In 24 hours, Elon Musk banned accounts he said he never would, made up new rules to justify it, threatened legal action against a 20-year-old, pontificated on how doxing is banned on the platform, and then immediately doxed a man.
BREAKING: After a jury heard a string of texts from Johnny Depp saying he wanted to “burn” Amber Heard and that he would “fuck her burnt corpse” to “make sure she is dead,” they decided Heard defamed Depp and acted with “malice.”
In a deleted video obtained by VICE News, RNC speaker Abby Johnson says “statistically, my brown son is more likely to commit a violent offense over my white sons.”
Black hair in video games has always been bad. Players looking for anything that isn’t cornrows, dreads, or an afro are typically out of luck unless they want to go with a racially ambiguous buzz cut or bald head.
During a traffic stop, an Arkansas sheriff’s deputy shot and killed 17-year-old Hunter Brittain.
The teenager was putting a jug of antifreeze behind his back tire so his vehicle wouldn’t roll into the officer’s, family members told VICE News.
"Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour: Is that radical? Canceling all student debt: Radical? Dealing with climate change: Radical? Immigration reform: Radical? Criminal justice reform: Radical? Protecting a woman’s right to control her own body: Radical?" -
@BernieSanders
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked notes from an internal Amazon meeting reveal that company executives discussed a plan to smear Christian Smalls, a warehouse employee who was fired after he led an employee walkout at a Staten Island distribution warehouse.
One white supremacist got arrested for trying to start a riot at a pride event, calling LGBTQ people "groomers." Police found child sexual abuse material on his phone.
A police department just outside of Detroit uses images of Black men in hoodies and backwards caps holding guns as shooting practice targets, a group of Boy Scouts discovered while on a tour.
EXCLUSIVE: 40 migrants locked in a cell died as an immigration detention center burned. Now, survivors and security guards tell VICE World News that those who died did so for one reason: they couldn’t or did not pay a $200 bribe to guards to be released.
Neo-Nazis are showing up at pro-Palestine protests in an attempt to push anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and tropes into the mainstream. Here’s what you need to know about them. 🧵1/6
In a heated press briefing, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the Trump administration was just following the law by separating undocumented children and their parents. There is no law that says that's required.
India has been engulfed in riots after suddenly stripping nearly 2M people of their citizenship.
@IsobelYeung
travels to India to see how a newly-enacted law has signaled to India's 200M Muslims that they are the true target.
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“I especially don't like that we get singled out unfairly by somebody who didn't himself serve in the military."
This is how transgender military members and veterans reacted to Trump’s decision to ban them from service.
“They tried to expel the people’s choice and the people’s vote. And they awakened a sleeping giant.”
This is the moment
@Justinjpearson
was reinstated back into the Tennessee House.
Anti-trans groups staged protests across 77 Canadian cities. Instead, they were largely outnumbered—in the thousands—by trans rights activists.
Here's one of many incidents in Toronto, where a man chanting hateful messages fled after being confronted.
@EVYSTADIUM
reports:
On March 12, Eden Knight published a note detailing her intention to die by suicide after her parents repeatedly confiscated her hormone therapy treatment.
Trump’s campaign owes city governments at least $841,219 in unpaid bills for public-safety related expenses, and Minneapolis doesn't want to join that club.
"They will wake up with less rights and they don't know it yet."
@elizlanders
talked to
@aoc
about the consequences of overturning Roe v. Wade for other rights such as gay marriage and contraception.
Students, faculty and alumni are calling on Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. to resign, a sign that means Trump's evangelical base may be slipping.
"In less than two years my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country,” President Trump told the
#UNGA
.
The crowd burst into laughter.
The deluge of abusive content targeting Amber Heard is not only failing Heard and future survivors — but is also shaping how young people understand domestic violence.
If DeSantis gets his way—and he likely will—diversity, equity and inclusion efforts will be eliminated from every public college and university in Florida.
Canada will legalize medically assisted dying for people addicted to drugs next spring.
Some drug user activists are calling it "eugenics" and say Canada should be paying for better harm reduction practices:
“Forty years ago in Alabama, there’s a lot of mamas and daddies that’d be thrilled that their 14-year-old was getting hit on by a district attorney.”
Watch
@FrankLuntz
’s full panel of Alabama voters on VICE News Tonight, 7:30PM EST on
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La pandilla MS-13 ofreció negociar la paz en El Salvador pero el nuevo presidente del país,
@nayibbukele
, rechazó. Él quiere "superarlos con empleos."
Thirty six-year-old artist and professor A.M. Darke wants to change that. Since last year, she’s been working to create the Open Source Afro Hair Library, the gaming industry’s first free database of 3D models representing Black hair.
Lydia Rodriguez, a mother of four, was unvaccinated and died of COVID-19.
Before she went on a ventilator, she had a final request.
"Please make sure my children get vaccinated," she said, according to family.
As Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene blamed trans people for the Nashville school shooting, Rep. Jared Moskowitz shut her down. ��You guys are worried about banning books? Dead kids can’t read.”
“I have an IUD in my body right now that won’t let me have a baby and my conservators won’t let me go to the doctor to take it out,” Britney Spears said in a hearing on Wednesday.
After the videos were released on social media, Gotham Government Relations, the firm where Seldowitz worked, dropped all affiliation with him, calling the video “vile, racist, and beneath the dignity of the standards we practice at our firm.”
"It is humbling whenever there are students who can graduate here and start working at a convenience store for more money than I make as a teacher."
This is why Oklahoma teachers are walking out of their classrooms April 2.
Today, Breonna Taylor would have been 29 years old.
"I hope her name makes police enforcement want to tighten up and correct themselves before they make another mistake," her sister told VICE News in 2020.
An Iranian teenage girl has been hospitalised after a reported attack in the Tehran Metro by the country’s so-called “morality police.”
Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights said Armita Geravand, 16, lost consciousness after being assaulted at a metro station on Sunday.
“We’ve been only fighting for a short time but we feel we have made a huge advance in our community.”
Two male members of the Rarámuri Indigenous tribe from Northern Mexico celebrated the community’s first same-sex marriage this weekend.