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What was particulary impressive was that there were no police present, nor was there any reason for them to be there. Love this city, warts and all. It has always felt like home, even when I was far away.

Must have affected his driving a lot.

LAPD Accused Of Shooting Man In Wheelchair In The Face With Rubber Bullets A viral image shows a man bent over in his wheelchair, blood pouring from above his eye, in front of a line of Los Angeles police officers. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/lapd-man-shot-in-face_n_5edbeea1c5b691d5e0157182?ri18n=true

Trump Had ‘Shouting Match’ With Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Over Military Crackdown on Protesters America’s highest ranking solider, General Mark Milley, who chairs the Joint Chiefs of Staff, raised his voice when President Trump demanded the regular military be deployed against George Floyd protesters, according to the New Yorker. The verbal tussle happened in the Oval Office just days before Trump’s ill-advised bible photo op, which Milley attended. A senior military official told the New Yorker that the president and Milley “got into a shouting match” with Milley insisting the military could not be dispatched against American civilians. “I’m not doing that,” he reportedly told Trump. “That’s for law enforcement.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/mark-milley-chairman-of-joint-chiefs-of-staff-and-trump-had-shouting-match-over-floyd-protest-crackdown?ref=home

Bill Moyers: It’s happening before our very eyes A frightening read from a credible reporter and historian. https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/bill-moyers-its-happening-before-our-very-eyes/

Just to change the tone for a moment, there is very preliminary evidence that the majority of the COVID virus is being carried by what are called "superspreaders". The problem is that there is no quick or easy way to determine who these are.

And you ain't seen nuthin' yet. He is just gonna get more and more unhinged from here on.

Bill Barr Says He Didn’t Order Park Police to Tear Gas Protesters for Trump Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Attorney General William Barr has disputed reports that he ordered Park Police in Washington, D.C. to tear gas peaceful protesters earlier this week, claiming police were already en route to Lafayette Square to disperse demonstrators by the time he reached the plaza. He told the Associated Press that he did not order law enforcement to disperse the crowd, casting it as a decision by the police, though he did say he had earlier drawn up a plan that required the park to be clear. White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said this week that Barr had given the command.

Republican elected officials are peddling a conspiracy theory that George Soros is paying protesters Written by The Texas Tribune June 6, 2020 Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, a statewide elected Republican official, has posted multiple memes and comments on his Facebook page in recent days falsely claiming that billionaire George Soros orchestrated nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd.

New Trump appointee to foreign aid agency has denounced liberal democracy and ‘our homo-empire’ A new Trump appointee to the United States’ foreign aid agency has a history of online posts denouncing liberal democracy and has said that the country is in the clutches of a “homo-empire” that pushes a “tyrannical LGBT agenda.” In one post, Merritt Corrigan, who recently took up a position as deputy White House liaison at the U.S. Agency for International Development, wrote: “Liberal democracy is little more than a front for the war being waged against us by those who fundamentally despise not only our way of life, but life itself.” https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/new-trump-appointee-to-foreign-aid-agency-has-denounced-liberal-democracy-and-our-homo-empire/

Its Faux News, the beloved of Trump and all racists and fascists- what would anyone expect?

There are a lot of good cops out there, the majority,, in fact, but damned few are willing to speak out.

If he didn't gag at always being so close to Trump's sphincter, he's gonna be ok.

Mark Esper Showed a Little Spine After Monday, So We Know His Days Are Numbered The SecDef, after humiliating himself at the parish hall putsch, came out and contradicted Trump and ordered the military home. Nice knowin’ ya. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper did the wrong thing before, days later, he did the right thing. Walking across Lafayette Park cleared by pepper gas and something called pepper-ball projectiles by troops on the order of the Attorney General William Barr, he was summoned to stand with the president, who was giving stage directions for his tableau where he would “dominate” the “battle space.” Esper was not innocent, but he did look flummoxed when Donald Trump pulled a Bible out of Ivanka’s purse and then didn’t read so much as a comforting passage. https://www.thedailybeast.com/mark-esper-showed-a-little-spine-after-monday-so-we-know-his-days-are-numbered?ref=home

Kayleigh McEnany may have committed fraud by voting Florida when living in DC: report White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany listens to a reporter’s question at a White House press briefing Wednesday, May 6, 2020, in the James S. Brady Press Briefing White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has carried the flag for President Donald Trump’s campaign against mail-in voting, delivering false warnings the process is rife with voter fraud. But McEnany herself may be guilty of the illegal act. And so may be her boss. https://www.alternet.org/2020/06/kayleigh-mcenany-may-have-committed-fraud-by-voting-florida-when-living-in-dc-report/

Despots and would-be despots as well as crap media try to invoke two passions to manipulate people: fear and anger, and anger is always a secondary emotion. In sufficient

The consensus appears to be is that the deaths are not necessarily senescence-related, but due in large part to the warehousing of frail or already ill people in close quarters without adequate medical attention or nosochromial infection control. I take that to mean that if you pack people together as in jails or ghettos, you would get a roughly comparable spike in those residents as well. And it is reported as happening in US jails and Indian ghettos.

It is to be hoped that the "just following orders" defenceworks as well for the rogue cops as it did at Nuremburg.

You may be disappointed.In the past, Democrats have been into the trough about as much as the Republicans and there is a tradition that an incoming administration does not look too long or hard ar the outgoing one.

Fixed that for you.

Trump must be accumulating one hell of an enemies list.

I think Biden would be better served by pointing out all the lies spouted by Trump, but since Biden is prone to gaffes, silence may be the best option. Oh, Bernie and Elizabeth, we miss ye.

But you must know that is just fake news, because COVID19 affects only the elderly. According to some.

Authorities seized thousands of dollars of masks intended to shield protesters from COVID-19: report "It appears they want to ensure that people who protest are susceptible to the deadly pandemic," the group says The U.S. Postal Service told a Black Lives Matter-affiliated group that face masks it sent to protect protesters from the new coronavirus were seized by law enforcement, according to a new report. The Movement for Black Lives bought tens of thousands of dollars worth of masks they planned to distribute to protesters marching against George Floyd's death and police brutality across the country, HuffPost reported. But the first shipment of 2,000 masks sent from Oakland to Washington, St. Louis, New York City and Minneapolis never left the state. https://www.salon.com/2020/06/05/authorities-seized-thousands-of-dollars-of-masks-intended-to-shield-protesters-from-covid-19-report/

Family Harassed and Trapped in WA Campsite After Being Accused of Being Antifa Members A multi-racial family who tried to go camping in Forks, Washington were allegedly harassed and threatened by locals who accused them of being antifa members coming to riot. The Spokane family of four told Clallam County sheriff’s deputies that seven or eight carloads of people confronted them in a parking lot on Wednesday when they stopped to buy camping supplies. The family assured the group they were not antifa members but were just camping. At least four cars, some of which appeared to have people carrying semi-automatic rifles, followed the family as they drove to the campsite. As they pitched a tent, the family reported hearing gunshots and power saws. They decided to leave but found trees had been cut down to block the road out. Four local high-school students ended up calling police and using chainsaws to help clear the roadway for the family, the sheriff’s department said in a statement. A cirmnal investigation is underway. https://www.thedailybeast.com/spokane-family-harassed-and-trapped-in-fork-washington-campsite-after-being-accused-of-being-antifa