Welcome to the Monday Good News Roundup, where I, your humble bard, break out to seek out the good news to get you through the week.
...Wow there is a lot going on right now. The hits just keep on coming with 2020 don’t they. I think I speak for all of the GNR staff when I say my heart goes out to all the protestors out there trying to get justice for George Floyd and to put a stop to the gross abuses of power being perpetrated by the people who are supposed to protect us.
Now, with that out of the way, onto the news.
The President was there for a little under an hour before being brought upstairs.
A law enforcement source and another source familiar with the matter tell CNN that first lady Melania Trump and their son, Barron, were also taken to the bunker.
Your strong man ladies and gentlemen, his response to protests is to hide in his basement like a coward. Don’t worry Donny, you wont have to hide much longer. Soon you’ll be out of there.
May 30 (UPI) -- The Supreme Court has ruled against a church's challenge to California's executive order limiting church crowds amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The ruling Friday upholds California state guidelines for places of worship to limit attendance to 25 percent of building capacity or a maximum of 100 attendees. It also supports Gov. Gavin Newsom's executive order to obey state public health directives to curb the spread of COVID-19.
I know it doesn’t seem like it a lot of the time, but common sense does win out more often than not, so the Covidiots will have to sit home a bit longer, keeping all of us safe.
Donald Trump’s latest outburst on Twitter, about Twitter, with threats to “close down” the social media giant is a sign that the US president is worried ahead of November’s election.
Trump took to the platform this week to launch a blistering attack, accusing it of bias and political interference after it attached a fact-check label to one of his posts.
He wrote: “Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives (sic) voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. Clean up your act, NOW!!!!”
Trump then signed an executive order to narrow their current protections from liability regarding the content posted on Twitter.
But the drama didn’t stop there.
On Friday, Twitter censored one of the president’s tweets about the protests in Minneapolis - in which he wrote “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” - prompting more fiery retorts.
Ah yes Trumps war with Twitter. I love this.
You know that scene from Batman Returns, where Batman has thwarted the Penguin’s scheme and is racing to apprehend him? And all of Penguin’s henchmen realize that Batman is coming, and they all very quietly begin to abandon Penguin to save themselves? That’s what this feels like for Trump. I think if finally Twitter feels like they’ve had enough of his shit, that must mean something right?
Former Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday left his home for a site in Wilmington, Del., that has seen protests over the death of a black man at the hands of a white police officer.
It was his second time in a week he ventured outside after having elected to campaign from his house since coronavirus lockdowns went into effect. On Monday, Biden had attended a quick Memorial Day ceremony with his wife.
“We are a nation in pain, but we must not allow this pain to destroy us. We are a nation enraged, but we cannot allow our rage to consume us. We are a nation exhausted, but we will not allow our exhaustion to defeat us,” Biden wrote Sunday on social media posts across Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
His posts showed a picture of him wearing a mask and kneeling across from a black man and a child. Videos on his Instagram story show the presumptive Democratic nominee taking photos and chatting with other masked men.
You know if you had any doubts Biden of Biden being on our side then I suggest you stuff them because as far as I’m concerned he’s proving who he cares about right here. Vote for this guy in November people.
Presidents live within a protective cocoon built and continually fortified for one purpose: keeping them alive. But inside the White House compound these days, Donald Trump seems rattled by what’s transpiring outside the windows of his historic residence.
When Marine One deposited Trump on the South Lawn last night after his day trip to Florida, the president walked toward the entrance of the White House amid a cacophony of car horns and chanting protesters who flung themselves against barricades in an hours-long clash with police. Trump hasn’t seen demonstrations on this kind since he assumed office in January 2017. Protesters breached an outer checkpoint at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue at one point yesterday afternoon. All day long, cars streamed toward the White House, with passengers leaning out the windows and chanting, “Black lives matter!” As one car passed a White House gate at 15th and E Streets, a group of men shouted at the guards: “Fuck you.” On sidewalks littered with soiled masks and empty water bottles, demonstrators pumped their fists in solidarity and demanded respect for African Americans—a community whom Trump says he “loves.”
As night fell, the protesters massed outside Lafayette Square, just north of the White House. A booming drum echoed in the heavy evening air and people chanted, “I can’t breathe!” in homage to 46-year-old George Floyd, who died Monday while pinned to the ground by Minneapolis police, straining for breath. (The three-word chant—which counted among the final words of Eric Garner, another black man who died at the hands of cops, six years ago this month—could be heard in protests across the country last night.) Some tossed water bottles and other projectiles at a line of police officers, who in turn fired pepper spray, causing the protesters to scatter briefly along H Street and then return to the area outside the White House.
Trump is afraid of us, afraid of our power, our unity, and of the fact we are voting him out come November.
That does it for this week. If you are in an area where protests are happening then stay safe. Stay together, stay strong, and resist. We’re going to win in the end.