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    Future of Genetically Modified Babies May Lie in Putin's Hands

    This summer, after a Russian biochemist announced plans to follow in the footsteps of a rogue Chinese researcher and produce genetically modified children, a 150-year-old academic journal that reflects the current scientific consensus called on the world to stop him.

    “Time is of the essence,” Nature said. The dangers of altering human DNA that will be passed on to offspring simply aren’t understood well enough to allow Denis Rebrikov, a prorector of one prestigious Russian institute and a lab director at another, to proceed, the British publication argued.

    Six weeks after Nature’s call to action, some of Russia’s top geneticists convened a secret meeting with health officials at a facility in southern Moscow that included a special guest with unusual access to the Kremlin: Vladimir Putin’s eldest daughter, according to three people who were there.

    Figuring that in Russia only Putin can decide how to regulate an emerging technology capable of changing the code of every living cell, the geneticists wanted to present their conflicting opinions about Rebrikov’s intentions in front of Maria Vorontsova, an endocrinologist whose views on bioethics are becoming increasingly influential, the people said.
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    Just watched Rudy G on This Week With George...Yikes!

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    Amateur pro-Trump ‘sleuths’ scramble to unmask whistleblower: ‘Your president has asked for your help’

    Has J. Jonah Jameson ever penned an Op-ed seeking help in unmasking Spider Man? This is ever worse.

    The looming battle over President Trump’s potential impeachment has sparked an online hunt in the far-right corners of the Web as self-styled Internet sleuths race to identify the anonymous person Trump has likened to a treasonous spy.

    Their guesses have been scattershot, conspiratorial and often untethered from reality, spanning a wide range of such unlikely contenders as presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner and Vice President Pence.

    Some of the online commentators and anonymous posters said they have been spurred to action by Trump’s fury, foreshadowing the online clashes that are likely to engulf any upcoming impeachment hearings and the 2020 campaign.

    “Carpet bomb the memes. Everywhere,” one anonymous poster on the message board 4chan wrote in response to one of Trump’s angry tweets about the whistleblower. “Time to rise up. Your president has asked for your help.”
    And they are going after it with the same conspiratorial illogic that gave us 'Pizzagate'

    The president’s scornful portrayal of the whistleblower shaped and stoked the online conversation throughout the week, as it descended into a case study of the Internet at its worst — frenetic, fueled by rumor and frequently racist, misogynistic and crude.

    “the whistleblower is not white,” one 4chan commenter asserted Thursday, probably misreading a part of the complaint in which the whistleblower calls himself or herself a “non-White House official.” “see second set of bullet points on page 3. trump only has a handful of non white staff. I wonder who it might be.”
    :Eyeroll: Please
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    Los Angeles police recruitment ad on Breitbart prompts inquiry

    The Los Angeles Police Department was trying to figure out Saturday how one of its ads for new recruits ended up on right-wing news site Breitbart.

    The department, in which Latinos comprise the largest ethnic group of officers, was quick to denounce the placement on a platform that has often highlighted the misdeeds and crimes of people living in the U.S. without proper documentation and that critics have accused of posting racist content.

    LAPD Chief Michel Moore tweeted Saturday that his department would team up with the city's Personnel Department to determine how the ad, featuring a photo of an officer and the words, "Choose Your Future," ended up on the website once run by Stephen Bannon, a former adviser to President Donald Trump.
    The ad placement story went viral after Noah Shachtman, editor-in-chief of the Daily Beast, tweeted about it Friday night.

    The department's Media Relations Division responded Saturday on Twitter.

    "The LAPD celebrates diversity and embraces it within our ranks, and within the city we serve," it said. "We are aware that a recruitment advertisement has been circulated on a website that creates a negative juxtaposition to our core values."

    How the advertisement ended up on Breitbart was not much of a mystery to media experts, who noted that online ad buys, particularly those made through Google, target demographics rather than publications and can even follow targeted readers from site to site.

    Some experts have say that sites like Breitbart can be omitted from such buys, but that advertisers have to proactively discriminate.
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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    Caramel Caligula's racism was clearly on full display. of course, spineless Republicans are silent as mimes about that, like everything else.



    It's hardly a secret that conservatives are thin skinned and have ZERO sense of humor, leaving them totally incapable of laughing at themselves.
    They're not even capable of appreciating good comedy that pokes fun at liberals. I mean, does anyone think that anyone at FOX News will praise this SNL sketch?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    Amateur pro-Trump ‘sleuths’ scramble to unmask whistleblower: ‘Your president has asked for your help’

    Has J. Jonah Jameson ever penned an Op-ed seeking help in unmasking Spider Man? This is ever worse.



    And they are going after it with the same conspiratorial illogic that gave us 'Pizzagate'



    :Eyeroll: Please
    I can't give the actual issue number, but I'm pretty sure that there's been at least one storyline where JJJ offered a reward for anyone who could unmask Spider-man.

    But maybe Trump can get the judges from The Masked Singer to help him out. I can just see Jenny McCarthy investigating.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Malvolio View Post
    I can't give the actual issue number, but I'm pretty sure that there's been at least one storyline where JJJ offered a reward for anyone who could unmask Spider-man.

    But maybe Trump can get the judges from The Masked Singer to help him out. I can just see Jenny McCarthy investigating.
    And Ken Jeung puts Sherlock Holmes to shame with his amazing powers of deduction.
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    How dare you people compare Trump to Jameson. JJJ supported labor unions, civil rights, and even mutant rights.

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    House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said on Sunday that Congress is looking to obtain President Trump's calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid allegations that the White House is attempting to hide calls with foreign leaders.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PaulBullion View Post
    House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said on Sunday that Congress is looking to obtain President Trump's calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin amid allegations that the White House is attempting to hide calls with foreign leaders.

    That and his Tax Returns would be a great one-two punch.
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    How the advertisement ended up on Breitbart was not much of a mystery to media experts, who noted that online ad buys, particularly those made through Google, target demographics rather than publications and can even follow targeted readers from site to site.
    This stood out to me.... man what does that say about who is assumed to want to be a cop if algorithms suspect Breitbart's readers would be interested.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mecegirl View Post
    This stood out to me.... man what does that say about who is assumed to want to be a cop if algorithms suspect Breitbart's readers would be interested.
    It isn't just the racism, although that is bad in and of itself. How secure in your innocence would you feel if you knew the detective investigating a crime thought things like Qanon and the vaccine conspiracy were actually real?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gray Lensman View Post
    It isn't just the racism, although that is bad in and of itself. How secure in your innocence would you feel if you knew the detective investigating a crime thought things like Qanon and the vaccine conspiracy were actually real?
    Every Republican is a racist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GOLGO 13 View Post
    Every Republican is a racist.
    I wouldn't say that. But they're all at the very least, racist apologists.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Malvolio View Post
    I wouldn't say that. But they're all at the very least, racist apologists.
    Republicans had an excellent opportunity to bury the claim that they’re racists by censuring Trump for his heinous comments after Charlottesville two years ago but didn’t. Not only are they apologists, but enablers as well.
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