UNC Bids Silent Sam A Not So Fond Farewell
UNC’s Silent Sam has come down, much to the consternation of the racists who wanted him to continue standing.
Sam Wilkinson
/// August 21, 2018
UNC’s Silent Sam has come down, much to the consternation of the racists who wanted him to continue standing.
Andrew Donaldson
/// August 21, 2018
Protests turned to destruction on the campus of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, as the much fought over “Silent Sam” confederate memorial fell from its pedestal on the campus grounds.
From CNN Business:
New York (CNN Business)Sheldon Adelson, the chairman and CEO of Las Vegas Sands and a major donor to Republican politicians, died late Monday following complications related to his cancer treatment, his company said. He was 87.
Adelson took a leave of absence from Sands last week to resume treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, which his aides first disclosed in late February 2019.
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Comment →In the wake of the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by scores of President Trump’s supporters, a lone researcher began an effort to catalogue the posts of social media users across Parler, a platform founded to provide conservative users a safe haven for uninhibited “free speech” — but which ultimately devolved into a hotbed of far-right conspiracy theories, unchecked racism, and death threats aimed at prominent politicians.
The researcher, who asked to be referred to by their Twitter handle, @donk_enby, began with the goal of archiving every post from January 6, the day of the Capitol riot; what she called a bevy of “very incriminating” evidence. According to the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, among others, Parler is one of a number of apps used by the insurrections to coordinate their breach of the Capitol, in a plan to overturn the 2020 election results and keep Donald Trump in power.
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