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Veteran, Prisoner of War, Presidential Candidate, and Senator. His legacy will long be remembered.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/25/john-mccain-dead-at-81.amp.html

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This isn’t the first time Trump has picked up on the right’s contention that there is some grand conspiracy to silence Republican voices online, and it also exemplifies the difficulties companies such as Twitter and Facebook could face in their attempts to clean up their communities.

Just a few weeks ago, Trump seized on the narrative that Twitter was “shadow banning” conservatives after Vice News’ Alex Thompson reported that some Republican officials weren’t showing up in automatic search results. The accounts being suppressed were also ones that Twitter’s algorithm had determined were taking part in unhealthy and abusive behavior.

Trump has also seized on the conservative narrative that their voices are being suppressed and silenced on social media.
Since then, Republicans and Silicon Valley have engaged in a back-and-forth where conservatives accuse platforms of bias and companies bend over backwards to show that’s not the case. After the Gizmodo story broke, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with conservative leaders to discuss how the network handles conservative content.

There’s little evidence to suggest that Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms are actually engaging in some systematic war on conservatives. That Trump and other conservatives seem so eager to jump on the tech-is-biased-against-us bandwagon should be concerning, especially ahead of the 2018 elections. If, say, Democrats take back the House of Representatives in November, it sets up a scenario where Republicans may say online bias is partly to blame. That turns social media into a political football — if Russian disinformation on Facebook and Twitter swayed voters against Democrats in 2016, who’s to stop Republicans from saying bias hurt them in 2018?

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/18/17749450/trump-twitter-bias-alex-jones-infowars

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Here's a look at the charges, guilty pleas, and convictions piling up all around Trump.

Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was found guilty on eight federal charges Tuesday, just an hour before Trump’s longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight counts, including illegally paying hush money for the purpose of helping Trump win the election.

With previous guilty pleas from Rick Gates (2 counts), George Papadopoulus (1 count), and Mike Flynn (1 count), that brings the total number of Trump associates who have pleaded guilty to or been convicted of criminal charges in the Russia probe to five, and the total count of criminal charges on their rap sheet to 20.

While Trump and his legal team tried to make the best of the situation this week, the only defense Rudy Giuliani could come up with was that Trump himself has not been indicted (yet), though legal experts say the charges against Cohen make Trump an unindicted co-conspirator in the illicit payment scheme.

This week’s developments are bad news for Trump not only because they implicate him, but also because they serve as a reminder of just how productive the Russia investigation has been and how critical it is for it to continue.

Even before Manafort’s convictions and Cohen’s guilty plea on Tuesday, the majority of Americans supported special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe and believed that it was important to let it continue. Americans also disapprove of the way Trump is handling the probe, and a majority believe he has been untruthful.

Of course, Trump will continue to lash out, likely louder than ever, and his cries of “witch hunt!” are not likely to go away any time soon.

But unfortunately for Trump and his cronies, Mueller’s investigation isn’t going anywhere, either. And with each passing day, the evidence trail gets one step closer to Trump.

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Several people were injured in killed at a mass shooting in florida. This webm shows it happening at a Madden tournament and a laser being pointed at these two guys. Still a developing story.
https://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2018/08/26/mass-shooting-reported-jacksonville-landing-deputies-say/1104660002/

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>be american
>get shot

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45315970

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German President Declares There are ‘No Native Germans, We are a Nation of Immigrants’

Speaking at Berlin’s Bellevue Palace, where a small group of people with Turkish heritage had been invited to share their views on immigration, integration, and xenophobia in Europe, the German president strongly denounced “exclusion of and discrimination against people with foreign roots”.

“A permanent suspicion of immigrants, no matter how long they have lived in Germany, is not only harmful for the individuals involved but it is a cause of shame for our country,” said President Steinmeier — who serves as a largely symbolic head of state, while Chancellor Angela Merkel is head of government.

elling guests of his regret at hearing people with migration backgrounds report incidents which they claimed made them feel they don’t belong in the country, Steinmeier claimed prejudice undermines “all the things we have done together as a country”.

“There are no Germans who are ‘on probation’ and having to earn their rights in society again and again because their [citizenship] could be revoked on the basis of alleged misconduct,” the president said, insisting that there are “no half or whole, no biological or ‘new’ Germans; there are no first- or second-class citizens, no right or wrong neighbours”.

https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/08/25/germans-immigration-country-president/

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An Indonesian court has sentenced a woman who complained about a noisy mosque to 18 months in prison for blasphemy. Prosecutors said the 44-year-old defendant violated the criminal code by committing blasphemy against Islam, the dominant faith in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.

Mobs burned and ransacked at least 14 Buddhist temples throughout Tanjung Balai, a port town on Sumatra, in a July 2016 riot following reports of Meiliana's complaint about a mosque's noisy loudspeakers.

Since 2004, 147 people have been imprisoned under blasphemy or related laws, according to monitoring by Human Rights Watch. The number of cases has slowed since 2014 under President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's administration.

Last year, the minority Christian and ethnic Chinese governor of Jakarta, the capital, was convicted of blasphemy and imprisoned for two years after massive street protests over comments seized upon by his political opponents.

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/indonesia-woman-irked-mosque-noise-convicted-blasphemy-57303218

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How will /pol/ survive now that they know this?

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/3/17644180/political-correctness-free-speech-liberal-data-georgetown

Does “political correctness” really crush conservative speech on campus? The data suggests no.

The American college campus, we are led to believe, is a dangerous place: If you say what you really think, particularly as a conservative, a mob of young social justice warriors will come for your faculty position or invitation to speak on campus. Entire books and online magazines are premised on the idea that political correctness is sweeping the American university, threatening both higher education and the broader right to free speech.

But a brand new data analysis from Georgetown University’s Free Speech Project suggests that this “crisis” is more than a little overblown. There have been relatively few incidents of speech being squelched on college campuses, and there’s in fact limited evidence that conservatives are being unfairly targeted.

The Free Speech Project’s researchers have cataloged more than 90 incidents since 2016 that fit their criteria for a person’s free speech rights being threatened. Of those 90, about two-thirds took place on college campuses. These incidents range from a speaker being disinvited to a faculty member being fired over allegedly offensive comments to a student-run play being canceled over concerns it would offend.

The raw numbers here should already raise questions about the so-called political correctness epidemic. According to the Department of Education, there are 4,583 colleges and universities in the United States (including two- and four-year institutions). The fact that there were roughly only 60 incidents in the past two years suggests that free speech crises are extremely rare events and don’t define university life in the way that critics suggest.

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What started out as a straightforward genetic study of Florida’s invasive python population has turned up a surprising plot twist: a small number of crossbred Burmese and Indian pythons with the potential to become a kind of Everglades super snake.

For the study, published Sunday in the journal Ecology and Evolution, U.S. Geological Survey researchers examined the tail tissue of 400 snakes captured in South Florida, from the Big Cypress Swamp to the Everglades. While the vast majority appeared to be closely related Burmese pythons — imagine a family reunion packed with first and second cousins — 13 had genetic markers from Indian pythons, a different species that unlike the swamp-loving Burmese snake prefers high, dry ground.

The number is clearly small, but it raises the risk that over time some Everglades snakes could become better suited to a more varied landscape. Scientists call it hybrid vigor.

“If the Indian pythons have a wider range, perhaps these Everglades snakes now have that capability,” said lead author and USGS geneticist Margaret Hunter. “It’s quite interesting and quite surprising, but we don’t know the extent it’s in the population.”

Because evolution seems to abhor certainty, there’s also the possibility the opposite happens through another process, she said, euphemistically referred to as ‘outbreeding depression.’


The Early Detection and Distribution Mapping System allows researchers and citizens to report the locations of spotted pythons. Red circles indicate the sightings have been confirmed.


https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article217109205.html

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https://www.newsweek.com/dnc-strips-superdelegates-power-reform-nominee-process-1090820

In an historic move, the Democratic National Committee voted Saturday to reform the party’s presidential nomination process by restricting superdelegates’ power when voting for a nominee.

Superdelegates, like lawmakers and former presidents, were previously given more power than regular delegates, which caused a rift among Democratic voters during the 2016 primaries. Pledge delegate votes will still be determined by their state’s primary or caucus results.

The change will prohibit superdelegates from voting on the first ballot at the 2020 DNC convention. If there is not a clear winner after the first round of voting or it is deadlocked, superdelegates may then cast their votes to act as a tiebreaker. While the nominee is usually determined in the first round of voting, there have been instances where a second round is needed to determine a winner.

The DNC will also require state parties to accept absentee votes for caucuses so voters don’t have to physically be there and encourage states to allow independents to participate in primaries and caucuses, according to NBC News.

The DNC made the decision at the end of its summer meeting in Chicago, Illinois.

because the department exceeded its data limit as crews fought the state's biggest wildfires in history

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6091055/Verizon-sued-California-firefighters-slowing-speeds-biggest-wildfire-state-history.html

>Santa Clara County Fire Department is suing Verizon Wireless after the telecoms giant limited firefighters' access as they battled the largest wildfire in Californian state history.

>The company throttled the department's service as they were still battling the Mendocino Complex Fire because it had reached its data limit for the month.

>When the fire department called Verizon to tell them they were in the middle of dealing with a public emergency and safety issue, a customer service representative told them they should upgrade to a more expensive plan.

>In the lawsuit, the fire department says the throttling was a result of the repeal of net neutrality rules.

>Before they were repealed by the Federal Communications Commission in December, communications companies were required to provide equal data access to all customers.

>County lawyers allege that the slowdown, called 'throttling', was caused by the FCC's action, which allows telecommunications to slow internet speed to selected customers.

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At Trump's behest, Republicans are suddenly stalling a major bipartisan effort to bolster America's election security against hacking and other threats.

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The Trump administration has pressured its Republican allies in the Senate to squelch a bipartisan bill to protect American elections against interference, Yahoo News reports.

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) proposed the Secure Elections Act, which was then cosponsored by Democratic senators like Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Republicans Lindsay Graham (R-SC) and Susan Collins (R-ME).

Before the White House got involved, the bill was expected to pass the Senate and become a rare bipartisan success story for Congress.

But Republican willingness to bow to White House pressure proves just how little the GOP cares about protecting American election security.

The bill would have given the top election official in each state security clearance to receive information on electoral threats, formalized information sharing between the federal government and the states, mandated an audit of federal elections, and incentivized the purchase of voting machines that leave a paper trail.

Paper records are especially important in case, for instance, a Russian hacker managed to change reported vote counts on the internet.

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Suicide survivor becomes youngest face transplant recipient in U.S.

Katie Stubblefield was just 18 when she put the barrel of her brother's .308-caliber hunting rifle below her chin and pulled the trigger. She survived, but the injury resulted in the loss of her face.

As a teen, Stubblefield struggled with health issues, problems in her love life, and major family moves. In 2014, during her senior year of high school, her world upended. After dealing with the effects of her family relocating for the second time in just a couple of years, chronic gastrointestinal troubles led her to have her appendix and gallbladder removed. A few months later, she and her boyfriend broke up.

Hurt and angry, Stubblefield went over to her brother Robert's place, went to the bathroom and used his gun to shoot herself.

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The series of events is what set Stubblefield on a path to become the youngest ever recipient of a face transplant at 21. Now, she is featured in the cover story of National Geographic magazine's September issue titled "The Story of a Face," which details what led to the attempted suicide. She is also featured in National Geographic's full-length documentary "Katie's Face."

Five weeks after the incident, Stubblefield was brought to Cleveland Clinic. She lost parts of her forehead, her nose and sinuses, her mouth (except for the corner of her lips), and the bones that make up the jaws and front of the face. Her eyes remained but they were badly damaged.

"It was not great," Brian Gastman, the first clinic doctor to see Stubblefield, told National Geographic. "Her brain was basically exposed, and I mean, we're talking seizures and infections and all kinds of problems. Forget the face transplant; we're talking about just being alive."

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>A woman may have lost a highly coveted NASA internship following a profanity-laced back-and-forth with a user on Twitter. That user? Famed former NASA engineer and current space council adviser Homer Hickam.
The exchange, reportedly captured in screenshots that rocketed across social media, began when a user identified as Naomi H. (@NaomiH_official) made an announcement to the world:

https://twitter.com/rebecca_roache/status/1031976231317774336

https://www.freep.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/08/22/nasa-internship-reportedly-lost-after-twitter-spat-homer-hickam/1066538002/