We return to our regularly scheduled DOT after yesterday’s departure. I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing, or just a thing, but here we are, irregardless.
I was almost done catching up on the news of the day, when the tweet below came across my feed. [Be warned: graphic video.]
“NPR in Buffalo says the man was taken away in an ambulance, and WIVB is reporting that he suffered a laceration and possible concussion.”
Buffalo police shove man to ground, then say he tripped[!]
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-see-it-buffalo-police-violently-knock-man-down-say-he-tripped-20200605-c5llu4zb3bbgdf3wxlmnrljt3a-story.html
This is in Bethesda, Maryland, which is full of bougie rich assholes, the majority of whom profess to be very liberal. But fuck if they’ll send their kids to diverse public schools. Pretty sure the collective internet will have this guy’s name and place of business by COB today.
This is what passes for good news today, so I’ll take it.
Judge advances murder trial for all three white men charged in death of Ahmaud Arbery
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/04/fellow-shooter-called-georgia-jogger-f-ing-n-he-lay-dying-road-agent-testified/
The FBI has opened an investigation into the shooting death of Kentucky EMT Breonna Taylor
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/21/us/breonna-taylor-death-police-changes-trnd/index.html
Virginia will remove a statue honoring Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in the city of Richmond “as soon as possible,” Gov. Ralph Northam announced Thursday.
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/04/869519175/massive-robert-e-lee-statue-in-richmond-va-will-be-removed
The editor didn’t even read it! Even here on Deadsplinter we read or at least discuss things before posting.
New York Times Journalists Condemn Senator Tom Cotton’s Pro-Militarization Op-Ed
https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/new-york-times-writers-speak-out-against-tom-cotton-op-ed.html
Still a pandemic going on people.
U.S. coronavirus cases have been slowly ticking up since Memorial Day
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/04/us-coronavirus-cases-have-been-slowly-ticking-up-since-memorial-day.html
Sprots!
Brees sorry after LeBron James leads backlash to QB’s criticism of anthem protests
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jun/04/drew-brees-apology-national-anthem-protest-comments-nfl-football
Welcome to the revolution *checks notes* LEGO
LEGO PULLS BACK POLICE PLAYSET AFFILIATE MARKETING AMID GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS (UPDATED)
https://toybook.com/lego-pulling-back-potentially-sensitive-product-amid-george-floyd-protests/
Everyone out here showing their whole ass, eh?
Lea Michele’s apology backfires as more ‘Glee’ cast and crew wade into the fray
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-06-04/lea-michele-amber-riley-glee-samantha-marie-ware
Gonna be a long 7 months, but I hope we make it!
Have a good Friday!
…don’t seem to have the link to hand but I believe I read that they’d “suspended” the policemen that shoved the guy in Buffalo into that boulder-looking thing?
…& as someone who generally tries to avoid twitter some of the replies to that lighting strike were a pleasant diversion
…here’s hoping some of this bullshit turns a corner without getting all old testament & stuff getting smote?
The shover in Buffalo has been suspended but not the rest of the police who watched and marched on, or maybe more critically, none of the superiors.
Over and over, videos of police violence are showing the ranking officers in the middle, meaning this is being orchestrated in the places where they are out of control.
I am truly sorry if this is a no no (self promotion) but I make tunes (I don’t sell them or anything, just a hobby), but here is a song I made (I wrote lyrics, a friend, Habitrax, made the beat)
Thanks for sharing!!! That’s great. Love the image haha
You should post some of your stuff on DUAN!
I will try, I am an early bird these days, I do like DUAN and go and get songs from it in the morning.
that’s good!
what’s bad was the video youtube put next. 15 mins of tucker carlson…
Oh no, that is the worst.
Don’t stop believing Lea!
‘Cause she’s just a small town girl living in a post racism world.
She took the apology train going off the rails.
I think Riley has the right take — Michele has had the reputation of being unpleasant to work with in pretty much every setting, from Broadway to television. It’s tough to say racism if she’s just hateful to everybody. Not saying it’s not racism, but that’s going to get hidden in the cloud of general nastiness.
So this week has featured:
Globally: still strong pandemic
Regional: protests, riots, chaos.
Locally: violent thunderstorms, (a derecho!) that knocked out power since noon Wednesday, with temps in the low 90s.
I need a vacation.
It’s been… a lot!
You need a staycation, travel is too risky. I recommend drinking heavily on your deck/patio/balcony/park bench, whatever you got.That’s my plan for the weekend. I talk about it in this afternoon’s Happy Hour at 4.
That might have to happen
Holy shit, that bicyclist is insane. If he’d gone for my kid like that, they’d still be trying to pull me off him.
He’s a perfect specimen of uber entitled white guy of a certain age. The second his ex-wife sees this his goose is cooked. You just KNOW he has an ex-wife!
Entitled old douchebag in Bethesda wearing way too tight spandex thinking he owns every inch of where he is because he lives in a overpriced house that would cost half as much in Frederick?
Yup, totally checks out.
Probably lives in “North Bethesda”
Which is just Rockville for white people who don’t want people white people from Northern Virginia to know they live in Rockville.
He could have also ridden over from Chevy Chase.
Two. He has at least two ex-wives.
Big Divorced Guy energy
Big Asshole Energy…
Seriously, how did they restrain themselves from kicking him squarely in the bike shorts?
things I thought I wouldn’t say for $400 alex: what is ‘rat was right’ …
Looks like they arrested Michael Harriot protesting last night. They do not understand what they have wrought.
Holy shit.
I can’t wait for that article. I’ve been checking since news came in on LOD last night.
*pops corn, pulls up chair*
Let me lead you to the promised land, of Fur Face Friday!
https://groupthink.kinja.com/fur-face-friday-1843914602
Thank god for small mercies
…feline fine
…someone get KC to tell me that’s enough puns, now?
Don’t let me cat-ch you outside if you don’t stop these puns right meow.
I’d be kitten you if I said I didn’t enjoy them.
I need to take a paws from work and check it out!
A purr-fect distraction!
I don’t know, all these puns are giving me cat scratch fever.
…wasn’t the kind of pun-ish I was looking to aspire to…but I guess my work is pun?
oh, that was a nice brief escape. fanny, gino, and a lot of kittens!
Stop it right meow
seems like we’re protesting american police brutality over here too
im not sure how much point there is to us furriners protesting as i dont think the current administration gives a fuck about optics….or a fuck in general…but hey its the thought that counts i guess
not sure how comfortable i am with crowds that size at the moment tho…
I like how you social distance even during protests there. We are not.
kinda have too here cops would have shut the protests down if social distancing was getting ignored too much…
and i guess as our cops werent the ones being protested against today everyone nicely played by the rules…
tbh…our cops arent so bad here… some are assholes but they are mostly proffesional assholes….that said..when they do cross the line it does still usually seem to be against minorities
Meanwhile in rural WA…. Antifa panic has spread to such a degree that roving bands of armed Cleti terrify unsuspecting campers.
A twitter thread.
And an article about the same.
The twitter thread is wild, and worth the read.