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This is more punk than the whole of punk history.

I’ll tell you what’s ferocious. Freddie’s comeback to Sid calling him “Freddie Platinum” when they were recording down the hall from each other at London’s Wessex Studios (Queen for News of the World, Pistols for Bollocks).

Sid Vicious made the mistake one day of bursting into Queen’s control room and antagonizing their frontman. “Have you succeeded in bringing ballet to the masses, then?” he sneered. “Oh, yes, Simon Ferocious,” Mercury replied. “We’re trying our best, dear.”

Then, according to Queen biographer Daniel Nester, Freddie rose from his chair and began to playfully flick the safety pins displayed on the front of Sid’s leather jacket. “Tell me,” he asked, “did you arrange these pins just so?” When Sid stepped forward in an attempt to intimidate Freddie, the singer simply pushed him backwards and inquired, “What are you going to do about it?” Sid immediately backed down. [x]

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This is a blessed story

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Freddie Mercury was the best ever

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DHS plans to use credit-scores to judge who may become a citizen

The US Department of Homeland Security has published a new proposed rule that would make people ineligible for US citizenship if their credit-scores were poor.

Notionally, the rule-change is meant to prevent immigrants from becoming burdens on the welfare system (migrants do not make disproportionate use of any public welfare system).

However, the credit reporting bureaus are notoriously inaccurate and arbitrary in the credit-scores they assign; if you have a lot of assets but do not borrow money, you will have a much lower credit-rating than if you unwisely enroll in a number of high cost/high fee store cards and pay them off after running up debts on them and paying significant interest (I am allergic to debt, and with the exception of my mortgage have no debts at all; because of this I have a fairly low credit-score, despite the fact that both my wife and I earn very good livings).

What’s more, the credit-reporting sector is riddled with security holes; notoriously, Equifax doxxed the entire adult population of America by breaching more than 150 million residents’ financial data. Integrating credit scores into the immigration process will grant the bureaux a permanent government contract and funnel tax-dollars to them forever, despite their routine errors, racial bias, and spurious guilt-by-statistical-association.

Finally, the DHS’s change is an appeal to selfishness and cruelty: if America is unwilling to accept migrants who are indigent or who need assistance, what does it say about us as a nation?

It’s a Made-in-America version of China’s notorious Citizen Scores.

https://boingboing.net/2018/11/25/equifax-america.html

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Well I’m fucked

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Quito, Ecuador | André Leite Araujo

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So, uhm…Colin’s look in this pic…yea…Them Thom’s on top of that? Getting major predatory vibes here…*shudders*

The White House will spin Trump's "six-month delay" as a soft solution. It's nonsense.

How dire is the situation? This article points everything out, in detail. Scariest one:

"Dreamers divulged information to the government, expecting that their information would not be shared. The information includes not only potentially incriminating information like date of initial entry and length of stay in the United States, but also details like their names, addresses, school information and Social Security numbers — precisely what the government needs to locate and detain them quickly. … using such information would constitute entrapment."

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Re: DACA

To all those people who claimed Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are basically “two of the same evils” and therefore stayed home and didn’t vote or voted third party:

Go

Fuck

Yourself

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Weareheretostay.org

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Cher is a blessing💗

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First we’ll live.

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Hero of Season 7.

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Māoris of ‘C’ Company, 28th Māori Battalion of the 2nd New Zealand Division

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Members of the Māori Battalion’s C Company perform a haka for the King of Greece at Helwan, Egypt, on 25 June 1941. The four men in the foreground are, left to right: John Manuel (from Rangitukia, killed in action), Maaka (Bill) White (Wharekāhika, killed in action), Te Kooti (Scotty) Reihana (Rangitukia, wounded but survived), Rangi Henderson (Te Araroa, killed in action).

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Kit Harington photographed by Jake Chessum (2013)

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“In that way, you’ve acknowledged that you’re unsure, that you don’t know what to do or say. You’ve acknowledged that you see them. They feel seen. They feel heard and acknowledged, which is huge for someone who’s in crisis.” Wentworth Miller | Q&A at Oxford Union | 2016 | x