Catching up on the protest news? Keep this in mind.

Observations from covering Ferguson and Baltimore.

View in browser|nytimes.com Continue reading the main story May 29, 2020 Protesters confronting the police in Minneapolis on Tuesday.Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune, via Associated Press By Jamelle Bouie Opinion Columnist I’ve spent this morning catching up on the protests and riots in Minneapolis and other cities, precipitated by the on-camera police killing of George Floyd, an African-American man. Having covered the 2014 Ferguson, Mo., and 2015 Baltimore protests firsthand, I have a few thoughts on what has happened so far. First, these protests are never a result of just one offense. Michael Brown’s shooting in Ferguson and Freddie Gray’s death in Baltimore were set against a backdrop of pervasive abuse and violence from law enforcement. The same is true of Minneapolis, which has had years of struggle with unaccountable police violence. Floyd’s public, shocking death was just the straw that broke the camel’s back. Second, police aggression is a key ingredient in turning peaceful protests violent. The situation in Minneapolis began with nonviolent demonstrations, but the police responded with tear gas and rubber bullets, and as was true in Ferguson and Baltimore — where police met protesters with military equipment — this changed the dynamic of the confrontation. When crowds feel threatened, they get agitated, and agitation creates the conditions for property damage and other forms of disruption. Last, it is impossible not to note the contrast in how the Minneapolis protesters have been treated compared with armed demonstrators protesting lockdowns in Michigan and other states. I wrote earlier this month about how the idea of “freedom” is shaped by race and racism. Here, we have a perfect example of exactly that: how the perceived legitimacy of protest and dissent is shaped by who is doing the protesting. Screaming, gun-toting white people can demonstrate with little resistance. Mourning black people, on the other hand, are liable to face state violence. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT What I Wrote I have been struck by the lack of any public mourning over the Covid-19 dead and wrote about what that might mean. The president’s indifference to collective mourning is of a piece with a political movement that denies our collective ties as well as the obligations we have to each other. If Trump represents a radical political solipsism, in which his is the only interest that exists, then it makes all the sense in the world that neither he nor his allies would see or even understand the need for public and collective mourning — an activity that heightens our vulnerability, centers our interconnectedness and stands as a challenge to the politics of selfishness and domination. Now Reading Dahlia Lithwick and Richard L. Hasen on the Federalist Society in Slate magazine. Kali Holloway on the activist Shaun King in The Daily Beast. Francesca Mari on the 2008 financial crisis in the New York Review of Books. Gabriella Paiella on the actor Steve Buscemi in GQ. An interview with political scientist Chryl Laird on Joe Biden and black voters at Vox. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT Feedback If you’re enjoying what you’re reading, please consider recommending it to friends. They can sign up here. If you want to share your thoughts on an item in this week’s newsletter or on the newsletter in general, please email me at jamelle-newsletter@nytimes.com. Photo of the Week Local police gather to confront protestors in Ferguson, Mo.Jamelle Bouie I’m dipping back into the archives, this time with a photo from 2014, taken during the demonstrations in Ferguson. At this point, there has been no serious destruction. There are just people in the streets grieving and voicing their discontent. But instead of understanding, they are met — as you can see here — with an overwhelming show of force. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT Now Eating: Grilled Eggplant Salad This, from the Zahav cookbook, has been on a regular rotation in my house since grilling season started. The key is to grill the eggplant for as long as possible. You want the interior to be like pudding, which can take as long as an hour depending on the size of the eggplant. You can easily double the recipe, and while it doesn’t require tahini, I think it’s enhanced by a generous drizzle of good tahini as well as a squeeze of fresh lemon juice. Ingredients 2 large eggplants, halved 2 garlic cloves, minced ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil 1 teaspoon kosher salt ¼ cup chopped Italian parsley Juice of 1 lemon ¼ cup tahini Directions Place the eggplants, cut-side down, on a hot grill and cook until the flesh is puddinglike in texture; the surface will be completely charred. Let the eggplants cool, then remove the charred surface and spoon the flesh (scraping it off the skin) into a medium mixing bowl. Add the garlic and olive oil and stir it vigorously, breaking up the eggplant, until the mixture is creamy and smooth. Stir in the salt, half the parsley, the lemon juice and tahini; sprinkle the rest of the parsley on top as a garnish. Serve with grilled pita bread. IN THE TIMES Scenes From an Economic Collapse The staggering spike in unemployment isn’t just throwing individual families into poverty. It’s gutting entire communities — in ways they might never recover from. By The New York Times Magazine poll watch When Voters Discuss Coronavirus, They’re Really Talking About Trump Even though most people don’t name the coronavirus as their top voting issue, President Trump’s response to the outbreak, and how it’s perceived, will probably swing the election. By Giovanni Russonello wheels Who Will Own the Cars That Drive Themselves? Fleets of vehicles roaming streets waiting to be hailed are more efficient. 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On Tech: A Trump vs. Twitter week

It's a pandemic, and the president of the United States and Twitter are battling it out.

View in browser|nytimes.com Continue reading the main story May 29, 2020 A Trump vs. Twitter week Doug Mills/The New York Times By Shira Ovide If I went back in time to describe this week on the internet to the 2015 version of myself, I wouldn’t have believed it. We’re in the middle of a pandemic, protests against police brutality are gripping the country, and the president of the United States and Twitter are battling it out. President Trump said in a tweet early Friday that people protesting the death of an African-American man in police custody in Minneapolis could be shot if they looted. Twitter responded by enforcing rules it has against “glorifying violence” and, for the first time, put the president’s tweet behind a warning label. This happened days after Mr. Trump lashed out at Twitter for adding fact-checking notices (also for the first time) to two of his tweets that falsely claimed that mail-in voting ballots would mean that the November presidential election was “rigged.” It is remarkable that Twitter is facing off against the president of the United States. (Will Oremus at OneZero has a back story from Twitter’s side. He reports that Twitter put Mr. Trump’s tweets through two different internal reviews before deciding to apply the label.) It’s remarkable that Mr. Trump’s anger at Twitter seemed to lead to an executive order that proposes likely unenforceable crackdowns on American internet companies. And it’s remarkable that the leader of the free world threatened military violence against civilians. Kevin Roose, a technology columnist for The Times, wrote that Trump’s Twitter tussle reminds him of the online message boards he frequented in the early 2000s. There were inevitably people who got heated and unruly, and then got angry when message board moderators tried to control their disruptive behavior. “Looking at Mr. Trump as an aggrieved user of a fractious internet forum, rather than a politician making high-minded claims about freedom of speech, clarifies the dynamics at play here,” he wrote. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT Why entertainment stops at the border After Thursday’s newsletter walked through the reasons behind the confusing sign-up process for the HBO Max streaming service, a reader in California, Norm, wrote in to ask why he can’t watch whatever he likes on his favorite video services when he’s outside the United States. Sigh, Norm. I hear you. I also have flipped open Netflix and Amazon Prime Video outside the United States and felt disappointed that a bunch of stuff was missing. The reason is mostly the same as why you need a flow chart to watch TV: money. Companies that own TV shows and movies often sell the rights to watch them separately in each country. You can’t watch the CBS digital series “Star Trek: Discovery” on CBS online outside the United States because CBS sold the international rights to Netflix. Yes, it’s confusing! Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT This made more sense in the days when we watched stuff on TV or in movie theaters, and it feels antiquated at a time when there doesn’t need to be a difference between a Netflix viewer in Boise or in Bogotá. But old entertainment industry habits die hard, especially when a company can make more money selling each show separately in each country. You could argue that because someone like Norm signed up for Netflix or Hulu in the United States, he should have access to all the same stuff no matter where he travels. That’s mostly not how it works. Yes, it’s annoying! My colleague Ed Lee pointed out to me that there’s another reason for the many restrictions — geography and otherwise — on entertainment programming online: Companies are worried about getting ripped off. Disney paid big money to make “Frozen” movies, and companies pay a fortune for the chance to sell you digital access to N.F.L. games. No one wants you to find a sneaky way to watch without paying. Sorry, Norm. Continue reading the main story ADVERTISEMENT Before we go … Digital cracks for one of the last analog businesses: Buying a car has mostly bucked the online shopping trends, but automakers, dealers and shoppers are lowering their resistance to e-commerce in the pandemic, my colleague Neal Boudette reported. Yeesh: Google, a very rich company whose revenue is getting hit by the economic freeze, rescinded job offers to more than 2,000 people who had agreed to join the company in temporary or contract positions. My colleague Dai Wakabayashi wrote that this was another reminder of the divide between Google’s 120,000 full-time employees and its even larger shadow work force of contractors. Happy birthday, YouTube: Business Insider has a fun oral history of the video site, which was released to the public 15 years ago this month. YouTube’s frequently told origin story is that its founders were inspired by the difficulty of sharing videos they had recorded. Nope. YouTube apparently started as a (not successful) dating site. Its first office had rats. Hugs to this ALERT: Penguins at the museum. Repeat, penguins at the museum. And they seem to prefer Caravaggio to Monet. We want to hear from you. Tell us what you think of this newsletter and what else you’d like us to explore. You can reach us at ontech@nytimes.com. Get this newsletter in your inbox every weekday; please sign up here. Continue reading the main story Need help? Review our newsletter help page or contact us for assistance. 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