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Watch: This Congressman just delivered a whole passionate speech about what’s wrong with the Trump administration by comparing it to Stranger Things

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Have you seen the New Yorker article recently posted entitled, "Broken, Defaced, Unseen: The Hidden Black Females of Western Art" by Robin Coste Lewis?

BROKEN, DEFACED, UNSEEN: THE HIDDEN BLACK FEMALE FIGURES OF WESTERN ART

[“The Voyage of the Sable Venus from Angola to the West Indies,” a wood engraving by W. Grainger after T. Stothard.]

I had not seen or read this yet, and I’m so grateful you’ve brought it to my attention.

The entire article is an incredibly moving meditation on the life-transforming powers of art and research.

To my daughters and sisters: Don’t fall for his words, fall for his actions.

Shaykh Waleed Basyouni  (via thatkindofwoman)

I’m bout to give em that traction, send a distraction, then ima line em like fractions!!!!!😩

Eye opener

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ISIS Taps Dark Web, Encryption Apps to Coordinate

U.S. law enforcement officials say ISIS terrorists may have planned the Paris attacks with user-friendly encrypted messaging apps that have now become nearly impossible for police to crack.

Former CIA deputy director Michael Morell said this weekend that ISIS and other terrorists are able to communicate under the radar of Western intelligence agencies as a result. “I think this is going to open an entirely new debate about security versus privacy,” Morell told CBS’ Face the Nation.

Jihadist groups have abandoned email and cellphones for secure systems created by big Western social media companies. Google, Facebook and Twitter have started using an encryption technique called “perfect forward secrecy” that creates a unique key for each encryption. It does not create a long-term master key, or “back door” that can be used to unlock them.

So, what does this mean? Click to learn more.