Mom Blasts Southwest Airlines For Asking To ‘Prove’ Biracial Son Was Hers
I wonder if the woman was black if she’d been arrested?
A Southwest Airlines employee asked a college basketball coach over the weekend to “prove” that her biracial son was hers, the woman said Monday.
Lindsay Gottlieb, the head women’s basketball coach at the University of California at Berkeley, said she was flying from Denver to Oakland with her 1-year-old son, Jordan, when the airline employee requested his birth certificate.
Gottlieb said she didn’t have the official document, though offered his passport, which lists him as having a different last name.
“She said, well, how do I know that you’re the mother?” Gottlieb recalled to KPIX News. Gottlieb is white, and Jordan’s father is black.
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Weinstein indicted in sex case; lawyer says he’ll fight it
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein was indicted Wednesday on rape and criminal sex act charges, furthering the first criminal case to arise from a slate of sexual misconduct allegations against the former movie mogul.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said the indictment brings Weinstein “another step closer to accountability” for alleged attacks on two women in New York.
Weinstein’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said he would “vigorously defend” against the indictment and ask a court to dismiss it. He called the allegations “unsupported” and reiterated that Weinstein strongly denies them.
The indictment came hours after Weinstein’s lawyer said the film producer would decline to testify before the grand jury because there wasn’t enough time to prepare him and “political pressure” made an indictment unavoidable.
“Regardless of how compelling Mr. Weinstein’s personal testimony might be, an indictment was inevitable due to the unfair political pressure being placed on Cy Vance to secure a conviction of Mr. Weinstein,” the statement said.
Weinstein, 66, learned of the specific charges and the accusers’ identities only after turning himself in Friday, according to his lawyers. Brafman said that with a deadline set for Wednesday afternoon for Weinstein to testify or not, prosecutors denied his request for more time.
Vance said the Weinstein camp’s “recent assault on the integrity of the survivors and the legal process is predictable.”
“We are confident that when the jury hears the evidence, it will reject these attacks out of hand,” Vance said in a statement.
Weinstein was charged Friday with raping one woman and committing a criminal sex act by compelling oral sex from another. A grand jury continued hearing evidence in the case, as it had been doing for weeks.
Defendants have the right to testify in a grand jury’s secret proceedings but often don’t, for various reasons.
Freed on $1 million bail and electronic monitoring, he is due back in court July 30, though that date may now be moved up in light of the indictment.
Beyond the two women involved in the case, dozens more women have accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct ranging from harassment to assault in various locales.
He has denied all allegations of nonconsensual sex, and Brafman said Tuesday that Weinstein was “confident he’s going to clear his name” in the New York prosecution.
Brafman called the rape allegation “absurd,” saying that the accuser and Weinstein had a decade-long, consensual sexual relationship that began before and continued after the alleged 2013 attack.
The woman, who hasn’t been identified publicly, told investigators that Weinstein confined her in a hotel room and raped her.
The other accuser in the case, former actress Lucia Evans, has gone public with her account of Weinstein forcing her to perform oral sex at his office in 2004. The Associated Press does not identify alleged victims of sexual assaults unless they come forward publicly.
Vance, a Democrat, came under public pressure from women’s groups to prosecute Weinstein after declining to do so in 2015, when an Italian model went to police to say Weinstein had groped her during a meeting.
Police set up a sting in which the woman recorded herself confronting Weinstein and him apologizing for his conduct. But Vance decided there wasn’t enough evidence to bring charges.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, also a Democrat, ordered the state attorney general to investigate how Vance handled that matter.
#NetNeutrality: California Senate Approves Strict Open-Internet Protections for the State
The Federal Communications Commission is moving forward with its plan to repeal the net neutrality protections put in place by the Obama administration in 2015. That has not stopped lawmakers in California from taking action to protect the open internet in their state.
On Wednesday, the California State Senate approved a bill that would impose even stricter rules than those put in place by President Barack Obama’s FCC to protect net neutrality. As Ars Technica reports, the vote happened just ahead of the FCC’s planned repeal date of June 11, less than two weeks from now. The bill, S.B. 822, was introduced by state Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San Francisco, in January. It would include a lot of the same provisions as the 2015 federal protections—a ban on throttling, blocking content and paid prioritization. It would also include a ban on paid data-cap exemptions. In addition, the bill prohibits “misleading marketing practices and enacts strong disclosure requirements to better inform consumers,” according to an announcement from Wiener.
S.B. 822 passed the California Senate with a vote of 23-12. All of the votes to approve came from Democrats. The 12 nos were from Republicans.
Now the bill just has to pass the State Assembly—which has a Democratic majority—as well as Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown.
Lawmakers in the state of New York are considering a similar bill.
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Netflix Luke Cage season 2 trailer
YA’LL HAVE GOT TO NEFLIX N’ CHILL SEASON 1 and THEN WATCH SEASON 2 JUNE 22nd!!
Shooter Arrested For Killing Man In Queens Home
The shootings just never seem to stop do they? Up in Queens, New York, Denzel Floyd has been arrested for the alleged murder of Jonathan Polanco, whom was found with a gunshot wound inside Floyd’s home Monday morning.
The chaos then spilled out into the streets when Floyd fled his house in a black Mazda with a man and a woman in tow a short time after the shooting. Floyd traveled 8 blocks before crashing into parked and moving cars.
The shooter then ran from the car with a pink gun in his hand and threw the weapon into a woman’s yard then returned to the car to get a crying woman who’d been riding in the backseat and was unable to walk The other passenger in the car, a 28-year-old man, was screaming that he’d blown his finger off.
Medics took the passenger shot in the finger and Polanco to Jamaica Hospital, where Polanco later died. Also during the shootout, it was said that Floyd shot a 28-year-old man in the back. The victim walked into Long Island Jewish Medical Center where he is in stable condition.
Floyd was charged with second-degree murder, attempted murder, two counts of assault, two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, reckless endangerment and tampering with physical evidence, police said. Floyd’s passengers have not been arrested.
Nightline Roseanne ABC cancels Roseanne show reboot
Netflix needs to pull her show reboot too! EDIT Netflix did pull her show! Fun fact did you know The president of ABC is a black woman?
Bernie Sanders Considering 2020 Run Against Donald Trump Former Campaign Manager Reveals
I’d vote for him!
The campaign manager for Bernie Sanders in his 2016 presidential run hinted that the Independent senator from Vermont may run for the White House again in 2020.
Sanders is “considering another run for the presidency,” but for now is completely focused on his congressional re-election campaign in November, Jeff Weavers said in an interview with C-Span host John McArdle on Monday.
Sanders made waves as the progressive who consistently challenged former secretary of state Hillary Clinton in his 2016 primary bid. His platform largely focused on issues like universal healthcare and income equality
When Sanders announced his candidacy for president in 2015, he was 50 points behind Clinton in almost every major national poll. But with his popularity among young Democratic voters, he closed that gap and ended up winning 22 states and about 45 percent of the pledged delegates before conceding and endorsing Clinton at the Democratic National Convention.
“One of the reasons he was so successful [in 2016] was that people out in the country sensed, rightly, that he was an authentic messenger for the message he was delivering,” Weaver told McArdle during the interview.
Sanders returned to Vermont after conceding, and continued to work as the state’s senator. But he hardly gave up his fight against Donald Trump and the Republican party. For the past two years he has travelled around the country supporting Democratic candidates up and down the ballot. Now Sanders faces his own re-election race during the country’s midterm elections on November 6, 2018.
In 2012, Sanders won his first senate re-election campaign with 71 percent of the vote. Even after his 2016 presidential campaign, which forced the senator to focus heavily on national issues more so than state politics, voters in Vermont overwhelmingly approved of Sanders as a Morning Consult poll found that 87 percent of the state’s voters still supported the long-time lawmaker.
“If reelected, you can be sure that I will continue to be the fiercest opponent in the Senate to the rightwing extremism of Trump and the Republican leadership,” Sander said in a tweet on May 21, hours after his announcement that he will seek re-election.
Though there are still six months until the midterm elections, America is already looking forward to possible 2020 presidential runs. New polling conducted by CNN shows that in a one-on-one match up between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump, Sanders is already a leading candidate, beating Trump by a 55-to-42 percent margin among registered voters. First, though, Sanders would have to navigate a Democratic primary. While politicians have yet to officially declare their campaigns for 2020, it is rumored that popular figures like Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Cory Booker may be in the mix.
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Donald Trump Jr. retweets Roseanne Barr’s discredited George Soros claims
PLEASE STFU DON JR. SMDH
When it comes to promoting conspiracy theories, Donald Trump Jr. seems to take after his father.
As Roseanne Barr embarked on a Tuesday morning Twitter barrage that led ABC to cancel her sitcom, the president’s son retweeted two of her posts attacking billionaire Democratic donor George Soros, including one that called Soros, a Holocaust survivor, “a Nazi.”
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Roseanne Returns To Twitter Apologizes Retweets New Attacks On Valerie Jarrett
The only reason she is apologizing is because she messed up her money and EVERYONE else’s money. Do ya’ll realize because of what she said people are now out of work. This goes for the actors actresses the camera crew the director that gaffers, The lighting technicians . The food trucks the people that provide the food for the actresses and actors and production crew during breaks and lunch and dinner times . For EVERY ACTION THERE IS REACTION. AND FOR EVERY RECATION THERE IS ACTION.
Roseanne Barr returned to Twitter late Tuesday after briefly leaving the platform in the wake of a racist tweet that got her ABC show canceled.
She offered what she called a “sincere apology” to Valerie Jarrett, the former aide to President Barack Obama who was the target of her tirade. However, Barr also retweeted a series of other inflammatory comments, including one that placed Jarrett’s face next to an image from “Planet of the Apes.”
The initial tweet that got Roseanne’s show canceled said, “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj,” with the initials referring to Jarrett.
After apologizing, she announced she was leaving Twitter, a departure that lasted a little more than 12 hours.
On returning, she called on supporters not to defend her, said the tweet was unforgivable and appeared to blame the sleep drug Ambien:
guys I did something unforgiveable so do not defend me. It was 2 in the morning and I was ambien tweeting-it was memorial day too-i went 2 far & do not want it defended-it was egregious Indefensible. I made a mistake I wish I hadn’t but…don’t defend it please. ty……..