https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html

Ok, then.

https://twitter.com/DannyDeraney/status/1271188413572509696?s=20

Ok, “racist FOLKS” is my new operative phrase. But, please, Joe, never dangle your mask off your ear like that again. It’s gonna be the Michael Dukakis tank photo.

Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) Tweeted: Holy crap, Biden almost said racist f**ks just at his presser. What a time to be alive! https://t.co/Fiu0STimm7

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/biden-ukraine-recordings-oan/612454/?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

«McFaul said what he’s seeing now reminds him of tactics the Kremlin has used against its domestic political opponents. “It’s not to convince you of a different point of view. It’s to convince you that there is no truth,” he said. “When it feels like nobody’s telling the truth and there is no truth, the reaction to that is despondency and demobilization.”»

https://www.washingtonpost.com/religion/2020/06/10/southern-baptist-gavel-greear/

Always fun when a statement doesn’t quite mean what you’d like it to mean.

«Mohler, who is widely expected to become the next president of the SBC when Baptists meet in Nashville in 2021, said that the convention probably could not use any gavel from the time period of its founding because many leaders at the time supported slavery or held slaves.»

“We can’t not use historical artifacts, because all of our history is racist!”

(I’m guessing if they’re only now getting around to retiring a single wooden gavel, they have a LONG way to go.)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/jun/09/microsofts-robot-journalist-confused-by-mixed-race-little-mix-singers

Ok, this is funny.

«Because they are unable to stop the new robot editor selecting stories from external news sites such as the Guardian, the remaining human staff have been told to stay alert and delete a version of this article [meaning THIS VERY ARTICLE] if the robot decides it is of interest and automatically publishes it on MSN.com. They have also been warned that even if they delete it, the robot editor may overrule them and attempt to publish it again.»

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1270135499659923458.html

Unclear/conflicting data, definitive headlines. Of course!

Try this:

https://time.com/5848949/covid-19-asymptomatic-spread/

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1269724480731066375.html

Applicable to every Confederate statue that falls down.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) Tweeted: Nice. The Hebrew is justice, justice you must pursue, Deuteronomy 16:20. https://twitter.com/TheRaDR/status/1269592378094039040?s=20

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/05/defunding-the-police-us-what-does-it-mean

Interesting article.

«In 2014 and 2015, New York officers staged a “slowdown” to protest the mayor, arguing that if they did less police work, the city would be less safe. But the opposite turned out to be true. When the officers took a break from “broken windows policing”, meaning targeting low-level offenses, there was a drop in crime. Researchers posited that aggressive policing on the streets for petty matters can ultimately cause social disruption and lead to more crime. Policing that punishes poverty, such as hefty traffic tickets and debts, can also create conditions where crime is more likely. When New York ended “stop and frisk”, crime did not rise.

….

…some have pointed out that compared to peer nations, the US spends significantly less on social services and more on public safety programs, and has astronomically higher incarceration rates. These investments in police and prison, however, don’t translate to a safer country. In fact, police in America kill more people in days than many countries do in years.»

A related tweet thread: https://threader.app/thread/1269452780764229633

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/06/03/beat-cop-militarized-policing-cia/

My favorite cop wrote a column.