Twitter Troll Grounds Two Planes with Bomb Threat

Hudson Hongo · 01/24/15 07:40PM

On Saturday, CNN reported that two passenger planes had been escorted by fighter jet to Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to be searched, the result of an online bomb threat military officials "deemed credible." It soon became clear, however, the threat came from a source most of us would treat pretty skeptically: some dumb tweets from an obvious troll.

Sisters at the Margin

Karla Rose · 01/24/15 01:00PM

Growing up in a predominantly white, middle-class neighborhood in Seattle I remember my mother warning my older brother not to be caught running after dark, and, if ever stopped by police, to do whatever they asked—no more and no less. Speak as little as possible, she'd say. Every suggestion was a weak attempt to minimize a danger that would exist regardless. My brother would always be a black male.

Alleged Rapist's Bullshit Defense Blames Vanderbilt's "Sexual Freedom"

Hudson Hongo · 01/24/15 11:45AM

According to prosecutors, Cory Batey is one of several former Vanderbilt football players who raped an unconscious student in a dorm room last year, filming parts of their crime and urinating on the victim afterwards. According to Batey's defense, however, their client is also a victim—of "a campus culture of sexual freedom, promiscuity and excessive alcohol consumption," Reuters reports.