Serena Williams Says She Won't Be Silent About Police Killings Of Black Men

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Serena Williams posted a powerful note on her Facebook page on Tuesday night, stating she will not remain silent about police killings of black men.

Williams posted the note after taking a drive with her 18-year-old nephew. In the post, she said she spotted a police officer on the side of the road as they drove past and instantly felt fear.

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Today I asked my 18 year old nephew (to be clear he's black) to drive me to my meetings so I can work on my phone #safteyfirst. In the distance I saw cop on the side of the road. I quickly checked to see if he was obliging by the speed limit. Than I remembered that horrible video of the woman in the car when a cop shot her boyfriend. All of this went through my mind in a matter of seconds. I even regretted not driving myself. I would never forgive myself if something happened to my nephew. He's so innocent. So were all "the others"

I am a total believer that not "everyone" is bad It is just the ones that are ignorant, afraid, uneducated, and insensitive that is affecting millions and millions of lives.
Why did I have to think about this in 2016? Have we not gone through enough, opened so many doors, impacted billions of lives? But I realized we must stride on- for it's not how far we have come but how much further still we have to go.

I than wondered than have I spoken up? I had to take a look at me. What about my nephews? What if I have a son and what about my daughters? As Dr. Martin Luther King said "There comes a time when silence is betrayal".

I
Won't
Be
Silent

Serena

Williams' post has been shared more than 16,000 times, with thousands of people commenting in support.

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Williams has been an outspoken supporter of the Black Lives Matter movement. In July she raised her fist, in a move reminiscent of John Carlos's black power salute at the 1968 Olympics, when she won Wimbledon for the seventh time.

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And in 2015, she wrote in Wired magazine: “I’m a black woman, and I am in a sport that wasn’t really meant for black people. So to those of you involved in equality movements like Black Lives Matter, I say this: Keep it up. Don’t let those trolls stop you. ... To other people, I say: When someone’s harassing someone else, speak up!”

How Does Your Taste In Halloween Candy Compare To Everyone Else's?

Originally From: https://www.buzzfeed.com/brettvergara/how-popular-are-your-halloween-candy-opinions?utm_term=4ldqpia

*Eats candy for days*

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How Do Your Pizza Preferences Stack Up?

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‘Cause who doesn’t love pizza?

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This Guy Was Arrested After He Smashed Up All The iPhones In An Apple Store

Originally From: https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/this-man-was-caught-on-camera-attacking-an-apple-s?utm_term=4ldqpia

Apparently he was protesting “consumer rights.”

Wearing sunglasses, dangling iPhone headphones, and a thick glove, the man went phone by phone crushing them with the large iron ball.

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In a video filmed by a bystander, the man yells that his rights as a consumer had been violated by Apple.

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Apple "violated my rights and refused to refund me in accordance to the European consumer protection law,” the man shouts.

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Twitter Says This ISIS Beheading Photo Doesn't Qualify As Abuse

Originally From: https://www.buzzfeed.com/charliewarzel/twitter-says-this-isis-beheading-photo-doesnt-qualify-as-abu?utm_term=4ldqpia

"Kathleen" is an outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter. Last Tuesday she took to Twitter to criticize the Trump campaign's Skittles refugee poster, calling it a "disgusting ad." Shortly after, @leslymill — who goes by the name Adorable Deplorable — replied, "i LOVE THE AD. Describes the complexity of the "PROBLEM perfectly."

The political disagreement — very common on Twitter — peaked when @leslymill replied to Kathleen's tweet with an unsolicited photo of a child holding a knife and a newly severed head with the caption, "your heading for a deep hole." The photo, according to the website tangentcode.org, is from a video titled “Information Office of the State of Homs offers families (and ) the liquidation of a Captain in the Army Alnasiri” and shows a child soldier, believed to be associated with ISIS, beheading a man and posing with his head.

After seeing the photo, Kathleen reported the tweet to Twitter using its report forms. Soon after, Twitter replied that its investigation found the alleged violent and threatening tweet did not violate Twitter’s rules, which prohibit tweets involving violent threats, harassment, and hateful conduct. Twitter’s rules explicitly state that one may not “threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease.”

This is not uncommon. In a recent BuzzFeed News survey, which asked over 2,700 Twitter users about abuse, 90% of respondents alleged that Twitter didn’t do anything when they reported abuse.

For Kathleen — who asked to remain anonymous (and use a pseudonym) so as not to receive more targeted abuse — the harassment is unsurprising, but unnerving. "I've worked online since 1985, so I've seen it all," she told BuzzFeed News. "But that doesn't mean I think it is ok."

Kathleen's case also raises questions about Twitter's ability to help protect its users from unwanted graphic imagery — the kind frequently used by abusers and trolls to threaten. Reached for comment, Twitter directed BuzzFeed News to a passage from an August blog post on countering violent extremism. The passage notes that "there is no one 'magic algorithm' for identifying terrorist content on the Internet." It also cites "proprietary spam-fighting tools, to supplement reports from our users and help identify repeat account abuse." These tools, according to the post, identified "more than one third of the accounts we ultimately suspended for promoting terrorism."

The post, however, doesn’t address terroristic or graphic imagery that has been co-opted by Twitter accounts that do not explicitly promote terrorism or violence against others. In @leslymill's case, horrific images of death are often used in rebuttal to opposing views, or to express sentiments like "This Is the Real Face of Islam."

When asked to clarify if the company evaluates graphic images such as beheadings on an individual basis, granting exceptions for newsworthiness, Twitter directed BuzzFeed News to a past statement noting that when evaluating media removal requests, "Twitter considers public interest factors such as the newsworthiness of the content and may not be able to honor every request." The company declined to provide further details about its handling of Kathleen's abuse report.

But roughly three hours after BuzzFeed News contacted Twitter about Kathleen's report, the tweet she'd flagged as abusive disappeared from @leslymills’ timeline. Twitter did not respond to queries about its deletion.

Reached for comment, @leslymill did not directly answer questions about being contacted by Twitter for possible terms of use violations. The account subsequently tweeted that it had been asked by Twitter to remove a picture, though it is not clear whether that picture was the one Kathleen reported. "I was asked to remove it...," @leslymill explained. "So I guess I shouldn't share those photoes...wonder why they don't tell me."

32 Spooky Ways To Turn Your Home Into A Haunted House

Originally From: https://www.buzzfeed.com/sarahhan/home-sweet-blood-bath?utm_term=4ldqpia

♫ It’s the most ~creepy~ time of the year. ♫

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34 Ways To Make Your Cubicle So Much Better

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Because your office shouldn’t feel like a prison.

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Stop bending your neck by keeping your computer at a comfortable height.

This one is especially nice because it doubles as an organizer.

Get it from The Container Store for $74.25.

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Add a warm glow to the fluorescent lighting by putting battery-powered string lights in a fun vase.

Get these copper, battery-powered lights from Target for $12.99. And get a similar vase from Amazon for $27.

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Tack fabric to your partition walls to get the look of fancy wallpaper.

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The First Photos From "Outlander" Season 3 Are Bloody Bloody

Originally From: https://www.buzzfeed.com/keelyflaherty/the-first-photos-from-outlander-season-3-are-bloody-bloody?utm_term=4ldqpia

Black Jack looks very alive, guys.

It seems like ages and ages ago that we were gifted our first look at Season 3 of Outlander.

It was actually just a few weeks ago, but still.

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We knew they were filming the Battle of Culloden on their first day back, but we didn't get any glimpses of the action.

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But thanks to the folks at Entertainment Weekly, we've got our first look at the battle, and it's...well, very bloody.

“We are playing more of [the Battle of Culloden] out on camera,” executive producer Ronald. D. Moore told EW. "It just felt like we have been promising it for a while. We should give the audience some sense of what happened on that moor.”

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Look at Jamie's Battle Face. Good lord.

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Many Doctors, And Most Journalists, Don't See Past the Fat

Originally From: http://feeds.feedblitz.com/~/204134998/0/weightymatters~Many-Doctors-And-Most-Journalists-Dont-See-Past-the-Fat.html

In case you missed it, a few days ago the New York Times ran a great piece on weight bias in medicine. The headline asked, "Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don't See Past The Fat". The story detailed the fact that physicians and other health care professionals often fail to see past the weight and rather than treat the person and their concerns as they would any other, instead all of their ills are simply chalked up to being caused by obesity. As a consequence, not only does their treatment suffer, so too does their faith in medicine to the point where many people with obesity actively avoid going to the doctor.


There was a painful irony to the piece though. By calling people with obesity "obese patients", the New York Times was also not seeing past the fat.


People first language refers to the recognition that people cannot be their diseases. People can have diabetes, they're not diabetic. People can have arthritis, they're not arthritic. People can have cancer, they're not cancerous. And so too with obesity. People can have obesity, they cannot be obese.


The distinction matters. Not using people first language labels the individual by way of their medical condition, and when it comes to obesity, given the incredibly negative societal stereotypes associated with the word, labeling an individual as being obese carries with it real stigma.


At least part of the reason why many doctors don't see past the fat is that journalists, and society as a whole, don't see past the fat either and instead define and stereotype people by their obesity. While it's definitely a small step, if the New York Times (and other media outlets) actively adopted people first language for obesity in their style guides it would be a welcome and helpful change.

       

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New Hampshire "Ballot Selfie" Ban Is Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Rules

Originally From: https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/new-hampshire-ballot-selfie-ban-is-unconstitutional-federal?utm_term=4ldqpia

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WASHINGTON — A New Hampshire law that forbids people from taking so-called "ballot selfies" is unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday.

"New Hampshire may not impose such a broad restriction on speech by banning ballot selfies in order to combat an unsubstantiated and hypothetical danger" of vote buying or voter intimidation, Judge Sandra Lynch wrote for the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals.

"We repeat the old adage: 'a picture is worth a thousand words.'"

The ACLU had brought a lawsuit challenging the law on behalf of three people investigated for alleged violations of the law during the 2014 election. At the appeals court, they were backed by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and Snapchat, among others.

In the key part of the ruling, Lynch wrote:

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It's About Time We Talk About Your New Favorite Character In The Wizarding World

Originally From: https://www.buzzfeed.com/krystieyandoli/its-about-time-we-talk-about-your-new-favorite-character-in?utm_term=4ldqpia

IS IT NOVEMBER YET?!

On Wednesday, the world was gifted with a brand new trailer for J.K. Rowling's upcoming film, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

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There's SO much to love about the trailer...

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...but one of the *very* best things about it is our full introduction to Jacob Kowalski.

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Jacob is played by actor Dan Fogler.

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