Is America burning? (Black Lives Matter protests, civil unrest and riots 2020)

[NoXion]

How often do "tourists" in DC get indicted for seditious conspiracy?

Congrats To The Proud Boys On Getting Their Indictment Bumped Up To Seditious Conspiracy

Your mommas must be bursting with pride.

www.wonkette.com

 

[Ax^]

fox news oddly enough not going to be following the coverage of these cases

instead choosing to rerun the bangazi Hilary hearing

 

[two sheds]

American tourists do have form however:

US tourist throws scooter down Rome’s Spanish Steps, causing €25,000 damage

Incident at world heritage site comes fortnight after another tourist drove a Maserati down the steps

www.theguardian.com

But from the material that's been coming out this sounds fairly mild

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/january-6-committee-news-wildest-revelations.html

you still think not planned at all at all 8ball ? You seem to be outing yourself as a trump apologist.

 

[two sheds]

This is the best idea I've seen - let the democrats push through changes at the same time.

AOC Calls for Expulsion of Any Congress Members Involved in Planning Riot

A report in Rolling Stone alleges that a number of GOP lawmakers were "intimately involved" in organizing the pro-Trump rally that later turned violent.

www.newsweek.com

Eta: There's even a mechanism for it, from first comment on that article:

don't you really mean that AOC is demanding that we follow the law under section 3 of the 14th amendment Section 3 No Person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

 

[DaveCinzano]

This is the best idea I've seen - let the democrats push through changes at the same time.

AOC Calls for Expulsion of Any Congress Members Involved in Planning Riot

A report in Rolling Stone alleges that a number of GOP lawmakers were "intimately involved" in organizing the pro-Trump rally that later turned violent.

www.newsweek.com

Eta: There's even a mechanism for it, from first comment on that article:

Some Amendments are more equal than others

 

[kabbes]

Well, things have not taken a turn for the better this morning, have they?

 

[Bingoman]

Well, things have not taken a turn for the better this morning, have they?

I think by the end of the summer in America we could see some civil unrest in some states?

 

[teqniq]

Very powerful indeed:

 

[a_chap]

Very powerful indeed:

While there are people in the world like her, society still has a glimmer of hope.

 

[spring-peeper]

 

[yield]

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Missed a trick there. The second panel should've said:

But we're white so it would've been okay.

 

[hitmouse]

Suppose this is probably the best thread for this, the leader of infamous US weirdo cult Black Hammer has been arrested after someone called the police reporting they were being held against their will and a dead body was found in the house:

Infamous ‘Cult’ Leader Arrested After Dead Body Found in Home

Gazi Kodzo loves dressing as the Joker and once said Anne Frank was a “Karen.” On Tuesday, cops found a dead man in his house.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[spring-peeper]

Suppose this is probably the best thread for this, the leader of infamous US weirdo cult Black Hammer has been arrested after someone called the police reporting they were being held against their will and a dead body was found in the house:

Infamous ‘Cult’ Leader Arrested After Dead Body Found in Home

Gazi Kodzo loves dressing as the Joker and once said Anne Frank was a “Karen.” On Tuesday, cops found a dead man in his house.

www.thedailybeast.com

paywall

archive.ph

 

[extra dry]

America is quickly slipping to new depths. click batey title, but informative interview.

 

[hitmouse]

Big new study of Summer 2020:

Big Brick Energy: A multi-city study of the 2020 George Floyd uprising - Unity & Struggle

The 2020 uprising was a major event by whatever measure you use. But rigorous analysis of it remains limited.

www.unityandstruggle.org

 

[8ball]

America is quickly slipping to new depths. click batey title, but informative interview.

Shit title indeed.

But if you can put that out of mind for a minute and watch it, it’s utterly heartbreaking.

 

[HAL9000]

The article is a bit long but it has some interesting bits from a new book by Michael Fanone, the cop who was nearly killed by the Capital riot in 2020

The saddest parts of the book are almost certainly the interactions with fellow police. Fanone quickly soured on the FOP, which he felt had been too quiet about the insurrection. They hadn’t said the wrong thing per se, but considering how loud the union was with denunciations of anti-cop politicians, and how quick its spokespeople were to note stories of police attacked on the job, he felt the tone of their Jan. 6 commentary was oddly listless.

Leave aside the specifics of Jan. 6, in fact, and Fanone’s book is also a story about class in Washington, documenting the chasm between the national-capital VIPs who run the government and the hometown-D.C. folks who serve the drinks and staff the preschools and, yes, patrol the streets. These tribes exist in perpetually close proximity, but it can take a calamity to force them to interact: On Jan. 6, Fanone had plans to work a heroin case in a public housing project; he only became a public figure because a police radio alerted him to the mob at the Capitol.

The upstairs-downstairs vibe adds a certain tension to Fanone’s interactions with the high and mighty. He’s a reminder, just for a minute, that the capital’s somebodies owe their safety to a large cast of nobodies. (Fanone actually has a better sense than many of the divide between insiders and outsiders: As a teen, he spent a year at Georgetown Prep, the elite school that produced Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch; he was, um, “not invited back.”)

The Secret Tapes of Michael Fanone

In a new memoir, the hero cop is naming names like Kevin McCarthy, Lindsey Graham and his own union bosses.

www.politico.com

 

[yield]

The most terrifying case of all is about to be heard by the US supreme court | Steven Donziger

If the court upholds the rogue ‘Independent State Legislature’ theory, it would put the US squarely on the path to authoritarianism

www.theguardian.com

 

[bcuster]

Two Connecticut cops were lured to their deaths by fake call

Two Connecticut officers were lured to their deaths while a third was injured by a fake domestic violence call, according to state police.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[CyberRose]

Two Connecticut cops were lured to their deaths by fake call

Two Connecticut officers were lured to their deaths while a third was injured by a fake domestic violence call, according to state police.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Some of Nicholas Brutcher's Facebook likes...

 

[Orang Utan]

Two Connecticut cops were lured to their deaths by fake call

Two Connecticut officers were lured to their deaths while a third was injured by a fake domestic violence call, according to state police.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Is this really the place for dead cops?

 

[bcuster]

Is this really the place for dead cops?

I don't know...

 

[Orang Utan]

I don't know...

 

[petee]

Some of Nicholas Brutcher's Facebook likes...

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is there a link? when I tried I got a nick brutcher who is a baseball fan.

 

[CyberRose]

is there a link? when I tried I got a nick brutcher who is a baseball fan.

Sent you a PM

 

[spring-peeper]

Sent you a PM

Is the link private?

 

[CyberRose]

Is the link private?

No I just didn't want to post directly to Facebook profiles. Dunno why really!

 

[Sweet FA]

I don't know...

I'll help you - it's not.

 

[teqniq]

This is well worth a listen:

 

[DaveCinzano]

This is well worth a listen:

"THANKS, ALEX"