Ana joins Cenk for SCS. Cenk reads #tytlive tweets. Yesterday TYT reported on the Pussy Riot protest in Sochi where the Cossacks cracked down on them with whips and other heavy-handed tactics. The New York Post featured the phrase ‘Pussy Whipped’ on their cover. Guess who beat them to punch? Sorry! We denounce and reject ourselves. Facebook has purchased What’s App for a whopping $19 billion dollars. The buyout has many implicaitons for the future of social media.
Cenk reads #tytlive tweets. A new app allows you to bet on your friend’s or a celebrity’s relationship prospects. Lloyd Oliver, the democratic nominee for DA in Harris county Texas says that domestic violence is overrated. The United Nations released a detailed adn troubling report regarding torture in North Korean prison camps. Disturbing video interviews and drawings of prisoners’ recollections have also come to light.
Cenk reads #tytlive tweets. Jason Roberts of the You Tube channel Simple Misfits releases a social experiment video testing to see what would happen if a white guy pretends to break in to his own car versus what happens when a black guy tries the same thing. You can guess what happens next. Johnathan Meister, a deaf and non-verbal man, is suing the Hawthorne police department after he was wrongfully tazed and assaulted during an altercation. His sign language was mistaken for aggressiveness and noncompliance. Heather Levia, a former McDonalds employee of 8 years, was fired after the good deed of paying for firefighters’ lunches.
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