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- Bruce Springsteen dedicated his radio broadcast this week to the George Floyd protesters: “We remain haunted, generation after generation, by our original sin of slavery. It remains the great unresolved issue of American society. The weight of its baggage gets heavier with each passing generation. As of this violent, chaotic week on the streets of America, there is no end in sight.”
- Why have NYPD officers been covering their badge numbers during the protests, and why are they allowed to get away with it?
- Vegas is back, baby! Here's video of all the big winners packing a casino floor without masks!
- James Mattis, the Marine general who resigned as secretary of defense in December 2018, has published a blistering denouncement of Donald Trump, calling him "the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us,. We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort."
- Trump claimed he went to the White House bunker over the weekend simply to inspect the secure location—the Washington Post reports he lied about that.
- After the NY Times published an op-ed from Sen. Tom Cotton calling for a military response to the protests, outraged Times staffers tweeted the same message in a show of anger and unity: "Running this puts Black @NYTimes staff in danger."
- LEGO has suspended all marketing of toys with police themes in the wake of nationwide protests against racist police violence.
- The animal rescue group Abandoned Angels said it would return a dog to Amy Cooper, the white woman who was involved in a racist confrontation with a birdwatcher in Central Park last month.
- Meghan McCain tweeted about the damage done to her Manhattan neighborhood by protesters...but now it's come out that she doesn't actually live in the city anymore, and certainly hasn't been there any time recently.
- Is capitalism to blame for sexual dysfunction?
- And finally, there are some truly dangerous dogs out there, be careful:
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