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Do these Snapchats mean Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna are back together?

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Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna might be the most on-again/off-again couple to ever hit Hollywood. That's only based on all the public times they've broken up, Lord only knows what goes on behind closed doors.

Well, actually, we do kind of have a view of behind closed doors, thanks to social media. And Rob Kardashian posted some Snapchats of Blac Chyna (in a lavender wig) which has us wondering—are they back together?

After being missing from each other's social media feeds, Rob Kardashian posted three Snapchats featuring his baby mama and ex-fiance Blac Chyna. It certainly looks like they were getting pretty cozy, so maybe things are back on? If so, good luck, you two crazy kids!


Kris Jenner rants against Caitlyn's 'made up' memoir in tense 'KUWTK' clip.

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Caitlyn Jenner's new memoir The Secrets of My Life is set for an April 25 release, and the reactions are already pouring in. One person who found the book particularly compelling was her ex Kris Jenner, who was married to her (then known as Bruce) for more than twenty years. Apparently, Caitlyn used the memoir to rewrite their marital history, telling personal stories that vary greatly from how Kris remembers them. And as you can see in this clip from next Sunday's episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Kris is stunned, hurt, and hopping mad.

Excerpts of the memoir that have been released certainly seem to contain a lot of personal material about the Jenners' marriage, so it's understandable that Kris would be upset. In one passage, Caitlyn described how she wasn't "entirely comfortable" having sex with Kris:

I tell Kris about my gender issues before I make love to her. This will always be a subject of dispute between us. She insists that she was taken by surprise by my ultimate transition to Caitlyn, which obviously means in her mind that she did not know enough.

Ouch.

On the other hand, the memoir clearly contains a lot of intimate detail about Caitlyn's life, too. There's a whole section on the gender reassignment surgery she underwent this past January.

Make sure to pick up your copy of The Secrets of My Life, unless you don't care about keeping up with the Jenners. But you already read this much, so you probably do.

Black college student takes down nazi speaking at her school with two simple questions.

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Richard Spencer, aka everyone's favorite Nazi to punch in the face, got a verbal smackdown from a young student at Auburn University in Alabama on Wednesday, where he had rented out an auditorium to spread hate speech"speak," the Huffington Post reports.

The event, which Spencer sprung on the school unbeknownst to them by renting out the room via a third party, NPR reports, was complete chaos. Spencer, who keeps trying to bring back white supremacy under the guise of the"alt right," and his legion of fascist followers, showed up, along with hoards of protesters.

True to form, Spencer and his supporters tried to bully anyone with opposing opinions into silence. "He and his supporters continuously cut people off who were asking questions," Auburn student Morgan Buckels told the Huffington Post."They disrespected people and he would call them boring or say he didn’t want to hear them and dismiss them."

But it didn't quite work. Because even Spencer's army of bullies with buzz cuts were no match for one young black woman, an Auburn student whose name has not been reported. "I’m asking a question so we’re gonna listen," she said, while Spencer's supporters hurled insults at her. Nevertheless, she persisted, and managed to shut up the crowd enough to ask two powerful questions, which Buckels filmed.

These were her questions:

#1) "How are white people more racially oppressed than black people? Because I’m a black woman at a predominantly white institute and I want to know what challenges y’all face that I don’t."

and #2) "How did it feel when you got punched in the face at the Inauguration?"

Unfortunately, the video cuts off before we get to hear Richard Spencer's response. But we can imagine it was something like "ouch."

You can watch the full video here:

And you can watch Richard Spencer get punched in the face on the internet anytime you want, just a reminder.

Sorry that I went in for a fist bump on National High Five Day.

Don't even bother labeling the food you put in the office fridge this 4/20.

Cops share the 'Looney Tunes'-style 'traps' they're using to catch dumb stoners on #420.

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Today, of course, is 4/20, that one special day a year when stoners neglect superficial responsibilities like "going to work" and instead just get high and think about how society is, like, a total racket. Unlike all the other days, when they do basically the same thing.

But before you set out to celebrate the high holiday, keep in mind that police are celebrating as well. By arresting you pot-smoking hippie criminals.

In Wyoming, a city in Minnesota (not one of the fun states where weed is legal now), some creative police officers came up with an especially clever way to catch potheads. And it's so good it might actually work.

"Undercover #420 operations are in place," wrote the Wyoming Police Dept. on Twitter yesterday. "Discreet traps have been set up throughout the city today. #Happy420."

Even if you're not a huge fan of the police, you have to applaud these guys for their impeccable understanding of the stoner mind. You almost have to wonder if whoever came up with it has themselves indulged in the ganja.

The tweet has gone massively viral since it went out yesterday. And Twitter is having a mixed reaction. Some people find this "joke" by the Wyoming, MN police department pretty HIGHlarious, lol.

But some people don't find it so funny, considering how many people actually do go to prison over weed-related offenses.

This person is just annoyed at the cops' dad taste in video games.

And this person knows for every joke, there's an equal and opposite joke to be made (it's physics!).

Then the Wyoming, Minnesota Police Dept. followed up with a few tweets to let everyone know they take "substance abuse" very, very seriously.

Ohhhhhhh so that tweet about 4/20 was actually an anti-drug PSA?

That's a relief. Because no one should ever, ever make light of marijuana and our country's absurd criminalization of drug use. Anyway, see you later at the snack party in jail!

Why I Smoke Weed

Sincere condolences on your annoying coworker finding out it's National High Five Day.


Sorry your anxiety medication is still illegal in 22 states

Instagram series captures life on the U.S.-Mexico border, 'Humans of New York'-style.

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Brothers Yonathan Moya and Jordan Moya went to see the place and the people beyond the "Build the Wall!" chants.

In 9 days, the Moya brothers travelled the 2,000 miles from Brownsville, Texas to meet people on both sides.

Our journey

The trip resulted in the powerful Instagram series, Border Perspective.

"The purpose of this project is to gain and share a fuller perspective on what the border is really like. We have no agenda - only to document life on the border and learn by listening to the perspectives of the people who live there," they write in the successful Kickstarter pitch,"As we take part in different dialogues, we want to have a fuller understanding of a place that we call home and share this knowledge with others."

While in El Paso, Texas, we noticed “The X" monument across the border. This 197-foot-tall monument, stands in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Internationally known Mexican sculptor Sebastian, designed the monument. The middle of the two towers are a viewing area that allow visitors to look across the border into El Paso and over Juárez. The X, is a symbol full of meanings, a mark to welcome people (to Mexico) and to demonstrate the ancestral Mexican culture. The two intersecting arms of the X symbolize the mestizaje, or the merging of two cultures. The sculpture is situated at the Mexican-American border that divides El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. #borderstories ————————————————————— Mientras que en El Paso, Texas, nos dimos cuenta de que el monumento de "The X" cruzaba la frontera en Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. Este monumento de 197 pies de altura, se encuentra en Ciudad Juárez, México. De las dos torres son un área de observación que permite a los visitantes mirar al otro lado de la frontera hacia El Paso y sobre Juárez. La X es un símbolo lleno de significados, una marca para dar la bienvenida a la gente (a México) y demostrar la cultura ancestral mexicana. Los dos brazos cruzados de la X simbolizan el mestizaje, o la fusión de dos culturas. La escultura está situada en la frontera que divide El Paso, Texas y Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.

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The Moyas feature stunning portraits, with captions in both English and Spanish.

In Nogales, Arizona, Border Perspectives introduces us to Peg Bowden, a retired nurse who works at a migrant shelter on the other side.

Jose is a recent deportee, who has been coming to the shelter to help, and to paint.

Jose was deported to Mexico about 3 months ago and has been coming to the migrant shelter ever since. Shortly after his arrival, he started putting his passion for art to work. He portraits "the journey of the illegal immigrant" in many of his paintings. His portrayals are very realistic. Very often it's the people sitting around him at the shelter, who are attempting to make their American dream a reality by attempting to cross into the U.S. through the very treacherous Arizona dessert.

Antonio proudly wears a jacket with flags of both Mexico and the United States.

While watching the sunrise over El Paso & Ciudad Juarez, a man drove up in his motorcycle. As he pulled up I could tell that he seemed lost. "Buenos Días" he said in Spanish. Through our conversation, I learned his name was Antonio and found out that by his age, he should be retired. Antonio crossed the border checkpoint earlier that morning looking for work in the US. He was confused by the address where he was suppose to meet his boss and asked if I could call and ask for better directions to his work site. I gladly pulled my phone out and started dialing the number. I asked Antonio about the type of work he did, "I've been working with cement most of my life and have been coming to work in the US for many years", he shared. Antonio comes to work in El Paso since there are no jobs in Ciudad Juarez for someone his age. In order to provide for his family he continues to find work on this side of the border. Through our interaction with Antonio, we learned that people in this border town are not only united by the language they speak but have a great desire to work and provide for their families, just like many people across our country. Before Antonio left for his job site, we asked about his jacket since he had the US flag stitched to his left sleeve and the Mexican flag stitched to his right sleeve. Antonio was very proud to have both the Mexican and US flags on his jacket, "it's a perfect representation of who I am" he shared with us.

They met Eddie, he was involved in fighting cartels and corruption when he was young.

While eating breakfast at a local Mexican place in El Paso, we noticed an older man sitting alone at the table next to us. Eddie, 86, eats breakfast at this local place every morning, he was having a large coffee with a bowl of oatmeal when we sat down and talked with him. In a few short minutes he shared with us a story from his childhood, his broken relationship with his father, his unfavorable view of politics, corruption, law enforcement and about the drug war that happens along the border. Of course at 86, there's so much to talk about. Eddie shared with us that he was personally involved in fighting against corruption and drug cartels when he was young. "Things haven't changed much", Eddie answered when asked if he's seen any positive change. Eddie doesn't think the border's changed for the better but that life on the border is tougher now because of organized crime. "Corruption and drugs have infiltrate many of our institutions", he shared with us. I'm sure Eddie had enough stories to share with us if we had all day with him. Eddie now spends most of his days working with his son at a local mechanic shop on the south side of El Paso.

Enrique had just been deported to Mexico when he met the Moyas.

We met Enrique at “El Comedor” at about 11AM, he had just been deported into Nogales, Mexico at 7AM. Enrique shared with us that he spent 11 years in prison for a crime he committed while living in the USA. Having a criminal record was the cause of his deportation into Mexico and the withdrawal of his green card. Enrique didn’t go into detail about the crime he committed but did mention that his actions had consequences and that he was paying for what he did. “Criminals like me, have to deal with the consequences of (the) bad decisions we make. Unfortunately, it’s because of people like me, that a lot of the hard working immigrants, even those who just want to provide for their families, get labeled as criminals”. I could tell that Enrique felt convicted about his current situation and that he saw himself as part of the immigration problem that’s currently affecting many people in our country. Internally, Enrique was dealing with the remorse of why he got deported to this unknown place in the Sonora desert, where he now, somehow, has to find a way to start over.

"One of the takeaways that I want people to think about," Yonathan told Mashable, "is that people who live on the border make an everyday decision to continue living normal lives amongst all of the complex issues that the border faces."

Plus-size model Tess Holliday is boycotting Uber, claiming a driver fat-shamed her.

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Plus-sized supermodel Tess Holliday does not need anyone's concern-trolling, especially from an Uber driver who doesn't even know her. Recently she found herself being fat-shamed by an Uber driver who asked her about her cholesterol, assuming that because she was big, she must be unhealthy.

Tess Holliday took a video of the Uber driver asking her some prying questions, to which she responds that she's perfectly healthy, thank you very much. As a result, she claims she plans to boycott the car service, writing in the caption of her Instagram post,

Hey @Uber I don't pay more to use your "black car" service to be told that there's no way I could possibly be healthy because I'm fat & then questioning it. No one should have to tolerate this at any level of the services you offer. I'm fat. I also have a fat wallet & will no longer be using your services. Ever.

Uber gave a statement to Mashable, saying, We expect all riders and drivers to treat each other with respect as laid out in our Community Guidelines."

Facebook is figuring out a way to read your mind. Here's how they're going to do it.

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Look, I love a good technological advancement just as much as the next gal, but sometimes technology is just a little too advanced for me. (Targeted ads on Facebook for the dress I was just looking at on Madewell? Yeah, no thanks. Stop following me, Facebook.) So, as you can imagine, I was a little freaked out when I read that Facebook is working on a way to, essentially, read our minds.

Oh, you didn't know they were doing that? YEAH, THEY'RE DOING THAT.

Here's the deal. Facebook holds an annual conference for developers to discuss the future of technology called the F8 conference. At this year's event, Facebook's vice president of engineering Regina Dugan (who also heads up the super secret Building 8) announced that the company was working on two projects focused on "silent speech communications." One of those projects? A system that will allow users to type with their brains.

Dugan explained,

Over the next 2 years, we will be building systems that demonstrate the capability to type at 100 wpm by decoding neural activity devoted to speech.

Just as you take many photos and decide to share some of them, so too, you have many thoughts and decide to share some of them in the form of the spoken word.

A few minutes ago at F8, we shared a project we're working on that will one day allow us to choose to share a thought, just like we do with photos and videos. Our brains produce enough data to stream 4 HD movies every second. The problem is that the best way we have to get information out into the world -- speech -- can only transmit about the same amount of data as a 1980s modem. We're working on a system that will let you type straight from your brain about 5x faster than you can type on your phone today. Eventually, we want to turn it into a wearable technology that can be manufactured at scale. Even a simple yes/no "brain click" would help make things like augmented reality feel much more natural. Technology is going to have to get a lot more advanced before we can share a pure thought or feeling, but this is a first step.

Posted by Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday, April 19, 2017

"But wait," you say to yourself. "Does that mean that Zuckerberg and company are trying to hook my actual brain up to a computer?" YES FRIEND, THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS.

According to Vice, the only systems allowing users to turn brainwaves into text that currently exist require surgical implants. Vice reports that Dugan's team is trying to develop "a non-invasive system of optical sensors that can scan the brain up to 100 times per second."

Basically, what I'm hearing is that Facebook wants to turn us all into the chubby robo-people from Wall-E.

The technology doesn't exist yet, but Facebook is working on it. Vicesays the company has already spent six months collaborating on the project with scientists and researchers from universities including San Francisco, Berkeley, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins applied physics laboratory, and the Washington University school of medicine in St. Louis.

Naturally, news of technology that would quite literally allow Facebook to read our thoughts raised some concerns about privacy.

In order to put those fears to rest, Dugan said at F8,

We are not talking about decoding your random thoughts.

You have many thoughts, you choose to share some of them.

We’re talking about decoding those words. A silent speech interface – one with all the speed and flexibility of voice.

So Facebook *could* try to decode my innermost thoughts, but promises not to?

Anyway. The technology for this new mind-reading Facebook doesn't exist yet, so we won't have to worry about for the time being. In the meantime, you can watch the whole, terrifying key note speech about Facebook's plans to infiltrate our brain below.

Live at F8

Facebook's CTO Mike Schroepfer is kicking-off day two of #F8. Watch it live here

Posted by Facebook for Developers on Wednesday, April 19, 2017

God, and I thought the facial recognition software was freaky. If anyone would like to go halfsies on a remote cabin in the woods where we can go off the grid and live off the land, please let me know.

Things making us hungry on 4/20

Here's why Ivanka Trump won't be going on a book tour.

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Ivanka Trump, White House advisor who just happens to be related to the president, announced that she be donating proceeds from her book, Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success.

As one of the rewritten rules for success, Trump announced that she will donate the unpaid portion of her advance to the National Urban League and the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, and proceeds to charity. That is admittedly nice and good.

In her announcement on Facebook, Ivanka Trump added that she will be forgoing a book tour.

“In light of government ethics rules, I want to be clear that this book is a personal project,” she wrote Thursday in a post on her Facebook page. “I wrote it at a different time in my life, from the perspective of an executive and an entrepreneur, and the manuscript was completed before the election last November.”

She says she won't be doing interviews “out of an abundance of caution and to avoid the appearance of using my official role to promote the book," except for, you know, the announcement that she won't promote her book.

This comes on the heels (perfectly adorable, Ivanka Trump brand kitten heels, available at your local Sears!) of a conflict of interest scandal. The New York Times reported that last week, same day that she dined next to Chinese president Xi Jinping, her brand was awarded three new trademarks.

Thank you President Xi Jinping and Madame Peng Liyuan for your visit to the United States 🇺🇸

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Another bonus of ethics concerns?

Not being confronted by protesters at bookstores while on your book tour.

It will just have to be Kellyanne Conway who goes on TV to say "Go buy Ivanka's stuff." (Again.)

James Woods has a theory why Bill O'Reilly was really fired. You'll never stop rolling your eyes.

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On Wednesday, Fox News officially fired its most famous anchor, Bill O'Reilly, after The New York Times reported that they had paid $13 million to silence five women who had accused him of sexual harassment. In the days since the Times article was published, dozens of sponsors dropped The O'Reilly Factor, and many of O'Reilly's accusers came forward with disturbing tales of him grunting at them and calling them "hot chocolate."

Everybody turned on this guy (except the president), so it was clear to see he was on his way out. But now that his firing is official, one outspoken celebrity believes he alone has figured out the real reason O'Reilly was ousted. Yes, it's conservative icon and death celebrator James Woods. He shared his conspiracy theories with Twitter.

Aha! Fox News just didn't want to pay Bill O'Reilly anymore, even though he was by far their most profitable anchor. It makes so much sense!

Clearly, Woods feels deeply betrayed by the cable news network he once loved.

Sorry Woods, looks like you'll be smelling that liberal taint no matter where you stick your nose.

But he wasn't done. Less than a half hour later, he had changed his mind. Now he knew the real REAL reason O'Reilly had been canned.

YES! This time he's got it. Everyone knows how much Fox News hates old white men.

With that mystery solved, we can all relax. Bill O'Reilly is just another innocent victim of prejudice.


They can have 4/20 so long as the other 364 days still belong to wine.

Sorry, these ‘hyper-realistic flesh masks’ of Putin and Trump are way out of your budget.

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Are you looking to shock and horrify that special someone in your life and you also happen to be very rich? Look no further than Ebay, where people are bidding thousands of dollars on "hyperflesh" silicone masks molded after some of the scariest people in the world: Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump.

Warning: these masks are scary and disturbing. Not as scary and disturbing as the real people they represent, but close.

The perfect party mask if you never want to be invited to another party.
Stop cat callers in their tracks, every time!

But before you get too excited, unfortunately this hyper-realistic creation probably exceeds your mask budget. Right now, the bidding for Putin is up to $2,250.

And bidding for the Trump mask is nearly twice that much, at $4,500. Why? Because 'Murica! Or maybe because it comes with a built-in crown:

The perfect gift for when you want to leave lasting emotional scars!
Scare your children into doing their homework and possibly running away from home!

And since all good things come in three, there's a Kim Jong Un mask as well. Complete with Disney mouse ears.

Smile! The whole world is terrified of you!

The horrifyingly spot-on creations are the work of Denver-based artist Landon Meier, and his company Hyperflesh. So why did he pick these three leaders? "I think they’re all kinda likeminded people," he told BuzzFeed News."They’re all megalomaniacs, insufferable narcissists who’ll stop at nothing to achieve their legacy."

He added: "I thought it’d be fun to have them all together."

If these these leaders hanging out together doesn't sound like "fun" to you, that's because you clearly haven't seen this massively viral video yet:

Landon Meier aka Hyperflesh revealed his latest masks at MONSTERPALOOZA today! #Trump #Putin #KimJongun #danceparty

Posted by Stan Winston School of Character Arts on Saturday, April 8, 2017

The video was taken at this year's "Monsterpalooza" horror convention in Pasadena, California earlier this month, where Meier first unveiled his new creations. "This year I wanted two children to be playing Trump and Kim," said Meier, who rocked the Putin mask himself, though he doesn't really want anyone to know that. "I don’t know if I should admit to [playing Putin] because my dancing was pretty bad," he told Buzzfeed.

At least his terrible dance moves pale in comparison to the atrocities committed by the monster he's impersonating!

Here's another video of the three of them dancing. Because YOLO.

Happy nightmares!

Everyone is trolling this high-end fashion designer for releasing a $2,000 'IKEA' bag.

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Balenciaga, a high-end fashion designer that basically only the Kardashians can afford, just released a shopping tote bag for $2,145. Shocking, I know. But apparently rich people need something to spend their money on, fine. But the problem with this particular insanely expensive bag, as many people have pointed out on Twitter, is that it looks mighty familiar.

One could almost argue it's an exact replica of a bag sold by another designer. A less high-end designer, that even you and I can afford. It's called IKEA.

Oh, Balenciaga, you've tried to sell us a cheap household item branded as fashion again, you tricky minx! That bag on the right you may recognize as the $.99 oversized IKEA shopping tote you purchased that time you had to furnish an entire shoebox-sized apartment in one afternoon on a budget of $200. And now it's been rebranded as a "glazed leather and gold-stamped" luxury item.

People noticed the striking similarities, and now everyone's trolling Balenciaga on Twitter:

Even IKEA got in on the action, responding with just the right amount of shade on Instagram:

But overall, it seems the Swedish retailer is taking this fiasco far better than anyone else. "We are deeply flattered that the Balenciaga tote bag resembles the IKEA iconic sustainable blue bag for 99 cents," an IKEA spokesperson told Today."Nothing beats the versatility of a great big blue bag."

Way to be an adult, IKEA. And fashion: go home, you're drunk.

Sarah Palin's comment on Bill O'Reilly's firing is unsurprisingly not feminist at all.

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Sarah Palin, who dropped by the White House today to take a lame-ass picture mocking a portrait of Hillary Clinton (with Kid Rock and Ted Nugent, two of the only musicians both dumb and irrelevant enough that they were willing to play at the inauguration), also managed to time in her busy schedule to chat with CNN's Jake Tapper about Bill O'Reilly's firing from Fox News.

At one point in time, Palin was employed with Fox, but says she left simply because her contract wasn't renewed in June 2015, though she added, "I wouldn't put up with anything that would be perceived as intimidating or harassing."

Palin made sure to point out that she believes Fox has a sexual harassment problem that they need to fix: "Corporate culture there obviously has to change. Women don't deserve it, they should not ever have to put up with any kind of intimidating workspace." But, alas, Palin kept talking. And the next thing she says makes me shake my head so hard that I need to run out and buy Icy Hot for my neck (who am I kidding, I already own Icy Hot because my neck problems are chronic.) Here's the quote in question:

"At the same time, if a woman believes she is being intimidated and harassed, she needs to stand up and do something about it, not stick around for a paycheck for years and years and years and then after the fact complain about what she went through. As a strong woman, I say we should feel more empowered than that and we should take a stand and get out of the place or you know, blow the whistle on whoever is the perpetrator doing the bad stuff so that the culture will change."

Yes, Sarah Palin called standing up against sexual harassment in the workplace "complaining." What's more frustrating, is that Palin doesn't seem to recognize that for some women, outing a harasser at work means risking a job they can't afford to lose. Her point of view comes from a place of privilege, where you can confidently blow whistles and assume that whatever happens, you'll be fine. Plus, Palin puts the onus back on women to handle a systemic sexism issue, instead of asking society at large to adjust the workplace culture in which women have to: 1) deal with being harassed at work and 2) be made to do the exhausting work of calling it out and dealing with the backlash. Imagine if she had stopped talking before she said that entire paragraph. If only. You can watch the full interview here:

Jeff Sessions questioned whether Hawaii is a state and nobody is having it.

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We can't be sure that Jeff Sessions knows that Hawaii is a state. Earlier today, the Attorney General, in a radio interview with Mark Levin, that he is “amazed” that a judge “sitting on an island in the Pacific” can issue an order that stops the President. That "island" is a state called Hawaii. And what Sessions is referring to is the Hawaiian judge who halted Trump's second Muslim ban back in March.

Sessions chosen phrasing attempted to undermine Hawaii's legitimacy as a state. Plus, as the Washington Post noted, Sessions actually voted to confirm the judge he's now dismissing. Well, this wouldn't be the first time Sessions said a bunch of illogical stuff in public. Remember when he tried to explain his contact with Russian officials? Here's what people are saying about Sessions' latest idiotic claim:

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