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- Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said that the protesters who have resorted to looting and violence are coming from out of Minneapolis and possibly out of state in "an organized attempt to destabilize civil society."U.S. Attorney General William Barr said he wouldn't hesitate prosecuting people who cross over state lines to protest, and suggested they were "far-left extremist groups."
- The wife of the Minneapolis police officer who knelt on George Floyd's neck, killing him, filed for divorce.
- Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser refuted President Donald Trump's claim that she didn't allow the D.C. police to respond to the protest outside the White House on Friday night. She also said, "What we’ve got in the last two days from the White House is the glorification of violence against American citizens."
- During protests in Atlanta, the city's mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said, "What I see happening on the streets of Atlanta is not Atlanta. This is not a protest. This is not in the spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr. This is chaos."
- Some notable figures are pointing out the hypocrisy of Vice President Mike Pence suddenly supporting the right to protest, after he famously walked out when NFL players took a knee during the national anthem.
- Yes, someone who attended that huge Lake of the Ozarks pool party now has coronavirus.
- Is America's cable news love affair with the Cuomo brothers over?!
- Microsoft will use robots, not journalists, to curate stories on MSN.
- Ryan Gosling as... the Wolfman.
- And check our SpaceX Falcon 9's liftoff—it's carrying two NASA astronauts:
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Published May 30, 2020
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