“Evry day I pray and thank god for me.”

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“It’s fine for men to call you a filthy whore but it’s breaching ‘community standards’ to post it for people to see.”

Australian writer Clementine Ford has been suspended from Facebook for 30 days after publicly posting abusive messages and requests for nude pictures she received from men.

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Ford received the messages after posting a nude selfie in protest against Australian breakfast TV show Sunrise, which implied victims were at fault in a Facebook post about a nude photo hack.

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This city is a wonderful, wonderful place.

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Grumpy Donuts, online

This newly-launched doughnut company promises the brightest, tastiest, most photogenic treats delivered straight to you. These doughnuts are also available in several Sydney cafes, including Orto Trading Co., The Wedge Espresso and Bread & Butter if you can't possibly wait.

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Smalltown, Avalon

Don't leave Smalltown without ordering the Strawberry Rose doughnut. Because, really, if you're presented with the opportunity to eat a dessert covered in rose petals, you've got to take it.

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Pablo and Rusty's, Sydney CBD

This Nutella doughnut, which comes topped with Froot Loops, is the perfect side for your coffee.

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The Federal Communications Commission wants to offer consumers more power to prevent unwanted calls.

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The Federal Communications Commission voted on Thursday to adopt a proposal to protect consumers against unwanted robocalls and spam texts. The FCC has made clear that phone carriers are free to provide call-blocking technology to their customers. In fact, the commission hopes that carriers would compete to offer such a service. But just because the agency has given the nation's phone companies a go-ahead, doesn't mean that they will comply.

A spokesperson for T-Mobile told BuzzFeed News that most devices have built-in call or text blocking features, but did not indicate whether T-Mobile has plans to offer its own service.

AT&T and Verizon haven't yet responded to requests for comment. But earlier this year, in response to pleas and petitions from the Consumers Union, the two carriers did not advance their own call-blocking service even as they acknowledged the problem. In reply, Consumers Union said that the two companies "aren't doing enough to protect their customers from being harassed by unwanted robocalls."

A spokesperson for CTIA–The Wireless Association declined to comment, but referred BuzzFeed News to a list of apps that provide call-blocking.

"I detest robocalls. I'm not alone," said Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, who voted in favor of the new regulations. The proposed rules would grant consumers the unequivocal right to reject calls "in any reasonable way, at any time." Consumers can simply tell telemarketers to stop calling. And if individuals have allowed robocalls in the past, they can, at their discretion, revoke their consent.

"You cannot be called unless you consent to be called," said FCC Chair Tom Wheeler. "The consumer should be in control." The regulations apply to home phones and wireless devices, calls and texts.

"The dinner hour is sacred," Rosenworcel said, referring to her frustration with robocalls interrupting time at home, a shared feeling made abundantly clear to the FCC. Last year, the commission heard more grievances about robocalls than any other issue, receiving 215,000 consumer complaints.

The dissenting commissioners who voted against the rules believe legitimate communications will be needlessly silenced. Commissioner Michael O'Rielly cited product recalls, school safety notifications, and utility outages as important information that, under the proposed rules, may go unheard. He acknowledged that the regulations would permit urgent financial and health notices, but he argued that the FCC's narrow determinations of which calls are allowed and which aren't are arbitrary and unworkable.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has argued that the commission has overstepped its authority with its latest regulation. Businesses that are trying to reach their customers with important, time-sensitive information will now be unfairly restricted, the Chamber said in a statement to BuzzFeed News.

Another concern raised by the commissioners in opposition: consumers changing their phone numbers. But the proposed rules attempt to address potential mix-ups by granting telemarketers one errant phone call to a given number.

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Wonderful quotes to celebrate wonderful dads.

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2. "'Why do men like me want sons?' he wondered. 'It must be because they hope in their poor beaten souls that these new men, who are their blood, will do the things they were not strong enough nor wise enough nor brave enough to do. It is rather like another chance at life; like a new bag of coins at a table of luck after your fortune is gone.'" —John Steinbeck, Cup of Gold

3. "A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us." —Émile Gaboriau, File No. 113

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5. "There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself." —John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery

6. "There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it." —George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

7. "It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived." —Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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*Was that FedEx….no, just a school bus.”

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Phrasing!

They grow up so fast…

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Happy father’s day, Paul.

Meadow Walker, daughter of the late Paul Walker, shared this photo on her Instagram today - two years after her father's untimely death.

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Meadow has shared a few photos since her father's death - like this one posted six months ago.

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It just makes you want to reach through the screen and give her a hug.

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They’re all gonna laugh at you if you don’t ace this quiz.

“Well he’s a gemini and she’s a virgo. So it can’t last forever.”

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♫ And at last I see the liiiiiiight.♫

One of South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham’s longtime advisers was the editor-in-chief of a neo-Confederate magazine — a magazine Graham gave an interview to in 1999. In an interview with BuzzFeed News, the adviser disavows his former views.

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Richard Quinn has been quoted in the press as South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham's longtime political adviser and his consultant and pollster. But there's another title that Quinn once held: neo-Confederate magazine editor.

From early 1980s until the early 2000s, Quinn's name stood on the masthead as the editor-in-chief of the Southern Partisan, formerly one of the country's leading neo-Confederate magazines (it still exists in a barebones online version). Quinn has tried to distance himself from the magazine in the past (he says he doesn't like the term neo-Confederate), and after being contacted by BuzzFeed News, repudiated his past views and those of the magazine.

It was in his capacity as editor that Quinn wrote that Martin Luther King Jr.'s role in the Civil Rights movement was "to lead his people into a perpetual dependence on the welfare state, a terrible bondage of body and soul." He called Nelson Mandela a "terrorist" and a "bad egg." He wrote positively of David Duke's election: "What better way to reject politics as usual than to elect a maverick like David Duke?" In one column, he called Martin Luther King Day's purpose "vitriolic and profane."

Today, Quinn says he's come to admire King and Mandela. "I wrote some things on the wrong side of history," he told BuzzFeed News.

He had previously spoken of the columns with regret in 2001, when the issue of Quinn's past came up while serving as an adviser to John McCain's presidential campaign.

Since 1993, Graham has paid Quinn and the consulting firm he's operated at least hundreds of thousands of dollars. Graham's campaign paid his firm more than $200,000 last cycle alone. Quinn downplayed that money to BuzzFeed News, calling it a "cheap shot" to link it directly to him; he noted that only a fraction went to his firm, and much of the money was spent on work for Graham.

"I've been with (Graham) since he ran for Congress in '93, and whatever Lindsey does this cycle, I'll be in his corner," Quinn said in one interview last year.

In 1999, Graham himself did a lengthy question and answer with the Southern Partisan on his life and the Clinton impeachment. A spokesman for Graham said they were waiting to comment until after this story was published.

Quinn's writings, which garnered press 15 years ago (with occasional rehashes from liberal bloggers sometimes taking quotes out of context) during the McCain campaign, have done little harm to his reputation or that of his well-regarded consulting firm.

He maintained to BuzzFeed News that he didn't do much work for the Southern Partisan. He said he regarded it as a client of his consulting firm and said it was a mistake to appear on the masthead. He said fellow editors did most of the work.

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Quinn did write for the magazine, though.

"...[M]assive evidence suggests that slave families were rarely separated," Quinn wrote in a 1983 column for the magazine, discussing a Newsweek article that described the break up of a slave family. "Efforts were made uniformly across the South to keep families together (in part because good morale was good for business). The record also shows that many freed slaves stayed South, kept close ties with their former owners and found for themselves a life altogether more satisfying than their cousins who ended up sleeping with rats in Harlem."

In another column from that year, Quinn said Martin Luther King Day "should have been rejected because its purpose is vitriolic and profane."

"King's memory represents, more than anything else, the idea that institutional arrangement — laws, ordinances and tradition — should be subordinated to the individual's conscience," wrote Quinn. "The brand of civil disobedience he preached (and for which he is remembered) exhorts his followers to regard social reform as a process to be carried out in the streets."

He concluded: "Ignoring the real heroes in our nation's life, the blacks have chosen a man who represents not their emancipation, not their sacrifices and bravery in service to their country; rather, they have chosen a man whose role in history was to lead his people into a perpetual dependence on the welfare state, a terrible bondage of body and soul."

In the interview with BuzzFeed News, Quinn said today he believes King's strategy of civil disobedience worked, and he's come to admire his philosophy.

"By today's standard he was a moderate... I admire him," Quinn said.

In a column on David Duke's election to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1989, Quinn called Duke a complex man, and attacked the "smug media celebrities who had planned to make giblet gravy" out of his appearances on TV.

"David Duke didn't quite comply with their carefully cultivated stereotype of the Southern redneck," he wrote. "He wasn't fat or illiterate. He didn't even chew tobacco. Duke turned out to be smoothly polished and articulate, with a quick smile and a clean-cut almost innocent look. Under tough interrogation by the best in the business, he handled himself pretty well."

He wrote positively of Duke's agenda and said his election was a rejection of politics as usual.

"What a better way to reject politics as usual than to elect a maverick like David Duke? What better way to tweak the nose of the establishment?"

In 1990, Quinn wrote negatively about Nelson Mandela, whom he called a "terrorist" and a "bad egg" and said his visit to the United States "demonstrated that the opinion industry in America has also made a mockery of the First Amendment."

"How many people out there across the face of America are well aware that Mandela is a bad egg, maybe even say so in the comfort and security of their homes, but are afraid to express their real opinions publicly," wrote Quinn.

"After all, Mr. Mandela was put in jail 27 years ago – not because of his humanitarian philosophy – but because he was a terrorist who openly advocated (and personally committed) violence against the government," he added.

In the interview with BuzzFeed News, Quinn argued many of his views from the 1980s were mainstream at the time. He said his column wasn't "a defense of David Duke" but of "the voters of his district" who elected the former Klan leader to the Louisiana State House. Quinn also said he's come to admire Mandela, saying the details of Mandela's early life "are no longer relevant."

Beyond the magazine, Quinn also entered the fray on some Confederate-related issues.

In 1999, when South Carolina was debating keep the Confederate battle flag over the statehouse, Quinn was one of a number of those quoted in an Associated Press article as flag defenders arguing blacks fought for the confederacy. His son, a state legislator at the time, also took an active role in the debate.

"Tens of thousands of blacks took an active military role for the south," said the elder Quinn according to the AP.

An article he wrote for Partisan slammed the tireless "militant groups" seeking to redefine the Confederate flag.

"Tirelessly militant groups are out there who seek to define the Confederate battle flag as a symbol of hate, no better than the Swastika. Their goal is to rape history and make Southerners ashamed of their past. We must employ all the strategic skill we can muster to prevent them from winning this defining battle. Losing, while persuading ourselves that we are wrapped in the glorious cause is not the answer. We must find a way to win."

The article called Quinn "a founder" of the magazine. Quinn today said that was a mistake. He said he only wrote his column when the magazine needed to fill space.

"I expressed views 15 to 20 years ago I no longer hold," Quinn told BuzzFeed News. "In a fair world you're writing a story that shouldn't be written."

An Associated Press report in 2001 described Quinn as the part owner of the Partisan. Corporation filings with the state of South Carolina filed in 1986 also listed Quinn as the registered agent for the Partisan.

Quinn's past neo-Confederate views and magazine editing have been long-known. In 2000, People for the American Way (which provided BuzzFeed News with original copies of the Southern Partisan on request) asked McCain's presidential campaign to fire Quinn in a letter for his past work with the Southern Partisan. It briefly became an issue during the campaign.

At the time, then-Bush campaign spokesman Ari Fleischer said Quinn's writings were "offensive." McCain stood by Quinn and said he had never read his writing. He cited Quinn's work for Ronald Reagan, Strom Thurmond, and others.

Quinn at the time also tried to distance himself from the magazine's content.

''I am not the working day-to-day editor of Southern Partisan,'' he told the New York Times in 2000. ''My title as editor in chief is purely honorary. Frankly, I do not personally read the articles before they are printed, and I certainly disagree with many of the opinions expressed by others on the pages of the magazine.''

The Southern Partisan wrote an editorial in late 1999 that claimed some quotes from other authors were taken out-of-context (it does seem some of the quotes from 1999 were taken out-of-context), but the editorial didn't contest anything Quinn had written.

By 2001, Quinn's name was off the masthead on the website. The Associated Press reported at the time that it was because the association with the magazine was damaging his clients.

Quinn said he couldn't remember when he stopped editing for the Southern Partisan, although he once wrote of being in the office of the magazine in 1993. Quinn today called that "speaking loosely" saying the "office" at the Partisan was the desk of a Partisan colleague at his consulting firm.

"I kept trying to get someone else to edit because I didn't want to do it," Quinn said.

Years before, however, in 1988, a Washington Post story noted the magazine in an article about Quinn's work as a speechwriter for Pat Robertson's campaign. In that article, Quinn defended the magazine:

"The magazine is about the soul of the South," said Quinn in 1988. "There are traditions for respect for the land, family integrity and honor, a strong belief in God and the power of prayer . . . The South has historically been given the guilt of slavery. People seem to forget that slavery was an economic transaction, shipped in through Northern ports and sold to Southern planters . . . To understand the Old South it's much more important to understand religion."

In 1999, Graham spoke with the Southern Partisan for a lengthy question-and-answer interview on his life and time in Congress. The interview did not touch on any neo-Confederate topics, and Quinn told BuzzFeed News that he was not present for the interview (Quinn said the magazine also interviewed other people such as Willard Scott, Trent Lott, Walter Williams, John Ashcroft, John Shelton Reed, Patrick McSweeeny, and Thad Cochran).

The issue that Graham's interview ran in featured full-page ads for the book Was Jefferson Davis Right?, and an anti-George W. Bush article slamming him for speaking even mildly supportively of gay rights by pledging to hire openly-gay people to his administration. An opinion column on the page following Graham's interview attacked the theory of evolution and another article called for removing children from all public schools.

That issue's "General Store Catalogue" featured a cotton t-shirt labeled "I have a dream" on the front, and featuring an image of a Confederate flag flying over the White House. A shirt labeled "Lincoln's Worst Nightmare" on the front featured southern flags with the words "A States Rights Republican Majority From Dixie" imprinted on the back.

Quinn said the catalogue was a revenue-raising project for the magazine, he said he didn't even know of the store at a time.

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“It’s like a guillotine for my eyelashes.”

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Hold onto your ovaries.

Justin Timberlake just hit a whole new level of adorable, posting this Father's Day photo with his teeny tiny son, Silas.

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This is the second photo posted of cutie pie Silas Randall Timberlake, since Jessica Biel gave birth in April.

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Desperately in need of an “existential crisis” emoji.

The "Existential Crisis" Emoji:

Suggested use: when someone asks if you've thought about the future.

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The "Knock Before Entering" Emoji:

Suggested use: for those nights you get lucky and want to let your roommate know.

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The "I Was Going to Have Only One Drink, But..." Emoji:

Suggested use: when no amount of coffee will cure your hangover.

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The “I Have My Mom/Dad on Speed Dial” Emoji:

Suggested use: when you face a problem that only one person in the whole world can help you with.

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She tries to be really honest with people when she thinks that they suck.

She knew her best qualities.

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And she was always completely honest with herself.

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She knew what she wanted, period, which is an honorable trait.

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She had a way with words.

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Would you be more protective, or a goofball?

And yes, Zayn is STILL an option.

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