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President Trumps pullout from the Paris Climate Agreement is really an irrational middle finger to the progressive movement. The elites of the conservative PR movement have master fully equated masculinity with intolerance, abusive use of fossil fuels, military imperialism, and reduction of civil rights with masculinity. Founders of the Mens Movement would be turning in their graves observing how corruption of messages by conservatives is being used to the benefit of some immoral capitalists.

Glorifying violence, driving fuel inefficient vehicles, profit at any price, decimating the First and Fourteenth Amendments have become the cornerstone of the conservative Trumpian agenda. This draconian agenda is catapulted with arrogant hubris, insensitivity, and a total lack of regard for anything other than making money, no matter what the destructive consequences. The above negative attributes have all the characteristics of past repressive fascist regimes.

America has now become The land of the Free if you are wealthy, white, and male. These conservatives would like to set womens rights back to the early 1900s. After all, women vote for progressive candidates in far greater numbers, so why not dilute their right to vote also in addition to people of color?

These hypocritical conservatives are always touting the importance of the Constitution, but thats only when it serves their greedy white patriarchal needs. Conservatives want to destroy anything that puts women, working class people, LGBTQ, the poor, people of color, and the environment on a level opportunity and playing field with their selfish apathetic greedy friends.

Conservatives are using religion, ethnicity, so called job formation, environmental anti-truthers, homophobia, fear of the loss of white male power, and demonizing of Sissy Tree Huggers as way to coalesce the ignorant white male base of voters to their greedy anything for profit agenda.

Cutting through the folly of tribalism and unconditional conservative loyalty is no easy task. After all many human beings are reactive emotional irrational creatures. I have faith in our upcoming better educated more tolerant millennials. The good news is that each year there are fewer conservative white males.

Harvey Rifkin/Vallejo

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Wikipedians want to give users the ability to access the world's most popular encyclopedia in the most secure way possible: On the dark web.

Cristian Consonni, Former Vice President of Wikimedia Italy, proposed Monday that Wikipedians should create a dark web version of the site accessible only via the Tor Browser.

It's possible now to access Wikipedia via the Tor Browserwhich is popular with activists and among people living in countries with censored web traffic because it encrypts web traffic and routes it through a series of different IP addresses called "nodes"but the connection is less secure than it would be if the site was accessible as a "hidden service" on the dark web.

As a hidden service (also called an onion site), Wikipedia would not need to direct its traffic through an exit node, a point where internet traffic "emerges" from the Tor network and connects to sites on the regular web. Exit nodes are known to be a seriously vulnerable portion of Tor's security.

Consonni shared the proposal on Wikimedia-L, a listserv where prominent Wikipedians discuss the future and internal politics of the site.

There, several editors, like David Cuenca Tudela, endorsed the idea, but many disagreed with Consonni on one major point. Consonni believes Tor users should have the ability to edit Wikipedia articles, which is currently not allowed, except under special circumstances.

A number of Wikipedians don't want Tor users to have the ability to edit, "due to high volume of known abuse from that vector," as one user put it.

Abusive editors have been known to use Tor to circumvent being banned. Wikipedia blocks problematic users based on their IP address, but the encrypted browser can be used to quickly obtain a new one.

Creating a dark web version of Wikipedia would make the encyclopedia available securely in the many places where it's censored. Countries like China, Iran, and Russia, have chosen to block their citizens ability to view a significant portion of the site's entries, or sometimes even the entire encyclopedia altogether.

Even seemingly liberal countries like the United Kingdom and France have attempted to censor portions of the site in the past.

It would be far more difficult for governments to censor or monitor Wikipedia's dark web version. But Consonni and like minded editors aren't just concerned with surveillance.

He hopes bringing Wikipedia to the dark web will also help improve Tor's reputation. The browser is often thought of as a tool for drug dealers and other criminals, instead of say, encyclopedia readers trying to avoid government surveillance.

"...providing Wikipedia over Tor would promote awareness of Tor itself as a technology for protecting user privacy," Consonni wrote in his proposal.

Wikipedia wouldn't be the first mainstream website to move towards the dark web. In 2014, Facebook launched a version that runs on Tor. ProPublica, a nonprofit investigative journalism outlet, followed suit last year.

"It can be argued that the privacy gain of having an onion service over visiting Wikipedia with HTTPS over Tor is minimal, but I think it is worth having this option," Consonni told me via Twitter DM.

"I think that all major websites should serve a version over Tor," he went on.

If Wikipedia were to build a Tor version, Consonni hopes the project would be organized through the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, instead of through a third party that could potentially "be evil and snoop on users."

Building a darknet version of any site isn't terribly difficult. Easy-to-use tools even exist to help streamline the process, if you want to get your own open source encyclopedia on Tor while Wikipedians continue to debate the idea.

The Tor Project had no comment.

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God knows theres probably a lot to say in Courtney Loves forthcoming memoir. On Tuesday Love told Seth Meyers that while she has a lot of secrets she has to keep, its totally fair game to include them in her book if theyve already leaked on her Wikipedia page.

So youre not the first person to leak information but if someone has already leaked information, youll put it in your book? Meyers asks.

Probably, Love says, laughing.

Love says the book is already on its second ghostwriter because the first was too tell-all. I was like, Lets make it tasteful, she says. I want someone to make it funny and true.

In 2015 Loves ghostwriter Anthony Bozza actually sued the artist for failing to pay him the $200,000 he was owed for writing the book, which was tentatively titled Girl With the Most Cake. In an interview with the Telegraph Love said that she didnt like Bozzas version because it painted her in a bad light. Its like me jacked on coffee and sugar in a really bad mood, she said. I said keep your bloody money. Id rather keep my friends.

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Jeremiah Graham, USA TODAY NETWORK Tennessee 5:44 p.m. CT June 6, 2017

Tuesday's "Celebrate Whats Right" luncheon on the state of education in Memphis had a strong focus on what's still to be done.

We dont need education to reform, said Marcus Robinson, CEO of the philanthropic Memphis Education Fund. "We need education revolution.

The luncheon at the Holiday Inn at the University of Memphis was hosted by New Memphis, an organization with a goal of helpingdevelop students and educators around the city, and the non-profit news organization Chalkbeat.

Robinson said 70,000 children in Shelby County who are living at or below the poverty line were in a failing school. When the state of Tennessee ran a list of the schools in the bottom five percent of performance in the state test scores, he said, 90 percent of those schools were in Shelby County.

His call for more commitment to students, not just in the classroom but at home, was echoed by other speakers such as Achievement Schools executive director Tim Wise and KIPP Memphis Collegiate Schools executive director Kendra Ferguson.

None of this happens without a collective commitment from leadership and a commitment of those individuals who have taken up the banner and stand up for students and say, 'I want for you what I want for myself. I demand excellence from myself and I demand it from you as well,' Wise said.

Meanwhile, Robert S. Harvey, chief executive officer of Star Academy, said he believes that by shrinking the school body, teachers and faculty can form more personalized relationships with students and produce better results.

I think that we are stuck in the 19th Century industrialization where bigger is better and more is more, Harvey said. But I wonder because of Star's reality what does it look like to grow by staying small?

Star Academy has never surpassed 250 students, he said, but he touted its results.

We have blue-ribbon status and our kids are going to the middle school of their choice, completing high school at a 100 percent graduation rate, he said. "We do not grow by being big, we grow by being small.

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Conservative author and pundit Ann Coulter delivers remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2012 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images hide caption

Conservative author and pundit Ann Coulter delivers remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2012 in Washington, DC.

After a lengthy back-and-forth, conservative commentator Ann Coulter's speech scheduled for tomorrow at University of California, Berkeley appears to be off apparently for multiple reasons.

And there is some dispute about who actually did the canceling.

Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks said in a statement that the campus could not accommodate the speech because the planned venue was deemed inadequately secure by local police, and there was no other venue available where the talk could happen safely.

The university said that it had proposed alternative dates, which Coulter rejected.

"[T]he UC Berkeley administration did not cancel the Coulter event and has never prohibited Ms. Coulter from coming on campus," it said.

Coulter stated on Twitter that Berkeley canceled the speech, adding that she is "so sorry for free speech crushed by thugs." She said, "I'm so sorry Berkeley had a different story every 20 minutes, which always was: No speech."

However, Reuters and The New York Times report that Coulter said in an emailed statement that she decided to cancel the speech after conservative groups backed out of sponsoring the event.

The university had earlier called off Coulter's appearance citing security concerns, then reversed the decision last week after she vowed to show up regardless.

Young America's Foundation, one of the groups that planned the visit, said Tuesday that it was pulling out of organizing the event and blamed Berkeley for failing to provide a secure space. "Berkeley made it impossible to hold a lecture due to the lack of assurances for protections from foreseeable violence from unrestrained leftist agitators," it wrote.

In today's statement, Berkeley's chancellor said that the university was committed to both free speech and the safety of the campus community.

"Groups and individuals from the extreme ends of the political spectrum have made clear their readiness and intention to utilize violent tactics in support or in protest of certain speakers at UC Berkeley," Dirks said. "We cannot wish away or pretend that these threats do not exist."

He said the university was deferring to the police assessment of a significant security threat, adding that "we cannot allow it to be held in a venue with a limited number of exits; in a hall that cannot be cordoned off; in an auditorium with floor to ceiling glass; in any space that does not meet basic safety criteria established by UCPD."

The city of Berkeley and the university have seen "three high profile incidents of political violence in recent months," as The Two-Way reported. Here's more:

"On March 4 and April 15, left and right wing protestors skirmished in a nearby Berkeley park. In February, masked agitators, commonly known as Black Bloc, broke windows and set fires at the campus building preventing right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos from speaking."

The saga over whether Coulter would speak has prompted the Berkeley College Republicans to file a federal lawsuit. Member station KQED reported that the suit alleges the university "was discriminating against conservative speakers and violating students' rights to free speech."

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