The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #687

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.

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Students say ‘Trump quote’ on immigration is super racist — but are shocked when they discover comments were actually from Obama

Campus Reform's Cabot Phillips turned the tables on a group of students who believed that President Donald Trump issued remarks revealing a controversial stance on immigration.

They were surprised when they found out Trump wasn't the author of the comments.
What are the details?

Philips visited college campuses in order to gauge students' thoughts on an immigration quote he posed as belonging to Trump — except former President Barack Obama actually made the remarks in 2014.

Phillips said, "Donald Trump announced this past week week that he would be urging ICE and other administration authorities to seek out people living here illegally that have broken the law to deport them."

"I have a quote here about the deportation of criminal illegal aliens," he added.

The quote is:

We are a nation of laws. Undocumented workers broke our laws and I believe they must be held accountable. Especially those who may be dangerous. That's why over the last six years deportations of criminals are up 80 percent and we're going to keep focusing on threats to our security.

Here are some of the more interesting responses:

• "Uhh, I think that policy comes from a place of white American nationalism."
• "Donald Trump has embraced this rhetoric of racism and xenophobia — that is not beneficial to our country at all."
• "This administration has totally not done anything moral."
• "I think that's a bad decision 'cause the United States should be open to immigrants."Phillips then turned around and told the students, "I'm gonna show you the person that said that quote."

Here's how they responded:

• "[Q]uite surprising — I thought it was from Trump."
• "I didn't expect it to be Obama."
• "It just shows the hypocrisy in politics."
• "I don't know a ton about Obama's deportation policies, but I imagine that they were a lot more humane than the ones currently going on."

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Harvard Study Finds Trigger Warnings Do More Harm Than Good

For regular Internet users, trigger warnings appear nearly ubiquitous. Whether it be Twitter blocking potentially sensitive content, warnings at the tops of articles discussing violent or traumatic events, or a wide array of jokes and memes regarding being “#triggered” by minor shocks, the concept of trigger warnings are everywhere online.

Due to the rise in their presence, and certain activists arguing for an increase in their usage, Harvard University professors Benjamin Bellet, Payton Jones, and Richard McNally decided to explore whether these warnings regarding sensitive materials actually help survivors of traumatic events. Their results showed that trigger warnings might do more harm than good.

This experiment is a follow-up to a previous, smaller work by the professors, completed last year. For this trial, 451 respondents, all self-reported trauma survivors, were randomly assigned into one of two groups, and reported on the change in their anxiety levels after reading passages from classic literature of varying disturbing content, including neutral (wholly nonviolent content), mildly distressing (nongraphic scenes of violence), and markedly distressing (graphic depictions of violence).

One group, when given the markedly distressing passages, were given this preface: “TRIGGER WARNING: The passage you are about to read contains disturbing content and may trigger an anxiety response, especially in those who have a history of trauma” before reading. After each passage, respondents ranked certain emotions out of 100, and a more complex survey after finishing all of the readings.

Interestingly, the trigger warnings proved more detrimental than beneficial for survivors of trauma. The sight of the warning before the passage primed the respondent to fear whatever came next, and the anticipation heightened any effect from the passage itself. Merely describing a passage as potentially triggering imbued it with a previously unearned...

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What real racism looks like, from a member of 'the squad'

Finally! Racism perfectly demonstrated by Rep. Ayanna Pressley, one of the four congressional leftist House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calls "the squad."

"This is the time to redefine that table," she said. "Because if you're going to come to this table, all of you who have aspirations of running for office, if you're not prepared to come to that table and represent that voice, don't come, because we don't need any more brown faces that don't want to be a brown voice. We don't need black faces that don't want to be a black voice. We don't need Muslims that don't want to be a Muslim voice. We don't need queers that don't want to be a queer voice."

"If you're worried about being marginalized and stereotyped, please don't even show up because we need you to represent that voice." In short, capitulate to our ideology or make yourself scarce. You don't count. You will not be heard.

There it is, once and for all. Only people with the correct opinions as dictated by radical leftists, one of the infamous and ridiculous "AOC squad," will be allowed to be black or brown or whatever their grievance group. Pressley's pronouncement made clear that the American Left is now admittedly and proudly totalitarian. No black, brown, Muslim, or gay person can be heard if he dares to deviate from the party line. What is the party line? You're all victims, you blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, and gays. You must rage against everything for which this country stands. America is a racist, homophobic country, forever tainted by the sin of slavery. That 600K-plus Americans died to end it in 1865 are never acknowledged by this crowd. These leftists are addicted to their own malevolent hatred and the spotlight that their media allies are so happy to provide for them. They think they are heroines, this squad of ignorant anti-...

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‘DREAMER’ CHARGED WITH 200 COUNTS OF CHILD SEXUAL ASSAULT IN ‘SANCTUARY CITY’

RIVERSIDE, CA (KESQ) – A Lake Elsinore man was arrested Tuesday for over 200 counts of child sexual assault, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department announced.

Edwin Sangalang, 45, was arrested at his place of employment in Los Angeles by the Lake Elsinore Police Department, according to RSO.

A news release by RSO reveals deputies from the Lake Elsinore Sheriff’s Station were called to the 2400 block of Gazania Way on Monday to respond to reports of Lewd and Lascivious Acts involving an adult man and a 13-year-old girl.

Investigators determined that Sangalang “began an inappropriate sexual relationship with the 13-year-old female juvenile approximately four years ago.”

During that time span, Sangalang lived in Chino Hills and Perris before moving to Lake Elsinore within the past year, according to...