What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
“I just woke up to them taking my clothes off.”
Kamilah Brock Spent 8 Days in a New York Mental Health Facility Because She Owned a BMW
The officers and facility staff who participated in this farce need to be arrested and charged with kidnapping and assault. The doctor who penned her diagnosis should immediately be stripped of his license and she should sue the hospital into ruins for aiding and abetting the police in committing some very serious crimes.
Texas student Ahmed Mohamed, 14, talks about how he was arrested after showing his teacher a homemade digital clock because school officials thought it might be a bomb.
Texas student Ahmed Mohamed talks about his arrest – LA Times
Any officers. school officials, and teachers involved in this tragedy should be charged with a hate crime.
The NTSB refuted the charge that Brandon had been checking his cell phone at the time of the crash. It verified Brandon’s account that his phone had been tucked away in his bag. The story barely made a dent in the news.
Do you remember Amtrak 188? The mystery of the crash has yet to be solved and the nation’s infrastructure—including railways—keeps crumbling, but the media’s attention has effortlessly flitted to a host of other things….
My friend Brandon Bostian, the Amtrak 188 engineer | Bleader | Chicago Reader
The coverage of this incident, like government’s treatment and handling of Amtrak and trains in general, was and continued to be irresponsible, sensationalized, without any basis in fact or reasoned analysis, embarrassingly incompetent, and just a complete and utter shit-show.
What happens when news stories about abandoned sites are published without fact checking? A bizarro tale of Seph Lawless, fraud, and a journalistic train wreck. By Matthew Christopher of Abandoned America
Debunking The Trolley Tragedy of 1957
An anecdote about what is wrong with modern “journalism.”
With the recent success of Frozen and the anticipation of Moana, Caroline Siede examines the power of the Disney princess.
Disney Princesses Are My (Imperfect) Feminist Role Models – Boing Boing
hmmm
We’ve fallen into an all-or-nothing rut with feminist criticism lately. Battle lines are immediately drawn between movies that are “feminist” (i.e. “good”) and “sexist” (i.e. “bad”). And that simplistic breakdown is hurting our ability to actually talk about this stuff.
…As the tendency to discuss things in terms of simple binary either/or models usually does.
A study released earlier this year, for instance, found women were as likely as men to be interested in casual sex — but only when there was no threat of sexual violence or of social judgment.
Science Proves Once and For All That Women Want Sex Just As Much As Men Do
hmmmm
As an American I’m not really up on all of the in and outs of English laws of succession but it seems to me this guy ignores a complicating fact. George was convicted of treason. As I understand it, treason is a crime against the immortal crown and not the specific monarch. Doesn’t someone forfeit their right to pass on any inheritance (like say, a claim to the throne) when they are convicted of treason? How could his descendants be in line for the throne?
The British actor is at the Toronto Film Festival with the gangster flick and didn’t appreciate the line of questioning
This is so awesome.
“Why?”
Who knew? I’m sayimg not 99% of the people I’ve ever met who flew, supported or even liked this flag.
(That cracker jack American Education at work again!!!)
“I want to apologize for anything that was said or done that made you feel any less than the Miss America you are,” pageant CEO Sam Haskell says during broadcast
Miss America Pageant Apologizes to Vanessa Williams 32 Years After Yanking Her Crown
hmmmm
A claim that someone’s words are “offensive” is not just an expression of one’s own subjective feeling of offendedness. It is, rather, a public charge that the speaker has done something objectively wrong. It is a demand that the speaker apologize or be punished by some authority for committing an offense.
The recent collegiate trend of uncovering allegedly racist, sexist, classist, or otherwise discriminatory microaggressions doesn’t incidentally teach students to focus on small or accidental slights. Its purpose is to get students to focus on them and then relabel the people who have made such remarks as aggressors.
How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus – The Atlantic
hmmmmm.
Vice President Biden, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., announced plans to test thousands of neglected rape kits on Thursday.
Three words for anyone who suggests gender parity and equality has been achieved: rape kit backlog.
When White Feminists Respond to Anti-Racism Like Men Respond to Feminism — Everyday Feminism
If I see another article from Black Feminists or White Feminists labeling each other and giving holier-than-thou, overly verbose sermons on how the “other” (or even “their own”) group of feminists are bad feminists/progressives/people I am going to loose my shit. The only articles feminists seems to write anymore are ones talking about race. And how bad “other” feminists are.
Ladies, I hate to break it to you but you all suck as feminists. If you spend more time talking about race than gender when you’re discussing feminism you not only suck at being a feminist, you have some serious comprehension problems as well.
Stop talking about racial divisions, stop dividing women up along overly-simplistic racial lines and spend a lot more time working on feminist issues. Together. Seriously. For the love of God, stop helping the bad guys divide and conquer.
P.S. Nobody who doesn’t already agree with you is going to read a comic that long. Ever. Get over your well-intentioned self and stop being such a trite, smug asshole.
Queen Serena has spoken.
Watch Serena Williams Flawlessly Shut Down Reporter Who Asked Why She Wasn’t Smiling
ahahahahah. Go, Serena!
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