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For some contrast to Facebook:

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For now it looks like the cops are being pretty smart and just letting the folks behind the new barrier that was put up last night gather and demonstrate…but they’re not trying to move them out. And eventually folks are likely to melt away. Already this is a much younger crowd than was out earlier today.

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Man, suddenly the DoD and Pentagon can’t run away from yesterday’s insanity or the idea of sending military forces to oppose protestors fast enough.

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Can hear choppers now overhead…

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Yeah, people seeing which way the wind is blowing.

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Atlanta looking tense atm.

Most other places seem fairly calm.

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Yeah, there are a lot of generals who are thinking “I’d really rather not have to stand in front of a military tribunal and defend my actions when the current commander-in-chief has his term end.”

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On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
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“-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

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Need to take a page from the Egyptians…

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Dropped my 17 year old off for his first parentless protest earlier today. (He came with my ex and I to SeaTac to protest the immigration ban a few years back.) A bit nerve-wracking given everything, but he was in a northeastern suburb supporting #BlackLivesMatter on the streetside and the police actually did their job of protecting the protestors and managing traffic. Proud of the kid – was a bit nervous, but he was feeling helpless and wanted to do something. No incidents, peaceful protest, lots of honks of support, and he’s home safe.

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The murder of George Floyd was the result of inhumane police brutality that is perpetuated by a culture of white supremacy. What happened to George Floyd was not the result of a bad apple; it was the predictable consequence of a racist and prejudiced system and culture that has treated Black bodies as the enemy from the beginning. What happened to George Floyd in Minneapolis is the fruit borne of toxic seeds planted on the shores of our country in Jamestown in 1619, when the first enslaved men and women arrived on this continent. Floyd is the latest in a long list of names that stretches back to that time and that shore. Some of those names we know — Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Oscar Grant, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Emmett Till, Martin Luther King, Jr. — most we don’t.

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Good for him, and good for you guys for taking him!

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Peter Parker showed up in support tonight

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So … not too long ago, live streams of the DC protests got cut. Massive amounts of sirens were then reported by local sources.

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One way to show that Black Lives Matter: get rid of racists in power:

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Here’s one

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Thanks - is that the 17th St group?

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Not sure. I’m just checking in periodically to make sure my city isn’t burning down :)