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08-14-2017 , 03:13 PM

#2851

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FBI's latest victim of their frequent attempts to create terrorist attacks for them to foil: white guy in Oklahoma who admired Timothy McVeigh and thought he was detonating a 1,000 pound bomb outside an Oklahoma City bank

08-14-2017 , 04:34 PM

#2852

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Missouri high school removes two gay seniors' yearbook quotes referencing coming out of the closet

NAACP also issued blanket warning for people of color to travel to Missouri "at their own risk", first time they've ever done so fora a state.

08-14-2017 , 06:26 PM

#2853

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NAACP also issued blanket warning for people of color to travel to Missouri "at their own risk", first time they've ever done so fora a state.

Wow kind of speechless here.

08-14-2017 , 06:46 PM

#2854

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The whole State?? WTF.

08-14-2017 , 07:44 PM

#2855

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http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/...icle-1.3403977

Irate man spews racial hatred during 50+ second rant on train at woman he incorrectly assumes is Chinese, asserts he has the right to murder her

08-15-2017 , 07:39 AM

#2856

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Missouri high school removes two gay seniors' yearbook quotes referencing coming out of the closet

The administrators that did this should be fired. Is there going to be any form of punishment to those that removed the quotes? If not how can they not be held accountable for such actions?

08-15-2017 , 09:29 AM

#2857

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http://https://www.google.com/amp/s/...rticle/536892/

In least surprising news ever, conservative Cuban female Trump campaign aide who ended up pregnant from a married campaign aide finds herself abandoned by Trump administration, the baby-daddy, and pro-life blow yards (who also attacked her in all the usual ways even though she divided tonhave the baby). It's not clear whether she still supports Trump.

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Miller lives with his young family near Washington, D.C., where he works at a high-powered consulting firm, offers political analysis on CNN, and reportedly speaks regularly with the president and his inner-circle. Delgado, meanwhile, is living with her mother in Miami, without a job in politics, largely abandoned by the movement she helped lead to victory—and raising her and Miller’s son on her own.

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The two began dating in mid-October, Delgado said, adding that while she knew Miller was married, he told her at the time that he was separated from his wife. “Among other things, I was really drawn to his talent,” she told me. “He is the best at what he does.”

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After Trump’s surprise victory in November, Delgado and Miller both joined the transition team, where she says their relationship continued. But just a couple of weeks after Election Day, Delgado discovered she was pregnant. She held off at first on sharing the news, unsure of how Miller would take it.

“I finally told him one night when we were in bed and I couldn’t fall asleep,” she said.

Miller reacted calmly, Delgado recalled, but came back with some complicating news of his own. “Well this is going to be extra awkward for me to handle,” she remembers him saying, “because my wife is expecting.”

Not comprehending at first, Delgado replied, “Expecting what?”

I'm sure those pro-life people were eager to reach out and lend a helping hand.
[QUOTE][When I asked Delgado how her former colleagues and friends from the Trump campaign had treated her, she declined to comment. (Campaign employees were reportedly made to sign extensive non-disclosure agreements.) But she allowed that not everyone in the political world has been as supportive as she’d hoped. She said she was especially disappointed with many in the conservative movement that she helped marshal in 2016./QUOTE]

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“There were some...very high-profile people who are supposedly pro-life, who knew me and heard about what happened, and who didn’t reach out,” she said. “I thought it was very telling … You see these people saying, ‘Oh, we should reach out to women with unexpected pregnancies and let them know they’re not alone’—and I’m like, ‘I’m right here!’”

One leading pro-life figure with whom Delgado worked closely during the election was Kellyanne Conway, Trump’s campaign manager. In a speech at the March for Life rally last January, Conway declared, “Our message and our positive action must also reach those women who face unplanned pregnancies. They should know they are not alone. They are not judged. They, too, are protected and cared for and celebrated.”

I asked Delgado if she heard from Conway during her pregnancy. “No,” she said.

I'm sure the baby daddy's life was ruinied, though, right?

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But the fallout from their affair didn’t take an equal toll on their lives and careers. After returning home to and reconciling with his wife, Miller joined the consulting firm Teneo, signed a contract with CNN as an on-air contributor, and has reportedly continued to advise the White House in an informal capacity.

Delgado did not join the White House staff, or land a plum appointment in a cabinet agency, and she stopped getting booked as a Trump surrogate on television. Instead, she moved in with her mother in Miami, and looked for work there.

08-15-2017 , 10:30 AM

#2858

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That's disgusting. And so incredibly standard.

08-15-2017 , 10:56 AM

#2859

tomdemaine

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Man I never figured someone associated with donald trump would cut and run leaving behind someone vunerable in their wake. Or that trump surrogates would turn out to be spouting utter horse****. If only there had been some clue...

08-15-2017 , 11:33 AM

#2860

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I was disappointed that the article didn't get into whether Ms. Delgado was reconsidering her support for Trump or conservatives in general.

08-15-2017 , 02:43 PM

#2861

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Just your typical story about Ohio police beating up a black man for no reason at a traffic stop (with video, kinda brutal)

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A bystander captured video of an officer slamming Hubbard to the ground and punching him repeatedly before arresting him on charges of driving under suspension and resisting arrest. The footage went viral over the weekend, drawing some 6 million views on Facebook.

On Monday, police released dash-cam footage of the incident.

Both videos have left city officials, activists and outraged locals questioning whether the officer was justified in using such force against Hubbard, who appears in the recordings to be passively resisting.

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The officer can be seen sitting on top of Hubbard and punching him at least six times on his face or head while his partner stands over them. Hubbard covers his head with his arms and writhes on the pavement. At one point, he appears to lie limp, then throws up his arms again as the officer strikes him several more times.

Later, as Hubbard lies on the ground in handcuffs, one officer presses Hubbard’s face against the asphalt while the arresting officer punches him in the back of the head.

These people are ****ing animals

08-15-2017 , 03:15 PM

#2862

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

Just your typical story about Ohio police beating up a black man for no reason at a traffic stop (with video, kinda brutal)

These people are ****ing animals

It's like begging for violent uprising. Considering how this is happening over and over, the threat of possible suspension or at worst firing and the city paying for a lawsuit is no deterrence, and there's no legal recourse for people who are watching this happen in front of them, they are working their very best to make it justifiable for someone on the ground under a cop's knee to be violently liberated.

And if you're not one of the tiny percent of cops who shoot unarmed people, or the larger percent of cops who think a traffic stop is MMA practice you still put your knee on someone's head when your buddy is doing the ground and pound.

08-15-2017 , 03:59 PM

#2863

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Psychological dive into some altrighters: Psychologists surveyed hundreds of alt-right supporters. The results are unsettling. - Vox
https://apple.news/AHlaqBSZbQnKuZUu0dXz0TQ

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comparison group, on the other hand, scored all these groups in the 80s or 90s on average. (In science terms, the alt-righters were nearly a full standard deviation more extreme in their responses than the comparison group.)
“If you look at the mean dehumanization scores, they’re about at the level to the degree people in the US dehumanize ISIS,” Forscher says. “The reason why I find that so astonishing is that we’re engaged in violent conflict with ISIS.”
Dehumanization is scary. It’s the psychological trick we engage in that allows us to harm other people (because it’s easier to inflict pain on people who are not people). Historically it’s been the fuel of mass atrocities and genocide.

There's a lot more to check out.

08-15-2017 , 08:12 PM

#2864

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Psychological dive into some altrighters: Psychologists surveyed hundreds of alt-right supporters. The results are unsettling. - Vox
https://apple.news/AHlaqBSZbQnKuZUu0dXz0TQ

There's a lot more to check out.

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How Forscher and Kteily surveyed the alt-right
Forscher and Kteily got a sample of 447 self-identified alt-righters in an online survey on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (an online marketplace for gathering study participants and people for quick paid tasks) and led them through a barrage of psychological survey questions... this survey was not designed to be representative of the entire “alt-right” movement or to generalize to other right-wing-leaning groups. It’s a convenience sample of alt-righters on the internet who were willing to take a survey for a small cash reward.

lol. Cmon.

08-15-2017 , 08:44 PM

#2865

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lol. Cmon.

Sorry, wasn't trying to say it was something more than it was. The article was straight forward that its methodology was lacking. It's still an interesting read, imo.

08-16-2017 , 01:59 PM

#2866

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Two Florida KKK members and former prison guards convicted of planning to kill a black inmate who injured a fellow KKK member and guard

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The third guard, Thomas Jordan Driver, also worked at the facility, which processes new male inmates into the prison system and provides medical care for prisoners throughout the state. He pleaded guilty in March to one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and was sentenced to four years in prison.

All three men were members of a well-known Klan affiliate called the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, prosecutors said.

KKK members guarding jails...I shouldn't be surprised, especially in Florida, but JFC

08-16-2017 , 02:05 PM

#2867

MicroPimpin

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Never thought about it, but that's kind of a dream job for those guys.

08-16-2017 , 02:23 PM

#2868

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https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/...w-enforcement/

08-16-2017 , 06:31 PM

#2869

Loki

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Kat Timpf, of the Fox show “The Specialists,” said Wednesday that she’s blocked part of her Twitter feed and stopped looking at emails. A day earlier, Timpf called Trump’s news conference disgusting and said “I have too much eye makeup on to cry right now.”

Timpf said she got chills from one tweet that called her “a disgrace to the white race.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/enter...db6_story.html