The Political Rave and Drool

Republicans want buy-in from Police Organizations before they give support
— Read on thegrio.com/2021/05/24/george-floyd-policing-act-congress-biden/amp/

A century ago, a prosperous Black neighborhood in Tulsa, Okla., perished at the hands of a violent white mob.
— Read on www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/24/us/tulsa-race-massacre.html

“Hosting the bereaved family of a murder victim is something every president has done.

Trump hosted his own criminal family every day at the White House and Lauren Boebert never uttered a peep.”

-@VABVOX
— Read on www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/laurden-boebert-twitter-biden-george-floyd-b1853145.html

https://twitter.com/talbertswan/status/1397035370861187074?s=21

https://twitter.com/dsamuelsohn/status/1396843118054490114?s=21

Qatar and Russia have rightly had a lot of criticism but why has nobody mentioned Poland’s terrible record with LGBT rights?
— Read on theathletic.com/2609358/2021/05/25/lgbt-people-in-poland-are-called-a-plague-and-compared-to-hitler-should-uefa-have-put-the-europa-league-final-there/

Russian-backed priorities
— Read on www.huffpost.com/entry/nra-john-kennedy-trigger-typo_n_60ac5a25e4b03135479ad39b

When President Barack Obama was reelected in 2012 and defeated Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, pundits offered a variety of explanations for Romney’s loss. Some pundits on the far right insisted that Romney wasn’t conservative enough — that he lost because he was a RINO: …
— Read on www.rawstory.com/extremism-in-america-2653099174/

Messaging app WhatsApp has blocked the accounts of dozens of Palestinian journalists following this month’s fighting between Israel and Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas, reporters said.
— Read on www.24matins.uk/topnews/int/dozens-of-palestinian-journalists-say-blocked-by-whatsapp-285007

Because race and bias are part of the American brand.

Gov. Bill Lee on Monday signed a bill into law that will restrict what public school teachers can discuss in Tennessee classrooms about racism, white privilege, and unconscious bias.
— Read on tn.chalkbeat.org/2021/5/24/22452478/tennessee-governor-signs-bill-restricting-how-race-and-bias-can-be-taught-in-schools

The Steal will be televised
— Read on www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/texas-republicans-polling-places-1173813/

Top cop, is that a regiment thing?

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In perhaps the strongest evidence yet of an attempted cover-up in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, the ranking Louisiana State Police officer at the scene falsely told internal investigators that the Black man was still a threat to flee after he was shackled, and he denied the existence of his own body camera video for nearly two years until it emerged just last month.
— Read on apnews.com/article/arrests-death-of-ronald-greene-d2868b81b5af53a62301742d1ba4b825

https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1396904638478262278?s=21

“adjusted rates in several states show the pandemic is spreading as fast among the unvaccinated as it did during the winter surge.”
— Read on www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2021/covid-rates-unvaccinated-people/

But just those critical of his Administration on social media, so that’s ok I guess.

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— Read on http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2021/05/24/commerce-department-monitoring-itms/

https://twitter.com/mattsheffield/status/1396555310727196675?s=21

— Read on www.cjr.org/the_media_today/emily_wilder_ap_israel_objectivity.php

That’s why we strongly disapprove of the way the AP has handled the firing of Emily Wilder and its dayslong silence internally. We demand more clarity from the company about why Wilder was fired. It remains unclear — to Wilder herself as well as staff at large — how she violated the social media policy while employed by the AP.
— Read on docs.google.com/document/d/19srByafx4z79bMRm4buo5u7Fm1bj5EShTkj1gdGUzTg/mobilebasic

Passed House (06/25/2020)
George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020

This bill addresses a wide range of policies and issues regarding policing practices and law enforcement accountability. It increases accountability for law enforcement misconduct, restricts the use of certain policing practices, enhances transparency and data collection, and establishes best practices and training requirements.
— Read on www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7120