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This is nothing new
One of my relatives just shared a post that went "Trump had to be elected so we could really understand just how bad things were" and I wish I could throw it against a wall.
Things have been bad forever! All you had to do was pay attention and you would've understood that already! The (latest wave of) deaths are of real people with their own stories and identities and full complete lives, they're not some background plot device that only existed to advance your moral development!
...I've also seen people going "why can't all those rich celebrities and one-percenters who donated millions of dollars to Notre Dame send some of their money to ordinary people working for racial justice," and I just want you all to know...you're giving them too much credit. Millions of dollars were not actually donated to Notre Dame. The people who made the headline-grabbing pledges were "all press release and no cheque."
A further mix of links, some from the past few weeks, others from the past few years:
May 18: "'Threatening to shoot out the power at the hospital, to open the doors and demanding all the keys to the ambulances,'...Police were able to get control of McFadden, who faces four felonies, including transporting a loaded firearm in a vehicle and three resisting an officer charges....McFadden has been arraigned but was released from with the condition that he check into a hospital for treatment." This gun-toting, hospital-threatening, cop-fighting guy is white. Obviously.
May 2017: "'I don't believe it was a suicide,' the senior Crawford told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which first reported the death on Friday morning. It's not the first time a notable Ferguson protester has died from gunfire."
May 22 (NYT): an insider portrait of the crushing headache of trying to get Trump to pay attention at White House intelligence briefings. "...getting Mr. Trump to remember information, even if he seems to be listening, can be all but impossible, especially if it runs counter to his worldview. [...] Mr. Trump has also shown interest in foreign leaders, particularly autocrats like President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, and Ms. Sanner mentions them to draw in the president on topics that he might otherwise tune out. While Mr. Trump does not appear to read the intelligence reports he is given, he will examine graphs, charts and tables. Satellite pictures clearly interest him, too: He tweeted one from his intelligence brief, revealing the capabilities of some of the government’s most classified spy assets."
August 2019: "It is not completely clear where the image Trump shared came from. Security experts told NPR that, given the image’s angle and the time at which it was taken, it could have been taken by the USA-224 American spy satellite. Other experts believe the image actually came from a military drone. Either way, such images are usually kept classified in order to occlude US intelligence gathering methods and capabilities."
May 28: "Democrats in Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives on Thursday accused Republicans of keeping a lawmaker’s positive coronavirus test a secret to avoid political embarrassment, even at the risk of exposing their Democratic colleagues." Andrew Lewis has been vocally against shutdowns and health measures, but he did tell his Republican colleagues about his positive test, so they could quarantine and take precautions. He just...conveniently forgot to tell his political rivals.
October 2019: "'It is noteworthy and of concern that Hernandez was immunocompromised and ill' when ICE officers took custody of her and transferred her to two detention cites before arriving at Cibola, the report said, 'and by the time she reached CCCC, was so ill that a physician ordered her immediate transport to the emergency room.' Still, the detainee death review said there were no deficiencies in ICE Performance-Based National Detention Standards." And then they conveniently deleted the footage.
Things have been bad forever! All you had to do was pay attention and you would've understood that already! The (latest wave of) deaths are of real people with their own stories and identities and full complete lives, they're not some background plot device that only existed to advance your moral development!
...I've also seen people going "why can't all those rich celebrities and one-percenters who donated millions of dollars to Notre Dame send some of their money to ordinary people working for racial justice," and I just want you all to know...you're giving them too much credit. Millions of dollars were not actually donated to Notre Dame. The people who made the headline-grabbing pledges were "all press release and no cheque."
A further mix of links, some from the past few weeks, others from the past few years:
May 18: "'Threatening to shoot out the power at the hospital, to open the doors and demanding all the keys to the ambulances,'...Police were able to get control of McFadden, who faces four felonies, including transporting a loaded firearm in a vehicle and three resisting an officer charges....McFadden has been arraigned but was released from with the condition that he check into a hospital for treatment." This gun-toting, hospital-threatening, cop-fighting guy is white. Obviously.
May 2017: "'I don't believe it was a suicide,' the senior Crawford told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which first reported the death on Friday morning. It's not the first time a notable Ferguson protester has died from gunfire."
May 22 (NYT): an insider portrait of the crushing headache of trying to get Trump to pay attention at White House intelligence briefings. "...getting Mr. Trump to remember information, even if he seems to be listening, can be all but impossible, especially if it runs counter to his worldview. [...] Mr. Trump has also shown interest in foreign leaders, particularly autocrats like President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, and Ms. Sanner mentions them to draw in the president on topics that he might otherwise tune out. While Mr. Trump does not appear to read the intelligence reports he is given, he will examine graphs, charts and tables. Satellite pictures clearly interest him, too: He tweeted one from his intelligence brief, revealing the capabilities of some of the government’s most classified spy assets."
August 2019: "It is not completely clear where the image Trump shared came from. Security experts told NPR that, given the image’s angle and the time at which it was taken, it could have been taken by the USA-224 American spy satellite. Other experts believe the image actually came from a military drone. Either way, such images are usually kept classified in order to occlude US intelligence gathering methods and capabilities."
May 28: "Democrats in Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives on Thursday accused Republicans of keeping a lawmaker’s positive coronavirus test a secret to avoid political embarrassment, even at the risk of exposing their Democratic colleagues." Andrew Lewis has been vocally against shutdowns and health measures, but he did tell his Republican colleagues about his positive test, so they could quarantine and take precautions. He just...conveniently forgot to tell his political rivals.
October 2019: "'It is noteworthy and of concern that Hernandez was immunocompromised and ill' when ICE officers took custody of her and transferred her to two detention cites before arriving at Cibola, the report said, 'and by the time she reached CCCC, was so ill that a physician ordered her immediate transport to the emergency room.' Still, the detainee death review said there were no deficiencies in ICE Performance-Based National Detention Standards." And then they conveniently deleted the footage.