Lilyrayly

Notes on history, culture and current events. Cos they are important and we are often fools.

[Ben & Jerry's @benandjerrys]

Yesterday was not a protest—it was a riot to uphold white supremacy.
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[Lilyrayly @lilyrayly]

Will this nightmare not end?

[ITV News @itvnews]

Watch @robertmooreitv's report from inside the Capitol building as the extraordinary events unfolded in Washington DC
https://t.co/krCQf1uQbx

[ITV News @itvnews]

Watch @robertmooreitv's report from inside the Capitol building as the extraordinary events unfolded in Washington DC
https://t.co/krCQf1uQbx

[ST Opinion @STopinion]

Asian youth find common cause in 'milk tea alliance' https://t.co/k1ItQORyrR

[Jonathan Alter @jonathanalter]

BREAKING: 88 of Amy Coney Barrett’s faculty colleagues at Notre Dame have released a letter saying she should withdraw from consideration for the Supreme Court. https://t.co/ujZ6zMFY6d

[CNN @CNN]

Democratic senators are pressing Judge Amy Coney Barrett to promise to sit out any Supreme Court election dispute between President Trump and former Vice President Biden. She has eluded their requests and made no commitment. https://t.co/qbcliFxgWc

[Lilyrayly @lilyrayly]

Ways to steal an election

[HuffPost @HuffPost]

A proposal for a GOP-run committee to investigate the election could be the first step to handing the state to Trump. https://t.co/58x81VJXHv

[NPR @NPR]

BREAKING: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who charted a course for women’s rights at the U.S. Supreme Court and became a legal, cultural and feminist icon, has died from complications from cancer. She was 87.
https://t.co/3mOL0L0fUs

[Lilyrayly @lilyrayly]

Earth is hurting due to human action and inaction 😢 https://t.co/H8vgi8J4NS

[The Straits Times @straits_times]

Wildlife populations in free fall as forests cut to grow food https://t.co/r2wa7A4Tk1

[Lilyrayly @lilyrayly]

What more concrete steps can congress do to stop the travesty Trump is making of an election?

[Nancy Pelosi @SpeakerPelosi]

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s decision to cancel all election security briefings for the Congress is a shocking abdication of its responsibility to keep Congress informed.

[Lilyrayly @lilyrayly]

Police encouraging armed civilian militia, one of whom ended up an underaged murderer of peaceful protestors that night. America: descending into further madness. Can the right even logically defend this? 🤦‍♀️

[Kristen Clarke @KristenClarkeJD]

This is astonishing video. Officers in Kenosha in military vehicles stopped to engage with armed white men, told them they were appreciated and offered them bottles of water.

[Lilyrayly @lilyrayly]

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[CNA TODAY @TODAYonline]

Alarm as Greenland ice sheet sheds half-a-trillion tonnes https://t.co/a5KL99CSTi

[Lilyrayly @lilyrayly]

Is this how the US begins demolishing democracy right before everyone?

[Lilyrayly @lilyrayly]

Such a blatant act of stealing an election. A clear dismantling of democratic processes in the US. Utterly baffling how Trump and his cronies have such audacity to make a travesty of USA’s long-held institutions and history.

[TIME @TIME]

Trump says he'll block funding for the Post Office in an effort to prevent voters from casting ballots by mail https://t.co/s3m31HZPk7

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Sen. Kamala Harris of California is Joe Biden’s pick for vice president. A pragmatic moderate, she is the first Black woman on a major party ticket. https://t.co/Ttvh5RyxUB

[Lilyrayly @lilyrayly]

Media freedom in HK in serious peril.. https://t.co/k5WnbrdygA

[Lilyrayly @lilyrayly]

Objective media reporting is more challenging to deliver yet more critical than ever before https://t.co/XNKrpzMDoR

[Lilyrayly @lilyrayly]

Implications of this overhaul aren’t captured effectively in this headline

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Louis DeJoy, the postmaster general and a major donor to President Trump’s campaigns, announced a substantial reorganization to the Postal Service on Friday
https://t.co/Cmr384orpt