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Wikipedia articles on plane crashes show what we remember — or forget – Science Daily

Wikipedia articles on plane crashes show what we remember -- or forget
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Wikipedia is an ideal space to study collective memory since article viewership statistics have been shown to mirror other internet user activity patterns, including Google searches. Here, Ruth Garca-Gavilanes and colleagues modeled the attention that ...

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Hillary Clinton spoke to the National Action Network alongside the Rev. Al Sharpton, the group's leader.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

On Wednesday, Mrs. Clinton, still battling her way through a primary against Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, will make a more high-profile connection with Mr. Sharpton, appearing at his National Action Network convention in Manhattan.

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

Mr. Sharpton, attending the First A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles, attacked the movie industry for what he called repeated broken promises on diversity.

By BROOKS BARNES and MICHAEL CIEPLY

The gathering, held at the National Urban League, centered on how the senators policies would address economic injustice, overhauling the criminal justice system, protecting voting rights and addressing institutional racism.

By YAMICHE ALCINDOR

In a meeting with the Rev. Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders in New York, the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton spoke about her commitment to civil rights.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Hillary Clinton met with the National Urban League in Harlem, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, before heading to give a speech on race relations.

By AMY CHOZICK

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont will meet with the heads of several civil rights organizations, an effort that comes as he continues to court black voters ahead of the Democratic caucuses in Nevada and the partys South Carolina primary.

By YAMICHE ALCINDOR

The Rev. Al Sharpton spoke about meeting with Senator Bernie Sanders in Harlem on Wednesday, the day after Mr. Sanders's victory in the New Hampshire presidential primary.

By REUTERS

With no people of color included in the Academy Awards nominations, the Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network called for a boycott of the awards telecast on Feb. 28.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The theater in Bedford-Stuyvesant, once owned by a judge who was declared mentally incompetent, is being torn down to make room for residential development.

By MATT A.V. CHABAN

Some of Mr. Trumps African-American friends and acquaintances say they are mystified by the candidates sweeping attacks on minority groups. Others say he is misunderstood.

By MAGGIE HABERMAN and STEVE EDER

Mrs. Clinton said in an interview that the Republican congressmans remarks revealed that the House committees investigation into the 2012 attacks was always meant to be a partisan political exercise.

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

The Rev. Al Sharptons PoliticsNation show on MSNBC will become a weekly broadcast on Sunday mornings starting Oct. 4.

By EMILY STEEL

Hillary Rodham Clinton will appear on the Rev. Al Sharptons syndicated radio show on Thursday, the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act and the day of the first widely broadcast Republican debate.

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

The Rev. Al Sharpton accepts an apology from an aide to Donald J. Trump who was fired over Facebook posts with racially inflammatory words, including one in which he used a slur to describe Mr. Sharptons daughter.

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

The family members, making their first public comments about a $5.9 million payment from New York City, revived their calls for a federal case against the officers involved in Mr. Garners death.

By J. DAVID GOODMAN and NIKITA STEWART

A day of mourning for Walter L. Scott, who was killed in a police shooting, came amid calls for protests and mounting questions about whether other officers should be prosecuted.

By ALAN BLINDER

Nikita Stewart found a family of New Yorkers who mean it when they say they are the mayors friends.

By NIKITA STEWART

Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Rev. Al Sharpton took the stage together on Monday at an event commemorating Martin Luther Kings Birthday.

By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD

After a tumultuous first year in office, Mayor Bill de Blasio, a liberal who had staked his mayoralty on re-educating New Yorks police force, is struggling to secure its basic trust.

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM, J. DAVID GOODMAN and AL BAKER

Hillary Clinton spoke to the National Action Network alongside the Rev. Al Sharpton, the group's leader.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

On Wednesday, Mrs. Clinton, still battling her way through a primary against Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, will make a more high-profile connection with Mr. Sharpton, appearing at his National Action Network convention in Manhattan.

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

Mr. Sharpton, attending the First A.M.E. Church in Los Angeles, attacked the movie industry for what he called repeated broken promises on diversity.

By BROOKS BARNES and MICHAEL CIEPLY

The gathering, held at the National Urban League, centered on how the senators policies would address economic injustice, overhauling the criminal justice system, protecting voting rights and addressing institutional racism.

By YAMICHE ALCINDOR

In a meeting with the Rev. Al Sharpton and other civil rights leaders in New York, the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton spoke about her commitment to civil rights.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Hillary Clinton met with the National Urban League in Harlem, including the Rev. Al Sharpton, before heading to give a speech on race relations.

By AMY CHOZICK

Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont will meet with the heads of several civil rights organizations, an effort that comes as he continues to court black voters ahead of the Democratic caucuses in Nevada and the partys South Carolina primary.

By YAMICHE ALCINDOR

The Rev. Al Sharpton spoke about meeting with Senator Bernie Sanders in Harlem on Wednesday, the day after Mr. Sanders's victory in the New Hampshire presidential primary.

By REUTERS

With no people of color included in the Academy Awards nominations, the Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network called for a boycott of the awards telecast on Feb. 28.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The theater in Bedford-Stuyvesant, once owned by a judge who was declared mentally incompetent, is being torn down to make room for residential development.

By MATT A.V. CHABAN

Some of Mr. Trumps African-American friends and acquaintances say they are mystified by the candidates sweeping attacks on minority groups. Others say he is misunderstood.

By MAGGIE HABERMAN and STEVE EDER

Mrs. Clinton said in an interview that the Republican congressmans remarks revealed that the House committees investigation into the 2012 attacks was always meant to be a partisan political exercise.

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

The Rev. Al Sharptons PoliticsNation show on MSNBC will become a weekly broadcast on Sunday mornings starting Oct. 4.

By EMILY STEEL

Hillary Rodham Clinton will appear on the Rev. Al Sharptons syndicated radio show on Thursday, the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act and the day of the first widely broadcast Republican debate.

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

The Rev. Al Sharpton accepts an apology from an aide to Donald J. Trump who was fired over Facebook posts with racially inflammatory words, including one in which he used a slur to describe Mr. Sharptons daughter.

By MAGGIE HABERMAN

The family members, making their first public comments about a $5.9 million payment from New York City, revived their calls for a federal case against the officers involved in Mr. Garners death.

By J. DAVID GOODMAN and NIKITA STEWART

A day of mourning for Walter L. Scott, who was killed in a police shooting, came amid calls for protests and mounting questions about whether other officers should be prosecuted.

By ALAN BLINDER

Nikita Stewart found a family of New Yorkers who mean it when they say they are the mayors friends.

By NIKITA STEWART

Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Rev. Al Sharpton took the stage together on Monday at an event commemorating Martin Luther Kings Birthday.

By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD

After a tumultuous first year in office, Mayor Bill de Blasio, a liberal who had staked his mayoralty on re-educating New Yorks police force, is struggling to secure its basic trust.

By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM, J. DAVID GOODMAN and AL BAKER

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[ April 7, 2017 ] DeKalb panel to feature Al Sharpton, local elected officials Coming Up – On Common Ground News

[ April 7, 2017 ] DeKalb panel to feature Al Sharpton, local elected officials Coming Up
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DeKalb County Commissioner Mereda Davis Johnson is inviting the community to attend a panel discussion she's hosting, The State of America and the Future of Our Youth and Senior Citizens, featuring the Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network.

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ADL Adds Pepe the Frog Meme to Hate Symbol Database

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In recent years, with the growth of the alt right segment of the white supremacist movement, a segment that draws some of its support from some of the above-mentioned Internet sites, the number of alt right Pepe memes has grown, a tendency exacerbated by the controversial and contentious 2016 presidential election, wrote the ADL on their Pepe page.Though Pepe memes have many defenders, not leastthe characterscreator, MattFurie, who has called the alt right appropriation of the meme merely a phase, the use of racist and bigoted versions of Pepe memes seems to be increasing, not decreasing.

The ADLs entry of Pepe the Frog into the Hate Symbol Database is accompanied with various modified images, portraying the cartoon frog as a Nazi, a Ku Klux Klan member, a negative stereotype of aJew, and a black person.

Hate on Display, otherwise known as the Hate Symbol Database, was launched as a definitive collection of some of the worlds most hateful icons and symbols. It currently includes such entries as the Nazi swastika, the burning cross, 1488, the Blood Drop Cross, the Confederate flag, the iron cross, Ku Klux Klan robes, anoose, the apartheid-era South African flag, SS lightning bolts, and Stormfronts logo.

It is unknown as to why Pepe the Frog, a cartoon frog meme whose minimal links to white supremacism have been proven to be the result of two notorious trolls, is listed among the other symbols on the site, but it is likely to do with thedebunked recent reports from both the mainstream media and the Clinton Campaignthat claim Pepe to be a new symbol for white supremacy.

Hillary Clinton, George Stephanopoulos, Katy Tur, and even Louise MenschsHeat Street have all branded the cartoon frog as a symbol for white supremacy, seemingly basing their claims on a Daily Beast article that interviewed two notorious trolls, Jared Taylor Swift (who has PARODY ACCOUNT in his Twitter bio) and Paul Town.

During the interview, Swift and Town attempted to link the meme with white supremacy, with Swift boasting that he had managed to trick the media afterwards. Pepe has since been used as a scapegoat by the left to brand internet-dwelling conservatives, libertarians, and even Donald Trump Jr., who happened to post a fan image including the popular meme, as racist.

Charlie Nash is a reporterforBreitbart Tech. You can follow himon Twitter@MrNashingtonorlike his page at Facebook.

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Trump’s Troll Army Isn’t Ready for War in Syria – POLITICO Magazine – POLITICO Magazine

The fractured elements of what was once called the alt-right were unified once more on Thursday night in condemning Donald Trumps airstrike in Syria as a mistake. Or as Milo Yiannopoulos put it, FAKE and GAY.

This loose confederation of Web-savvy, anti-establishment right-wingers formed an important vanguard of Trumps online support in last years election, and its unified opposition to the airstrike forewarns a political downside to intervention in Syria. While foreign wars tend to boost presidents popularity in the short term, Trump risks losing the segments of his base that flocked to his isolationist, America First message.

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In addition to its nationalist, anti-interventionist and anti-globalist views, the alt-right and its fellow travelers have also displayed a marked affinity for Syrias ally Russia, whose government has returned the love by tweeting images of the alt-right's mascot, Pepe the Frog, from official accounts. In reacting to the airstrikes, leaders of the movement placed those ideological reflexes over their personal loyalty to Trump.

Most noteworthy were the herculean efforts of blogger Mike Cernovich, who took to the livestreaming application Periscope to rally opposition to the strike in a marathon session that went on for several hours.

Just days after Donald Trump Jr. suggested he be given a Pulitzer Prize, Cernovich tweeted, Sources telling me U.S. attack in Syria planned for tonight, we must stop! #NoMoreWar, at 7:40 pm Eastern time, an hour and a half before NBC News broke the news of the airstrike.

During the course of the livestream Cernovich at times holding his infant daughter Cyra in his arms blamed a variety of actors for fomenting the conflict. They want war. Deep state, all these people want it, man, he said. Of the media, he said, Theyre trying to con Trump into believing the people want war.

Cernovich also expressed his belief that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad had been framed for the chemical attack, though he had not decided by whom. It was probably ISIS did it to themselves, he said on the livestream, while also tweeting, Did McCain give moderate rebels (ISIS) in Syria poison gas and Hollywood style film equipment?

Vice Media co-founder Gavin McInnes, founder of pro-Trump Western chauvinist fraternal organization the Proud Boys, joined Cernovich as a guest via Skype, and shared his skepticism. To illustrate a parallel from his own life, McInnes recounted a story in which he said a female friend accused a man of rape and McInnes violently confronted the man, only to be convinced by the mans incredulous response that he was not guilty of rape. (In a text message, McInnes, who left Vice a decade ago, maintained his skepticism about the source of the chemical weapons attack but signaled support for Trumps response).

Earlier in the day, alt-right online philosopher Stefan Molyneux also joined Cernovich to condemn the action and question whether Assad was really responsible for the chemical weapons attack.

Other callers offered even more disturbing theories. One man expressed his concern that the deep state had approached Trump and threatened to kill him and his family if he did not get in line and voiced his suspicion that the whole thing could be traced back to Barack Obamas national security adviser, Susan Rice. Yeah, could be, responded Cernovich.

Others who have been associated with the alt-right were similarly dismayed by the news.

Yiannopoulos who has kept a low profile since losing a CPAC speaking gig and a six-figure book deal over revelations that he once spoke favorably of pederasty declined to elaborate on a text message describing the airstrike as FAKE and GAY.

White nationalist Richard Spencer, whose embrace of hard-core racism has led Yiannopoulos and others to distance themselves from the alt-right label, displayed no such reticence, calling the strike a sad, shocking and deeply frustrating moment.

I condemn the strikes, he said. Im going to wait and see. Perhaps Trump is slapping Assad across the nose and wont go further. Perhaps Russia was informed of the attacks. Worst-case scenario: Were replaying the 2000s: A conservative comes to office on a populist message and becomes a globalist and neocon shill. Again, Ill wait and see but Im prepared to denounce Trump."

Spencer was not alone in vacillating between condemnations of the strike and expressing hope that Trump will not take further action against Assad. The anonymous alt-right Twitter troll Ricky Vaughn tweeted, THERE IS NO ENDGAME IN SYRIA if we remove Assad. No leader that can hold together that country. He also tweeted, Hoping this is 88D chess giving Trump political space and an excuse for meeting with and negotiating with Putin.

Over on The_Donald subreddit, a central hangout for Trumps alt-right fans, debate raged all night. One poster attempted to douse the discontent by writing, Calm the fuck down all you concern trolls. This isnt WWW3 - its trump putting America first. We need to stop Assad from killing his people. They flee and guess where they are going? The /pol/ section of the message board site 4Chan, another hotbed of online Trump support, was similarly torn asunder by the news, with one poster writing, /pol/ hates Trump now. What happened?

Meanwhile, internet troll Charles Johnson was not prepared to accept that the U.S. really had struck at Assad, saying that a source at CENTCOM told him the strike had actually targeted the Islamic State. Im very skeptical of any claims made in the media on military matters, he said. Especially since the Iraq War.

Ben Schreckinger is a reporter for Politico.

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