At least 50 protestors were arrested on Sunday at the Black Lives Matter protest in Baton Rouge, bringing the number of people taken into custody over the weekend in the Louisiana capital to 160. Protester Elizabeth Thomas, 22, told CBC News, “The only violent people were the police.”
BATON ROUGE HAS TURNED INTO SYRIA #AltonSterling #BlackLivesMatter #BatonRouge pic.twitter.com/LCwAyP1AJA
— liz (@lizzkatherine_) July 11, 2016
Jill Stein, the Green party’s presumptive nominee, offers to step aside and let Bernie Sanders run if he leaves the Democratic party and joins the Greens. The Guardian reports:
“Stein said the Democratic establishment had conducted ‘psychological warfare’ against Sanders and ‘sabotaged’ his attempts to gain the party’s presidential nomination. Many of his young, progressive supporters are now moving over to the Green party rather than fall in behind Clinton, Stein added.”
Rose McGowan calls critic Owen Gleiberman’s comments about Renee Zellweger’s face “vile, damaging, stupid, and cruel.”
Rodney Barras, 55, the Regina man behind “Babes Behind Bars,” a website aimed at connecting incarcerated women with men “on the outside,” has been charged with sex-related offences involving minors. Turns out he has a history of sexual offences involving children.
Six more women have come forward with allegations that Fox News CEO Roger Ailes sexually harassed them
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