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It’s Official: Jordan Peele Is Bringing Back The Twilight Zone
Fans of Jordan Peele’s Get Out have a new show to get into—The Twilight Zone, the iconic TV series that the genre-breaking director will be rebooting, CBS formally announced Wednesday. The show will be available exclusively on CBS’ streaming platform, CBS All Access, as had been previously reported. According to Entertainment Weekly, the Golden Globe-nominated Peele…
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Former Cop Sentenced to 20 Years for Shooting Death of Walter Scott
Updated Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017, 2:30 p.m. EST: ABC News reports that former South Carolina Police Officer Michael Slager has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting Walter Scott, an unarmed black man, in the back during a routine traffic stop in 2015. Earlier: It happened. A (former) cop is finally going to…
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Racist, Anti-Semitic Flyers Found on Princeton Campus
For the second time this year, white supremacist flyers have appeared at Princeton University. It is unclear who’s responsible for posting the flyers, which were spotted on the New Jersey campus Monday, but they came in two varieties: the first, a personal attack against a Jewish resident of the city of Princeton; the second, an…
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Black Employees File Civil Rights Lawsuit Against NYC Fire Department, Say Racism Within FDNY Is a ‘Disease’
Black employees have filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the Fire Department of New York, alleging that the city agency has failed to pay and promote its black workers at a level equal to that of their white peers. This is beginning to feel a lot like déjà vu. As the New York Daily…
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Oh, It’s Knit: Singer Frenchie Davis Helps Brooklyn, NY, Man’s Business Take Off After Snapping His Picture
Louis Boria began knitting because of a dream—literally. Ten years ago, the Brooklyn, N.Y., man says, he woke up one morning with his arms extended, his fingers working the air as if he were holding knitting needles in his hands. According to the New York Daily News, Boria took it as a sign; not long…
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‘You Don’t Know the Trouble I’ve Had in My Life’: This 6-Year-Old Boy Is Fed the Hell Up With Santa
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to witness this young, skeptical-ass boy read Santa Claus to hell and back. On Sunday, NPR reporter Sarah McCammon posted on Twitter a letter her 6-year-old son wrote for a class assignment. A true “Santa skeptic,” as McCammon described him, the boy spared Kris Kringle not a single…
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Watch: Bodycam Footage Released of Oklahoma Republican in Motel Room With Teen Boy
It’s hard to keep count of the barrage of terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad sexual abusers who have been outed this year, so let me reintroduce you to Ralph Shortey, the deplorable former Oklahoma state senator who pleaded guilty last week to federal charges of child sex trafficking. On Tuesday, Oklahoma police released bodycam footage…
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Time Magazine Names ‘the Silence Breakers’ Its Person of the Year
Time’s Person of the Year isn’t a single person but a movement. On Wednesday, the magazine announced that “the silence breakers”—the victims of sexual harassment and assault who have come forward to tell their stories—had earned the distinction of being its Person of the Year for 2017. Time Editor-in-Chief Edward Felsenthal told the Today show…
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Back on Their Bullshit: Facebook Suspends Accounts of Women Who Call Men ‘Trash’
In the wake of the #MeToo movement, Facebook is banning female users for posting comments like “men are scum” and “men are trash”—even if the statements are ironic or humorous. A new article by the Daily Beast looks specifically at women who have found themselves banned from the platform, but the criticism around Facebook’s views…
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69-Year-Old Man Had Plans to Shoot Up a Florida Mosque, Police Say
A Jacksonville, Fla., man has been thwarted in his plans to murder Muslims at the Islamic Center of Northeast Florida. Bernandino Bolatete, a 69-year-old Filipino immigrant, bought a silencer from an undercover officer and was arrested on a federal weapons violation last week. As Jacksonville News 4 reports, before buying the silencer, Bolatete had divulged his…
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