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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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This shit always builds up, its not instantaneous, many of the people detained in 1/6 are still in jail.

Wait until they get out, then we see what happens.
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Agreed. I just think they're trying to stoke the fires on purpose. Don't you think at least a few will become CIs? Gotta justify those glownigger ops, gotta justify those budgets. Maybe we'll get another Whitmer-kidnapping style fiasco to laugh at.
 
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Agreed. I just think they're trying to stoke the fires on purpose. Don't you think at least a few will become CIs? Gotta justify those glownigger ops, gotta justify those budgets. Maybe we'll get another Whitmer-kidnapping style fiasco to laugh at.
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I think we might get a few lone wolves, maybe not Veight or Breivik tier but it could get ugly.

Glowies are probably fapping to the possibility, would justify all kinds of surveillance that wont do shit to stop it anyway.
 
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He a good boy. He was drunk doing 156 MPH on a city street and killed someone but he dindu nuffin.

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Raiders release receiver Henry Ruggs III after fatal Las Vegas crash

According to police, Ruggs was driving a Chevrolet Corvette a little before 3:40 a.m. when it crashed into the rear of a Toyota Rav4 on a busy thoroughfare in a residential area several miles west of the Las Vegas Strip.
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Not much of a story yet. But we'll see if it blows up:

Racist graffiti discovered on a student apartment building near the University of Delaware​


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NEWARK, Delaware (WPVI) -- Police in Newark, Delaware, continue to investigate what led to racist graffiti on a student apartment building near the University of Delaware.

There's a tradition written in the dust on garage door window panes.

It's the names of University of Delaware students who live here along South Chapel Drive.

The dust has been wiped away in some areas, because that tradition has been marred.

Friday evening, University of Delaware officials released a statement in part reads:

"Earlier today a University of Delaware student discovered a hateful, racist message, including the n-word, written on a garage door at her off campus apartment."

But it wasn't just on one garage, police say it happened at another on the same block.

Newark Police are investigating these incidents, but so far, no arrests have been made.
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So... How much you wanna bet this student wrote the graffiti herself? She should have added a noose for extra flavor.
 
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It's nice to see some moments when the left is eating itself.
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WaPo Columnist Calls On CNN To Correct Phony Dossier Reporting--As Fake News Turns On Each Other

Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple just called on CNN to correct their dossier reporting. He pointed out that CNN claimed multiple times that the debunked dossier was mostly true.
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WaPo Columnist Calls On CNN To Correct Phony Dossier Reporting–As Fake News Turns On Each Other​

Now, we have this.


Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple just called on CNN to correct their dossier reporting.

He pointed out that CNN claimed multiple times that the debunked dossier was mostly true.

From Breitbart:

A Washington Post columnist criticized CNN for not correcting its reporting that the dossier put together by Fusion GPS and ex-British spy Christopher Steele — which claimed the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia — was “corroborated.”
The paper’s media critic, Erik Wemple, wrote Friday that CNN hosts and reporters had long-claimed the Steele dossier had been at least partially corroborated, lending credibility to the now-debunked document that consisted of opposition research against the Trump campaign paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Wemple noted that CNN host Don Lemon had said in November 2017, “Much of the dossier has been corroborated,” CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer said in June 2017, “CNN, by the way, has corroborated some elements of that dossier,” and that CNN anchor John Vause said in January 2018, “A lot has been verified.”
Wemple also wrote that a February 2017 CNN report by Evan Perez and Jim Sciutto that claimed that U.S. investigators had “corroborated some of the communications” in the dossier. “Narrow though the reporting was, it served as a springboard for broader expressions of confidence in Steele’s work,” Wemple wrote, “That brand of asymmetry helps explain why many people mistrust CNN.”
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Fake News vs Fake News…
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USA and China want to get friendly with one another to avoid war with Taiwan

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Xi-Biden summit important to avoid ‘unintended conflict’, official says

Meeting can help clarify ‘understanding of one another’s intentions’, according to the US official before the two leaders’ first virtual meeting.
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Taiwan is expected to feature in the meeting between US President Joe Biden and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Tuesday morning Beijing time (Monday night in Washington) as the pair discuss their countries’ many points of disagreement.

“This leader-level meeting is important to manage the competition” between the two countries and avoid “an unintended conflict”, a senior administration official said on Sunday at a briefing on the summit.

She said the two presidents’ first face-to-face interaction – albeit virtual – since Biden took office 10 months ago was expected to last several hours. It will be their most substantial discussion so far, after speaking by telephone on two occasions.

Biden initiated the meeting to allow dialogue “in a number of areas where we both need to have a clear understanding of one another’s intentions”, the official said. “We need to not only keep channels of communication open, but to build those common-sense guardrails to avoid miscalculation and misunderstanding.”

The summit will be scrutinised for signs of movement in US-China relations. Hostility between the sides has not only outlasted the administration of Donald Trump, who began a trade war with Beijing, but escalated in areas including the Indo-Pacific and US engagement with Taiwan.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Monday that relations were at a critical point and Xi would exchange frank views with Biden on a wide range of issues.

“We hope the US can be accommodating to China, manage differences and sensitive issues, and stick to the path of mutual respect and peaceful engagement,” he said.

Last week, a group of US lawmakers paid a surprise visit to Taiwan, organised by Washington’s de facto embassy on the self-ruled island.

Beijing called the trip an act of provocation and dispatched a military patrol towards the Taiwan Strait to test its forces’ combat readiness. It followed a visit to Taiwan in June by three US senators to discuss plans to donate Covid-19 vaccines, and talks in April between former US officials and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen – respectively prompting Beijing to issue a warning and send warplanes to harass the island.

The Chinese government has repeatedly warned Washington against having formal contact with Taiwan, which it views as a breakaway province that must be brought under its control, by force if necessary.

In total in October, China sent more than 200 fighter jets, its most yet, into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone in an attempt to intimidate Tsai’s government.

On Friday, in a call with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington supported “peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait”, and expressed concern over China’s military, diplomatic and economic pressure against the island.

Biden is also expected to raise concerns about a host of other issues from industrial subsidies to alleged forced labour in Xinjiang.

However, tariffs would not be on the agenda, the official said, without elaborating on the reasons. Business sectors have been pressing the administration to adjust its trade policy, with the US-China Business Council, representing more than 200 US companies, on Saturday saying it had written to US trade representative Katherine Tai and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen asking for tariffs on Chinese goods to be removed to restore US companies’ competitiveness.

A meeting last week of Communist Party officials that elevated Xi’s status by passing a rare “historical resolution” had added to the virtual summit’s urgency, the Biden administration official said.
The “continued centralisation of power in Xi Jinping’s hands” had “further cemented, in our mind, the importance of this leader-level engagement”, she said.

The Biden administration was “trying to shape the international environment in a way that is favourable to us, our allies and partners”, rather than trying to change China through bilateral engagement, which was not realistic, she said.


No “major deliverables or outcomes” should be expected from the meeting, she said, echoing White House press secretary Jen Psaki, who said on Friday that the engagement was about “setting the terms, in our view, of an effective competition where we’re in a position to defend our values”.

The two countries last week issued a surprise joint statement at the COP26 climate change summit committing to work together on the environment. In a visit to China earlier in the year, US climate envoy John Kerry had been unable to strike a deal with Beijing on climate action, with Chinese officials saying Washington should not expect China’s cooperation on that and nuclear non-proliferation while tensions remained in other areas.

The White House official said on Sunday that China being willing to act on an existential crisis such as climate change was “in its interest”, not “a favour to us”, and would “not alter the nature of the bilateral relationship”.
 
Boston elects first woman and first person of colour to be mayor, but wrong shade so BIPOCs most affected! NPR had to issue a correction tweet which seemed to make things worse

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Why Boston will need to wait longer for its 1st elected Black mayor​

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For the first time in its history, Boston is inaugurating a newly-elected mayor on Tuesday who is not a white man. Michelle Wu – who's Asian American, is the first woman and first person of color elected to lead the city. While many are hailing it as a major turning point, others see it as more of a disappointment that the three Black candidates in the race couldn't even come close.

Many in Boston were hopeful that this would be the year, in this time of racial reckoning, that Boston might elect its first Black mayor, as most of the nation's 30 largest cities have already done.

Three Black candidates were in the race, and one even had the advantage of running as an incumbent, after automatically inheriting the job – as an interim- when former Mayor Marty Walsh left to become Secretary of Labor in the Biden administration. And yet, neither Acting Mayor Kim Janey, nor the others, even made it to the final run-off election this month.

"I got home, and I cried," says Danny Rivera, an artist and civil rights activist in Boston. "I cried my eyes out because I don't know the next time we'll see a Black mayor in our city."

"It is lived experience that matters most"​

At Janey's farewell address in Boston last week, Rivera says he was especially disappointed because of how poignant and relatable he found Janey's personal history in Boston. As a girl, in the 1970s, she was among those bussed into white neighborhood schools where Blacks were pelted with insults and rocks. Later, as a teenage mom, she struggled to make it when she was all but written off.

"I believe that it is lived experience that matters most, and what separated [Janey] from every other candidate," he says. "That's all super powerful, and I thought we missed the moment."

Twenty-year-old Nia Ashleigh, a student at the Berklee School of Music, also felt let down that none of the Black candidates had enough support to be ultimately viable, but she says, she was not surprised.

"It's just one of those things where it feels like what else is new?" she quipped.

Indeed, in the preliminary election, the three Black candidates combined got about three quarters of the vote in areas of the city with the highest concentrations of people of color. But in the whitest areas, they won only about one quarter of the votes, according to an analysis of election results and Census data conducted by The MassINC Polling Group.

"I mean the data speaks for itself, and it's troubling," says former Massachusetts State Rep. Marie St. Fleur. Especially, she says, for a city still straining under a longtime reputation as racist.

"For those of us born or raised in Boston, and who lived through some of the darker days, the fact that we blinked at this moment is sadness," she says. "At what point in the city of Boston will we be able to vote — and I'm going to be very clear here — for a Black person in that corner office?"

"We can only play race card for so many occasions"​

To be sure, there were other factors, and fault, at play in the way the race turned out.

"We can only play race card for so many occasions," asserts Rev. Eugene Rivers, a longtime Black community leader. "I mean Black leadership failed to produce success even with an incumbent. We failed. Now that's not on white people."

Black leaders are already talking about taking lessons from incoming Mayor Wu's successful campaign to improve their own political organizing and messaging, and to increase Black turnout in future races. Some are also calling for a more coordinated strategy to coalesce behind a single black candidate, to avoid splitting the vote as happened this year. But others bristle at the idea of expecting any Black candidate to drop out of a race because there are too many of them.

Imari Paris Jeffries, executive director of King Boston, the group building a memorial on Boston Common to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Paris Jeffries says he also feels "grief" that a Black candidate didn't make the cut this year. But while important symbolically and psychically, he says, a candidate's race should not be the determinant in any race.

"In this anti-racist discourse, I don't think we're going to find identical twins of our experience in order for [candidates] to empathize," he says. "I think we have to start creating a larger tent and find common ground together."

It's a theme incoming Mayor Wu has struck throughout her campaign, and again, when she was asked about it as she attended Janey's farewell address.

"I expect that the Black community, will hold her accountable"​

"I have heard and want to continue acknowledging the disappointment of many in our community who wish to see representatives of the Black community," she said. "We will continue working to meet this moment to take on systemic racism and the barriers that have been perpetuated for far too long."

Boston voters, like Pam Cannon of Roxbury, will be watching.

"I'm going to hold her to it," Cannon says. "I'll make sure she comes to my neighborhood. I'll be calling her up. I'm going to be checking in with her."

So will Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley, (D-MA), who endorsed Wu in the final election, after all three of the Black candidates had been eliminated.

"I don't give anyone anything," Pressley said, as she also attended Janey's farewell address. "[Wu] earned my endorsement, but she earned it because she is prepared to be honest about the disparate outcomes across every issue, and I expect that the Black community, will hold her accountable. Because this is about changing the legacy of the city of Boston."

Former Boston City Council member and Janey supporter, Tito Jackson, agrees. He too made a bid to become Boston's first elected Black mayor four years ago, and also fell short. But he says Janey's short, but historic tenure has helped move the conversation forward.

"We're not going to put our head down and we're not going to walk around like we lost," Jackson says. "[Janey] advanced the issues that I brought up four years ago, that no one wanted to touch" before the death of George Floyd put new focus on racial equity and justice in America. "But those issues were in the forefront this go-around."

For her part, outgoing Acting Mayor Janey struck a similar message, insisting her time in the corner office did push Boston forward, and left the city better off than it had been, largely because she approached every issue —from housing to schools and health care — "through a lens of racial equity."

Still, she adds, "There's a lot more work to do, when it comes to all our '-isms," in Boston and around the country.

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Asian American Michelle Wu is Boston's first elected mayor who isn't a white man. While many celebrate the milestone, others lament that all the Black candidates failed.
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'QAnon Shaman' Jacob Chansley sentenced to 41 months in prison for role in US Capitol riot​

By Hannah Rabinowitz and Katelyn Polantz, CNN

Updated 12:25 PM ET, Wed November 17, 2021


(CNN)Jacob Chansley, the so-called "QAnon Shaman," was sentenced to 41 months in prison for his role in the US Capitol riot.

The Justice Department had asked for Chansley to receive a harsh sentence as a way to set an example among the January 6 rioters, and prosecutors have positioned Chansley as emblematic of a barbaric crowd.
Since then, Chansley gained fame as the "QAnon Shaman," a figure known in the fringe online movement and for widely shared photos that captured him wearing face paint and a headdress inside the Senate chamber.

Judge Royce Lamberth has had Chansley held in jail since his arrest, despite his multiple attempts to gain sympathy and his release.


Other judges are likely to look to Lamberth's sentence as a possible benchmark, since Chansley is one of the first felony defendants among more than 660 Capitol riot cases to receive a punishment.

Pictures of Chansley at the Capitol went viral because of a bizarre appearance while leading others through the Capitol, shouting into a bullhorn. As one of the first 30 rioters inside the building, he made his way to the Senate dais that was hastily vacated earlier by then-Vice President Mike Pence, and left a note, according to his plea documents.
Chansley also carried an American flag on a speared flagpole, which prosecutors have characterized as a weapon.

Lamberth asked only a few questions -- about Chansley's leaving a note for Pence and whether he knew of other threats to Pence's life coming from the crowd, and about his choices that day.
"He made himself the image of the riot, didn't he?" Lamberth said to Chansley's defense attorney. "For good or bad, he made himself the very image of this whole event."
Prosecutor Kimberly Paschall used several videos to show Chansley's entrance into the Capitol building and Senate chamber, yelling along with the crowd. "That is not peaceful." Paschall called his role in the mob "chaos" and "terrifying."
For more than 30 minutes, Chansley spoke to Lamberth about the impact jail has had on him, and the guilt he feels for breaking the law.
He said he was wrong to enter the Capitol on January 6, and that he is not an insurrectionist or domestic terrorist.
His sprawling speech held the attention of the judge, as Chansley quoted Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and "The Shawshank Redemption," and described wanting to live his life like Jesus Christ and Gandhi.
"The hardest part about this is to know that I'm to blame. To have to look in the mirror and know, you really messed up. Royally," Chansley said.
"I was in solitary confinement because of me. Because of my decision. I broke the law ... I should do what Gandhi would do and take responsibility," he says. "There's no ifs, ands or buts about it, that's what men of honor do." He promised to never have to be jailed again.
"I think your remarks are the most remarkable I've heard in 34 years," Lamberth told Chansley, calling his speech "akin to the kind of thing Martin Luther King would have said."
But, Lamberth added, "what you did here was as horrific as you now concede," and he could not justify a shorter sentence.

After the riot and his arrest, Chansley asked then-President Donald Trump for a pardon. He also went on a hunger strike in an attempt to get organic food while in custody and spoke to "60 Minutes" from jail without permission. In September, Chansley pleaded to a felony charge of obstructing Congress' certification of the 2020 vote.
 
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