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A hotly contested US congressional race has turned Sasquatch ugly after one candidate accused the other of being "a devotee of Bigfoot erotica".

The row began after the Democratic candidate in Virginia tweeted an image of the beast taken from the Instagram account of her Republican rival.

"This is not what we need on Capitol Hill," Democrat Leslie Cockburn wrote with the drawing of a naked Sasquatch.

Republican Denver Riggleman denies he was writing a book about Bigfoot sex.

The social media company said that it couldn’t tie the activity to Russia, which interfered on its platform around the 2016 presidential election. But Facebook said the three dozen profiles shared a pattern of behavior with the previous Russian disinformation campaign.

A congressional aide said there’s no evidence that political candidates were targeted in the new disinformation effort, but that pages and accounts sought to spread politically divisive content around social issues. Facebook briefed House and Senate lawmakers this week.

Illegal immigrant deported 5 times from US sentenced for third DUI

A Mexican native was sentenced to nine months in jail for his third DUI in Virginia. Santos-Ochoa was convicted in federal court in Texas of “re-entering the U.S. after being deported — in 2009, 2011 and 2012 — and sentenced to seven months, 180 days and 15 months, respectively, in federal prison,” court documents stated.

Mario Santos-Ochoa, 44, was sentenced to nine months in jail on Monday and immigration authorities placed a detainer on him, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. Two years before the incident, Santos-Ochoa was convicted of his second DUI. He was also convicted three times of “giving a false identity to police.” He could be deported again after serving his time.

Santos-Ochoa has four children, ages 9 to 21 years old, who were all born in the U.S., his attorney, Catherine Lawler said. He was deported five times between September 1997 and September 2014.

Chesterfield Circuit Judge Frederick G. Rockwell III sentenced Santos-Ochoa to “five years in prison with all but seven months suspended on the felony third offense DUI charge and fined him $1,000,” the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. He was also sentenced to “an additional five years with all but two months suspended on the felony identify fraud count.”

“He is a danger to Chesterfield and a danger to the community,” prosecutor Ben Garrison said.

Facebook have started a huge ad campaign about how they're tackling fake news,

People who play with fire usually end up getting burned.

Trump aide Marc Short's hiring at University of Virginia prompts professors' resignation

Two University of Virginia history professors have resigned from the school’s Miller Center for Public Affairs after it hired Marc Short, a former Trump aide.

Professors William I. Hitchcock and Melvyn P. Leffler said the hiring of Short, who was the White House director of legislative and intergovernmental affairs, violated the Miller Center’s values...

“Your decision was made without adequate faculty discussion, deliberation, and a vote,” Hitchcock and Leffler said in their resignation letter.

After the news, 150 UVA faculty and students signed a petition calling for the university to revoke the hiring of Short. An identical Change.org petition has also garnered more than 3,000 signatures as of Tuesday morning. “No one should be serving at the highest levels of this administration, daily supporting and defending its actions one week, then representing UVA the next.” the petition said.

...Short, who was the White House director of legislative and intergovernmental affairs...

thatll show us about how to deal with all this free speech ****.

"commie infiltrators"

Russians. Not commies,

Muslim Congressman tells Amazon to Stop Selling Books that Liberals Don’t Like

Ellison, who is “the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee, wrote to Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos, demanding that he no longer sell at Amazon any material that the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) dislikes.”

Russians. Not commies, you're thirty yearts behind the e times, with obsolete Red Scare tactics. Layman regularly accuses libeerals of being commies. Clueess.