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A sign on his property warns "crackheads, drug dealers and illegal aliens” to stay away.

The woman reportedly told him that he shouldn't be in this country if he couldn't speak English.

You'll need the tissues for this one.

The revolving door of USA Gymnastics' top leadership keeps spinning as the organization struggles to recover from the Larry Nassar scandal.

How do you grate your cheese? According to this video, your method is probably wrong.

The freak accident reminded some of the movie "Final Destination."

The ill-fated social networking platform was meant to be Google’s answer to other sites that were prone to data and security breaches.

"American Craig Ramsell reportedly came up for the idea for his boomwhackers in 1994 while at home recovering from radiation therapy. While cutting cardboard tubes into shorter lengths for recycling he happened to notice the different pitches resulting from the different lengths and decided to investigate their creative potential. He experimented with various plastics before settling on plastic mailing tubes.

Boomwhackers produce musical tones when struck together, on the floor, or against nearly any surface. They can also be grouped together and struck with mallets in different configurations, in specialized holders (homemade or available from the manufacturer), similar to a horizontally-aligned xylophone. When one end of a Boomwhackers tube is covered with what the manufacturer calls an Octavator Cap, the pitch it produces is lowered by an octave.

Boomwhackers are most commonly used in elementary music classrooms as an inexpensive alternative or supplement to traditional pitched instruments such as xylophones and metallophones. Boomwhackers are often used by performance artists and other musical performance groups to add an element of spectacle. They can also be used by people with intellectual and developmental impairment to develop sensorimotor skills, social skills, and creativity."

"So I shot a whole family of baboons."

Red-flag warnings issued over the weekend in response to heightened wildfire risks led Pacific Gas and Electric Co. to shut off power to tens of thousands of Northern California customers.

"You should be sorry, and you should be scared."

Dr. Jen Gunter added that Goop is a "classic example of pseudoscience profiteering."

What are you looking at? Officials in a historic town are keeping their eyes peeled for someone who has been gluing googly eyes onto statues.

Building codes in sections of Florida slammed by Hurricane Michael have historically been weaker than the rest of the state.

A woman labeled "Cornerstore Caroline" on social media has apologized after she appeared to call police claiming a child sexually assaulted her inside a store.

First lady Melania Trump shares her personal views on issues ranging from sexual assault to immigration in an interview that aired Friday.

Mr. Eugene, as the students call him, was told there was a mess to clean at a school assembly. He walked in to find something completely unexpected, and now the video of his reaction has gone viral.

 
Excerpts from an article in this month's Harper's:

Laura Sandoval threaded her way through idling taxis and men selling bottles of water toward the entrance of the Cordova International Bridge, which links Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, to El Paso, Texas. Earlier that day, a bright Saturday in December 2012, Sandoval had crossed over to Juárez to console a friend whose wife had recently died. She had brought him a few items he had requested—eye drops, the chimichangas from Allsup’s he liked—and now that her care package had been delivered, she was in a hurry to get back to the Texas side, where she’d left her car. She had a three-hour drive to reach home, in the mountains in New Mexico, and she hated driving in the dark.

Sandoval took her place in the long line of people waiting to have their passports checked by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP). When it was her turn, she handed her American passport to a customs officer and smiled amicably, waiting for him to wave her through. But the officer said she had been randomly selected for additional screening. Sandoval was led to a secondary inspection area nearby, where two more officers patted her down. Another walked toward her with a drug-sniffing dog, which grew agitated as it came closer, barking and then circling her legs. Because the dog had “alerted,” the officer said, Sandoval would now have to undergo another inspection.

She was taken to a fluorescent-lit, windowless room inside the port of entry office. Two female officers entered and announced that they were going to search her for drugs. They patted her down again, but found nothing. At that point, Sandoval assumed they would release her, but instead they told her they were going to conduct a strip search. The officers put on latex gloves, picked up flashlights, and asked Sandoval to remove her clothes and bend over so they could look for signs of drugs in her vagina and her rectum.

By the time they finished, Sandoval had been detained for more than two hours in the stifling room. Her passport and cell phone had been confiscated; her husband and children had no idea where she was. Sandoval begged to be released. “I was shaking and I was in tears,” she told me. Saying nothing, the officers put her in handcuffs and led her to a patrol car waiting outside. They left the international bridge and drove north into Texas. Frightened, Sandoval asked the officers if they had a warrant for her arrest. “We don’t need a warrant,” one of them replied...

Sandoval, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy, told me that after the officers forced her into the squad car, they drove her to University Medical Center, a public hospital in El Paso. The officers found an empty room and shackled her to the examination table. A nurse entered and asked her to swallow a laxative so they could observe her bowel movement. Then a group of doctors came in. Sandoval pleaded with them to let her go. “A nurse told me to calm down,” she said. “That this was something they did anytime Border Patrol brought people in.” One of the doctors conducted a vaginal and rectal search using a speculum and his hands. “The agents kept saying that they knew I had drugs,” Sandoval told me. Still not satisfied, the doctor ordered an X-ray and a full-body scan. Again they found nothing...

Sandoval tried to forget about what had happened to her. She figured it would be too costly to fight the government. But then the bills from the hospital started to arrive. For the cavity searches, the X-ray, and the CT scan, the hospital was charging her $5,488. [she had refused to sign a consent form]

The article continues at Harper's.   I'm going to close comments for this post.  Posted because some people don't realize what's going on in this country.  Just to emphasize - this lady is a legal American citizen.  The only "probable cause" was someone's interpretation of a dog's behavior.

And these CBP agents operate not just at the border itself, but for a hundred miles inside (see the map at top), where two-thirds of all Americans live.  Some "roving patrols" extend twice that far.

In 2008, Patrick Leahy, a senator from Vermont, was stopped at a temporary immigration checkpoint in New York—125 miles from the border. Agents ordered Leahy to get out of his car and asked him to prove that he was a US citizen. When Leahy asked under what authority the Border Patrol agent was acting, the agent pointed to his gun and said, reportedly, “That’s all the authority I need.”...

[Beto] O’Rourke’s opposition to CBP’s sweeping powers stems in part from his own encounter with border agents. In 2009, he and his two-year-old son were detained at a checkpoint more than seventy miles from the border while agents pulled his truck apart. “They don’t have to explain why they’re holding you,” he said, “and you’re not given the right to an attorney.” O’Rourke told me that he and his son were held in a cell for close to thirty minutes before they were allowed to leave. “It was a strange feeling to be held against my will and to have my car searched,” he said. “I hadn’t committed any crime. I hadn’t even crossed the border.”..

Sandoval said she was glad to hear that the hospital had changed its policy, but she still worried that CBP would subject others to similar treatment. She has not been back to Juárez. “It’s not because I’m afraid to go to Mexico,” she told me. “I’m afraid of coming back to my own country.”

There's more at the link.  Sad.

Bicycling Ensemble | c. 1890s
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Ok, what? This ridiculous cycling ensemble isn’t a modern costume? I saw this on @katestrasdin. At first glance I thought this must be from a modern film, stage production or amazing cosplayer’s collection. This was farcical in its own time. Cycling suits for women were already controversial during the 1890s (women in bifurcated garments! AHHH!). This surely turned heads, dropped jaws and was a sartorial “f*ck you” to the standards of the era. I will be going to the FIDM’ Museum’s “Outdoor Girls” Exhibition just to see this in all its glory.
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#historicalfashion #fashion #fidm #cycling #victorian #ootd #victorianfashion #fashionhistory #historyoffashion #vintagefashion #vintage #defunctfashion #couture #fidmmuseum
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A nearby firearms instructor immediately reacted.

Publicly formulated the first time in January 2013 by Alberto Brandolini, an Italian programmer, the bullshit asymmetry principle (also known as Brandolini's law) states that:

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.

The blunt message has been shared more than 54,000 times with at least 9,800 reactions.

Most of the children found weren’t actually missing, police say

An 8-minute video worth watching.  Backstory at The Atlantic.

Posted for my twin cousins, Audrey and Meridee.  

Cristóbal Balenciaga | Robe ‘Plumes’ | c. 1967
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In 1967 the couture world went into mourning: ‘Balenciaga bows out and fashion will never be the same again,’ ran the headlines. No longer feeling in harmony with the times and the ongoing rise of ready-to-wear, the 'couturier’s couturier’ had decided to shut down. In 1970 Cristóbal Balenciaga donated to the Paris Musée Galliera a series of pieces from his final show in August 1967. This evening ensemble is made up of a gazar dress opening onto a petticoat and a cascade of delicate pink ostrich feathers. Light and sculptural, this model has the same shape as the peacock-tail dress, short in front and long at the back, that Balenciaga first designed in 1958; this was when he was beginning to use gazar, a complex fabric derived from wild silk gauze and produced almost exclusively for him by Zurich weaver Abraham.
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#historicalfashion #fashion #fashiondesign #fashionhistory #ootd #historyoffashion #vintagefashion #art #vintage #defunctfashion #couture #costumehistory #balenciaga #cristobalbalenciaga #1960sfashion

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The 10-month-old died after being ejected from the vehicle. None of the children were wearing seat belts and charges are pending in the crash, according to reports.

Dance like no one's watching!

Everyone involved wore seat belts, which "helped avert a tragedy," according to officials.

Eric Barber, a city council member from WV, thinks it's just hilarious that women needing abortions will suffer under the new Supreme Court.

Sen. Susan Collins said she does not believe Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted Dr. Christine Blasey Ford but does believe Ford was assaulted by someone.