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

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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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Woman charged after allegedly sexually assaulting 6-year-old boy in Toronto park

TORONTO -- A woman is facing charges after she allegedly sexually assaulted a child in a Toronto park two months ago and police believe there may be other victims.

According to police, a six-year-old boy attended the Walter Saunders Park, near Dufferin Street and Eglinton Avenue West, on May 20. At that time, the boy was sexually assaulted, police said.

An investigation was launched by the Toronto Police Service’s Child & Youth Advocacy Centre. As a result of their investigation, 33-year-old Toronto resident Ruby Eby was arrested on June 8, police said.

She is charged with sexual interference with a person under the age of 16 and sexual assault. Eby is set to appear in a Toronto courtroom on July 21.

In a news release issued on Tuesday, police said investigators believe there may be other victims.

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Also, check the replies here (archived), lmao!
 
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Ugandan Olympic weightlifter flees into Japan

Not only did these niggers bring the Delta version of the Holocough into Japan, now one of the monkeys has fled the zoo.

This subhuman thinks it‘s in America and that it can just ‘disappear” into Japan and get a job somewhere. According to the news, it left a note in its hotel room saying it “didn’t want to go back to a poor country.” Too bad that Japan ain’t America—immigration will send their very best beast trackers to capture, cage, and deport it back to its shithole. I just hope the authorities do a King Kong-style giant-gorilla-in-chains press conference before they put it on the container ship.
 
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Ugandan Olympic weightlifter flees into Japan

Not only did these niggers bring the Delta version of the Holocough into Japan, now one of the monkeys has fled the zoo.

This subhuman thinks it‘s in America and that it can just ‘disappear” into Japan and get a job somewhere. According to the news, it left a note in its hotel room saying it “didn’t want to go back to a poor country.” Too bad that Japan ain’t America—immigration will send their very best beast trackers to capture, cage, and deport it back to its shithole. I just hope the authorities do a King Kong-style giant-gorilla-in-chains press conference before they put it on the container ship.
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Maybe he’s trying to get away from the Chinese and thinks Japan will protect him since China and Japan are at odds?
 

I'm joining the Lincoln Project to make sure Republicans don't win Congress in 2022: Trippi​

Donald Trump is fueling an authoritarian movement abetted by far too many Republican senators and House members. We must unite to preserve democracy.​

Joe Trippi
Opinion contributor
Published 3:15 a.m. ET Jul. 6, 2021Updated 8:22 a.m. ET Jul. 6, 2021
America is exhausted. We’ve gone through the worst presidency in our history, when the very concept of what it meant to be an American was challenged. A pandemic has killed over 600,000 of our fellow Americans, more than we lost in both world wars of the last century. There is a desperate longing for normalcy. At last we have a normal president with a competent administration. But this is not a normal time. American democracy is in crisis.
Many urge us to follow the path of bipartisanship to lead us out of this danger. As much as the Biden administration may be trying to restore a sense of normalcy to our nation after the past four years and as much as Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and others seek the time honored goal of bipartisanship and common ground to solve our problems, those are elusive goals.
We have all lived in an America with two political parties for generations. It is the only way we understand to participate and speak about our politics. A two-party lens is the only way the news media knows how to cover Washington and, of course, elections. It’s why so many of us cannot give up on the idea that there must be a two-party solution to the danger of the moment. I wish it was possible. It’s not.

Guardians of Lincoln's legacy [LOL, YEAH RIGHT]​

There are no longer two healthy parties in America. The catastrophic mistake for our nation is to continue to see the fight as Democrats vs. Republicans, left vs. right. We are at war with an authoritarian movement fueled by former President Donald Trump. It includes many of the 147 Republicans who signed on to treason with their Jan. 6 votes objecting to Joe Biden's win, and it has grown since then.

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Joe Trippi, national Democratic strategist and author. Joe Trippi [LOL, Massive Fucking Faggot Alert!]
The authoritarian movement now holds so much power within what was the Republican Party that officials of goodwill are either purged or held hostage – out of cowardly fear for their political careers or even out of fear for their safety. It’s what the rest of us do now that matters. It's time to choose sides and take action: to fight this authoritarian movement and become one of President Abraham Lincoln’s guardians making sure that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.



The truth matters. Many have been lied to, and many have come to believe those lies. They are not the enemy – for them we must offer the truth and to join us as Americans to find a way forward together.
Jan. 6 reckoning:Republicans are terrified of Capitol attack truths and Democrats must find out why
Every American, every corporation, the news media and the social platforms need to understand that there are no longer two functioning political parties in our country. Straddling between them is failing to understand our circumstances and the threat of an authoritarian movement that seeks to take power by any means. It’s time for all Americans to join this fight. Not one party over another. But all Americans against an authoritarian movement and its poison until it dies and another generation of Americans ensures that our democracy lives.
Howard Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi, right, makes a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 5, 2004.

Howard Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi, right, makes a campaign stop in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 5, 2004. MARY CHIND
I have spent the last four decades as a Democratic Party consultant fighting Republicans over issues such as taxes, health care and foreign policy. Those were important issues in the politics of yesterday, and hopefully they will be important again in the politics of the future. But today there is one issue in America: Will the American experiment survive?
During the Trump years, I watched with admiration as Republicans of conscience and decency stood up and spoke up for America. They were called anti-Trump, but I always saw them more as pro-democracy. They were Republicans. I am a Democrat. But those labels mean little today.

Confront Trump authoritarianism​

As citizens, we must join each other in a pro-democracy coalition that confronts the authoritarian movement in our midst at every turn. President Biden and those trying to govern must find compromise and common ground wherever they can to get things done, and we all must give them the room to do so. But there is no compromising with those who continue to fuel the authoritarian movement with lies.
Mark your calendar:January 6, 2025 could be the date American democracy dies
This movement, led by Trump and abetted by far too many Republican senators and House members, is so dangerous to our democracy that the singular goal of the Lincoln Project is to defeat Republican attempts to retake House and Senate majorities in 2022. We will succeed if the American people come to understand the threat and the danger and join in the pro-democracy coalition to defeat it. Each of us, in our own way, can and must do our part.
This is not about policy or petty politics or our individual histories and past partisan fights. It’s about the future of our democracy and, as Lincoln's guardians, making sure it survives. That is why, today, I am joining the Lincoln Project in this cause.
Joe Trippi, a national Democratic strategist whose clients have included former California Gov. Jerry Brown, former Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama and presidential candidates Walter Mondale, Dick Gephardt and Howard Dean, is the author of "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" and host of the podcast "That Trippi Show." Follow him on Twitter: @JoeTrippi
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Article (Archive) here is Joe Trippi's Wiki page, Britannica page, TNR Campaign page archive (cause the site's not working), UC institute of politics page, Twitter page

Anyway, can't wait for when he gets charged with sexual misconduct in twelve months time (Hi, Trippi!)
 
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Woman charged after allegedly sexually assaulting 6-year-old boy in Toronto park

TORONTO -- A woman is facing charges after she allegedly sexually assaulted a child in a Toronto park two months ago and police believe there may be other victims.

According to police, a six-year-old boy attended the Walter Saunders Park, near Dufferin Street and Eglinton Avenue West, on May 20. At that time, the boy was sexually assaulted, police said.

An investigation was launched by the Toronto Police Service’s Child & Youth Advocacy Centre. As a result of their investigation, 33-year-old Toronto resident Ruby Eby was arrested on June 8, police said.

She is charged with sexual interference with a person under the age of 16 and sexual assault. Eby is set to appear in a Toronto courtroom on July 21.

In a news release issued on Tuesday, police said investigators believe there may be other victims.

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I feel like a fool for asking, but is this merely an ugly woman or is this an actual man? Is there any confirmation of their real sex?
In either case, what an unfortunate situation all around.
 
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I feel like a fool for asking, but is this merely an ugly woman or is this an actual man? Is there any confirmation of their real sex?
In either case, what an unfortunate situation all around.
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As more and more pedophiles, rapists and other sex predators learn this one weird trick, eventually crime statistics will say that virtually all sex crimes are committed by women, while omitting that the "women" all have dicks.
 
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An older article.


But I watched a bootleg of that a few times back when it was that same shitty VHS rip that was missing the title screen so nobody really knew what it was called.

Every one of these shows that the writer just has no imagination and doesn't understand what the fuck they watched, human interaction, dignity, self pride, or anything else.

Read it if you want to read a journalist unable to understand human interaction more complex that donating to her Patreon.
 
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Jet Fuel Johnny said:
An older article.


But I watched a bootleg of that a few times back when it was that same shitty VHS rip that was missing the title screen so nobody really knew what it was called.

Every one of these shows that the writer just has no imagination and doesn't understand what the fuck they watched, human interaction, dignity, self pride, or anything else.

Read it if you want to read a journalist unable to understand human interaction more complex that donating to her Patreon.
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Fucking REE.
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You weren't kidding that this person seems incapable of understanding what's happening in this film.
Nausicaa Allows The Fox Squirrel To Bite Her To Calm It Down
[...]After biting her for a while, the fox squirrel realized she wouldn't do anything and stopped, but many animals would not do the same thing.
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This is to show Nausicaa is a kind person who is not afraid of pain, and that the Fox-squirrel is an intelligent creature.
It is almost as if he expected some attack, which actually does come.
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So he was right and his uniform was signposting the attack that would come later. It also tells viewers he is a cautious man who is unable to let his guard down.
In retaliation for the Tolmekians kidnapping his sister, Asbel arrives in a gunner plane and starts shooting down Tolmekian air ships. He knew that there were many people there who would die due to his actions, so it was a little strange that he stopped shooting the moment he saw Nausicaa on top of one of the air ships.
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Life isn't video games. It's easier to kill when you're shooting at airships rather than actual people. This is a known fact of war and why bad guys in movies wear masks. It's not just that she's someone he knows, it's that he's confronted with another person. Jesus christ.
Desperate to keep them from crashing, Nausicaa repeats the importance of dumping the cargo and takes off her mask despite knowing she would inhale some of the poison. This makes them take her seriously, but she seems too careless with her own life.
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When Nausicaa boards a small plane to escape from the burning airship, she quickly invites Kushana to join her even though Kushana had kept Nausicaa hostage. Kushana takes the offer, but once they land in the jungle, she pulls her gun out and threatens them for absolutely no reason, despite having been saved by Nausicaa.
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Here's the author, by the way:
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And some of her other insightful articles:
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the new zealand film commission has been working with the filmmakers of "They are among us" who are creating their own christchurch shooting video. they started work less than 2 months after the christchurch shooting happened.

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What's the point of making a movie about it at this point. Brenton already made the movie in realtime for the whole world to see for free. All we're missing is the aborted attack on the third mosque and the police chase finale.
 
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The American journalists should check what might happen to their British colleagues, because they're might be next.
www.pressgazette.co.uk

UK journalists could be jailed like spies under proposed Official Secrets Act changes

Journalists could face harsher penalties for reporting on matters of public interest under a planned reform of the UK's antiquated Official Secrets Act.
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Official Secrets Act reform could see journalists treated like spies

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Journalists could be treated like spies for reporting on matters of public interest under planned reforms to the UK’s Official Secrets Act.
The move has caused alarm at a time when press freedom is seen as being under attack in the UK following the raid by the Information Commissioner to find The Sun’s Matt Hancock-scoop source. Yesterday, it was revealed that foreign governments are targeting UK journalists with mobile phone spyware.
The Government said the reform was needed as the existing acts, with the last update in 1989, are no longer enough to fight the “discernible and very real threat posed by state threats”.
The Home Office consultation (which closes on Thursday 22 July) suggests journalists should be treated in the same way as those who leak information and those committing espionage offences.
It also looked at whether maximum sentences should be increased from two to 14 years.
The Home Office said it does “not consider that there is necessarily a distinction in severity between espionage and the most serious unauthorised disclosures, in the same way that there was in 1989”.
“Although there are differences in the mechanics of and motivations behind espionage and unauthorised disclosure offences, there are cases where an unauthorised disclosure may be as or more serious, in terms of intent and/or damage,” it said.
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