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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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Female Ex-Staffers Say Congresswoman Championing Sexual Harassment Bill Tolerated Abusive Behavior From Top Aide: Report
In the aftermath of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal last month, Rep. Brenda Lawrence (D-Mich.) brought forward much-needed legislation aimed at curbing sexual harassment on Capitol Hill. But according to some of Lawrence’s former aides, she hasn’t done enough to fight it in her own office. In a report published early Tuesday morning, Politico…
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LiAngelo Ball, 2 Other UCLA Players Arrested on Shoplifting Charges in China: Report
There’s dumb and then there’s dumb, and I’m not quite sure what I mean by that yet, except that apparently LiAngelo Ball and two other UCLA men’s basketball players may be both kinds of dumb, after reports of their being arrested in China on shoplifting charges just days before Friday’s season-opening game against Georgia Tech…
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4th-Graders Allegedly Called ‘Black Animals’ by White Elementary School Teacher in La.
Parents at a Louisiana elementary school are demanding answers after multiple students reported that a white teacher referred to them as “black animals.” Daniel Banguel of Pen Point News first reported the story that a physical education teacher at Iberville Elementary Montessori School in the Baton Rouge suburb of Plaquemine, La., yelled the slur at…
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Texas Mass Shooter Devin Kelley Escaped From a Mental Hospital in 2012
The gunman who killed 26 people on Saturday in Sutherland Springs, Texas, escaped from a psychiatric hospital in 2012. Such evidence may indeed feed the beast in the “gun control vs. mental-health care” debate that inevitably arrises after a mass shooting. The New York Times reports that while Devin P. Kelley was in the Air…
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Despite Trump’s Best Efforts, Obamacare Enrollment Reaches New Highs
Despite dogged attempts by Donald Trump and the GOP to throw salt on Obamacare, early data shows that Americans are signing up for it in record numbers. The Hill reports that on Nov. 1, the first day of open enrollment for health insurance under Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, 200,000 Americans signed up for…
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White-Tears News: Taylor Swift Threatens Legal Action to Prove She’s Not a White Supremacist
In what may be the worst episode of the new show Law & Order: White Supremacy, lawyers representing Taylor Swift sent a cease and desist letter to a website that insinuates she is a silent supporter of the “alt-right.” A bitter legal slap fight has emerged between pop singer Taylor Swift and website Popfront. The…
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Demented Cheese Grit Claims Gun Control Would Have Made ‘No Difference’ in Latest American Mass Shooting
During his visit to South Korea, Donald Trump was asked whether he’d push for the same “extreme vetting” of gun owners that he’s proposed for refugees and U.S. visa holders. Trump’s response was a blustery and, at times, indignant mix of “How dare you,” “Nah, son” and “It could have been worse.” In Trump’s joint…
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Air Force: Failure to Follow Policies Allowed Texas Shooter to Buy Firearms
Texas church shooter Devin P. Kelley, who was known to have a violent past, should not have been able to buy firearms and body armor because of his domestic violence conviction back in 2014 while serving at the Halloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. However, according to the Washington Post, the Air Force has…
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University of Texas Police Chased Off Some White Boys Having a Tiki-Torch Protest on Campus
Because whiteness is nothing if not unoriginal, police at the University of Texas at Austin say they discovered a small group of white supremacists trying to re-create the Charlottesville, Va., tiki-torch warmup party on campus early Saturday morning. According to KVUE-TV and the Daily Texan, campus police were patrolling the university’s South Mall area when they…