Yesterday was a bad day for the Cuomo Brothers. New York was lost to the looters, thugs, Radical Left, and all others forms of Lowlife & Scum. The Governor refuses to accept my offer of a dominating National Guard. NYC was ripped to pieces. Likewise, Fredo’s ratings are down 50%!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 2, 2020

NYC, CALL UP THE NATIONAL GUARD. The lowlifes and losers are ripping you apart. Act fast! Don’t make the same horrible and deadly mistake you made with the Nursing Homes!!!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 2, 2020

SILENT MAJORITY!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 2, 2020

New York City put on an 11:00 P.M. CURFEW last night. No wonder they

Erm…what?

I’m as baffled as the people who jump up shouting “What are you doing?!”

The Post and Courier talked to him afterwards:

“I am not your enemy,” Givionne “Gee” Jordan Jr. told the officers. “All of you are my family.”

Emotion caught his voice. Other protesters crouched over him, their hands on his shoulders as he spoke. “I love each and every one of you. I want to understand all of you. I want to. I would love to see the best side of everyone here.”

So, naturally, they arrested him.

In an interview with The Post and Courier, Jordan, a 23-year-old Charleston resident, said he spent the night in the county jail. He was charged with

One part of the picture:

A Twitter account that tweeted a call to violence and claimed to be representing the position of “Antifa” was in fact created by a known white supremacist group, Twitter said Monday. The company removed the account.

Before it emerged the account was run by white supremacists, Donald Trump Jr., President Donald Trump’s son, pointed his 2.8 million Instagram followers to the account as an example how dangerous Antifa is.

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The revelation of the account comes as President Donald Trump increasingly blames left-wing activists for violence occurring at protests across America.

Trump and Fox News and the Matt Gaetz types and all their fans.

The phenomenon of people on the right creating fake Antifa

Some commentary and information.

BREAKING: Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo has a message for Trump “on behalf of the police chiefs of this country: please, if you don’t have something constructive to say, keep your mouth shut.” Wow. Absolutely. More of this. From everyone.

— Scott Dworkin (@funder) June 1, 2020

So Putin helped draft his speech, the tear-gassing & photo op today. Got it. https://t.co/4u0977sKae

— Mimi Rocah (@Mimirocah1) June 2, 2020

It is all very Putin, isn’t it.

Yesterday, our monstrous, despicable president assaulted Americans engaged in peaceful protest for a photo op. He could be reelected.

I wrote a few mean texts four years ago and have been rained down with insults and attacks ever since.

Oh yes, the guts. So much the guts.

Hard to imagine any other @POTUS having the guts to walk out of the White House like this: @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/R9Da6W7Hhb

— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) June 2, 2020

After the path has been cleared by violent men gassing citizens? How does that take guts?

Such bravery. pic.twitter.com/TOqDETavza

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) June 2, 2020

Also –

Here is one:https://t.co/jG0fY50rLy

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 2, 2020

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The Post on Trump’s fascist overture:

President Trump began mulling a visit to St. John’s Episcopal Church on Monday morning, after spending the night devouring cable news coverage of protests across the country, including in front of the White House.

The historic church had been damaged by fire, and Trump was eager to show that the nation’s capital — and especially his own downtown swath of it — was under control.

Not, be it noted, that the nation’s president gave a rat’s ass about the casual murder of a black suspect by a white cop, but that the nation’s president’s neighborhood was under control. How to demonstrate that? Well, as luck would have it, there were protesters just … Read the rest

This. This is a coup move.

CBP personnel have deployed to the National Capital Region to assist law enforcement partners. These “protests” have devolved into chaos & acts of domestic terrorism by groups of radicals & agitators. @CBP is answering the call and will work to keep DC safe. pic.twitter.com/QLueFkgaPO

— CBP Mark Morgan (@CBPMarkMorgan) June 1, 2020

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The Guardian Live reports:

Trump is predictably painting a picture of violent protests, focusing on “professional anarchists” and “Antifa”.

He says “we are ending the riots and lawlessness” and “innocent people have been savagely beaten”.

The president has threatened to send in military if governors don’t act. He said he also encouraged governors to bring in the National Guard, which many states have already done.

He’s not allowed to send in the military…unless he invokes the Insurrection Act. We don’t want him doing that.

While he was threatening martial law –

In a startling scene, police are using teargas to disperse crowds of protesters near the White House while Trump is speaking in the Rose Garden.

Tear gassing and

Bad bad bad bad.

In five years covering Trump, I haven't seen an hour like the past one:
-Trump declares self "president of law and order"
-Trump mobilizes military
-Military police fire tear gas at peaceful protesters to clear street in front of St. John's
-Trump visits St John's for photo opp

— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) June 1, 2020

https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/1267605821438988289 https://twitter.com/jonlovett/status/1267594910191902720

Gov Cuomo on CNN on Trump's police and military imposed walk to church: "It was shameful."

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 1, 2020

I'm surprised that bible didn't burst into fucking flames

— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) June 1, 2020

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Holy shit. Trump just had protesters gassed so that he could have a photo op with the gassing.

Police fired tear gas at peaceful demonstrators outside the White House Monday, just moments before President Trump addressed the nation about violent protests that have unfolded across the country over the killing of black men by police.

[Black people actually. Breonna Taylor was a woman.]

Sooner after his address, Trump used the path cleared by police to walk to St. John’s Church, which had sustained fire damage during protests the night before.

During his address from the Rose Garden, said he was dispatching “thousands and thousands” of armed soldiers, military personnel, and law enforcement officers to stop the rioting and looting

Oh hey gee whaddya know – it was a homicide.

The death of George Floyd, an African-American man who died in police custody, has been declared a homicide following an official post-mortem.

He suffered a cardiac arrest while being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on 25 May, the report found.

Being unable to breathe will do that. We’ve been reading about it in connection with the virus. The heart speeds up in the effort to pump oxygen to where it’s needed but it can’t, because the oxygen is blocked, so – bam. With the virus it’s the lungs, with George Floyd it was a cop’s knee on his neck. On.his.neck.

It listed Mr Floyd’s cause of death as “cardiopulmonary

Michael Sellers, a former CIA officer:

This call was absolutely batshit crazy. It’s the straw that breaks the camel’s back for me in terms of what I’m about to say. I have been thinking about this for several days and now, after this very disturbing call with the governors (for which there are audio recordings, so there’s no doubt what he said) — I’m going to say it: I am increasingly worried that Trump is laying the groundwork to invoke the Insurrection Act 10 U.S. Code § 252 and declare martial law. This is something he has the power to do, and if he were to do it, civilian rule of law would be suspended. There are many things

More on Trump’s proto-fascist rant this morning:

On a video teleconference, the president warned that the law enforcement presence across Washington is set to intensify later Monday. He said the protests are ruining the nation’s standing on the world stage. And he called on governors to pass new bans on flag burning, a constitutionally protected expression of free speech.

“Washington was under very good control, but we’re going to have it under much more control,” Mr. Trump said, according to audio of the meeting obtained by CBS News. “We’re going to pull in thousands of people.” He added later: “We’re going to clamp down very, very strong.”

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“You’re making a mistake because you’re making yourselves look like fools,” he

We need something nice FOR ONCE so here is something.

THREAD!

We'd like to tell you all a story of love, loss and big blue Ikea bags, by popular demand! It's the story of a swan, and takes place on London's famous Hampstead Heath (that's us). Back in 2016, two swans lived happily in the Heath's ponds (on the Highgate side)… pic.twitter.com/ia0TS0H5Vj

— Hampstead Heath (@CityCorpHeath) June 1, 2020

I’m just going to quote most of the rest, for ease of reading.

Swans generally mate for life – like humans, they will sometimes get “divorced”, and if one dies they will often find another partner. One day, the pair were flying together when the male swan hit a building and

Trudeau says no you’re not.

Canada does not support Russia’s return to the Group of Seven, proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump over the weekend, because Moscow continues to flout international law, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday.

“Russia was excluded from the G7 after it invaded Crimea a number of years ago, and its continued disrespect and flaunting of international rules and norms is why it remains outside of the G7, and it will continue to remain out,” Trudeau said during his daily news conference.

[He means flouting. Reuters silently corrected him in its lede.]

Trump said on Saturday he would postpone a Group of Seven summit he had hoped to hold next month until at least

No problem, no problem, we planned for this, it’s all part of the plan, not a problem.

About 15 cadets from the US Military Academy Class of 2020 who were brought back for graduation where President Donald Trump is scheduled to give the commencement address have tested positive for coronavirus, according to a US Army spokesperson.

That is, they were brought back because Trump demanded to give the commencement address so the class had to be brought back to satisfy the needs of his ravenous ego. If Trump hadn’t done an I wanna the class would not have returned to West Point to graduate.

“The Army and West Point have done meticulous planning to ensure the health and

The Times has more on Trump’s rage-fit at the governors:

Speaking on a private conference call, audio of which was obtained by The New York Times, Mr. Trump began the conversation with an extended, angry diatribe.

“You have to dominate,” he told governors on the call. “If you don’t dominate, you’re wasting your time — they’re going to run over you, you’re going to look like a bunch of jerks.”

The president continued: “You have to arrest people, and you have to try people, and they have to go jail for long periods of time.”

Mr. Trump, who has not addressed the nation since the unrest began, said he was putting Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the

Oh great, apparently Trump is doing a group call with a lot of governors and telling them to use the military to crush protests.

I'm in touch with someone who's on the governors' call with President Trump right now. They and others listening in are alarmed. The president is urging governors to take back the streets, not be "weak," and use force as the nation faces growing racial unrest.

— Robert Costa (@costareports) June 1, 2020

Aides to governors say the president continues to talk. One describes it as a "rant." Says he keeps talking about the need to "dominate" the protests.

— Robert Costa (@costareports) June 1, 2020

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Bunker Don had his third bad night.

Multiple fires broke out near the White House late on Sunday evening, as angry protesters gathered in Washington DC for the third night in a row following the death of George Floyd.

Bunker Don’s insistence on pouring gasoline onto the fire probably hasn’t helped. If the only response to a protest against racist murder-by-cop is “WE WILL SET THE DOGS ON YOU” then people aren’t going to shrug and say ok.

There was an 11 pm curfew.

When 11pm came, the police line in front of the White House advanced with tear gas rounds across Lafayette park clearing out the protesters, with intermittent sprints.  An area of a few blocks around the

With all that’s going on, Trump has stayed locked in with his Twitter. Not for him the address to the nation filled with compassion and a sense of justice.

That was by design. Trump and some of his advisers calculated that he should not speak to the nation because he had nothing to say, according to a senior administration official. He had no tangible policy or action to announce, nor did he feel an urgent motivation to try to bring people together. So he stayed silent.

It’s nice to know that he specifically did not feel like trying to bring people together, so decided to rage at us on Twitter instead.

The United States is visibly, painfully broken by the