This Is Fine

12:03 AM

> James N. Miller, former under secretary of defense for policy, has published his resignation letter from the Defense Science Board in @PostOpinions. Here it is

Also an article from Mike Mullen, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

@Stormblessed Oh my god their actual reasoning was that "he was frustrated"

You too can attempt vehicular homicide if you're frustrated! taps earpiece Oh wait I'm hearing no, no you absolutely can't

Wipqozn

@TimStone "your Honor, I killed my spouse because I was frustrated." "NOT GUILTY!"

Tim Stone

12:22 AM

> At a protest in Hoover now. Police in full military garb have shown up to deal with a handful of high school students with signs

And the second photo, my god, just a clear example of how broken-brained these departments are

> Protestors at the fence are shouting to law enforcement in front of the White House: "Let us in! We just want to talk!"

lol

Tim Stone

12:38 AM

Oh no a new Twitter villian has emerged and it's the guy who rents out the house the guy who took all those DC protestors in lives in

Naturally he's a DNC consultant

> Pentagon officials say it was the White House, not the Defense Department, pushing for military might in the streets—with Trump seeking details on “tanks” that could be used

Stormblessed

@TimStone so you can be held accountable for crimes while you’re drunk, but they decided to release a guy attempting vehicular manslaughter because he was mad? Wtf

Wipqozn

1:26 AM

@TimStone My Zeus Trump loves deflecting blame

@Stormblessed when will I ever learn to stop looking at the replies. Humanity was a mistake.

Trucker tries to run over protesters. Meanwhile, on Twitter "Why did the protestors assume he was trying to hurt them!"

Unionhawk

@TimStone meltdown may ended 2 days ago dude sorry you got in too late

Wipqozn

It sounds like that they may have not closed the highway properly, so he didn't realize it was closed? twincities.com/2020/06/01/…

Unionhawk

We have a hyperlocal curfew so I can't wait to email the trustees tomorrow like "yeah nothing happened last night, you guys just overreacted huh"

Wipqozn

Which is okay, but also you were still speeding? And shouldn't a person's response to confusion be "I should slow down"

Unionhawk

Eh, might not have been speeding on an interstate

Wipqozn

1:42 AM

Actually, looking at the video, it does look like he tries to stop well before he hit the protestors

Those 18 wheelers do take a long time to stop

So this might actually be a case of city officials fucking up shutting down a highway.

@Unionhawk According to that article claiming it wasn't intentional, it says he was speeding

> He was doing somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 mph. “From what we understand, he was speeding,” Harrington said, cautioning that his information was “preliminary” and based on based on investigators’ interview of Vechirko, reviews of traffic cameras, and other sources.

nitsua60

Not that driving 70 on most interstates would be considered speeding by 99% of drivers. Plenty would get angry at your for going that slow.

Wipqozn

That's 112kph in non-freedom units

nitsua60

Regardless, the driving after the stop, through/in a crowd with people hanging onto the cab... could use some explaining.

Wipqozn

He was honking and everything too. Might legit be a combination of reckless driving and city officials failing to properly close a highway

nitsua60

(That said, if audio of this guy on his cab radio came out with him yelling "what the f--- is going on, there's people on the highway banging on my truck... Shit, they've got me surrounded!" One can conceive of legitimate confusion there.)

Wipqozn

1:48 AM

@nitsua60 In the video, it looks like he's slowing down. Those trucks take a while to stop.

As in, slowing down before he got to the protestors

nitsua60

:54550255 Yeah--I've got plenty of other things to get sickeningly-angry about, this one might just be a legitimate scare.

(Then again, maybe it's not.)

Wipqozn

@nitsua60 Yeah, sadly, there's no shortage of fucked up shit right now.

@nitsua60 There's enough doubt for me that I'm personally not going to crucify the guy.

Unionhawk

@Wipqozn yeah 70 in I assume a 65 is pretty normal

70 in a 55 is a bit quick but not abnormal

Idk what the limit is through there but it's probably no less than 55

Wipqozn

This is the video that, to me, suggests it was an accident twitter.com/pancaakebunny/status/1267893717387575301?s=09

Unionhawk

Unlike the James Fields case, my man did hit the brakes

Wipqozn

1:52 AM

Because it does look like he's slowing down, it's just that takes a while for those trucks

Unionhawk

(in the trial of James Fields, they went frame by frame on video and asked "are the brake lights on?" for every frame. The answer was no every time)

Yeah if he didn't hit the brakes he would not have stopped at all, plain and simple

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk is that the guy from a couple years ago, which murdered that woman?

Yup, looks like I'm thinking of the right guy

Tim Stone

Oh hey look it turns out the antifa supersoldiers weren't deployed

Nodding along with this Verge tweet until it suddenly swerves off into Matt Yglesias levels of Hot Take

"We stopped them from posting, thank god"

Wipqozn

2:18 AM

@TimStone tbh considering how often the president implements federal policy on Twitter, this might actually stop the violence. You know, since we live in hell.

These cops must have stock in the companies that sell pepper spray, considering how often they're used v.redd.it/kx24mlpvbk251

Mithrandir24601

11:25 AM

Keir Starmer has essentially accused the government of indirect discrimination (on top of the usual problems) at PMQs. He also opened by making a point about how the PM has failed to mention anything about the protests in the US

Wipqozn

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@Tim You've been warned twice now, and it's also been made quite clear that comparing a suspension by a mod to being murdered by a police office is highly offensive to people who have been the victims of police brutality. I can tell you're upset so I'm giving you a free pass this time. Don't do it again. Additionally, don't bring up the topic of your suspension here again, since you've been told that this is the proper venue to appeal that suspension.

Nzall

11:44 AM

@Wipqozn Thanks for intervening. It's a little bit annoying that our only EU mod isn't active here, but we'll manage

At least, I think Wrigglenite is our only EU mod

Wipqozn

@Nzall Site mods are under no requirements to participate or moderate chat. Even if they were, we can't be around 24/7, especially on desktop (moderation on mobile is very difficult). Additionally, Robotik is located in Australia.

ALways feel free to use the custom moderator flag button if you need a mod to step in, and none are around.

Nzall

@Wipqozn Yeah, I get that

@Wipqozn Thanks for the advice. So flagging for moderator attention sends a notification to all mods active in chat, right?

Wipqozn

@Nzall Yes. Unlike the regular chat flags, only mods will see it. You can also include detailed information on the issue.

Wipqozn

12:00 PM

Ben and Jerry's has put out quite the statement benjerry.com/about-us/media-center/dismantle-white-supremacy

> All of us at Ben & Jerry’s are outraged about the murder of another Black person by Minneapolis police officers last week and the continued violent response by police against protestors. We have to speak out. We have to stand together with the victims of murder, marginalization, and repression because of their skin color, and with those who seek justice through protests across our country. We have to say his name: George Floyd.

> George Floyd was a son, a brother, a father, and a friend. The police officer who put his knee on George Floyd’s neck and the police officers who stood by and w…

Probably the best statement I've seen come out of a company so far. Way more than just a boilerplate.

Mithrandir24601

12:23 PM

@Wipqozn Wow, yeah. I saw Discord's yesterday and I just don't get how they felt able to write such a thing while allowing what they allow, for comparison

Wipqozn

@Mithrandir24601 Haven't seen Discords yet, but Reddits one was pretty shallow too, if that's what you mean. Reddits been a safehaven for white supremacy and just general bigotry or years, so any statement they make is just hollow pandering.

Quite a few subs have "blacked out" for a few hours (or longer) to basically protest Reddit speaking out against white supremacy while giving them a platform to operate.

Mithrandir24601

@Wipqozn Shallow with lies, yup

I do know someone who used to use Reddit, then stopped and well, yeah, then saw how awful it can be

Wipqozn

1:01 PM

Limited evidence that extremists drive protest reut.rs/2XtQ0E5

> In part of a June 1 internal, intelligence assessment of the protests viewed by Reuters, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials said most of the violence appears to have been driven by opportunists.

Unionhawk

1:40 PM

god dammit nextdoor walmart is closing early so that workers who live in the city can actually go home, not because they're afraid that antifa is going to burn it down chill out

you can burn down a closed store anyway

it doesn't need to be open for that

Tim Stone

> Horrible. A Cinncinnati protester with Type 1 diabetes begging police to return her bag - or at least keep it within eyesight - because it contains her insulin. He won't do it. Struggling to imagine a public safety justification for this

Nzall

Note: those hashtags have been suborned by K-pop twitter

Wipqozn

2:00 PM

@TimStone jfc, laughing at them too.

Unionhawk

Mayor Cranley, Chief Isaac, this guy, the rest of the department, kindly walk straight into the ohio river thanks

Notably!

I'm pretty sure one of the people held Saturday night had a seizure due to hypoglycemia

So this would literally not be the first time Cincinnati Police did this in the past few days

BradC

2:25 PM

Good article from the mayor of Atlanta: The Police Report to Me, but I Knew I Couldn't Protect My Son

Tim Stone

> The Associated Press is projecting that @NikilSaval, a former editor at leftist magazine N+1, has unseated an incumbent state senator in Philadelphia

> ESPER: “I did know we were going to the church. "I did not know a photo op was happening,” he says, referring to Trump's visit to St. John's church on Monday as a "photo op." He says he's on his way to the White House right now.

lol, admitting it was indeed a photo op, he's hosed

He also said he does not support invoking the Insurrection Act

Tim Stone

2:46 PM

Oh look we've been owned, the park service probably didn't use CS or CN canisters, they they used OC canisters, which have all the fun of tear gas + cause debilitating swellling!

> Boris Johnson says 3m people in Hong Kong will get path to British citizenship

Unionhawk

the park service is telling me that they didn't use tear gas, they merely used a smoke that causes, hm hang on

Tim Stone

Turns out they were just mad they didn't get credit for using Tear Gas+

Unionhawk

I've actually never heard of OC being used in that delivery mechanism

Tim Stone

Same kind of energy as someone getting insulted you thought they bought store brand cheese

Unionhawk

It's extremely common as a targeted spray

Tim Stone

2:53 PM

Yeah, for both protests and bears, so maybe the park service has it for when the grizzlies have had enough of our shit

Unionhawk

I mean, I personally wouldn't throw a grenade at a bear but maybe that's why I'm not park police

Tim Stone

If you can't throw some sort of grenade are you really a federal enforcement agency?

Unionhawk

Ideally yeah

Tim Stone

> Trump tells Fox News radio he didn’t retreat into WH bunker for protection from potential intruders, but instead to examine the place. “it was much more for the inspection,” Trump said

lmfao

Memor-X

3:08 PM

@TimStone well got to examine it to make sure he can hide in there

if not from the protests, the government if he looses and refuses to leave the White Hourse

Unionhawk

3:22 PM

@Tim Please do not use this room to continue to air grievances about a past suspension. If you would like to appeal, please use the contact form.

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Tim Stone

> Overnight, Philadelphia officials removed the statue of Frank Rizzo, the ex police chief and mayor who once told people to “Vote White”

Inexplicable that it took this long, honestly

> "I'm reminded of the song 'Imagine' by John Lennon," @NYCMayor says

fsdjlkfadslfjkdslfkdslfk

Tim Stone

3:56 PM

> K-Pop Fans Take Over #whitelivesmatter Hashtag, Drown Out Racist Posts

Wild to think that fancam activism has already done infinitely more than checks notes The party which controls the House

MBraedley

@TimStone And also effectively DDOS a Dallas Police service looking for protest videos.

Tim Stone

> DevOps from above! US Air Force says new B-21 stealth bomber is running Kubernetes

People are getting mad at the Kubernetes developers for some reason and I'm just like "Why did they stick containers in the plane?"

Stormblessed

4:21 PM

Monmouth poll May 28-June 1: Biden 52 Trump 41

Tim Stone

> Trump, via Jared Kushner, tried to enlist the National Enquirer to investigate the cockamamie Joe Scarborough murder theory

Stormblessed

One of the best pollsters according to 538’s recent ratings

Nzall

kotaku.com/…

Some BLM reporting from Kotaku

Tim Stone

> So @Snap will no longer promote Trump's account after concluding his tweets incited violence

Wipqozn

@TimStone It's nice that we need to rely on social media to rein in the president, since the senate won't.

Tim Stone

4:51 PM

> President Trump tried to register to vote in Florida using an out-of-state address

lol

> It is totally unacceptable that the @nypost would use this headline for this article. Look at the highlighted section at the bottom. The real story is that police are lying about the scale of looting!

It's really remarkable how dumb all the bad stuff is

Unionhawk

today I learned that police helicopters are apparently registered as N911XX

allowing about 1296 possible police helicopters in north america

Tim Stone

I think our entire state only has two so that probably checks out

Unionhawk

Technically it's less than 1296, since like, N911C7 is not valid, but still

Tim Stone

5:07 PM

> Ohio Taco Chain Employees Walked Out When Asked to Fill Mass Order for Law Enforcement

Tim Stone

5:19 PM

> Gov. Justice (R-WV), while discussing the relocation of the RNC Convention, says the state would welcome “any president” except "maybe not Barack Obama."

mmm and why would that be Jim?

Unionhawk

they had mike dewine on and he was just like "no I'm not going to allow an indoor gathering of 10,000 people are you nuts"

Tim Stone

5:38 PM

> Defense officials tell AP that active-duty troops brought to DC area in response to protests are returning to home bases

This seems good but also maybe just Bill Barr convinced Trump that letting the Bureau of Prisons riot police do the beating was better

Unionhawk

oh my god the LAPD review board call

Tim Stone

Yes, lol

Unionhawk

> I know you're all having a rough day, what with everyone here telling you you're bad at your jobs. Have you considered being good at your jobs? If not you could find new jobs in retail or restaurants!

twitter.com/chescaleigh/status/1267927258355961856?s=19

Tim Stone

> Attorney General Keith Ellison to elevate charges against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to second-degree murder; three other officers to be charged with aiding and abetting murder, sources say

4

Mad Scientist

6:00 PM

@TimStone hmm, I wonder if Esper will stay defense secretary for long now

Tim Stone

A good question

Though I still think my hypothetical is worth considering because prison riot police excel at treating people as subhuman

So maybe it was a mutual agreement to let the soldiers get back to whatever they were already supposed to be doing

Tim Stone

6:29 PM

@MadScientist lol

> McEnany: "As of right now, Secretary Esper is Secretary Esper and should the president lose faith we will all learn about that in the future.”

Wipqozn

6:43 PM

@TimStone came here to post this.

@TimStone I'll never learn not to look at the replies. "The bystanders are more at fault. The killer could've just been having a bad day. Bystanders have no such excuse"

DAE ever just have a bad day and choke a man to death with your foot?

Unionhawk

It's actually city policy for any bystanding officers to step in in a case like this, in fact

They already lost their jobs for that iirc

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk They did, yeah.

Tim Stone

> Medical research Governments and WHO changed Covid-19 policy based on suspect data from tiny US company

jfc

Wipqozn

tbh I really hope upping this to second degree doesn't result in him being found "Not Guilty", if they can't "Prove" intent :/

Tim Stone

> Surgisphere, whose employees appear to include a sci-fi writer and adult content model, provided database behind Lancet and New England Journal of Medicine hydroxychloroquine studies

Wipqozn

6:49 PM

but considering his history, and like, wtf you stepped on his throat until he died.... intent should be implied

Just worry about juries being stupid

Unionhawk

oh my god

Tim Stone

Hydrocholorquine is still not something you should just take for funsies but they stopped trials because of this database which might just be fake

Wipqozn

@TimStone shockedpikachu.jpg

Unionhawk

> "Given the events around George Floyd, including the burning of a police precinct is..." Justified 54%, Not Justified 38%

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk what

Unionhawk

6:53 PM

54% of monmouth respondents said let it burn

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk Yeah I was surprised my mom was complaining about looting but then when I started countering about police property she was like "I don't even care about the police's stuff"

And I was like "Huh alright then, FTP indeed"

Wipqozn

@TimStone I mean if anyones stuff deserved to get burned as a result of Flloyds death, it's definitely a police station.

oh god those gravatars are way too similiar

Unionhawk

lol

Wipqozn

@TimStone needs to change his profile image to a picture of a cat or something

Actually he should change it to a picture of @TimPost

Tim Stone

> "The president remains healthy," declares @WhiteHouse physician

I maintain it's a Russian conspiracy that the President reportedly has better cholesterol levels than I do

> Sen. Paul acknowledges holding up anti-lynching bill, says he fears it would be wrongly applied

Unionhawk

6:59 PM

apparently mpls city council is looking at what it would take to disband the department and start over

Wipqozn

@TimStone Uh, what

Tim Stone

> But he claimed that the bill might “conflate lesser crimes with lynching,” which he said would be a “disservice to those who were lynched in our history” and result in “a new 10-year penalty for people who have minor bruising.”

Uh

Okay so for starters it would be a penalty for the people who caused the bruising buddy, not sure how you got the wires crossed there

Unionhawk

he's just concerned that his neighbor could be charged

> The military cannot be used as a political weapon

andy that's the ONLY thing the military can be used as

lol MN Star-Tribune is issuing 8.5x11 press badges

Tim Stone

I dunno if that's going to help with this brilliant-brained crew

> This "molotov cocktail" is just a portable water purifier and a plastic water bottle lmao

Unionhawk

You can't

make

a molotov cocktail with a plastic bottle???

that doesn't work?

it has to

Only the brightest at our police departments

except that isn't true, they're allowed to select low IQ individuals specifically when hiring

Tim Stone

7:13 PM

@Unionhawk Look, you know that, but do the people they're trying to goad into believing protestors are terrorists know that?

glances around Actually yeah probably because this is really dumb even for police posturing

Unionhawk

picture of undented can of beans this was thrown at our officers, and wasn't just left behind

Tim Stone

tasteandtellblog.com/easy-baked-beans-bacon

Unionhawk

I'm kind of tempted to order an IWW Freelance Journalists Union press badge lol

you're press as long as you're recording after all

Tim Stone

@TimStone However

> A randomized, placebo controlled trial of hydroxychloroquine for prevention of #COVID19 shows lack of efficacy

Mad Scientist

7:28 PM

@TimStone These effects work both ways, they also used hydroxychloroquine in some trials for other drugs because it was used so widely and promoted that they didn't think they could enroll enough people if they give plain placebo. All the bad science on this shit has messed up later parts

Tim Stone

Yeah

Ah I see the White House twitter account is publishing very sane and cool videos, again

NY Times here with its new Sole Aficionado series featuring prime bootlicker Tom Cotton

Tim Stone

8:12 PM

"The real bad people here are the folks who figured out I was a lying liar" says Meghan McCain

Unionhawk

8:36 PM

attempted vehicle ramming attack in Cincinnati

Nobody hit

Tim Stone

jfc

> L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez introduced a motion today asking city staff to identify $100 million -$150 million in possible cuts in the LAPD budget to be reinvested into disadvantaged communities and communities of color

Wipqozn

@TimStone I thought this was in response to your link at first, and was confused

Tim Stone

Ah, yeah, no, the attempted vehicular homicide

> LEGO PULLS BACK POLICE PLAYSETS AMID GEORGE FLOYD PROTESTS

Apparently the police keychain minifig is named Duke DeTain, that is all

Unionhawk

So the township sent me a reply clarifying their curfew and I'm even more confused

Apparently their order just applies to if people break things?

Tim Stone

Okay but actually the barbeque burn out set is excellent so perhaps they've gone too far

Unionhawk

8:47 PM

Isn't that? Already illegal?

Tim Stone

lol

No Crimes Past Midnight

and such

Unionhawk

How could we have predicted that we would confuse people by using words incorrectly

We never meant for businesses to have to close we just wanted to have our cake and eat it too

Ah shit though now I've poisoned myself in the possible event that I get called for a jury on this order

Can't exactly lie about thinking the law is fine and not confusing when you've sent an email to the township saying you think it's bullshit

Tim Stone

I mean they responded so now you're totally clarified on the issue and cool and fine

Unionhawk

I replied again essentially saying "that's even more confusing what"

Wipqozn

@TimStone Insert witty gremlins reference here

Tim Stone

8:53 PM

@Unionhawk Oh well now you've done it

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk You're out of control

Tim Stone

> MSNBC will air President Obama live at 5pm

Oh my god the President is gonna tweet some tweets, folks

Wipqozn

@TimStone I like how LEGO is doing more to help than the POTUS, and all they've done is to stop some marketing

Unionhawk

My man is just explaining the concept of "declaring an unlawful assembly" rather than one of a curfew

Which are two different things but whatever

Mad Scientist

@TimStone Is that in 5 minutes, or is it one of the other confusing US timezones?

Unionhawk

8:56 PM

like what if such an assembly occurred at 4:30pm dude

Tim Stone

@MadScientist Yeah, now four minutes

Unionhawk

guess what you didn't prepare for shit

Mad Scientist

twitter.com/JonLemire/status/1268282856641609728

> WASHINGTON (AP) — Esper has reversed decision to return active-duty troops deployed near DC to home bases, Army secretary tells AP.

Tim Stone

lol what the hell

Wipqozn

@TimStone Is there a way for me to watch this on my phone without getting off my couch?

Mad Scientist

9:00 PM

This is such a shitshow

Wipqozn

Because I'm really cozy

@MadScientist How are the people running things this incompetent

Tim Stone

He must have given the order before he met with Trump

Wipqozn

@TimStone I figured that the moment he gave the order

No way Trump would've agreed to it

Tim Stone

@Wipqozn I'm not sure, I don't have capacity to watch right now

Mad Scientist

@Wipqozn I don't think this is incompetence. This is Esper trying to save his ass and Trump overriding him. I mean, if he had any dignity or sense he'd just resign, but otherwise he probably doesn't have a choice

Wipqozn

9:01 PM

@TimStone Thanks Obama

Former President George W. Bush calls on Americans to “examine our tragic failures” and listen to “grieving” black Americans in a statement released Tuesday. t.co/Z90ECiqFTQ

What even the fuck is going on anymore.

Unionhawk

Oh my god hold on wait PAUSE

Wipqozn

Trump is making Bush look like a good person

Like just. Okay.

Unionhawk

2 hours ago, by Unionhawk

> "Given the events around George Floyd, including the burning of a police precinct is..." Justified 54%, Not Justified 38%

5 hours ago, by Stormblessed

Monmouth poll May 28-June 1: Biden 52 Trump 41

Burning down a police station is currently outpolling Joe Biden

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk I shouldn't laugh at this, but I already am.

Tim Stone

> At least three people died in Montgomery County on Wednesday after a rare derecho tore across the Philadelphia region, causing widespread damage that left hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the dark

Derecho

A derecho (, from Spanish: derecho [deˈɾetʃo], "straight") is a widespread, long-lived, straight-line wind storm that is associated with a fast-moving group of severe thunderstorms known as a mesoscale convective system.Derechos can cause hurricane-force winds, tornadoes, heavy rains, and flash floods. In many cases, convection-induced winds take on a bow echo (backward "C") form of squall line, often forming beneath an area of diverging upper tropospheric winds, and in a region of both rich low-level moisture and warm-air advection. Derechos move rapidly in the direction of movement of the...

Had to Google

Wipqozn

9:09 PM

Trump's comparing himself to Lincoln

In fact he's suggesting he may have done more for black Americans than Lincoln

In 3 1/2 years, I’ve done much more for our Black population than Joe Biden has done in 43 years. Actually, he set them back big time with his Crime Bill, which he doesn’t even remember. I’ve done more for Black Americans, in fact, than any President in U.S. history, with...

....the possible exception of another Republican President, the late, great, Abraham Lincoln...and it’s not even close. The Democrats know this, and so does the Fake News, but they refuse to write or say it because they are inherently corrupt! See “pinned” above.

Tim Stone

> Man gets out of his car with a knife contraption and tries to attack #BLM protestors in Whitestone, Queens. Police say “no arrests at this time and the investigation is ongoing.”

Where did this man get this faux plasma sword?

> The removal of Richmond statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is going to be announced by @GovernorVA, reports @AP

Wipqozn

@TimStone Well he seems like a perfectly stable individual that should be allowed to wander the streets

@TimStone Please just remove all the statues dedicated to slavery, thanks

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk The Greeks apparently decided to make an explainer video, by throwing some toward the US Embassy

(confirmed by Reuters)

BradC

Tom Cotton: Send in the Troops

Yeah, how about no

twitter thinks this is an audition for Secretary of Defense, after Esper pushed back a bit against Trump's desire to use troops

Wipqozn

9:35 PM

At least 74% of Black Americans say you're a racist.

https://t.co/DwVdWa6OEg https://t.co/dOUeanZUrU

Only 13% of republicans think Trump's is racist

Tim Stone

> Zoom’s CEO says he won’t encrypt free calls so Zoom can work more with law enforcement: “Free users for sure we don’t want to give that because we also want to work together with FBI, with local law enforcement in case some people use Zoom for a bad purpose,” Yuan said.

lol

"Terrorists don't have money" as a universal rule, clearly

Wipqozn

@TimStone How tone deaf do you need to be to say that right now

Tim Stone

10:05 PM

Mattis finally says something

Openly accuses Trump of dividing the country

Wipqozn

Not sure how I missed this, but back in December George Zimmerman sued Trayvon Martin's family for $100 million in damages nbcnews.com/news/us-news/…

Tim Stone

@Wipqozn It's because reposting is your destiny

Unionhawk

@TimStone yeah that's because any terrorists with paid zoom are using cia zoom accounts

give me money, the cia

Wipqozn

@TimStone I aim to disappoint

Stormblessed

10:49 PM

NEW FOX POLL of AZ: Biden 46, Trump 42; Kelly 50 McSally 37

Unionhawk

> Sarah Grossman died fighting for Black livess.

"She possibly passed away from respiratory issues due to being on the front line exposed to tear gas while protesting."

https://t.co/7mmxrEBWB7 https://t.co/Su3UfjFgOe

Tim Stone

10:59 PM

@Stormblessed lol McSally

Wipqozn

@Unionhawk RIP. That's fucked.

Tim Stone

@Unionhawk Ugh, RIP

Unionhawk

11:17 PM

There is a reason we call weapons like tear gas LESS lethal

You're LESS likely to die from exposure to tear gas than exposure to a metal bullet.

For chemical weapons such as tear gas or even just smoke, risk factors include preexisting resparatory illness such as asthma, old age, and young age.

When treating, initial questions to a patient should be "are you wearing contact lenses" and "do you have asthma or anything like that"

> Prosecutors: 3 arrested on terrorism charges in Las Vegas t.co/EMu3vAdri8

what are their badge numbers

Wipqozn

11:37 PM

> Three Nevada men with ties to a loose movement of right-wing extremists advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government have been arrested on terrorism-related charges in what authorities say was a conspiracy to spark violence during recent protests in Las Vegas.

> Three Nevada men with ties to a loose movement of right-wing extremists

> right-wing extremists

Unionhawk

@TimStone this would have done so much traffic on splinter

Or deadspin

Such good websites

Apparently Nintendo is double matching their workers' donations according to sources (it's explicit company policy not to publicise donations like this but since I'm not the CEO of Nintendo,)

Tim Stone

Or are you, Mr. Link?

Wipqozn

Even Pat Robertson Is Turning On Trump: 'You Just Don't Do That, Mr. President' huffingtonpost.ca/entry/…

Tim Stone

Attempted ramming in Newport Beach, luckily it seems like no one was hurt

Wipqozn

> “You know, there’s a purpose to everything under heaven, you read in the Bible, and there’s a time,” he said. “And I think like now is the time to say, ’I understand your pain, I want to comfort you, I think it’s time we love each other.”

Unionhawk

11:49 PM

@TimStone I'm too busy with my job as CEO, Chairman, President, Executive Vice President, and Emperor of Antifa LLC

Wipqozn

> Robertson has a history of extremist and homophobic comments. Earlier this year, he blamed the coronavirus pandemic on same-sex marriage and abortion, among other things, and last year called a bill to protect LBGTQ people “a devastating blow to religious freedom.”

Still can't believe we're in the Worst Possible Hell Timeline

@Unionhawk New CEO though, so that could change. Good to see either way.

Another large protest in support of BLM in Canada today. Calgary this time cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/…

Honestly really nice to see folks and companies from around the world all taking a stand, for once. I was doubtful this would lead to anything other than "Thoughts and Prayers" before, but starting to think something else might happen.

Amazon is sued over warehouses after New York worker brings coronavirus home, cousin dies reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-amazon-com-lawsuit/…

> Amazon.com Inc has been sued for allegedly fostering the spread of the coronavirus by mandating unsafe working conditions, causing at least one employee to contract COVID-19, bring it home, and see her cousin die.

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