By the looks of the headlines, just from today alone, it looks like we'll get a global rerun of the 1960s.
1 May 2024 @ 5:44 pm
“They were coming up here and just violently attacking us,” said one pro-Palestinian protester, Kaia Shah, a researcher at UCLA.
“I just didn’t think they would ever get to this, escalate to this level, where our protest is met by counter-protesters who are violently hurting us, inflicting pain on us, when we are not doing anything to them.”
The Daily Bruin, the college newspaper, said on X that four of its reporters were followed and assaulted. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/violence-erupts-ucla-university-campus-clashes-rival-gaza-protest-groups
1 May 2024 @ 5:17 pm
But officers did not immediately break up the two sets of protesters, and clashes continued. Hours later, broadcast footage showed a police cordon slowly clearing a central quad beside the encampment https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/violence-erupts-ucla-university-campus-clashes-rival-gaza-protest-groups
1 May 2024 @ 5:15 pm
Just a preview of the American fascist rage that will happen this fall when the spray-tanned Jesus loses the election.
Violence erupts at UCLA as counter-protesters attack pro-Palestine camp
University vice-chancellor condemns ‘horrific acts of violence’ as footage shows people wielding sticks https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/violence-erupts-ucla-university-campus-clashes-rival-gaza-protest-groups
1 May 2024 @ 5:12 pm
GQPers sure do love killing and death, even more than they love molesting children and forcing women to give birth.
Trump VP contender Kristi Noem writes of killing dog – and goat – in new book
South Dakota governor includes bloody tale in campaign volume – and admits ‘a better politician … wouldn’t tell the story here’ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book
26 April 2024 @ 5:09 pm
If she was white this would never have happened. When she wins again they'll probably have the cops hound her the rest of her life.
Prosecutor to appeal against Texas woman’s acquittal over voting error
Court ruled last month that Crystal Mason, initially sentenced to five years in prison, did not know she was ineligible to vote in 2016 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/25/crystal-mason-black-woman-voting-error-acquittal
25 April 2024 @ 6:14 pm
Now the theocrats on the SCOTUS are literally setting up the argument that the president is above the law.
Justice Alito ponders whether threat of prosecuting presidents would undermine ‘stable, democratic society’ – live
Conservative justice Samuel Alito wonders if prosecutions of presidents would not undermine the country’s governance – a sign he was partial to Donald Trump’s immunity claim https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/apr/25/supreme-court-trump-immunity-biden-latest-updates
25 April 2024 @ 4:42 pm