Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

People are weird.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Bark louder, little dog.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.

We will not go back.

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  1. 1.

    NotMax

    Nothing left to say about this that hasn’t already been stated a hundred different ways here today.

    YMMV.

  2. 2.

    AJ

    Attended a really powerful Juneteenth webinar today hosted by the library here in Fort Collins.

    Very moving direct testimony from local Black Lives Matters leaders and Latinx co hosts and a young community organizer and anthropologist.

    Big love to this community for helping me continuing to learn and shed some of the blindnesses of my privilege.

  3. 3.

    Jay

    For too long the Moundsville police have been needlessly exposed to roadside bombs when patrolling the countryside. They're finally getting the protection they need https://t.co/PGEGjPQxW3— Tom Gara (@tomgara) June 19, 2020

    The Moundsville Police Department has added a vehicle to the fleet! I’ll tell you everything this MRAP offers- and explain how the department get it for free- tonight on @WTOV9 pic.twitter.com/qveCV7X1i9— Jaime Baker (@JBaker_WTOV) June 18, 2020

  4. 4.

    Jay

    So let's get this straight: deputies approached and confronted a security guard at work — a man w/ a spotless record and no reason to be suspected of anything — and shot him dead in cold blood. These men need to be arrested and the LA Sheriff's Department needs to be defunded https://t.co/YrzBdotD85— Otto Von Biz Markie (@Passionweiss) June 19, 2020

  5. 5.

    AJ

    @Jay: they have military equipment but not even the basic discipline or accountability that I read a group of Afghanistan veterans discussing on Reddit.

    I know lots of reddit is a cesspool and I think it’s generally despised here on the Juice, but I thought it was insightful how they talked about the training in self restraint and de escalation was so much higher in their deployment overseas than for cops here.

  8. 8.

    Jay

    @AJ:

    Moundville has a population of 2407.

    Here, they wouldn’t even have a Cop, let alone an entire “Department”, SWAT Team and now an MRAP.

  9. 9.

    Jay

    A little wake up call for all of you not wearing masks:

    My cousin checked into the hospital Tuesday morning for body aches and chills. They tested her for COVID-19 and her results came back positive. She died yesterday morning around 4 a.m. of kidney failure. She was 23.— Demi (@demetriachavon) June 19, 2020

  10. 10.

    Jay

    Happy Juneteenth,

    <blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Kentucky’s largest county, home to 767,000 residents and the city of Louisville, will have a single polling station for the state’s primary. <br>

     

    <br>About 1 in 5 residents in the county is African American, the largest black population in the state.<a href=”https://t.co/Q2R2WZiwfN”>https://t.co/Q2R2WZiwfN</a></p>&mdash; Lindsay Wise (@lindsaywise) <a href=”https://twitter.com/lindsaywise/status/1274177579902275585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>June 20, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>

  11. 11.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Jay:

    “Demilitarized” or “reorganized” would probably be better branding tbh

  12. 12.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    @Jay:

    She died yesterday morning around 4 a.m. of kidney failure. She was 23

    iT’S OnLy oLd aNd vUlNeRaBlE PeOpLe! Do sOmE ReSeArCh! YoU CaN’T LiVe yOuR LiFe iN FeAr! OvErBlOwN HyPe! /s

  13. 13.

    Amir Khalid

    Note to self: During lockdown, do not get Jalapeño Bombers with takeaway order at Texas Chicken. Cold Jalapeño Bombers with the cheese all congealed are no good.

    I agree, Juneteenth should be a national American holiday.

  17. 17.

    Jay

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    sadly, the reality of Cop Culture, is that the whole structure is rotten, and irredeemable.

    tear it out, root and branch, start over and give 90% of the workload over to forms of social service, community service.

    Sadly, there are no “good cops” because they are complicit.

  19. 19.

    Jay

    Kentucky cutting number of polling places for Tuesday’s primary from 3700 to 200

    There will be one polling place for 616,000 registered voters in Louisville’s Jefferson County, where half state’s black voters live

    This is going to be a disaster https://t.co/Xn61pDqleN— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) June 19, 2020

  20. 20.

    Jay

    OUTRAGEOUS: A Muslim public defender in Santa Clara calls for prosecutorial accountability. The DA treats it like a bomb threat, evacuates office, & threatens a whistleblower complaint. A deliberate overreaction to silence defender activism. It won’t work.https://t.co/GxAjEer4wm— Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) June 19, 2020

  21. 21.

    Jay

    This is after LA county sheriff's deputy MURDERED Andres Guardado an 18 year-old Latino boy who was shot 7 TIMES on his knees, hands behind his head UNARMED.

    They broke all the cameras and took the DVR, which they pulled a warrant for.

    JUSTICE FOR ANDRESpic.twitter.com/8ZQmAH7XK0— StanceGrounded (@_SJPeace_) June 20, 2020

  24. 24.

    Jay

    They arrested the people providing jail support. They arrested people handing out food and water to those being released from jail. They arrested people for helping people who were just let out of cages. https://t.co/MUFyXMpsQt— MirriamSeddiq ?? (@mirriam71) June 18, 2020

  27. 27.

    Jay

    it is the human’s first time trying to change the world. and they are exhausted. so while they rest for a little bit. i have stolen their sign. and will trot proudly around the house with it. until they are ready. to fight again— Thoughts of Dog® (@dog_feelings) June 10, 2020

  28. 28.

    Jay

    Funny that,

    The Atlanta Police Foundation, a partially private entity with a board made up of corporate executives, is using privately-raised funds from who knows where to make cash payments directly to police officers. That’s not a “bonus.” https://t.co/ojis8UzjiZ— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) June 18, 2020

    Up here, it’s called a bribe.

  30. 30.

    Jay

    5️⃣5️⃣9️⃣ Charlotte, NC: after actually arresting public defenders in 5️⃣4️⃣5️⃣, CMPD threatens to arrest private defense attorneys when they show up to meet their clients

    This is lawlessness

    Honored to have these attorneys in the @NCCU Law family ?https://t.co/UTrVKuSjKw— T. Greg Doucette (@greg_doucette) June 19, 2020

  34. 34.

    Jay

    @MagdaInBlack:

    lot’s of evil is being done under the cover of Covid.

    lot’s of good too.

    alot of people in power/of power have no idea how angry we all are. We sacrificed to keep us all safe, they fucked off and looted the treasury.

  35. 35.

    trnc

    @Jay: Just when you think the NYT might start to redeem itself, you notice the story about undercounted deaths caused by police is in the opinion section. I wonder, instead of defunding police, if NYC made the cops and NYT employees switch places, could either do any worse?

  36. 36.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Jay:

    I was at yesterday’s Louisville protests – there were a lot of powerful moments.

  38. 38.

    Miki

    Always late to the party, but wanted to send profuse thanks to Annie for the Tracy Chapman video.

    Wow.

    Really – thanks.

  39. 39.

    kindness

    You know what I find odd about Texas being the last southern slave state?  It left Mexico in 1836 and under Mexican rule slavery was outlawed.  So in 25 years (the start of the civil war) the state went from no slaves (supposubly) to a big time slave state.  Then it kept acting like it was a Confederacy Bad Boy for the next 150 years.  How does that work?

  40. 40.

    J R in WV

    @kindness:

    You know what I find odd about Texas being the last southern slave state? It left Mexico in 1836 and under Mexican rule slavery was outlawed. So in 25 years (the start of the civil war) the state went from no slaves (supposubly) [sic]  to a big time slave state. Then it kept acting like it was a Confederacy Bad Boy for the next 150 years. How does that work?

    Because you have a missing fact in your paragraph. The reason Texas declared independence from Mexico, and fought a war with Mexico, was because Mexico banned slavery many years before the US ended slavery. All that Alamo stuff with Davy Crockett and those heroes of Texas independence, they were all fighting for slavery, every one of them!

    So Texas fought two wars to keep slaves. Twice as despicable as every other state in the CSA.

    Texas would prefer not to mention that these days, for some reason that I can’t, quite… figure. out.

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