We are definitely not all in this together. Old news, that. But it was never clearer to me than it has been the last few days as the Media, Print, Web, and TV are indulging themselves in oceans of SCOTUS coverage.
WE are interested in the COVID spread which spiked alarmingly to 54,874 (per NY Times) new cases in one day. Up from many weeks of 30,000-40,000 new cases per day.
either 10 or 11 shots can be heard at about 18:06. I’ve cued the video to 6:37 when the police reach Golda Barton’s car; here's hoping it works.
Via SCLPD:
This is body-worn camera footage from the Officer-Involved Critical Incident which occurred on September 4, 2020. The video begins when the officer activated their camera. The video is stopped after the shooting occurs in order to protect the privacy of the juvenile who was shot.
“The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.” ~ Wendell Berry
jfc capitalism is profoundly sick pic.twitter.com/oO9Rp0yk7t
— I’m Black and I’m not voting for Biden (@rtyson82) September 21, 2020
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From the front page of today's NY Times,
President Barack Obama, 2016 "I simply ask Republicans in the Senate to give him (Merrick Garland) a fair hearing and then an up-and-down vote. If you don't, then it will not only be an abdication of the Senate's constitutional duty, it will indicate a process for nominating and confirming judges that is beyond repair." Indeed.
CStMS will be moving her essays to Wednesday to relieve el of creating two open threads every week. So as usual please feel free to chime in with whatever is on your mind. I'm calling today's edition:
In homage to powers of nature... wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and the erosion of social cohesion. Perhaps we can find some good in the tragedies as any rational person must admit to climate chaos, a failed political system, a collapsing economy, and a polarized society. Awareness is a first step toward change. We can't force societal change, but we can as individuals select a better path to survival. I'm fine, but the young people deserve our best effort.
Caitlin Johnstone expresses what has been most important about Stephen Cohen's hard work against the merchants of death.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/09/19/stephen-cohen-has-died-remember-...
Caitlin Johnstone
September 19, 2020
Who will stop it? Those who must…and can. Stay tuned.
‘Colorado police conduct militarized arrests of Party for Socialism and Liberation members’, Jacob Crosse, 19 September 2020, wsws.org (with permission)
“In an alarming escalation of state retaliation against opponents of unending police violence and murder, at least six protesters, four of whom are members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), were arrested by police and SWAT officers with the Aurora, Colorado police department on Thursday.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has died — Trump to get another Supreme Court nomination
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg has died, the Supreme Court announced on Friday.
