Sunday, June 16, 2019
Brazil: Lesbian Couple Who Tried to Force Transgender Surgery on 9-Year-Old Boy Stab Him to Death
A lesbian couple in Brazil who tried to force transgender surgery on a 9-year-old boy have been arrested after stabbing him to death.
Rhuan Maycon was murdered by his mother, Rosana da Silva Candido, and her partner Kacyla Damasceno Pessao on May 31st.
Maycon had been suffering for a year as a result of a botched gender re-assignment operation performed by the pair with no medical supervision after his mother decided he should be a girl.
Brazil’s child protection agency said the women had attempted to perform a “Kind of a sex-change surgery. After removing the penis, they sewed the mutilated region and improvised a version of a female genital organ, making a cut in the groin.”
Maycon’s father first alerted police to concerns about the welfare of his son. The couple were able to evade authorities by moving around the country but were subsequently arrested.
“We tried to save Rhuan. We published messages on the social media, we contacted police and the Child Protective Services. No one...
ICE Quarantines over 5K Migrants for Mumps, Chicken Pox
About 4,200 detainees have been quarantined for exposure to mumps, 800 to chicken pox, and 100 to both, CNN reports. The quarantine stretches across many of the 39 immigrant detention centers, where many await their deportation hearings.
“Our detention facilities work with local health departments and make sure they’re complying with state health code and make sure that their local health department is aware of the existence of mumps in the facilities,” an ICE official told CNN.
“I think there is heightened interest in this situation because it’s the mumps, which is a new occurrence in custody,” said Nathalie Asher, ICE executive associate director for enforcement and removal operations. “Preventing the spread of communicable disease in ICE custody is something we have demonstrated success doing.”
She continued:
From an operational perspective, the impact is significant in the short and long term and will result in an increase in cohorted detainees’ length of stay in detention, an inability to effect removal of eligible cohorted detainees, and postponing scheduled consular interviews for quarantined detainees.
While few on the list of the quarantined are actually sick, all have been potentially exposed. ICE policy is to quarantine for 25 days since the last incubation, so those affected have a long wait ahead of them. And while the quarantine inhibits access to immigration lawyers, the legal deportation processes are not delayed.
And the immigrants are not the only ones affected — border officials are suffering too. “Their morale is impacted. They’re tired. A lot of them have gotten sick. They’ve been exposed to flu, chicken pox, measles, mumps — all kinds of challenges in terms of the medical care,” Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kevin McAleenan said. “They’re spending time overnight in hospitals instead of patrolling the border.”
Conditions in the detention centers are not conducive to containing the spread of these dangerous viruses. The DHS inspector general has warned of “dangerous...
15 Father's Day Activities That Will Help You Get Closer to Dad
Looking for thngs to do with Dad? #10 won't cost you a penny.
There are a million ways to celebrate Dad this Father's Day, but as we all know, his favorite way to enjoy it would be spending the day with you. So, on June 16, plan special Father's Day activities that will really show your father how much you care. If you need a little help coming up with the perfect plan, below are some great things to do with Dad that can happen before or after a nice Father's Day brunch (and before or after you give him the perfect Father's Day gift).
On Father’s Day, help Dad cool off with a refreshing beer. Better yet, plan a trip to a brewery and join him for an afternoon of sampling different craft beers. He might just find a new favorite and you’ll be the one to thank!
FIND A BREWERY
Tap into his joy of fishing when you rent a boat just for the occasion. Or if he’s more of the adventurous type, he’ll love to ride around on a jet ski. Whatever you settle on, make sure the entire family remembers to apply a generous amount of sunscreen.
The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #654
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
Saturday, June 15, 2019
Exclusive: Facebook’s Process to Label You a ‘Hate Agent’ Revealed
The document, titled “Hate Agent Policy Review” outlines a series of “signals” that Facebook uses to determine if someone ought to be categorized as a “hate agent” and banned from the platform.
Those signals include a wide range of on- and off-platform behavior. If you praise the wrong individual, interview them, or appear at events alongside them, Facebook may categorize you as a “hate agent.”
Facebook may also categorize you as a hate agent if you self-identify with or advocate for a “Designated Hateful Ideology,” if you associate with a “Designated Hate Entity” (one of the examples cited by Facebook as a “hate entity” includes Islam critic Tommy Robinson), or if you have “tattoos of hate symbols or hate slogans.” (The document cites no examples of these, but the media and “anti-racism” advocacy groups increasingly label innocuous items as “hate symbols,” including a cartoon frog and the “OK” hand sign.)
Facebook will also categorize you as a hate agent for possession of “hate paraphernalia,” although the document provides no examples of what falls into this category.
The document also says Facebook will categorize you as a hate agent for “statements made in private but later made public.” Of course, Facebook holds vast amounts of information on what you say in public and in private — and as we saw with the Daily Beast doxing story, the platform will publicize private information on their users to assist the media in hitjobs on regular American citizens.
Breitbart News has already covered some of the individuals that Facebook placed on its list of potential “hate agents.” Paul Joseph Watson eventually was categorized as “hateful” and banned from the platform, in part, according to the document, because he praised Tommy Robinson and interviewed him on his YouTube channel. Star conservative pundit Candace Owens and conservative author and terrorism expert Brigitte Gabriel were also on the list, as were...
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