As more evidence piles up of police brutality, attacks on reporters, there's not much evidence supporting claims of outsiders agitating...--Minnesota AG Keith Ellison upgrades charges on the killer cop, and charges his 3 accomplices
--records show that Minneapolis police use force against blacks 7 times more than whites
--ACLU sues Minneapolis over attacks on journalists, as Committee to Protect Journalists reports 125 press freedom violations
--more than 450 reports of NYPD abuse have been filed since last Friday
--in Denver, black female activist resigns from police review board after being shot and tear gassed by Denver cops
--LA Times report finds little evidence of “outside agitators”
--NY Times review of Trump’s recent false tweets include claims of lefty outside instigators, including antifa
--Buzzfeed debunks 10 claims that suspicious pallets of bricks were stationed near protests
--Black Agenda Report’s Margaret Kimberley lowers the boom on “black misleaders” who blame outsiders
--Venezuelan opposition leaders say Max Blumenthal is leader of pro-Maduro factions in White House protests
--black writer Niella Orr blasts Breakfast Club for interview with Rush Limbaugh
--CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou comments on Trump’s threat to use Insurrection Act of 1807, as WashPost quotes CIA vets who compare US to foreign coups they ran
--contradicting Trump, Defense boss Mark Esper (R-Raytheon) says he doesn’t want to invoke Insurrection Act
--DEA gets approval to join the anti-insurrection scrum
--Trump’s Monday stroll to St. John’s for the Bible photo op was Ivanka’s idea
-- our daily Covid-19 update, compiled by Linda Lewis
--Trump hand-picks 5 pharma companies to profit from meds and vaccines, and the leader of “Operation Warp Speed” was on the board of one of them, Moderna
--investigative news nonprofit reveals how much billionaires have already profited from the pandemic
--Tuesday’s primaries ended the long career of Iowa racist Steve King, and doused the aspirations of Valerie Plame
--the Inspector General for State Dept, fired at Pompeo’s urging, testified to joint committees today
--former deputy attorney general Rosenstein testified to Senate Judiciary Committee on Carter Page FISA warrant and Russiagate
--NY Times continues to pump Russiagate as fact in report on Flynn-Kislyak call transcripts
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