{"id":10795,"date":"2020-06-07T16:55:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T21:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=10795"},"modified":"2020-06-07T16:58:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-07T21:58:41","slug":"the-week-in-a-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2020\/06\/07\/the-week-in-a-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"The week in a minute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a week of startling developments, some things still sound like they’re from The Onion. Or at least Harper’s Findings<\/a>.<\/em> They aren’t.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a week of police riots<\/a> capping decades of ethnic violence<\/a> in a country torn asunder by authoritarianism, a dismal economy, and plague, police responding to a bee sting were attacked by a swarm of nearly 40,000 Africanized bees<\/a>. Elsewhere, police “kettled” demonstrators and repeatedly charged at them<\/a>, shoving them onto sidewalks, and striking them with batons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Outside Olympic National Park, gun-toting locals cut down trees to surround and trap a family of campers<\/a>, including the husband’s mom and their 16 year old daughter, on the pretext that they thought they were Antifa.<\/a> An Alabama newspaper called for the Klan to “night ride again<\/a>,” and Republicans wondered aloud whether the videotaped killing of George Floyd was staged<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the country’s faltering president blamed Germany, China, and the World Health Organization for its ills, lightning struck<\/a> the capital city’s most conspicuous monument. “It\u2019s sad that the Americans don\u2019t have a government that can get them coronavirus tests or even monthly checks to be able to feed their families,<\/a>\u201d said Charlotte Johnson, a 18-year-old Liberian student activist,\u00a0who survived the Ebola pandemic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported that the results are in for remote learning: It didn’t work<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a week of startling developments, some things still sound like they’re from The Onion. Or at least Harper’s Findings. They aren’t. In a week of police riots capping decades of ethnic violence in a country torn asunder by authoritarianism, a dismal economy, and plague, police responding to a bee sting were attacked by a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[16936,542,25032,628449,628463,502,628462,455022],"class_list":["post-10795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america","tag-events","tag-findings","tag-george-floyd","tag-gleanings","tag-news","tag-police-brutality","tag-u-s-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-2O7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1311,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2010\/06\/30\/the-chain-of-likes-loves\/","url_meta":{"origin":10795,"position":0},"title":"the chain of likes & loves","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"June 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TbLU9tdDwxo&hl=en_US&fs=1& Governments (in this case, it was the Conservative federal government of Stephen Harper) like to host these big international gatherings; they think it builds their national and international prestige. 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