Hong Kong Legislative Council Member Lam Cheuk Ting has produced video evidence of police torturing a protestor. The video shows police officers abusing an elderly man––slapping him, poking his eyes, bending his fingers back, humiliating him, and so on. Twitter has shut down 200,000 Chinese accounts for spreading disinformation about the protests. It will also ban …

Two woman are suing Jeffrey Epstein’s estate for $100 million. They claim to have been recruited to give Mr. Epstein massages fifteen years ago. After being recruited, they claim Mr. Epstein sexually assaulted them in his mansion. This is at least the second such lawsuit against the estate. On July 23, Eptsein was found unconscious in …

Even after death, the story of Jeffery Epstein gets weirder and more intriguing. Epstein’s representatives have hired Michael Baden, a pathologist for famous deaths, to do his own autopsy. If it’s proven that Epstein died by his own hand, then his estate can sue the state. While all this was going on, the FBI initiated …

Protestors, all clad in black, have occupied Hong Kong’s international airport. The protestors plan to occupy the airport until Sunday as a protest against Chinese authoritarian government. They handed out pamphlets that read, “You’ve arrived in a broken, torn-apart city, not the one you have once pictured. Yet for this Hong Kong, we fight. We …

This weekend was like something out of a dystopian novel: two separate places, two separate shooters, and at least twenty-nine people dead. The first shooting occurred on Saturday in El Paso, Texas. Nineteen minutes before the first 911 call reported shots fired at a local Wal Mart, a 2,300-word anti-immigrant manifesto appeared online. The author …

When it comes to social change, there are two kinds of people in the world: talkers and doers. Talkers loudly proclaim that things need to change––there needs to be more women in tech, or there needs to be more black doctors, or there needs to be a smaller wealth gap. That’s good, of course, because …

A few weeks ago, I went to a house party with a few emergency room nurses. If you don’t know any ER nurses, those cats party hard. Rarely have a seen people drink so much hard liquor in such short a time frame. I tried to keep up as best I could, and it wasn’t …

If you’ve opened literally any social media in the past few days, you’ve probably seen “FaceApp” photos. FaceApp uses artificial intelligence technology to alter the age of your face, making you look extremely young or old. It’s pretty neat to see yourself looking old, so lots of people have done it. But there’s only one …

Rand Paul has blocked a Senate vote to extend funding for 9/11 first responder compensations. The House overwhelming voted in favor of approving fund two days ago. Paul justified himself by appealing to traditional Republican budgetary values. “It has long been my feeling that we need to address our massive debt in the country,” he …

Self-proclaimed White Supremacist James Alex Fields was has been sentenced to life in prison plus an additional 419 years on federal hate crime charges. Last month, Fields was sentenced to life in jail for that crime. The defense pleaded for a lighter sentence, citing Fields’s tough childhood and mental health issues. Federal prosectors wrote in …

When Trump and Putin met at the G20 summit––you know, the one where Trump told journalists it was “none of their business” what he said to Putin––he made a very distasteful joke: that he and Putin should “get rid” of journalists. That joke is just the latest in a long series of comments that make …

In 2020, employers in the state of Nevada will no longer be able to refuse to hire potential employees based solely on a failed marijuana drug test. The law, in its beautiful legalese, reads: “It is unlawful for any employer in this State to fail or refuse to hire a prospective employee because the prospective …