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Chris Hemsworth, Obama Tweet, Shonda Rhimes, Samantha Bee, God’s Own Country, Jerry Drake Varnell: HOT LINKS
CHARLOTTESVILLE. Obama tweet is second-liked of all time.
OKLAHOMA. Man arrested for planning Timothy McVeigh-style attack: “Jerry Drake Varnell was arrested shortly after an attempt early Saturday morning to detonate a fake bomb packed into what he believed was a stolen cargo van outside a bank in Oklahoma City, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court. He was charged with attempted destruction of a building by means of an explosive.”
WHITE SUPREMACISTS. So what happens now?
TEXAS A&M. White supremacist event canceled: “A white supremacist rally—organized in the wake of racist violence over the weekend in Charlottesville—scheduled to be held at Texas A&M University on Sept. 11th has been cancelled due to safety concerns, the university announcedMonday evening. The event was being billed as a “White Lives Matter Rally” by its white nationalist aligned organizer, Preston Wiginton. ”
AND CHILL. Shonda Rhimes is headed to Netflix, exclusively.
AUCTION. ESPN auctions off Odell Beckham to a predominantly white crowd. “it’s safe to say the optics of this sketch were not ideal. The image of a black man being auctioned off by a white man and being “sold” to the highest bidder is reminiscent of a slave auction.”
Soooooo ESPN just did an “auction” sketch ? pic.twitter.com/zvezCItems
— Jᴀsᴏɴ (@rjasonscales) August 14, 2017
SHANGHAI. Thief performs oral sex on man before stealing his wallet and smartphone: “Police watched carefully as A’Jun wandered into the frame at around 2 a.m. that morning and promptly passed out on an extremely uncomfortable-looking bench. Over the next few hours, a few people passed by, but at around 4:30 a.m., a suspicious man approached A’Jun. After making sure that there was no one else around, he began to touch A’Jun’s crotch and soon went to work.”
CHRIS HEMSWORTH. Thor got liberated by a new hairdo: “When I didn’t have the wig on, I instantly felt like I could move and speak and react differently. Once we aesthetically stripped a lot of that away, it allowed the whole thing to take on a different attitude. It felt like a completely different character, and that was hugely liberating and freeing as an actor because I had become a bit bored with myself.”
AIRDROPPING. Men assaulting women with dick pics on the subway over iPhone’s ‘Airdrop’ feature: “Since more straphangers using the MTA are carrying advanced iPhones and awareness of the AirDrop app has increased, local straphangers have started noticing a troubling trend first reported in London in 2015.”
TEASER OF THE DAY. Samantha Bee interviews a former neo-Nazi skinhead who now fights extremism.
TRAILER OF THE DAY. A new spot for gay drama God’s Own Country.
Brand new trailer for God’s Own Country. In UK cinemas 1st September. You’re welcome pic.twitter.com/VHxmAfylk1
— God’s Own Country (@gocfilm) August 11, 2017
TOO HOT TUESDAY. Dominick Howard.
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29 Photos of an Exuberant Pride in the Dominican Republic
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Fox News: Confederate & rainbow flags ‘mean the exact same thing’
Trump Had Anti-Hate Statement Ready on Saturday, Chose to Wait Two Days
Donald Trump had an anti-hate statement similar to the one he read from a teleprompter on Monday ready to go on Saturday, but made a conscious decision not to read it, Politico reports:
Trump had a written statement on Saturday that was similar in tone and substance to the one he delivered on Monday, according to a senior White House adviser. But the president veered from those prepared remarks.
Political analysts said Trump’s drawn-out response was part of a double game — an effort to avoid alienating part of his base followed quickly by a pivot to tamp down the outrage.
“He feels he can keep his base happy by being mute for 48 hours, and then he can come in and mute the so-called mainstream media world,” said presidential historian Douglas Brinkley.
The White House’s response appears to have done just that. The president’s short speech on Monday earned bipartisan praise while leaving some of Saturday’s marchers still feeling a part of the Trump movement.
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Days after deadly car attack, Trump tweets — then deletes — train plowing into CNN reporter
The very definition of deplorable.
Former Trump Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci: ‘I’m a Very Active Gay Rights Supporter’ — WATCH
TMZ caught up with Anthony Scaramucci and grilled him about Trump’s response to the white supremacist violence. They also asked about his support for gay rights.
Said Scaramucci:
“I have been an active – for the last decade – gay rights, gay marriage equality supporter. Particularly here in New York and New York City but around the world. And I think that ‘life, liberty , and the pursuit of happiness’ when they wrote that, I don’t think it was just meant for straight people, and so for me, I’m a very active gay rights supporter. In addition to that – even though I’m a Roman Catholic and I believe in a right to life I would never impose those values on other people. So for me I’m actually very socially inclusive as a human being, and I’m a Republican because I believe that you need free market principles to create class mobility.”
Watch:
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Joe Arpaio, convicted criminal known for inmate abuses, unjustified arrests, and racial profiling
Reports surface President Trump considering to pardon Arpaio within hours of reading a pre-written statement condemning racism
About 267,000 undocumented immigrants identify as LGBTQ
NEW YORK – GLAAD, the world’s largest LGBTQ media advocacy organization, today released the following background information on Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio after Fox News reported that President Trump is considering to pardon him from his criminal contempt conviction. Arpaio, who served as sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona for 24 years, was found guilty of issuing racist, anti-immigrant policies after a judge ordered Arpaio to stop targeting immigrants for traffic stops and detaining undocumented immigrants without a legal basis. Joe Arpaio also gained national attention for his inhumane Tent City jail, which he boasted was a “concentration camp.”
Reports of a possible pardon were published within an hour of President Trump condemning the horrific violence committed by white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend.
According to the Williams Institute, an estimated 267,000 adult undocumented immigrants identify as LGBTQ (Latinx, Black, Asian, and Muslim). Joe Arpaio’s anti-immigrant ideology has created an environment in Arizona that increased the profiling, deportation, and detention of immigrants, which included LGBTQ immigrants. Transgender immigrants are often disproportionately detained in immigration centers and suffer a higher rate of abuse.
Arpaio currently faces up to six months in prison at his sentencing, which is scheduled for October 5.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Racist and Anti-Immigration Record
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