Oregon Judge Refuses To Perform Same-Sex Marriages

 A circuit court judge in Oregon’s Marion County is refusing to perform same-sex marriages, claiming doing so would violate his First Amendment rights. Judge Vance D. Day, who has served in Oregon’s Third Judicial District since 2011, has never married an LGBT couple, and has stopped performing marriages all together. Day says performing gay marriages…

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Violent “Altercation” at Oakland Whole Foods; Witness Says Black Customer Bloodied After Attempting to “Buy Groceries with his EBT Card” | The Snitch | San Francisco | San Francisco News and Events | SF Weekly

click to enlarge The Whole Foods market near Lake Merritt in Oakland was the site of a bloody “altercation” between a security guard and a black customer last night, according to a witness and the Whole Foods store. Facebook user Zoe Marks shared three graphic photos of the victim of the attack, who she says…

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Opponents of a Minimum Wage Hike Have Graduated to Openly Lying

If you know your argument that restaurant owners universally revile the idea of an increased minimum wage is complete bullshit, that’s still OK! You can just make shit up, as one of the main restaurant industry lobbyists recently did. Lobbyist-mercenary and aspiring Nazgul Richard Berman recently launched Faces of 15, a shill website devoted to…

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Why We’re Not Feeling the ‘Respectability Memes’ Trend | Black Girl with Long Hair

  Hupso Share Buttons – http://www.hupso.com/share/ Hupso Share Buttons You’ve seen them on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook — memes that divide black women up by respectable vs ratchet, heaping praise on the former and disgust on the latter. They dictate how black women should act and mercilessly shame those who don’t fit the mold, concluding…

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