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  Please Sign This Petition to Turn the UM Mascot Into a Vape Guy

  October 19 at 8 a.m.

  Tobacco is gross. Nobody likes tobacco anymore. It's not cool. Joe Camel can go fall off a bridge. The only people who smoke tobacco pipes in 2018 are steampunk weirdos, creeps who like Hugh Hefner too much, oil barons, and Sebastian the Ibis, the mascot for the University of Miami...

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  After Food Fight, Fienberg-Fisher Staff Beat Up Eighth-Grader; Told Him, "It's Prison Time, Bitch!"

  October 18 at 8 a.m.

  On February 20, an eighth-grader at Miami Beach's Fienberg-Fisher school got into what amounts to a food fight. Another student doused him with water. He threw milk back. The students' substitute teacher disciplined the boys, and that seemed to be the end of it.

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  FIU Professors: Kick TPUSA Off Campus for Racist Comments, Rape Jokes

  October 17 at 4:22 p.m.

  This past Tuesday, New Times published internal chats showing members of the Florida International University chapter of Turning Point USA joking about white nationalism, "Jew-hating," underage cartoon porn, and Syrian refugees raping white women. But so far, school administrators have done nothing. In fact, amid a national outcry over the leaked, racist chats, TPUSA even set up a table on the FIU campus today to hand out buttons and "Socialism Sucks" posters.

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  Chats Show FIU Turning Point USA Members Sharing Racist Memes and Rape Jokes

  October 16 at 7:48 a.m.

  Back in 2017, New Times obtained screenshots of gross chats among Florida International University's Campus Republicans. They joked about the Charlottesville neo-Nazi attack last year and threatened to "call ICE" on fellow, undocumented students who were begging Congress to pass the DREAM Act. Now, New Times has received chats from another FIU...

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  Last Guardian Angel Asked to Leave Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School

  October 10 at 2:58 p.m.

  Since the day after the February 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, David "Cobra" Clemente has been a constant presence, standing guard when students arrive at 5:30 a.m. and when they leave around 2:40 p.m. In the beginning, he was surrounded by other red-beret-topped Guardian Angels who patrolled the school as volunteers — and won the affection of many worried parents and shaken students.

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  Kanye West Just Visited Pitbull's Miami Charter School for Some Reason

  October 3 at 5:01 p.m.

  Kanye West has unlimited resources. He is one of the world's most famous people. Yet he apparently has no better place to hunt for new political ideas than the Florida charter-school world, which sucks so hard that pop-rapper Pitbull is legally allowed to run his own school in Miami.