What we know about the Buffalo Tops shooting:
- 13 shot, 10 fatally
- 3 non-life-threatening injuries
- 4 Tops store employees shot
- Suspect is 18yo male dressed in tactical gear who livestreamed attack
- Sheriff Garcia: "Straight-up racially motivated hate crime ... pure evil"
This is Boris and Doug. They’ve been best friends since the day they met. Boris likes to count Doug’s spots but always loses track. That’s ok Boris. Both 14/10
WV Delegate Derrick Evans, who live streamed himself breaking into the Capitol and posted it on the internet, is among those being charged. This is him:
@Twitch
If you want to know more about the suspect's alleged "great replacement" theory, a racist conspiracy spread by Tucker Carlson and others on the far right, here ya go:
That crowdfund for Susan Collins' 2020 opponent raised $1 million in the last 24 hours.
It's now at $3.2M total.
Collins' 2014 opponent spent a bit over $2M total.
"It’s really easy to tweet, right?" the Texas man who confronted Ted Cruz at a sushi restaurant told me. "But then two days later, Ted Cruz is walking in this space where I am, and it’s like, OK, I have to go talk to him now.”
Love this from my interview with
@RaleighRitchie
on Daenerys: "[S]omething that I find interesting is that I don’t think this makes her 'mad.' She’s just human. People lash out in really unexpected ways to things that hurt them. 'Hurt people hurt people.'"
Holy shit, if this is true --
Border Patrol "arrived at some point between 12 p.m. and 12:10 p.m.," which is almost a whole hour before a BP agent killed the shooter. An **hour** they were on site being held off by local cops, per NYT sources.
Buffalo's police commissioner said the retired cop working as a security guard at Tops supermarket shot the suspect, but hit his protective gear. The suspect then shot and killed the security guard.
Per SAG-AFTRA's lawyer, the studio bosses wanted to be able to scan background actors, pay them for one day of work, and then use AI to generate images of that person not just for that project but any future project, without paying the actor or getting consent.
Erie County DA Flynn: “There are certain pieces of evidence we have ascertained that indicate some racial animosity. We have evidence in custody right now that shows there is some racial component."
Suspect allegedly wrote a 100+ page racist, antisemitic manifesto.
@chrishnews
@CBSNews
One thing I always wonder about these stats is how do we know police were getting the right guy when they closed cases left and right in the 60s, 70s, etc?
Michigan Sec. of State Benson confirms the results "accurately reflect the will of the people" -- every legal ballot cast has been counted. Electors (16) go to Biden.
Family: "She's old so she can't get around too well."
Chief of Police: "An 87-year-old woman with a knife still has the ability to hurt an officer."
GA police held Martha Al-Bishara at gunpoint before tasing her:
Buffalo police commissioner Gramaglia said the suspect put his assault-style gun to his own neck but was talked down by officers responding to the scene. He put the gun down, took off some of his tactical gear and surrendered, now being arraigned.
Ditching the NRA is so hot right now. Ask:
Delta
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Avis
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Story:
A VERY GOOD REminder to journalists to question the cop account of events. It may be as jarringly misleading as the MPD initial statement on George Floyd's death, or the LMPD account of Breonna Taylor's death.
This fabricated police story might have become the official account of George Floyd’s death if concerned citizens had not intervened and recorded the police.
@IfBooksPod
WHEN I WAS A TEEN MY PARENTS BOTH READ THIS AND LOVED IT AND I TOLD THEM IT WAS DUMB NONSENSE AND THEY SAID I JUST WASN'T 'MATURE ENOUGH' TO GET IT SO THANK YOU I AM SENDING THIS TO THEM NOW
This is Jake. He was rescued from a burning shed at three weeks old. The same fireman who saved his life adopted him just days later. Jake has since been sworn in as an honorary firefighter and to this day he helps teach fire safety at local schools. He is our eighth ever 15/10
Alright, some updates from the most recent Uvalde presser:
- Ramos crashed grandma's pickup at 11:28 am, got out with a long gun and bag of ammo
- Shot at 2 people standing outside nearby funeral home (they're okay)
- Grandma shot in face is now stable
1/
What the fuck
@nytimes
— "the 'woke' ideology festering in schools" — are you serious? "Festering" is your word, presented without any clarification on the state of things. This is NOT an opinion article. It's not even labeled as news analysis.
The entire article is just the deranged ravings of people who have an axe to grind with Walz because he is a Democrat. These aren't coherent criticisms, they're just synonyms for "I am a Republican."
AOC: “I am two years younger than Mr. Yoho’s youngest daughter. I am someone’s daughter, too … I am here because I have to show my parents that I am their daughter and I was not raised to accept abuse from men."
- TX Safety Dept: "We see gunfire. They don’t make entry initially because of the gunfire they’re receiving. But we have officers calling for additional resources. Everybody that’s in the area."
- Approx. 1 hr later, Border Patrol arrived, entered bldg, shot and killed Ramos
3/
New: 207 members of Congress (including 39 Republican senators) tell the Supreme Court to revisit ("and, if appropriate," overrule) the two key abortion decisions, Casey and Roe v. Wade.
Alex Jones is once again absent from his trial (this time in CT) so he was not there when FBI Agent Aldenberg broke down on the stand recounting the scene at Sandy Hook after 26 were murdered.
"It's awful. It's awful. It's awful." w/
@SebastianMurdoc
The Guardian says it cut the TERF/fascist section of this
@socialrepro
Judith Butler interview bc the question leading into it didn't mention a particular detail that does not change the premise of the question. Then they refused to comment on it further.
That super relatable, normal thing where the power is out at your main residence and your kids beg you to flaunt travel advisories in the pandemic so they can sit on a beach and you just can't say no to them so you pack two bags and fly down for one single night.
I'm in Austin for the abortion access hearing brought by 13 women and 2 Drs challenging Texas' abortion bans. Their stories are devastating.
“I had to watch my baby suffer,” plaintiff Samantha Casiano said, sobbing. (She's 29 and has four kids.)
New Yorkers will be able to get their shots directly below the iconic blue whale as a new COVID-19 vaccine site comes to the American Museum of Natural History (
@AMNH
).
Jeffrey Epstein is dead. But Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite who acted as his "madame," is not. We need to see what's in the rest of the court docs in Virginia Giuffre's suit.
A whole trove of docs were made public (with some redactions) Friday:
- TX Safety Dept (Victor Escalon): In the interim, officers who are there are "also evacuating personnel, students, teachers, there’s a lot going on."
- "They were taking gunfire, negotiations, developing a team to make entry to stop him."
- Ramos "walked in unobstructed"
4/4
Re: this story, the idea that the teens are peer-pressuring one another to be trans was pushed by a deeply flawed study a few years back that now has a correction note on it in PLOS. It only polled parents, and found the parents on 3 very TERFy websites.
Note too that this article, like all those before it, *does not contain a single example of a child transitioning without proper assessment.* If this is such a big problem it should be trivially easy to find anecdotes showing it. All we get here is vague secondhand concerns.
- Ramos then continued toward school, jumped fence, shots at bldg from across parking lot
- Entered unlocked door at 11:40 am
- “Numerous rounds are discharged in the school,” LE trying to get a number
- Officers with Uvalde PD and school district made entry at 11:44 am
2/
A bigoted hair salon owner in Traverse City, MI reportedly said trans and queer folk should seek out **grooming services for animals.**
Also spouted easily disproven info, e.g. regarding the plus sign in LGBTQ+ (said it referred to pedophiles).
Story:
That woman in Texas got 8 years for casting votes a few times when she wasn’t supposed to.
Cohen **could** get 3.5 years for lying about a foreign country’s involvement in a presidential campaign.
🙃
Mueller says Michael Cohen doesn’t merit special leniency in his sentencing — recommends a term of 42 months and a $100,000 fine,
@gregfarrel
reports.
Mueller calls Cohen’s lies to Congress and the people “serious” while saying he has provided credible info for Russia probe.
I wrote about drag queen story hour, the onslaught of attacks against it, and why it's so gosh darn popular.
I love this story & hope you'll give it a read:
82-year-old Elouise McDaniel is being sued by a New Jersey town over the number of public record requests she has filed within a 3 year span (about 2 a month)
Mireles has been teaching for 17 years, according to the school website: "I have a supportive, fun, and loving family, which includes a UCISD officer (Ruiz), college graduate daughter, and 3 furry friends (Callie, Kane, & Koda)"
JUST IN: Eva Mireles has been identified as the teacher who was killed in the
#Uvalde
Texas school shooting this afternoon. She was a 4th Grade Teacher at Robb Elementary.
Photo courtesy the Mireles family for ABC News.
Another prospective juror is engaged to a Daily Caller reporter but says they don’t talk about work(!) She said she didn’t think he covered J6 but didn’t sound sure. She doesn’t go on Daily Caller and doesn’t know any of his colleagues(!!!)
“We’re gonna get you a really good job in Trump world,” Cassidy Hutchinson said she was told. “We want to keep you in the family.” In exchange, she just had to lie by omission.
From me and
@ArthurDelaneyHP
—
Police are trying to find Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, in connection with last night's shooting deaths in Kenosha.
Kyle posted photos of himself with a long gun and several "Blue Lives Matter" graphics on his now-unavailable Facebook page.
After “Fast and the Furious” director Rob Cohen’s daughter accused him of molesting her as a toddler, a woman came forward to allege that Cohen sexually assaulted her during a business meeting. My story with
@jessicaschulb
:
This is Teddy and Rusty. They have a symbiotic relationship in which all parties benefit, including anyone who happens to see them together. 14/10 for both
Tom Coffey says he’s been at the Times for 25 years. Management sent him a tote bag. Not to hate on the tote bag, he says, it’s nice, but he wants a raise.
@jasonrantz
You honestly think it's a joke? Hunting is a common pastime in a lot of the country -- my family hunts. You can do it without an assault weapon. Some people think it's unsportsmanlike, actually.
New: A group of Dems is aiming to make OTC birth control available at no cost to insurance holders. The FDA is expected to make a final decision (after a panel unanimously recommended a yes) this summer(!!)
“The idea you turn on a television and see senior senators and congressmen saying, ‘If such and such happens, there’ll be blood in the street' ... Where the hell are we?”
A Detroit bus driver who made a video about a sick woman on his bus died this week after catching the virus.
I talked to his brother. The hospital was completely overwhelmed.
“Knowing that .. he died alone was the most crushing thing for all of us."
Yesterday Trump started saying we should all go back to work soon and compared coronavirus to regular things that kill people -- flu and car crashes.
He's wrong. COVID-19 is not flu. And traffic deaths aren’t contagious.
Me w/
@RottenInDenmark
:
Biden will join G7 leaders for a BBQ on beach tonight in Cornwall’s Carbis Bay: Portscatho mackerel, Moorland sirloin, Newlyn lobster, scorched leeks, Cornish potato chips, St. Just purple sprout broccoli. For dessert “Beach Hut Sundaes,” buttered rum, marshmallows at firepits.
NEW: Here is what Judge Merchan in Trump's hush money trial told a witness for the defense, atty Robert Costello, once reporters were cleared from the courtroom after Merchan dismissed the jury to rebuke Costello.
A further rebuke:
It is so upsetting to have to correct the record on child sex trafficking — it happens and is awful! But far more children are harmed in quotidian ways, ie by parents and unstable home life, vs rebranded stranger danger.
"I can't tell you how a perfectly healthy 16-year-old boy can be making his own peanut butter sandwich late Wednesday night, getting his own tea out the fridge and head up to bed like any other teenager ... And then within 24 hours is fighting for his life," Dawn said.
NEW: “The revolution is on. It’s here… I’m ready to die for the cause.”
Here’s video from the man who said he’s got a bomb outside the Capitol.
Follow
@huffpost
and
@sara_bee
for more as the situation develops.
Jesus christ. TX DPS Director McCraw admitted just now they thought the suspect was barricaded and kids weren't at risk, and that's why they didn't try to breach the room quickly. Same guy just outlined several 911 calls made from kids.
"We're not here to defend what happened."