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At least seven people were injured in stabbings Sunday when neo-Nazi demonstrators and counter-protesters clashed outside the capitol building in Sacramento, California. The Sacramento Fire Department described the situation as a “mass casualty event” — meaning at least five people were injured. Calls about the incident came in just before noon local time, according to…
Photo In a photo in Jack Daniel’s old office, Daniel, with mustache and white hat, is shown at his distillery in Tennessee in the late 1800s. The man to his right could be a son of Nearis Green, a slave who helped teach Daniel how to make whiskey. LYNCHBURG, Tenn. — Every year, about 275,000…
ST. CLAIR SHORES, Mich. — Hillary Clinton’s campaign strategists look at the general-election map and see a bounty of electoral college votes that are hers for the taking: in Florida and Virginia, Colorado and Nevada — all places where Donald Trump has badly damaged his standing with nonwhites and women. Yet as Clinton plots her…
http://www.patreon.com/jimquisitionhttp://www.thejimquisition.comhttp://sharkrobot.com/collections/jim… Overwatch is one of my favorite games of the year, but I cannot in good faith consider awarding it the title of “best” game. My long-running policy of disqualifying premium games with microtransactions in them is consistently enforced, but it’s pissed off a lot of Blizzard fans. As an attempt to bring understanding to…
Over the last 15 years, there has been a marked surge in performative fandom. What used to be niche or “special interest” (read: known to a vast underground but pointedly unexplored by mainstream outlets) has slipped into the spaces it once never hoped to enter. People now talk about cosplaying and fan fiction – among…
Following last month’s news that EA Studios boss Patrick Soderlund initially rejected DICE’s pitch for Battlefield 1, EA CFO Blake Jorgensen said today that there were concerns the company’s younger audience didn’t even know World War 1 happened. Speaking at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2016 Global Technology Conference, Jorgensen said there was “some debate”…
http://www.patreon.com/jimquisitionhttp://www.thejimquisition.comhttp://sharkrobot.com/collections/jim…Buy “March of the Sterling Jester” by Carl Catron – https://carlcatron.bandcamp.com/track… Battlefield 1 has turned a lot of heads. Its announcement video is the most liked trailer on YouTube. Hell, even I’M interested in it. Electronic Arts executives, however, didn’t want it to happen, which is sadly true of a lot of executives in this…
British artist Jessica Harrison tackles and unpacks assumptions about the female body with her cleverly embellished figurines. The found ceramics are selected for their silly poses, onto which Harrison adds her own flourishes: an anatomical overhaul spiked with tongue-in-cheek humor. As Harrison puts it, “the re-worked ceramic makes the figure a participant in their own…
Ad Header Header Various social media accounts have begun documenting #PostRefRacism. And it’s a bit terrifying… (h/t Post Ref Racism and Sarah Childs) Immigration. Patriotism. Muslims. People explain why they voted #Leave https://t.co/M2JBQEbEAJ — Ciaran Jenkins (@C4Ciaran) June 24, 2016 Been standing here five minutes. Three different people have shouted “send them home”. pic.twitter.com/cVvmYvC73o…
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