Judgement Daze: Our Social Media Weekly Roundup

#Healthcare protest shot at McConnell office evokes dire threat & famed determination phrase: have to be carried out feet 1st. 📷@davidbutow pic.twitter.com/pMBjjxgSzg

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) June 22, 2017

The major stories this week seemed to all involve critical votes or verdicts. Most reflected badly on the most vulnerable.

The GOP Senate revealed its fast-track healthcare bill which was crafted in secret and will have no public hearings. In spite of the most damning and one-sided set of facts imaginable, the officer who killed Philando Castile was still found innocent of second-degree manslaughter. Although the Republican prevailed, the Ossoff-Handel House race in Georgia demonstrated conservative slippage and ongoing resistance to the status quo. The shock to women and abuse victims continued to reverberate from the Bill Cosby acquittal last Saturday, and the promise to eliminate Planned Parenthood in the health bill rubs further salt in the wound. (It’s also why we think we might see red cloaks in DC this week.) We highlighted two pix that highlighted Trump #notnormal. Finally, in a sentiment that seemed future forward, check out the protest photo from Exeter.

#Senate die-in arrest photo also poster for oft-heard #GOP rationale for crippling #healthcare: illness as moral failure. 📷@thehill pic.twitter.com/82cYEU7ZfM

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) June 24, 2017

After Ohio #abortion bill protest was in his eye, will #HandmaidsTale show for Senate health choice fight? #boysclub @PPFA 📷statenews pic.twitter.com/bBPWcYViAC

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) June 22, 2017

As prez tells tales at #Iowa rally, clever Crowley pic frames ex-gov & #Trump ambassador in clone mode https://t.co/QnH94Dipgg 📷@Stcrow pic.twitter.com/Eulig9OIkF

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) June 22, 2017

Photo of #AllyszaCastile following officer’s acquittal defies the quote. #PhilandoCastile 📷JeanPieri #PioneerPress @AP via NYT pic.twitter.com/Ty8bKRozm4

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) June 21, 2017

President Trump receives a briefing this AM on Tropical Storm Cindy by Homeland Sec Adv @TomBossert45. #TeamTrumpBTS https://t.co/Xk9U0Y1j8E pic.twitter.com/aZGykBMEzz

— Dan Scavino Jr. (@Scavino45) June 21, 2017

Why a photo like this is everyday @WhiteHouse PR and not admission of spoon-feeding continues to amaze #lowestcommondenominator https://t.co/LlRVlRftW0

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) June 21, 2017

So much for sugar and spice. #JonOssoff #Georgia6th 📷@jraedle @GettyImages pic.twitter.com/PY6apUy6pc

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) June 21, 2017

Thinking back to this post and waiting for (elusive) justice for the #Cosby accusers https://t.co/irS5lawrdw @ReadingThePix #TeamRhetoric pic.twitter.com/tq7Kd6t8jx

— Karrin Anderson (@KVAnderson) June 17, 2017

Photographer @maranierae “I will keep telling those stories,” after despicable destruction of Syrian refugees photos https://t.co/CfiME1X6E6 pic.twitter.com/S9gNFUGFmi

— Dennis Dimick (@ddimick) June 17, 2017

Boys at Isca Academy in Exeter wear skirts to school in protest at not being allowed to wear shorts in hot weather. pic.twitter.com/XHrffnSQEN

— Simon Hall (@SimonHallNews) June 22, 2017

More enlightened gender attitude implicit. https://t.co/cAoUQKYSce

— Reading The Pictures (@ReadingThePix) June 22, 2017

Photo: David Butow via Instagram Caption: A protester is carried into an elevator by Capitol police after a demonstration was staged at Mitch McConnell’s office following release of the Senate Health Care bill, on June 22, 2017.