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Kevin Bollaert, Creator of a “Revenge Porn” Website, Sentenced to 18 Years in Prison
By Elaine Magliaro Last Friday, Kamala D. Harris, California’s Attorney General, announced that Kevin Christopher Bollaert, “the operator of a cyber-exploitation website which posted nude photos of individuals with personal identifying information without their consent, was sentenced to 18 years in … Continue reading
Posted in Courts, Crime, Internet, Law Enforcement, Media, Short Video, United States, Weird Crime
Tagged California, Extortion, Identity Theft, Kevin Bollaert, Revenge Porn Website
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San Francisco Police Officers To Be Dismissed for Sending Racist and Homophobic Text Messages
By Elaine Magliaro Timothy Williams (New York Times) reported on Friday that Greg Suhr, San Francisco’s police chief, said that “he had moved to dismiss seven officers who sent or received text messages that spoke of lynching African-Americans and burning crosses. … Continue reading
Posted in Equal Rights, Homosexual Rights, Justice, Law Enforcement, Local Government, Racism, Society, United States
Tagged California, police, San Francisco Police
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“CONSOLATION”: A Poem by Wislawa Szymborska
Posted by Elaine Magliaro For the first Poetry Friday of National Poetry Month, I’m posting a poem by my favorite poet–Wislawa Szymborska. CONSOLATION By Wisława Szymborska (Translated By Clare Cavanagh and Stanisław Barańczak) Darwin. They say he read novels to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Literature, Poetry
Tagged National Poetry Month, Poetry Friday, Wislawa Szymborska
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NYPD Detective Who Verbally Abused Uber Driver Placed on Modified Assignment
By Elaine Magliaro Patrick Cherry, a New York police detective assigned to the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force with top-secret security clearance, has reportedly been stripped of his badge and his gun and placed on modified assignment after verbally abusing … Continue reading
Regarding the State of Indiana, Mike Pence, Planned Parenthood, and an Exploding HIV Outbreak
By Elaine Magliaro Last week, Governor Mike Pence of Indiana “declared a public health emergency in Scott County, Indiana…after 79 people tested positive for HIV linked to intravenous drug use.” Today, Laura Bassett (Huffington Post) said that Scott County has become “the … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatives, Equal Rights, Government, Health Care, Political Science, Politics, Religion, Reproductive Rights, States, United States
Tagged HIV, Indiana, Mike Pence, Planned Parenthood, Women's Rights
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In His Book “American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity,” Author Christian Appy Looks at the Myth of American Exceptionalism
By Elaine Magliaro Over at Salon, there’s an excerpt from Christian G. Appy’s new book American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity, which was published by Viking in February. Appy is a professor of history at the University … Continue reading
New York City Mayor de Blasio Says Someone May Have Improperly Tapped a Gas Line Before Building Explosion
By Elaine Magliaro New York City officials reportedly “suspect that leaking natural gas was the source of Thursday’s explosion and fire, which sparked a raging blaze that took hundreds of firefighters to quell.” Last Friday, Mayor Bill de Blasio said … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, Local Government, United States
Tagged Bribery, Consolidated Edison, FDNY, Mayor Bill de Blasio, New York City
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Colorado State Representative and Wacko Televangelist Gordon Klingenschmitt Says That Brutal Attack on a Pregnant Woman Is “The Curse of God upon America” (VIDEO)
By Elaine Magliaro Last November, I wrote a post about Gordon Klingenschmitt, a far-right Christian zealot and anti-gay televangelist also known as “Dr. Chaps,” who had been “swept into office” in Colorado with just under 70% of the vote. Klingenschmitt, a … Continue reading
Stateside Indiana: Ridiculing and Speaking Out Against Bigotry
By Elaine Magliaro I’m am so happy to hear that Governor Mike Pence of Indiana “has come in for an extra heaping of scorn on social media” after signing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Curtis M. Wong (Huffington Post) said that … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Civil Law, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Democracy, Documentrary Films, Equal Rights, Fundamentalism, Government, Homosexual Rights, Humor, Justice, Political Science, Politics, Short Video, Society, States, United States
Tagged Anti-Gay Laws, Bigotry, Discrimination, Mike Pence, Religious Discrimination, Religious Freedom Restoration Act
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