JUST IN: Trump administration to eliminate non-discrimination health protections for gay, transgender patients https://t.co/UFYFRdppC0 pic.twitter.com/zuazY7APzg
— The Hill (@thehill) June 12, 2020
The Trump admin has issued a rule that will embolden health care discrimination against transgender people, those seeking reproductive health care, and many other individuals who need health care — all while a global pandemic is occurring.
— ACLU (@ACLU) June 12, 2020
Four years ago today, I was weeping over the massacre of 49 people like me & their friends.
Hillary Clinton cancelled a Wisconsin rally to visit Pulse.
Trump held an upside down pride flag with "LGBTs 4 Trump" & told gays like me to hate Muslims.
How he's commemorating #Pulse: https://t.co/PPzmlS0zhB
— Ashton Pittman (@ashtonpittman) June 12, 2020
Inbox: The Human Rights Campaign announced that it will file a lawsuit challenging the Trump-Pence administration's decision to roll back critical civil rights protections in the rule implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act. https://t.co/VvA8grBqKQ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 12, 2020
Meanwhile..
Seattle Mayor says, about the anarchists takeover of her city, “it is a Summer of Love”. These Liberal Dems don’t have a clue. The terrorists burn and pillage our cities, and they think it is just wonderful, even the death. Must end this Seattle takeover now!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 12, 2020
Trump is in a one-sided Twitter battle with the whole city of Seattle, but protesters in the new “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” don’t seem to mind.
Here’s why: pic.twitter.com/8F3GcrbmKp
— The Recount (@therecount) June 12, 2020
Trump describes #chazseattle as “Domestic Terrorists taking over Seattle”
What I experienced last night at Chaz was an intersectional Queer Black Femme led movement with revolutionary arts & culture.
We’re gonna win y’all. And Trump’s spreading fear cause he knows it #DefundSPD pic.twitter.com/REtMKSJPZf
— DÆ (@daeshikjr) June 12, 2020
The mayor of Seattle said it would be unconstitutional and illegal for President Trump to send the military into the city to clear protesters occupying a neighborhood, as he has suggested https://t.co/2f4GDoiCKh pic.twitter.com/iMM38PRxgJ
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 12, 2020
This is a great step! https://t.co/Vnayizxd8h
— Randy Bryce (@IronStache) June 12, 2020
BREAKING: New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a series of police reforms that include making police use of chokeholds that result in injury or death a crime. https://t.co/pAD8sbxcB5
— ABC News (@ABC) June 12, 2020
This is some bold leadership – > Boston Mayor Declares Racism A Public Health Crisis https://t.co/JdNGgB6nPS
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) June 12, 2020
@realDonaldTrump is still debating whether ending slavery was the right thing. To Trump "it's questionable, you know in other words the end result." https://t.co/QKDtUtQefh
— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) June 12, 2020
Here's the transcript of Trump's remarks on how Abraham Lincoln "did good, although it's always questionable, you know, in other words, the end result…" pic.twitter.com/HhvlDqlYCU
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 12, 2020
“These aren’t my voters,” President Trump has said to aides during discussions about how to respond to Americans protesting in cities across the country for nearly three weeks. w/ @ckubeNBC @albamonica @kwelkernbc @PeterAlexander https://t.co/l60OwzVoRY
— Carol Lee (@carolelee) June 12, 2020
More coronavirus cases are expected in the US and every activity "has some degree of risk,” the CDC says. https://t.co/NEqcY51qvj
— NBC News (@NBCNews) June 12, 2020
Good for her. Good for us. Good for the truth!
I hope the media covers this. It's a great story.
Fired Florida scientist builds coronavirus site showing far more cases than state reports https://t.co/OTUxHwKOhW
— Don Winslow (@donwinslow) June 12, 2020
Pandemic deepens economic pain at Trump’s company, already suffering from a tarnished brand https://t.co/Gi6oGW11J9
— David J. Lynch (@davidjlynch) June 12, 2020
Let’s be clear: Secretary Mnuchin is part of the most corrupt administration in history riddled with conflicts, cronyism, & incompetence. It’s absurd that he believes he should hand out more than $500 billion of taxpayers funds in secret. https://t.co/7tMbtk1W0j
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) June 12, 2020
Larry Kudlow on Fox this morning: “I spoke to our health experts at some length last evening. They're saying there is no second spike. Let me repeat that. There is no second spike.”
Kudlow in February: “We have contained this, I won’t say airtight but pretty close to airtight.”
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) June 12, 2020
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BORISHAMBLES BRITAIN
The absolute state of this. pic.twitter.com/2MHvJcwYUR
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) June 12, 2020
Historic, Olympic-standard, pig-headed stupidity. https://t.co/T6raxxDjuj
— Steve Bullock (@GuitarMoog) June 12, 2020
Day it's announced UK GDP crashed 20.4% Gove announces UK won't seek a Brexit extension. Like playing Russian roulette with a loaded bazooka.
— Otto English (@Otto_English) June 12, 2020
4½ months after it strode confidently out of the European Union, the UK produces an iconic image showing the rest of the world how it is a failing state where the government has lost control. https://t.co/j8c4xMAxQv
— Gerry Lynch (@gerrylynch) June 12, 2020
60,000+ dead. The economy has contracted by over 20% in just one month. We face the prospect of a no deal Brexit. We are led by the exactly the worst Prime Minister at exactly the worst time. So what shall we all wang on about? I know: statues from the past.
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) June 12, 2020
You have to admit Cummings is certainly good at his job and there are enough Brits to be taken in by this propaganda, we have another 4 years of this Goebbals like lies which ironically Churchill fought to defeat, guess which newspaper loved Hitler? #BlackLivesMatterUK https://t.co/vkN8RKlBBK
— Tom Hagans. 🏳️🌈 (@Tomhg) June 12, 2020
A sobering assessment of Johnson’s position in the FT tomorrow (courtesy @hendopolis). pic.twitter.com/IDdKgsDWuc
— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) June 12, 2020
Ah, the replies…
Premier League players will have their names replaced by 'Black Lives Matter' on their shirts for the first 12 games of the resumed 2019/20 season.
— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) June 12, 2020
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WORLDWIDE
Any vaccine for the coronavirus should be made available as a global public good, the World Health Organization said pic.twitter.com/4ZhD4UO6QF
— Reuters (@Reuters) June 12, 2020
⚠️AIRBORNE is the “dominant” route for the coronavirus transmission! New PNAS paper by a Nobel laureate’s group concludes this based on study of several studies and how transmission wasn’t truly slow until mask rules went into place. MASKS FOR ALL, please. https://t.co/nmergxbW20
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) June 12, 2020
I interviewed @edyong209, one of the smartest writers I've ever met about his experience and approach to work. Read all of his stories, but especially his reporting on the pandemic right now. https://t.co/trw25PgvP2
— Nesima Aberra (@NesimaAberra) June 12, 2020
France to lift border controls for EU travellers on June 15 https://t.co/7KxLaUevrC
— Skift (@skift) June 12, 2020
Lunar economics: how/why NASA plans to put a price on ice lodged in craters of the moon https://t.co/LDTtVJ5EGA by @TimFernholz
— Zach Seward (@zseward) June 12, 2020
In Tikrit, there's a monument of the shoe that Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi hurled at George W Bush during a press conference. 👍 https://t.co/OAtlPJgiF4 pic.twitter.com/EhVuMLITAs
— ♥ my grandpa was antifa ♥ (@ziyatong) June 11, 2020
Finally…
Interracial marriage bans ended 53 years ago. And it was only because Mildred and Richard Loving, and thousands of others, had the courage to fight against racial injustice.
That fight lives on in those demanding justice for Black lives today. #LovingDay https://t.co/9YXFvnOroV
— Governor Jay Inslee (@GovInslee) June 12, 2020