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The NFL has disclosed their list of approved names that they will allow players to wear on their helmet bumpers for social justice messaging. Among the names are Jacob Blake, who is accused of sexual assault.

Phoenix, Arizona, has officially denied a proposal for a Black Lives Matter street mural on Wednesday, after receiving a competing proposal in favor of law enforcement.

The judge presiding over the trials of four police officers in connection with the alleged murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has kicked Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman and his staff off the case.

D.C. police arrested two students for chalking a pro-life message outside of a Planned Parenthood facility in August but refused to do the same to Black Lives Matter protesters who spray-painted outside of the Department of Justice just weeks later. The police department has yet to explain the discrepancy.

The Miami Dolphins have announced that they intend to stay in the locker room during the playing of both the national anthem and the “black national anthem,” known as Lift Every Voice and Sing, because they feel protests on the field are “empty gestures.”

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson warned the chaos in some corners of the country was a push toward anarchy, which could have profound impacts on the country.

The decision by cricketers representing Australia and England not to take a knee before commencing their latest series has been called “lame” by a former West Indies player.

The Texans and Chiefs joined arms and stood in the middle of the field for a “Moment of Unity,” prior to their season opening game on Thursday night.

A woman in Seattle attacked a security guard with a machete after inquiring if he was an “officer,” leaving him with two five-inch cuts on his arm.

Colts linebacker and team captain Darius Leonard has confirmed that the entire team will make what he calls a “bold statement” during the national anthem on Sunday, as the NFL launches its first full weekend of action.

A Gallup poll finds that the favorability rating for sports has crashed a whopping thirty points among Republicans and Independents, amid a surge in social justice activism.

The players have said they will protest and, if they do, ESPN says they will televise it.

A protester who marched against police in South Los Angeles on Tuesday night was filmed using profane language and imagery to attack members of the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department (LASD).

Having previously pledged to impose a “code of conduct” on all sites owned by the Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, staff have finally published a draft version of the document for review by contributors to Foundation-owned sites. Numerous provisions, including on “preferred pronoun” usage, immediately raised concerns among users about their implications for free speech with some harassment provisions also seen as potentially undermining efforts to rein in bad editing.

Rioters in Los Angeles, which authorities described as more of an “aggressive anarchist”  group, taunted police with rants laced with expletives, with one demonstrator calling an officer a “stupid white bitch” who should “eat a giant smoking fucking dick that has herpes” and another telling a cop to “go home and beat your wife.”

Authorities arrested 11 demonstrators following another night of violent protest in Portland late Tuesday into Wednesday morning.

Pop star Lana Del Rey, in an extensive interview for Interview magazine, said there is “no way in hell” the Black Lives Matter movement is going away, likening it to the #MeToo movement, which she said was “not just a passing movement.”

The L.A. County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) arrested roughly a dozen people during clashes with anarchists at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in South Los Angeles on Tuesday night.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Tuesday that it will require films to meet extensive new “diversity” standards to be eligible to win the Oscar for Best Picture.

“Joe Biden and his party spent the entire summer cheering on the rioters rampaging through Democrat-led cities, falsely labeling them as peaceful protesters,” Trump said.

Hundreds of people across the country held “Back the Blue” rallies over Labor Day weekend to show their support for law enforcement.

The Portland Police Bureau spent millions on overtime over the span of just two months as a result of the nightly riots in the city — a stark irony given the protesters’ demands to defund the police.

President Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden are tied in Florida, according to an NBC News/Marist poll released on Tuesday.

“Fuck the white people that built the system. You all did it,” said a Black Lives Matter agitator to a white elderly couple in Pittsburgh.

The Washington Post accused President Donald Trump on Tuesday of using violence, or “depictions” of violence, as “political fuel” for his re-election campaign.”

The Big 12 Conference announced Monday that it would air a series of social justice messages as part of an “anti-racism” campaign, during games this season.

A Black Lives Matter protester harassed a black store manager at a McDonald’s in Pittsburgh, PA, after he and his group of masked leftists stormed the restaurant while shouting chants through bullhorns.

Twenty-two individuals were arrested as a result of the Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Seattle on Labor Day, which saw protesters hurling Molotov cocktails at police officers.

On Monday, former NFL star and Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker suggested strict penalties that migrating rioters and looters should face.

Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) told reporters on Monday after meeting with the family of Jacob Blake Jr. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin: “They’re an incredible family.”

Violent protests continued on Labor Day, as police dispersed riots in several cities and clashes between left- and right-wing groups erupted in Salem, Oregon.

President Donald Trump reacted Tuesday to videos of Black Lives Matter protesters harassing a group of diners at a restaurant in Pittsburgh.

In response to the iconoclastic Black Lives Matter movement, the Natural History Museum has launched a review into supposedly “offensive” and “problematic” collections, including exotic birds collected by English naturalist Charles Darwin.

Eric Trump gave a grim prognostication for the future of the NFL on Sunday night, after learning that the Dallas Cowboys gave their players the okay to protest. In fact, the president’s son tweeted that, for him, “Football is officially dead.”

Two women hope to create an all-black community in central Georgia as a way to deal with “400 years of racial oppression.”

American Airlines crews will be allowed to wear Black Lives Matter pins on their uniforms while on duty, the company announced Sunday.