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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Police Stops Still Overwhelmingly Target Black And Latino New Yorkers

old new news Police Stops Still Overwhelmingly Target Black And Latino New Yorkers

In the first four years after Mayor Bill de Blasio took office, the number of New Yorkers stopped and frisked by police continued the dramatic decline that began the year before, when a federal judge found the practice to be racially discriminatory and ordered police reforms. [ more › ]

Furore over European parliament president’s Mussolini comments

Looks like a duck, walks like a duck, sounds like an Il Duce! Fascist!

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Antonio Tajani widely rebuked for saying fascist dictator had done positive things for Italy

The president of the European parliament is under fire for downplaying the crimes of Benito Mussolini, after he said Italy’s fascist dictator had done positive things for the country.

Antonio Tajani, a close ally of the former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, told Italian radio that Mussolini had a good track record on developing infrastructure:“I’m not a fascist, I have never been a fascist and I don’t share [Mussolini’s] political thought, but if we must be honest, he built roads, bridges, buildings,” he said. “He reclaimed many parts of our Italy.”

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‘Weak’ Modi ‘scared’ of China’s Xi: Rahul Gandhi

Taking a dig at the Prime Minister, Rahul said that Narendra Modi has failed to take a firm stand against China. On Wednesday, China kept chief Masood Azhar under its protective wings, vetoing a fourth attempt to declare him a global terrorist. “Weak Modi is scared of Xi. Not a word comes out of his mouth when China acts against India,” he tweeted.

What’s wrong with wearing a crop top on a plane?

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Thomas Cook cabin crew telling an air passenger to put on more clothes or be thrown off smacks of sexism and hypocrisy

Another day, another example of an airline feeling it is OK to tell women and girls how to dress. You might think there were more pressing things to be getting on with – flying the planes, for instance – but there is, apparently, always an opportunity to shame female passengers over their outfit choices.

Emily O’Connor had boarded a Birmingham-to-Tenerife flight this week when the Thomas Cook cabin crew asked her to cover up the crop top she was wearing – or she would be removed from the plane. O’Connor tweeted about the incident (10,000 retweets so far) and said she’d been left “shaken and upset”. To add to her experience, the airline even announced the whole debacle over the loudspeaker. Because, sure, that’s a perfectly proportionate course of action. When O’Connor stood up and asked if anyone else cared that she was wearing what she later described as a top from Zara’s summer range (others have called it a bralet), nobody did. She eventually borrowed a jacket.

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Samantha Bee: ‘I’m not saying Tucker Carlson’s a white supremacist. No, sorry, yes I am’

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Late-night hosts looked at Tucker Carlson, the tactics in the college admissions scam, and Paul Manafort’s second sentencing

On Wednesday’s Full Frontal, Samantha Bee did not mince her words, laying into the Fox News host Tucker Carlson, whose sexist and racist comments on women and Muslims resurfaced over the weekend.

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