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Trump’s tax returns saga unleashes “with few exceptions” meme

According to President Donald Trump’s lawyers, Trump received no income from Russia in the past 10 years — “with few exceptions,” the Associated Press reported Friday.

Trump’s lawyers provided no proof of their assertion, but said Trump earned money from hosting the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in 2013, as well as $95 million from a Russian billionaire who purchased a Trump property in 2008.

Florida Memorial University honors Trayvon Martin with a posthumous pilot’s degree

Trayvon Martin once dreamed of becoming a pilot.

Florida Memorial University, a historically black college in Miami Gardens, Florida, where Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon’s mother, received her bachelor’s in English, intends to make that deferred dream a reality. 

The university’s aviation school will posthumously confer Trayvon with a pilot’s degree during its commencement exercises on May 13, the college’s president announced.

“Of special significance is awarding posthumously the Bachelor of Science Degree in Aviation to Trayvon Martin,” Dr. Roslyn Clark Artis, president of Florida Memorial University, said in a press release posted to Facebook on Wednesday. “Sybrina, our alum, epitomizes strength and dignity as she uplifts other victims of violence while effecting change for a more equal and just society.” Read more (5/5/17 11:20 AM)

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“I try to capture all the little fun moments that happen when living with cats. All my little cat comics are done on 4 by 4 post-it notes! My fluffy friends are always a great source of inspiration and entertainment. And best of all they are always there when you need a hug or a good cry.”

People perceive black men as bigger, stronger than white men of the same size — and that’s dangerous.

According to a new study from the American Psychological Association, people tend to perceive black men as larger and more dangerous than white men of the same size.

In a series of experiments, the researchers showed over 950 online black and nonblack U.S. participants a series of color photographs of the faces of white and black men who were of equal height and weight. 

Participants then had to guess the height, weight and muscularity of the pictured subjects. Researchers found that the estimates were consistently biased. 

All participants saw black men as larger, stronger and more muscular than white men, even though they were the same. 

However, nonblack participants perceived black men to be more capable of causing harm in a fictional fight scenario, and, even more disquieting, that police would be more justified in using force to subdue the black men — even if they were unarmed.

That black men cannot even be perceived as who they actually are is a factor, according to researchers, in America’s police brutality epidemic.  Read more (3/13/17 12:16 PM)

Fox News thinks the phrase “Journalism Matters” is “anti-Trump rhetoric”

Fox News is calling out its fellow media outlets for propagating “anti-Trump rhetoric,” that, much like the U.S. Constitution, brazenly asserts the relevance of news media as an industry.

On Tuesday, Fox & Friends devoted a segment to exposing the apparent media biases from newspapers across the country for selling T-shirts with slogans like “Democracy Dies in the Darkness,” and “Journalism Matters” — a screed that Fox News decided went too far.