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As I'm watching the news coverage, what we thought was a body seems to be the person they arrested. He's alive but injured.

I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC

This story doesn't align with what I saw. The person on state St was loaded into an ambulance while the march continued unhindered. Shots fired were 15m later. The person down that we saw was a couple blocks away, and the people running were another block away running back toward where the body was.

Salt Lake City No Kings. Police clearing the block with urgency.

No Kings SLC appears to be someone down corner of 100s 200e

SLC No Kings march just dispersed at a run with people claiming "active shooter." I haven't heard anything that sounds like gunshots.

Utah specific No Kings SLC sign. Picture of Utah Governor Spencer Cox's face superimposed with Trump's face. "Trump's lil' Cox." American flag on the side of the picture.

SLC Utah No Kings march. Looking North along State St, the street is filled with marchers, high rise buildings on both sides of the street. Partly cloudy blue skies.

Sign at SLC No Kings march. "Elect a rapist, expect to get fucked."

Sign at SLC No Kings march. "My immigrant parents don't have a mugshot, but your president does."

No Kings! SLC

So if the parade is sponsored, there there should be evidence of these companies paying something, right? And not just to the Trump library fund?

Good doggie

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

Another example of the right wing media machine selectively presenting and then twisting “evidence” into their strategic frames. This is how they work ALL THE TIME. As soon as an event happens, it’s all hands on deck to assemble evidence to fit their frames.

Provo UT folks!

Seniors in Salt Lake City heading out for a #nokingsprotest in front of their assisted living facility.

NBA Finals

That last post is absolutely the truth.

Yes. This is a very real danger. Trump already has started trying to reframe this climbdown as sensible recalibration (while simultaneously telling MAGA that mass deportations absolutely will happen), and Dems are letting him get away with it.

Earlier this year, paleontologist Jared Voris showed me a cast of a strange snout. It belonged to a small tyrannosaur set to change our understanding of how carnivorous giants like T. rex evolved. Now I can tell you the story. My latest for NatGeo. 🧪

I think the main thing is he wants vital emergency relief to be personalized rather than institutionalized. It’s not that the federal government won’t aid states hit by disasters; it’s that he wants them to kneel & beg him personally.

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For white ppl who say your great grandparents came to the U.S. “legally,” remember that U.S. immmig law was EXPLICITLY racist in favor of white Northern European immigrants for most of the 20th century. Affirmative action for white ppl is everywhere if you look. www.lbjlibrary.org/news-and-pre...

god bless this tiktoker who ran towards the shooting

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

PHILLY: Man posing as an ICE agent robs car repair business, ties up and manhandles a woman from the Dominican Republic — “He kept saying he is immigration officer.” It was only a matter of time before these masked vigilantes breed impersonators. www.fox29.com/video/1501153

ICE interrogated a *US born* friend for 3+ hrs because of the color of their skin. Agents interrupted class & called them into a campus office. Triple checked birth certificate/DL/SSN, then interviewed colleagues about the person's "immigration" status. Citizen Y Hispanic name N Speaks Spanish N 1/x

Sources: The Utah Jazz will promote Marquis Newman to Director of Pro Scouting and Katie Benzan to Salt Lake City Stars G League General Manager. Newman has spent 11 years with Utah. Benzan is the second current female G League GM and played for the WNBA’s Mystics before joining the Jazz in 2022.

While President Trump's military parade takes place on June 14, people across the country are mobilizing to protest the administration's attacks on our rights. Before you hit the streets, join us for our Know Your Rights training on Tuesday, June 10 at 7pm ET (4pm PT). RSVP at aclu.org/kyrtraining.

Great question. “From the ground up” doesn’t mean bypassing politics, it means rebuilding the conditions that make democratic politics work in the first place. A quick thread on how I see the road ahead 🧵

Fascists want to provoke violence so they can justify crackdowns and get some good footage to distort for state propaganda outlets

Reminiscent of Trump betraying the Kurds during his first term. He has no loyalty, especially for Brown/Black people.

Given the counter protests next Saturday on Trump's parade day, I'm not entirely sure he's thought through what the imagery is going to be framed as

Greetings! A large immigration operation and subsequent protest in Paramount, CA has led to a large amount of gas and “less lethal” munitions. Situation ongoing. Will update as I can.

"So here's the plan -- we impose massive tariffs on the nations that sell us food." "Hmm." "But it's OK, because we just rely more on states like California that grow a lot of the same things." "Oh, I guess that ..." "And then we go to war with California."

It's so so important to understand that these technologies are absolutely failing within a market context, they all lose a ton of money and are set to lose more, the only path to profit for these vultures is to attach themselves to educational and government institutions.

1. DOJ decides to investigate a 3-year old traffic stop that resulted in no charges. 2. DOJ interviews a convicted felon in prison to brainstorm about this non-event traffic stop & leaves w/ a story of trafficking 1,000+ migrants. 3. This is *after* Garcia was ordered returned to U.S. GTFOOH

Re-upping this:

I surmise the charges will be quietly dropped in approximately 60d

One after another access journalist is reporting a convo with Trump where Trump says Musk has a problem. None asked why Trump let him have unfettered access to the govt, and our data, for the last four months, then. And what he'll do to make sure Musk didn't do permanent damage.

Damn, Pacers. #tipofthehat

You gotta be shitting me, Tyrese

Siakam is going to have to be unbelievable for Indiana to have a chance in the series. He's the only Indiana player that can get a consistent mismatch against OKC. #NBAFinals

The worst part of these NBA finals is Stephen A on the halftime show. But the face of Bob Meyers while Stephen A is talking is a perk (no pun intended).