A Streetwear Brand with a FUCT-up Name Just Won its Supreme Court Case
A streetwear brand with an f-ed up name just got its trademark green-lighted by the Supreme Court. In a 6-3 ruling by the high court on Monday, the LA-based fashion brand FUCT won federal trademark protection after the Trump administration turned down its trademark application, calling the name too scandalous. Designer Erik Brunetti, who wanted…
The Fallout from Parkland Isn’t Over Yet for Florida Law Enforcement
The Broward County Sheriff’s Office got its accreditation yanked last week over mishaps surrounding the 2018 Parkland school shooting, according to the Sun Sentinel. Florida’s state panel chose not to renew accreditation for Broward, one of the largest law enforcement groups in the state, over it mishandling of the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman…
300 Migrant Kids Removed From Filthy, Crowded Texas Border Patrol Station
More than 300 migrant children have been transferred out of a Texas Border Patrol station after reports describing filthy, overcrowded conditions there emerged last week, according to the Associated Press. It’s not immediately clear where the children have been sent. Customs and Border Protection did not immediately respond to VICE News’s request for comment. It’s…
A 2-Year-Old Migrant Girl Has Gone Missing in the Rio Grande River
U.S. authorities are scouring the Rio Grande River at the U.S.-Mexico border, searching for a missing 2-year-old girl swept by the currents as she came into the country. Since Monday, divers with U.S. Border Patrol and the Mexican government have been searching the waters that claimed a Salvadoran father and his young daughter just last…
Joe Biden Just Gave a Shoutout to a (Reformed) Segregationist
COLUMBIA, S.C. — It only took one minute for Joe Biden to bring up a former segregationist Friday night. Biden closed his brief speech at Rep. Jim Clyburn’s (D-S.C.) fish fry Friday night by turning to Clyburn and honoring their recently departed mutual friend — who just happens to have begun his career as a…
“The Last Black Man in San Francisco” Is the Only Good Thing About Gentrification
In the first shot of The Last Black Man in San Francisco, you're struck by a beautifully-composed profile shot of a black, pigtailed girl looking up in awe at a white man in a HAZMAT suit. The man is cleaning up unexplained toxins. The girl is called by a guardian and skips away from the…
Border Patrol Agent Who Called Migrants “Savages” Pleads Guilty After Hitting Guatemalan with Truck
An Arizona Border Patrol agent who called migrants “subhuman” and “mindless murdering savages” in messages to fellow agents has pleaded guilty to intentionally striking a Guatemalan migrant with his truck. The agent, 39-year-old Matthew Bowen, was driving an agency pickup truck on Dec. 3, 2017, when he encountered Antolin Lopez Aguilar, a 23-year-old Guatemalan citizen…
Trump Denies Rape Allegation With A Familiar Insult: “Not My Type”
In denying E. Jean Carroll’s allegation that he raped her, President Donald Trump insulted her, insisting she was not his “type.” In a piece published at New York Magazine on Friday, Carroll wrote that in the mid-1990s, Trump assaulted her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan. Speaking with The Hill on Monday,…
North Korea Just Released the Australian Student Who Went Missing Last Week
An Australian student who disappeared in Pyongyang last week has mysteriously reappeared in Beijing, without any explanation about why North Korea detained him or why he was released. Alex Sigley, 29, was filmed walking through Beijing airport after arriving there on Thursday. When asked by reporters how he was feeling, responded: "I'm OK, I'm OK,…
Elizabeth Warren Just Went Full “Medicare for All”
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren bear-hugged “Medicare for All” during the first Democratic presidential debate Wednesday and took her support a step further than she’s been willing to go in the past. Warren, who has previously voiced tepid support for Medicare for All, raised her hand when the ten candidates onstage were asked if they supported…
