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57 Buffalo cops resign to support suspended officers who pushed down elderly man
The entire Buffalo Police Department Emergency Response Team — a total of 57 officers — has resigned from the team in support of the two officers who pushed 75-year-old Martin Gugino to the ground, seriously injuring him. They are still employed,...
Amanda Marcotte
Cops determined to prove the ACAB tags right.
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Are protesters and public health officials being pandemic hypocrites? That's not how it works
Just because Trump claims the left wants "forever quarantine" doesn't make it true — and the protests prove it
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Amanda Marcotte
Conservatives are honing in on a new “gotcha”: Accusing liberals of hypocrisy for supporting both the lockdown and the protests. But the accusation is based on a false premise. Liberals don’t love the lockdown — it was only supposed to be temporary.
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Tom Cotton’s Fascist Op-Ed
How should opinion pages respond to the right’s authoritarian turn?
Amanda Marcotte
Good job by @michelleinbklyn on the mistake of the NY Times to publish Tom Cotton’s fascist op-ed, while still understanding the problem faced by newspapers who want to represent the realities of conservative opinion on their pages.
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Disturbing video exposes the dangerous message a State Patrol officer told team: ‘Don’t kill them, but hit them hard’
Krystal Marx, the executive director of Seattle Pride, shared a disturbing video this week revealing the violent message an officer in the Washington State Patrol gave to his team as it prepared to confront protesters. “Don’t kill them, but hit them...
Law Enforcement Seizes Masks Meant To Protect Anti-Racist Protesters From COVID-19
The masks, reading “Stop killing Black people,” were meant to quell the spread of the coronavirus, which has disproportionately affected Black Americans.
Cotton praises NY Times for 'standing up to the woke progressive mob' in publishing opinion piece
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) praised The New York Times for publishing his opinion piece and standing up "to the woke progressive mob in their own newsroom" during an interview on Fox News Thursday.
Help! My Mom Insists We Honor Her Dead Parrot at My Wedding.
I do not want the day to become a bird funeral.
Amanda Marcotte
I could never be an advice columnist, because “divorce him already” is the correct but oh so repetitive answer. If a friend’s husband did this, I might start looking up how to poison someone. slate.com/human-interest… pic.twitter.com/O2rXwpaR5k
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Poor sad #BunkerBoy: Now Trump wants to edit real life, like an episode of "The Apprentice"
While the country melts down, Trump tries to reshoot reality so we won't know he's total chickens**t "Bunker Boy"
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Amanda Marcotte
While the country is convulsed with protests and police violence, Trump spent his week desperately trying to edit reality like it’s “The Apprentice”, in a pathetic bid to squash the #BunkerBoy meme. But you can’t do reshoots of the real world.
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Trump thought a violent crackdown would be a big win for him — so far, he's totally wrong
Trump believed calling for a massive show of force against protesters would be political gold. It's not working
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Amanda Marcotte
Trump believed that a violent crackdown of protests would make him look strong and boost his ratings. The opposite happened. Protesters doubled down and the public is with them.
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Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel caught on hot mic amid unrest: 'If I didn't have a primary, I wouldn’t care'
It comes as the New York congressman has faced his toughest primary since being elected Congress in 1988.
NYPD Shoves Two AP Journalists And Prevents Them From Covering Protests
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police officers surrounded, shoved and yelled expletives at two Associated Press journalists covering...
Defense Secretary Esper on Trump church photo-op: ‘I didn’t know where I was going’
In an exclusive interview, Esper also said he had “no idea” about the plan to use force to disperse protesters ahead of Trump’s staged visit to St. John’s Church.
Barr ordered officials to clear area around Lafayette Square before Trump’s protest remarks, officials say
Attorney General Bill Barr ordered law enforcement officials to extend the perimeter of Lafayette Square before President Trump ventured outside the White House on Monday to visit sites vandalized during violent protests, administration officials...
Ivanka Trump ‘urged’ president's church photo-op — which could become a ‘defining moment’ of his time in office: NYT
First daughter and senior White House advisor Ivanka Trump “urged” her father to take part in a controversial photo-op with a Bible according to a new report from The New York Times.
“After a weekend of protests that led all the way to his own...
Hope Hicks "hatched" plan for Trump photo-op where protesters were dispersed with tear gas: report
Hicks recently returned to work at the White House under Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner after a stint at Fox
Curfew lifts: Dozens of DC protesters who took refuge in residents' homes to avoid police arrests near Logan Circle safely leave
Arrests came as D.C.'s Mayor Muriel Bowser said that the curfew for the District on Monday would be strictly enforced.
Amanda Marcotte
As folks pointed out on Facebook, cops “funneling” people is the opposite of dispersing them. It’s trapping them so they can’t escape and then using that as a pretext to beat them and arrest them. So kudos to residents who stopped the cops.
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Disparity in police tactics on display during third day of unrest in Philadelphia
Mayor Jim Kenney and Commissioner Danielle Outlaw had few answers about the stark disparities in law enforcement during a third night of civil unrest when police tear gassed demonstrators but
Amanda Marcotte
Good first step, but every cop who took photos with the red hats should be fired. They have outed themselves as racists.
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Escalating aggression marks Trump's rhetoric
Rachel Maddow presents a video timeline of Donald Trump's comments at rallies that have stoked hostility and incited violence by his supporters against protesters, leading to chaos after a canceled rally in Chicago.
Amanda Marcotte
Rewatch this Maddow clip from 2016 of Trump encouraging violence. What’s interesting is he’s clearly praising 60s era police for violently assaulting civil rights protesters with dogs and firehoses.
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Republicans move ahead with alternate convention plans amid North Carolina standoff
Republicans are moving ahead with their threat to pull the party's national convention from North Carolina.
Amanda Marcotte
I would bet a lot of money he’s going to push to have it at one of his properties.
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Frank Rizzo statue removed from steps of the Municipal Services Building overnight
The city of Philadelphia removed the statue of former mayor Frank Rizzo from the steps of the Municipal Services Building overnight. Groups calling for action on social injustice have been seeking its removal for years.
Amanda Marcotte
Protesters in Philly get a major symbolic victory. It may just be symbolic, but I believe symbols matter. Well done!
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