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Probation officer sentenced to 1 year in jail for sexually assaulting girl inmates on a "weekly basis"

But if we take matters into our hands when the systems inevitably fail us, we’re the “bad guys.” So fucking be it. [image]

No comment further.

[Kimmo]

Absolutely excellent long essay by Ta-Nahisi Coates.

Donald Trump is America's first white president

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2017/09/07/people-who-think-they-are-whit.html …

[One_Brown_Mouse]

Sic semper evello mortem rattus norvegicus

T-16’s are reportedly effective

[ChuckV]

Transgender murder victim stabbed in genitals and set on fire 'not a hate crime'

Although this isn’t new, the flames of hatred have been fanned up strong by the bellows of an unchained idiot dressed in the garb of a leader. Make no mistake, he truly is a leader of people who need to find a target for their aimless, pointless hate. Sick, he yells, get them out of the military, no special privilege or protection for their kind. So other kids turn on a kid with enough courage to be herself and gouge out her eyes, mutilate genitals and burn the remains. Thank you for showing wha…

What I was just too depressed to say.

[Nightflyer]

On-duty NYPD officers admit handcuffing teenage girl, putting her in van, and having sex with her, but say it wasn't rape

This is why protesting injustice and protesting police violence still matters. This is why athletes don’t stand for the national anthem. This is why people fly flags upside down or burn them. This is why every single fucking white lard-ass who practically lives on his couch while gorging on shitty beer and chips and football needs to shut the fuck up with their bullshitty “protesting doesn’t help, it just gets everybody worked up, we all need to calm down” nonsense. NO, MOTHER-FUCKERS, WE WO…

[anon3072533]

How to cut a cake fairly for three people

Cut the cake into four. Cut the remaining piece in half. Those are for each of your two guests to take home, for a snack.

I physically felt my heart lighten when I read this comment. Seriously.

The effects of generosity should not be underestimated, both for the giver as well as the receiver. And also obviously for those who even just read or hear about an idea of generosity.

I was wishing I could give the comment more Likes—and this morning I remembered the NeedsMoreLikes thread

[i_have_feet]

Thank you, that is so nice I guess sharing really is its own reward!

The underlying assumption (as a cake-baking person) is that cakes are a renewable resource. So it works out mathematically too.

[Medievalist]

Undocumented Americans

BTW: how we managed the breakout. The camp is on a flat, featureless plain in the middle of the desert. Red dust and stones. Around the camp was a heavy spiked steel fence. Around that was a chainlink fence topped with razorwire. Outside the two rings of fencing, there was a third fence. But this fence was not continuous; it had gaps. It was designed to force protestors into easily-controlled chokepoints. When the crowd charged for the camp, the cops all moved to the gaps, nightsticks at th…

[Snowlark]

Why Adafruit thinks it's legal to stamp Harriet Tubman over Andrew Jackson on the US $20

I sure hope they don’t use Noodler’s Bad Black Moccasin ink for this endeavor. In that it bonds to celluloid fiber permanently - and won’t wash off with water, bleach, or other chemicals, resists laser removal, and in general is UV resistant. Yep - that’d be the worst ink to use.

[Nightflyer]

Are You Wrestling With Trump Fatigue?

How does “not worrying” help you? Those words are in air quotes because you posted the thread; which would seem to indicate that you yourself are not all “footloose and fancy-free” right now. People are gonna feel how they feel; and emotions aren’t rational or logical at even the best of times, let alone during ‘strange days’ like these. Anyone out there who feels bewildered, frustrated, angry, depressed or just damn bone weary… it’s highly understandable. It may not be “helping” anything, …

[TobinL]

Three of Spencer's neo-Nazi supporters arrested after shooting wildly at bus-goers

But there is nothing ambiguous about the intent of these people, and it means only one thing to anybody with sense. If you wear Nazi insignia, or shout Nazi slogans, or do, wear, or say anything that identifies you as being admiring of or aspiring to the Nazi cause, you are proclaiming yourself to advocate an ideology whose single most defining characteristic is the promotion and enactment of genocide. The threat is inherent in the symbolism. It doesn’t stand for anything that is not an open …

[smulder]

@wsmcneil

Nazis do not need a hug.

[Melizmatic]

Three of Spencer's neo-Nazi supporters arrested after shooting wildly at bus-goers

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Seriously; Nazis tortured and killed millions of people and everything they stand for is repugnant. Anyone who thinks that punching one (or even a dozen) makes a fair equivalency to genocide needs some fucking psychological help.

[ChuckV]

And it’s edited (by me).

[Melizmatic]

You weren’t wrong to say it.

[Melizmatic]

That wickedly apt metaphor, though…

Democrat voters fondly recall presidency of George W. Bush

Cancer has a funny way of making you miss a cold.

[Wanderfound]

Those "heroic rogue GOP senators" just helped Trump shield Equifax and Wells Fargo from lawsuits

The entire Republican agenda is built on an enormous mountain of lies and misinformation, so calling out Trump for being a lying dickhead without also condemning the agenda of their own party is a clear indication that they’re totally fine with spreading lies and misinformation. They’d maybe just prefer that they not be emanating from the mouth of a tantrum-prone man-child with a finger on the button of a massive nuclear arsenal, because it makes them look bad, not because they have a fundamenta…

[Nightflyer]

Two posts that need all the likes:

https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/npr-s-top-news-editor-faces-multiple-sexual-harassment-claims/110219/123?u=nightflyer

NPR’s top news editor faces multiple sexual harassment claims

All of the fear, extra scrutiny and skepticism that women face when coming forward after being harassed or assaulted directly discourages reporting and keeps women silent and afraid. There are. People don’t believe victims of sexual assault because it’s simply easier not to. But it also goes deeper than laziness or loyalty. The widespread disbelief of rape has a complicated history but a relatively simple cause: People don’t believe women. The idea that rape is a crime against a woman, and …

[anon61221983]

I regret that I only had one like each to give to both!

[Nightflyer]

NPR’s top news editor faces multiple sexual harassment claims

I’d like men to really stop and think about how they would behave if false accusations of sexual assault (that are then investigated seriously) were relatively common. What if 1 in 10 or 2 in 10 men could expect to face such a situation in their lifetimes. If a man was going on a first date with a woman he might want to meet for a daytime coffee rather than an evening drink. He might want to say goodbye in front of the coffee place in public rather than allow her to walk him home. He might wan…