationalist.
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