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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."
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House Democrat: DOJ and FBI are ‘check against white nationalism'

Plaskett, a ranking member of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, argued that the Republican-led subcommittee aimed to destroy federal security agencies in service of racism and fascism.

“We’re having these hearings so that you become immune, you become inured to the notion of the removal of the FBI and DOJ,” she said during a Wednesday hearing, “so that those agencies are no longer there to serve as a check against white nationalism, great replacement theorists, Christian nationalists, white fragility, fascists and the twice impeached convicted felon, former president and would-be dictator Donald Trump.”

 
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Looks like Infowars' victimes and ememies consider buying Infowars. It'll take a miracle if Elon Musk is interested to Infowars.

Some of the subjects of Alex Jones’ darkest and wildest conspiracy theories could end up taking over his iconic, unhinged InfoWars brand in less than two months.

Over the past several years, courts in Connecticut and Texas have ruled that the face of the far-right network must pay the families of victims of the 2012 shooting in Sandy Hook nearly $1.5 billion in damages for repeatedly claiming falsely on his show that the shooting never happened. On Tuesday, a Houston judge ruled that a bankruptcy trustee could begin to liquidate and put up for auction Free Speech Systems, Jones’ media company and the parent of InfoWars.
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Doubtful then this is October surprise but Verizon got an outage.

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Verizon has confirmed an outage affecting some of its mobile phone customers that sparked a flurry of complaints on social media about disruptions to calls, texts and their ability to access the internet.

“We are aware of an issue impacting service for some customers,” a Verizon spokesperson told CNN Monday. “Our engineers are engaged and we are working quickly to identify and solve the issue.”

The outage appeared to start happening around 11 am ET, with roughly 100,000 reports from customers on DownDetector, a site that tracks complaints about service outages.
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Looks like Infowars' victimes and ememies consider buying Infowars. It'll take a miracle if Elon Musk is interested to Infowars.
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Over the past several years, courts in Connecticut and Texas have ruled that the face of the far-right network must pay the families of victims of the 2012 shooting in Sandy Hook nearly $1.5 billion in damages for repeatedly claiming falsely on his show that the shooting never happened.
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As much as I think the $1.5 billion amount is utterly deranged, he did a lot more than merely claim it never happened. He accused the parents directly of fraudulently faking their own kids' deaths. And they got incessantly showered with death threats from schizo weirdos as a result.

If I had my kid shot and some fucking asshole was accusing me of faking it, a lawsuit would be the absolute bare minimum I'd do to the motherfucker. It would take me some restraint not to fedpost him irl.

(Tbh I'd have more respect for the plaintiffs if they had instead of being establishment tools. If I were on the jury I'd never convict. Oh you were temporarily insane from insensate rage? Acquitted.)
 
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Myrtle Beach area and Nash County, NC, head's up:

An 87 year-old Pennsylvanian man's dog was stolen. The dog's last known location was at a rest stop between Myrtle Beach, SC and Nash County, NC. Please spread the word and keep an eye out if you're in the area.

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Emotional owner of Lucky the dog reacts to suspect's arrest without Lucky being found​

MT. PLEASANT, Pa. (KDKA) — Willard Martz used a single word to sum up the week since the 87-year-old's car was stolen with his dog, Lucky, inside: "Hell."

"It's like a big empty hole, and [Lucky] filled it, and it's getting deeper and emptier every day," an emotional Martz said.

A piece of the puzzle Martz has been waiting to be put together was found Sunday, but not the piece he wanted most. Deputies in North Carolina arrested Kenneth Crider after a police chase on I-95 but did not find Lucky inside.

"It was mixed emotions," Martz said."I felt that we solved two-thirds of the problem. They had the suspect in custody. They had the car that was right there. Now, all we needed was a dog."

Crider told police he let Lucky go at a rest stop somewhere between Myrtle Beach and Nash County in North Carolina.

"I'm hoping that is true, but I'm still skeptical," Martz said. "It's better than knowing nothing."

Based on the overwhelming support they have received, and the conversation they have had, they know people will be searching for Lucky in North Carolina.

"I want a resolution in the worst way," Martz said.

The reason why is simple.

"With dogs, they give you unconditional love, no matter what you do," Martz said, beginning to tear up.

It is just like what Lucky has done for him. A car just can't compare.

"To be stolen in a car and going that distance, as far as the car goes," Martz said. "He could have let [Lucky] go in the parking lot [when he stole it], and I would have been happier. I would have missed the car, don't get me wrong, but cars can be replaced. Dogs can't."
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Ultra runner Camille Herron dropped by sponsor after Wikipedia controversy involving edits to other runners' pages.​

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American ultra runner Camille Herron has been dropped by her sponsors after becoming embroiled in a scandal involving edits made to her Wikipedia page, as well as to pages of other runners.

According to reporting by Canadian Running magazine, the apparel brand Lululemon announced it had ended its partnership with Herron on Thursday, citing a difference in values.

The decision came after a September 23 article by the magazine which details edits made to the Wikipedia pages of Kilian Jornet and Courtney Dauwaulter that appear to downplay those runners' achievements, in addition to edits made to Herron's own page which seem to inflate her accomplishments.

According to that article, the edits were made by the username “Rundbowie”, which was created in February 2024 after the account with the username "Temporun73" was blocked from editing Herron's page by Wikipedia for one week for violating the site's conflict of interest policies. Between the two accounts, hundreds of contributions have been made to Wikipedia pages since 2017.
Canadian Runner reports that the accounts removed the phrase “widely regarded as one of the best trail runners ever” from both Jornet and Dauwalter’s pages, using the justification of “removing puffery”, while adding the statement “widely regarded as one of the greatest ultramarathon runners of all time" to Herron's biography. The magazine claims these edits have been traced to Herron’s email address and her husband's IP address.

In March of this year, an update to Wikipedia's Administrators' noticeboard reported the following:

"Rundbowie has several times removed well sourced content at Courtney Dauwalter and Kílian Jornet Burgada--content in question isn't puffery if it's been well established. There's also an interest in adding to Camille Herron, which corresponds with the edit warring by Temporun73.

"Additionally, the newer account was created on February 8, hours after the first account was blocked. Altogether, this looks like one or several related users with an agenda re: ultramarathon competitors."
The blog LetsRun.com has published an email reportedly from Herron's husband Conor Holt taking responsibility for editing his wife's Wikipedia page. The email states that Holt created and manages Temporun73 on Wikipedia and the edits to his wife's page were in response to "cyberbullying" Herron has allegedly received where users edited out "significant" parts of Herron's biography, something he claims has affected his wife's mental health.

"I kept adding back in the details, and then they blocked my account in early February of this year. Nothing was out of line with what other athletes have on their pages. Wikipedia allows the creation of another account, so I created a new account Rundbowie," writes Holt.

"Camille had nothing to do with this. I am 100% responsible and apologize for any athletes affected by this and the wrong I did."

His email did not appear to address the edits made by the same account to Jornet and Dauwalter's Wikipedia pages.

Advnture has reached out to Holt and Lululemon for comment.

In response to an inquiry Advnture sent to the Global Organization of Multi-day Marathoners, Vice President Viktoria Brown told us:

"I believe there is still a way back into the ultrarunning community for Camille, but there would first need to be a public acknowledgment of wrongdoing, ideally a sincere apology and most importantly a promise to stop the harmful behaviour going forward."

Brown, a Canadian-Hungarian ultra runner, directed us to her Facebook page, where she has been vocal about Herron's alleged actions, including a screenshot she shared on Friday of a Facebook post from Herron, which you can view below, which appears to acknowledge the situation. Herron's Facebook page and website have since been taken down, while her Instagram page continues with commenting and messaging disabled.
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Funny that this is controversial enough for a sponsor to drop an athlete, when entire companies exist to fix e-celebs wikipedia pages. Wherever the money flows, I suppose.
 
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An 87 year-old Pennsylvanian man's dog was stolen. The dog's last known location was at a rest stop between Myrtle Beach, SC and Nash County, NC. Please spread the word and keep an eye out if you're in the area.
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My dog got stolen recently.

I was pretty bummed out about it.

But I think whatever Haitian stole and ate it was happier to eat it than I am sad to lose it.

The total happiness in the world increased.

So, whatever.
 
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Daniel Day-Lewis ends acting retirement for a movie directed by his son​

by Jake Coyle

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NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Day-Lewis is coming out of retirement, seven years after his last movie, for a film directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis.

The project was announced Tuesday by Focus Features and Plan B, who are partnering on “Anemone.” The film, Ronan Day-Lewis’ directorial debut, will star his father along with Sean Bean and Samantha Morton. The film was co-written by the two Day-Lewises.

Earlier Tuesday, Daniel Day-Lewis and Bean were spotted driving a motorbike through Manchester, England, stoking intrigue about his impending return to acting. After making Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2017 film “Phantom Thread,” the 67-year-old had said he was quitting acting.

“All my life, I’ve mouthed off about how I should stop acting, and I don’t know why it was different this time, but the impulse to quit took root in me, and that became a compulsion,” he told W Magazine in 2017. “It was something I had to do.”

Since then, his appearances in public have been infrequent. In January, though, he made a surprise appearance at the National Board of Review Awards to present an award to Martin Scorsese, who directed him in “Gangs of New York” (2002) and “The Age of Innocence” (1993).

“Anemone,” currently in production, is described as exploring “the intricate relationships between fathers, sons and brothers, and the dynamics of familial bonds.”

Ronan Day-Lewis, 26, is a painter who has previously exhibited his works in New York. His first international solo exhibition debuts Tuesday in Hong Kong.

“We could not be more excited to partner with a brilliant visual artist in Ronan Day-Lewis on his first feature film alongside Daniel Day-Lewis as his creative collaborator,” said Peter Kujawski, chair of Focus Features. “They have written a truly exceptional script, and we look forward to bringing their shared vision to audiences alongside the team at Plan B.”
 
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Remember when Bank of America stop financed makers of guns and debanking Christian charity? Looks like karma payed a visit to them with an outage.
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Bank of America customers report having trouble accessing their bank accounts on Wednesday.
Reports about a problem at Bank of America spiked around 12:45 pm ET on Downdetector, which collects data on outages.
Many customers complained they could not see their account balances. Some who could access their accounts were startled to see zero balances.
Bank of America did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Canada accidentally killing people
Health Canada has recalled one lot of M-Eslon (morphine sulfate) extended-release capsules as the health agency says bottles labelled as containing 30-milligram capsules may contain 60-milligram capsules.

Health Canada says this mixup issue could lead to patients receiving double the intended dose, which could result in an overdose and pose serious health risks.

Health Canada issued the recall and public advisory on Sept. 27.
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What is Health Canada doing?​

Health Canada is monitoring the company’s recall and investigation, including its implementation of corrective and preventive actions, to stop this issue from reoccurring.
Health Canada will inform the public if any new health risks are identified.
If you have questions about this recall contact Ethypharm Inc. by calling 1-855-694-0151, or by emailing customerservice@valeopharma.com
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Health Canada has investigatied the mix up with Health Canada and Health Canada and has found nothing wrong with Health Canada.
 
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Talk about an inconvenient timing about job growth report.

October 5, 2024
Surprise! Huge job growth reported right before the election
By Noel S. Williams
People often ask if the Fed is political, and therefore predisposed to lowering interest rates before the election. The Labor Department and Bureau of Labor Statistics deserves equal questioning.

Their job growth statistics are untrustworthy, to put it politely. They are almost always revised downwards after Biden had a chance to gloat. A Labor Department report encompassing annual benchmark revisions to the nonfarm payroll numbers was released on August 8, 2024, covering the period of April 2023 through March, 2024. It showed actual non-farm job growth was nearly 30% lower than previously reported.

On October 4, just an hour ago as I type, the Labor Department issued its September jobs report. Surprise! They claim the U.S. economy added 254K jobs for the month. That’s dubiously robust; for context, it is the strongest report in six months, and way above the average monthly gain for the prior 12 months.

Is it coincidence this report is so apparently favorable right before the election?
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Bear takes up residence in California home's crawlspace

Bear takes up residence in California home's crawlspace



A pair of California homeowners said they were watching a horror movie when a sound underneath their floor alerted them to a dangerous presence in their own crawlspace: a bear.

Mark Chou and Mark Lanza said they were watching a horror movie at their Monrovia home when a sudden sound under the floor gave them a start.



"We were like, 'OK, something is under there,'" Chou told KTLA-TV. "We kind of tiptoed towards it a little bit and then I could hear a little more scratching and we ran back inside the house."

The men set up a camera outside their home and later learned the sound was a big bear clawing at the crawlspace opening to climb out through the small hole.

"He was so big that he could barely fit through the crawlspace door," Chou said. "He kind of pawed his way out."

The men live only five miles from Sierra Madre, where residents Bob and Susan Nesler recently discovered a bear squatting in their own crawlspace.
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