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13 hours ago, Juliajms said:
^ This story is so odd. It's Manhattan! How can you work there and not be very used to people from other cultures?
How did he think he was going to get away with this in the age of smart phones? Is he vying for a job with Fox? Anyway, let him pay the price for threatening to call the Gesta...ICE. People need to be shamed for trying to scare people in such an evil way.
Because he's gotten away with it in on at least two other occasions. Here is one of them.
Make that three other occasions. 2 on video that's been posted, this one I hadn't heard of before.
.@BuzzFeedNews has an exclusive look at another racist rant by Aaron Schlossberg, the attorney caught on video berating people for speaking in Spanish at a New York eatery. This one happened last month: https://t.co/ZUZY4joNz9 pic.twitter.com/HHQRwTsrPq
— David Mack (@davidmackau) May 17, 20180 -
Voter suppression has been going on for many many years/decades in the U.S. It's like when people don't want to openly discuss racism or gun control...if not now, when??!
The Democrats paid attention to it in 2007/2008, (perhaps 2012) because they believed it would be used to try to prevent the election of America's first Black president, otherwise, it has been a classic racism...er, business as usual.
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Will America finally wake up and pay attention to this?!
Steve Bannon used Cambridge Analytica in an effort to suppress the black vote in 2016, a whistleblower says https://t.co/uv00t2PyoG pic.twitter.com/Qzt6zorviS
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) May 16, 20180 -
JUST IN: Robert Muller issues grand jury subpoenas to Trump adviser's social media consultant.
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) May 16, 2018
"This suggests that Robert Mueller is honing in on Roger Stone and whether he had advanced knowledge that the Russian's had hacked Democratic emails." pic.twitter.com/567myX7Yr20 -
BREAKING: Senate intelligence panel agrees with US intel agencies that Russia intervened in 2016 election to help Trump.
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 16, 20180 -
The call was clearly bad but Pliskova's response to it was also bad. If there is any doubt, look at Sakkari's reaction. Pliskova's human but there's no way she should avoid a fine.
If she doesn't get a fine, then everyone else who has a similar reaction ought not to be fined either.
When we see Nick Kyrgios' antics, nobody should say ever say a word again then.
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There could be a big fine in her future.
Pliskova is MAD ! #pliskova #Sakkari #WTARome pic.twitter.com/7pT4T59KMl
— Bjoern Rietz (@bar78) May 16, 20180 -
Speaking of people who make people sick, the North Koreans despise John Bolton and aren't at all shy about expressing their feelings of "repugnance" toward him...just the sort of feelings you want a country with nuclear weapons to have with the country they are supposed to be in negotiations with (cue sarcasm).
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Trump has lost the confidence of investors:
— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) May 16, 2018
– U.S. companies are valued less now than before Trump was elected
– The cost to borrow for the U.S. has soared
– The dollar's share of global currency reserves has dropped by the most since 2002 https://t.co/4J4TdIC9sY pic.twitter.com/vOYZRbkWxq0 -
WTF?
Uh. The nation of Qatar has agreed to pay the $100,000 to keep Metro open an hour later for Caps-Lightning Game 4 on Thursday https://t.co/pufde55670
— Dan Steinberg (@dcsportsbog) May 15, 20180 -
Geez, where is his ranking right now?
Jack Sock, who just lost to Kohlschreiber in Rome, has yet to win two matches in a row this season. He's now 4-9 on the year.
— Tom Perrotta (@TomPerrotta) May 15, 20180 -
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos makes her first official visit to New York City, home of the nation's largest school district, and visits two private schools but no public schools. https://t.co/CRO3TQrGTU
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) May 15, 20180 -
I have to preface what I'm about to say by admitting that I've never seen the TV adaptation.
Having said that, if half of what Wayans is saying is true, why on earth would the producers put up with that type of behavior?! Especially in this day and age, in the era of #MeToo and anti-bullying campaigns being so pervasive?
This makes me wonder about the longevity of any show with those types of toxic BTS machinations. It'll be interesting if it all goes away with a casting change or are there deeply embedded problems that will manifest in a different aspect?
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I kind of feel bad for Berdych. I didn't see today's match but of the previous matches that I have seen, he looks a bit lost out there.
He came close quite few times but has been unable to grab that one complete breakthrough in the majors (i.e. "Slam").
I'm always loathe to say that anybody should retire, especially if they are uninjured and able to compete and want to compete but I wonder if maybe he's a bit burnt out, at the moment and perhaps a mini 'mental health' break might help. All these consecutive first round losses cannot be good for the psyche.
On the women's side Ash Barty and another player whose name I can't remember (she's Canadian, I think) took breaks away from the game for mental health reasons. There should be no stigma for anyone who needs to take a break to restore their mental health.
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Was expecting something like this to happen.
BREAKING: South Korean news agency: North Korea threatens to cancel U.S. summit over South Korea-U.S. military drills.
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 15, 20180 -
"Mr. Sadr, a scion of a Shiite clerical family, has spent years refashioning his image. He now offers himself as a populist outsider intent on fighting corruption, and he has capitalized on the grievances shared by many Iraqis over the systematic graft in their country."
I mean, it worked for Trump, right?
Iraqi Voters Strengthen Hand of Militia Leader Who Battled U.S.
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15 hours ago, Vee said:
Laura Harrier (OLTL) is still killing it - she's in Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman which just debuted at Cannes.
By the way, here is the trailer for BlackKlansman, which I believe is due out in August:
Okay, I just noticed that the due date is written on the top of the video.
In my defense, though, I originally put up a post about this same movie about a month ago.
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How interesting --> Trump Indonesia project just got $500 million in Chinese government loans https://t.co/nhh3umjHsi via @SCMP_News
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) May 14, 20180 -
27 minutes ago, Faulkner said:
It must suck to do the dirty work of defeating Nadal in a clay Masters 1000 tournament and not win the title. And it’s happened to Thiem twice in a row.
Maybe because he makes beating Nadal the goal, instead of winning the tournament? I'm not knocking Thiem, Nadal is clearly the king of clay but Rafa obviously looms so large for Thiem that he may not be able to see past that to what needs to happen next.
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When candidates and super PACs collide.
Beto O'Rourke told PACs to stay out of his race. They aren't listening
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That match went on forevah!
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I doubt any mainstream media outlets will be doing any in-depth reportage on this type of Trump voter any time soon.
By the way, it's exhausting living while black in America during the Trump era.
Woman of color at Yale- White woman calls police
— Kaz Weida (@kazweida) May 10, 2018
Men of color at Starbucks- White woman calls police
Women of color in Waffle House- White woman calls police
Airbnb guests of color- White woman calls police
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12 minutes ago, Faulkner said:
THIEM!
Let’s see if he can hold things together unlike last year in Rome.
Nadal has always been most vulnerable on the Madrid/Rome swing, peaking at Roland Garros.
Yup. Also Madrid is likely to be seen as the least valuable run-up tournament to the French.
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It seemed as if Marland was starting something compelling with Detective Roy Franklin's family. The rift between Roy and his father Leonard because Roy's younger brother was shot and killed by the police coupled with the fact that Roy became a police detective is a story that could play today.
Sadly, with today's soaps, it would likely be seen as risky somehow (soaps today tend to avert their gaze from any hint of a socio-political issue)--maybe it was also deemed too risky back then.
Perhaps P&G wanted to pull the plug on that story, which could be the reason why it didn't progress any further.
In fact, in a weird case of symmetry, Marland also created a similar family dynamic between Jessica Griffin and her family, but the tensions were compounded by social rather than political issues and that also only went so far.
Personally, I thought that Roy's family dynamic was the more compelling but I wonder whether there was resistance from CBS and/or P&G to give a long-term dramatic spotlight to a Black family.
This aspect always struck me as very strange.
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How did he think he was going to get away with this in the age of smart phones? Is he vying for a job with Fox? Anyway, let him pay the price for threatening to call the Gesta...ICE. People need to be shamed for trying to scare people in such an evil way.
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And ICYMI, Congressional Republicans missed their self-imposed deadline to carve out a deal for NAFTA.