NFL’S SOCIAL MEDIA OUTREACH TO FANS CONTINUING TO PAY DIVIDENDS: ‘Imma kill you b*tch’: Twitter suspends Cleveland Browns safety Jermaine Whitehead after he threatened to shoot fans.

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SKYNET FLIES THE FRIENDLY SKIES: The Drone Wars Are Here, and They’re Escalating. The skies of Syria, Yemen, and Libya swarm with armed and dangerous unmanned aerial vehicles. And the technology is spreading farther and farther afield.

TROLL LEVEL: EXTREME. ‘It’s OK to be white’ banner hanging over Mass. Pike sparks outrage.

FASTER, PLEASE: How nuclear power will drive our energy future.

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PRE-POSTMORTEM? “The Biden team is playing down his prospects in Iowa, noting that his broad support among black voters in particular will help him in places like South Carolina, which votes at the end of February. ‘I think we’re the only ones who don’t have to win Iowa, honestly, because our strength is the fact that we have a broad and diverse coalition,’ said Greg Schultz, Mr. Biden’s campaign manager.”

And the latest updates on the disparity between Joe’s brain and mouth, aka, Super Gaffe-o-Matic ’76: ‘In the state of Ohio … I mean Iowa:’ 2020 is still a looong way away for the Joe Biden campaign.

WOW: Australian Raptors Start Fires To Flush Out Prey.

SAD BUT TRUE.

THE TRUMP ERA, WHERE EVEN SCHADENFREUDE IS A BOOMING BUSINESS:

GROUND ZERO OF THE HOMELESS CRISIS: Stanford professor who changed America with just one study was also a liar.

This may explain [Stanford psychology and law professor David Rosenhan]. He saw real problems in society: The country was warehousing very sick people in horror houses pretending to be hospitals, our diagnostic systems were flawed and psychiatrists in many ways had too much power — and very little substance. He saw how psychiatric labels degraded people and how doctors see patients through the prism of their mental illness. All of this was true. In many ways, it is still true.

But the problem is that scientific research needs to be sound. We cannot build progress on a rotten foundation.

In disregarding Lando’s data and inventing other facts, Rosenhan missed an opportunity to create something three-dimensional, something a bit messier but more honest. Instead, he helped perpetuate a dangerous half-truth.

And today, what we have is a mental-health crisis of epic proportions. Over 100,000 people with serious mental illnesses live on the streets, while we are chronically short of safe housing and hospital beds for the sickest among us.

Had Rosenhan been more measured in his treatment of the hospitals, had he included Lando’s data, there’s a chance a different dialogue, less extreme in its certainty, would have emerged from his study and maybe, just maybe, we’d be in a better place.

Read the whole thing.

Flash-forward to today: San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless.

AWFUL: Texas gun control activist shoots her three children dead.

#HIMTOO? McDonald’s Fires CEO Steve Easterbrook Over Relationship With Employee:

McDonald’s Corp. said it had fired Chief Executive Steve Easterbrook because of his consensual relationship with an employee, injecting upheaval into a company struggling to rejuvenate sales at its U.S. restaurants.

The burger giant said Sunday that its board voted Friday to terminate Mr. Easterbrook after investigating his relationship with the unnamed employee. Mr. Easterbrook resigned from McDonald’s board as well. He said in an email to McDonald’s employees on Sunday that he had violated company policy on personal conduct.

“This was a mistake,” Mr. Easterbrook said in the email. “Given the values of the company, I agree with the board that it is time for me to move on.”

The company wouldn’t provide more details on the relationship. McDonald’s said Mr. Easterbrook would be replaced immediately by USA President Chris Kempczinski, 51.

Mr. Easterbrook, 52 years old, has been chief executive since March 2015. During his tenure, the company’s shares nearly doubled in value but traffic to U.S. restaurants continues to stagnate. McDonald’s is reckoning with challenges reverberating throughout the food industry from meat producers to supermarkets as consumers switch to products that they see as more healthful and big companies sacrifice profit for technological upgrades and delivery.

McDonald’s has invested in updating its sandwiches and renovating its restaurants to keep up with those changes, but paid a price in profits. And U.S. franchisees have balked at mandated investments in digital-ordering kiosks and new menu items like fresh-beef burgers. Franchisees started an independent association last year to push back against some of Mr. Easterbrook’s changes.

As Steve warned in April of 2015, “McDonald’s is almost certainly doomed. Or at the very least, Easterbrook is the wrong guy to head up the burger chain — any burger chain, for that matter. To understand why I’ve come to this conclusion, read the very next line from the story: Easterbrook plans to unveil his plan for turning McDonald’s into a ‘modern, progressive burger company’ on May 4…Would it surprise you to learn that Easterbrook is a Brit? Me, neither. Meet you at Steak ‘n Shake?”

UPDATE: “Easterbrook was fired from McDonald’s Corp. on Sunday after the board of directors said the CEO violated company policy and ‘demonstrated poor judgment’ involving a consensual relationship with a current employee.”

As Josh Jordan tweets, “I assume we’re going to hear all week about how he should’ve never had to resign over a consensual relationship and how he’s the real victim in all this?”

THE FUNNIEST VIDEO YOU’LL SEE ALL DAY: “Whatever you’re doing, drop it and watch this entire video clip from ‘Watters’ World’ on Fox. Watch what happens at the very end of this interview with former Navy Seal, Mike Ritalin, who has some interesting facts about war dogs to tell us. Wait for it.”  

CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION AND THE REPLICATION OF HIERARCHY.

K-12 IMPLOSION UPDATE: Florida High School Principal Who Refused To Say That The Holocaust Was A ‘Factual Event’ Has Been Fired.

THE OTHER ’80S BLADE RUNNER MOVIE. “What—you thought only one Blade Runner movie came out in the 1980s? Pull up a chair, and I’ll tell you the tangled tale of Taking Tiger Mountain.”

With cameo appearances from William S. Burroughs, J. Paul Getty III, Bill Paxton – and Chairman Mao. “So now, when you play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, you’ll know the quickest route from Bill Paxton to Chairman Mao. And from J. Paul Getty to Philip K. Dick. You’re welcome.”

NEW SOCIALIST “IT GIRL” CONTINUES TO PAY DIVIDENDS: AOC tweets her support for anti-police protests rocking Brooklyn.

As Greta Thunberg would scold, “How dare you!” AOC has told us that we only have 12 years left, so she’s really going to need the police to enforce her “ban all the things” Green Nude Eel.

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OH, TO BE IN ENGLAND: Birth coach is ‘hounded out’ of industry charity Doula UK after transgender activists branded her Facebook message claiming only women can have babies ‘offensive.’

DISTURBING NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF MEDICINE: Rare diseases more common than we think.

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH PIERS MORGAN IS A VOICE OF SANITY. Or at least honesty: Piers Morgan blasts New York Times for ‘fake news.’

British talk show host Piers Morgan had a heated exchange with The New York Times on Twitter Saturday, blasting the paper as “fake news” for calling him a “conservative” media personality.

“Erm, @nytimes – fascinating feature on Trump’s Twitter feed – but I’m not part of the ‘Conservative news media’.. #FakeNews,” he tweeted. 

I would have thought his infamous career defining 2013 encounter with Ben Shapiro should clear that one up.