‘You’re too fat for this’: Flight attendant attacked mid-air by Florida man shouting racist slur
A Florida man was arrested after a racist and fat-shaming meltdown aboard an American Airlines flight, the News-Press reports.
George Alexander, 82, was charged with battery and interference with aircraft operations.
He was arrested at Southwest Florida International Airport after a flight home from Philadelphia.
During the flight, Alexander allegedly accosted a flight attending during beverage service, calling her a racial slur and telling her she was “too big for this job; you’re too fat for this, overweight.”
He also allegedly poked her in the back while demanding she move.
Alexander was released after posting $1,000 bond with a court date scheduled for June 26.
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Right-wing activists call on Mitch McConnell to stop blocking election security bills
On Wednesday, CNN reported that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is facing renewed pressure to take up election security legislation, from a pair of unlikely sources: Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist, and FreedomWorks President Adam Brandon.
Norquist — who once famously said that he wanted to slash government to a size where he could "drown it in a bathtub" — called for hand-marked paper ballots, and urged Congress to pass something similar to the bipartisan Secure Elections Act, which would have given states incentives to switch to secure voting methods and promoted data-sharing to identify threats. The measure was first introduced in 2017 by Sens. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), James Lankford (D-OK), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), but never came to a vote.
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DNI whistleblower complaint stems from promise Trump allegedly made in phone call to foreign leader: report
On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that the source of the whistleblower complaint currently being suppressed by the Director of National Intelligence is a phone conversation between President Donald Trump and a foreign leader.
According to the report, the whistleblower became aware that the president made a "promise" to this unspecified foreign leader, and was so disturbed by the nature of that promise that he or she filed a complaint through channels set up to help whistleblower claims involving classified information.
The next step of the white supremacist attack on the United States is creating a list of Jewish people.
Mother Jones reported the story Wednesday that any Jews who complain about white nationalists are listed and tracked by a fast-growing group on the app Telegram.
An anonymous activist created a list of 367 Telegram channels that he or she posted on PrivateBin last week, as the app is quickly becoming a welcoming place for those who've been shut out of other apps, social media or websites.
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