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DON’T TURN AWAY

Networks Need to Stay With Uvalde
Cops In Schools Make Things Worse
Gun Safety Monoculture
Untraceable Ghost Guns Surging Across US

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Cops Who Arrested Parody Facebooker Granted Qualified Immunity By SCOTUS — Balls and Strikes
GOP Gains In South Texas a Warning — Politico
Republicans Plan To Send “Army” Against Democracy — Politico
We Are So Close To A Win Against The Student Debt Crisis — The Nation
Student Debt Activists Target of Attacks — Discourse Blog
Don’t Cancel $10,000 Of Student Debt, Cancel All Of It — Jacobin
Consumer Electronics and War — Wars of Future Past
Racists Taken By Obviously Fake Race-Grade Story — Can We Still Govern?
Gas Prices Jump To Yet Another Record High — CNN
California To Unveil Groundbreaking Reparations Report — ABC
Starbucks Union Scores First Unanimous Win In the South — Truthout
Buick To Go All Electric By 2030 — The Hill

POLICE LIES IN UVALDE REACHING CRITICAL MASS AS CHILDREN PUT TO REST

Uvalde Police No Longer Cooperating With Investigation Into Massacre
Accusations Against Teacher Over Open Back Door Fall Apart
Eyewitnesses Dispute Shifting Official Narrative
Uvalde Shows Us What Cops Are Really For

UKRAINE WAR FAR FROM OVER

US Sending Advanced Weapons Systems, Says Biden
Germany Shipping Arms As Well
Russia Nowhere Near Defeat

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Kshama Sawant and the Billionaires — Salon
Police in Missouri Shoot Pregnant Woman — Mother Jones
Fears of US Democracy Dying By “1,000 Cuts” — Raw Story
Pro Athletes and Social Justice Movements — TruthOut
School Shooting Survivors Ask How Many More Need to Die — VICE
Missouri Dem Senate Candidate Planned to Hold NRA Fundraiser — The Intercept
Florida Man Arrested For Threatening School Shooting — DailyKos
Manchin Whines About Drug Prices, Progressives Pounce — Common Dreams
Elizabeth Warren Is Still Furious — The Cut

FUNERALS BEGIN IN UVALDE AS ANGER OVER POLITICAL INACTION CONTINUES TO GROW

Authorities Ignore Spanish Speakers At Uvalde Press Conference
Uvalde Parents Grapple With School Police Chief’s Actions
House Dems To Move Slate Of Gun Bills This Week
School Shooting Survivors Talk Back To The NRA
Steve Bannon Falsely Blames Immigration For Uvalde Shooting

LOOMING ROE REVERSAL HAS ADVOCATES ON BOTH SIDES PLANNING NEXT STEPS

Anti-Choice Activists Already Collecting Personal Data
My State Can Pass Abortion Laws. I Won’t Enforce Them.

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Biden Sees Exodus Of Black Staffers — Politico
Inside A Biden White House Adrift — NBC News
63 Members Of Congress Have Violated STOCK Act — Insider
How Amazon, Starbucks Workers Upended Organizing Rules — In These Times
The Evolution Of Popcorn Jingoism — Gawker
Mainstream Feminism Has Failed Us — BuzzFeed News
Sen. Hirono Privately Urges Biden To Free Leonard Peltier — HuffPost
US Wheat Crop Hit With Brutal Conditions, Tightening Supply — Reuters

POLICE UNDER SCRUTINY

How the Cops Got 40% of Uvalde’s City Budget
Baltimore Cops Disciplinary Records Leaked
The Least We Can Do Is Be Honest About Guns

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Anti-Trans UK Education Secretary Heckled at Event — BBC
Canada Announces “Freeze” on Handguns — DailyKos
Kellyanne Conway’s Book Plays Fast and Loose With Truth — The Guardian
SCOTUS Leak Probe Intensifies — Daily Beast
Biden and Fed Chair Meet Re Inflation — New York Times
Supreme Court Greenlights DOJ Subpoenas Re Voting Rights Act/Redistricting — CNN
DeSantis Donors Get Pay Off — Lever News
Far Right Aiming at College Now — Salon
Alt-Right Researcher Turns Attention to Crypto — Washington Post
Puerto Ricans March For Right to Abortion — Latino Rebels
How the Right Uses Anti-Blackness to Stifle Reform — New Republic
Dems Fight Grassroots on Student Debt — Discourse Blog

ONE WEEK AFTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MASSACRE, FAMILIAR POLITICAL BATTLE LINES

At Least 11 Mass Shootings During Memorial Day Weekend 
Everything But Guns Blamed At NRA Convention 
Supreme Court Might Just Expand Gun Rights Anyway 
The Mass Killer’s Favorite Bullet

DEMOCRATS STILL CHASING ELUSIVE “COMPROMISE”

Austin Pushing To Decriminalize Abortion In Advance Of Roe Decision 
Biden Suggests Mitch McConnell Will Be Rational In Gun Debate 
Senate Chasing Ever-Elusive Gun Deal 

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EU to Cut 90% of Russian Oil Imports By End of Year — Fortune
Biden Is Ramping Up The US’s Forever War In Somalia — Jacobin
How Workers’ Pensions Are Funding Insurrectionists — The Lever
EU Leaders Agree On Partial Embargo On Russian Oil — LA Times
NY Redistricting Pits Longtime Dems Against Each Other — New York Times
What the Amazon Union Drive Can Teach Workers — TruthOut
Women of Jane Risked It All — The Cut
Attacks on Voting Machines Add Risk — CNN
French Ex-Chambermaid Runs For Office — Raw Story

UVALDE COPS WERE INSIDE THE BUILDING AS SHOOTER RAMPAGED THROUGH CLASSROOM

Students In The Classroom With the Gunman Called 911 Multiple Times
Training Manuals Called For Action
Abolish the Police
A Pack of Racist, Xenophobic Cowards
Maker Of Uvalde Shooter’s Rifle Is Deep-Pocketed GOP Donor
Giant Protest Outside NRA Convention In Houston
There Are Signs The NRA Is In Decline

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We Already Turned Schools Into Fortresses — Curbed
American Exceptionalism and Fascism — New Statesman
Biden Administration Pursues Trump Plan For Mideast — The Intercept
“Manchin of the House” Officially Loses Primary — Common Dreams
… While Manchin Joins Republicans In Failed Anti-Migrant Vote — DailyKos
Dem Super PAC To Spend $1 Million To Oust Squad Member Tlaib — Politico
Great Replacement Theory Part of a Longstanding Pattern of Hate — FAIR
The Twisted Logic Behind Great Replacement Theory Arguments — 538
New Asylum Adjudication Policy, Explained — Border / Lines
How Bad Could The Monkeypox Outbreak Get? — Vox
Conservative Who Lost Election By 70 Points Still Won’t Concede — Daily Beast
Cawthorn Violated STOCK Act, Failed To Disclose Cypto Purchases — Yahoo

POLICE INACTION DURING SHOOTING UNDER SCRUTINY

Tactical Team Was Told To Hold, Not Go In By Uvalde Cops
Uvalde Cops Left Shooter in Classroom For an Hour and Won’t Say Why
Cops Hid Because They ‘Didn’t Want To Get Shot’
Texas Dem Demands Federal Investigation
Police Don’t Save Lives
The NRA’s Gun Orgy in Texas
More Republicans Drop From NRA Convention

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Court Rules Trump Must Testify Under Oath In NY Probe — Axios
Twitter Shareholders Sue Musk — Gizmodo
Dems Demand Google Stop Storing Location Data — DailyKos
Jim Jordan Wrestles With Subpoena — Alternet
Wisconsin Sen. Johnson Used Public Funds For Florida Home Travel — Journal Sentinel
America Feels Broken — Salon
Big Oil’s Enablers Won’t Be Complicit — The Guardian
At Least 4 Dead In Pennsylvania House Explosion — ABC News
Protests Planned At White House For Student Debt Relief — Common Dreams

INCREASING RAGE AT POLICE RESPONSE

Parents Criticize Police Response to Shooting
It Looks Like the Cops Can’t Keep Their Story Straight
Police Cowardice Par For the Course
Surveillance Tech Didn’t Stop Uvalde Shooter

SHOCK, ANGER CONTINUES

Abbott to Record Message to NRA, Not Attend
Mass Protests Planned For NRA Meeting
A Year of “Protecting Children” in Texas

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“More Guns,” Says Cruz — New Republic
Arizona Police Officer Who Killed 17-Year-Old Child Won’t Face Charges — Phoenix New Times
Retired Federal Agent May Have Known of Buffalo Plot — Buffalo News
Russia Attacks Kharkiv Again — New York Times
AR-15s Were Made to Slaughter Humans — The Intercept
Manchin Pretends He Wants to Talk BBB — Axios
Building Power in Rural Areas — Blue Tent

GAPS IN TIMELINE, STORY NOT ADDING UP IN UVALDE SHOOTING

Timeline on Attack Increasingly Suggests Police Did Next to Nothing
Gaps in Narrative Raising More Questions
Shooter Walked In Unobstructed

COMMUNITY’S ANGUISH

Husband Of Teacher Killed Dies Of Heart Attack
Mass Shootings and Our Never-ending Doomcycle
A Raw And Open Conversation On Gun Violence In America
Parkland Survivor On Connections, Differences From Uvalde

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23 Years. 300 School Shootings. Zero Senate Action. — Daily Kos
More Cops & Guns At Schools Are Not The Answer — Daily Beast
Student Groups Plan Walkouts Nationwide Over Gun Violence — Bloomberg
Dems Tie Domestic Terrorism Bill To Guns, GOP Blocks It — NBC News
AOC Endorses Full Slate Of NY Democratic Socialist Candidates — Jacobin
Sanders & Graham To Kick Off New Debate Series — Common Dreams
Trans Girl Attacked Over Uvalde Shooting — LA Blade
Texas Lawmakers Rake in Big Bucks From Gun Lobby — Axios

POLITICAL ACTION ON GUNS KICKED DOWN THE ROAD

Murphy Says Billions In Gun Control Through Reconciliation Could Move Through Senate
Ted Cruz Confronted Over Excuses For Violence
Senators Leaving Town For 10-Day Vacation

PAIN AND RAGE OVER ENDLESS VIOLENCE

The Victims, Remembered
America’s Culture of Ultraviolence
The “Longest 35 Minutes Of My Life”

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Prison Closures Need to Prioritize Human Rights, Not Economic Impact — TruthOut
Bush Political Dynasty Likely Dead — New York Magazine
Democrats Ask USAID to Do More to Help Haiti — The Hill
Buffalo Attack Part of an American Pattern — The Nation
Kevin Spacey Charged With Sexual Assault — BBC
Herschel Walker Fumbles Gun Control Response — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Western Hubris in Ukraine — Democracy Now!