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News & Views | 6/2/20

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"Trump needs to be removed now, because after the massacre it will be too late."

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by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"AG Bill Barr's behavior has been deeply problematic since he was sworn in, but now it has become truly dangerous. He needs to resign."


A protester is seen holding a placard calling for a stop to the Williams natural gas pipeline during a demonstration held on Center Street adjacent to City Hall Park in New York City.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
With the nation focused on the coronavirus pandemic and protests against U.S. police brutality that have sprung up across the globe, the Trump administration continues to quietly attack federal policies that protect public health and the environment to limit the legal burdens faced by planet-wrecking fossil fuel companies.



by Julia Conley, staff writer
"Frankly," said a representative for Engel's progressive challenger Jamaal Bowman, "we couldn't have made the case more clearly ourselves that after 31 years, it's time for change."



by Eoin Higgins, staff writer
"This was the same response in Nazi Germany."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"The commander of the joint chiefs is surveying the streets of D.C. in uniform like he's planning a military assault."


Members of the National Guard join police on the fourth day of protests on May 29, 2020 in Minneapolis.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"It is asinine for a rich man hiding in a bunker to ask these troops, most of whom probably signed up to pay for access to college and healthcare, to take actions that will inevitably lead to more violence and haunt them for the rest of their lives."


Andatu, a Sumatran rhino, one of the rarest large mammals on earth, is seen at the Rhino Sanctuary at Way Kambas National Park in eastern Sumatra November 8, 2016.

by Jessica Corbett, staff writer
After years of warnings from scientists that the world is witnessing Earth's sixth mass extinction, a new study concludes that the current crisis is not only "human caused and accelerating" but also "may be the most serious environmental threat to the persistence of civilization, because it is irreversible."



by Jake Johnson, staff writer
"What Trump did tonight is going to be remembered as a significant and grave moment in this horror of an era we are living through."


A journalist is seen bleeding after police started firing tear gas and rubber bullets near the 5th police precinct following a demonstration to call for justice for George Floyd, a black man who died while in custody of the Minneapolis police, on May 30, 2020 in Minneapolis.

by Andrea Germanos, staff writer
"When you silence the press with rubber bullets, you silence the voice of the public."



by Julia Conley, staff writer
The Minneapolis public school board will vote Tuesday evening on a resolution to end its contract with the city's police department following the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man.

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Violence employed by police and security agencies such as the FBI, which have devolved into occupying forces, to protect the exclusive interests of a tiny, ruling criminal class exposes the fiction of the rule of law and the treason of the ruling elites. (Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images)

by Chris Hedges
They have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state.


Demonstrators march down I-94 in St. Paul, Minnesota, protest after the death in police custody of George Floyd on May 31. (Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)

by Jesse Jackson
The signs say Black Lives Matter. Yet the very people who are supposed to protect us too often, in too many places, don’t seem to agree.


People protest over George Floyd's death in front of The White House on Saturday on May 30 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

by Michael Winship
At a time for healing, Donald Trump pokes at the wound.


The credibility gap and the war that generated it gave rise to another kind of division: "the generation gap." (Photo: Scott Heins/Getty Images)

by Rebecca Gordon
...and a new generation gap grew wider.


Many experts, and policymakers (such as Senator Warren), have suggested that these “Big Tech” companies should be broken up, and if they are, then cloud computing services are among the most logical services to be spun off. (Photo: Free Press/Flickr/cc)

by Thomas Hanna
As we rebuild, let's remove control of wireless spectrum, cloud infrastructure, and broadband internet from corporate hands and put it under public, democratic control.


Donald Trump needs to go, and we can’t wait until even November 3, let alone January 20, 2021. (Photo: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

by Will Bunch
The president of the United States declared war on America on Monday night.

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