Racism, alleged murder/vote tampering

A bunch stories caught my (and I’m sure your) eye over the last few days. They were:

• President Trump’s latest complaint with social media as Twitter labelled a tweet or two of his with its new “fact check” click-though to learn the truth about allegations he’s made. It did not, though, label or remove his tweets furthering a baseless conspiracy theory about a congressional staffer’s 2001 death.
• The white woman in New York’s Central Park who called police claiming a black man was threatening her, when all he did was ask her to leash her dog, as the law required in the area they were in.
• The senseless killing of a black man thought to be passing counterfeit money whose capture resulted in a white policeman putting his knee on the man’s neck to hold him down. An action that resulted in the man’s death.
• Trump’s mocking of his likely election opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, for wearing a face mask in public as if it is a sign of weakness.
• The President’s continuing effort to sabotage the November election if he should lose claiming, falsely, that mail-in ballots are rich with tampering.

Where to begin?

Okay, Trump. Here is a man whose election was aided considerably by his using Twitter as his primary communication method. This morning he Tweeted that social media is silencing conservatives and threatening “we will strongly regulate or close them down before we can ever allow this to…