Afghan-Americans Grapple With Homophobia, Shock  

Afghan-Americans are grappling with shock, shame and the taboo topics of homophobia and religious intolerance in their community in the wake of Omar Mateen’s massacre of dozens at a gay nightclub.

…Omar Aziz, founder of U.S.-Afghan Islamic think tank, The Samovar Network, agreed there was a “dual challenge” of assimilation and anti-Muslim rhetoric. However, he said: “Mateen alone bears responsibility for his crime. His family, his faith and his Afghan community do not.”

Orlando Shooting: Afghan-Americans Grapple With Homophobia, Shock – NBC News

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Prosecutor bumps Stanford sex assault judge from new case 

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) A Northern California judge at the center of a recall campaign after his handling of a Stanford University sexual assault case was removed from a new sexual assault case Tuesday by the local district attorney.Santa Clara County District Attorney

Prosecutor bumps Stanford sex assault judge from new case | KOMO

Good. Right or wrong, officers of the law and the court must be held accountable for their actions.

Coal Ash Mess Continues To Muddy Utilities, Citizens And Regulators 

Despite the fact that federal environmental regulators have wrapped up a coal ash rewrite, some utilities still have their toughest battles ahead of them — how to get rid of the yucky stuff that is now on their sites and how to prevent it from leaching into the drinking water supplies.

Coal Ash Mess Continues To Muddy Utilities, Citizens And Regulators – Forbes

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This gas leak was so massive that NASA saw it from space 

Scientists hope to make greater use of satellites to pinpoint major sources of air pollution.

This gas leak was so massive that NASA saw it from space – The Washington Post

Jeezus freaking kerr-eyest….
There better be some serious fines levied and criminal charges lodged.

Fucking weak-ass, not-protecting-the-citizenry-at-all EPA, fucktard losers.

Open Letter to Hillary Rodham Clinton: Skeletons From Our Past

“who has sacrificed her feminine power by excelling in the imperialist white supremacist capitalistic patriarchal narrative.”


Open Letter to Hillary Rodham Clinton: Skeletons From Our Past

What an ignorant, hateful, little cunt this author is.  …And crazy. Total fucking nutjob whackjob.

Her thesis is that Clinton is somehow culpable in a violent sexual assault (that she has absolutely zero connection to) because the author does not approve of attorney’s defending criminals who are guilty? Never mind that one of the few saving graces of our (in)justice  system is that all defendants have to right to a defense, the right to an attorney making their case for them in the court of law… OR that all defense attorney’s might be in that position at one point or another. This random fact provides the basis to indite Clinton for… Well, it’s really hard to tell for what exactly.

Or does the author simply hate on the woman because she does not approve of Clinton making headway and having some success swimming upstream against the social currents of patriarchy? The thinking seems to run that to succeed in less than ideal circumstances is somehow an offense to those who did not. It comes off as nasty, shrill, jealousy and nothing more.

Earth to ignorant little troll, there is nothing more anti-woman than hating on a woman for no other reason that she experienced success in a male-centric environment.

Calling someone racist (and let’s be honest here, that is all that is implied when someone uses the term “mighty white” in this context) because they don’t see things exactly as you do is not only ignorant and insulting to anyone involved in actual struggle for actual, real-life justice in the face of actual, non-fictional racism but reeks of jealousy and bigotry on the part of the person mis-using the term.

…And blaming a woman, any woman, for the sins of people she does not know and has no contact has no merit in fact or ideal.

In fact, blaming a woman for a crime committed by a man against other women does nothing other than pull all women down.

The only person culpable in the act of shitting on other women here is the author. That fact is glaringly obvious. There is no justification, and indeed no honor, in assigning blame to those who are wholly unconnected to the offense. It is a tactic employed by those who seek to divide and conquer, those who work against raising people up and empowering them.

If the author thinks she is anything other than a tool of the patriarchy, engaging in tearing all women down and help to keep them down-trodden and oppressed, well she need to listen to that alarm bell. Right now she is the polar opposite of woke as fuck.

 

Documentary shows Orlando nightclub gunman Omar Mateen in 2010 following BP oil spill 

Documentary shows Orlando nightclub gunman Omar Mateen in 2010 following BP oil spill – CBS News

His cynical awareness of the BP spill aside, this guy was clearly a very, very messed up individual. As a country, a society, and a people it would be very nice to see us wake up to the possibility it was his psychosis – and not his particular flavor of faith – that caused these actions.

Russian spies hack U.S. Democratic Party computers

Russian government hackers penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and gained access to the entire database of opposition research on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. “The intruders so thoroughly compromised the DNC’s system they also were able to read all e-mail and chat traffic,” the paper said, citing committee officials and security experts. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, confirmed the breach.

Russian spies hack U.S. Democratic Party computers: Washington Post – Yahoo Finance

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Bernie Sanders’ electability argument is still a myth.

…The fear, then, was that Sanders would win the most pledged delegates but that Hillary Clinton would use her pull with insiders to trump the popular will.

It is more than a little ironic, then, that Sanders is now urging those same insiders to ignore the intention of the primary electorate—which has given Clinton an edge in both pledged delegates and raw votes—and bequeath the nomination to him instead.

Bernie Sanders’ electability argument is still a myth.

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Mesolithic Shale Pendant | Star Carr

Star Carr in North Yorkshire:

The Mesolithic site was among the first in the British Isles to have been permanently settled after the end of the last Ice Age, during which Britain was likely depopulated. The engravings are similar to those found on amber pendants from the same period in Denmark, which was then accessible by land from Britain.

 

In 2015 an engraved shale pendant was found during excavations at the Early Mesolithic site of Star Carr, UK. Engraved motifs on Mesolithic pendants are extremely rare, with the exception of amber pendants from southern Scandinavia. The artwork on the pendant is the earliest known Mesolithic art in Britain; the ‘barbed line’ motif is comparable to styles on the continent, particularly in Denmark.

Mesolithic Shale Pendant | Star Carr

cool.