Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping in cars | US news | The Guardian
Jeezus…
Trump’s Attacks on the Press Are Illegal. We’re Suing.
In the Trump era, nasty rhetoric, insults and even threats of violence have become an occupational hazard for political reporters and commentators. To be sure, a good portion of President Trump’s verbal attacks on journalists and news organizations might be considered fair game in this bare-knuckled political moment. The president has free-speech rights just like the rest of us, and deeming the news media “the enemy of the American people” and dismissing accurate reports as “fake news” are permissible under the First Amendment.
But the First Amendment does not protect all speech. Although the president can launch verbal tirades against the press, he cannot use the powers of his office to suppress or punish speech he doesn’t like. When President Trump proposes government retribution against news outlets and reporters, his statements cross the line. Worse still, in several cases it appears that the bureaucracy he controls has acted on his demands, making other threats he issues to use his governmental powers more credible. Using the force of the presidency to punish or suppress legally protected speech strikes at the heart of the First Amendment, contravening the Constitution.
…President Trump has engaged repeatedly in precisely the kind of behavior those courts have found unlawful.
…Trump has also repeatedly attacked the Washington Post and threatened to target its owner Jeff Bezos’s biggest holding, Amazon. This spring the president followed through on his threats, ordering the Postal Service to review rates for the online shopping behemoth. Coming in the wake of the president’s eruptions directed at the Post, that order too appears to be punitive.
…Trump threatened to withdraw the press credentials of reporters who criticized him; in August CNN’s Kaitlan Collins was barred from a Rose Garden press conference for asking questions the White House judged impertinent.
Trump’s Attacks on the Press Are Illegal. We’re Suing. – POLITICO Magazine
hmmmm
Mexico sends federal police to stop caravan of U.S.-bound migrants
Migrants have long streamed out of Central America in large numbers, increasingly as family units, in attempts to flee poverty and violence.
The “Northern Triangle” of Central America — Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador —rank among the most violent in the world, though homicide rates have fallen in recent years. Drug cartels move illegal merchandise through the region and street gangs control neighborhoods and routinely charge residents “rent” (a euphemism for extortion payments).
Caravans of migrants regularly convene as participants seek safety in numbers. Undocumented migrants transiting Mexico often fall victim to crimes such as kidnapping, extortion and rape — often committed by criminal gangs, drug cartels, coyotes and crooked public officials.
Analysts say most migrants are not dissuaded by the risk of the road and ignore admonishments from the U.S. government, or anti-immigrant sentiments that appear to be more prevalent in the country, because the situation is that dire in their own countries.
“Many Hondurans are or were leaving behind gang or domestic violence in marginalized neighborhoods, where government services are lacking and the day to day life may be controlled by the dominant gang,” said Stephanie Leutert director of the Mexico Security Initiative at the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
Mexico sends federal police to stop caravan of U.S.-bound migrants
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Sabarimala: Mobs attack women near India Hindu temple
Crowds of agitated protesters in Kerala attacked female devotees, many of whom turned back as a result.
Several people including an old woman were injured as crowds threw stones at vehicles and attacked police officers.
…But while most Hindu temples allow women to enter as long as they are not menstruating, the Sabarimala temple was unusual in that it was one of the few that do not allow women in a broad age group to enter at all.
This was overturned by the Supreme Court last month, with judges observing that “the right to practice religion is available to both men and women”.
Sabarimala: Mobs attack women near India Hindu temple – BBC News
hmmmm
Illinois wants ‘timeout’ on Amtrak’s Hiawatha expansion over community concerns
The proposed expansion on Amtrak’s Hiawatha route calls for increasing service from seven to 10 round trips per day between Milwaukee and Chicago to address over-capacity conditions during peak hours. Adding three routes would require substantial track upgrades and the addition of a third train to run on the route.
Illinois is such a corrupt shithole.
Video Shows Officer Punching Pinned 14-Year-Old Girl During Arrest
Video Shows Officer Punching Pinned 14-Year-Old Girl During Arrest | HuffPost
If the cops behavior is no better than the criminals, do they not deserve to be arrested and punched while they are down too?
Mark Zuckerberg drops suits to force sale of Hawaiian lands
According to Zuckerberg’s letter, some have had no inhabitants for decades.
Mark Zuckerberg drops suits to force sale of Hawaiian lands
Of course there aren’t any inhabitants you asshole, they’re taro plots! Fucking haole….
I pulled a 1,500-year-old sword out of a lake
I pulled a 1,500-year-old sword out of a lake | Life and style | The Guardian
Queen Saga, long may she reign.
‘I don’t forgive this woman’: Black boy wrongly accused of grabbing white woman
With tears streaming down his cheeks, a 9-year-old black child spoke out at a community meeting in New York about being wrongly accused of grabbing a white woman’s backside in a corner store — an incident disproved by security-camera footage.
Footage from inside the store showed the boy’s book bag grazing Klein’s butt. His hands, which didn’t touch her, were in plain sight on the video.
…Jeremiah and his sister, dressed in school uniforms and carrying shopping bags, could be seen and heard crying and calling for their mother as she and other customers and residents tried to address Klein’s accusations.
…”I don’t forgive this woman, and she needs help,” he said.
‘I don’t forgive this woman’: Black boy wrongly accused of grabbing white woman | abc7ny.com
Good for you, young man. You shouldn’t and she definitely does.
The Lessons of ‘Golfcart Gail’
Of course, we as white people should be more conscious of our privilege and biases, but for a more immediate fix, I’ll say this — right now, if you are a white woman who sees someone black doing something, anything, think long and hard before you call the police. “Golfcart Gail” is taken, but there are a lot of alliterative nicknames still out there.
The Lessons of ‘Golfcart Gail’
yup
Russian woman charged with alleged ‘information warfare’ against US midterms
According to prosecutors, 44-year-old Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova of St. Petersburg, Russia, served as the chief accountant of a $35 million effort to conduct “information warfare” against the United States and elsewhere using social media and other online sites.
Operating under an umbrella organization called “Project Lakhta,” Khusyaynova and her alleged conspirators used fake identities online to pretend to be “ordinary American political activists,” prosecutors said.
Their postings did not exclusively reflect one ideological viewpoint, and the operatives were directed to create “political intensity through supporting radical groups” and to “aggravate the conflict between minorities and the rest of the population,” the Justice Department said.
Project Lakhta is allegedly funded by Russian oligarch and associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin, and two companies he controls. Those companies have been indicted in a separate case by special counsel Robert Mueller for allegedly taking part in the massive Russian campaign to interfere in the 2016 presidential election.
Russian woman charged with alleged ‘information warfare’ against US midterms – ABC News
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Golfcart Gail calls cops on black dad at his kid’s soccer game
‘Golfcart Gail’ calls cops on black dad at his kid’s soccer game
The Deputy was out of line for saying it was OK to waste tax payer resources with racist nuisance calls. It may be legal but it shouldn’t be.
BTW, here she is:
https://twitter.com/uterati_rampage/status/1053088845229711360
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