Five things to know before you FaceApp your face
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Post’s Geoffrey Fowler has five questions you ought to ask about any app or service, including FaceApp, that wants something as personal as your face.
Read MoreReading Time: < 1 minute The Post’s Geoffrey Fowler has five questions you ought to ask about any app or service, including FaceApp, that wants something as personal as your face.
Read MoreReading Time: 11 minutes Having spent 10 years working with women and girls subjected to sexual and domestic violence of all kinds, I have never had a case or a caseload in which the woman or girl was not being blamed for what someone else (usually a man) was doing to her. Sometimes she is blamed by her family, sometimes by her partner. Sometimes she is blamed by police or by social workers. Sometimes it’s the mental health team blaming her.
Victim blaming is the act of transferring the blame from the perpetrator (who is 100% to blame for sexual offences they commit) and moving that blame back to the victim of the sexual offences.
Read MoreReading Time: < 1 minute One of the Democratic lawmakers criticized by President Trump’s racist attacks in recent days called the President’s remarks a “disruptive distraction” and said that she would encourage the American people “to not take the bait.” https://cnn.it/2xQrsHW
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My first reaction to seeing the horrifying photos of desperate immigrants detained in McAllen, Texas, as they were “visited” by Vice President Mike Pence and a posse of GOP senators Friday, was disbelief: Surely the powers that be could have created a Potemkin Pueblo on the border—kids with bunk beds and toys, maybe; adults in a no-frills barracks-style setting, but with cots and clean bedding and toiletries—to create reassuring photo ops for the media traveling along with Pence.
Read MoreReading Time: 12 minutes Meanwhile, white supremacist groups have openly embraced Trump. As Sarah Posner and David Neiwert reported at Mother Jones, what the media largely treated as gaffes — Trump retweeting white nationalists, Trump describing Mexican immigrants as “rapists” and criminals — were to white supremacists real signals approving of their racist causes. One white supremacist wrote, “Our Glorious Leader and ULTIMATE SAVIOR has gone full-wink-wink-wink to his most aggressive supporters.”
Read MoreReading Time: < 1 minute This Black doctor traveling with her 8-year-old son was removed from a flight after her outfit was deemed inappropriate.
Read MoreReading Time: 2 minutes The Democratic presidential hopeful announced a far-reaching plan on Thursday to examine the hundreds of thousands of rape kits that remain untested.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) announced a $1 billion proposal on Thursday to end the backlog of untested rape kits if she were to win the 2020 presidential election.
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“Unfortunately this incident mirrors the experience that African Americans endure daily where we are questioned on whether we belong,” Michel, 35, a software engineer, said in a statement to CNN. “I videotaped this incident to protect myself and to support my story should police get involved.”
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