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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."

 

[AlexJonesGotMePregnant]

Feds: Forgery operation produced over 10,000 fake documents

A man from a primarily Hispanic town in Oregon has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to produce false documents after agents found a document-forging lab in his.

www.charlotteobserver.com

If the little doc shop kept records of all their forgeries, seems like ICE should have a lot to work with. Curious how the open-borders folks are gonna react to this massive criminal conspiracy.

 

[Corbin Dallas Multipass]

If the little doc shop kept records of all their forgeries, seems like ICE should have a lot to work with. Curious how the open-borders folks are gonna react to this massive criminal conspiracy.

Simple. It doesn't exist, you alt right russian troll bot.

 

[Glad I couldn't help]

Barbie releases first ever Maori doll modelled on New Zealand journalist

The toy is modelled on New Zealand sports journalist Melodie Robinson, a former rugby union player.

www.bbc.com

Abo Barbie when?

 

[GrungyLawnChlorinate]

10 of the best female-only trips for solo travellers

Get inspired by these holidays aimed at adventurous women

www.independent.co.uk

All hail adventurous women: solo female travel is on the rise, according to new research.

Interest in these types of holidays has risen by 131 per cent over the past two years, according to Google Trends. Meanwhile, a Culture Trip survey of 10,500 respondents found that one-in-three women (34 per cent) said they’d be interested in flying solo in future, compared to just one in seven (14 per cent) who’d taken a trip on their own in the previous five years.

A British Airways study of almost 9,000 18 to 64-year-olds across the UK, US, France, India, Germany, Italy, Brazil and China in 2018 found that more than 50 per cent of women have taken a holiday by themselves, with 75 per cent of women planning a solo trip in the next few years.
We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view.

From 15p €0.18 $0.18 USD 0.27 a day, more exclusives, analysis and extras.

Ahead of International Women’s Day 2019 (8 March), and on behalf of adventurous females everywhere, here are 10 of the best trips for SoWAs – Solo Women Adventurers.

Hike in Morocco

Intrepid Travel has launched new limited edition women’s expeditions, which are all about “breaking down barriers, fostering discussion and creating immersive local experiences for women that are ordinarily off limits on our regular group departures”.

Its Morocco Women’s Expedition is an off-map hiking adventure starting in Marrakech and going via the Bougmez Valley and the foothills of Azourki, before travellers get the chance to visit a women’s rug-weaving co-op in Talsanant. An eight-day tour costs £675pp, including seven nights’ B&B accommodation, four lunches, five dinners, transfers and a range of activities, from a local folklore workshop to a Berber makeup workshop.

Solo Female Off-map Hike in Morrocco

for International Women's Day.

"immersive local experiences for women that are ordinarily off limits"

Oof.

 

[Dracula's Spirit Animal]

10 of the best female-only trips for solo travellers

Get inspired by these holidays aimed at adventurous women

www.independent.co.uk

Solo Female Off-map Hike in Morrocco

for International Women's Day.

"immersive local experiences for women that are ordinarily off limits"

Oof.

That's kind of an irresponsible article for them to post. We just saw that girl beheaded and likely raped in Morocco a couple of weeks ago. Makes me wonder wtf is up with the editors. Killing and raping white girls is completely fine if it's done by brown people, apparently.

 

[millais]

Such a big chunk of their GDP is derived from tourism that I think after the last double murder, they probably locked up everyone on their terrorist/radicalised watchlist in an attempt to forestall future murders of foreign tourists.

 

[Dracula's Spirit Animal]

Such a big chunk of their GDP is derived from tourism that I think after the last double murder, they probably locked up everyone on their terrorist/radicalised watchlist in an attempt to forestall future murders of foreign tourists.

That seems incredibly optimistic. It would be tens of thousands of people, unless their list is entirely ineffectual and anemic. That'd be pretty much a purge. Even if the media didn't cover Rwanda, or Gilets Jaunes nowadays enough, it's/was still covered. I can't imagine there wouldn't be SOMETHING coming out about mass lock ups and government purges in SOME fringe media. And a few weeks after that happened to those girls? Even effective intelligence and policing, like most western powers, or Russia, or China, couldn't expect to enforce it that quick.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't buy any government bureaucracy, even security, especially in a shithole, could effectively turn their country from a place where ignorant girls are randomly getting beheaded and likely raped, into a reccommended tourist locale. We're talking what: Three weeks-ish? Was it longer? Maybe six weeks?

It's terribly irresponsible for a major western media authority to give girls the idea to do that at this point. Maybe in three or four years, when there have been enough hardnened maniacs and random men doing it successfully, but this is silly. It seems more like propaganda and whitewashing to me.

 

[millais]

That seems incredibly optimistic. It would be tens of thousands of people, unless their list is entirely ineffectual and anemic. That'd be pretty much a purge. Even if the media didn't cover Rwanda, or Gilets Jaunes nowadays enough, it's/was still covered. I can't imagine there wouldn't be SOMETHING coming out about mass lock ups and government purges in SOME fringe media. And a few weeks after that happened to those girls? Even effective intelligence and policing, like most western powers, or Russia, or China, couldn't expect to enforce it that quick.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't buy any government bureaucracy, even security, especially in a shithole, could effectively turn their country from a place where ignorant girls are randomly getting beheaded and likely raped, into a reccommended tourist locale. We're talking what: Three weeks-ish? Was it longer? Maybe six weeks?

It's terribly irresponsible for a major western media authority to give girls the idea to do that at this point. Maybe in three or four years, when there have been enough hardnened maniacs and random men doing it successfully, but this is silly. It seems more like propaganda and whitewashing to me.

It's a pretty secular country; they should be able to narrow down the Islamic militants and crazies with relative ease. I think the murderers in the double murder were already on their watchlist. Their biggest terrorism problem concerns the Sahrawi republican separatists in the south, with Islamic affiliated terrorists being rare as hen's teeth.

 

[ICametoLurk]

The BBC celebrated International Women's Day the way you would except it to

There is nothing that screams REBELLION like having a full face veil imposed on women by men for reasons of religious modesty. It was banned in public by the way because it has been used to hide escaping terrorists.

 

[Guardian G.I.]

In St. Petersburg, Russia, members of a pro-Putin activist group "Сеть" (conspiratards obsessed with fighting the "Anglo-Saxon world government") barged into a "male-free" feminist cafe "Simona", which is run by local radical feminists. The intruders wanted to congratulate them with the International Women's Day; they even brought flowers:

The radfems did not appreciate the gesture, flipped the fuck out and attacked the Putinists with pepper spray.

Before that, some guy on Twitter wrote a complaint about the radfem cafe to the local authorities, citing Russian Civil Code's Article 426, paragraphs 1 and 3, that forbid discrimination against customers in cafes and restaurants. The Russian authorities apparently ignored it.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

The BBC celebrated International Women's Day the way you would except it to

There is nothing that screams REBELLION like having a full face veil imposed on women by men for reasons of religious modesty. It was banned in public by the way because it has been used to hide escaping terrorists.

Last time they counted, I think we have 40-50 of those in the entire country? The full trashbag variant. Some rich muslim dude even offered to pay off the fines they've earned from wearing them, and lo behold, nobody met up.

It's such VICE bait.

 

[Silence of the Troons]

The BBC celebrated International Women's Day the way you would except it to

There is nothing that screams REBELLION like having a full face veil imposed on women by men for reasons of religious modesty. It was banned in public by the way because it has been used to hide escaping terrorists.

And how much does this woman care about the rights of women outside of those who also wear the veil by will?

Media outlets like the BBC always say we must accommodate to the needs of these women and listen to them when they say they want to wear it, but they never ask themselves WHY it is that they want to look like the Phantom Plot.

 

[Francis E. Dec Esc.]

Man Storms Taco Bell, Makes Own Mexican Pizza

MARCH 8--A drive-thru customer enraged by the paucity of meat on his Mexican pizza stormed a Taco Bell in South Carolina and “walked into the kitchen area and began making his own food,” police repor

thesmokinggun.com

MARCH 8--A drive-thru customer enraged by the paucity of meat on his Mexican pizza stormed a Taco Bell in South Carolina and “walked into the kitchen area and began making his own food,” police report.


According to cops, the suspect entered the Taco Bell in Spartanburg Wednesday afternoon complaining that “there was not enough meat on his Mexican pizza.”

A store employee told cops that she “re-made the suspect’s food.”


The man, however, was equally displeased with his second pizza and demanded a refund. When told that was not possible since a manager was not on the premises, the suspect became “enraged,” declaring that he “would show the employees how to make his food the appropriate way,” according to a police report.


The man then “walked behind the counter into the kitchen area and began making his own food.” A Taco Bell worker noted that the suspect “did not follow proper health/safety guidelines” by not wearing “protective gloves while making his food.”


The Taco Bell employee said the suspect “made himself another Mexican pizza and subsequently left the store and premises.” The man, the worker said, “was angry and upset throughout his time in the facility” and used foul language in response to her repeated demands to leave the Taco Bell.


Investigators described the Mexican pizza enthusiast as a black man with “braids/dreadlocks” in his late-20s or early-30s. The man, dressed in a a dark sweatshirt and gray pants, left the restaurant in a late-model Dodge Challenger driven by a woman who never entered the restaurant.


Police expect to retrieve video surveillance footage recorded by Taco Bell security cameras. If apprehended, the suspect faces possible misdemeanor larceny and trespass charges. (1 page)

 

[GrungyLawnChlorinate]

Iowa Supreme Court rules that Medicaid can cover sex reassignment surgery

“This decision will, quite literally, save lives," said Daniel Hoffman-Zinnel, the executive director of One Iowa.

www.nbcnews.com

“So many people still don’t understand that this is not something we need for trivial or cosmetic reasons,” Good said. “It’s medical care a doctor is recommending for someone who has a medical need for it."

Almost no dental or orafacial medical care is covered, but elective mutilation surgery to treat mental illness is totally cool. Priorities straightened!

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

Iowa Supreme Court rules that Medicaid can cover sex reassignment surgery

“This decision will, quite literally, save lives," said Daniel Hoffman-Zinnel, the executive director of One Iowa.

www.nbcnews.com

Almost no dental or orafacial medical care is covered, but elective mutilation surgery to treat mental illness is totally cool. Priorities straightened!

meanwhile the only form of birth control is the pill, but hey it's more important men in dresses can chop their weiners off, huh?

 

[AlexJonesGotMePregnant]

meanwhile the only form of birth control is the pill, but hey it's more important men in dresses can chop their weiners off, huh?

troonery is another type of birth control lol

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

troonery is another type of birth control lol

yah but they weren't gonna get laid in the first place. It's like not eating peanuts when you're not allergic just in case

 

[GrungyLawnChlorinate]

Vox Media Criticizes Government Subsidies — But Took Them

'Media on a government dole' raises questions about independence and more

www.michigancapitolconfidential.com

‘Media on a government dole’ raises questions about independence and more



Vox Media, the new media company that owns progressive news outlets Vox and Polygon, has accepted taxpayer-funded business subsidies from the state of New York.

The subsidies were authorized under something known as the Excelsior Jobs Program. Payments to a firm can extend for up to 10 years, and companies must meet specified job and investment thresholds. Once a company meets the threshold, it can claim refundable tax credits equal to 6.85 percent of the wages paid for each new job created.

To qualify, a company must be deemed by state economic development officials to be a strategic business that is located in or plans to locate to New York state. According to a quarterly report from the program, Vox was offered $120,000 in refundable tax credits, which generally amount to cash handouts, for 80 net new jobs in the 2016 tax year.

That Vox accepted government largesse is ironic given that the left-leaning outlet has a history of challenging and questioning business subsidies elsewhere. Last year, Vox and its subsidiary news site The Verge questioned subsidies approved by the state of Wisconsin for Foxconn, a Taiwan-based company. Another Verge story from February 2019 was titled, “Google is reportedly hiding behind shell companies to scoop up tax breaks and land.” A subhead read: “Stealthier than Amazon, but similarly disquieting.”

Whether Vox continues to receive its own subsidies may be in doubt following substantial job cuts it made early in 2018. Around 50 employees, or 5 percent of the company’s workforce, received termination notices. At the time, Vox CEO Jim Bankoff blamed the pink slips on “industry changes over the past few months,” according to Variety.

Vox’s New York subsidies have raised questions about whether government should offer financial support to media operations and whether those that accept the money can maintain their independence.

“Putting the media on a government dole threatens both the integrity and freedom of the press,” writes Cato Institute senior fellow Doug Bandow in an email. “In general, such subsidies are bad economics. In this case, the undermine our democratic system.”

Other voices have noted that direct and indirect government support for media is nothing new. This history was described in a 2010 study from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. A report on the study from a Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard listed some of the various types of government support, which include “tax breaks, postal subsidies and public notice requirements,” valued at billions of dollars.

 

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Actress Alyssa Milano: "I’m Trans. I’m a Person of Color. I’m an Immigrant...."

Most recently Alyssa Milano took to Twitter to answer if she was a transgender. She responded claiming solidarity with a number of people and groups.

boundingintocomics.com

I’m trans. I’m a person of color. I’m an immigrant. I’m a lesbian. I’m a gay man. I’m the disabled. I’m everything.

...

Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know or understand. No one wants to hurt you. We are all just looking for our happily ever after.

Just... there it is, folks.

 

[Nekromantik]

Ok but, why did someone ask her if she's transgender?