White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest
Student numbers have increased dramaticaly without any corresponding increaase in physical facilities for teaching etc, making timetabling impossible... and now the Govt wants universities to condense timetables because of accommodation shortsges. Go figure.
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Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration
The White House posted a digitally altered image of a woman who was arrested on Thursday in a case touted by attorney general Pam Bondi, to make it seem as if she was dramatically crying, a Guardian analysis of the image has found.
The woman, Nekima Levy Armstrong, also appears to have darker skin in the altered image. Armstrong was one of three people arrested on Thursday in connection to a demonstration that disrupted church services in St Paul, Minnesota, on Sunday. Demonstrators alleged that one of the pastors, David Easterwood, was the acting field director of the St Paul ICE office. Bondi announced the arrests on social media Thursday morning. Continue reading...
Excellent chimeric face image showing off a left visual field bias for face processing - this image will tend to look more like John Travolta to observers, but the next one (see following post in this thread)... <1/2>
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Government to ask third-level institutions to condense students’ time on campus to minimise the number of commuting days
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