In The News

Here is some stuff In The News today!

[Content Note: Racism; harassment] New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg says he might feel differently about stop-and-frisk if he had a son who was stopped and frisked. But he doesn't so OH WELL!

[CN: Intimidation] British authorities held Glenn Greenwald's partner for nine hours as he passed through London on his way home to Brazil. He was stopped by officers "and informed that he was to be questioned under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The controversial law, which applies only at airports, ports and border areas, allows officers to stop, search, question and detain individuals."

[CN: Sexual violence; hostility to choice] Julian Assange is not only a dirtbag rapist who reneges on agreements to use condoms during PIV sex; he is also a dirtbag anti-choicer who commends Ron and Rand Paul on their fight against legal abortion. This fucking guy.

[CN: Disablism; misogyny] Republican Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who is very likely to be the next governor of Texas, thanked a supporter who called State Senator Wendy Davis an "idiot" and "Retard Barbie." But he doesn't "endorse anyone's offensive language. Stay positive." Okay then!

[CN: Homophobia] Today in a Stopped Clock is Right Twice a Day news, Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will sign legislation "barring licensed therapists from trying to turn gay teenagers straight, making New Jersey the second state to ban so-called conversion therapy, along with California." Good.

[CN: Gendered violence] Oscar Pistorius, who shot and killed Reeva Steenkamp, has been indicted in a South African court on a charge of premeditated murder. It is beyond gross (though entirely unsurprising) how this New York Times article doesn't identify Steenkamp until the third paragraph, and refers to her as "his girlfriend" three times (including the photo caption) before printing her name. Someone please send the New York Times a memo that dehumanizing women contributes to our being murdered by intimate partners.

Do you want to see a neat thing about the colors of the characters' wardrobes on Breaking Bad? (There are some spoilers, so "tread lightly," ha ha.) It is something I am kind of obsessed with (just ask Jessica Luther, to whom I have mentioned Marie's purple no fewer than eleventy million times!), so I think this is THE GREATEST!