Facebook said Tuesday that it had shut down pages and accounts associated the white supremacist American Guard, whose members were discussing bringing weapons to the protests that are happening across the country. https://t.co/kDW6rI1lIo
[....] By morning, the devastation in Manhattan was unlike anything New York had seen since the blackout of 1977. Block after block of boutiques in the Flatiron district had their windows shattered and’ their goods looted.
[....] The 12,000-person protest on Saturday afternoon brimmed with rage at the death of Mr. Floyd, a 46-year-old African-American man who died in Minneapolis after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground at the neck by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer.
One big flaw in conservative thinking along the lines of "laissez faire" attitude to addressing things like inequities and racism in the U.S. system is that their enemies know how to put it to good use:
I wrote about the data on police violence, what’s changed since 2014, and how the data can help us identify solutions to reduce police violence nationwide. https://t.co/dQALxb3Cuh
Meanwhile in Australia, our very own government evil is more subtle.
“Robodebt was a terror campaign against class mobility.”@Asher_Wolfhttps://t.co/quAh3Ulbkd
