Category Archives: Viva!

UK hospitals to trial five new drugs in search for coronavirus treatment

Heparin, a blood-thinning drug used in hospitals up and down the country. It will be given to Covid-19 patients for the first time next month. In a number of conditions it has been shown that if it is nebulised rather than injected, it can “have a dramatic effect in the lung”, said Wilkinson. “It is a big sticky molecule which can attach to viruses and stop them from entering cells and secondly it may have an important anti-inflammatory effect”. Tests of heparin will be highly anticipated because it is already widely used, shown to be widely tolerated, and is naturally occurring and therefore can be produced cheaply in huge quantities if proven to be effective.
Bemcentinib, a tablet developed by the Norwegian company BerGenBio, which is used to treat blood disorders. “It has been shown, almost by chance, to have a potent antiviral effect” to reduce infection in experiments on a number of viruses including Ebola and Sars coronavirus-2, said Wilkinson. It appears to work by preventing t

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Exclusive: thirty hospitals looking to sign up hundreds of patients to take part in studies

Five new drugs are to be trialled in 30 hospitals across the country in the race to find a treatment for Covid-19, it has emerged.

Just days after World Health Organization trials of hydroxychloroquine, the drug promoted by Donald Trump as a cure, were halted, British scientists are looking to sign up hundreds of patients for trials of medicines they hope will prevent people becoming ill enough to need intensive care or ventilators.

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Sixth mass extinction of wildlife accelerating, scientists warn

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Analysis shows 500 species on brink of extinction – as many as were lost over previous century

The sixth mass extinction of wildlife on Earth is accelerating, according to an analysis by scientists who warn it may be a tipping point for the collapse of civilisation.

More than 500 species of land animals were found to be on the brink of extinction and likely to be lost within 20 years. In comparison, the same number were lost over the whole of the last century. Without the human destruction of nature, even this rate of loss would have taken thousands of years, the scientists said.

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Independent autopsy of George Floyd contradicts official report – Los Angeles Times

Gov. Tim Walz announced Sunday that Attorney General Keith Ellison would take the lead in any prosecutions in Floyd’s death. Local civil rights activists have said Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman doesn’t have the trust of the black community. They have protested outside his house, and pressed him to charge the other three officers.

Source: Independent autopsy of George Floyd contradicts official report – Los Angeles Times

Far-Right Extremists Are Hoping to Turn the George Floyd Protests Into a New Civil War

Far-Right Extremists Are Hoping to Turn the George Floyd Protests Into a New Civil War:

quakerjoe:

Far-right extremists are showing up, with guns, to the protests against police brutality that have exploded across the country.

Others are egging on the violence from behind their computers, urging followers to carry out acts of violence against black protesters with the goal of sparking a “race war.”

Their presence makes an uneasy addition to the escalating unrest, which was triggered by the death of George Floyd, a black man who was choked to death by a white Minneapolis police officer earlier this week.

But there’s a range of motivations that’s driving far-right interest toward the protests, which are being led by community members and Black Lives Matter, and bolstered by antifascists.

For example, the so-called Boogaloo Bois — a group of armed anti-government extremists made visible by their Hawaiian shirts — have reportedly shown up to some of the protests.

The “boogaloo” is code for impending civil war or violent confrontation with law enforcement, and that’s what they’re hoping to get out of the protests. Their main reason for being there is their antipathy toward law enforcement, and so they’re trying to position themselves as allies of Black Lives Matter protesters. They’ve made police brutality one of their central issues, which was explored at length in a Bellingcat article this week.

Their approach to police brutality links the victims of the deadly standoff with federal agents at Ruby Ridge in 1992, to the victims of modern police brutality, including Floyd. But unlike the vast majority of protesters, they refuse to acknowledge the fact that police brutality is an issue that disproportionately impacts people of color.

Restored Poetry #archives #elderly #poetry #hospice – penned in moon dust

Hold me…

I am a broken, colorful

fragrant remnant

of yesterday

*

Remember me…

when I was alive, thriving

extracted from a beautiful

whole

*

Understand me…

for who I am today

a relic, don’t pull me

to pieces

*

Cherish me…

for what I was

and what will be

of a memory

Source: Restored Poetry #archives #elderly #poetry #hospice – penned in moon dust

Is this the secret of smart leadership? – BBC Worklife

Given these findings, Cojuharenco argues that leaders should be much readier to ask questions that may reveal their ignorance – rather than attempting to maintain the illusion of knowledge. “In the four studies we’ve conducted, we’ve never seen negative overall effects,” she says. If you still doubt humility’s power, she suggests that you think of inspirational figures within your own life. The chances are, you’ll realise that they were the individuals who demonstrated the most humility, she says. And by following their lead, you can improve your own thinking and decision making.

Source: Is this the secret of smart leadership? – BBC Worklife

Trump fled to bunker as protests over George Floyd raged outside White House








Crowds protest outside the White House following the death of George Floyd.
Photograph: Jim Bourg/Reuters

As protests sparked by the death of George Floyd raged outside the White House on Friday night, Donald Trump was taken into a special secure bunker.

Floyd’s death in Minneapolis on Monday, has sparked unrest and protests in dozens of cities across the US, including Washington DC. Demonstrators have gathered outside the White House since Friday night, with clashes erupting intermittently outside the very perimeter of the White House.

As protesters converged on the White House on Friday, the New York Times reports, “Secret Service agents abruptly rushed the president to the underground bunker used in the past during terrorist attacks.”

Hardened to withstand the force of a passenger jet crashing into the White House, the bunker is the same one that sheltered vice president Dick Cheney during the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. “The president and his family were rattled by their experience on Friday night, according to several advisers,” the Times report said.

Trump has been widely criticized for his response to the protests that have rocked the nation since video of Floyd’s death began spreading on social media.

Despite days of peaceful protests and violent clashes with police in some of America’s major cities, Trump has not addressed the nation and has repeatedly sent inflammatory messages over Twitter.

Late on Friday, Trump tweeted that protesters could have been attacked with “vicious dogs and ominous weapons” wielded by the US Secret Service and accused the DC mayor for supposedly not providing police to protect the White House.

“They let the ‘protesters’ scream and rant as much as they wanted, but whenever someone got too frisky or out of line, they would quickly come down on them, hard – didn’t know what hit them,” Trump said.

“If they had [breached the fence],” the president continued, “they would have been greeted with the most vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons, I have ever seen. That’s when people would have been really badly hurt, at least.”

The president has spoken to George Floyd’s grieving family, but according to Floyd’s brother, Philonise Floyd, the conversation was brief. “He didn’t give me an opportunity to even speak,” Floyd told MSNBC.

Voices In the Storm

Charles M. Blow, columnist, New York Times

Son called today to say he was going to a protest in NY to provide bottled water and take first aid kits. Proud of that kid. But, when he told me that he had written my telephone number on his arm “just in case,” I damn near cried. Why do our babied have to even think abt this?!

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) May 30, 2020

collected by Celeste Fremon & Taylor Walker


Charles M. Blow, columnist, New York Times

Son called today to say he was going to a protest in NY to provide bottled water and take first aid kits. Proud of that kid. But, when he told me that he had written my telephone number on his arm “just in case,” I damn near cried. Why do our babied have to even think abt this?!

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) May 30, 2020


LZ Granderson, Los Angeles Times

pic.twitter.com/loQPav4boU

— LZ Granderson (@LZGranderson) May 30, 2020


Alicia Garza, co-creator Black Lives Matter

First, Black people are exhausted. I’m exhausted. Angry. Devastated. Scared.

— Alicia Garza (@aliciagarza) May 27, 2020

I try really hard not to be enraged at these kind of inquiries. Protest for too many is a performance for someone else’s benefit — rest assured people are not facing tear gas to perform for you. They are sick and tired of being stripped of humanity and no one doing anything.

— Alicia Garza (@aliciagarza) May 27, 2020

(see rest of thread)


Alex M. Johnson, Program Director, The California Wellness Foundation

They don’t know how to deescalate when the topic is the lives of black people. Violence isn’t dents and graffiti on police cars paid for by our tax dollars.

— Alex M. Johnson (@AMJ_AlexJohnson) May 30, 2020


Isaac Bryan, Director of Public Policy, UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies

I can tell you first hand… there was no violence until the police batons, tear gas, and rubber bullets came out.

The movement is, has been, and will always be rooted in love and justice. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/nITExN4DeH

— Isaac Bryan (@ib2_real) May 31, 2020


Ava DuVernay, filmmaker, When They See Us, 13th, and more

White people talking to white people. More of this please. If you’re white and you believe yourself not to be racist, yet you don’t talk to your white friends like this or stand up beyond tweets for Black people… you simply aren’t who you think you are. pic.twitter.com/hUjJsZ0iFv

— Ava DuVernay (@ava) May 31, 2020


Natalie Neysa Alund, breaking news reporter, USA Today, Nashville

I cannot believe what I just witnessed. They pulled up onto the square with a police siren on and did this. #Louisville pic.twitter.com/65o2lgZCJh

— Natalie Neysa Alund (@nataliealund) May 30, 2020


Michel Moore, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department

My statement regarding planned protest activities in Los Angeles: pic.twitter.com/rSslocJPJX

— Chief Michel Moore (@LAPDChiefMoore) May 29, 2020


Jasmyne Cannick, strategist, journalist

If you allow it, the media will bait you into speaking against your own people. After years of doing this, I don’t fall for that.

— Jasmyne Cannick (@Jasmyne) May 31, 2020

The uprising in #Watts in 1965 also including looting and vandalism. 34 died and over 3,400 arrested. Wash, rinse and repeat in 1992 with the #LAriots. Both triggered by the police. And here we are in 2020 and again an uprising triggered by the police. Let’s discuss that! pic.twitter.com/RCWlqkSmMM

— Jasmyne Cannick (@Jasmyne) May 31, 2020

That’s their way of not addressing the real issue–instead, they’d rather focus on the looting and vandalism and not why people are out there in the first place. They never ask the white commentators that question though. 🙄

— Jasmyne Cannick (@Jasmyne) May 31, 2020


Molly Hennessy-Fiske, reporter Los Angeles Times,

Minnesota State Patrol just fired tear gas at reporters and photographers at point blank range. pic.twitter.com/r7X6J7LKo8

— Molly Hennessy-Fiske (@mollyhf) May 31, 2020


Mark Ridley-Thomas, Member Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

I feel I need to say something to those who are contemplating violating curfew and risking arrest. Go home!📣The last place you want to be during this COVID-19 pandemic is in LA County Jail.

— Mark Ridley-Thomas (@mridleythomas) May 31, 2020

We have been notified that all #COVID-19 testing centers throughout LA will be closed until further notified. A troubling consequence of social breakdown prompted by excessive use of force resulting in the death of another unarmed African American man, Mr. George Floyd. Damn!!!

— Mark Ridley-Thomas (@MRTempower) May 31, 2020


Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Los Angeles City Councilmember, District 8

pic.twitter.com/qCJZYMA8wt

— Marqueece (@mhdcd8) May 31, 2020


Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, Mitchell J. and Margo K. Blutt Presidential Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Pennsyvania


Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times

Fairfax and Clinton pic.twitter.com/Xc4GOciRWe

— Matthew Ormseth (@MatthewOrmseth) May 31, 2020


Tanya Kerssen, researcher, author, Minneapolis, MN

Share widely: National guard and MPD sweeping our residential street. Shooting paint canisters at us on our own front porch. Yelling “light em up” #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeForGeorge #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/bW48imyt55

— Tanya Kerssen (@tkerssen) May 31, 2020


Alex villanueva, Los Angeles County Sheriff

@LACoSheriff & all of our specialized units are closely monitoring & strategizing to keep LA County safe! I strongly condemn the murder of George Floyd, but burning down our communities does nothing to bring about police reform. Stay safe everyone! pic.twitter.com/TI2FuElrrs

— Alex Villanueva (@LACoSheriff) May 31, 2020


Patrisse Cullors, co-founder Black Lives Matter, co-author, When They Call You A Terrorist

Let’s be honest.

Black pain, grief and rage are not only dismissed by elected officials, our response to those feelings are also criminalized.

To feel is the most fundamental human desire.

Yet, we are consistently punished for expressing our feelings and desires.

— patrisse cullors (@OsopePatrisse) May 31, 2020


Ibram X. Kendi, historian, author, winner 2016 National Book Award, nonfiction

Police murder. People rage. People demonstrate. Some people get violent. Some property is destroyed. The coverage turns from the senseless destruction of Black lives to the senseless destruction of property. Same old news cycle. No need to wonder why police violence continues.

— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) May 30, 2020


John Cusak, actor, in Chicago

Cops didn’t like me filming the burning car so they came at me with batons. Hitting my bike.
Ahhm herea the audio pic.twitter.com/tfaOoVCw5v

— John Cusack (@johncusack) May 31, 2020


Sal LaBarbera, retired homicided detective, Los Angeles Police Department

Anyone lives nearby Highland and Melrose. Osteria Mozza Restaurant. I’m alone restaurant broken into I’m surrounded. @Venice311 @LAPDHollywood @anblanx

— Sal LaBarbera (@Sal_LaBarbera) May 31, 2020

Well all laugh about this later. Imagine me asking over Twitter for a little help. PS: I could not save the wine. Still have a few people inside. I’m standing outside

— Sal LaBarbera (@Sal_LaBarbera) May 31, 2020

You’re going to see muzzle flash from the restaurant that will be me. Highland and Melrose

— Sal LaBarbera (@Sal_LaBarbera) May 31, 2020

I’m still standing @LAPDHollywood Hollywood and Melrose. Officers are west of me they need to come east to Highland

— Sal LaBarbera (@Sal_LaBarbera) May 31, 2020


William Bratton, Former Police Commissioner, NYC; Chief, LAPD; Police Commissioner, Boston

As cops across America hold the line for the city’s they protect & the peaceful demonstrators — they risk it all at violent protests compounded by the threat of #COVID19. My thoughts are with them as I know these brave men & women will lead those they serve through these crises. pic.twitter.com/aAhwCvSX5S

— Bill Bratton (@CommissBratton) May 31, 2020


Dave Cullen, journalist, author, Columbine, and Parkland

I hesitate to post this, because this is not ABOUT journalists. But, journalists play a crucial role in informing us all. This is a danger to us all: “A Reporter’s Cry on Live TV: ‘I’m Getting Shot! I’m Getting Shot!’ “https://t.co/JGekvlpxmd

— Dave Cullen (@DaveCullen) May 31, 2020


Madeleine Brand, Host of KCRW’s Press Play

Harlem, by Langston Hughes:

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

— Madeleine Brand (@TheMadBrand) May 31, 2020


Kareem Abdul-Jabar, author, N.B.A.’s all-time leading scorer, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

via Los Angeles Times, via Elizabeth Colvin, Senior advocate, Children’s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch.

So maybe…the Black community’s main concern rn isn’t whether protesters stand 6 apart or loot but that being Black means being murdered by cops & wannabes, & sheltering at home forever b/c the racism virus infecting the US is more deadly than COVID-19.
https://t.co/4rYvhHoxKm

— Elizabeth Calvin (@FairSentencing) May 31, 2020

Voices In the Storm

Charles M. Blow, columnist, New York Times

Son called today to say he was going to a protest in NY to provide bottled water and take first aid kits. Proud of that kid. But, when he told me that he had written my telephone number on his arm “just in case,” I damn near cried. Why do our babied have to even think abt this?!

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) May 30, 2020

collected by Celeste Fremon & Taylor Walker


Charles M. Blow, columnist, New York Times

Son called today to say he was going to a protest in NY to provide bottled water and take first aid kits. Proud of that kid. But, when he told me that he had written my telephone number on his arm “just in case,” I damn near cried. Why do our babied have to even think abt this?!

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) May 30, 2020


LZ Granderson, Los Angeles Times

pic.twitter.com/loQPav4boU

— LZ Granderson (@LZGranderson) May 30, 2020


Alicia Garza, co-creator Black Lives Matter

First, Black people are exhausted. I’m exhausted. Angry. Devastated. Scared.

— Alicia Garza (@aliciagarza) May 27, 2020

I try really hard not to be enraged at these kind of inquiries. Protest for too many is a performance for someone else’s benefit — rest assured people are not facing tear gas to perform for you. They are sick and tired of being stripped of humanity and no one doing anything.

— Alicia Garza (@aliciagarza) May 27, 2020

(see rest of thread)


Alex M. Johnson, Program Director, The California Wellness Foundation

They don’t know how to deescalate when the topic is the lives of black people. Violence isn’t dents and graffiti on police cars paid for by our tax dollars.

— Alex M. Johnson (@AMJ_AlexJohnson) May 30, 2020


Isaac Bryan, Director of Public Policy, UCLA Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies

I can tell you first hand… there was no violence until the police batons, tear gas, and rubber bullets came out.

The movement is, has been, and will always be rooted in love and justice. #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/nITExN4DeH

— Isaac Bryan (@ib2_real) May 31, 2020


Ava DuVernay, filmmaker, When They See Us, 13th, and more

White people talking to white people. More of this please. If you’re white and you believe yourself not to be racist, yet you don’t talk to your white friends like this or stand up beyond tweets for Black people… you simply aren’t who you think you are. pic.twitter.com/hUjJsZ0iFv

— Ava DuVernay (@ava) May 31, 2020


Natalie Neysa Alund, breaking news reporter, USA Today, Nashville

I cannot believe what I just witnessed. They pulled up onto the square with a police siren on and did this. #Louisville pic.twitter.com/65o2lgZCJh

— Natalie Neysa Alund (@nataliealund) May 30, 2020


Michel Moore, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department

My statement regarding planned protest activities in Los Angeles: pic.twitter.com/rSslocJPJX

— Chief Michel Moore (@LAPDChiefMoore) May 29, 2020


Jasmyne Cannick, strategist, journalist

If you allow it, the media will bait you into speaking against your own people. After years of doing this, I don’t fall for that.

— Jasmyne Cannick (@Jasmyne) May 31, 2020

The uprising in #Watts in 1965 also including looting and vandalism. 34 died and over 3,400 arrested. Wash, rinse and repeat in 1992 with the #LAriots. Both triggered by the police. And here we are in 2020 and again an uprising triggered by the police. Let’s discuss that! pic.twitter.com/RCWlqkSmMM

— Jasmyne Cannick (@Jasmyne) May 31, 2020

That’s their way of not addressing the real issue–instead, they’d rather focus on the looting and vandalism and not why people are out there in the first place. They never ask the white commentators that question though. 🙄

— Jasmyne Cannick (@Jasmyne) May 31, 2020


Molly Hennessy-Fiske, reporter Los Angeles Times,

Minnesota State Patrol just fired tear gas at reporters and photographers at point blank range. pic.twitter.com/r7X6J7LKo8

— Molly Hennessy-Fiske (@mollyhf) May 31, 2020


Mark Ridley-Thomas, Member Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

I feel I need to say something to those who are contemplating violating curfew and risking arrest. Go home!📣The last place you want to be during this COVID-19 pandemic is in LA County Jail.

— Mark Ridley-Thomas (@mridleythomas) May 31, 2020

We have been notified that all #COVID-19 testing centers throughout LA will be closed until further notified. A troubling consequence of social breakdown prompted by excessive use of force resulting in the death of another unarmed African American man, Mr. George Floyd. Damn!!!

— Mark Ridley-Thomas (@MRTempower) May 31, 2020


Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Los Angeles City Councilmember, District 8

pic.twitter.com/qCJZYMA8wt

— Marqueece (@mhdcd8) May 31, 2020


Ishmail Abdus-Saboor, Mitchell J. and Margo K. Blutt Presidential Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Pennsyvania


Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times

Fairfax and Clinton pic.twitter.com/Xc4GOciRWe

— Matthew Ormseth (@MatthewOrmseth) May 31, 2020


Tanya Kerssen, researcher, author, Minneapolis, MN

Share widely: National guard and MPD sweeping our residential street. Shooting paint canisters at us on our own front porch. Yelling “light em up” #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #JusticeForGeorge #BlackLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/bW48imyt55

— Tanya Kerssen (@tkerssen) May 31, 2020


Alex villanueva, Los Angeles County Sheriff

@LACoSheriff & all of our specialized units are closely monitoring & strategizing to keep LA County safe! I strongly condemn the murder of George Floyd, but burning down our communities does nothing to bring about police reform. Stay safe everyone! pic.twitter.com/TI2FuElrrs

— Alex Villanueva (@LACoSheriff) May 31, 2020


Patrisse Cullors, co-founder Black Lives Matter, co-author, When They Call You A Terrorist

Let’s be honest.

Black pain, grief and rage are not only dismissed by elected officials, our response to those feelings are also criminalized.

To feel is the most fundamental human desire.

Yet, we are consistently punished for expressing our feelings and desires.

— patrisse cullors (@OsopePatrisse) May 31, 2020


Ibram X. Kendi, historian, author, winner 2016 National Book Award, nonfiction

Police murder. People rage. People demonstrate. Some people get violent. Some property is destroyed. The coverage turns from the senseless destruction of Black lives to the senseless destruction of property. Same old news cycle. No need to wonder why police violence continues.

— Ibram X. Kendi (@DrIbram) May 30, 2020


John Cusak, actor, in Chicago

Cops didn’t like me filming the burning car so they came at me with batons. Hitting my bike.
Ahhm herea the audio pic.twitter.com/tfaOoVCw5v

— John Cusack (@johncusack) May 31, 2020


Sal LaBarbera, retired homicided detective, Los Angeles Police Department

Anyone lives nearby Highland and Melrose. Osteria Mozza Restaurant. I’m alone restaurant broken into I’m surrounded. @Venice311 @LAPDHollywood @anblanx

— Sal LaBarbera (@Sal_LaBarbera) May 31, 2020

Well all laugh about this later. Imagine me asking over Twitter for a little help. PS: I could not save the wine. Still have a few people inside. I’m standing outside

— Sal LaBarbera (@Sal_LaBarbera) May 31, 2020

You’re going to see muzzle flash from the restaurant that will be me. Highland and Melrose

— Sal LaBarbera (@Sal_LaBarbera) May 31, 2020

I’m still standing @LAPDHollywood Hollywood and Melrose. Officers are west of me they need to come east to Highland

— Sal LaBarbera (@Sal_LaBarbera) May 31, 2020


William Bratton, Former Police Commissioner, NYC; Chief, LAPD; Police Commissioner, Boston

As cops across America hold the line for the city’s they protect & the peaceful demonstrators — they risk it all at violent protests compounded by the threat of #COVID19. My thoughts are with them as I know these brave men & women will lead those they serve through these crises. pic.twitter.com/aAhwCvSX5S

— Bill Bratton (@CommissBratton) May 31, 2020


Dave Cullen, journalist, author, Columbine, and Parkland

I hesitate to post this, because this is not ABOUT journalists. But, journalists play a crucial role in informing us all. This is a danger to us all: “A Reporter’s Cry on Live TV: ‘I’m Getting Shot! I’m Getting Shot!’ “https://t.co/JGekvlpxmd

— Dave Cullen (@DaveCullen) May 31, 2020


Madeleine Brand, Host of KCRW’s Press Play

Harlem, by Langston Hughes:

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

— Madeleine Brand (@TheMadBrand) May 31, 2020


Kareem Abdul-Jabar, author, N.B.A.’s all-time leading scorer, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom

via Los Angeles Times, via Elizabeth Colvin, Senior advocate, Children’s Rights Division, Human Rights Watch.

So maybe…the Black community’s main concern rn isn’t whether protesters stand 6 apart or loot but that being Black means being murdered by cops & wannabes, & sheltering at home forever b/c the racism virus infecting the US is more deadly than COVID-19.
https://t.co/4rYvhHoxKm

— Elizabeth Calvin (@FairSentencing) May 31, 2020