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Tesla Autopilot Veers off Highway as Driver Locked Out of All Controls
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Tesla cars are trying to kill their drivers… again. A New Jersey man reportedly almost died after his rogue Tesla recently decided to crash off the highway. A man from North Brunswick, New Jersey, is lucky to be alive after his vehicle’s so-called “autopilot” mode took control and plowed into several objects before coming to a sudden halt. Even though the driver tried to take control of the Tesla and override the “autopilot,” – which split the difference and went down “the middle” before veering off the highway entirely and crashing – the vehicle “would not let him.” Wh...
NYC Commission on Human Rights Outlaws Hair and Hairstyle-Based Discrimination
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On Monday, the New York City Human Rights Commission released new guidelines protecting New Yorkers from being discriminated due to their hair texture or style. The guidance gives New Yorkers the right to “maintain natural hair or hairstyles that are closely associated with their racial, ethnic or cultural identities” and classifies any attempt to single people out based on their hair or hairstyle as racial discrimination. The protections apply to everyone but were prompted largely by what the commission calls “racist stereotypes that black hairstyles are unprofessional....
Check Your “Privilege List”: New York School Gives Points for Being White, Male, or Straight
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A New York public high school recently gave students in one class a “privilege reflection form” that’s turning more than a few heads. Thus, if you are an overweight black blind gay transgender woman from the Middle East and are planning to become a “scientist,” you’ve got zero chance of being among the “privileged” few… Saratoga Springs High School students have recently been asked to score their “privilege status” based on a variety of factors using a special “privilege reflection form,” which raised concerns among parents worried about the assignment’s underlying messag...
Police Investigating Breaking of Brooklyn Synagogue Windows as Hate Crime
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A recent incident has sent shock waves throughout the Brooklyn Jewish community: Vandals smashed the storefront window at Chabad of Bushwick, as about 15 congregants were wrapping up Shabbos dinner inside. People are worried about the possibility of more hate crimes. Jewish religious leader Rabbi Menachem Heller is looking for answers after a pair of vandals smashed the window of Chabad of Bushwick – the synagogue he runs on Flushing Avenue – during a Shabbos dinner. Heller, 39, was inside a Brooklyn synagogue with more than a dozen other people, including children, arou...
Vice’s Vice
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Gambling is a vice, and Vice’s founder is a gambler. And then there are many other vices that are commonplace in the organization too, including groping and forced kisses. More than two dozen women have reported experiencing or witnessing sexual harassment at the company first hand. The Sexual Harassment Incidents One woman said that while she was riding a Ferris wheel at Coney Island after a company event, a co-worker suddenly took her hand and put it on his crotch. Another complained that she was fired because she rejected the sexual advances of a male colleague. A...
America Spends Millions of Taxpayers’ Money in “Battle for the Arctic”
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USA – February 15, 2019 After the formal end of the longest shutdown in U.S. history, Congress seems to be so weak that they almost capitulated to President Trump over his proposed bills. The White House announced on Thursday that Trump will sign a compromise bill to fund border security, but he will declare a national emergency to build the wall. Both the House and the Senate passed the bill Thursday evening. This looks more like a Trump victory even though it was very expensive. American taxpayers will pay for it, in any case. What was also important is that after seve...
Middle School Apologizes to Soldier’s Daughter Who Was Asked to Cover up “Offensive” Shirt
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A seventh-grade student wearing a T-shirt that prompted teachers to tell her to cover it up because it contained an “offensive message” – but was actually intended to oppose discrimination – received support from her family, ultimately leading to an apology by administrators. On Friday, seventh-grader Emery, who attends Fort Bragg’s Albritton Middle School, was asked to cover up her favorite shirt – which reads, “Why be racist, sexist, homophobic or transphobic when you could just be quiet?” — because some of the teachers found it to be “offensive,” Emery’s mother, Katie...
Newspaper Drops Cartoonist Who Hid “Go F*** Yourself Trump” Comment on Kids’ Coloring Page
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A Pennsylvania newspaper has discontinued a syndicated comic strip after a cartoon published Sunday included a hidden message telling President Trump to go “f— yourself.” A syndicated cartoon has been dropped from a local newspaper in Pennsylvania after a reader spotted an obscene comment made against President Donald Trump hidden in a drawing on the children’s coloring page published inside Sunday’s comics section. The sentiment was pointed out to the Butler Eagle by a reader, according to the newspaper’s publisher and general manager, Ron Vodenichar. “A reader brought...
Grocery Store Sparks Outrage With Weekly Ad: “Heaven Has A Wall… Hell Has Open Borders”
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A small family-owned grocery chain in Southeast Arkansas has sparked outrage with a message included in their weekly mailer. The ad book that typically includes a religious or political message was a bit more confusing this time and contained a reference to the U.S./Mexico border wall controversy. “HEAVEN HAS A WALL, A GATE AND A STRICT IMMIGRATION POLICY. HELL HAS OPEN BORDERS. LET THAT SINK IN,” the message sent to four Mac’s Cashsaver stores in Arkansas reads. The phrase in the mailer is a variation of a Biblical passage in Revelation 21:12: “And had a wall great and...