News from the note…
A round up of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
This is an OPEN THREAD, folks. Chat about any of the stories listed, share links to stories that caught your eye today, and generally have a good time discussing whatever you want.
Texas Department of Public Safety Col. Steven McCraw on the decision to not immediately breach the classroom door: “From the benefit of hindsight, where I’m sitting now, of course, it was not the right decision. It was the wrong decision, period. There’s no excuse for that…” pic.twitter.com/AHnfrqCaDI
— CNN (@CNN) May 27, 2022
Texas authorities on Friday offered a more detailed timeline of events during the shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde that left 19 students and two teachers dead.
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 27, 2022
Here's the timeline that was laid out, including several 911 calls that were made. https://t.co/DD2OvoRJ2l
Protesters rallied for gun reform on Friday near the convention center in Houston where the National Rifle Association’s annual convention was being held, just three days after a mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, less than 300 miles away. pic.twitter.com/P040CJpB3Z
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 27, 2022
The gunman in Uvalde purchased 1,657 total rounds of ammunition – 315 rounds were found inside the school, law enforcement officials said. That's more than a U.S. soldier carries into combat. https://t.co/DREHDMBLVx
— CBS News (@CBSNews) May 27, 2022
Volodymyr Zelensky in an address to Stanford students:
— Axios (@axios) May 27, 2022
"We are living in those terrible times when American people express their condolences because of the death of the Ukrainians at war and we express our condolences because of deaths in peace." https://t.co/EAyH3gHCCA
Ukraine pushed Russia back from Kharkiv, but missile strikes are still tearing lives apart.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 27, 2022
“It will only be safe when the war is over.” https://t.co/wlfPraru5A
Turkey’s foreign minister said that Sweden and Finland must now take “concrete steps” to alleviate his country’s security concerns to overcome Ankara’s objections to their NATO membership bid. https://t.co/6zKku3KwHB
— ABC News (@ABC) May 27, 2022
BREAKING: An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve rose 6.3% in April from a year earlier. That's just below a four-decade high set in March, but also the first slowdown in 17 months, and a sign that inflation may finally be moderating. https://t.co/i2HuxEeroo
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 27, 2022
Top White House aides have drafted the order for canceling some student loan debt, but they're still waiting for President Joe Biden to make up his mind on whether to go forward with it. https://t.co/A7MZ8OjJ0c
— CNN (@CNN) May 27, 2022
Monkeypox can be contained if we act now, WHO says https://t.co/7ttw9q41Yh pic.twitter.com/nZurAUYme1
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 27, 2022
As state officials start the official recount in Pennsylvania’s too-close-to-call Senate GOP race, Dr. Oz declared in a video that he has “earned the presumptive Republican nomination” https://t.co/zDOra5v3pB
— POLITICO (@politico) May 27, 2022
A New Jersey man with alleged Nazi sympathies who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, tried to convince a jury this week that he didn't know the U.S. Capitol building is where Congress meets. https://t.co/3D4Xmq6eMI
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 27, 2022
