And another day of op-eds, predictive policing, vetoing mental health funding, Nickelodeon makes history, a Texas bakery gets support, and TikTok updates its privacy policy to collect your faceprints and voiceprints all comes to a close:
“All these vacuous ‘but history will judge them!’ pundits seem to have missed when a sizable number of Americans learned about the century-old Tulsa Massacre last week.” — Sarah Kendzior
“So, let me get this straight: The same people who are supporting a wave of voter suppression laws only made possible by the gutting of the Voting Rights Act are now expected to support the reinstatement of that very act? This is gaslighting on the grandest scale.” — Ida Bae Wells
Deaths
US: 612,366 (+163)
World: 3,743,921 (+7840)
Cases
US: 34,210,782 (+6408)
World: 174,047,631 (+332,069)
Joe Manchin: Why I'm voting against the For the People Act. I believe that partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy, and for that reason, I will vote against the For the People Act. Furthermore, I will not vote to weaken or eliminate the filibuster.
"Manchin likes to define himself as a true centrist – but it is impossible to be a 'centrist' when the other party is an authoritarian cult. You are merely a cult enabler, far more to the right than you see yourself as being." — Gaslit Nation
“In one party, a crucial blocking group condones and excuses the 1/6 attack on Congress. In the other party, a crucial blocking group insists that democracy-protection can only proceed with permission from the first party. That's not a stable equilibrium, to put it mildly.” — David Frum
Predictive policing strategies for children face pushback. Criminal justice advocates say programs like these targeting adolescents, and the broader trend to increase surveillance in schools under the guise of school safety, fuel the so-called school-to-prison pipeline. This is where instead of letting children and teenagers make and learn from their mistakes, they are marked as criminals at an early age — even if they are only interacting with school resource officers. Once they are in the criminal justice system, it’s almost impossible to escape...“It is really, as someone who has studied this, it is jaw-droppingly bad in all aspects,” said Andrew Ferguson, a law professor at American University. “They basically built this system as a justification to chase the bad kids out of town, to monitor them in over-aggressive ways with no intention to help them but to make their lives so miserable that they would leave.”
Florida governor vetoes mental health funding for survivors of the horrific Pulse massacre.
Nickelodeon has made history by casting its first-ever openly trans actor in the live-action superhero show Danger Force.
A Texas bakery lost orders after posting their Pride Month cookies. Then customers lined up around the block to support them. -- Hate must lose.
TikTok can collect your faceprints and voiceprints, with its updated privacy policy revealed. TikTok tweaked its US privacy policy this week to say it could collect "biometric identifiers and biometric information" like "faceprints and voiceprints" from your videos. The video-based social app will ask for permission where required by law, the policy notes. Only a few states have biometric privacy laws -- California, Illinois, New York, Texas and Washington -- which may mean TikTok doesn't have to ask permission from people in other states.
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Until next time, my friends. Stay safe and stay sane. Good night.
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