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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."
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13. City hall: Public art Spider-Man hands confused for devil horns, called anti-Christian

The sculpture of red-and-black hands shooting a spiderweb near the Lincoln Children's Zoo offended a Lincoln woman so much she wrote to Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird demanding city action.
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City hall: Public art Spiderman hands confused for devil horns, called anti-Christian
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A local woman complained to the city that a sculpture titled "Spiderman" by artist Ian Anthony Laing at the intersection of 27th Street and Capitol Parkway looks satanic.
FRANCIS GARDLER, JOURNAL STAR


The sculpture of red-and-black hands shooting a spiderweb near the Lincoln Children's Zoo offended a Lincoln woman so much she wrote to Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird demanding city action.
"It is a sculpture of two hands open, painted Red & Black, and formed into Devil Horns," she wrote in an email Friday, calling the art anti-Christian, demonic, and completely inappropriate for showcase near a family attraction.
She demanded the city move the 6-foot Spiderman sculpture because it's ugly, perverse and a "hate crime against the church."


However, as city ombudsman Lin Quenzer explained to the concerned citizen, it wasn't devil horns or a city issue at all.
It's one of 50 sculptures installed across the city in the "Serving Hands Lincoln" public art project, which will benefit Campus Life.
Matt Schulte, the nonprofit group's executive director, concurred with Quenzer, and further explained the colors are an ode to the more recent depictions of the super hero, who traditionally had sported blue and red.
"The sculpture is most definitely not a devil-related sculpture," Schulte said in a response to the concerned woman. "It clearly has a very playful child-like intent."
He praised the community support for and excitement about the sculptures.
And Quenzer told the woman the city would not seek to remove the sculpture.
Want to lay claim to Spiderman's hands?
The sculpture and others in the public art series will be auctioned Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. at Pinnacle Bank Arena.
Two-thirds of the auction proceeds will benefit Campus Life, with the remaining one-third of each sculpture's price going to the artist
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Someone needs to tell this woman that the Satanic Panic ended 30 years ago
 
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Since I can no longer make threads I'm gonna post this here.

A Melania Trump tree statue gets mixed reviews in her Slovenian hometown

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Melania Trump has made a surprise reappearance near her Slovenian hometown of Sevnica, emerging from a tree stump in the form of a rustic wood statue.

While the sleepy town of 5,000 has profited from its most famous daughter -- placing itself firmly on the tourist trail, selling a range of Melania-themedproducts including honey, chocolate and cake -- the US first lady's latest reincarnation has divided opinion.

US artist Brad Downey commissioned the life-size statue from local chainsaw sculptor Ales Zupevc, better known as Maxi, who was born in the same year and same hospital as the first lady, but whose life took a very different path.

The creation of the sculpture forms part of a documentary filmed by Downey, which was presented as part of his latest exhibition, "Slow Motion Disasters," at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien gallery in Berlin. The documentary will also be shown at his exhibition in the Slovenian capital Ljubljana.

For the film, Downey spent several months filming interviews with Maxi around the town, creating an intimate impression of the first lady's roots in the alpine country, and the life of an individual still living there, he told CNN.

"I don't know her personally, but she's my age," Maxi says in the film. "We were both born in April. All the more reason to make the statue. Being born the same year, the same month. She might come and see the thing. She might like it."

Maxi acknowledges the sharp divergence of his and Melania's lives, despite the fact they came from the same humble roots. "Let's face it, she owns half of America while I have nothing," he says.


Nadia Pilchowski, a curator at the gallery, notes that the film offers a "personal portrait of Maxi and his thoughts about Slovenia, the USA, Europe, immigration and class division."

"Through these interviews the film attempts to capture the spirit of Slovenia, which seems to be mirrored in Maxi's interactions with his family, environment and his feelings about art, God, love and country," she writes in a foreword to the exhibition."By focusing on one working class man's portrayal of a public and internationally known personality, the film offers insights on local and global problems and policies illuminated by the USA and Europe and beyond."

The sculpture was carved on a plinth of a linden tree in a field on the outskirts of Rozno, a village about five miles from Sevnica.

The work does not attempt to create an exact likeness of the American first lady, but rather hints at her appearance.

She has been carved wearing a pale blue wraparound outfit, mirroring the one she wore to the inauguration of her husband, President Donald Trump, in 2017.

Downey told CNN that he was inspired to create the piece due to what he calls the "anti-immigration narrative" coming out of the US and from Donald Trump in particular. He noted that it was a "blatant contradiction" to have a president, who has made halting immigration a cornerstone of his presidency, married to an immigrant whose first language is not English.

He also claimed that the work is the first monument in the world dedicated to this first lady.

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Despite Downey's political message behind the work, the sculpture has received mixed reviews from locals.
"If the monument was meant to be a parody, then the artist has been successful," one individual told Agence France-Presse. "We in Sevnica can only laugh and, at the same time, hold our heads in our hands over their (the Trumps') catastrophic reputation."
Another individual wrote on Instagram: "So sad that you killed a beautiful, healthy, carbon-sequestering tree for selfish and self-serving reasons."
The project has nevertheless received positive responses from fans. "Brad, I think this is my favorite project of yours," one individual wrote on Instagram.

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I for one love the new statue. I'm wondering what those white drip stains going down her dress are...
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I love how the drip stains represent two different things at the same time.
 
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Iowa official out of a job after sharing inspirational Tupac Shakur quotes

Jerry Foxhoven, former director of Iowa's Department of Human Services, was asked to resign after sending an email reminding his colleagues that Father's Day and Tupac's birthday were coming.
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I'm not going to chase down all the articles associated with this, but it's fucking amazing.
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He did nothing wrong. I get that Tupac was just a meme who happened to die right as he reached the apex of his career but still. The man was a prophet.


Did I ever tell you about the time I got stoned and talked to Jesus and Tupac
 
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Iowa official out of a job after sharing inspirational Tupac Shakur quotes

Jerry Foxhoven, former director of Iowa's Department of Human Services, was asked to resign after sending an email reminding his colleagues that Father's Day and Tupac's birthday were coming.
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I'm not going to chase down all the articles associated with this, but it's fucking amazing.
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Sounds like he was fired for being a reply all sperg and the company was sick of the spam email coming from within the building.
 
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Public Statement on Neutrality of Free Software | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

In the past week, a controversy around F-Droid took place at its forum and in the fediverse. We feel like we have to put out a public statement to clear F-Dr...
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FDroid comes out as anti-free speech. The commie doublespeak is great. "Free speech is great, except people who don't agree with us might get to speak, and that's bad."

This is specifically in regards to Gab's Fediverse thing. Basically, they're cheering on app devs trying to block Gab in their Mastodon apps and censoring any Mastodon apps that include Gab as a pre-configured option.
 
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Chris Pratt Is in Hot Water for This Controversial T-Shirt & the Internet Has Thoughts

In a surprising about-face from his normally positive public reception, there seems to be mounting criticism over Chris Pratt’s controversial American flag shirt. The Jurassic World star was spotted out-and-about earlier this week with new wife Katherine Schwarzenegger wearing an at-first-glance...
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Chris Pratt wears patriotic shirt.
Idiots flip out about his racism.

But telling folks to leave the super-nazi-racist-nation is also racism.
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Flexo said:
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Chris Pratt Is in Hot Water for This Controversial T-Shirt & the Internet Has Thoughts

In a surprising about-face from his normally positive public reception, there seems to be mounting criticism over Chris Pratt’s controversial American flag shirt. The Jurassic World star was spotted out-and-about earlier this week with new wife Katherine Schwarzenegger wearing an at-first-glance...
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Chris Pratt wears patriotic shirt.
Idiots flip out about his racism.

But telling folks to leave the super-nazi-racist-nation is also racism.
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Lol mounting criticism my ass. They're trying to get people mad about a "don't tread on me" shirt. From what I've seen, almost nobody is buying it.
 
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Border Patrol Detains 3 Kids At O'Hare Airport For Hours
CHICAGO, IL — Three minor children who are U.S. citizens are being held at O'Hare International Airport until their parents, who are undocumented immigrants, can pick them up. The incident started around 3 a.m. Thursday, when U.S. Customs and Border Patrol rejected the tourist visa of a cousin who was traveling with the children from Mexico, Anna Maran, organizing director at PASO, the West Suburban Action Project said.
Maran told Patch that the cousin's tourist visa was valid, but was denied, which left three children between the ages of 9 and 13 at O'Hare without an adult guardian.
According to Maran, Customs and Border Patrol contacted the children's parents to tell them they would have to pick them up. The parents then reached out to the Mexican Consulate because they were "afraid of being taken into custody or deported themselves if they went to the airport," Maran said.

PASO was contacted by the consulate, which arranged to get the parents' permission to release the children into the custody of PASO's immigration lawyer, Mony Ruiz-Velasco.
Just before 4 p.m., Maran told Patch that Customs and Border Patrol had been reviewing Ruiz-Velasco's request for over an hour.
"They said it would be 10 or 15 minutes," Maran said.
The incident brought dozens of protesters to O'Hare International Airport carrying signs that read "Free the Kids" and "Stop ICE." They were joined by public figures that included Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D, IL-9) and Anthony Clark, a Congressional candidate and local activist.
Clark shared a video of Schakowsky as she spoke out:
Schakowsky said, "I am to demand an explanation why they would waylay these two children," she said, referring to two girls and their cousin. "I'm going to go in and see why our government is acting this way to three minors that have every right to travel, three citizens of the United States of America."
Schakowsky added, "I feel that it's a kind of kidnapping of children by our government and I am very fed up with what we are doing."
She said she brought all her identification to talk to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol as a U.S. Congresswoman. "Let them try and keep me out," she said.

Apparently it's ICE's fault that three citizen children of illegal immigrants cannot travel, because they have no legal guardian.
 
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