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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: 5 Memphis cops fired for death during traffic stop |
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| Memphis disbands police unit after fatal beating as protesters take to streets The specialized police unit that included the five Memphis officers charged with the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols was disbanded on Saturday as more protests took place in U.S. cities a day after harrowing video of the a... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Tom Verlaine of seminal Art-Punk band Television has died |
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Posted: Yesterday, 10:22 pm
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| Tom Verlaine, Singer and Guitarist of Punk Legends Television, Dead at 73 TOM VERLAINE, SINGER and guitarist for punk legends Television who crafted the band’s 1977 masterpiece Marquee Moon, has died at the age of 73. Jesse Paris Smith, the daughter of Patti Smith, confirmed Verlaine’s death follow... |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Musicians who have (or may have?) Asperger's Syndrome. |
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Posted: Yesterday, 9:57 pm
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Replies: 464
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: The WOKE Generation! |
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Posted: Yesterday, 7:20 pm
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Replies: 187
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| Yale Law School Bars Press From Free Speech Panel. Yes, Really Yale Law School promised student activists last week that it would bar press from a panel on free speech featuring Kristen Waggoner, the conservative lawyer whose last talk at the law school ended in a police escort. The group hosting t... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Emergence of a Deadly Coronavirus |
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Posted: Yesterday, 12:56 pm
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| As of 22 January 2023, over 664 million confirmed cases and over 6.7 million deaths have been reported globally. The number of deaths has been on the decline in the U.S. It looks like this pandemic is coming to an end. People are still getting infected and dying but to a much lessor degree then in ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: ‘Today Show’ article about “Autism Wars” |
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Posted: Yesterday, 12:23 pm
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| Aborting fetuses based on expected genetic outcome is eugenics. I don’t think it will be a Nazi repeat or government mandate. Like with Down’s Syndrome now it would be a choice of the mother. That is why it is called “Consumer Eugenics”. It is questionable that this will happen in Autism or particul... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: 5 Memphis cops fired for death during traffic stop |
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Posted: Yesterday, 12:00 pm
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| The media seemed disappointed there was not a repeat of the nationwide conflagration that occurred after the George Floyd video. There were a few skirmishes, some words and tension, some civil disobedience, nothing resembling the nationwide riots of 2020. This is pretty much as I expected. The commo... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: ‘Today Show’ article about “Autism Wars” |
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Posted: Yesterday, 11:07 am
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| great articles and comments, thanks. I'll throw my 2 cents in too. People will always disagree, sometimes good can come out of diverse opinions and beliefs. People working on the same problems in multiple ways are likely to come up with more answers than if everybody agreed on everything. Wherever ... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: Book - ‘I Will Die On This Hill’ Inclusive Perspective |
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Posted: Yesterday, 10:29 am
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| My Twins Are Autistic, I Was Told my Son Didn't See me as Human' - Meghan Ashburn for Newsweek When my twins, Jay and Nick*, were born in October 2013, they spent six weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit in Virginia where we live. They were six weeks premature and I was instantly thrust into s... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Will all those saying Trump is done look like fools again? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 5:22 am
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| The former president's chances, once dim, are brightening - Matthew Continetti for the Free Beacon Donald Trump spent the final months of 2022 reeling from electoral setbacks and media disasters. Many of his high-profile endorsements in the midterm elections flopped. His attacks on popular GOP gove... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: GOP Rep. Slammed for Gifting Grenades to Colleagues |
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Posted: Yesterday, 2:05 am
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Replies: 4
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| Newsweek Representative Cory Mills, a Florida Republican, is under fire on social media after gifting hand grenades emblazoned with the Republican elephant symbol to his congressional colleagues. On Thursday, an image began circulating on Twitter of a letter penned by Mills, a freshman congressman,... |
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Forum: In-Depth Adult Life Discussion Topic: Becoming a geriatric How did it make you feel? |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 11:01 pm
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Mixed feelings for me.
I am very grateful to have survived, especially as an Autistic person.
I miss physical things I used to be able to do that I can’t now. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: General predicts China War, preps officers |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 10:16 pm
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| Air Force general predicts war with China in 2025, tells officers to prep by firing 'a clip' at a target, and 'aim for the head A four-star Air Force general sent a memo on Friday to the officers he commands that predicts the U.S. will be at war with China in two years and tells them to get ready t... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Classified documents found in Biden’s old office |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 10:13 pm
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Replies: 133
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| Biden's notebooks among items seized by FBI in Delaware home search Notebooks that President Joe Biden wrote in during his time as vice president are among the items the FBI took from one of his Delaware homes during a search there last week, according to a person familiar with the investigation. T... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: 5 Memphis cops fired for death during traffic stop |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 9:09 pm
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Replies: 11
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| What the Tyre Nichols beating video shows Bodycam footage of 29-year-old father Tyre Nichols calling for his mother after being beaten by police in Memphis has been released, and the city is braced for protests. Mr Nichols died in hospital three days after being pulled over for alleged reckless dri... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Nancy Pelosi’s husband hospitalized after assault at home |
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Posted: 27 Jan 2023, 9:00 pm
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Replies: 151
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| New video, audio show attack on Paul Pelosi in excruciating detail Newly released video footage and audio show Paul Pelosi’s violent confrontation last fall with a home intruder who described his plans to attack then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other elected officials. A San Francisco judge this week ... |
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