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"Everybody I know is on [[US/food stamps|Food Stamps]]. We have jobs, but the jobs pay so low that we still need help. We stock shelves, pump gas, and cook your food. Stuff that needs to be done, but is somehow not "Real Work" or a "Real Job." Let's not even go into the fact that a good chunk of us went to college so we could have a "Real Job" but when we finished those "Real Jobs" turned out to be as mythical as the Yeti or Brownies." +
"Everything that was anticipated ... with the very clear intent of what people wanted to do, with the level of confrontation and violence that they were expecting to bring, that did not occur. The officers were there and they prevented all of that from happening." +
"Except that the real world seems to be much murkier. Yes, a number of studies [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/02/13/four-things-to-know-about-obamas-minimum-wage-increase/ have found] a link between a higher [[minimum wage]] and higher [[unemployment]]. But many others, such as [http://escholarship.org/uc/item/86w5m90m this recent paper] from U.C. Berkeley that exploited differences across state borders, have found no effect at all." +
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"Experts on compensation say that the illegal doctoring of hourly employees' time records is far more prevalent than most Americans believe. The practice, commonly called shaving time, is easily done and hard to detect – a simple matter of computer keystrokes – and has spurred a growing number of lawsuits and settlements against a wide range of businesses." +
"Explaining that she and [[Cliven Bundy|Bundy]] were raised as [[Mormonism|Mormons]], Robertson said, “For the first 130 years of [[Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|our church]], they taught that black people carried the curse of Cain,” adding, “That's why their skin was black. He was raised in a [[racism|racist]] predicament.”" +
"Federal funds are running out at the [[Desert Tortoise Conservation Center]] and officials plan to close the site and euthanize hundreds of the [[desert tortoise|tortoise]]s they've been caring for since the animals were added to the endangered species list in 1990." +
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"Female students at [http://www.wasatch.edu/whs Wasatch High School] in [[US/UT|Utah]] is under fire after selectively editing female students' yearbook photos to [[prudery|show less skin]] – without the students knowing about it." +
"Finally there is a much needed debate about the relationship that people who are working for progressive change should have with the [[US Democratic Party|Democratic Party]]. This is a debate that has existed at the edges, in email discussions and private conversations, but is now moving to center stage." +
"Five Nobel Prize-winning economists are calling for an end to the global [[war on drugs]] and a shift over to policies that focus on public health. The economists, along with over a dozen professors and politicians, have all endorsed [http://www.lse.ac.uk/IDEAS/publications/reports/pdf/LSE-IDEAS-DRUGS-REPORT-FINAL-WEB.pdf a report released last night] by the London School of Economics and Political Science, which breaks down the successes and failures of the worldwide drug war and finds that it has had "enormous negative outcomes and collateral damage." The report recommends that countries instead focus on individualized approaches to drug laws and encourages experimentation with lifting prohibitions." +
"For many, it is clear that any comprehensive plan to address gun violence in the United States must include further research into this problem. The longtime concern among the science community about the freeze on federal funds for gun violence research, which has now spanned nearly two decades, has seen a renewed wave of interest and advocacy. This article reviews the history of the freeze and of responses to it by the American Psychological Association (APA) and other organizations and individuals." +
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"For people who don’t know: last December I tweeted my support for [[Maya Forstater]], a tax specialist who’d lost her job for what were deemed ‘transphobic’ tweets. She took her case to an employment tribunal, asking the judge to rule on whether a philosophical belief that [[biological sex|sex is determined by biology]] is protected in law. Judge Tayler ruled that it wasn’t." +
"For the [[US/elections/2012|last election]], [[Koch PAC]] spent [http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=D000000186&cycle=2012 $4.9 million] in disclosed contributions (figures that appear on the chart referenced by Strassel). But they also spent over [http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/koch-backed-political-network-built-to-shield-donors-raised-400-million-in-2012-elections/2014/01/05/9e7cfd9a-719b-11e3-9389-09ef9944065e_story.html $407 million] on undisclosed campaign entities, which does not show up in the [[Center for Responsive Politics|CRP]] chart." +
"For the past few years, grassroots efforts to end [[street harassment]] in the US have been gaining support and amplifying their message." +
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"Former New York Mayor [[Michael Bloomberg]], delivering Thursday's commencement speech at [[Harvard University]], criticized what he described as a disturbing trend of liberals silencing voices 'deemed politically objectionable.'" +
"Former Republican presidential nominee [[Mitt Romney]] said Friday that he believes the [[US Republican Party|Republican Party]] ought to get on board with raising the [[minimum wage]]." +
"French satirical magazine does not hold back in latest issue despite firebomb attack after printing Muhammad cartoon" +
"From [[Chris Christie|Christie]] to [[Rush Limbaugh|Limbaugh]] the [[right wing|right]]'s view of women is steeped in the 18th century. It may finally catch up to them." +
"Fukushima operator TEPCO has been forced to switch off the cooling system at mothballed Reactor Unit 5, after it was discovered that it had been leaking water. In nine days, if the system is not repaired, temperatures will exceed dangerous levels." +
"Go ahead, turn the White House's 77-cents quote into the new 47% video. But don't preach until you know where [[wage-gap vigilantism]] gets us" +
"Hedge fund flacks hail this growing [[US/education/primary/public/charter|charter]] presence as a new window of opportunity for underprivileged kids in failing [[US/education/primary/public|traditional schools]]. But [http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/28_01/28_01_karp.shtml many educators] consider charters a diversion of badly needed public tax dollars into unaccountable private entities that cream off top students and refuse to take in the most challenged." +
"Here I provide a short account of [[New American Movement|NAM]]'s history and a description of a school it opened in Los Angeles in the 1970s, both of which form a unique link between the study of everyday life and the practice of [[socialism]]." +
"Here's how it seems to work: the [[US/gov/executive|executive branch]] comes up with an interpretation of U.S. copyright law and then negotiates it into international agreements. It conducts these negotiations in [[government/secrecy|secret]], insisting that it needs no meaningful oversight because it doesn't require a change in U.S. law." +
2014/05/09/Sub-lethal exposure to neonicotinoids impaired honey bees winterization before proceeding to colony collapse disorder +
"Honey bee ''(Apis mellifera L.)'' [[colony collapse disorder]] (CCD) that appeared in 2005/2006 still lingers in many parts of the world. Here we show that sub-lethal exposure of [[neonicotinoid]]s, [[imidacloprid]] or [[clothianidin]], affected the winterization of healthy colonies that subsequently leads to CCD." +
"How can [[Hobby Lobby|the arts and crafts chain]] espouse [[Christian]] values when it [[US-China relations|imports products from China]]?" +
04/10/2014/Desert Tortoise Conservation Center's plan to euthanize hundreds of the tortoises in Nevada by 2014 +
"How does allegedly killing/[[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute/cattle grave|burying]] (with or without a court order) and/or selling [[Cliven Bundy|Mr. Bundy]]'s cattle now save the [[desert tortoise|tortoise]] from extinction in the Nevada desert when they, the the FEDs, won't help preserve the turtles anymore--maybe even up to a thousand or more of the 1,400 turtles they've been caring for--when they won't release the funds necessary to keep them off that endangered species list for their preservation??" +
"I cannot guarantee that those checks [he included veterans and the disabled, in addition to Social Security] go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it." "...either [[Barack Obama|Obama]] and [[Timothy Geithner|Geithner]] are lying to us now, or they and all defenders of the [[topic::US/Social Security|Social Security]] status quo have been lying to us for decades. It must be one or the other." +
"I don't support their ideology. I don't support what they're doing," one protestor said about the conference – while those at the conference made clear they [[Islam/sympathy|don't support Islamic extremists]] who [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting|shot and killed 12 people]] at the satiric publication ''Charlie Hebdo'' in Paris. +
"I had an [[abortion]] four years ago. I just recently decided to start talking about it." +
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"I have had people ask me to explain [[Cliven Bundy|my dad]]'s stance on this [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute|BLM fight]]. Here it is in as simple of terms as I can explain it. There is so much to it, but here it is in a nut shell." +
"I hope they take it in the spirit in which these were painted, and that was a spirit of friendship, and that I admired them as leaders and was willing to give it a shot in terms of getting people to see how I felt about them." +
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"I saw the same thing in US skeptics, of course. But there was something fundamental going on that is also reflected in the British school of [[evolutionary biology]], represented by [[Maynard Smith]] and [[Richard Dawkins|Dawkins]], that totally embraced reductive explanations and [[adaptationism]], vs. the American subset led by Lewontin and [[Stephen Jay Gould|Gould]], who fiercely opposed [[eugenics]] and detested the arrogance of thinking biology could be reduced to a catalog of alleles." .. "Then there's the outcome of all this activity by bigots claiming the mantle of science – some people actually believed." +
"I wanted to talk about the fact that I personally find it kind of offensive when transgender people don't own the fact that they're trans." Video is Tweeted, and much debate ensues. +
"I'm getting more than a little tired of seeing the reaction from the far right to this [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute/standoff|standoff in Nevada]] where [[Cliven Bundy|a rancher]] refuses to either start paying or stop grazing his cattle on federal land the way every other rancher does. The [[hypocrisy]] and the dishonest overreaction could hardly be more obvious." +
"I'm grateful that during this medical emergency, my doctors were allowed to follow only their best judgment about what care would keep me healthiest, according to the most current standards of their profession. Their only legal concern was my safety. The police had no part in our story. If you want to imagine me at this moment, picture me thumbing my nose at every meddling [[anti-choice]] medievalist who was prevented from making a terrible week even worse and threatening my health to boot." +
"Immediately after the [[2012 Benghazi attack|terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya]] on September 11, 2012, the Committee on Armed Services began an ongoing extensive effort to evaluate the response of the Department of Defense (DOD). In addition to assessing how the Department reacted, the committee seeks to determine what preparations the U.S. military had made for the possibility of an attack in Libya, and what arrangements have subsequently been put into place to minimize the possibility of a similar recurrence." +
"In 1914, a [[racism|racist]] fiction helped sell one of the nation's first [[war on drugs|drug laws]]; 100 years later, it's still with us." +
"In January, 2012, documents obtained by an investigative journalist working at SF Weekly, a successful alternative weekly newspaper in San Francisco, California, revealed that an Albanian nun, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, better known to the world today as [[Mother Teresa]] of Calcutta (1910-1997), supported and praised a [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] priest knowing that he was an accused serial abuser of young boys in his care." +
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"In [Mayor [[Steve Schewel]]'s] view, the city's current funding for affordable housing isn’t enough to keep downtown from becoming an expensive enclave for white people. If residents are serious about preventing [[gentrification|displacement]], they need to put their money where their mouths are." +
"In [[2014/05/09/Sub-lethal exposure to neonicotinoids impaired honey bees winterization before proceeding to colony collapse disorder|the new study]], researchers didn't waste time with a low initial dose. They began right away with syrup containing 136 micrograms of insect-killer per liter. Eventually, six of the 12 colonies fed the spiked syrup failed. Calling the researchers' credibility into further question, the second study, like the first, ascribes colony failure to [[colony collapse disorder]], a malady with characteristics not evident in either trial." +
"In [http://blog.case.edu/singham/2008/07/14/why_religions_expect_you_to_believe_preposterous_things the previous post], I suggested that the [[Roman Catholic]] doctrine of [[transubstantiation]], which asserts that when the priest during the communion service consecrates the bread and wine, ''the bread becomes the actual body of Jesus and the wine becomes his actual blood'', was a fairly bizarre thing to believe in this day and age and raised the possibility that perhaps even Catholics did not really believe in it but were just humoring the church by going along with a doctrine that came into being a long time ago." +
"In a note at the end of the paper, all four authors claimed no conflicts of interest on the published study. But Kert Davies, executive director of the [[Climate Investigations Center]], an organization based in Virginia, said [[Willie Soon|Soon]]'s long track record of accepting energy-industry related grants indicates otherwise and might constitute a violation of <i>[[Science Bulletin]]</i>'s disclosure policy. [..] In a letter to ''Science Bulletin'', Davies points to the more than $1 million Soon has received from companies and interests supporting studies critical of climate change." +
"In a secret test of [[mass surveillance]] technology, the [[Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department]] sent a civilian aircraft over [[US/CA/Compton|Compton, California]], capturing high-resolution video of everything that happened inside that 10-square-mile municipality." +
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"In a surprising move, [[Sean Hannity]] comes to the defense of [[Cliven Bundy]], an anarchic Nevada rancher determined to trespass on federal land to feed his cattle. (4:30)" +
"In an amazing and terrifying essay called [http://www.ericgarland.co/2014/03/29/parasite-economy/ How to get beyond the parasite economy], Eric Garland describes how [[private equity]] infects industry after industry, sucking all productive capacity out of it through complex and fraudulent financial engineering, and abandoning the drained husk as it moves onto its next meal." +
"In an open letter sent to the leaders of Malaysia, China and Australia on Thursday, the relatives questioned how authorities could be certain the Boeing 777 had crashed into the Indian Ocean after vanishing without a trace two months ago. No wreckage has been found." +
"In case you missed it, [[Google]] CEO [[Sergey Brin]] publicly admitted last week that [[Google+]] was "a mistake" for him – one month after the man he hired to run the social network, [[Vic Gundotra]], left the company without explanation." +
"In light of [[gay marriage]] being legalized in the UK, the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] editors are [[changing the definition of marriage]]." +
"In public relations it is understood if you want to bury bad news you release it on Friday afternoon in August. [..] So it was the [[US Republican Party|Republican]]-led House Intelligence Committee declassified its two-year-old investigation into the [[2012 Benghazi attack|Benghazi tragedy]] last week, releasing its findings last [[:category:2014/08/01|Friday, August 1]], at 3:30PM Eastern Time." +
"In some communities in [[India]] boys as young as eight believe that violence against women is acceptable. Now workshops run by a local NGO are helping to end 'eve-teasing'." +
"In the LDS leadership, you will rarely hear someone say the words "gay" or "homosexual". Occasionally in older talks they will mention "homosexual" or "lesbian behavior". If you go to their site to research topics, this is what you will find when you search for "homosexual":" ("see Same-Sex Attraction") +
"In the [[Quiverfull]] movement, children are pretty much metaphorical weapons born to shoot a degenerate modern society in the face. I was one of nine children, and our family was just on the large end of "normal" in size. Really, it was downright small: We didn't need to use all the seats in our 15-passenger van to get to church. I was brought up to be just one more weapon in this terrible [[faith-based]] arsenal, but I didn't quite hit the target. Here's what I can tell you about being a weaponized offspring." +
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"In the final part of our extended interview, [[Glenn Greenwald]] reflects on the [[Pulitzer Prize]], adversarial journalism and the corporate media's response to his reporting on [[Edward Snowden]]'s leaked [[US/gov/NSA|National Security Agency]] documents." +
"In the most egregious instance, a [[McDonald's]] employee asked a girl, "Would you like the girl's toy?" The girl responded, "No, could I have the boy's toy?" When the girl opened the container a moment later, she learned that notwithstanding her explicit request, a McDonald's employee had given her the girl's toy. This girl went back to the counter with the unopened toy and requested, "May I have a boy's toy, please?" The same McDonald's employee replied, "There are only girl's toys." We then sent an adult male into the store who immediately was given a boy's toy." +
"In their quest to repeal and replace [[Obamacare]], three [[US Republican Party|Republican]] lawmakers have offered an alternative proposal to the health reform law that would roll back some of its major consumer protections, including maternity care for pregnant women." +
"In tweets, in street gatherings and in open letters, moderate Muslims around the world are insisting that the [[Islamic State]] of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) extremists don't speak for their religion. Many are also frustrated that anyone might think they do, and a backlash has already begun." +
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"In yet another attempt to widen the confrontation between [[Russia]], [[Crimea]], and the Western-backed [[Ukraine|regime in Kiev]], snipers have opened fire on both Ukrainian and Crimean defense forces at a small military base within the heart of the Crimean peninsula, the administrative city of Simferopol." +
"Increased [[internet]] use is only one factor in the [[secularism|decrease of]] [[religion]], but research shows it's a significant one." +
"Increasing the [[minimum wage]] would have two principal effects on low-wage workers. Most of them would receive higher pay that would increase their family's income, and some of those families would see their income rise above the federal poverty threshold. But some jobs for low-wage workers would probably be eliminated, the income of most workers who became jobless would fall substantially, and the share of low-wage workers who were employed would probably fall slightly." +
"Indications suggest that SSL and other fundamental Internet security technologies have indeed been compromised by the [[National Security Agency|NSA]]." +
"Inside the secretive campaign by state legislators to pass conservative amendments in 34 states and rewrite the [[US Constitution|Constitution]]." +
"Is it possible to create a "[[super PAC]]" that would end the power of super PACs by drawing enough Americans into the system to limit the influence of big money in politics? And is it possible to get voters excited about a subject as dry as campaign finance? [..] Harvard law professor [[Lawrence Lessig]] is leading a crusade to answer both those questions with a yes." +
"It appears the relatively unknown [[Crimson Holdings Corporation]] wants to [[fracking|frack]] more than a handful of nature preserves in [[US/NC/Durham|Durham]], as [http://www.indyweek.com/triangulator/archives/2014/07/22/fracking-company-makes-offers-in-durham reported] in today's [[Independent Weekly|Indy]]." +
"It could also add fuel to to a raging debate between bitcoin devotees – who view their decentralized, unregulated currency as a legitimate new form of transaction – and those who see it as a shady way to circumvent monetary standards." +
"It has been clear from day one that [[Cecily McMillan|Cecily]] has not received a fair and open trial." +
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"It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one's acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go [[Nazi]]." +
"It is looking like oil is far more plentiful than western governments and the mainstream media would like us to believe, and the reason oil is so plentiful is because it is produced deep in the earth by geological processes in addition to any biological processes. [..] [[abiogenic oil|Abiotic oil]] is explained pretty well by a recent article at Principia-Scientific entitled [http://principia-scientific.org/14-editor-s-favorites/134-fracturing-the-fossil-fuel-fable.html Fracturing the Fossil Fuel Fables]. Another article I recommend is [http://www.greenparty.ca/blogs/12489/2012-08-28/more-evidence-abiotic-oil More Evidence for Abiotic Oil]." +
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"It is not surprising that anti-slavery and [[income/ubiquitous|universal basic income]] raise similar arguments. Both are about emancipation of the suffering poor." +
"It is quite hard to take the claims by [[Hobby Lobby]] seriously. The main drugs in question in the case brought before the Supreme Court are the emergency contraceptives Plan-B and Ella. One huge problem with this situation is that up until 2012, Hobby Lobby provided them as part of their insurance plan. Only when they realized that [[Obamacare]] was going to mandate this coverage did they suddenly become interested in not providing these drugs." +
"It is undeniable that some Americans are [[racism|racist]] but racists split about evenly across the parties. No party has a monopoly on racists." +
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"It turns out that trying to stifle people's ability to simplify their own lives and file their taxes for free wasn't all that great for the old public relations department, however, so Intuit has instead decided to go the sneaky route and [http://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-maker-linked-to-grassroots-campaign-against-free-simple-tax-filing get a bunch of unwitting mouthpieces to do it for them]." +
"It was then she had the idea for [http://www.cardsagainstharassment.com/ Cards Against Street Harassment]: pocket-size cards women could download, print, and hand out to their catcallers, explaining why the [[street harassment|attention]] was unwanted without even speaking." +
"It's easier for a successful volunteer Free Software project to get money than it is to decide how to spend it. While paying developers is easy, it can carry unintended negative consequences. This essay explores problems and benefits of paying developers in volunteer free and [[open source]] projects and surveys strategies that projects have used to successfully finance development while maintaining their volunteer nature." +
"It's kind of perplexing to us, all this recent media attention in regard to potential terrorist training camps and things that are going on there," said [http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/local-police-speak-out-about-islamberg/ Delaware County Sheriff Craig Dumont]. "We don't see it. We just don’t find any of that to be valid at this time." [..] Rumors about the Islamberg compound have been circulating for years but gained recent attention after the [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting|terror attacks in Paris]]." +
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"It's not just her blatant transphobia on Twitter. As the trans community has been saying for years, [[J.K. Rowling|Rowling]]'s [[transphobia]] is obvious in her writing, too." +
"It’s official: "Libertarian Conservative" Senator [[Rand Paul]] (R-Kentucky) says he'll be [[US/president/election/2016|running for president of the United States in 2016]]. [..] Paul, 52, announced Tuesday morning that he'll indeed be pursuing the [[US Republican Party|Republican Party]]'s nomination for president ahead of next year’s election. +
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"I’m quite prepared to threaten violence because it seems to me that politically what they’re seeking to do is piss on all women. That’s what they’re doing for their personal gratification. There aren’t many of them, but what really offends me is the extent to which academia and political parties have listened to them in a way that they’re not listening to us as women." – [[Linda Bellos]] +
"Just before signing a controversial gun bill into law, [[US/GA|Georgia]] Governor [[Nathan Deal]] talks about the positive aspects of expanding locations citizens can carry firearms in the state without penalty." +
"Last year, we dredged the ugliest depths of [[victim-blaming]] when a middle-school girl was gang-[[rape]]d outside her homecoming dance, and [http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2009/10/30/drunk-girls-deserve-to-get-raped/ a bunch of assholes got on the Internet] to shame her for drinking alcohol. Thought that was bad? Consider what happens when a rape accusation is coming from a [[transgender|trans]] woman." +
"Like other op-eds, [[2014/10/09/The Global Warming Statistical Meltdown|Dr. Curry's]] is framed as “contradicting” the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and suggests that any reduction in potential risks from climate change can justify delay in reducing emissions." +
"Many [[Muslim]]s have [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting/Muslim sympathy|expressed disgust]] at the [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting|deadly assault]] on the magazine's Paris office by [[Islamic extremist]]s who killed 12 people. However many also remain [[Islam/offense|deeply offended]] by the magazine's record of publishing cartoons lampooning the Prophet [[Muhammad]]. Those passions were further inflamed this week when the magazine's [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting/next issue|first issue following the attack]] carried a cover cartoon [[Muhammad/images|depicting Muhammad]] holding a "Je Suis Charlie" sign." +
"Many corporations have lower effective tax rates than individuals. While corporate profits have soared, Americans' incomes have staggered and yet we're the ones carrying the tax burden. Not only do many U.S. companies keep their overseas profits in foreign countries, about $2.1 trillion in all, double what it was in 2008, they also spend tens of millions of dollars on lawyers and auditors who help identify possible loopholes." +
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"Many of her harassers, she believes, are men in the [[atheism/community|secular community]]. They feel threatened by the inclusion of issues that go beyond the central pillars of the secular movement, such as protections of freedom and conscience and church-state separation They want to [[silencing|silence]] activists, like Hensley and others, who want secularism to address broader issues of social justice, economic equality and racism." +
"Many solar projects consume enormous amounts of water. How much water are we talking? According to a [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/business/energy-environment/30water.html?ref=earth recent New York Times article], proposed plans for two solar farms in Nevada would gulp up 1.3 billion gallons of water annually--or 20 percent of the area's available water." +
"Mathematical modelling work by Drs Michael Pickles and Marie-Claude Boily from [[Imperial College London]] estimates that decriminalising [[sex work]] could prevent up to 33 to 46 per cent of [[HIV]] infections among female sex workers (FSWs) and clients worldwide over the next decade." +
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"Maysoon Zayid is a disabled Arab-American comedian. I had no idea who she was when I first met her at a Washington gala. She was beautiful and stood with her hand on her hip thrust sexily to one side. When I complimented her on the pose, she said, "I'm not posing. I have cerebral palsy – I have to stand like this." My response? "I don't care! You still look hot!" We both laughed, then I went home to google her." +
"Measurements of [[global warming/co2|the climate-changing gas]] by instruments high on a mountain in Hawaii and around the world show that global emissions from burning fossil fuels rose last month to levels higher than at any time in human history - and higher than it has been in hundreds of thousands of years." +
"Members of the [[Oklahoma Militia]] have come out in support of Nevada rancher [[Cliven Bundy]], who recently found himself in a [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute/standoff|standoff]] with hundreds of armed federal agents over land rights related to his cattle ranch." +
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"Michelle Farber, a midwife at women's reproductive health clinics, describes the impact of [[anti-abortion|anti-choice]] protests on [[abortion]] providers and the women seeking their services." +
2018/03/05/Sex Change Physically Impossible Psychosocially Unhelpful and Philosophically Misguided +
"Modern medicine can’t reassign sex physically, and attempting to do so doesn’t produce good outcomes psychosocially. Here is the evidence." Article presents evidence to the contrary, ignores it, and repeatedly concludes that [[cherry-picking|selected ideologues]] are ''prima facie'' correct. +
"Most Americans, white and black, see [[racism]] as a lingering problem in the United States, and many say they know people who are racist, according to a new poll. [..] But few Americans of either race -- about one out of eight -- consider themselves racist." +
"Most of my previous posts here about [[Hobby Lobby]] and [[Conestoga Wood]] have been devoted to the question of whether the plaintiffs have adequately alleged that federal law imposes a "substantial burden" on their exercise of religion--the threshold question under [[Religious Freedom Restoration Act|RFRA]]. I've tried to make two principal points..." +
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"Nationwide, the federal government has paid at least $1.3 billion in [[farm subsidies|subsidies]] for rice and other crops since 2000 to individuals who do no farming at all, according to an analysis of government records by The [[Washington Post]]." +
"Natural fluctuations in the ocean temperature in the North Atlantic have a significant impact on the climate in the northern hemisphere. These fluctuations are the result of a complex dance between the forces of nature, but researchers at Aarhus University can now show that solar activity and the impact of volcanic eruptions have led this dance during the last two centuries." +
"New evidence shows that the [[Syria]]n government was not responsible for the August 21, 2013 sarin gas attack in Ghouta on its own people." +
"New photos released by the Bundy family Sunday provided more evidence to the claim that the Bureau of Land Management was illegally killing and burying confiscated cattle." +
"Not long ago, [[Mitt Romney]] seemed to be indicating that he was thinking about [[US/president/election/2016|running for President]]. Shortly after that, he indicated that he thought [[global warming/anthropogenic|Anthropogenic Global Warming]] was for real and important. Then [[Rush Limbaugh|Rush]] said..." +
"Not only has [ [[Germany]] ] announced plans to [http://inhabitat.com/german-parliament-approves-plans-for-nuclear-exit-by-2022/ shut down] all of its [[nuclear power]] plants and started the construction of [http://inhabitat.com/germany-to-construct-2800-miles-of-transmission-lines-as-it-abandons-nuclear-power-for-renewable-energy/ 2,800 miles of transmission lines] for its new renewable energy initiative, but now the village of [http://www.wildpoldsried.de/ Wildpoldsried] is producing 321% more energy than it needs! The small agricultural village in the state of Bavaria is generating an impressive $5.7 million in annual revenue from renewable energy." +
2015/01/08/Just As The Islamic State (ISIL) Gets Exposed As A Fake US Enemy, A "Wag the Dog" Terrorist Attack in Paris? +
"Notice how every time the US government is about to be fully exposed in another boldface lie, this one being that [[Islamic State|ISIL]] is our sworn enemy, another wag the dog "terrorist" incident suddenly comes along to divert world attention. This time it was three heavily armed and trained gunmen in Paris [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting|attacking the office of the French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo]], tragically killing twelve people. Of course like the US, France is notorious for arming and funding [[al Qaeda]] terrorists." +
"Now the often-caustic publication, faced with the challenge of reconciling its new status as a cause célèbre with its reflex to mock, ridicule and offend, is putting a caricature of the Prophet [[Muhammad]] on the cover of [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting/next issue|what is likely to be their most-read issue ever]]." +
"Now, after decades of the status quo, [[psychology]] is finally coming to terms with the idea that [[replication of experimental results|replication]] is a vital ingredient in the recipe of discovery. The latest issue of the journal ''[[Social Psychology]]'' reports an impressive 15 papers that attempted to replicate influential findings related to personality and social cognition." +
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