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The victims were beaten or threatened with weapons. They were taunted with racist or anti-gay abuse. Yet police said these weren’t hate crimes.

These are the cities where cops see no hate.

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Year after year, the vast majority of police departments across the country report zero hate crimes to the FBI.
After sifting through more than 2,400 police incident reports from 2016 obtained from 10 of the largest such departments, BuzzFeed News identified 15 assaults in which the cops’ own narratives suggested that the suspect may have been motivated by bias.

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They were all allegedly killed before the age of 20 by a man they at one point had a romantic relationship with buzzfeednews.com/article/stepha…
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The Libya conflict, which started in 2011, was the first major war that took place entirely during the social media era. Militants and civilians documented the conflict in real time.

This has fundamentally shifted how war crimes are prosecuted. A thread: buzzfeednews.com/article/meghar…
Militants and ordinary Libyans began posting thousands of videos of brutality to social media. But for academics, activists and war crimes investigators who were looking, this was more than a stream of violence — it was a windfall of potential evidence.
This is a huge shift. Investigators documenting abuses used to depend heavily on diaries, records, and interviews with witnesses that sometimes took place years after the fact. Now, the evidence is available immediately — sometimes uploaded by militants incriminating themselves.
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🚨 It's official: The US government has partially shut down because Congress couldn’t reach an agreement on Trump's demand for border wall money.

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Trump has been threatening for weeks to shut down the government over funding for his wall.

"I will shut down the government. And I am proud to shut down the government for border security," he said in a tense meeting with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer.
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What does a partial shutdown mean?

Hundreds of thousands of federal employees will have to work without pay — others will not be able to work at all.

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What do the "reporters" who profit off of the endless transphobic hate campaign in the press think of LGBT people? They are just "unbiased" observers reporting on hate groups like "#WPUK", right? Wrong, todays #TERFLEAKS are of Joani Walsh, @DailyMailUK and @thetimes "reporter"
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#AndrewSullivan has been a contrarian conservative transplant for decades now.
Pro-Bush, pro-Bell Curve, #misogynist to the core.
His latest screed is an embarrassment to @NYMag, which reps some stellar writers. There's so much awful to excerpt here.
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@SurvivorsnetBtn @RASASC_London @survivorstrust @Danvers07943910 @ObjectUK @BrightonSurvivorsNET “In the light of a highly disturbing increase of #transphobia locally & nationally…” IF everything anybody says or does is #transphobia, of course you can say it is rising. Any reputable statistics?
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❌Migration has no affect on house prices, wages or hospital waiting lists

❌White race does not exist

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2) We have a word for that but I fear there is little point in trading insults, we need to raise the level of discourse. In their movements’ jaundiced rush to demonise women who are merely trying to peacefully & democratically discuss changes which directly affect them,
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