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The 10 at 10
1. The Dalai Lama is leaving politics.2. Have you ever been on TV before?3. If you kill my hamster, I’m gonna call the cops.4. The world’s billionaires.5. There are pirates in Massachusetts. Yes,...
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George Clooney Arrested in Sudan Protesting Genocide
The Guardian reports today that actor George Clooney was arrested alongside his father, journalist Nick Clooney, as well as Representative Jim Moran of Virginia and NAACP president Ben Jealous.“I’m...
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Trayvon’s Mother: “…Because a Heart Has No Color.”
From MSNBC:Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy As a parent, you cannot help but agonize alongside Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin over the loss of their 17...
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Etan and Me: A Brotherhood of Pain
For abuse survivor Rob Brown, the recent confession in the 1979 case of Etan Patz elicits a strong sense of brotherhood between one man who was allowed to grow up, and the boy who was not.We were all...
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How Not to Get Arrested
Former Public Defender Aaron Thomas shares tips on how to stay out of jail.1) Don’t Do Two Stupid Things At The Same Time.I learned this rule while in court with a client who was pleading guilty to...
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Guestpost #82: Emily Schooley – Ten Things I’ve Learned From Being Arrested
---Photo Casey Serin/FlickrEmily Schooley wants you to know: if you find yourself in a domestic violence situation – don’t wait, don’t hesitate, don’t try and protect the other person. Report what’s...
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Where the F**k Do I Surrender?
A family history of addiction and recovery.I’m in 2nd grade: Mrs. Hogan, my teacher, tells us about The Saturday Evening Post article and Alcoholics Anonymous. Fifty years later, who else remembers...
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What Exactly Are We Watching?
Surely we know the difference between entertainment and real life? How then, wonders Nathan Graziano, do we explain the collective conversation about the arrest of Aaron Hernandez for the murder of...
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How To Prepare for Your Upcoming Federal Arrest
It’s not easy to find a mentor who will tell you what to do when the Feds show up to take you away. Max Regian is happy to step in and give you some helpful bits of advice.—Maybe you convinced people...
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Justin Bieber Was Arrested (and I Don’t Care)
Your obligatory commentary on the thing that crudded up your timelines today.—-All day I’ve watched 140 character commentary flit past on the State of the Beebs. People have very strong opinions about...
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Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Biebers
Jarad Dewing thinks that putting children in the spotlight without a solid stage to stand on is setting them up for failure.The media exploded in histrionics yesterday when Justin Bieber was charged...
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These Break Dancers are More Than Just Flashy Moves
Post arrest, Project Positive founder Damon Holley sets sights on new markets. —Twenty-five year-old Damon Holley wasn’t dancing when SEPTA’s transit police pulled him off the Market-Frankford line...
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How Toy Guns Exposed a Government of Neighborhoods
Like Philly’s neighborhoods, city agencies are siloed and don’t always talk to each other. —Councilman Kenyatta Johnson, who joined his constituents in the 2nd Councilmanic District on Labor Day to...
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Shia LaBeouf Pushes Pro-Hitler Troll, Gets Arrested on His Art Project...
Embed from Getty ImagesShia LaBeouf’s latest project is an anti-Trump livestream, “He Will Not Divide Us.” Days after LaBeouf angrily shouted down a guy who slipped a white supremacist slogan into...
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He Has A Gun
Jeremy Adam Smith’s son asked, “Did they get the bad guys?” Turns out, that was a really difficult question to answer.1. This summer, we moved back to San Francisco’s Mission district after a...
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Obstruction of a Passageway
The first time Timothy Braun ate pizza and watched movies with his dog in the face of adversity, he wrote an essay on it that made him almost famous. When he did it again, it landed him in jail.—-The...
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I don’t card them
Not that I’ve ever done that. A friend told me. Lawrence Taylor is a douche nozzle. This revelation shouldn’t come as a shock to anyone who has followed his post-NFL career, but I felt like it...
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Why Two Black Men Were Arrested at a Philadelphia Starbucks
4.14.18: Philadelphia – (Society): I spent nearly an hour on Saturday afternoon at a Starbucks on 18th & Spruce Street, the Center City Philadelphia location where, on this past Thursday, two...
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Pleasant Valley State Prison With Inmate #49837
By Button Poetry . . Transcript provided by YouTube: 00:01 Mike’s been arrested enough times to 00:04 call it a part-time job and he is still 00:06 alive pulled over and beat by the pigs 00:09 in our...
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Being Homeless Shouldn’t Be a Crime! [Video]
. . Transcript provided by YouTube: 00:00 another in a recent spike in homeless 00:02 arrests 00:03 20 arrested this month have been 00:05 homeless you get arrested 00:07 just because you’re...
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