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JUST IN: Man sentenced to 7 life terms, 140 years in Arizona shooting

Tucson News Now: Convicted mass shooter Jared Loughner has been sentenced to 7 life terms in prison plus 140 years in the Arizona shooting that killed 6 and wounded 13, including former US Rep Gabrielle Giffords.

Giffords stood next to her husband Mark Kelly at the sentencing, as he read a statement. “For the first and last time, you’re going to hear from Gabby and me,” Kelly said. “Pay attention.”

Photo: Former US Rep Gabrielle Giffords. (Saul Loeb / EPA)

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Il Sole 24 Ore

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So. some company has developed a Justin Bieber sex doll. nbd. It's a really good look a-like and it's called a "Just-In Beaver"....

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This is an awesome video/article of the Australian PM being offended by misogyny. Who woulda thunk.

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New York.

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TUMBLE THE VOTE!

Tomorrow is The Big Day - and while all our blogging and live GIFing has undoubtedly prepared you to exercise your civic duty with glee, here are a few more Tumblrs we recommend consulting in these last remaining hours to equip, inform, entertain and inspire you:

Our Time - Pledge to vote today & prep for tomorrow by looking up your polling place. Watch their newest video from Errol Morris to find out how to respond to your friends who say they’re not voting.

TheBallot.org - It’s easy to lose sight of the fact that there’s a lot more at stake in this election than who fills the office of the President. Hit up TheBallot to familiarize yourself with your local ticket, customize your ballot, and share with friends to help inform their vote.

#GOVOTE - Over 100 artists have contributed new, original designs to the movement to Get Out The Vote on Nov 6. Collect them all!

CNN’s Change the List - Can this new experimental project from CNN succeed in moving Hawaii up the ranks from the lowest voter turnout in America? Stay tuned…

Current TV- Welcome Current to Tumblr this election season by following their election day live-tumbling tomorrow.

Dispatch - A new app from Columbia, Stanford, and Tumblr will be beta-tested on Election Day in NYC - sign up to be part of the testing team, or just tune in tomorrow for live photographic coverage of New Yorkers’ post-Sandy experience at the polls.

We’re excited to have our final, all-star team of guest editors Ari Melber & ShortFormBlog continuing their work right here through Election Day (or until we have a President-elect, whichever comes first). And you can always track the Election 2012 tag for much more election-related content from across the Tumblrverse.

Finally, to celebrate Election Day on Tumblr we’re mashing up GPOY with GOTV and asking you to post photos of yourself voting/at your polling place/with your ballot ready to mail in/wearing your “I Voted” sticker and tag it #GPOTV. If you’ve already voted early, start posting now!

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To all of you eligible voters in the USA - get out there tomorrow and make us proud!

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Tumblr was born and raised in New York City. Like many of you, it breaks our hearts to see our neighbors — those in New York, New Jersey, and the surrounding areas — experience such loss and hardship in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

With hundreds of thousands still without power, water, and other...

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Remember when Lucas sold his production company to Disney for 4.05 billion$? Here's how some of the internet reacted.

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So a guy is travelling the country with a hanging effigy of obama.

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Some incredible shots of what happened during/after Hurricane Sandy

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Japan protests another US troop-related incident

Associated Press: A U.S. airman is suspected of assaulting a young boy Friday on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, authorities said. The incident comes just two weeks after a curfew was imposed on all 52,000 U.S. troops in Japan over the arrest of two Navy sailors for allegedly raping a local woman.

Japan’s Foreign Ministry said the government had lodged a formal complaint with U.S. Ambassador John Roos.

Photo: An apartment where authorities say a 24-year-old U.S. airman is suspected of entering and punching a young boy on the island of Okinawa, southern Japan. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

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Pretty interesting article on how the very nature of language changes on a social media site like twitter through slang expressions, how globalization spreads these changes.

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So. big storm. What do these people do? NOT CARE.

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Appeals court upholds ban on handgun sales to buyers under 21

The United States may ban federally licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns to people under age 21, an appeals court ruled on Thursday, in a defeat for the National Rifle Association.

Reuters reported that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in Houston rejected the NRA’s argument that 18- to 20-year-olds had a right to buy the guns under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment.

More from Reuters here.

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Reddit troll revealed, society hates girls because of the potential power of girls etc.

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How WILL our politicians deal with the internet? They can't do anything anymore without it being blogged/tweeted or something like all of that and they also can't win if they don't have a website or a social media following ie facebook page that you can like or a twitter they can follow.

…the digital revolution has at last harnessed technology to express the “collective brain” of humanity.