#JadaPose: the online ridiculing of a teen victim is part of a sickening trend

 Posted on June 8, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1009 words  |  Brenda Moya

Laura Bates on everyday sexismWomenSocial media users have been taking pictures of themselves in the same position as an alleged rape victim, and sharing them with the hashtag #JadaPose. We need to take actionWhat are the consequences when a teenage victim's sexual assault can be ridiculed on social media before she is even aware of what happened to her? That was the horrifying question that arose after last year's Steubenville rape case, in which a teenage girl in Ohio was raped whilst incapacitated by alcohol and awoke the next morning to find graphic posts depicting and discussing the assault on Instagram and Twitter. [Read More]

Bitcoin has rallied. What are cryptos true believers still smoking? | Nils Pratley

 Posted on June 8, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  844 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Nils Pratley on financeCryptocurrencies This article is more than 1 year oldBitcoin has rallied. What are crypto’s true believers still smoking?This article is more than 1 year oldNils PratleyFTX’s filing for bankruptcy was an existential event – and may signal the moment when grown-up thinking re-entered the room As fraud and conspiracy charges were laid against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in the US on Tuesday, a funny thing happened to the price of bitcoin: it went up. [Read More]

Daniil Medvedev v Andrey Rublev: ATP Finals as it happened | ATP Finals

 Posted on June 8, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2524 words  |  Delta Gatti

13 Nov 202316.48 ESTRighto pals, that us done for tonight. Thanks all for your company, and do join us again tomorrow night for Novak Djokovic (1) v Jannik Sinner (4) – that should be an absolute jazzer, especially given the latter is from northern Italy. So see you then, but in the meantime, peace out. 13 Nov 202316.44 ESTIt doesn’t get easier for Rublev, who meets Alcaraz next; Medvedev faces Zverev, and both of those matches should be a lot of fun. [Read More]

Police search Missouri River for barrels after body found in kidnapping case | Missouri

 Posted on June 8, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  437 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Missouri This article is more than 5 months oldPolice search Missouri River for barrels after body found in kidnapping caseThis article is more than 5 months oldOfficials say evidence linked to case of Timothy Haslett could be located in river after remains of potential witness discovered Missouri police are warning that more evidence linked to an alleged violent kidnapper could be located in the state’s namesake river after the remains of a potential witness were found there last month. [Read More]

Sinad O'Connor converts to Islam, taking new name Shuhada' Davitt | Sinad O'Connor

 Posted on June 8, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  485 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Sinéad O'Connor This article is more than 5 years oldSinéad O'Connor converts to Islam, taking new name Shuhada' DavittThis article is more than 5 years oldThe singer says she is ‘very, very, very happy’ and thanks Muslims for welcoming her The singer formerly known as Sinéad O’Connor has converted to Islam, changing her name to Shuhada’. She made the announcement on Twitter, saying her conversion was “the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian’s journey. [Read More]

Were being left with nothing: Irelands turf wars expose rural grievances | Climate crisi

 Posted on June 8, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1799 words  |  Brenda Moya

Ned Phillips cutting turf at Mouds Bog. Composite: Patrick Bolger/GuardianA ban on selling smoky fuels was meant to cut carbon emissions, tackle air pollution and conserve ancient bogs. Instead, it has fuelled a tense narrative of urban elites versus rural poor by Rory Carroll The Bog of Allen, IrelandThe peat sods lay spread on a field, at the end of which was a mound of earth the colour of dark chocolate. [Read More]

'My Parkdale is gone': how gentrification reached the one place that seemed immune

 Posted on June 7, 2024  |  23 minutes  |  4763 words  |  Delta Gatti

Cities in depthCitiesLong an outlier in Toronto’s feverish property wars, Parkdale’s deep-seated problems were being turned around by its Tibetan community – but then the huge global real estate firms rolled in By now, Michael Nguyen expects them: every month or so, someone representing one international real estate investment firm or another crosses the threshold of the Parkdale Intercultural Association, a non-profit immigrant settlement agency he runs on a busy stretch of Toronto’s Queen Street West. [Read More]

'You'll never see me again'

 Posted on June 7, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2456 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Life and styleBarbara Weed's son Tom, 18, cut himself off from his family after getting drawn into a controversial online community. She has not seen him since. Kate Hilpern reportsOne Wednesday afternoon in May, when Barbara Weed's 18-year-old son, Tom, was right in the middle of his A-levels, he abruptly left home. "Dear Family," said the note he left on the doormat. "I need to take an indefinite amount of time away from the family, so I've moved in with a friend. [Read More]

Fashion brands drop Terry Richardson over allegations of abuse on shoots | Terry Richardson

 Posted on June 7, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1118 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Terry Richardson This article is more than 6 years oldFashion brands drop Terry Richardson over allegations of abuse on shootsThis article is more than 6 years oldPhotographer blacklisted by Valentino, Bulgari and Vogue publisher Condé Nast after years of reports of exploitation A string of fashion magazines and brands have said they will no longer work with the photographer Terry Richardson, who has been the subject of allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour at photoshoots for almost two decades. [Read More]

Paul Stephenson: the hero who refused to leave a pub and helped desegregate Britain | Race

 Posted on June 7, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2397 words  |  Delta Gatti

Paul Stephenson: ‘You can’t have true racial harmony without racial justice.’ Photograph: Khali Ackford/The GuardianWhen he sat down in a pub that banned black people, Stephenson helped change Britain’s discrimination laws. He talks about organising the Bristol bus boycott, attacks from the National Front – and why Muhammad Ali composed a poem about him by Kehinde AndrewsIn 1964, Paul Stephenson walked into the Bay Horse pub in Bristol and ordered half a pint. [Read More]