Louis Scarcella was once a rock-star detective in Brooklyn’s most crime-ridden precincts. In court, he faced men he put in prison who were later exonerated.
As DeVos Eases Sexual Assault Rules, Her High School Stands Accused of Breaking Them
A lawsuit against Holland Christian High School has turned Betsy DeVos’s alma mater into Exhibit A as the education secretary moves to lighten the rules governing school sexual assault.
Twitter Network Uses Fake Accounts to Promote Netanyahu, Israel Watchdog Finds
A network of hundreds of social media accounts, many of them fake, was used to smear opponents of the Israeli prime minister, investigators found.
As India Votes, False Posts and Hate Speech Flummox Facebook
With as many as 879 million eligible voters set to cast ballots in the coming weeks, Facebook is struggling to cope with the disinformation and hate speech that is circulating online.
Wiggling buttocks enliven existential hell of Brexit debate

Semi-naked protest in Commons was no weirder than anything else that goes on there these days
The people finally got to have their say on the government’s Brexit deal. In parliament no less. And what they had to say was that they wanted to take almost all their kit off and protest against climate change instead. Time management. They probably reckoned there was more chance of the world’s politicians agreeing on plans to save the planet than anyone coming up with a Brexit solution that the government was prepared to implement.
Related: Semi-naked climate protesters disrupt Brexit debate
Italy may scrap vaccine certificates for young children
In name of political freedom we will bring back the Black Plague!

Move by Five Star and League senators follows intervention by Matteo Salvini
Italy may scrap its requirement for parents to provide proof that their children have been vaccinated before they start nursery.
The senate’s health committee is expected to pass an amendment dropping the obligation next week, sparking further controversy over the populist coalition government’s ambiguous vaccine policy. The measure would then be put to parliament.
US will run out of avocados in three weeks if Trump closes Mexico border
ha ha ha ha ha

President says there is a ‘good likelihood’ he will close border this week if Mexico does not stop immigrants from reaching US
US consumers would run out of avocados in three weeks if Donald Trump makes good on his threat to close down the US–Mexico border.
Trump said on Friday that there was a “very good likelihood” he would close the border this week if Mexico did not stop immigrants from reaching the United States.
Monday Open Thread
Hi Everyone. Collected a few videos from the 2019 NAACP Images Awards show. I don’t know when this organization is going to get their act together and get up to speed on decent website and videos. Any wonder some folks don’t show up for their show.
Series of Red carpet videos
Joy Reid gives advice on how to deal with the firehose of negative information in our world, “don’t allow unreality to take over your reality” #ImageAwards50 https://t.co/vtaR24bIgU pic.twitter.com/yThP0cfFPe
— Variety (@Variety) March 31, 2019
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Explains Why The Green New Deal Is About More Than Climate | All In | MSNBC
AOC sits down with Chris Hayes at a town hall in the Bronx to talk about how we need to “save ourselves and the planet.” And she how didn’t expect Republicans to “make total fools of themselves.”
Lucy Flores on Joe Biden: ‘I Want Him to Change His Behavior’
“The reason why we’re having these conversations about Vice President Joe Biden is because he’s considering running for president,” she said. “And frankly, the reason why I felt so compelled to say something was because, over the years, as this behavior was documented, as it frankly was dismissed by the media and not taken seriously, that conversation was not coming up in the discussions.”
Source: Lucy Flores on Joe Biden: ‘I Want Him to Change His Behavior’
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