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Democrats Plan to Pursue Most Aggressive Gun-Control Legislation in Decades

Democrats ousted at least 15 House Republicans with “A” National Rifle Association ratings, while the candidates elected to replace them all scored an “F” NRA rating.

“This new majority is not going to be afraid of our shadow,” said Mike Thompson, a California Democrat who is chairman of the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. “We know that we’ve been elected to do a job, and we’re going to do it.”

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

FWIW all it takes to get an F from the National Rifle Association is to be a Democrat running against a Republican with an A.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Lianne Marten]

Hey wanna get mad about 2016 again? Of course you do.

https://nypost.com/2018/11/09/james-comey-discussed-sensitive-fbi-business-on-his-private-email/

Fired FBI chief James Comey used his private Gmail account hundreds of times to conduct government business — and at least seven of those messages were deemed so sensitive by the Justice Department that they declined to release them.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I'd like to call attention to this young Syrian journalist.

muhammad najem (@muhammadnajem20) on Twitter

 

[Porsupah Ree]

If you're in the mood for some political reading, Haymarket Books has all their ebooks at 90% off until Monday, leaving many of them around $1 each, from the likes of Rebecca Solnit ("Men Explain Things to Me"), Naomi Klein, and Noam Chomsky.

90% OFF All Ebooks at HaymarketBooks.org!

Paper books are reduced as well, though not as steeply.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Three guilty of Nazi group membership

A couple who named their baby after Adolf Hitler have been found guilty of being members of a banned terrorist group.

Adam Thomas, 22, and Claudia Patatas, 38, from Banbury, along with Daniel Bogunovic, 27, from Leicester, were charged with being in National Action.

Birmingham Crown Court heard the couple gave their child the middle name Adolf in honour of the Nazi leader.

Jurors saw images of Thomas in Ku Klux Klan robes while cradling his baby.

The Neo-Nazi terrorist group National Action, founded in 2013, was outlawed under anti-terror legislation three years later after it celebrated the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox.

 

[Dillon Levenque]

That looks like me in the same situation once while on a contract job in Minnesota. All the regular employees watched me through the cafeteria windows and laughed.

 

[Porsupah Ree]

So, I heard something about a "banned advert" the other day, and paid it little mind, thinking it to be just another case of a corp being "edgy". Turns out, it's a great deal more substantial than that.

Petition to overturn ban on Iceland’s Christmas advert has amassed over 680,000 signatures

It's being deemed to be a political ad, being a coproduction between the UK supermarket Iceland, and Greenpeace, highlighting the impact of palm oil production on deforestation and loss of orangutan habitat. Pretty good scam, if you're in the status quo - advertise all the cars you want, regardless of their economy, but point that out, and you'd see the same fate.

 

[Porsupah Ree]

Several area lawmakers at a Monday press conference showed their support for a San Antonio resident and U.S. citizen who was deported to Mexico in June.

Julio Cesar Ovalle was walking to an H-E-B in Northwest San Antonio on June 11 when a border patrol agent stopped him and asked for identification, according to a claim local Espinoza Law Firm filed against the Department of Homeland Security in September. Ovalle, who was then 23, told the agent he was a citizen but did not have identification with him. He was detained and deported within two days.

Ovalle's attorneys claim he was deported to Nuevo Laredo in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, where he was abducted by a cartel and held for ransom. The cartel let him go after the FBI started investigating, as Ovalle overheard cartel members saying, attorney Javier Espinoza said.

Nearly five months after he was detained and deported, Ovalle carries identification with him at all times. He said the main takeaway from his deportation is that everyone should do the same.

“Si de pasarme puede pasarle a cualquiera,” he said. (If it happened to me, it can happen to anyone else.)

https://therivardreport.com/san-antonio-lawmakers-decry-discriminatory-practices-after-u-s-citizens-deportation/

 

[Innula Zenovka]

So, I heard something about a "banned advert" the other day, and paid it little mind, thinking it to be just another case of a corp being "edgy". Turns out, it's a great deal more substantial than that.

Petition to overturn ban on Iceland’s Christmas advert has amassed over 680,000 signatures

It's being deemed to be a political ad, being a coproduction between the UK supermarket Iceland, and Greenpeace, highlighting the impact of palm oil production on deforestation and loss of orangutan habitat. Pretty good scam, if you're in the status quo - advertise all the cars you want, regardless of their economy, but point that out, and you'd see the same fate.

Yes, but would you like to see paid political advertising, as they have in the USA, on British TV?

Both Iceland and Greenpeace must have been aware that the advert risked breaking the rule against political advertising, and decided to go ahead with it anyway, presumably reasoning -- correctly -- that the amount of coverage and on-line views the advert would receive if banned would be very welcome.

Neither organisation is exactly naive when it comes to advertising and publicity, after all.

 

[Lianne Marten]

In Illinois some drunk customers were thrown out of a bar for being too rowdy. Some time later they returned to the bar and began shooting. Security fired back, and one of the security guards was able to apprehend one of the assailants.

When the police arrived the security guard was shot and killed by them.

He was the only fatality of the evening.

Guess what ethnicity the security guard was?

Black security guard who saved day after drunk customers open fire on bar was then shot dead by police

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

https://therivardreport.com/san-antonio-lawmakers-decry-discriminatory-practices-after-u-s-citizens-deportation/

So, we've got a US citizen just minding his own business, who was detained and deported simply because he looked Mexican, and ICE apparently didn't even give him a chance to go to his home and grab his identification? Just for being Hispanic?

I am so ashamed of this country right now.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Lianne Marten]

Hey he didn't become the richest person on Earth by buying helipads with his own money i'll have you know.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

I can lend him a helipad.

(checks drawer)

My bad. That's a heating pad.

 

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Man pleads guilty to swatting attack that led to death of Kansas man

Federal prosecutors in Kansas announced Tuesday that a 25-year-old Californian has admitted that he caused a Wichita man to be killed at the hands of local police during a swatting attack late last year.

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According to the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Kansas, Tyler Barriss pleaded guilty to making a false report resulting in a death, cyberstalking, and conspiracy. He also admitted that he was part of "dozens of similar crimes in which no one was injured."

In May 2018, Barriss was indicted on county charges (manslaughter) and federal charges, which include cyberstalking and wire fraud, among many others.

US Attorney Stephen McAllister said in a Tuesday statement that Barriss would be sentenced to at least 20 years in prison.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Some bits on the history and anatomy of fake news.

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