Oh My God, Tear This Dude Apart

mostly news, me trying to add sources to posts that don't include them, spreading information literacy like the neurotic nerd that I am

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Daily chart: Vladimir Putin’s unshakeable popularity

The Russian president’s stubbornly defiant popularity ratings

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Bernie Sanders marching behind Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1963 March on Washington DC.

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I like that seeing him everywhere in historic photos is like playing Where’s Waldo

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http://www.snopes.com/sanders-mlk-selma-march/ Fact check a single goddamn thing ever please

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A police officer was struck by a snowball in Boston during a huge public snowball fight. So naturally he tased a kid and pushed his face in the snow for several minutes, which caused a crowd to circle the officer in protest. This is a raw image from someone at the scene. **not mine**

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Wow

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We tired of this bullshit

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You cant even have fun anymore.

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Okay but wait, if you fact-check this one (here’s one article about the incident) it was a campus security officer (not a real cop) at Boston University who was trying to get the kids to disperse so that emergency crews could get through, when some punk pegged him in the face with a snowball. He couldn’t have tazed him because BU’s campus security officers don’t have tasers. 

His reaction was definitely way over the top and probably a fireable offense, but the situation isn’t quite what the OP is implying. 

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Today's Slaves Often Work For Enterprises That Destroy The Environment

Kevin Bales' book, Blood and Earth, explains why slavery in the world's lawless zones is essential to operate mines that pose a grave threat to the environment.

excerpt:

DAVIES: You founded the organization Free the Slaves. How does it fight slavery?

BALES: Well, the key way that it works is that it works with other organizations in the - primarily in the developing world to carry out actions that are - will intervene and liberate people from slavery. So the first thing to be clear about that is, you know, it's not about parachuting Americans into Bangladesh or northern India or Brazil and then sometimes somehow finding a way to help people out of slavery. It's about working with those people who have often been enslaved themselves and want to work to bring freedom to others and then about providing them with resources, with training, with connections and with the protection that comes with a first-world organization making it clear to local governments we're watching out for these people as well. We're also very interested in their success, as you should be. So it's all about empowering the people on the ground who know best how to find people in slavery and how to get them out.

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President Putin 'probably' approved Litvinenko murder - BBC News

The murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko in 2006 was "probably" approved by President Vladimir Putin, a public inquiry concludes.

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A year before the next president takes office, voters are skeptical that any of the leading 2016 candidates would make a good president. Moreover, of nine candidates included in the survey, far more voters say each would make a “terrible” than “great” president.

Voters Skeptical That 2016 Candidates Would Make Good Presidents

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“This combination of two satellite images provided by DigitalGlobe, taken on March 31, 2011, top, and Sept. 28, 2014, shows the site of the 1,400-year-old Christian monastery known as St. Elijah’s, or Dair Mar Elia, on the outskirts of Mosul, Iraq. These satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press in January 2016 confirm what church leaders and Middle East preservationists had feared: The monastery has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the Islamic State's relentless destruction. (DigitalGlobe via AP)”

“This photo taken in the 1920s shows a ceremony at the Mar Matai monastery in Mosul, Iraq, where a Christian community thrived for centuries. Satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press in January 2016 confirm the community’s oldest place of worship, the 1,400-year-old St. Elijah’s Monastery, has been reduced to a field of rubble, yet another victim of the Islamic State's relentless destruction. (Otrakji family collection on mideastimage.com via AP)”

Jan. 20, 2016 12:07 PM EST

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“A Pakistani mother cries after her son was injured in an attack in Charsadda town, some 35... Read more”

Jan. 20, 2016 11:12 AM EST

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8 notes on a post made not by little old me with single digit followers but by REUTERS! No one can say the media ISN’T covering this.

I get it that for some Tumblr users their dash is their “safe space” and all of you are free to do what you please with your blogs, I’m not trying to force everyone to reblog disturbing news. However, there are plenty of people who spend a considerable amount of time complaining about what the media does/doesn’t cover and yet I see posts like this one made by reputable sources with a dismal amount of notes. Come on everyone, get your act together, keep track of reputable news sources before you start complaining.

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Islamic State assault on Jakarta

Islamic State militants launched a gun and bomb assault on Indonesia’s capital, marking the first assault on the Muslim-majority country by the radical group.

Full gallery

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Think You’re Smarter Than a Slate Social Media Guru? Find Out With This Week’s News Quiz.

Welcome back to Slate’s weekly news quiz. I’m your host, 74-time Jeopardy! winner Ken Jennings. Every Friday I’ll be testing your knowledge with 12 challen

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'El Chapo' caught, Mexico says - CNN.com

Drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been captured by Mexican authorities in a bloody raid aimed at one of the world's most notorious and slippery criminals.

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In 21 states, local newspapers lack a dedicated reporter keeping tabs on Congress

Between 2009 and 2014, the number of Washington-based reporters for local newspapers accredited by the Senate to cover Congress declined by 11%.