How media enables white supremacy.
First pic: @nytimes depicts an unarmed Black teen killed by law enforcement as “problematic & no Angel.”
Second Pic: NYT depicts a white woman who unapologetically stole $700M & harmed countless people as “a loving mother & a new beginning.”
White nationalists used the Allen, Texas murders to attack immigrants last night but anyone paying attention to right wing terror attacks wasnt surprised to hear the “right wing death squads” detail.
The problem is half the country denies these attacks are happening.
In light of learning that the Texas mall mass murderer was a rightwing domestic terrorist I want to remind everyone that when we voted last year to crack down on domestic extremists 99.5% of republicans voted no.
@paleofuture@walkrunfly1 Dean Cain likes to talk about 'dangerous freedom', but I know his type too well;
Big talk until he finds himself in the middle of such a situation - at which point he is grabbing women and children to use as human shields while he cries in a corner for 'someone to DO something!'
Given the fact that Texas is a permitless carry state, how many of these people evacuated from the mall yesterday had guns on them? Did the cops have to screen every one to make sure they weren't a second shooter since early scanner reports indicated there was one on the loose?
The most jarring non-graphic video I saw yesterday was from TikTok. He's in his car and hears shooting. He makes the calculation he should get into the nearby store but the door is already locked. Now he's stuck between his car and the store. There's no "freedom" in any of this.
"It's like a fairy tale story." The new Netflix series #WaveMakers, exploring the lives of political campaigners in Taiwan, has been causing a stir on the PRC internet. Thru soft power, TW is now exporting democracy & showing Chinese netizens that there is a viable alternative.
Disney has the most heavily used monorail system in the world that has safety transported 50 million people, but now Desantis’s new “ inspectors” have the ability to shut down the main means of transport between the parks anytime they feel like it. https://t.co/uPEweFQ4Eh
Civilian gun deaths in America are leading civilian war zone deaths in Ukraine
Americans have killed more Americans than Russian soldiers have killed Ukrainian citizens
14000 Americans - 8500 Ukrainians
When a democratic vote overwhelmingly supports (80-20) new police oversight rules and the police union reacts like this, you have to ask: who do the police really work for?
After two mass shootings left 17 people dead in Serbia, the country's Interior Ministry is urging citizens to turn in all unregistered weapons or run the risk of a prison sentence. https://t.co/trATu0K1XT
My cousins are now Qanon MAGA right wingers even though their parents were undocumented Mexican immigrants and grew up in a heavily Mexican community. They got radicalized online and came to hate our music + culture + coming to family parties.
Did MP Kevin Vuong have any profile in politics in 2019 when he was charged with sexual assault? No. There were no hard questions asked of him on the segment. This isn't how we should be doing journalism related to foreign influence issues.