LEADS

Officer-involved deaths: Will you be complicit, too?
https://www.startribune.com/officer-involved-deaths-will-you-be-complicit-too/570783792/

Bystander Videos of George Floyd and Others Are Policing the Police
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/us/george-floyd-minneapolis-police.html

New video shows George Floyd being dragged out of his car without resisting arrest, handcuffed and manhandled on the sidewalk before being 'murdered' by Minneapolis cop who kneeled on his neck while he screamed in pain
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8360903/New-video-shows-George-Floyd-dragged-car.html

'It's not enough': George Floyd's family reacts to firing of Minneapolis police officers
https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/george-floyds-family-reacts-to-his-death-and-termination-of-minneapolis-police-officers/89-358f978e-aed0-4008-baf0-fe1e8c0ed679

‘Do you understand now?’: LeBron James reignites Colin Kaepernick debate after ‘abusive, inhumane’ death
https://www.foxsports.com.au/basketball/nba/george-floyd-death-colin-kaepernick-lebron-james-kneeling-protest/news-story/10c7df15b6956650f78b2d898c421e7a

For Eric Garner's mom, video of man pleading 'I can't breathe' to police is 'reoccurring nightmare'
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/eric-garner-s-mom-video-man-pleading-i-can-t-n1215031

I’m a public defender in Manhattan. The Central Park video is all too familiar.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/im-a-public-defender-in-manhattan-the-central-park-video-is-all-too-familiar/2020/05/26/73c3de60-9f99-11ea-81bb-c2f70f01034b_story.html

Christian Cooper Condemns ‘Abhorrent’ Death Threats Targeting Woman Who Threatened Him in Viral Video: ‘Where’s the Logic in That?’
https://www.mediaite.com/online/christian-cooper-condemns-abhorrent-death-threats-targeting-woman-who-threatened-him-in-viral-video-wheres-the-logic-in-that/

Christian Cooper Says Tearing Amy Cooper's Life Apart Won't Solve America's Racial Issues
https://www.newsweek.com/amy-cooper-central-park-video-christian-cooper-job-1506699

Air Force admits 'persistent and consistent racial' bias against black airmen, records show
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/27/records-show-air-force-admits-persistent-consistent-bias-black-airmen/5179439002/

Cleveland To Pay Black Men $18M For 1975 Wrongful Murder Convictions
https://www.blackenterprise.com/cleveland-to-pay-18m-to-trio-who-spent-decades-in-prison-for-1975-wrongful-murder-convictions/

Prosecutors Back Dismissal of 91 More Cases Involving the Houston Cop Who Lied to Justify a Deadly Drug Raid
https://reason.com/2020/05/25/prosecutors-back-dismissal-of-91-more-cases-involving-the-houston-cop-who-lied-to-justify-a-deadly-drug-raid/

More people are dying in American prisons – here’s how they face the end of their lives
https://theconversation.com/more-people-are-dying-in-american-prisons-heres-how-they-face-the-end-of-their-lives-138701

Bill Barr Promised to Release Prisoners Threatened by Coronavirus — Even as the Feds Secretly Made It Harder for Them to Get Out
https://www.propublica.org/article/bill-barr-promised-to-release-prisoners-threatened-by-coronavirus-even-as-the-feds-secretly-made-it-harder-for-them-to-get-out

DOJ Refuses to Prosecute GOP Senator Accused of Dumping Stocks in Post-Coronavirus Briefing Insider Trading Scandal
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2020/05/doj-refuses-to-prosecute-gop-senator-accused-of-dumping-stocks-in-insider-trading-scandal-after-covid-19-briefing/

As pandemic bore down, Rep. Phil Roe snatched up Zoom shares, unloaded stock in cruise lines
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/05/26/coronavirus-pandemic-threatened-tennessee-rep-snatched-up-zoom-shares-unloaded-cruise-stock/5261355002/

Moderna Shares Tumble As Insiders Caught Running For The Exits
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/moderna-shares-tumble-68-insiders-caught-running-exits

Taxpayers paid to develop remdesivir but will have no say when Gilead sets the price
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/26/remdesivir-coronavirus-taxpayers/

Trump tries to convince voters he’s lowered drug prices, based only on a modest tweak to Medicare
https://www.statnews.com/2020/05/26/trump-drug-prices-claims-credit/

President Trump looks to celebrate space launch victory amid national coronavirus struggle
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-trump-celebrate-space-launch-victory-amid-national/story?id=70885644

Trump and Musk unite over Twitter, the moon and sticking it to the establishment
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/27/trump-musk-moon-space-283608

Of course billionaires like Elon Musk love outer space. The Earth is too small for their egos
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/27/of-course-billionaires-like-elon-musk-love-outer-space-the-earth-is-too-small-for-their-egos

Why are we waiting for billionaires like Jeff Bezos to save us?
https://grist.org/climate/why-are-we-waiting-for-billionaires-like-bezos-bloomberg-gates-to-save-us/

POLITICS and FLEAS

‘Ugly Even for Him’: Scathing Wall Street Journal Editorial Rails Against Trump for ‘Debasing His Office’
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2020/05/ugly-even-for-him-scathing-wall-street-journal-editorial-rails-against-trump-for-debasing-his-office/

Wall Street Journal: Trump 'smear' about Scarborough staffer death is 'same sort of trash' as Steele dossier
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/wall-street-journal-trump-smear-about-scarborough-staffer-death-is-same-sort-of-trash-as-steele-dossier

Trump doubles down on conspiracy theory about woman’s death, ignoring grieving widower’s plea for peace
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-doubles-down-on-conspiracy-theory-about-womans-death-ignoring-grieving-widowers-plea-for-peace/2020/05/26/4989940e-9f63-11ea-9590-1858a893bd59_story.html

He asked Twitter to remove Trump's false tweets about his dead wife. Twitter refused
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/media/trump-joe-scarborough-conspiracy-theory/index.html

Twitter employees 'very unhappy' the platform won't correct Trump falsehoods about Scarborough and staff member
https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-employees-very-unhappy-the-platform-wont-correct-trump-falsehoods-about-scarborough-and-intern-001236174.html

Lies Detected: Twitter Fact Checks Trump Tweet For The First Time
https://www.theroot.com/lies-detected-twitter-fact-checks-trump-tweet-for-the-1843688664

Twitter exec in charge of effort to fact-check Trump has history of anti-Trump posts, called McConnell a 'bag of farts'
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/twitter-exec-in-charge-of-effort-to-fact-check-trump-has-history-of-anti-trump-posts-called-mcconnell-a-bag-of-farts

Kellyanne Conway slams Twitter's Trump fact-checks: They're done by 'people who attack him all day long'
https://www.foxnews.com/media/kellyanne-conway-twitter-fact-check-trump-mail-in-ballot-fraud

Trump warns social media giants that feds can ‘regulate’ or ‘close them down’ amid fight with Twitter
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-warns-social-media-government-can-regulate-or-close-them-down-amid-fight-with-twitter

Trump's 2016 campaign brass warns he's in trouble in 2020
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/26/trump-campaign-lewandowski-bossie-283089

‘Why are you not burying him?’: Trump allies fret over rising Biden threat
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/27/trump-biden-campaign-283602

Trump Posts Bizarre Video Of Black People Dancing At Joe Biden’s ‘Funeral’
https://newsone.com/3948304/trump-posts-bizarre-video-of-black-people-dancing-at-joe-bidens-funeral/

FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENTS

Coronavirus on the border: California hospitals overwhelmed by patients from Mexico
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/05/27/coronavirus-mexico-border/

Colombian designers prepare cardboard hospital beds that double as coffins
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/27/colombia-coronavirus-cardboard-hospital-beds-coffins

Brazil’s Bolsonaro could soon be toppled, analysts say, as coronavirus cases surge
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/27/coronavirus-brazils-bolsonaro-could-soon-be-toppled-analysts-say.html

Under-fire Nicaragua reports significant rise in COVID-19 cases
https://www.france24.com/en/20200526-under-fire-nicaragua-reports-significant-rise-in-covid-19-cases

Latin America is now the 'epicenter of the outbreak,' says health official
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/americas/latin-america-coronavirus-toll-intl/index.html

PANDORA'S BOXCUTTER

‘Overtaken by Aliens’: India Faces Another Plague as Locusts Swarm
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/world/asia/india-locusts-jaipur.html

Invasive 'rainbow lizard' population is rapidly increasing in Florida with no end in sight
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/05/26/african-redhead-agamas-invasive-rainbow-lizards-spread-florida/5260831002/

Fire Ants Are Invading Hawaii, so Helicopters Are Blasting Them With Birth Control
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3a8xwb/fire-ants-are-invading-hawaii-so-helicopters-are-blasting-them-with-birth-control

Puddles the mussel detection dog is Washington’s new defense against invasive species
https://www.thenewstribune.com/outdoors/article243010841.html

THE MEDIA SCRUM

Scoop: Amazon's local podcast play
https://www.axios.com/amazon-local-podcasts-498bf9bb-91f6-4a72-bbb4-60c2352fc67a.html

WATCH: 11 Local TV Stations Pushed the Same Amazon-Scripted Segment
https://couriernewsroom.com/2020/05/26/11-local-tv-stations-that-pushed-amazon-scripted-segment/

Local News Is Laundering Amazon's Bullshit
https://gizmodo.com/local-news-is-laundering-amazons-bullshit-1843683101

ODDS, ENDS

Rip it up: the anarchic designs of punk and post punk
https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/art-2/rip-it-up-the-anarchic-designs-of-punk-and-post-punk/

How a U2 Anthem Defined Generation X
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/05/u2-song-i-still-havent-found-what-im-looking-for-defined-generation-x/

Millennials are the unluckiest generation in U.S. history
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/05/27/millenial-recession-covid/

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