Trans Professor in South Carolina Attacks Feminists as ‘Cockroaches’ https://t.co/T5sVKYmW6d
— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) May 24, 2017
cc @JenniferKabbany @fitsnews @JeffQuinton pic.twitter.com/ligk6egG5g
"I love being a sexy woman. I'm not ashamed" https://t.co/V838D5p6MV
— New York Post (@nypost) May 21, 2017
💛💚💙💜Getting down to business in #SpringtimeBrights 💜💙💚💛 @paulsmithdesign #PaulSmith pic.twitter.com/32JiDdkYZ2
— Stana Katic (@Stana_Katic) May 21, 2017
UC Berkeley “Islamophobia” professor names the “individuals behind Islamophobia” https://t.co/jOp2eJZyjL pic.twitter.com/UILnudzkT5
— Pamela Geller (@PamelaGeller) May 24, 2017
Incredibly Insensitive ❄️— Deplorablegirl❤️bot (@eissolomon11) May 24, 2017
Yet NOT Criminal
Posting Islamophobic msgsOnline
Could Put U inJail ⚠️UK Priorities#PoliticalCorrectness1st🔚 pic.twitter.com/yUnsHXAZqQ
Western politicians worry more about being called “Islamophobic” than they do about stopping jihadist slaughter. https://t.co/vtLAoXXbAo pic.twitter.com/dG4tYPVKtv
— City Journal (@CityJournal) May 24, 2017
Fox News finally retracts its story on the Seth Rich investigation https://t.co/WTF1ecrYMU— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) May 23, 2017
A remarkable rant by Hannity on his radio show re: Seth Rich. Read for yourself. "I retracted nothing!" https://t.co/t523hnckwd pic.twitter.com/rY0Wu0FOkS— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) May 23, 2017
8-year-old confirmed dead after Manchester attack at Ariana Grande concerthttps://t.co/1x0W7HstMZ
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) May 23, 2017
Wednesday's @Telegraph front page #tomorrowspaperstoday pic.twitter.com/EVUScuAOGU
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) May 23, 2017
The Manchester bomber's parents arrived in the UK as refugees from Libya https://t.co/WYVHH2IOG5
— Claire Lehmann (@clairlemon) May 23, 2017
The Manchester Arena suicide bomber had made trips to Libya, Downing Street said last night, as intelligence agencies combed his connections with al-Qaeda and Islamic State in his parents’ homeland.Keep reading.
Salman Abedi, 22, who was reportedly known to the security services, is thought to have returned from Libya as recently as this week.
A school friend told The Times: "He went to Libya three weeks ago and came back recently, like days ago."
Abedi born in Manchester and grew up in tight-knit Libyan community that was known for its strong opposition to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
He had become radicalised recently - it is not entirely clear when - and had worshipped at a local mosque that has, in the past, been accused of fund-raising for jihadists.
Abedi’s older brother Ismail had been a tutor at Didsbury mosque’s Koran school. The imam last night said that Salman Abedi, who wore Islamic dress, had shown him “the face of hate” when he gave a talk warning on the dangers of so-called Islamic State.
Born in 1994, the second youngest of four children, Abedi’s parents were Libyan refugees who fled to the UK to escape Gaddafi.
His mother, Samia Tabbal, 50, and father, Ramadan Abedi, a security officer, were both born in Tripoli but appear to have emigrated to London before moving to the Whalley Range area of south Manchester where they had lived for at least a decade.
Abedi went to school locally and then on to Salford University in 2014 where he studied business management before dropping out. His trips to Libya, where it is thought his parents returned in 2011 following Gaddafi’s overthrow, are now subject to scrutiny including links to jihadists...
Leakers who revealed Israel as intelligence source did far more damage than Trump https://t.co/ivM6sx5bOy by @marcthiessen
— Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) May 22, 2017
My grandfather and some of my uncles were truckers. This piece by @tripgabriel is exceptional. https://t.co/w7o3fN8zz3
— Alan Blinder (@alanblinder) May 22, 2017
EFFINGHAM, Ill. — The vast Petro truck stop here is a neon-lit, blacktop oasis at the crossroads of America. It beckons big-rig drivers with showers, laundry machines, a barber shop, even a knife store. “Professional drivers only,” reads the sign above the tables of the Iron Skillet restaurant, where truckers sit mostly alone, carrying the solitude of their jobs into an otherwise social setting.Keep reading.
Driving a long-haul tractor-trailer is as commonplace as the items that drivers carry, from blue jeans to blueberries, from toilet paper for Walmart to farm machinery bound for export. There are 1.7 million men and women working as long-haul drivers in the country. Yet truckers — high up in their cabs — are literally out of view for most Americans.
At a moment when President Trump has ignited a national discussion of blue-collar labor and even climbed into a truck during a White House event, trucking, which was once among the best-paying such jobs, has become low-wage, grinding, unhealthy work. Turnover at large for-hire fleets hauling freight by the truckload — the backbone of the industry — runs an astonishing 80 percent a year, according to a trade group. Looming over the horizon is a future in which self-driving trucks threaten to eliminate many drivers’ livelihoods.
Still, trucking continues to draw plenty of newcomers, reflecting the lack of good alternatives for workers without a higher education (one survey found that 17 percent of truckers had less than a high school diploma). Some have lost better-paying manufacturing jobs in the continuing deindustrialization of America. Others have spent years knocking on the door of the middle class in minimum-wage jobs in fast food or retail. To them, trucking is a step up.
Over two days recently, The New York Times spoke to truckers at the Petro stop, which sits at the intersection of Interstate 57, between Chicago and Memphis, and Interstate 70, between Indianapolis and St. Louis. These interviews were edited and condensed. The maps show drivers’ routes in picking up and delivering their loads...
