Anytime we step out in somebody’s name, we’re stepping in everybody’s name. Black people and brown people are very clear that George Floyd happens every day.
Abené Clayton, who reports for the Guardian’s Guns and Lies in America project
Meanwhile in Arizona…
Confirmed COVID-19 cases by day in Arizona, with graphics adapted from the Arizona Department of Health Services Coronavirus Disease dashboard as of June 8, 2020.
…using only cliches!
I am already sick to death of giving Joe Biden the benefit of the doubt.
Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis.
I will update if I am able to find info on the photographer responsible for this remarkable and sobering image.
UPDATE: This image was taken and posted by reddit user dudleydrone.
Path. Mesquite bosque.
Family album.
The G.B.H. chicks at Kingfisher Pond are growing up so fast! I love their punk velociraptor haircuts and their bright bills. One of their nestmates is missing since my last visit. Predation seems unlikely. Nature may be red in tooth and claw, but I suspect in this case the parents were unable to keep up with the feeding demands of such a large brood, and one of the babies simply didn’t thrive.
Great blue herons (Ardea herodias) at Kingfisher Pond, San Pedro House, Cochise County, Arizona.
One of my little cousins said, “I don’t know what we’re gonna do now. ’Cause she’s the one who made sure everybody was together.” I’m like, “I don’t either.” Her friends call every single day and say, “Mom how’re you doing?” So many people are heartbroken. We’re not ready to even try to live.
Tamika Palmer, mother of Breonna Taylor, who would have celebrated her 27th birthday today, in an interview with New York Magazine / The Cut .
Breonna
was killed by police as she slept on March 13. Her murderers have not been charged or arrested.
You can contact special prosecutor Daniel Cameron and demand action with full transparency and accountability at attorney.general@ag.ky.gov. You can find updates and additional information at www.justiceforbreonna.org.
George is looking down right now and saying ‘this is a great thing happening for our country.’ It’s great day for him, a great day for everybody. This is a great, great day in terms of equality. It’s really what our Constitution requires and what our country is about.
What we’ve seen from rioting police … is an assertion of power and impunity. In the face of mass anger over police brutality, they’ve effectively said So what? In the face of demands for change and reform — in short, in the face of accountability to the public they’re supposed to serve — they’ve bucked their more conciliatory colleagues with a firm No. In which case, if we want to understand the behavior of the past two weeks, we can’t just treat it as an explosion of wanton violence, we have to treat it as an attack on civil society and democratic accountability, one rooted in a dispute over who has the right to hold the police to account.
Dithyramb 