Texas high school football players kicked off their team for protesting during national anthem

Two Texas high-school football players stood with athletes across the country against police brutality and discrimination by protesting during the national anthem. Immediately after, they were told to hand in their uniforms. 

Sophomore Cedric Ingram-Lewis and his cousin Larry McCullough were kicked off their team at Victory & Praise Christian Academy, the Houston Chronicle reported. The pair didn’t play in the Friday night game for their private church-affiliated football program in the Houston suburb Crosby. 

Ingram-Lewis raised his fist during the anthem while McCullough took a knee. Coach Ronnie Mitchem kicked them off the team when the anthem ended.  Read more…

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This bunny riding the Overground just wants to see London

This little bunny just wants to see the world. Or at least London. 

A rabbit has been spotted riding the bus and the Overground in London. 

There’s a rabbit on my bushttp://pic.twitter.com/ccPtRo3KdH

— Matt Hepburn (@MattHepburnClan) September 29, 2017

I saw him on the overground to hackney the other day.. he’s very busy & important, rarely latehttp://pic.twitter.com/6yCnZ88Vx0

— Jo Duffy (@JoDuffy91) September 29, 2017

I have seen that bloody rabbit in Hackney, was sure I was hallucinating.

— Dirk Lester (@Dirk2112) September 30, 2017

Who is this city-trotting rabbit? No one’s really sure, but they have theories.  Read more…

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Mayor of San Juan responds to Trump: “We have one goal, it is to save lives”

After President Trump tore into Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz on Twitter on Saturday morning, the mayor took to TV to briefly defend herself and advocate for the rest of the island.

“This is what we have, it is one goal: it is to save lives,” the mayor told MSNBC’s Joy Reid. “I have no time for distractions. All I have is time for people to move forward and get help.”

Cruz’s comments were part of a larger effort by the mayor to attract additional military and emergency resources to the devastated island.

SEE ALSO: Rabbi in Puerto Rico pleads for help as congregation suffers on eve of Yom Kippur

“What kind of Puerto Rican, what kind of a human would I be if I know of other mayors who had no water, no food and I just had my city taken care of?” Read more…

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Celebrity clapbacks and roasted trolls took center stage this September

Social media is a place to document your thoughts, collect information and find the most epic clapbacks of 2017. And September proved to a beautiful month for clapbacks.

Essentially a clapback is a fiery comeback to someone’s insult or remark. Merriam-Webster, what are you waiting for? If you can add “troll,” “clapback” should be next—and get Google involved so the number one search for “clapback” isn’t just a 2003 album by Ja Rule. 

For celebrities like Rihanna and Cher, who are pros at speaking their minds on the internet, the world’s current dire situation has left many openings for them to put people in their place. Read more…

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Eerie first images of inside the sunken Costa Concordia

It took multiple trips and weeks of planning for German photographer Jonathan Danko Kielkowski to be able to sneak his way into the carcass of the Costa Concordia. The vessel sits, still partially underwater, moored to a sea wall after being towed there, where it’s waiting to be disassembled. By swimming out to the ship, Kielkowski was able to take the first images of the interior rooms since it sank in 2012. While the coastguard had let press photographers on the boat, they were only allowed to shoot the exterior, and other sanctioned areas.

Being alone on the ship was otherworldly and eerie. “It’s hard to describe, first hours went by like a movie. I was in automatic mode,” Kielkowski says about the experience. “I was really focused on getting through, it took two or three hours of being in there to let it hit. You could feel the panic. From the inside it’s cramped, you could see people luggage and personal effects still there.” Read more…

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Trump lashed out at San Juan’s mayor after she begged for help in Puerto Rico

In a truly low moment among low moments, President Donald Trump attacked Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Saturday morning after she criticized his administration’s response to Hurricane Maria. 

The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017

…Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help. They….

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An Impressionist painter’s gritty street photos of Amsterdam circa 1900

A cyclist on the Prinsengracht.

Image: George Henrik Breitner/Rijksmuseum via Europeana

George Hendrik Breitner was born in the Netherlands in 1857, and developed a talent for painting by the time he was in his twenties.

After encountering Impressionism during a stint in Paris, he became a leading figure of Amsterdam Impressionism, often sketching scenes of everyday life on the streets alongside his contemporary, Vincent Van Gogh (whose paintings Breitner later described as “coarse and distasteful”).

In the 1890s, he added photography to his repertoire, finding it to be a useful tool for capturing fleeting conditions and scenes for later reference. Read more…

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