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An elite Brooklyn private school has been thrown into chaos by a racist blackface video filmed and circulated by students, the Daily News has learned.
World-famous Poly Prep Day School in Dyker Heights was reeling this week over a video of white students in blackface jumping around making monkey noises, school sources said.
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-metro-poly-prep-blackface-20190119-story.html
2nd newscaster "accidently" says "Martin Luther Coon Jr."
ST. LOUIS — A St. Louis newscaster has apologized for what he called an unintentional racial slur while referencing Martin Luther King Jr., nearly two weeks after the same phrase cost another broadcaster his job.
KTVI-TV's Kevin Steincross said during a Thursday morning broadcast that an upcoming tribute would honor "Martin Luther Coon Jr." Steincross apologized during a later broadcast, saying he has "total respect for Dr. King, what he meant and what he continues to mean to our country."
KTVI says managers spoke with Steincross and believe the phrase was inadvertent and not reflective of his "core beliefs." Vice President of News Audrey Prywitch says no additional discipline is planned.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/st-louis-tv-newscaster-apologizes-accidental-slur-involving-martin-luther-n960191
Trump tried to illegally withhold disaster relief money from Puerto Rico and give it to TX and FL
https://www.vox.com/2019/1/17/18186818/trump-puerto-rico-hurricane-fundsTrump tried to illegally withhold disaster relief money from Puerto Rico
Trump’s handling of his one big external crisis remains terrifying.
By Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesiasmatt@vox.com Jan 17, 2019, 1:00pm
A Washington Post article on the resignation of deputy Housing and Urban Development Secretary Pam Patenaude, a housing policy professional who’s been de facto running the department under the vague auspices of Ben Carson, also contains the stunning information that President Trump attempted to illegally cut off federal disaster assistance to the island of Puerto Rico.
We already knew that in October, Trump tweeted — inaccurately — that the Puerto Rican government was planning to use disaster relief money to pay off old debts.
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But the new report says Trump went beyond bad tweets and tried to base policy on this misapprehension, urging his team to violate the law and redirect the disaster assistance money to Texas and Florida instead
A Washington Post article on the resignation of deputy Housing and Urban Development Secretary Pam Patenaude, a housing policy professional who’s been de facto running the department under the vague auspices of Ben Carson, also contains the stunning information that President Trump attempted to illegally cut off federal disaster assistance to the island of Puerto Rico.
We already knew that in October, Trump tweeted — inaccurately — that the Puerto Rican government was planning to use disaster relief money to pay off old debts.
But the new report says Trump went beyond bad tweets and tried to base policy on this misapprehension, urging his team to violate the law and redirect the disaster assistance money to Texas and Florida instead
Many Voters Think Trump's a Self-Made Man. What Happens When You Tell Them otherwise?
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/17/many-voters-think-trumps-a-self-made-man-what-happens-when-you-tell-them-otherwise-224019Who is Donald Trump? Ask Americans and many of them will describe a self-made billionaire, a business tycoon of unfathomable success. In research recently published in Political Behavior, we found that voters are not simply uninformed about President Trump’s biographical background, but misinformed—and that misinformation has serious political consequences.
Large swaths of the public believe the Trump myth. Across three surveys of eligible voters from 2016 to 2018, we found that as many as half of all Americans do not know that he was born into a very wealthy family. And while Americans are divided along party lines in their assessment of Trump’s performance as president, misperceptions regarding his financial background are found among Democrats and Republicans.
The narrative of Trump as self-made is simply false. Throughout his life, the president has downplayed the role his father, real estate developer Fred Trump, played in his success, claiming it was “limited to a small loan of $1 million.” That isn’t true, of course: A comprehensive New York Times investigation last year estimated that over the course of his lifetime, the younger Trump received more than $413 million in today’s dollars from his father. While this exact figure was not known before the Times’ report, it was a matter of record that by the mid-1980s, Trump had been loaned at least $14 million by his father, was loaned at least $3.5 million more in 1990, had borrowed several more million against his inheritance in the 1990s after many of his ventures failed, and had benefited enormously from his father’s political connections and co-signing on loans early in his career as a builder.
Of course, someone born into wealth may have great business acumen, and the question of whether Trump is “a great businessman” is a subjective evaluation. The focus of our work, however, is on whether indisputable facts regarding candidate biographies—which are often invisible to voters over the course of a campaign—affect public opinion.
It turns out that they do. Using a 2017 University of Maryland Critical Issues Poll, we found that believing Trump was not born “very wealthy” leads to at least a 5-percentage-point boost in the president’s job approval, even after considering the many factors that can influence public approval ratings. This shift is rooted in the belief that his humble roots make Trump both more empathetic (he “feels my pain”), and more skilled at business (he is self-made and couldn’t have climbed to such heights without real business know-how).
female frog found. Male in captivity was thought to be last of their species for past 10 years.
Romeo the Frog Finds His Juliet. Their Courtship May Save a Species.
The lonely male in a Bolivian museum was thought to be the last Sehuencas water frog, but an expedition has found him a potential mate.
Romeo is a Sehuencas water frog, once thought to be the last one on the planet. He lives alone in a tank at the Museo de Historia Natural Alcide d’Orbigny in Bolivia.
A deadly fungal disease threatens his species and other frogs in the cloud forest where he was found a decade ago. When researchers brought him to the museum’s conservation breeding center, they expected to find another frog he could mate with and save the species from extinction. But they searched stream after stream, and nothing.
Romeo, called the “World’s Loneliest Frog,” started sharing his feelings on Twitter. Things got desperate.
He needed a match before he croaked, so last year conservation groups partnered to create a Match.com profile for him. People related to Romeo’s romantic struggles, and on Valentine’s Day last year, the company and his fans raised $25,000 to send an expedition team out to the cloud forest to find his Juliet.
Well, Juliet has been found, and Romeo soon will be a bachelor no more. From this story of star-crossed science and love, conservationists have great hopes. If all goes well when the two meet, their offspring will return to the wild. From there, time will tell if their habitat is preserved, the frogs avoid disease and their legacy continues.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/science/romeo-loneliest-frog-mate.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage
Animals getting blessed in Spain... thinking "why are they sprinkling water on me"
The scene as pets are blessed in Spain
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the-scene-as-pets-are-blessed-in-spain/2019/01/17/dcc081ba-1a5d-11e9-88fe-f9f77a3bcb6c_gallery.html?utm_term=.86262a0b0d3d
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Mosaic Artist Fills Potholes With An Anti-Trump Jolt
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jim-bachor-pothole-art-donald-trump_us_5c3df361e4b0922a21d8c602Jim Bachor doesn’t often use his pothole mosaics to make a political point.
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But the Chicago artist made an exception when it came to President Donald Trump, who he describes as a “carnival barker” and “terrible human” who has dragged down the country’s discourse.
“Trump drives me crazy,” Bachor, 54, who is better known for filling in potholes with cement and topping them off with his playful images, told HuffPost this week. “I wanted to have an answer if one of my twin boys asked me in the future what I did during this dark time for our country.”
Bachor has twice used his pothole art to take aim at Trump. He dropped this “LIAR” mosaic, complete with a gold-surrounded Russian flag, near Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago in 2017:
It remains there to this day.
Bachor acknowledged it divided opinion among his fans, accustomed to his earlier “lighthearted, fun” mosaics. But he remains unrepentant.
“Protesting crowds are fine, but I like the staying power of my statement piece so very close to his building here,” he said. “Love it.”
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