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Demovictory9's Journalfour black female middle school student stripped searched b/c "hyper and giddy" during lunch
https://twitter.com/RVANewSouth/status/1088651760724525061https://blavity.com/strip-search-of-four-black-girls-by-middle-school-officials-draws-outrage-from-parents-community-members-in-upstate-new-york
Strip Search Of Four Black Girls By Middle School Officials Draws Outrage From Parents, Community Members In Upstate New York
According to The Associated Press, approximately 200 concerned parents and community members packed the Binghamton school board meeting on Tuesday. Students at the center of the controversy were reportedly forced to undress on Monday during the MLK holiday because school officials suspected the girls were in possession of drugs.
A school nurse and assistant principal claimed the girls were acting abnormally. The girls were questioned and described as being "hyper and giddy during their lunch hour," according to the school.
Despite the backlash, the Binghamton School District (BSD) stands by the impromptu strip search. In a statement released to the media on Wednesday, BSD restated the district-wide policy on strip searches. The district did not mention if suspicions were proven true.
It has yet to be confirmed if the girls were in possession of any substance.
“A student may, under current law and policy, be searched in a school building by an administrator when the administrator reasonably suspects that a student’s health is in danger or is in possession of a substance that may harm themselves or others," a statement from the district read. "These searches involve an administrator requesting a student to empty their pockets, remove their shoes and/or remove their jackets.”
Trump is really trapped with this shutdown thing, when should the Dems let him save face?
if at all
Top Florida official resigns after photos surface in blackface, mocking Katrina survivors
Ron DeSantis, Florida’s new Republican governor, ran one of the most overtly racist campaigns in recent history prior to his narrow November 2018 victory over Democrat Andrew Gillum.
On Thursday, DeSantis lost a top cabinet official when his secretary of state, Michael Ertel, resigned just weeks after the governor appointed him to the powerful position. The reason: a state newspaper obtained 14-year-old photos of Ertel dressed in blackface and pretending to be a Hurricane Katrina survivor.
At the time, Ertel was Seminole County’s supervisor of elections. He confirmed to the Tallahassee Democrat that he was the white man in photos the paper obtained. The paper described his attire in the 2005 Halloween party photos as “blackface and red lipstick, wearing earrings and a New Orleans Saints bandanna, and falsies under a purple T-shirt that had ‘Katrina Victim’ written on it.”
Reached for comment about the photos, Ertel told the paper, “There’s nothing I can say.” The governor’s office, which said it had not seen the photos previously, announced that it had accepted Ertel’s resignation on Thursday.
https://thinkprogress.org/desantis-florida-blackface-racism-36d14ec0bdc5/
DAILYFAIL article says Trump's allies think Guiliani drinking leads to unhinged interviews
they dont want him on tv in the evening
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6621863/Giulianis-media-blitz-draws-ire-Trump-allies.html
Giuliani has previously insisted he does not have an issue with alcohol, denying to Politico last May that it affected his interviews. He added: 'I may have a drink for dinner. I like to drink with cigars.'
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders walked away from reporters on Wednesday morning outside the West Wing when she was asked about Giuliani.
The president told advisers that he felt his lawyer had obscured what he believed was a public relations victory: the special counsel's rare public statement disputing portions of a BuzzFeed News story that Trump instructed his former attorney, Michael Cohen, to lie before Congress.
The president told confidants that Giuliani had 'changed the headlines' for the worse and raised the possibility that Giuliani do fewer cable hits, at least for a while, according to the officials and Republicans.
Several of Trump's influential outside allies also have begun expressing reservations about Giuliani. Some members of this informal network of advisers, whom the president frequently calls from the White House residence, urged Trump in recent days to bench Giuliani – but most stopped short of suggesting he fire his trusted attorney.
A group representing Nathan Phillips wrongly said he served in Vietnam
In reality, Phillips served from June 1972 to May 1976 in the Marine Corps Reserve, a service spokeswoman, Yvonne Carlock, said Wednesday. He did not deploy, and he left the service as a private after disciplinary issues. From October 1972 to February 1973, he was classified as an antitank missileman, a kind of infantryman, Carlock said. He then became a refrigerator technician for the majority of his service.
Daniel Paul Nelson, a leader in the Lakota People’s Law Project, said in an interview that his group made the error and that Phillips never told the group he served in Vietnam. The group, Nelson said, “trusted what we had seen” in previous stories about Phillips, some of which also referred to him erroneously as a Vietnam veteran.
“We were trying to do the advocacy work that we do,” Nelson said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/01/23/nathan-phillips-man-standoff-with-covington-teens-faces-scrutiny-his-military-past/?utm_term=.0dbd1c8e917d
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Phillips, who turns 64 next month, is not old enough to have deployed to Vietnam as a Marine infantryman, prompting accusations that he was lying about his service.
The military will typically provide basic details about a person’s military service within a day, but the situation with Phillips was complicated because he enlisted under another name associated with a family that raised him, Nelson said. He provided Phillips’s full Social Security number to The Post with Phillips’s permission to help clear up the confusion.
On Tuesday night, Donald Shipley, a Navy SEAL veteran who investigates military service records, published a video in which he showed excerpts of Phillips’s service record.
“This is all going into that Native American guy that everybody keeps labeling as a Vietnam vet, and he is not,” Shipley said in the video. “A lot of these news outlets are using that claim of ‘Vietnam vet’ to kind of beef that story up and make it look even worse.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/01/23/nathan-phillips-man-standoff-with-covington-teens-faces-scrutiny-his-military-past/?utm_term=.0dbd1c8e917d
Antigay megachurch pastor Earnest Angley caught on tape talking about all the gay sex he's had
https://www.queerty.com/antigay-megachurch-pastor-caught-tape-talking-gay-sex-hes-20190123
For years he’s led the Grace Cathedral church in Akron, Ohio, where he’s espoused antigay rhetoric and made it a habit to manipulate and take advantage of his parishioners.
The 97-year-old glorified conman has been on the receiving end of many damning accusations, from sexual abuse to employing illegal unpaid labor to coercing a 76-year-old believer with dementia to write a check for $340,000.
Now a newly public audio recording shows Angley to be a hypocrite in another classic antigay fashion. While regularly preaching that homosexuality is a sin, and potentially inflicting real damage on queer youth whose parents subjected them to Angley’s ramblings, it turns out the pastor was having gay sex on the side.
An anonymous source supplied the 23-year-old recording to the Akron Beacon Journal. On it, the pastor speaks with Rev. Bill Davis. Davis is upset with Angley for spreading a rumor about Davis’ wife being “vulgar”, and accuses Angley of having gay sex, which Davis calls “vulgar.”
Angley denies the story is true — but only the part where Davis implies Angley and his male sex partner both ejaculated.
Davis: … [My wife] said, ‘I’ll tell you what vulgar is: Him and [name withheld] naked, laying in Angel’s bed, masturbating each other and going to the bathroom to have to wash the ejaculation off his hands.’ …” [Angel is Angley’s wife, who died in 1970.]
Angley: “That’s not true because I didn’t ejaculate him. I didn’t make him cum.”
Davis: “Well, you was both naked in that bed.”
Angley: “Well, I didn’t make him cum.”
The Covington Teens' Racist 'Tomahawk Chop' Is The Product Of Native Mascotry
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/opinion-covington-maga-native-mascot_us_5c489093e4b0b669367617e0One student in a video does the “tomahawk chop,” an arm movement begun by the crowds at a Florida State Seminoles football game in the 1980s. It makes sense that this teenager in 2019 felt this was a good moment to do the chop because it was created to accompany the “war chant” FSU fans do at games, which, according to FSU, was originally called “Massacre” and “sounded more like chants by American Indians in Western movies.” (The history of depictions of Native peoples in Hollywood films is problematic, to say the least.)
The mockery of the moment on Friday was thrown into sharp relief on Sunday evening, when the New England Patriots played the Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. The crowds there long ago adopted the chop and the war chant, and anyone watching the broadcast saw and heard them both repeatedly during the game.
What really is the difference between what happened on Friday and what happened on Sunday, except that the students did it directly in the face of a Native man? (However, plenty of sports fans have done it to Native people’s faces when Native protesters have stood outside sporting events to draw attention to the use of racist mascots.)
Washington declares public health emergency as measles hits anti-vaccination "hot spot", Portland
Washington officials have declared a public health emergency as an outbreak of measles spreads across an anti-vaccination "hot spot" near Portland, Ore.
Clark County, Washington, has seen 23 confirmed cases of measles as of Tuesday, according to a statement from the public health department.
Twenty of those who contracted the highly contagious virus were not vaccinated against measles. The immunization status of three people have not yet been confirmed and at least one person has been hospitalized.
Clark County, which is just across the Columbia River from Portland, Ore., is a “hot spot” for outbreaks because of the high rate of nonmedical vaccine exemptions, The Washington Post reported.
An estimated 7 percent of students in Clark County were exempt from compulsory vaccines upon entering kindergarten by claiming personal or religious reasons in the 2017-2018 school year, according to state data.
Roughly 2 percent of children across the country forgo required immunizations for nonmedical reasons.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/426593-washington-officials-declare-public-health-emergency-as-measles-outbreak
Poll: Shutdown, Russia drive Trump to all-time high disapproval
President Donald Trump's disapproval rating is at an all-time high amid a historically long partial government shutdown and concerns about the president's relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.
Nearly 6-in-10 voters — 57 percent — disapprove of Trump's job performance, compared to the 40 percent that approve. In addition, 54 percent of voters blame Trump and Republicans on Capitol Hill for the government shutdown. Only 35 percent blame congressional Democrats.
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According to the poll, 57 percent believe it’s likely that Russia “has compromising information“ on Trump, compared to 31 percent who don't think it's likely.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/23/trump-government-shutdown-approval-rating-1119877
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