June 2020

Student Protesters Demand New Haven and Yale Defund Police Forces

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 16, 2020 2 Comments

"Yale should not be putting their money into policing. They should be putting it into building up the community that they live in."...

Nashville Holocaust Memorial Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Messages

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 16, 2020 24 Comments

Samantha wrote about the spike in anti-Jewish violence in the wake of George Floyd's death. It has not stopped. Someone sprayed anti-Semitic messages on a bedsheet and spread it over the Nashville Holocaust Memorial at the Gordon Jewish Community Center on Saturday during the Jewish Sabbath.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-6xvujQTZU

Following a Significant Coronavirus Outbreak, Beijing Shuts Down Its Seafood Market

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 16, 2020 6 Comments

We first reported on the Wuhan Coronavirus in January, indicating that it was thought to have come from the city's seafood market. Six months later, a significant outbreak of the virus in China's capital city has resulted in shutting down Beijing's seafood market.

Petition Calls on U. Florida to Change Humanities Requirement to Race and Racism Course

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 16, 2020 4 Comments

"Klein’s petition, addressed to UF President Kent Fuchs, has amassed over 25,000 signatures so far."...

Media Silence On Armed Anti-Police Protestors And Private Guards Is Deafening

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on June 16, 2020 27 Comments

I'm so old I remember when the media would flop onto the nearest fainting couch at the sight of a protester exercising his or her Second Amendment rights. Remember the wails of horror, fear, and outrage we were treated to when Tea Party activists and, more recently, anti-lockdown protesters were shown lawfully openly carrying perfectly lawful firearms at protests?

Thank you for your support in this time of cultural purge

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 15, 2020 113 Comments

So there I was, minding my own business, enjoying my newborn second grandaughter (did I mention that?), when shit rolled downhill at me in the form of fury from some Cornell Law School faculty, alumni, and students, because I told some hard truths and expressed some tough opinions about the start of the organized Black Lives Matter Movement and the recent rioting and looting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I26neBjcs8M

NYPD to Eliminate Plainclothes Anti-Crime Units

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on June 15, 2020 35 Comments

Monday, NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea announced that plainclothes crime units will be disbanded and all officers will be reassigned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh_qG76hvV0

Kim Jong Un’s sister threatens South Korea with military action

Posted by Leslie Eastman on June 15, 2020 18 Comments

This weekend we reported that tensions were escalating on the Korean peninsula, two years after the conclusion of the historic peace summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

De Blasio Instructs Tracers Not to Ask New Coronavirus Patients if They Attended Protests

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 15, 2020 32 Comments

The City reported that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio instructed "test and tracers" not to ask anyone who tests positive for the Wuhan coronavirus if they attended any of the protests or riots in response to the death of George Floyd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA6jjuIHx3Y

George Floyd’s Brother Comes Out Against Defund the Police Movement

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 15, 2020 54 Comments

Philonise Floyd, the brother of George Floyd, and family attorney Benjamin Crump came out against the #DefundThePolice movement on Fox News on Sunday.

Petition Calls for Suspension of College Republicans at Elon U. Over Alleged Insensitive Comments

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 15, 2020 13 Comments

"disgusting, racist, dispicable, vile, hurtful, wrong, and should not ever be the values that exist within any club at the university"...

https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/justices.aspx

SCOTUS Rules 6-3 to Protect LGBT From Job Discrimination

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 15, 2020 94 Comments

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in a decision that protects LGBT people from job discrimination. They decided "that an employer who fires a worker for being gay or transgender violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which already protected people from sex discrimination."

Protesters Occupy U. Chicago Police Headquarters Demanding Department be Abolished

Posted by Mike LaChance on June 15, 2020 7 Comments

"They have been holding a sit-in since Friday afternoon."...

https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1272208890877353993

CNN’s Stelter Tells Trump Attorney Jenna Ellis She’ll ‘Regret’ Defending Trump ‘When Your Kids, Grandkids Look Back at This’

Posted by Mary Chastain on June 15, 2020 9 Comments

Personal attacks are usually off-limits, but if it happens, you do not bring in kids. Is anyone shocked CNN's Brian Stelter did just that to shame President Donald Trump's senior legal adviser Jenna Ellis into shutting up?

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