Attorney General William Barr has granted the Drug Enforcement Administration the power to investigate people protesting George Floyd's murder, even if drugs are not involved. The DEA has been central… Read the rest of the article: Barr gives DEA power to investigate people protesting George Floyd's murder
The Washington Post reports that "James N. Miller, undersecretary of defense for policy from 2012 to 2014, provided The Washington Post with a copy of his resignation letter, which he… Read the rest of the article: James N. Miller quits Defense Science Board, citing Defense Secretary Mark Esper's "blatant violations" of oath to "support and defend the Constitution"
At a news conference in Canada, a reporter asked Prime Minister Justin Trudeau what he thought about Trump's proposal to use US military forces against protesters and to comment on… Read the rest of the article: When asked about Trump's desire to use military on Americans, Justin Trudeau pauses for 20 seconds
“I feel a little safer now that these monsters are off of the street and no longer able to terrorize anyone else,” said 22-year-old Messiah Young, who was dragged out… Read the rest of the article: Six Atlanta cops charged after pulling two young black people from a car and electrocuting them
This is one of the most absolutely insane moments I've ever seen on live television. pic.twitter.com/Uvzig8YGSa — Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) June 2, 2020 In Van Nuys, California, black store owners,… Read the rest of the article: Watch cops handcuff black store owners and let looters flee
As a YouTube commenter said, "David doesn't even need to be in his own video for me to enjoy it."
Along with a gathering of peaceful protesters, clergy members of St. John’s Episcopal Church were gassed and grenaded to clear a path for Trump to pose in front of the… Read the rest of the article: Trump's goons also gassed and grenaded St. John’s clergy, says reverend
Image Scrubber is a useful website that removes all the identifying metadata from any photograph and gives you the option to blur out certain parts of the photo. This is… Read the rest of the article: Image Scrubber is a website that removes EXIF data and blurs faces in photos
Climate change, growing inequality, systemic racism, militarized police, rising fascism, Covid-19 pandemic, plagues of locusts. From is2020over.com, a list of 2020's bad news to date. January More than 20% of… Read the rest of the article: Is 2020 over yet?
Black Protestor caught 2 White Protestors tagging Starbucks. pic.twitter.com/06LuT4ryb8 — gregarious (@gryking) May 31, 2020 Given the white women's attitude toward a black woman asking them to stop tagging "BLM"… Read the rest of the article: Black protestor tells two white women to stop tagging Starbucks with BLM
In a conference call with US state governors, Trump said people arrested for protesting should be sent to prison for 10 years, and that governors were "weak" for not "dominating"… Read the rest of the article: Trump tells "weak" governors: “If you don’t dominate, you’re wasting your time”
This Reuters Investigates piece looks at how the US Supreme Court uses a "little-known legal doctrine called qualified immunity" to protect cops who use excessive force to maim and kill… Read the rest of the article: How the Supreme Court uses an obscure legal doctrine to let cops kill with impunity
It's easy to become inured to Trump's ceaseless depravity, which is why I'm glad I read Joe Scarborough's Op-Ed in The Washington Post about Trump's sociopathic obsession about a false… Read the rest of the article: Joe Scarborough in WaPo Op-Ed: The slimy tsunami of bilge spewing from President Trump is hurting innocent people
a group of young black entrepreneurs have owned a office building in uptown minneapolis for over a year& got racially profiled at the private gym today🤦🏾♀️smh pic.twitter.com/iKmAuW5Tli — nisa (@anisalrh)… Read the rest of the article: Venture Kapitalist Karen loses his lease after complaining that black men were in an office building gym
Paper Mate introduced the Flair felt tip pen in the 1960s. I liked them when I was a kid because the lines were so clean and you could vary the… Read the rest of the article: The wonderful Flair felt tip pen
Thought you were smarter than a queue? Enjoy the shame! The video does not show the circumstances that led up to this situation, in which a driver is backing up… Read the rest of the article: Driver does a back-up-of-shame on narrow mountain road
Valerie Hammond was cooking a roast in her KitchenAid toaster oven when she smelled something burning, reports CBC. She discovered that the toaster oven had caught fire, causing smoke and… Read the rest of the article: Woman's toaster oven caught on fire, Whirlpool told her to take it up with a company in China
Teen Vogue posted a useful guide for what to do and what not to do when videotaping police. 5. Try to provide evidence that your footage is real In an… Read the rest of the article: Teen Vogue: How to safely and ethically film police misconduct
In this Cool Tools video, Sean Michael Ragan reviews a wall-mounted thread-checker – a handy thread verifier for nuts and bolts. It measures 3" wide by 39" tall, and, like… Read the rest of the article: Useful wall-mount thread checker
The Action Lab Man introduces binary arithmetic when demonstrating the cool Turning Tumble marble-powered computer.
