More police racism

Some news via @rorylaverty in NC: After Wilmington police officers were recorded using racist, violent language, the DA says his office will dismiss 89 pending cases involving them + asked people from other cases linked to them to contact him with concerns about racial bias https://t.co/t2xcKxZP56
— Mark Berman (@markberman) June 25, 2020

My God.

Fired NC police officer on tape:

"We are just going to go out and start slaughtering them (expletive)”…“I can’t wait. God, I can’t wait.”

Civil war to “wipe them off the (expletive) map. That’ll put them back about four or five generations.” https://t.co/BAuWQe5xI2
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) June 25, 2020

New: NY police officer seen putting man in chokehold over the weekend has been arrested and charged with “attempted strangulation” and “strangulation,” says NYPD.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) June 25, 2020

The “just a few bad apples” argument weakens with each passing day. https://t.co/rN7iafKkLl
— Midwin Charles (@MidwinCharles) June 25, 2020

His name is Carlos Adrian Ingram Lopez.

He cried out for his grandmother as police handcuffed him face-down for 12 mins. He couldn’t breathe.

He was killed by police two months ago, but body cam video was just released—officers must be held accountable. https://t.co/l6NnwdwkiH
— Joaquin Castro (@JoaquinCastrotx) June 25, 2020

Three police officers stopped this man on the side of the road, accused him of suspicious activity, picked him up, slammed him down, broke his wrist, handcuffed him while he was screaming — then realized they had the wrong man.

Because – skin color…
pic.twitter.com/awfLk2DNRP
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) June 24, 2020

One of the most painful things about the #ElijahMcClain story is it happened nearly a year ago & many of us are just finding out about it. Literally can’t even imagine the number of unarmed black lives that have ended that went unnoticed. https://t.co/lEO3h99gCy
— Eugene Scott (@Eugene_Scott) June 24, 2020

The same officer was caught on video in 2014 pistol whipping a teenager and knocking the child’s teeth out. Now he chokes out a man and is suspended w/o pay. They know who the “bad apples” are. That’s why the problem is systemic. https://t.co/fkfeZJhUH5
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@Sifill_LDF) June 21, 2020

More coronavirus outbreaks

How a spring break trip to Mexico triggered a coronavirus outbreak among 60 Texas college students https://t.co/g8k5VvbhYn
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 25, 2020

Remember all those long lines outside Harper's in East Lansing?

So far, 14 people have gotten COVID in a Harper's-related outbreak. Ingham County was down to 1 case per day, and you all that went out ruined it an endangered the lives of others.https://t.co/hT5q9v8y0G
— (((Eli))) (@paleselan) June 23, 2020

In Orlando, 152 coronavirus cases were linked to one bar near the University of Central Florida campus, said Dr. Raul Pino, a state health officer in the tourism city.https://t.co/10QzhZ6rI8
— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) June 24, 2020

Why doesn't NC reopen bars? Read about the outbreak at an Orlando bar.https://t.co/gWG6UdHWnt
— Gail Graff (@fandggraff) June 23, 2020

North Texas family shaken after 18 relatives test positive for COVID-19 following surprise birthday partyhttps://t.co/OhAAAVJDgC
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) June 25, 2020

Amazon’s giant fulfillment center in Shakopee has joined the ranks of Minnesota workplaces with a large number of employees sickened by coronavirus, with at least 88 of its 1,000 workers testing positive. https://t.co/rW9tZfzgGk
— Star Tribune (@StarTribune) June 23, 2020

LATEST: Health officials identified four bars — two in Dinkytown and two in Mankato — as being sites in which young adults spread the #coronavirus to one another. https://t.co/5VfcibXyoY
— Star Tribune (@StarTribune) June 26, 2020

85 cases, from a single restaurant, that followed spacing guidelines, in a state with relatively low transmission.

I’m very pessimistic that there’s any safe way to reopen indoor dining. Capping occupancy won’t cut it. Outdoor and carry out only for now. https://t.co/o5XXS7yoaC
— Jeremy BLACK LIVES MATTER Konyndyk (@JeremyKonyndyk) June 27, 2020

Amazon’s giant fulfillment center in Shakopee has joined the ranks of Minnesota workplaces with a large number of employees sickened by coronavirus, with at least 88 of its 1,000 workers testing positive. https://t.co/rW9tZfzgGk
— Star Tribune (@StarTribune) June 23, 2020

LATEST: Health officials identified four bars — two in Dinkytown and two in Mankato — as being sites in which young adults spread the #coronavirus to one another. https://t.co/5VfcibXyoY
— Star Tribune (@StarTribune) June 26, 2020

Coronavirus stats update 6/25/20

The White House guidelines for states to reopen include a “downward trajectory of documented cases within a 14-day period.” Is your state meeting that criteria?

Keep tabs on how many #COVID19 cases are in each state with our county-level map: https://t.co/gV6pimXB8m.
— USAFacts (@USAFacts) May 18, 2020

Over half the country — 26 states — have seen their coronavirus caseloads increase over the past week.

New cases are up 77% in Arizona, 75% in Michigan, 70% in Texas and 66% in Florida. https://t.co/z1sNUqg8E5
— Axios (@axios) June 25, 2020

Statewide in AZ, "More than 3,000 new cases have been reported on four of the past seven days, more than 2,000 new cases have been reported on seven of the past eight days, and more than 1,000 new cases have been reported on each of the past 16 days, according to state data." https://t.co/jD3wbSSCwk
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) June 25, 2020

This is the chart that I think best captures the extent of the US debacle. It adjusts both for population and for the fact that the US surge started later. And it's damning pic.twitter.com/h1AtMRw3EI
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) June 25, 2020

If this doesn't make you angry, I don't know what will. pic.twitter.com/HHQJc69R9E
— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) June 25, 2020

BREAKING: U.S. breaks record for most COVID-19 cases recorded in a single day, with at least 36,358 new positives reported Wednesday.https://t.co/Dd2bptnQFt
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 24, 2020

What a horrifying and damning graph https://t.co/rfjp35E7Xr
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) June 24, 2020

Pretty clear AZ has the worst outbreak in the country right now. https://t.co/qlkQqaOU3G
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) June 23, 2020

The pandemic is getting worse and it's getting worse particularly thanks to three states. https://t.co/laUhs7KNZT pic.twitter.com/lSUOiFFr37
— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 23, 2020

Saw someone suggest "cooling degree days" (basically the number of days that it's hot enough out that you'd want the AC on) as a proxy for states where it's currently too hot for people to want to be outdoors. It is indeed quite predictive of current COVID spread. pic.twitter.com/4iooEtXR7N
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) June 22, 2020

America's disastrous pandemic response, in one picture pic.twitter.com/EDxktnqQos
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) June 21, 2020

“It’s just a Blue State problem.” pic.twitter.com/FT1nR0NRxa
— Andy Slavitt @ 🏡 (@ASlavitt) June 20, 2020

I'm finding this hard to square with the growing consensus on here that protests don't lead to a lot of new infections.

(Part of the problem is that the *overall* number of cases may not increase because of a simultaneous, unrelated downward trend.)

What am I missing? pic.twitter.com/IQ0E9ERz5z
— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) June 28, 2020

Fake video posted by the Trump campaign

The Trump campaign put up a post of video of Biden saying Covid-19 was a hoax. They left out the part where he said President Trump says it's a hoax. 20 years ago this would have been punished severely by the political press. They served as a check on these lies. No more.
— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) June 25, 2020

Right wing extremists using cars as weapons

NPR article

Self-identified KKK leader accused of driving through protesters sentenced to six years in prison https://t.co/Zfh6E01v1d
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 11, 2020

Police say police driving into crowds is fine.

ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS??? https://t.co/TtIRV9iVjq
— Touré (@Toure) June 23, 2020

In Iowa, the law is on the side of the truck driver hitting the protestor. The law was signed in 2021 by Governor Kim Reynolds, whose own truck had hit a BLM protestor.
The freedom to protest your shrinking freedoms are also being erased in red states. https://t.co/tux67vkbHc
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) July 9, 2022

Lawmakers in at least six states seem to have overcome whatever reticence they may once have felt about formally endorsing automobile attacks. From @pareene in 2021: https://t.co/4KdKhnLOpf
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) August 14, 2022

The Republican Party is a right wing extremist party

Something everyone in US politics should understand: the GOP is the farthest right major party in any developed democracy. To find analogues you have to look to splinter neo-fascist parties in the EU. https://t.co/LjKRL3FM4w pic.twitter.com/pwztpsYnNk
— David Roberts (@drvox) June 19, 2020

Ideological divides among partisans deepen: ABC News polling analysis https://t.co/cTAmyaSNSh
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) July 13, 2020

George Soros conspiracy theories are back

Right-wing extremists are doing Putin’s work for him. They can never accept the idea that people can protest without being paid to do it. They are trying to delegitimize the very valid reasons for the protests.

I’ve said this before, and it is worth repeating: I don’t think Ginni Thomas should be doing any political activism, let alone sharing bigoted tropes. We don’t hear about this stuff from any of the other justices’ spouses. https://t.co/T5Yv5NztPn
— Brian Rosenwald (@brianros1) October 14, 2020

Newt Gingrich: "The number one problem in almost all the cities is George Soros-elected, left-wing, antipolice pro-criminal district attorneys…"

Fox hos: "I’m not sure we need to bring George Soros into this."

Newt: "Okay… So, it’s verboten?"

Long awkward silence. pic.twitter.com/tl4CgGcrzI
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) September 16, 2020

Soros is to this era what the Templars were to hermetic and Grail conspiracy: a necessary ingredient. Why? Because QAnon and its predecessors and crazy offshoots are anti-Semitic celebrity-based ravings for people too lazy to learn any history. It’s the Reality TV of conspiracy. https://t.co/xykh2q4aWH
— Michael Marshall Smith (@ememess) July 12, 2020

The George Soros conspiracy theories were first heavily weaponized and leveraged by the Kremlin after Soros publicly criticized Putin in 2014 https://t.co/SdZnbQNMx0
— Brooke Binkowski (@brooklynmarie) June 22, 2020

Experts who study conspiracy theories say the false claims about George Soros, the billionaire investor and philanthropist, are a way to delegitimize the protests and the actual reasons behind them https://t.co/nVuV8twjAt
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) June 22, 2020

The Soros stuff is just a repackaging of anti-Semitic lies going all the way back to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion ruse that spurred on the Holocaust.

It's all part of the same hateful cycle. Protocols. The New World Order. The Deep State. Qanon.

Fascism. It's fascism. https://t.co/ELblxZJgpu
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) June 22, 2020

The Shake Shack conspiracy theory

—@nypost with a tick-tock on "how conspiracy theories about the NYPD Shake Shack 'poisoning' blew up" https://t.co/mGKZaekmIV
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 22, 2020

Two police unions were behind the false rumor that Shake Shack workers intentionally poisoned three NYPD cops.

One union president initially blamed the disproven milkshake attack on "vicious criminals who dislike us simply because of the uniform we wear."https://t.co/FHFslqXP3L
— julia reinstein 🚡 (@juliareinstein) June 16, 2020

NYPD clears Shake Shack employees against whom two of the city’s police unions had made incendiary accusations late Monday night. https://t.co/bsJsijzdPH
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 16, 2020

Fun part of the hyped claim that NY police were poisoned is the police union’s immediate/unequivocal declarations that officers were targeted and of the risks they faced. No hesitation. No call to probe further. Basically, the union statement in every fucking police shooting. https://t.co/bTwesdtJAB
— David Simon (@AoDespair) June 16, 2020

After a thorough investigation by the NYPD’s Manhattan South investigators, it has been determined that there was no criminality by shake shack’s employees.
— Chief Rodney Harrison (@NYPDDetectives) June 16, 2020

just updated my piece in the wake of the stunning report today that the three officers at the center of the "poisoning" were never sick and never even felt any symptoms.

the whole tale was invented by NYPD brass—and the press hyped it nonstop; https://t.co/W8FyFv5iBe
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) June 22, 2020

NYPD lied. Police lie. All the time. https://t.co/gzFFrQWxV5
— Touré (@Toure) June 22, 2020

Covers: Time Is on My Side

“Time Is on My Side” is best known from the Rolling Stones 1964 but it was preceded by a great Irma Thomas version that year. The original is actually by Kai Winding from 1963.

From the moment the Rolling Stones were slated at Jazzfest, this moment was certain. Queen Irma. https://t.co/QYhATDQni8
— David Simon (@AoDespair) May 3, 2024

🎺🎸At midnight after the show I popped to @PresHall to see the Soul Queen of New Orleans, Irma Thomas, then jumped up to play 'Time Is On My Side' with her and her amazing band!#StonesJazzFest pic.twitter.com/cwCyAjZefI
— Ronnie Wood (@ronniewood) May 3, 2024