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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." +
"Of the 11 states with the greatest reductions, 10 expanded Medicaid and established a state-based marketplace exchange or state-federal partnership. [[US/MT|Montana]], which is tied for 10th, is the only exception." +
"On Friday, [[Sam Brownback|Brownback]] signed House Bill 2552, which removes his authority to accept [[Obamacare]]'s [[Medicaid]] expansion and requires the legislature to approve the policy. Since lawmakers have already concluded their session for the year, that means the state won't be able to move on Medicaid expansion in 2014. And even if a Democratic governor is elected in the fall, the Republicans in the legislature could continue to block expansion." +
"On September 12th, 2012, Federal District Judge Katherine B. Forrest issued a [https://pandaunite.org/downloads/ActionKit/Hedges-v-Obama-second-ruling.pdf permanent injunction] against enforcement of Section 1021 of the [[US/law/NDAA|2012 National Defense Authorization Act]]. In July 2013, the 2nd Circuit ruled the plaintiffs [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/17/ndaa-indefinite-detention-lawsuit_n_3612354.html did not have standing to challenge that law]. [..] Monday, the Supreme Court put the final nail in this suit by denying to hear the case, without comment." +
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"On a fine June morning last year at a Target store outside [[US/OR/Portland|Portland, Oregon]], customers arrive to a startling sight: the parking lot was covered with a seething mat of bumblebees, some staggering around, most already dead, more raining down from above. The die-off lasted several days." +
"Once the error was corrected, the "90% debt-to-GDP threshold" instantly disappeared. Higher [[national debt|government debt]] levels still correlated with slower economic growth, but the relationship was not nearly as pronounced. And there was no dangerous point-of-no-return that countries had to avoid exceeding at all costs." +
"One of my questions about what I term the [[cult of compliance]] is the extent to which it is a product of our historical moment or an indelible aspect of the relationship between the state and its subjects. I'm an optimist, I want to believe that we can improve, that we can make things better. I'm also an historian, though, so it's hard to ignore this kind of evidence as coming out of a fundamental place in the structures of our society in its reactions to protesters in general and women specifically." +
2014/05/27/This silent, zero-emissions electric plane could be the future of sustainable air travel +
"One of the first public demonstrations of energy efficient air travel took to the air last week at the [[Berlin Air Show]], in the form of a fully [[electric airplane]]." +
"One of the things that happens when I meet a bunch of new people, as I did last weekend, is that when they begin to ask about my job, the conversation inevitably comes around to the ugly part of my job. The threats, the [[harassment]], the rivers of vitriolic shit I have to navigate on a daily basis as a cost of doing this work. [..] Every time, the people with whom I share this experience express shock. It is always, always, a surprise that a woman who does public advocacy is subjected to this sort of [[abuse of women|abuse]]." +
"One of the world's most prominent climate researchers publishing scientific papers that doubt humanity's role in climate change has received at least $1.2 million from the fossil fuel industry to fund his research and salary, according to documents [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/us/ties-to-corporate-cash-for-climate-change-researcher-Wei-Hock-Soon.html?_r=1 revealed] this weekend." +
"One year ago, [[US/CA/San Jose|San Jose, Calif.]] raised its [[minimum wage]] to $10 an hour. From the moment an increase was first discussed, opponents quickly painted a grim scenario. San Jose Mayor [[Chuck Reed]] (D) said that a higher minimum posed [http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2012/10/12/san-jose-2013-downtown-priorities.html "the biggest threat"] of any issue to the city's economic development." +
"Over the past few decades, the National Rifle Association has opposed most major efforts to control guns. But the organization's rhetoric and tactics against federal gun-control regulation have evolved significantly since 1934, when the first major weapons regulation – the [[National Firearms Act]] – was enacted." +
"Over the weekend, [[Glenn Beck]] wrote an open letter about the [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute/standoff|standoff]] in Nevada. On the plus side, he is firmly against the far-right gun nuts flocking there to take on the evil gummint. On the minus side... wow, is it a weird, incoherent diatribe. Seriously, see if you can make any sense at all out of this." +
"Overwhelmingly, those who have committed [[terrorism|terrorist attacks]] in the [[US/terrorism/in|United States]] and [[Europe/terrorism/in|Europe]] [[Islam/terrorism|aren't Muslims]]." +
"Owners of 23 outlets settle with workers for half a million dollars following waves of fast food workers' strikes, protests, and court battles" +
"Panic mongering, character assassination, and scapegoating are just three of the techniques [[Fox News]] relies on to drive its right-wing agenda forward." +
"Perhaps the most interesting thing about the House [[US Republican Party|GOP]]'s [[Obamacare]] survey, which an insurance industry source [http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/house-gop-rigged-obamacare-survey dismissed] as "incredibly rigged" when sharing it with TPM, is the question that it didn't manage to answer: How many of the law's enrollees were previously uninsured?" +
"Police forces around the world have had the problem that when their officers get a bit [[police brutality|carried away]] and start pepper spraying tied captives there is someone on hand [[sousveillance|filming the event on their mobile phones]]. [...] But they may not need to fear scrutiny much longer - [http://news.techeye.net/company/apple Apple] has patented a piece of technology which would [[state empowerment|allow government and police]] to [[citizen disempowerment|block transmission]] of information, including video and photographs, whenever they like." +
"President-elect [[Donald Trump]] on Friday named a [[libertarian]] election lawyer as his White House counsel and a hard-line former [[Reagan administration]] official to a top post on his national security staff." +
"Regardless of debate about the success of [[Germany]]'s [[sustainable energy|renewables]] revolution, there is no denying that a small town in the corner of rural eastern Germany, 40 miles south of Berlin, may be one of the best examples of decentralized self-sufficiency. [[Germany/Feldheim|Feldheim]] (population 150), in the cash-strapped state of Brandenburg, was a [[communist]] collective farm back when Germany still was divided into East and West. Now it is a model renewable energy village putting into practice Germany's vision of a renewably powered future." +
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"Regardless of whether you want to [[poverty/reduction|fight]] [[poverty]], stimulate the [[US/economy|economy]], [[small government|shrink the size of government]], or simply ensure everyone has a sense of human dignity – you should be calling for a [[free income|no-strings-attached basic income for all]]." +
"Reports from an oil rig worker who saw a fire in the sky on the night [[Malaysia Airlines Flight 370]] disappeared are being taken seriously, police sources have confirmed." +
"Researchers have discovered a way to tap the sun not only as a source of power, but also to directly produce the solar energy materials that make this possible. This breakthrough could make the sun almost a 'one-stop shop' that produces both the materials for solar devices and the eternal energy to power them." +
"Rodriguez worked at the Mountaire plant until 2011, when, she says, she was hit in the stomach by a large bucket used to haul meat and had a miscarriage in the plant. A doctor told her that she needed to take time off to rest. When she brought the doctor's note to Mountaire's Human Resources department, she says she was ordered to turn in her ID and fired." +
"Russian Foreign Minister [[Sergei Lavrov]] revealed that CIA director [[John Brennan]] was in [[Ukraine/Kiev|Kiev]] last weekend. One of his advisors told the newspaper ''[[Vzgliad]]'' that Brennan had not come to oversee the "anti-terrorist" operations conducted by the Ukrainian authorities, but to seek information and rescue twenty [[Greystone Limited|Greystone Ltd]] mercenaries of whom there has been no news." +
"Sally Lieber, former Speaker pro Tempore of the California State Assembly, Nancy Neff of the CA Clean Money Campaign, and others spoke in front of Palo Alto's City Hall. Al Mite TeDollar and a Supreme Court Justice shook hands as Al proffered cigars in mock celebration. Speakers in Palo Alto's King Hall Plaza said that the Court's ruling in favor of McCutcheon today is a giant blow to our electoral system. The event was organized by the Peninsula Peace and Justice Center." +
"Sarah Harrison, a British journalist who's worked with Wikileaks and the Snowden papers, [http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/14/britain-journalists-terrorists-edward-snowden-nsa writes that she will not enter the UK any longer] because the nation's overbroad anti-terror laws, combined with the court decision that validates using them to detain journalists who are not suspected of terrorism under any reasonable definition of the term, means that she fears begin detained at the airport and then jailed as a terrorist when she refuses to decrypt her files and grant police access to her online accounts." +
"Senator [[Farhatullah Babar]] on Monday questioned recent pronouncements of the [[Council of Islamic Ideology]] and asked if the council was a legal entity even after having submitted its final report to parliament in 1997 as required under the [[Pakistan/constitution|constitution]]." +
"Simulations show that for most study designs and settings, it is more likely for a research claim to be false than true. Moreover, for many current scientific fields, claimed research findings may often be simply accurate measures of the prevailing bias. In this essay, I discuss the implications of these problems for the conduct and interpretation of research." +
"Since 2003, a colossal barge called the [[Freedom Ship]], of debatable tax status, should have been chugging with majestic aimlessness from port to port, a leviathan rover with more than 40,000 wealthy full-time residents living, working and playing on deck. That was the aim eight years ago when the project first made headlines, confidently claiming that construction would start in 2000." +
"So [[Paul Ryan|Ryan]]'s latest health care package is at war with itself. It rails against top-down decrees from Washington, all while imposing a structure on states that would effectively neuter their insurance laws. And it's only the latest in a comedy of errors that includes a proposal to phase out [[Medicare]] and an accidental effort to nationalize the means of production. Nor are these the only examples of Ryan's allergic response to math – we haven't even discussed the multi-trillion dollar "magic asterisk" Ryan relies upon to pay for his tax proposals." +
"So far coverage of [[Facebook]]'s plan to squeeze the organic reach of Pages has focused on its impact on "brands" that spam us with ads and promotions. But nonprofits, activists, and advocacy groups with much fewer resources (and no ad budgets) are also being hugely affected. It's starting to look like Facebook is willing to strangle [[public discourse]] on the platform in an attempt to [[topic::profit|wring out a few extra dollars]] for its new shareholders." +
"Some 39 months after the [[2011 Sendai disaster/Fukushima|multiple explosions at Fukushima]], thyroid cancer rates among nearby children have skyrocketed to more than forty times (40x) normal." CAVEAT: This article's analysis is suspect. +
"Some of [[Edward Jones Investments|the firm]]'s financial advisors refer to it as a cult -- they call it "[[Jonestown]]" -- and hundreds quit every year, because they "can't drink the green Kool Aid any longer."" +
"Someone had the bright idea after winning the state championship to get the black dummy, string it up and gather around it. How could this be the first thing you think of doing after achieving a season long goal? They felt it was OK." +
"Sometimes research takes on a life of its own and becomes more like a Rorschach test for a national policy controversy. That's what's happened to a [http://transition.fcc.gov/bureaus/ocbo/Final_Literature_Review.pdf review of the literature] on the critical information needs of American communities that I and colleagues from around the country conducted for the [[Federal Communications Commission]] in July 2012." +
"Tens of thousands of [[Muslim]]s are fleeing to neighboring countries by plane and truck as [[Christianity/violence/by|Christian militias stage brutal attacks]], shattering the social fabric of this war-ravaged nation. [..] In towns and villages as well as here in the capital, Christian vigilantes wielding machetes have [[Islam/violence/on|killed scores of Muslims]], who are a minority here, and burned and looted their houses and mosques in recent days, according to witnesses, aid agencies and peacekeepers." +
"Thankfully, the [[Church of Scientology]] has compiled this handy catalog of [[L. Ron Hubbard|L. Ron]]-approved holiday merchandise." -- including many items that cost more that most people make in a month while still being basically worthless. +
"The ''[[New York Times]]'' newsroom is unhappy because its editor is not very nice. Allegedly. This startling revelation comes from a piece [http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/04/jill-abramson-loses-the-newsroom-162480.html posted] on [[Politico]] yesterday that instantly lost the internet but gained fans at the ''NYT''." +
"The Berlin [[Islam]] Week event, held in one of the city's town halls, was stopped in its tracks by members of extreme protest group [[Femen]], who charged into the hall with slogans attacking 'religious oppression' and [[Sharia]] law daubed on their bodies." +
"The EPA ruled that the corporation could start bidding on lucrative new oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico after having been suspended from doing any new business with the government ever since [[Deepwater Horizon oil spill|the accident]]. [..] That [http://ecowatch.com/2014/03/17/epa-lifts-bp-gulf-drilling-ban/ suspension was lifted on March 13] less than a week before the yearly government auction for drilling rights." +
"The Izolyatsia makerspace in [[Ukraine/Donetsk|Donetsk]], [[Ukraine]], has been seized by armed, masked Russian separatists from the [[Donetsk People's Republic]], who denounced it as "decadent" and accused it of being "an American-funded anti-Russian organisation which supports fascism and develops decadent kind of arts." Izolyatsia is the first hackerspace to be occupied by an armed militia." +
"The Ku Klux Klan, [[Ronald Reagan]], and, for most of its history, the [[National Rifle Association|NRA]] all worked to [[gun control|control guns]]. The [[US/founding fathers|Founding Fathers]]? They required gun ownership – and regulated it. And no group has more fiercely advocated the right to bear loaded weapons in public than the [[Black Panthers]] – the true pioneers of the modern pro-gun movement. In the battle over gun rights in America, both sides have distorted history and the law, and there's no resolution in sight." +
"The Republic of [[Ireland]] has never had a [[school shooting]] in its history. '''Not. A. Single. One.'''" +
"The U.S. posted a $130 billion [[US/gov/budget/deficit|budget deficit]] in May and the smallest shortfall for the first eight months of a fiscal year since 2008, as a stronger [[US/economy|economy]] and rising employment bolster revenue." +
"The White House counsel operates out of the public eye but has the president's ear. In the [[Trump administration]], with the unprecedented multiplicity of conflict-of-interest challenges facing the businessman-president, the job will take on added importance. As a Democratic commissioner at the Federal Election Commission, I served five years alongside [[Don McGann|Donald F. McGahn]], President-elect Donald Trump's choice for the post. My experience may be instructive – and disquieting." +
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"The Women's Economic Security Act, comprised of nine separate pieces of legislation, won legislative approval last week with bipartisan support. It forces about 1,000 state contractors to certify that they pay men and women equally for similar jobs, extends parental leave from six to 12 weeks and requires employers to make new accommodations for expectant and new mothers." +
"The Working Group III contribution to the [[IPCC|Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]] Fifth Assessment Report (WGIII AR5) provides a comprehensive assessment of all relevant options for mitigating [[global warming|climate change]] through limiting or preventing [[greenhouse gas]] emissions, as well as activities that remove them from the atmosphere." +
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"The [[2008 worldwide recession|present economic crisis]] comes against the background of decades of policy changes that have generally weakened the capacity of social safety nets to offer citizens with adequate resources for financial survival when labour markets fail to do so. Building on data for 24 European Union countries, this paper asks whether EU governments implemented additional measures during the first phase of the crisis to improve [[social safety net|safety net]]s." +
"The [[Bush-Cheney administration|administration]] to which [[Condoleezza Rice|Ms. Rice]] was unswervingly loyal -- and for which she fudged her testimony in front of the [[9/11 commission]], and for which she helped [[US-Iraq/war/justifications|lie this country into a war]] that was the most fundamentally immoral act of foreign policy (perhaps) in its history -- did, in fact, [[torture]] people to those ends." +
"The [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting|horrific murder]] of the editor, cartoonists and other staff of the irreverent satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, along with two policemen, by terrorists in Paris was in my view a strategic strike, [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting/polarizing|aiming at polarizing the French and European public]]." +
"The [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute/standoff|Bundy standoff]] is emblematic of the larger [[anti-government]] sentiment around the country that has been amplified with the creation of the [[tea party]] movement in 2009. But the latest move in a [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute|two-decade-long tug of war]] between [[Cliven Bundy|Bundy]] and the federal government is bringing to light the delicate balance that has lasted between citizens in the West and the federal government over the use of federally owned land for generations." +
"The [[Federal Communications Commission]] will propose new rules that allow [[Internet]] service providers to offer a faster lane through which to send video and other content to consumers, as long as a content company is willing to pay for it, according to people briefed on the proposals." +
"The [[Federal Election Commission]] will consider a request this Wednesday that could open the floodgates for donors to make political contributions in [[Bitcoin]] in the upcoming mid-term elections." +
"The [[Koch brothers]] built their first fortune on the particularly dirty form of oil mined in [[Alberta tar sands|Alberta's tar sands]], where they have been major players for 50 years, and remain deeply invested." +
"The [[Koch brothers]], anti-tax activist [[Grover Norquist]] and some of the nation's largest [[power utility industry|power companies]] have backed efforts in recent months to roll back state policies that favor [[sustainable power|green energy]]. The [[Americonservatism|conservative]] luminaries have pushed campaigns in [[Kansas]], [[North Carolina]] and [[Arizona]], with the battle rapidly spreading to other states." +
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"The [[MoodleNet]] team use products and services from [[GitLab]] Inc. to develop the MoodleNet code base. We were therefore disappointed to learn of a recent decision by GitLab Inc. to change their policies around who they will and will not do business with." +
"The [[National Observatory Against Islamophobia]] said 116 [[Islam/violence/on|anti-Muslim incidents]] had been reported to authorities since the [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting|January 7-9 shooting spree]] by three French jihadists that killed 17." +
"The [[Obama-Biden administration|Obama administration]]'s decision to allow more veterans to get [[US/health/care|care]] at private hospitals could take some pressure off backlogged Veterans Affairs facilities struggling to cope with new patients from the [[war on terror|wars on terrorism]] as well as old soldiers from prior conflicts." +
"The [[Spain|Spanish]] government is using fines, harassment and excessive police force to [[oppression|limit the right to protest]], [[Amnesty International]] warned in a new report released on Thursday." +
"The [[US Democratic Party|Democratic Party]] espouses [[right-wing]] policies. Self-described [[progressivism|progressives]] give them cash. Comedian Bill Maher gave them a million cash dollars, yet Democrats don't agree with him on anything. Why? Because he hates [[US Republican Party|Republicans]] even more. Why didn't Maher save his money? Or better yet, fund a group or a writer or an artist who promotes ideas he actually agrees with? Because he, like tens of millions of other liberals, are stuck in the [[two-party system|two-party trap]]." +
"The [[US/Bureau of Land Management|Bureau of Land Management]] said Tuesday that [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute/cattle grave|two cows died and four others were euthanized]] during the [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute/standoff|roundup]] at a Bunkerville ranch two weeks ago." +
"The amazing result, though, was not the easily-dramatised response footage he perhaps expected: instead, the developers collectively refused to participate further, forcing production to cease." +
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"The answer lies in part to the coalescence of a certain set of ideas in a very specific circle of voices in the early 21st century – voices that later went on to hold high profile positions in much of the U.K.'s print and broadcast media." +
"The authors are correct to identify what contributes to the confidence gap, they simply overstate the remedial effect of closing it. I can have the swagger of Don Draper, but if I'm a middle class woman with kids and a salary lower than annual childcare costs, I'm going to leave the workforce and come back to men who have edged ahead and think I'm a bitch for speaking my mind." +
"The bottom line is that multiple studies indicate with very strong confidence that human activity is the dominant component in the warming of the last 50 to 60 years, and that our best estimates are that pretty much all of the rise is [[global warming/anthropogenic|anthropogenic]]." +
"The campaign, entitled "equal rights, not levelling," invites young men and women to post photos of themselves holding up signs explaining why they reject [[feminism]]." +
2014/04/15/Everything you need to know about the long fight between Cliven Bundy and the federal government +
"The case of cattle rancher [[Cliven Bundy]] [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/04/09/the-federal-government-moved-some-cows-and-nevadas-governor-isnt-happy-about-it/ burst into the national news cycle over the past week], captivating conservative media outlets with its protagonist, a firm believer of states' right with an armed group of supporters backing him. The [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute/standoff|stand-off]] between the Nevada rancher and federal government officials trying to push cattle off of protected federal land has paused for now, but officials plan to renew their efforts soon." +
"The court, without comment, denied the request by activist and former federal prosecutor [[Larry Klayman]], along with Charles and Mary Strange, to immediately hear their case against U.S. President Barack Obama, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, NSA Director Keith Alexander, [[Verizon]] Communications and Roger Vinson, the judge who signed the order allowing the surveillance." +
"The election of [[Barack Obama]] failed to usher in a post-racial US, with a new poll showing that 51 percent of Americans hold explicitly [[racism|anti-black]] views. That figure is up from 48 percent in 2008, the year America elected its first black president." +
"The emergence of [[Google]] as a major [[lobbying]] force in Washington is a generally well-reported story. But the ''[[Washington Post]]'' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-google-is-transforming-power-and-politicsgoogle-once-disdainful-of-lobbying-now-a-master-of-washington-influence/2014/04/12/51648b92-b4d3-11e3-8cb6-284052554d74_story.html added fresh, intriguing details over the weekend] that reveal the search engine company has been deeply involved with financing and organizing conferences on Internet regulatory policy at a major center of libertarian research – [[George Mason University]]." +
"The findings, [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673614606966# published Friday] in ''[[The Lancet]]'', indicate that, while [[infant mortality]] rates [http://www.vox.com/2014/5/3/5675970/fewer-babies-are-dying-around-the-world-than-ever-before are improving], [[US|America]] is one of the few countries actually seeing an increase in its [[maternal mortality]] rate." +
"The first bills promoted by Rep. [[Paul Ryan]] (R-Wis.) as the new chairman of the tax-writing [[Ways and Means Committee]] would add nearly $100 billion to the [[US/gov/budget/deficit|deficit]] over 10 years. [..] Ryan, a deficit hawk during his time as the chairman of the Budget Committee for the previous six years, made his fame proposing budgets that aimed to dramatically cut domestic spending and balance the budget within a decade." +
"The frightening truth is that our economy is failing to generate enough jobs. Of the jobs it does generate, too many pay stagnant or declining wages; fast-growth sectors like retail and food service are often at poverty scale. This despite the fact that we are supposedly recovering from the Great Recession, and U.S. stock markets have more than doubled since 2008." +
"The great 20th-century economist [[John Maynard Keynes]] has been widely quoted as saying, "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir?" Sadly, in their quest to concentrate economic and political power in the hands of the wealthiest members of society, today's [[US Republican Party|Republicans]] have held the opposite position – as the evidence has piled up against them, they continue spreading the same myths." +
"The largest effect is that of [[Fox News]]: all else being equal, someone who watched only Fox News would be expected to answer just 1.04 domestic questions correctly – a figure which is significantly worse than if they had reported watching no media at all." +
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"The lie is that raising [[income tax]]es on rich people and hugely profitable companies hurts economies and even leads to unemployment. The truth is that raising income taxes on rich people and hugely profitable companies actually helps economies and causes companies to hire more and more people, thus lowering unemployment." +
"The man charged in the murder of three people outside the Jewish Community Center and Village Shalom assisted-living community in Overland Park, Kan., was once considered the most prominent [[neo-Nazi]] leader in North Carolina and operated a paramilitary camp in Johnston County." +
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"The massive tax cuts in Kansas have deepened the damage done to schools, colleges and universities, and other key services by the recession and have failed to improve Kansas's economic performance, according to a new report from the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Kansas should serve as a cautionary tale for Wisconsin, not a model." +
"The measured USHCN daily temperature data shows a decline in US temperatures since the 1930s. But before they release it to the public, they put it thorough a series of adjustments which [[global warming/claims/altered data|change it from a cooling trend to a warming trend]]." +
"The mix-up proved to be a quick, hard lesson for [[Danielle Outlaw|Outlaw]] on [[US/OR/Portland|Portland]]'s unusual commission form of government. Mayor Ted Wheeler, who also serves as police commissioner, doesn’t have the final say on decisions like this. He must wade through established city procedures and gain majority support on the City Council." +
"The over simplification of the situation in [[Ukraine]] and in [[Crimea]] by the western media into a good vs evil is far from reality. The VOR talked to Greg Barns, he is an advisor for the WikiLeaks Party in Australia about [[Australia/Ukraine relations|Australian reaction]] to this situation in Ukraine." +
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"The paper rehearses arguments for and against the prediction of massive [[jobsolescence|technological unemployment]]." +
"The principal theoretical defect of nonoriginalism, in my view, is its incompatibility with the very principle that legitimizes judicial review of constitutionality. Nothing in the text of the Constitution confers upon the courts the power to inquire into, rather than passively assume, the constitutionality of federal statutes." +
"The tiny village of [[DE/Feldheim|Feldheim]], some 60 kilometers southwest of Berlin, was catapulted by chance to the forefront of the [[sustainable power|renewable energy]] movement. Now visitors from around the world are flocking to this otherwise unremarkable rural community to see if they can replicate its success." +
"The two political operatives chosen earlier this month to lead [[Donald Trump]]'s presidential campaign after two former managers departed have been members of the secretive [[Council for National Policy]] (CNP), Hatewatch has learned" +
"The ultra-right U.S. [[Koch brothers]], little-known to [[Canada|Canadians]], are major players in [[CA/Alberta|Alberta]]'s oil patch, where they control at least 1.1 million acres." +
"The waters around south [[US/FL|Florida]] are rising fast. The Florida coast has already seen 12 inches (30 centimeters) of sea rise since 1870." +
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"There is a far cheaper option though: giving [[homelessness|homeless people]] housing and supportive services. The study found that it would cost taxpayers just $10,051 per homeless person to give them a permanent place to live and services like job training and health care. That figure is 68 percent less than the public currently spends by allowing homeless people to remain on the streets. If central [[US/FL|Florida]] took the permanent supportive housing approach, it could save $350 million over the next decade." +
"There is enough [[wind power|energy available in winds]] to meet all of the world's demand. Atmospheric turbines that convert steadier and faster high-altitude winds into energy could generate even more power than ground- and ocean-based units. New research from Carnegie's Ken Caldeira examines the limits of the amount of power that could be harvested from winds, as well as the effects high-altitude wind power could have on the climate as a whole." +
"There is no substantial bill seeking to truly reform the [[US/gov/patent system|patent system]] and those which exist, including corresponding press coverage, are focusing on [[patent troll|troll]]s, costs, and other side issues. The [[Electronic Frontier Foundation|EFF]], which once upon a time promised to fight against [[software patents]], recently hired some more lawyers whose articles on the matter tend to be a waste of time (and whose focus is truly bizarre, misguided at best)." +
"There was a storm on Twitter when [[Elliot Rodger]]'s [[misogyny|misogynistic]] ramblings and videos were discovered online. Bloggers and commentators pointed out he used language familiar to the "[[pick-up artist]]" (PUA) community - an industry dedicated to teaching men the art of attracting women." +
"These [[terrorist]]s ([[Taliban]]/[[al-Qaida]]/[[Islamic State|ISIS]]), so-called Muslims, have no religion. No religion in the world teaches you to kill innocent people, especially children and women. [...] These so-called Muslims are not only killing non-Muslims, they are also [[Islam/violence/on|killing Muslims]]." +
"These days, [[transgenderism|transgender people]] bring out the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ipSU2logPY crazy], [http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/05/20/Ordinance-Allowing-Transgendered-Men-in-Womens-Restrooms-Spurs-Protest mean], and ignorant in [[right wing|social conservatives]] like nothing else. They are accused of being rapists, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxqYqY7vwt4 child molesters], [http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/02/dont-let-your-kids-watch-chaz-bono-on-dancing-with-stars/ delusional], and mentally ill. Social conservatives in very public positions have offered many "solutions" to the perceived transgender menace, ranging from mistreating us until we self-deport back to our birth gender, to [http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/02/dont-let-your-kids-watch-chaz-bono-on-dancing-with-stars/ forced institutionalization], to "[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/parker-marie-molloy/todd-kincannon-transgender-camps_b_4100777.html putting them in camps]."" +
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"These discoveries do not sit well in a world in which sex is still defined in binary terms. Few legal systems allow for any ambiguity in [[biological sex]], and a person's legal rights and social status can be heavily influenced by whether their birth certificate says male or female." +
"This far from settles the fight over raising the [[minimum wage]], but does address concerns that a rise in the minimum wage would lead to across the board job losses." +
"This is a challenge to regulations issued under the [[Obamacare|2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]] that would force [[religious]]ly-motivated business owners like Plaintiffs to violate their faith under threat of millions of dollars in fines." +
"This post covers the scientific and legal definitions of [[sexism]], [[sexual harassment]] and [[sexual discrimination]]. We include an overview of the different ways in which sexism is described, such as hostile, benevolent, accidental or unintentional. These qualifiers of sexism can sometimes confuse people, as they invite people to see sexism as an individual or subjective idea. Sexism is neither – it is about how the collective interactions that happen at the everyday level are connected to institutional practices of harassment and discrimination. We provide examples of how sexist culture operates in at various levels of [[STEM]], from undergraduate courses to gender inequality in pay, science publishing and recognition of women's achievements. STEM Women seeks to move beyond superficial arguments about what sexism is and isn't. The scientific evidence, some of which is included here, has established that [[gender inequity|inequality]] exists. We are looking for practical solutions to address inequality and lift the participation of women in STEM." +
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"This video crunches the numbers on how much [[Wal-Mart|Walmart]], the single biggest [[corporate welfare|beneficiary of the food stamp economy]], might have to raise prices across the board to help a typical worker earn a living wage." +
"Thousands of schools in states across the country can use taxpayer money to cast doubt on basic science." +
"Today the provisional government in Kiev launched a military offensive against the eastern city of Slavyansk using tanks and helicopters, but the [[mainstream media]] will never show you what actually happened." +
"Today we announced the decision to conclude the cattle gather because of our grave concern about the safety of employees and members of the public." +
"Today, yet another of the professional men I've hired to provide services for Triskele Media made the mistake of calling it Sean's corporation, and that's twice for this person. In all, the tally so far is two bankers, an insurance agent and an accountant in the last year alone." +
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"Two new studies have revealed the wealthy have even more wealth than anyone probably thought they did. A study by [[Emmanuel Saez]] and [[Gabriel Zucman]] has shown that income has only been increasing for the top one-thousandth, while another study by Gabriel Zucman shows exactly where that money is going." +
"Udi Tirosh at DIY Photography has uncovered a recently granted patent for the [http://www.diyphotography.net/can-close-studio-amazon-patents-photographing-seamless-white/ previously-unheard of process of photographing things/people against a white backdrop]... to of all companies, [[Amazon.com|Amazon]]." +
"Ultimately, the answer is yes, she is [[transphobic]], at least in the ways that so many average [[cisgender]] people can be. However, because she’s [[J.K. Rowling]], creator of the [[Harry Potter|best-selling book series of all time]] and an idol to so many LGBTQ+ children and now adults, she gets called out for it. I think it's fair that she receives criticism from trans people, especially given her advocacy on behalf of queer people in general, but also because she has a huge platform. Many people look up to her for creating a singular piece of popular culture that holds deep meaning for fans from different walks of life, and she has a responsibility to handle that platform wisely." +
"Under the new rules, service providers may not block or discriminate against specific websites, but they can charge certain sites or services for preferential traffic treatment if the ISPs' discrimination is 'commercially reasonable.'" +
"Using a survey fielded by the [[RAND]] American Life Panel, we estimate a net gain of 9.3 million in the number of American adults with health insurance coverage from September 2013 to mid-March 2014." +
"We asked if he saw a distinction between families going in, and terrorists who committed the [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting|murderous attacks in Paris]]. "I see common ground," he replied." +
"We compared three variables related to the American workforce: the median wage for various jobs; the number of people employed in those positions in the United States; and the likelihood that [[jobsolescence|these jobs will become automated]]." +
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"We could say this every time I come on your show and talk to you: we've hit all-time lows with media coverage in this country. [..] When you look at what's happening right now in Gaza, this is a massive massacre and one epic series of war crime after war crime, child after child being killed. [...] Israeli propagandists are largely given carte blanche to say what they want on American television with very little pushback." +
"We shouldn't call people stupid. And when other people resort to name calling, we should discourage them by expressing public disapproval, because calling people stupid... makes people stupid." +
"We speak to the reporter who broke this story, <i>[[The Intercept]]</i>'s [[Jeremy Scahill]], about al-Awlaki’s background and the [[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting|Paris shooters]]' claims of militant ties." +
"We, the members of the [[US Libertarian Party|Libertarian Party]], challenge the cult of the omnipotent state, and defend the rights of the individual." +
"Western headlines have attempted to spin into ambiguity the death of over 30 anti-fascist [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] protesters cornered and burned to death in the Trade Unions House in the southern port city of Odessa. The arson was carried out by [[Neo-Nazi]] mobs loyal to the unelected regime now occupying Kiev." +
"When Ray Massia Hewitt (our then BPP minister of education) and I went to the Scandinavian countries (Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland) in January of 1969 little did I realize that I was being set up by the FBI-CIA [[COINTELPRO]] operations to go into exile." +
"When [[Cliven Bundy|Bundy]]'s grazing rights were modified by [[US/Bureau of Land Management|BLM]] in 1993, it was in part to protect [[desert tortoise|the species]], which inhabits the same publicly-owned desert areas trodden by Bundy's cattle and was at the time on the brink of extinction. [..] That's where the connection to the tortoise ends, however." +
"When [[Guido Barilla]] gave a radio interview last week, he stepped on a land mine of LGBT issues. While attempting to write about it from a mass market retail angle, this contributor did too." +
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"Whenever people talk about traditional [[marriage]] or traditional families, historians throw up their hands," said Steven Mintz, a history professor at Columbia University. "We say, 'When and where?'" +
"While Sen. [[Ted Cruz]] (R-Texas) received a very warm welcome from most of the 10,000 [[Liberty University]] students present at his [[US/president/election/2016|presidential campaign]] kickoff, not all were happy that they had to attend the event or face a fine." +
"While most citizens gripe about politicians or "the system" for operating beyond their influence--do any voters understand the "how" and "why" when elite interests wield far greater force?" +
"While of some scientific interest, the impact for real-world mitigation policy of the range of conceivable values for the TCR is small (see also [http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-will-cross-the-climate-danger-threshold-by-2036/ this discussion in Sci. Am.]). For targets like the [http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2014/10/limiting-global-warming-to-2-c-why-victor-and-kennel-are-wrong/ 2 K guide-rail], a TCR on the lower end of the Lewis and Curry and IPCC ranges might just be the difference between a achievable rate of emissions reduction and an impossible one..." +
"While the wealthiest Americans are outpacing many of their global peers, a New York Times analysis shows that across the lower- and middle-income tiers, citizens of other advanced countries have received considerably larger raises over the last three decades." +
"Why "efficiency" and "productivity" really mean more profits for corporations and less sanity for you." +
"With a three-step method, [[Harvey Mudd College]] in California quadrupled its female [[computer science]] majors." +
"Within hours the original page for the article was taken down, and CNBC senior vice president Kevin Krim received news that his children were killed under very suspicious circumstances." +
"Yes, [http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/44832_The_Huge_Right_Wing_Anti-Choice_Fake_Outrage_of_the_Day they are liars]. They [http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a43326/center-for-medical-progress-planned-parenthood-abortion/ are lying] little [http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2015/07/14/lila_rose_and_live_action_have_another_planned_parenthood_sting_yet_again.html liars] who tell [http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2015/07/14/planned-parenthood-isnt-selling-baby-parts-unpacking-the-lies-in-a-new-undercover-video/ wicked lies]. How do you know that a forced-birth activist is lying? Simple: if they carry a sign or open their mouths, [http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/what-you-didnt-see-planned-parenthood-video they are lying]. They are never not lying. They only ever lie. Fibbing and fraud are their primary weapons." +
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"Yesterday, [[Catholic League (US)|Catholic League]] president [[Bill Donohue]] issued a news release calling attention to the plea that [[PZ Myers|Paul Zachary Myers]] made on his blog: he solicited the [[communion wafer|Communion Host]] for the express purpose of desecrating it. Donohue now responds to the reaction he has received from the University of Minnesota Morris professor, as well as others:" +
"You're five times more likely to die from a gun in Arizona than Hawaii. In the wake of the Giffords massacre, The Daily Beast ranks which states have the worst record of gun fatalities." +
"Young children who are exposed to [[religion]] have a hard time differentiating between [[fact]] and [[fiction]], according to a new [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cogs.12138/abstract study] published in the July issue of ''[[Cognitive Science]]''." +
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"[[Amazon.com|Amazon]] tracks its competitors extremely closely. So when an upstart called [[Diapers.com]] began catching on with parents by allowing them to easily schedule recurring orders of diapers and other essentials, [[Jeff Bezos]] took notice..." +
"[[Barack Obama|The president]]'s visiting [[Wal-Mart|my store]] Friday. He won't see how I sleep on my son's floor and eat potato chips for lunch." +
"[[Ben Carson]]'s rise to the top of the [[US Republican Party|Republican]] presidential field shows that many Republicans, especially [[Christian fundamentalist]]s, have decoupled from the real world – and are proud of it. The more that GOP candidates embrace "[[Antiepistemics|anti-knowledge]]" the more popular they become, as Mike Lofgren explains." +
"[[Bill Kristol]] rightly finds the [[IRS]]'s targeting to be exemplary of abuse, overreaching government. But the [[NSA]]? Not really a concern." +
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"[[CEO]] is the profession with the most [[psychopathy|psychopaths]]." +
"[[Cecily McMillan]] was on Monday afternoon found guilty of deliberately elbowing Officer Grantley Bovell in the face in March 2012. After a trial lasting more than four weeks, the jury of eight women and four men reached their verdict in about three hours." +
"[[Charlie Hebdo/2015 shooting/next issue|This week]]'s front page is a lot less defiant, if it is defiant at all, when compared to the caricatures previously published by the satirical newspaper. So how can these reactions be explained? HuffPost asked religious anthropologist and psychoanalyst Malek Chebel, author of the book ''L'Inconscient De L'Islam'' (The Unconscious of Islam)." +
"[[Cliven Bundy]] -- the Nevada rancher turned [[Americonservatism|conservative]] folk hero for [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute|bucking]] the federal government's attempts to stop his cattle from grazing on public land -- admits he doesn't understand the bipartisan uproar over his comments suggesting blacks might have been better off under slavery." +
"[[Elizabeth Warren|The Massachusetts senator]] says she knows "a little bit about the way [GOP Rep.] [[Trey Gowdy]] pursues oversight" – because in 2011, she "was on the other end of it."" +
"[[Fox News]] commentator [[Karl Rove]] said to a conference in California earlier this month that he suspects that former Secretary of State [[Hillary Clinton]] is brain-damaged from a fall and concussion she suffered in 2012." +
2014/04/14/Frazier Glenn Miller, charged in Kansas killings at Jewish Center, participated in deadly Greensboro confrontation +
"[[Frazier Glenn Miller]] was 39 years old and a leader in the North Carolina [[white supremacy|white supremacist]] movement in 1979 when he participated in a deadly [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oxh5-hq6mc confrontation] in [[US/NC/Greensboro|Greensboro]] between the [[Ku Klux Klan]] and the [[Neo-Nazism|Nazi]]s on one side and on the other, black and white members of the [[US Communist Party|Communist Party]], who were holding an anti-racist rally." +
"[[Greg Brannon]] is a doctor and former [[Tea Party|tea party]] activist running for Senate in [[US/NC|North Carolina]]. Brannon, who is most likely headed for a [[US Republican Party|Republican]] Senate primary run with North Carolina state House Speaker [[Thom Tillis]], led incumbent Democratic Sen. [[Kay Hagan]] 42-40 in an April Public Policy Polling poll." +
"[[Hillary Clinton]] announced on Sunday that she was [[US/president/election/2016|running for president]] of the United States, promising to be a champion of middle-class Americans if she made it to the White House as the country’s first female commander in chief." +
"[[Hobby Lobby]] is so offended by the idea of contributing to its employees' [[contraception|birth control]] expenses that it fought all the way to the Supreme Court over the issue. But its retirement plan has over $73M sunk into funds that include companies that make contraception." +
"[[Israel]] has gone ahead and destroyed several EU-funded humanitarian projects in a settlement zone in the West Bank, despite diplomatic threats and repeated calls to desist, it has been revealed by EurActiv." +
"[[Israel]]'s army has denied targeting the [[Gaza]] offices of [[al-Jazeera]] TV after the network's correspondents reported that the building had come under fire on Tuesday." +
2014/04/24/Chase Bank exploiting FDIC warning to close accounts of adult entertainers, sex workers +
"[[JPMorgan Chase Bank|Chase Bank]] sent hundreds of letters this week to account holders who work in the adult entertainment industry informing them that they have until May 11 to close their accounts and find another bank." +
"[[Kuwait]]i [[domestic servant|domestic worker]]s are being [http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/kuwaiti-instagram-vigilantism-hunting-runaway-domestic-workers named and shamed] on an [[Instagram]] account called Mn7asha, or "runaway"." +
"[[Lloyd's of London]], the world's oldest and biggest insurance market, has for the first time called on insurers to incorporate [[global warming|climate change]] into their models." +
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"[[MSNBC]] anchor [[Rachel Maddow]] investigates this swing of public support in favor of [[Obamacare]], and describes a political scene where the Affordable Care Act's success converts into a literal Armageddon for the [[US Republican Party|conservative party]] – and not just temporarily." +
"[[Malta]] has become the first European state to have [[gender identity]] in its constitution following the proposed amendment that was approved yesterday evening in parliament." +
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