Alicia Ann Lynch did something really fucking dumb. On Halloween, the 22-year-old from Michigan tweeted and instagrammed a photo of herself in costume as a Boston Marathon bombing victim. Ouch.
Mere hours after Twitter’s UK honcho Tony Wang apologized personally
Katelyn Campbell, the high school student who notified the media about Pam Stenzel's insane abstinence-only
Social networks' chicken-egg impact on rape culture has been discussed in detail since before the landmark case in Steubenville (and, more recently, a quite similar case in Torrington, Connecticut
The morbid parade of awful reactions to the guilty verdicts for two high school football players in the Steubenville rape trial continued into the evening on Monday, with news that two teenage girls were arrested in Ohio for using Facebook and Twitter to threaten the 16-year-old victim.
A police officer in the District of Columbia's Special Operations Division, which is tasked with providing motor escorts for the First Family, was allegedly overheard telling his fellow officers that he was going to shoot First Lady Michelle Obama. Though details of the incident aren't yet clear, the department's…
Animal rights activist Camille Marino has conducted an extensive campaign against cardiac researcher Donal O'Leary, publishing his personal information and reportedly even "wishing him a slow painful death." Now she's been arrested, and she faces trial later this year. But she says everything she's done is totally…
A judge has ruled that Twitter must reveal the identity of the man who threatened to rape Minnesota Congresswoman and former Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann using the microblogging service on the grounds that legally, saying you're going to sexually assault a Presidential candidate on an internet forum isn't…
Administrators at Bishop Montgomery High School in Torrance, CA cancelled classes today after a student threatened the school in a bizarre YouTube video. The teenage internet vigilante has now been arrested.
A Pennsylvania father and son have been charged with threatening Sarah Palin and her family, calling her lawyer over 400 times and threatening to sexually assault Palin or kidnap her children. No matter what you think of the Palins, these men are awful, and they also seem to be pretty dumb: didn't they think directing…
Journalist Amy Miller of the Alternative Media Centre was arrested over the weekend at the G20 protests in Toronto. She was held for 13 hours, during which time she saw multiple women strip-searched and was repeatedly threatened with rape.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone have received a "warning" from a radical Islamic website that the "likely outcome" of their depiction of Muhammad (dressed in a bear suit) on a recent episode of South Park is murder. [FoxNews]
Kristy Lee Roshia was arrested in Hawaii for making calls to the Secret Service threatening to "blow away" Michelle Obama. She told officials that she traveled to Hawaii in September, knowing that Obama would visit, "to protect [him]." [AP]
A judge has increased the bail of alleged George Tiller murderer Scott Roeder from $5 million to $20 million after Roeder threatened that "there are many other similar events planned around the country as long as abortion remains legal." [Breitbart]
