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[egberts]

“The forbidden words are “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” “diversity,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “evidence-based” and “science-based.””

Read the full article here and prepare to be baffled.

[bob-belcher]

Sean Spicer making an appearance at the 2017 Emmy’s + celebrity reactions

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[zazorok]

[brainstatic]

The prosecutor who subpoenaed and cross-examined Hitler in 1931 for a murder trial against four brownshirts was a Jewish lawyer named Hans Litten. The three-hour testimony left Hitler so unnerved and humiliated that he forbade anyone speak Litten’s name in his presence, and he was killed in a concentration camp. Today, the German bar association is called the Hans Litten Association, and every year they give out the Hans Litten Award for excellence in the legal profession. That’s how you commemorate history. 

[cheeseandvegemite]

don’t worry, australia. your turn will come.

[the-movemnt-deactivated20170912]

"Decrying white supremacists is all well and good. But it’s not helpful unless we can do so when they’re not screaming in our faces — when the culprits are less obvious than alt-right activists and torch-waving Klansmen; when they are our friends, our neighbors and our families. Opposing hate rallies is just the beginning. The real challenge is identifying white supremacy in the shadows, and in ourselves.”

— Zak Cheney-Rice, It’s not enough to be disgusted by Charlottesville

follow @the-movemnt

[kuulam]

[meetingthestoryteller]

[stankyleg-deactivated2918973]

That last part hurt my heart

[republicansareahategroup]

Doxxing White Supremacists Is Making Them Terrified

“It’s hard to get a job, hard to make a living, hard to have a normal social life when all your friends and family know you believe in ethnic cleansing.”

GOOD

[kittykat8311]

DESTROY THEIR LIVES

[vaspider]

Let me be clear, as much as I want to just respond CRY MORE, BABIES I object to the use of the word ‘doxxing’ in this case.

I have BEEN doxxed. I have been stalked online. I have had people go through my journals and my pictures to try to identify me for malicious purposes. I have had people search me on court websites to try to find the charges I filed against an ex when he stole from me, for the purposes of trying to humiliate me about an online roleplaying game. (No, really.) I’ve had people try to match up pictures of the flowers outside my synagogue and the building in the background with pictures of synagogues in the Philly area to try to fuck with my life.

So I know the kind of gut-clenching, cold down the back of your neck, hands-shaking fear that comes with being doxxed. I do. It’s happened to me more than once. It will probably happen to me again, because I’m a loud fat queer femme Jewish disabled activist, and boy does that piss people off.

But let me be clear: I was existing as a person that someone else didn’t like in those cases. I was existing as queer, I was existing as ‘someone I don’t like on a game.’ I was not showing up in public, carrying a torch, and advocating for the massacre of millions of people. When you show up in public carrying a torch, you are not being doxxed.

You are being IDENTIFIED.

[roachpatrol]

i feel like this articulates the difference between doxxing, which is a violation of someone’s online privacy, and identification, which is holding citizens accountable for their public actions. i don’t think doxxing is ever ‘okay so long as you do it to bad guys’, no matter how bad you think those guys are. you have to hold on to your principles even when you’re really, really mad. 

but i am all for assholes who show up in public waving torches and advocating genocide without even putting on a fucking mask having to face some fucking consequences when someone says ‘hey, that’s richard from accounting’. 

[theauspolchronicles]

Aus Gov Just Googled is one of the most amazing funny twitters I’ve seen and everyone should follow it

[mlk92]

[gregxb]

[roane72]

*cough* hey ACLU.

[sale-aholic-deactivated20190809]

*There is NO real oppression for these White racists.*

They have never been oppressed and probably never will.

They just don’t want to be equal to others.

[fyeahbroadway]

[selenas]

When a 15 year old white girl gets it and more than half of the self proclaimed feminist white men and women dont

[brilliantlyhorrid]

[knitmeapony]

This is still one of the best executed jokes I’ve ever seen

[micdotcom]

Infamous “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli found guilty of securities fraud

Martin Shkreli — the former pharmaceutical company CEO best known for raising the price of a drug taken by AIDS patients by 5,000% — has been found guilty on three counts in his trial for securities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Shkreli, 34, was facing eight counts for his involvement in a money-making scheme from at least 2009 to 2014. During that time he is believed to have misled investors and covered up losses by doling out stock in Retrophin, his pharmaceutical company.

Shkreli, who also gained notoriety for his behavior on Twitter — specifically for harassing journalist Lauren Duca — faced up to 20 years in prison, though NBC New York reported he will likely receive “far less” time than that. Read more. (8/4/2017 3:23 PM)