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* "Colombia President Santos offers truce with Farc:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-34661146

* "Bob Dole buries big, old hatchet with Bush endorsement:"

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* "Politicians' 'Secret information' a factual red flag:"

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* "Worlds collide: Reading poetry at a Donald Trump rally:"

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* "Why is Trump hailing 'Operation Wetback?':"

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* "Shocking video of police encounter:"

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* "What the Mizzou protests are really about:"

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* "Cop Handcuffed 7-Year-Old Boy for No Reason and then He Lost the Key:" http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-handcuffed-7-year-old-boy-misplaced-key/

* There is zero reason to hand cuff a seven year old. Seriously. Yes, some of them can be pretty violent, though this child wasn’t. Look at the size differential between even a large seven year old and the average adult. It’s not that hard to restrain an unarmed seven year old gently until the child calms down, which usually isn’t long because nearly all of them have tiny attention spans.

And can we just stop arresting children for things that aren’t actual crimes?

I am tempted to paste one of my other rants on over policing children and proper classroom discipline, like the one I did a few weeks ago after that police thug brutalized a bereaved child who just lost her mother and just landed in foster care for using a phone, breaking her arm and giving her a concussion, traumatizing a room full of other children in the process.

As someone who taught for a living and loved it and only gave it up because my body couldn’t do it anymore, I am furious. Job one for a teacher is to keep the children safe. You never bring in an outside authority to hurt children. Arresting and humiliating a seven year old for having a disability is not protecting the children; it is deliberately harming them. calling in a violent thug to brutally beat a child in mourning is not protecting the children. It is cruelty that oes permanent damage not only to that child, but every child in the room. It breaks the relationship between teacher and students that makes learning possible and traumatized children have trouble learning. We are getting ionto human rights abuse areas for no good reason at all except naked racism.

I am honestly shaking I am so angry and I’m struggling for words that are not obscene, though I know no words as obscene as an act of cruelty like this perpetrated on a child so young.

* "Cop accused of raping black women gets all white jury:" http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-accused-raping-black-women-white-jury-article-1.2423160

* "New Spike Lee film spotlights Chicago gang violence:" http://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2015/11/12/chicago-violence-spike-lee-movie-cooper-dnt-ac.cnn

* "It's NOT about the Bathrooms:"

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* "Autogynophilia pathologizes normal female behavior:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/133050624532/autogynophilia-pathologizes-normal-female-behavior

* "Upcoming 20th Anniversary Of Chanelle Pickett's Murder:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/11/upcoming-20th-anniversary-of-chanelle.html

* "Happy Veterans Day 2015, Trans Vets!:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2015/11/happy-veterans-day-2015-trans-vets.html

* "Oldest evidence of breast cancer found in Egyptian skeleton:" http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/24/us-egypt-antiquities-cancer-idUSKBN0MK20620150324#pVKlpobSTdvMGOoG.97

* "Economic Schools of Thought: Crash Course Economics #14 :"

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* "Wrecked oil train had passed nuclear missile silos:"

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* "What the Actual Fact? - Truth and Fiction in the GOP Debate:"

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* "Blacklash 2016: The Unblackening - Dumbing It Down at the GOP Debate:"

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* "Blacklash 2016: The Unblackening - Donald Trump Is Stupid:"

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* "American Heroes: Campaign Donors Go Big:"

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* "The Federal Election Commission: As Useful as Men's Nipples:"

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* "The Myanmar Daily Show:"

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* "The Fight Before Christmas - Bloomingdale's Eggnog Ad & Starbucks Cup Controversy:"

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* I actually did get my notes ready in time and was prepared to go, but the boys turned up soaked and frozen out of the storm, just as I was waiting for the oven to get hot enough for the biscuits. I made hot chocolate and we ate and chatted instead as after their trek through win and rain warm and cheerful was what was called for.

It's fine. I woke up feverish again anyway. I've had this pathogen since April and the fever rises and falls like a tide.

* "The linguistics of horror:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/133126946962/the-linguistics-of-horror

* "Fangs For The Fantasy: The Librarians, Season Two, Episode Three:And What Lies Beneath the Stones:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2015/11/the-librarians-season-two-episode.html

* "Sunday Sweets Gets OVER DRAMATIC:" http://www.cakewrecks.com/home/2015/11/8/sunday-sweets-gets-over-dramatic.html

* "The Great Fucks Famine of 2015:" http://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/133055264912/uglyfun-just-read-it-source-behind-closed

* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help

* A list of LGBTQA Charities: http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

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* Aung San Suu Kyi's party has won in Myanmar.

* There have been multiple terrorist attacks in Paris with bombs, guns, and possibly a suicide bomb. At least 120 are dead, but the numbers are not final and many of the attackers are still loose so there may be more coordinated attacks.

I can’t do this one in depth. I’m just not up to it, but that doesn’t mean I’m not seriously distressed by it.

* "Woman smashed in face with beer mug for speaking Swahili at Applebees:" http://boingboing.net/2015/11/09/woman-smashed-in-face-with-bee.html

* "Elaborate 'Red Lady' Grave Yields Secrets Of Ice-Age Culture:" http://www.livescience.com/50274-red-lady-burial-site.html?cmpid=514647_20150327_42794846&adbid=581567485062705152&adbpl=tw&adbpr=146469194

* "Massive Underground City Found in Cappadocia Region of Turkey:" http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150325-underground-city-cappadocia-turkey-archaeology/

* "Local cults of saints played a role in Scandinavian Christianisation:" http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2015/local-cults-of-saints-played-a-role-in-scandinavian-christianisation

* I'm about halfway through the GoT Season three rewatch, and am now confirmed in my opinion that this is the season when the butterfly effect of all the D&D arbitrary changes really start damaging plot and character coherence. I think it's like slow boiling a lobster, the temperature gradually rising. It's all faultlines in season three even though the whole thing won't fall apart completely until the start of season five. I don't know how for I'll go with the rewatch. I am planning to do Season four, but I don't think I can stomach five, given how little I wanted to be watching that offensive nonsense when it was new. I'm not convinced I will be able to tolerate six when it comes out. It's heart breaking. The cast is so good and they are trying so hard, but the scripts make noticeably less sense one to the next.

* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help

* A list of LGBTQA Charities: http://awkward0w1.tumblr.com/post/126399233673

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com