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Twitter Just Gave Everyone 280 Characters, Which Means Nazis Can Be Even More Abusive Now
Prepare to be annoyed—or obnoxious, depending on how you look at it. Late Tuesday afternoon, Twitter began rolling out its new 280-character limit to all users on the platform, because that’s exactly what we need: the ability for people to be both abusive and long-winded at the same gotdamn time. There are plenty of other…
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Meek Mill Sentenced to 2-4 Years in Prison for Probation Violations: Report
Rapper Meek Mill will be heading to prison because a Philadelphia judge ruled Monday that he violated his probation in two separate incidents in the past year. The rapper, whose real name is Robert Williams, had been sentenced to probation in a 2009 drug-and-weapons case. According to TMZ, the judge ruled that Meek violated his…
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Despite Supreme Court Ruling, District Attorneys in La. Are Working Against Juvenile Lifers Seeking Parole
In 2012 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that giving juveniles mandatory life sentences without parole was a violation of the Eighth Amendment. In 2016 a Supreme Court decision made the 2012 ruling apply retroactively, yet the state of Louisiana continues to push back and fight against giving juvenile offenders an opportunity at parole. The Times-Picayune…
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Woman With Cerebral Palsy Has Mouth Taped Shut by Teacher, Family Files Lawsuit
The family of a woman with cerebral palsy has filed a lawsuit against her former school, former teacher and other school staff members for alleged abuse and neglect that happened over the many years the woman attended the school. Rosa Smith, now 26, has cerebral palsy as well as cognitive impairment, an inability to communicate…
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Hey, Jan, Stop Hating on Curvy Black Women Just Because You Are Shaped Like a Box Chevy
Meet Jan Shedd. Jan is an angry white woman from Dallas who is offended that black women have shapely bodies that fill a dress nicely. Jan is so upset by this that she felt it her duty to write a post on Facebook criticizing a traffic anchor from her local ABC station, WFAA-TV, Channel 8.…
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Man Who Allegedly Groped Actor Terry Crews Identified as William Morris Executive Adam Venit: Report
When actor Terry Crews revealed in a series of tweets Oct. 10 that he, too, had been the victim of a sexual predator in Hollywood, he never identified the “high level” executive he said groped his private parts at a party in full view of his wife. We now have a reported name for that…
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Donald Trump’s Twitter Account Was Deactivated ‘Inadvertently’ by a Twitter Employee for 11 Minutes
Updated Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017, 9:06 p.m. EDT: Well, now we know what happened. It appears that Donald Trump’s Twitter account was accidentally deactivated by a Twitter employee. The social network doesn’t want us to worry, though. Its team is on the case to find out just who did it so that it never happens…
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Coffee Shop in NYC’s Gentrified Bed-Stuy Neighborhood Refused to Give Candy to Black Children on Halloween: Report
A café in the increasingly gentrified Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of New York City’s Brooklyn borough is looking real funny in the light after reportedly refusing to give candy to black children who came in to trick-or-treat on Halloween. The Strand Cafe is located at 492 Nostrand Avenue in the heart of historically black Bed-Stuy. Oma Holloway—co-chair…
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Trump’s Energy Secretary Believes Fossil Fuels Can Help Prevent Sexual Assault
If you needed any further proof that the Trump administration is the political embodiment of the Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels classic Dumb and Dumber, here it is: Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Thursday that fossil fuels can help prevent sexual assault by keeping the lights on. No, this is not a joke. No, you…
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Miami Firefighters Hang Noose Over Black Colleague’s Family Photo, Draw Penis on Picture of His Wife
Six firefighters in Miami were fired Wednesday after a September incident in which someone hung a noose over a photo of a black colleague’s family and drew lewd images on a picture of his wife. During a police investigation into the Sept. 9 incident at a city fire station, more than 20 people were interviewed…
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