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Ha!

There are some incredibly moving stories at #repealthe8th:

https://twitter.com/michellesinhell/status/1000283754726903808

This is my mam. It took 38 years for us to find each other again. The
last time she saw me was when she was running after a car as nuns
drove away with me. We voted yes. We stand together for change.

Inherently racist? Em, how so?

White Christian club, full of white Christians, exclusively for the benefit and advancement of white Christians?

woo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mBCqAbDIkQ

Priests get a lot of deserved negative attention but nuns... Nuns seem to pull their own fair share of shady fucked up moves in the name of a pain-wracked, semi-naked, bleeding man nailed to a 4x4 bit of wood.

See...that has always looked more like 10x to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUspLVStPbk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44270098

Irish law re abortion coming end of year.
Hopefully this will help NI women too!

And Arlene foster will definitely want a hard border now ;) (stolen from daily mash)

Arlene Foster has the unfortunate status of being a walking advertisement as to why in some cases abortion might actually be a very good thing.

I don't think behaviour is pre determined to that extent, but I'm no fan of her.

Even the DUP member polls suggest they want some change in the laws here btw.

It's purely self serving from the DUP MLAs in power that nothing at all gets proposed.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/27/theresa-may-oppose-vote-northern-ireland-abortion-law

Quelle surprise

Making America Great Again

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Oh, and
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1803972?query=featured_home

Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

Our results indicate that the official death count of 64 is a
substantial underestimate of the true burden of mortality after
Hurricane Maria. Our estimate of 4645 excess deaths from September 20
through December 31, 2017, is likely to be conservative since
subsequent adjustments for survivor bias and household-size
distributions increase this estimate to more than 5000.

The whole Soros Nazi thing just boggles my mind.

You can actually trace the rumour/lie back to a handful of far right articles. It is based on nothing and entirely disproven, If you ever encounter somebody who believes the sort of thing that Roseanne Bar just posted, it is the most perfectly glaring demonstration that the person in question is entirely incapable of critical thinking.

Its basically on a level of believing Pizzagate. There are still people out there who think that was an actual thing.

I work with somebody who believes in both actually. Quotes zerohedge articles as evidence of his views. I just cannot understand how it is possible to believe something like that in the face of such glaring evidence against it.

In other Nazi news...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/tommy-robinson-jailed-contempt-court-facebook-live-video-stephen-yaxley-lennon-a8374121.html

lol

the NRA goes global.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/us/oliver-north-nra-president.html

#winning

Richard Madeley goes Paxman/Partridge

https://twitter.com/ShehabKhan/status/1001424832943271936

Bernard Hinault on Froome -
https://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw6rP9nzs

Roseanne now sacked from her own television show for racist comments so bad even Fox News calls them out

Shep Smith gets real on Fox News: ‘Racism is not funny and Roseanne Barr is a racist’

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/shep-smith-gets-real-fox-news-racism-not-funny-roseanne-barr-racist/
Roseanne had suggested that a former Obama aide was the child of Planet of the Apes and the Muslim Brotherhood.

http://road.cc/content/news/242671-bernard-hinault-froome-not-part-legend-sport

Anyone else wanna tell the man to fuck off? I’m no longer interested in if the man’s clean or naughty, the media circus is really NOTW.

The story with the American TV lady with Soros conspiracy theories; basically we are looking at self radicalisation trough drifting into the wrong corners of the internet? I.e. beyond just Fox/DM and further into the far right websphere?
Would be great if we could device a better way of figuring out how this process works. It should be possible to create a sort of shibboleth/dog whistle detecting algorithm that could establish where these fuck ups get their "news" from and how long they've been doing so.

An excellent blog post telling you all you need to know about the Yaxley-Lennon saga

https://thesecretbarrister.com/2018/05/25/what-has-happened-to-poor-tommy-robinson/