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An Ohio Republican challenging Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) for his Senate seat slammed the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Thursday as a "partisan witchhunt group."

Josh Mandel took to Twitter to accuse the Jewish civil rights group of improperly singling out for criticism far-right activists and internet personalities such as Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec.

"Sad to see @ADL_National become a partisan witchhunt group targeting people for political beliefs. I stand with @Cernovich & @JackPosobiec," Mandel, who currently serves as Ohio's state treasurer, wrote.

By Max Greenwood - 07/20/17 02:09 PM EDT
GOP Senate candidate attacks Anti-Defamation League for ‘witchhunt' on far right
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An Ohio Republican challenging Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) for his Senate seat slammed the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Thursday as a "partisan witchhunt group."

Josh Mandel took to Twitter to accuse the Jewish civil rights group of improperly singling out for criticism far-right activists and internet personalities such as Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec.

"Sad to see @ADL_National become a partisan witchhunt group targeting people for political beliefs. I stand with @Cernovich & @JackPosobiec," Mandel, who currently serves as Ohio's state treasurer, wrote.

Mandel's tweet came two days after the ADL included Cernovich and Posobiec on a list of figures associated with the alt-right, a primarily internet-based white nationalist movement without a clear structure or organization.

In a statement to The Hill, Mandel's campaign said that by releasing such a list, the ADL was venturing down a "slippery slope."

"Of all organizations, the ADL should know that making target lists of people based on their political beliefs is a dangerous practice and slippery slope." (cont)

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/342963-gop-senate-candidate-attacks-anti-defamation-league-for-witchhunt-on-alt

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/john-mccain-brain-tumor/

>Senator John McCain, R-Arizona, has been diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor, according to a statement released by his family and the Mayo Clinic.

>The statement says that following a procedure to remove a blood clot the diagnosis was revealed.

>"On Friday, July 14, Sen. John McCain underwent a procedure to remove a blood clot from above his left eye at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix," the statement read. "Subsequent tissue pathology revealed that a primary brain tumor known as a glioblastoma was associated with the blood clot."

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https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52939

>CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) have completed an estimate of the direct spending and revenue effects of the Obamacare Repeal Reconciliation Act of 2017, an amendment in the nature of a substitute to H.R. 1628, which would repeal many provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). According to the agencies’ analysis, enacting the legislation would decrease deficits by $473 billion over the 2017-2026 period (see figure below).

>CBO and JCT estimate that enacting the legislation would affect insurance coverage and premiums primarily in these ways:

>The number of people who are uninsured would increase by 17 million in 2018, compared with the number under current law. That number would increase to 27 million in 2020, after the elimination of the ACA’s expansion of eligibility for Medicaid and the elimination of subsidies for insurance purchased through the marketplaces established by the ACA, and then to 32 million in 2026.

>Average premiums in the nongroup market (for individual policies purchased through the marketplaces or directly from insurers) would increase by roughly 25 percent—relative to projections under current law—in 2018. The increase would reach about 50 percent in 2020, and premiums would about double by 2026.

>In CBO and JCT’s estimation, under this legislation, about half of the nation’s population would live in areas having no insurer participating in the nongroup market in 2020 because of downward pressure on enrollment and upward pressure on premiums. That share would continue to increase, extending to about three-quarters of the population by 2026.

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https://www.yahoo.com/tech/cop-accidentally-frames-himself-planting-drugs-body-camera-230620655.html

>Baltimore news outlets have published body cam video from a supposed drug bust back in January. The video appears to show a cop planting drugs in a trash pile, before going back to the road, activating his body camera, and “finding” the drugs that supposedly belonged to a suspect.

>The cop was using a model of body cam that constantly captures and buffers footage, so that when you press the record button, it saves the previous 30 seconds of footage.

>Presumably unaware of this feature, the cop accidentally films himself placing a baggie of pills in an empty can in a yard filled with trash. The officer then goes back out to the sidewalk with two other cops, presses record on the body cam, and is then heard saying “Hey, let’s check over here.”

>The officer is seen “discovering” the bag of pills in record time, before coming back out to the road and turning the camera off. The drugs — and the officer’s testimony of finding them — were to be used in a case against a suspect. After reviewing the video, a public defender brought up the apparent planting of evidence to the prosecutor in the case. Charges were subsequently dropped, and some kind of investigation is ongoing, although the Baltimore Police Department has refused further comment.

>Body cams have become more and more prevalent among cops in recent years, although policies around when they should be recorded and how evidence should be disclosed are still working out. Cases like this show how some police officers appear to be manipulating the cameras (however badly!) to try and manipulate evidence, showing that they’re far from the perfect solution that some have hoped for.

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Help out here: https://www.battleforthenet.com/
The FCC already took out the radios and television with censorship. And for countless times, net neutrality has been targeted, but now it is different.

https://www.cnet.com/news/fcc-chairman-begins-assault-on-net-neutrality-rules/

" Federal Communications Chairman Ajit Pai has started to roll back Obama-era net neutrality regulation, setting up a showdown between tech companies and broadband providers.

In a speech in Washington on Wednesday, Pai outlined his plan for eliminating the utility style regulatory framework the FCC adopted in 2015, while still keeping principles to prevent broadband and wireless providers from favoring their own services over competitors'."

More information: http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/23/technology/trump-fcc-chairman/index.html

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>A conservative political consultant was on the payroll of the Trump 2020 re-election campaign this spring, while also defending the president in political commentary on the Fox Business Network.

>The campaign's most recent disclosure report, filed Saturday, lists two payments to ProActive Communications LLC: $20,000 on April 17 of this year and $10,000 on May 30 — a period when Mark Serrano, the company's president and founder, was making frequent appearances on the Fox Business Network. The network identified the longtime commentator until recently as a former adviser to President George H.W. Bush; now it calls him a senior adviser to President Trump's re-election campaign.

>The Washington Post first reported the conflict Wednesday.

>Serrano posted clips of some Fox appearances on his personal website. "The only collusion going on in Washington is between ... the media and the Democrats," he said on May 19. A week earlier, he told anchor Neil Cavuto, "The president turns to Twitter for a very good reason. You know, it's because he knows that the American people don't believe this fake news story about Russian collusion."

>Serrano called the Post story a "fake news hit piece" that targeted Trump and Fox News. He issued a statement saying that when he "formalized a relationship with the reelection campaign ... I notified my booking contacts at Fox Business Network."

>Fox Business said the notification didn't come until June. In a written statement, the network cited its policy to disclose "all ties our guests have to any subject matter, and in the case of Mark Serrano, as soon as we were made aware of his new title last month, we made sure to disclose his role during his on-air appearances." Fox Business has signaled that Serrano won't be on again for the foreseeable future.

>http://www.npr.org/2017/07/20/538401459/fox-commentator-turns-up-on-trump-campaign-payroll

Imagine if Obama was paying people on CNN who hid this fact while on air.

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>https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/07/20/Florida-teens-laugh-and-record-man-as-he-drowns-police-say/9071500603816/

July 20 (UPI) -- A group of Florida teens saw a man drowning in a pond and laughed at him as they recorded his death instead of trying to help, police said.

The video shows the drowning death of Jamel Dunn, 31, of Cocoa, Fla. Dunn drowned on July 9 and his body wasn't found until July 12.

"You a [expletive] junkie," shouts one of the teens at Dunn. "Get out the water, you're going down!"

Another teen mockingly shouts that an alligator is coming before somebody else shouts: "We not fitting to help your ass! Ain't nobody fitting to help you, you dumb [expletive]. You should have never got in there!"

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http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/691354

"Who Pays for Government? Descriptive Representation and Exploitative Revenue Sources"

abstract
>We examine US city governments’ use of fines and court fees for local revenue, a policy that disproportionately affects black voters, and the connections between this policy and black representation. Using data on over 9,000 cities, we show that the use of fines as revenue is common and that it is robustly related to the share of city residents who are black. We also find that black representation on city councils diminishes the connection between black population and fines revenue. Our findings speak to the potential of descriptive representation to alleviate biases in city policy.

full study:
https://hyeyoungyou.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/fines.pdf

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The absence of a father—due to incarceration, death, separation or divorce—has adverse physical and behavioral consequences for a growing child. But little is known about the biological processes that underlie this link between father loss and child well-being.

In a study published July 18 in the journal Pediatrics, a team of researchers, including those from Princeton University, report that the loss of a father has a significant adverse effect on telomeres, the protective nucleoprotein end caps of chromosomes. At 9 years of age, children who had lost their father had significantly shorter telomeres—14 percent shorter on average—than children who had not. Death had the largest association, and the effects were greater for boys than girls.

Telomeres are thought to reflect cell aging and overall health—their role is to help maintain the DNA ends of chromosomes following cell division. Each time a cell divides, its telomeres shorten; once telomeres are too short, cell replication stops. Previous research has suggested that shortened telomeres are associated with a wide range of diseases in adults, including cardiovascular disease and cancer.

To determine whether the stress of losing a male parent had an effect on telomere length, Princeton researcher and pediatrician Daniel Notterman, the study's corresponding author, and his colleagues measured telomere length and analyzed other data collected through the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study. The Fragile Families Study—based at Princeton and Columbia University—has been following a cohort of about 5,000 children born in large U.S. cities at the turn of the 21st century. The study has gathered information on the children's physical and mental health, cognitive function, social-emotional skills, schooling and living conditions, as well as the makeup, stability and financial resources of their families.


https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-07-cellular-child-loss-father-stress.html

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Roughly 700 children as young as 12 who were sexually abused have been refused compensation by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority in Great Britain since 2012; roughly 30 were denied compensation because it was deemed that they “consented.”

On Tuesday a group of charities urged justice secretary David Lidington to change the guidelines, which have allowed children as young as 12 to be refused payouts of up to £44,000. The charities said that some young teenagers who had been raped by multiple people were refused compensation.

British law states that children under 16 cannot be deemed to have consented, unless they are over 13 and the perpetrator could reasonably have thought they were over 16.

One girl who was raped and sexually assaulted by a gang of older men when she was 14 was denied compensation by CICA on the grounds that “she had not been the victim of non-consensual sexual acts.” In another case, a 12-year-old girl was refused compensation after being sexually assaulted by a 21-year-old man who later pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 13, because she had gone into the woods "voluntarily."

Director of Liberty Martha Spurrier said a state agency trying to imply child sex abuse victims who might have been brainwashed or manipulated had consented to being abused was a “disgrace.” She added, “Grooming is brainwashing — perpetrators manipulate children into situations that look like consent. No child can consent to abuse, which is why the criminal law rightly says they are simply unable to do so.”

http://www.dailywire.com/news/18724/british-government-denies-compensation-children-hank-berrien?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=062316-news&utm_campaign=benshapiro

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>A wealthy Republican businessman and outspoken opponent of President Trump has opened an exploratory bid for U.S. Senate, and has pumped $2 million of his own money into his likely candidacy, an adviser told the Herald.

>John Kingston, a GOP activist and donor from Winchester who backed an anti-Trump group in 2016, said he is “strongly considering” jumping in the GOP race to run against incumbent Democrat Elizabeth Warren, and has already begun hiring staffers.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/herald_bulldog/2017/07/anti_trump_gop_businessman_opens_exploratory_bid_vs

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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-virginia-klan-idUSKBN19T142

>A few dozen Ku Klux Klan members and supporters shouted "white power" at a rally on Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia where they protested against a city council decision to remove a statute honoring Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
>In February, the Charlottesville City Council voted 3-2 to remove the statue from the park once named for Lee and make plans for a new memorial to remember the southern city's enslaved population, The Daily Progress, the local newspaper reported.
>Confederacy statues and flags have been removed from public spaces across the United States since 2015, after a white supremacist murdered nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church.
>Critics of the monuments say they foster racism by celebrating leaders of the Confederacy in the pro-slavery South during the U.S. Civil War. Supporters say they represent an indelible part of U.S. history and part of regional heritage.

Yee-haw!

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It's not a religious thread. Just, I feel like really the apocalypse is close. Chester and LP marked my childhood. everything is succumbing. I'm feeling older, and closer to death.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/chester-bennington-linkin-park-dead-10840345

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>https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/07/20/Feds-shut-down-billion-dollar-drug-trafficking-dark-site/9801500566218/

July 20 (UPI) -- Federal authorities on Thursday announced that AlphaBay, one of the largest "dark net" Internet sites used to sell illegal drugs and contraband, was shut down and its founder was arrested in Thailand.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said AlphaBay had grown in size to more than 250,000 listings for illegal narcotics via cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin, that help users remain anonymous.

Prior to the shutdown, Alexandre Cazes, a Canadian officials believe created AlphaBay, was arrested in Thailand by authorities working in cooperation with U.S. law enforcement. Cazes was the subject of a multi-count racketeering and drug sales indictment filed by the U.S. attorney for the eastern district of California.

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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/japanese-first-lady-pretended-not-10837896

I guess Hiroyuki Nishimura isn't the only one who pretends not to understand English in order to avoid talking to people he hates.