I saw this again in a tweet and was reminded of how awful it is.

As noted within Amnesty International’s policy on sex work, the organization is opposed to criminalization of all activities related to the purchase and sale of sex. Sexual desire and activity are a fundamental human need. To criminalize those who are unable or unwilling to fulfill that need through more traditionally recognized means and thus purchase sex, may amount to a violation of the right to privacy and undermine the rights to free expression and health.

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People are laughing because Milo Yiannopoulos is complaining about being…neglected.

He sends Jewish journalists $88 because 88 stands for HH – Heil Hitler. Also I don't quite get how canceling an event will cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars. Maybe he should get travel insurance. Be an agent provocateur, but don't complain when people are provoked. https://t.co/xlZoEgqIhV

— jon ronson (@jonronson) August 25, 2018

Let’s see what it’s about.

Oh noes – he’s been deplatformed.

When Politicon announced its 2018 lineup Wednesday, even the most casual observers noted a particularly strange booking: Milo Yiannopoulos.

The alt-right troll, who last year lost his job and his book deal after appearing to defend pedophilia in a YouTube video,

Something nice for a change. Bwambale Robert reporting from Kwasese Humanist School in Uganda:

Term two officially closes today 24th August 2018 and the school will reopen for term three on 17th September 2018.

Vocational skills training programs will go on at the Bizoha Humanist Center and at the Rukoki campus for tailoring, carpentry and welding classes.

I salute our dear parents, guardians, friends of the school in secular communities worldwide, the school staff and the students for making Kasese Humanist School what it is.

We are steadily moving forward.

Attached is an array of images at the Muhokya school and Rukoki campus.

With Science, we can progress.

This seems unfortunate:

In light of recent events, I have taken the difficult decision to resign from the position of President-Elect of @HumanistStudent.

Read my full statement here: https://t.co/UDYHTjysiC

— Angelos Sofocleous (@Sofocleous_A) August 24, 2018

From his statement:

In light of recent events, I have taken the difficult decision to resign from the position of President-Elect of Humanist Students.

These events involved a retweet of mine saying ‘RT if women don’t have penises’, and certain other criticisms of the transgender movement, as well as suggestions to improve the movement’s actions. Sadly, these views were taken to be ‘transphobic’ by individuals who cannot tolerate any criticism, either of their movement or their ideas, and are unable to engage

Adam Davidson at the New Yorker explains why immunity for Weisselberg is such a big deal.

In late 2016, I had lunch with a former high-ranking Trump Organization executive, a person who said he was happy to share dirt on his old boss, but who confessed to not having much dirt to share. This executive wrote a list of people whom I might contact to find out about anything potentially illegal or unethical that Donald Trump may have done. At the bottom of the list was the name Weisselberg. “Allen is the one guy who knows everything,” the person told me. “He’ll never talk to you.” I have had nearly identical conversations with different people who work or have

One reason Trump won.

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However. Randolph County, Georgia, is not after all going to close 7 of its 9 polling places.

After a week of ferocious pushback — including two packed town-hall meetings in which residents berated local elections officials, as well as warning letters, threats of lawsuits by civil rights groups and national media coverage — county officials fired the consultant who came up with the plan.

Then on Friday morning, the Randolph County Board of Elections voted down the proposal to close seven of its nine polling locations, saying no changes would be made. The meeting of the two-member board lasted no more than five minutes.

“In the United States, the right to vote is sacred,” the board said in a

TIME’s new cover:

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Lifesite News reports there’s a new Cardinal in Mexico who blames the victims of Catholic priests for what the Catholic priests did.

Reacting to the recent avalanche of reports of clerical sexual abuse around the world, a newly minted Mexican Cardinal has suggested that victims who accuse priests should be “ashamed” because they too have skeletons in their own closets.

Those who “accuse men of the Church should [be careful] because they have long tails that are easily stepped on,” said Cardinal Sergio Obeso Rivera according to a report in Crux.

Sounds like a threat.

“I’m here happy to talk about nice things, not about problematic things, it’s an accusation that is made, and in some cases it’s true,”