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Activist settles with the City of Portland after he claimed police tried to 'kill' his wife
March 03, 2021
According to a lawsuit filed against the city of Portland in 2016, the co-founder of Portland's Resistance, Kat Stevens, police officers responding to a protest against the inauguration of then-president Donald Trump "twisted" her head and "repeatedly struck" the side of her face and neck, "intentionally inflicting pain" while they held her down on the ground.
"This continued after an officer dragged me to an alcove, twisting my body and causing internal bruising and spraining my elbow," Stevens said in an account of the incident shared by the ACLU. "As an officer kneeled on my back, the other officers continued to press his fingers deep into my face and neck. My neck was twisted by police in unnatural ways for absolutely no reason."
<p>This Wednesday, her husband and fellow activist Gregory McKelvey announced that they settled with the city four years after the incident took place. </p><p>"After 3 years, we finally settled with The City of Portland over this event where police tried to kill my wife," McKelvey wrote in a tweet along with a video of the incident. "They were unwilling to admit any wrongdoing. So I guess the public can be the judge. They sent a check for pain and suffering and attorney fees."</p><div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="1e860ba9f0575d6b5fffd003ca2b6df6" id="f6db3"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1367212055091179522"><div style="margin:1em 0">We would have loved to fight this to court but people don’t understand how triggering it is and how much the proces… https://t.co/8h0gdGTbHR</div> — Gregory McKelvey (@Gregory McKelvey)<a href="https://twitter.com/GregoryMcKelvey/statuses/1367212055091179522">1614803730.0</a></blockquote></div><p>McKelvey and Stevens were arrested on Nov. 21, 2016, after police say they "encouraged a protest group mainly made up of Portland Public School students to disrupt traffic and ignore officers' instructions," <a href="https://katu.com/news/local/arrested-protesters-say-police-shouldnt-have-released-their-addresses-phone-numbers" target="_blank">KATU reported </a>at the time. After McKelvey shared video of the incident, Portland Police released the full reports detailing the incident, including the addresses and phone numbers of McKelvey, Stevens and fellow activist Micah Rhodes. </p><p>McKelvey claimed police violated state law by doing so. </p>
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Donald Trump Jr. appears to cover up that his son's Dr. Seuss book is also in Spanish
March 03, 2021
Internet observers noticed something odd when Donald Trump Jr. attempted to play into the "culture war" over a publisher's decision not to republish six Dr. Seuss' books that with imagery without any context in them.
"These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong," Dr. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement agreeing with the decision.
<p>Still, conservatives used the opportunity to rage. Fox News dedicated an evening of coverage to the story and attacked Democrats for supporting reading some of Dr. Seuss' books. </p><p>Don Jr. took a photo with his son holding a copy of "The Cat in the Hat," but observers noticed that he was holding it in a weird way with his fingers covering something in the lower right corner of the cover. A search revealed that the cover with the symbol is for a bilingual version of the book so children can learn it in English and in Spanish. </p><p>Trump didn't explain why he was covering up that his children are learning Spanish. </p><p>See the photos below: </p>
<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="598ebd7cef071a2ec4243fca51d51440" id="c736f"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1367198354501996548"><div style="margin:1em 0">Is...Donald Trump, Jr. holding this copy of "The Cat and the Hat" so weirdly because he felt the need hide that he… https://t.co/sKGDjTl5lU</div> — Andrew Rose Gregory (@Andrew Rose Gregory)<a href="https://twitter.com/arosegregory/statuses/1367198354501996548">1614800463.0</a></blockquote></div>
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How about this for bargain-hunting? A small bowl bought for $35 in a yard sale in the US turned out to be a rare 15th century Chinese artifact possibly worth $500,000.
The porcelain bowl -- with delicate floral motifs -- was acquired by a buyer, whose identity is being kept secret, in the northeastern state of Connecticut.
<p>The buyer had the item appraised by ceramics experts at Sotheby's, first by sending photos, then by taking it into the auction house for a closer look.</p><p>Experts said it was painted for the court of Emperor Yongle, the third emperor of the Ming dynasty who ruled from 1402 to 1424.<br/></p><p>"There are only six (other) such bowls known in the world. It is a very exclusive group," Angela McAteer, head of Chinese artworks at Sotheby's in New York, told AFP.</p><p>Sotheby's will put the newly discovered seventh bowl up for auction on March 17, when it is expected to sell for between $300,000 and $500,000.</p><p>Five of the bowls are in museums: two in Taiwan, two in London and one in Tehran. </p><p>The sixth was last seen on the market in 2007, said McAteer, meaning interest in the auction from private collectors and institutions is likely to be keen. </p><p>Many Chinese artworks entered collections in the West in the 19th century before being passed down through generations.</p><p>But McAteer says experts are unlikely to ever know exactly how the bowl made its way from China to the junk sale.</p>
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