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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">Democratic presidential candidate [[Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.]] (RFK Jr.) called for diplomacy and de-escalation with [[Ukraine/invasion by Russia|Russia]] instead of a "forever war" in a speech mirroring that of his uncle's, former President [[John F. Kennedy]] (JFK).</span>'''»''' +
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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">U.S. politicians are trying to keep [[trans kids]] from getting the medical care they need to transition — and states are banning them from playing on the sports teams that match their gender. So we’re looking at the science here, and asking: are the medical treatments for trans kids dangerous? And do trans folks have an advantage when it comes to sports? We talk to Florence Ashley, Dr. Jack Turban, and Joanna Harper to find out.</span>'''»''' +
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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">The report found that coverage is likely to cost less thanks to premiums being lower than expected through the exchange marketplaces. In other words, take pretty much everything you've heard from congressional [[US Republican Party|Republican]]s lately and believe the opposite. [..] And as part of the same review, of course, the [[Congressional Budget Office|CBO]] added that [[Obamacare|the Affordable Care Act]] will also continue to reduce the federal budget deficit, which is also the opposite of critics' claims.</span>'''»''' +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">Owen County Judge Kelsey Hanlon issued a preliminary injunction against the ban that took effect one week ago. The injunction was sought by abortion clinic operators who argued in a lawsuit that the state constitution protects access to the medical procedure.</span>'''»''' +
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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">Republicans prevented more than 350,000 voters in Ohio from casting ballots or having their votes counted - enough to have put [[John Kerry]] in the White House.</span>'''»''' +
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Pbs.org/newshour/show/rfk-jr-appears-before-congress-as-his-comments-spreading-misinformation-draw-scrutiny +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">All eyes are on the Republican primary this election cycle, but one Democratic underdog has been getting attention for his controversial comments spreading [[misinformation]] on a range of subjects. Lisa Desjardins reports on how [[Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.]] captured the attention of some voters and Geoff Bennett discusses Kennedy's vaccine stances with Dr. Paul Offitt.</span>'''»''' +
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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">One police officer injured in [[protests]] sparked by what residents call an increasingly [[police brutality|violent police force]]</span>'''»''' +
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Rollingstone.com/politics/story/11983301/diebolds letter to rolling stone and robert f kennedy jrs response/3 +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">The inaccurate and misleading statements in [[Diebold]]'s response begin with the very first sentence. Not only did I make every effort to verify the accuracy of my sources, I made sure that researchers from both ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' and my own office contacted Diebold for comment. As readers of the article can confirm for themselves, several responses from the company are included in the piece.</span>'''»''' +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">The debacle of the [[US/president/elec/2000|2000 presidential election]] made it all too apparent to most Americans that our electoral system is broken. And private-sector entrepreneurs were quick to offer a fix: Touch-screen voting machines, promised the industry and its lobbyists, would make voting as easy and reliable as withdrawing cash from an ATM.</span>'''»''' ... '''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">But as [[US/elec/2006|midterm elections]] approach this November, electronic voting machines are making things worse instead of better. Studies have demonstrated that hackers can easily rig the technology to fix an election — and across the country this year, faulty equipment and lax security have repeatedly undermined election primaries.</span>'''»''' +
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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">Ohio Democratic Congressman [[Dennis Kucinich]] spent some 290 minutes on the House floor Monday, reading [[George W. Bush/impeachment/2008 resolution|Articles of Impeachment against President George Bush]]. Not that you would notice, as there was a virtual [[mainstream media|media]] blackout on the story, but [[Keith Olbermann]] ran with it right out of the gate...</span>'''»''' +
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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">just like the [[Stonewall]] rioters, [[Orson Scott Card|Card]] is here to say he’s finally had enough of being hounded simply for his way of life that involves decrying others' way of life.</span>'''»''' If this had happened circa 2020, he'd doubtless be decrying [[cancel culture]] and demanding his right of [[freeze peach]] as well. +
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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">[[John Gibbs]], who defeated in the primary an incumbent Republican who had voted to impeach Trump, also made comments in the early 2000s praising an organization trying to repeal the 19th Amendment which also [[anti-feminism|argued that women’s suffrage had made the United States into a “totalitarian state.”]]</span>'''»''' +
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Coindesk.com/policy/2023/07/19/us-presidential-candidate-rfk-jr-vows-to-exempt-crypto-from-capital-gains-tax-if-elected +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">The Democratic presidential hopeful also reiterated a May stance defending the right to self-custody [[bitcoin]], run blockchain nodes at home and promising industry-neutral energy regulation.</span>'''»''' +
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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">A few weeks ago, as part of a larger condemnation of [[Barack Obama|Obama]] presidency, [[Mitt Romney]] insisted the last five years have been awful for the United States' stature around the world. "It is hard to name even a single country that has more respect and admiration for America today than when President Obama took office," the failed candidate [http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/declining-us-stature-only-romney said], adding, "Our [[US/global relations|esteem around the world]] has fallen.</span>'''»''' +
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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">What [[Scott Leibowitz|Leibowitz]] and his co-authors didn’t foresee, when they began, was that their work would be engulfed by two intersecting forces: a significant rise in the number of [[transgender youth|teenagers openly identifying as transgender]] and seeking [[transgender care|gender care]], and a [[right-wing]] backlash in the United States against allowing them to medically transition, including state-by-state efforts to ban it.</span>'''»''' +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">Puberty blockers can ease transgender youths’ anguish and buy time to weigh options. But concerns are growing about long-term physical effects and other consequences.</span>'''»''' A bit of [[think of the children]] scaremongering from your friendly neighborhood newspaper. +
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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">I’ve come to believe I have a responsibility to write about [[Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.|Kennedy]] because of my own shameful role in sending his [[autism vaccination theory|toxic vaccine views]] into public discourse: I was the ''[[Salon.com|Salon]]'' editor, in partnership with ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', who 18 years ago published his mendacious, error-ridden piece on how thimerosal in childhood vaccines supposedly led to a rise in autism, and how public health officials covered it up. From the day “[[Rollingstone.com/politics/story/7395411/deadly immunity|Deadly Immunity]]” went up on [[Salon.com]], we were besieged by scientists and advocates showing how Kennedy had misunderstood, incorrectly cited, and perhaps even falsified data. Some of his sources turned out to be known crackpots.</span>'''»''' +
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Wweek.com/news/city/2022/10/13/mayor-will-announce-plan-to-ban-unsanctioned-camping-across-portland-build-500-person-homeless-campuses +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler plans next week to announce a sweeping strategy to ban unsanctioned camping across the city and build three massive sanctioned camping areas, called "campuses," each with capacity for 500 people. [..] Each campus would be divided into four camps with a 125-person capacity.</span>'''»''' '''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">The city will seek to hire an outside contractor to run the three campuses.</span>'''»''' +
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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">As new polling from the ''[[New York Times]]'' and the [[Kaiser Family Foundation]] suggests, even in the [[US/deep South|deep South]], voters aren't actually buying what [[US Republican Party|Republicans]] are selling on health care.</span>'''»''' +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">A common spin in the [[right wing]] coverage of [[2010-04-20 Deepwater Horizon oil spill|BP's oil spill]] is a gleeful suggestion that the gulf blowout is [[Barack Obama|Obama]]'s [[Response to Hurricane Katrina|Katrina]]. .. In truth, culpability for the disaster can more accurately be laid at the [[Bush-Cheney administration|Bush Administration]]'s doorstep.</span>'''»''' +
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Dispatch.com/story/news/local/2022/12/03/royal-oak-school-drag-storytime-canceled-proud-boys-protest-columbus/69691753007 +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">The Red Oak Community School canceled its [[2022/12/03/Holi-drag cancellation|Holi-drag storytime]] Saturday morning following promises of protest from the [[Proud Boys]] and what school officials described as only a "casual, distant acknowledgement" of the event from [[police]]. / The [[US/OH/Columbus/police|Columbus Division of Police]] and city officials, however, said they'd been in communication with organizers since they'd learned about the event weeks ago.</span>'''»''' These two accounts do not actually contradict each other, though the wording implies that they do. Later in the article, though, police statements directly contradict what the school said about who first contacted whom. +
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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">[[Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.]] investigates the government cover-up of a mercury/autism scandal</span>'''»''' +
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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">Despite North Carolina slowly injuring itself by trying to eliminate oil, coal, and natural gas as energy sources, the scientific basis for “net zero” (the complete elimination of fossil-fuel usage) is based more on "general agreement" than hard data.</span>'''»''' +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">Because federal spending levels for this fiscal year and the next are already set, there was no practical reason for House Budget Committee Chairman [[Paul Ryan]] (R-Wis.) to unveil a budget blueprint last week. Indeed, since it'll never be approved by the Democratic Senate, the mere introduction of the plan was an obviously political exercise – more a statement than an attempt at governing.</span>'''»''' +
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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">Armed fascists successfully intimidated a church in Ohio into cancelling a [[drag queen event|Drag Queen Story Hour event]] yesterday. A group of masked fascists paraded in paramilitary style chanting “Life, Liberty, Victory” while others wore camouflage and military gear. Many openly carried long guns, and protest signs accused organizers and participants of this costume, dance, and story-reading event of child abuse. Terrorized participants were forced to make the call to cancel in light of lackluster [[police]] involvement in security and fears from performers that they would not be safe.</span>'''»''' +
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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">There's one last court case that we've been following that, in theory, could still destroy much of [[Obamacare|the federal health care system]]. At a distance, it's a genuinely ridiculous case, but as [http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/dc-circuit-obamacare-subsidies Adam Serwer reports] this morning, its absurdity didn't stop Republican-appointed judges from making the wrong call this morning.</span>'''»''' +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">The group predicted that the money would help reduce stress and improve food security, and it did. But two-thirds of the people who were unhoused when the pilot began also now have permanent housing. (The number has grown since the program first ended, when only a third had moved into new housing.)</span>'''»''' This was quite unexpected. +
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Assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/nyt-investigation-finds-concerns-about-puberty-blockers-for-trans-youth +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">It's an overtly biased piece of work, and will no doubt spur a heck of a lot of articles from trans people, and allies, seeking to fact check and provide context and criticism on where the Times reporters, Megan Twohey and Christina Jewett, went so wrong. As our specific beat is media criticism, this piece will highlight the clearest journalistic errors, weaselly phrasing, and other poor choices made in the writing and editing of this piece.</span>'''»''' +
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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">This class-based construction of the campus slut allowed both groups to [[slut-shaming|deflect the stigma of "sluttiness"]] onto other women and away from themselves, establish hierarchies among social groups, and police everyone's gender performance – including their own – along the way.</span>'''»''' +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">The conventional wisdom on the politics of health care is so widely accepted, it usually goes unchallenged. [[US Democratic Party|Democrats]] – especially vulnerable, red-state Democrats – will be desperate to avoid the [[Obamacare|Affordable Care Act]] this election year, eager to talk about anything but the health care law.</span>'''»''' +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">Over the last three weeks, I listened to testimony in the first of nine test cases in the U.S. Vaccine Court ([[Cedillo v. Health and Human Services]]) considering the question of whether a mercury-based vaccine preservative called [[thimerosal]] (which used to be in many vaccines), or the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine, or both together [[autism vaccination theory|caused autism]] in Michelle Cedillo, the plaintiffs' daughter.</span>'''»''' +
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URL/salon.com/2013/05/07/sci fi icon orson scott card hates fan fiction the homosexual agenda partner +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">in addition to being one of the most critically acclaimed writers of science fiction, [[Orson Scott Card|Card, or OSC]], as he's dubbed in sci-fi circles, is also one of the most openly bigoted. Card is the great-great-grandson of [[Mormon]] icon [[Brigham Young]], and his politics are deeply linked to his lifelong Mormonism. Card has been openly railing against what he calls "[[the homosexual agenda]]" for decades.</span>'''»''' +
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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">The second [possibility] is that the suspected ringleader behind [[2012 Benghazi attack|the Benghazi attack]] is in on the [[2012 Benghazi attack/conspiracy|Benghazi conspiracy]]. Sure, the sheeple will resist, but don't you see it? The conspiracy is so broad, so all-encompassing, and so far-reaching in its scope, the White House has even gotten to [[Ahmed Abu Khattala]], convincing an alleged terrorist to stick to the talking points.</span>'''»''' +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">...Supreme Court experts [..] stress that we’re likely to see the legal [[conservatism/US|conservative movement]] seize this moment, and as such, we should brace for a wave of rulings that move the law fundamentally to the right – on everything from hot-button cultural issues like [[gun rights]] and [[abortion]] to more legalistic, but nevertheless important, topics like the power of the executive branch.</span>'''»''' +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">...this report shows that some of the most frequently heard claims about sexuality and gender are not supported by scientific evidence. The report has a special focus on the higher rates of mental health problems among LGBT populations, and it questions the scientific basis of trends in the treatment of children who do not identify with their biological sex.</span>'''»''' This report ''also'' appears to be the entire contents of [http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/number-50-fall-2016 issue #50, Fall 2016], a "special issue" of ''[[The New Atlantis]]'', "A Journal of Technology and Society" which is published by the [[conservatism/US/org|US conservatist advocacy group]] [[Ethics and Public Policy Center]]. +
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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">Hormones? Surgery? The choices are fraught – and there are no easy answers.</span>'''»''' ...except [[puberty blockers]] are generally a good idea. This article emphasizes the unknowns and the risks, and mistakenly implies they're not a good general solution. +
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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">Spain's celebrated Judge [[Baltasar Garzon]], who indicted [[Augusto Pinochet|Pinochet]] and the leaders of the Argentinian military junta, has called for [[George W. Bush]], [[Tony Blair|Blair]] and former Spanish prime minister [[Jose Maria Aznar]] to be prosecuted for the [[US invasion of Iraq|invasion of Iraq]] – "one of the most sordid and unjustifiable episodes in recent human history: a devastating attack on the rule of law" that had left the UN "in tatters." He said, "There is enough of an argument in 650,000 deaths for this investigation to start without delay."</span>'''»''' +
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URL/verbicidemagazine.com/2013/08/15/enders-game-author-orson-scott-card-rant-obama-dictator-national-police +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">"[[Barack Obama|Obama]] is, by character and preference, a [[dictator]]," [[Orson Scott Card|Card]] wrote before [[Godwin's law|comparing]] the President of the United States to [[Adolf Hitler]]. "Obama will claim we need a national police force in order to fight terrorism and crime. The [[Boston bombing]] is a useful start, especially when combined with random shootings by crazy people."</span>'''»''' '''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">And then he added that Obama will reassert his power through puppet dictators.</span>'''»''' +
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'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">Yesterday afternoon, former Sen. [[Scott Brown]] (R-Mass.), on the campaign trail in his new state, was confronted by quite a few reporters asking about the same topic: his curious role as an adviser to a [[US/FL|Florida]] [[Global Digital Solutions Inc.|firearm manufacturer]] that doesn't actually manufacture firearms.</span>'''»''' +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">My son and I were grabbed by the arms and escorted outside. The two policemen who escorted us were soon joined by four others with two other squad cars. Surrounded, we were peppered by questions. Basically they were of the type, "Why are you bothering these people?" .. The answer, as clear as we could make it was, "We aren't bothering them! We are simply trying to vote, and these people are breaking [[Missouri State Statutes]], preventing us from voting." .. The police responded, "Look, you are breaking their rules. If you don't get out of here, we are going to arrest you!" .. The question I had in response was, "Their rules? What rules? Those are employees of the Election Board, they are under the mandate of the Election Board, and then the SoS. Aren't you more concerned about the breaking of state laws?" As it turns out, apparently they were not.</span>'''»''' +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">The roll call on the vote is [http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2014/roll258.xml here]. Note that it passed largely with [[US Democratic Party|Democratic]] support – the vast majority of Dems voted for it; a clear majority of [[US Republican Party|Republicans]] voted against it – but the measure was backed by a bipartisan group of co-sponsors.</span>'''»''' +
'''«'''<span style="font-family:serif; color:#800;">After all the recent troubles conservatives have had with "[[Obamacare]] victims" in attack ads that turned out to be wrong, the [[Koch brothers|Koch]]-financed [[Americans for Prosperity]] wouldn't push its luck with another dubious commercial, would it?</span>'''»''' +
'''Conclusions''': “Persons with transsexualism, after sex reassignment, have considerably higher risks for mortality, suicidal behaviour, and psychiatric morbidity than the general population. Our findings suggest that sex reassignment, although alleviating gender dysphoria, may not suffice as treatment for transsexualism, and should inspire improved psychiatric and somatic care after sex reassignment for this patient group.” +
2017/04/06/Breitbart publishes multiple anti-Kushner stories in the wake of Steve Bannon's NSC ouster +
''As [[Media Matters]] [https://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/04/06/defend-bannon-breitbart-has-opened-fire-presidents-son-law/215938 notes], [[Breitbart News|Breitbart]] published four negative stories about [[Jared Kushner|Kushner]] on the same day that news broke that [[Steve Bannon|Bannon]] was out at the NSC.'' +
''Chief [[Trump-Pence administration|White House]] strategist [[Steve Bannon|Stephen Bannon]] was unhappy with the decision to remove him from his role on the [[US/gov/National Security Council|National Security Council]] and threatened to quit, according to a new report.'' +
''That same obsession with the tech world permeates [[Jared Kushner|Kushner]]'s [[Trump-Pence administration|new project]]. Cost-cutting is important in situations where there is excess, but it is not what catalyzes evolution; if the point here is to make government more effective, not just more efficient, cuts alone won’t do it.'' +
2017/04/05/Kushner Hires Hollywood PR Exec To Help Run White House Campaign To Privatize Government Functions +
''The [[Office of American Innovation]] is intended to be non-partisan and is working with several industry leaders such as [[Elon Musk]], [[Tim Cook]], and [[Bill Gates]] to make government more efficient and forward-looking. [[Donald Trump|Trump]] won the presidency in part because he promised to [[running government like a business|bring an entrepreneurial style to the White House]].'' +
2017/03/06/Steve Bannon in 2013: Joseph McCarthy was right in crusade against Communist infiltration +
''[[Trump-Pence administration|Donald Trump]]'s chief White House strategist [[Steve Bannon]] said in 2013 that Sen. [[Joseph McCarthy]] was right in his 1950s campaign claiming widespread Communist infiltration into the United States government.'' +
(video) "I've had enough of anti-trans lesbians attacking me, or trying to "save" me, which is incredibly condescending and erases the years of research and soul-searching (I actually prefer soul-creation) I have done. So I wanted to put all my thoughts down into a (big) “bite sized” chunk here to direct them to when they start to vomit a word salad at me." +
...if you think that [[marriage]] is not a synergistic coupling of sexual variables for the express purpose of pooping out babies from a vagina Pez dispenser, [[Ross Douthat|Ross]] thinks that you are setting your sights way too low and [you] are probably callow and unthinking... +
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1. Fed gov will have to cut back payments for services. 2. ...which will cause "real people" to be hurt. 3. ...which will hurt the economy. 4. ...and raise interest rates significantly. 5. It will actually increase the deficit more than would raising the debt ceiling in a timely manner -- assuming the ceiling is eventually lifted. +
19 common reasons that people stay with abusers +
>“Several "yes buts" took issue with a comment I posted on [[:category:2009/07/20|July 20]] on this blog entitled "[[2009-07-20 Bait and switch - How the public option was sold|Bait and switch: How the 'public option' was sold]]."” +
A former [[US/OR/Tillamook County|Tillamook]] street preacher is back making headlines, this time entrenched in the recent social unrest at [[Portland International Airport]] (PDX). +
A longtime reader of [[Consumerist]] is dismayed by [[sexist]] comments on a [http://consumerist.com/2010/06/did-citibank-fire-this-woman-for-being-too-sexy.html post about sexism], sends a private message about the problem, receives no reply, posts a related comment on a [http://consumerist.com/2010/06/sexy-banker-chase-told-me-to-shut-up-about-citibank-lawsuit.html follow-up article] -- and is banned. +
A new study by the [[Pew Research Center]] provides reason for political optimism: Members of the so-called millennial generation, born after 1980, are more liberal than the preceding generations on a range of issues. +
A new viral video with Andrew Lincoln of "The Walking Dead" is one more setback for financial industry lobbyists fighting a [[financial transaction tax]]. +
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A rally in Oregon sponsored by the [[right-wing]] group [[Patriot Prayer]] turned violent on Saturday as demonstrators clashed with [[anti-fascist]] protesters, who showed up in opposition to the event. +
A substantial list of economists sign a statement supporting McCain's economic policy, but it is revealed that they are nowhere near the majority in their profession. +
A sustained default could undercut American power in four ways. The first and perhaps most certain would be to force cuts in defense spending. Second, a default would make it harder for Washington to negotiate agreements or build alliances with other countries. Third, a debt default would erode American credibility. Finally, a default could help China, Russia and other major buyers of U.S. debt accomplish something they have been trying to do for years: find an alternative investment to U.S. Treasurys. +
A third instance of fraudulent voter registration has been uncovered in the important swing state of [[Virginia]], where a [[US Republican Party|Republican]] consultant has been arrested and thousands of discarded voter registration forms were recovered from a dumpster earlier this week. +
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According to [[Rush Limbaugh]], "[[Stephen Colbert|Colbert]]'s new job is nothing less than a grave political, constitutional, and [[moral]] crisis in American television." +
After two hours of hot debate, the Mandan City Commission on Tuesday gave the [[Wal-Mart]] Stores Inc., its first property tax break in [[US/ND|the state]], to build a supercenter in the city. +
All [[liberalism|liberals]] are using rules set forth by [[Saul Alinsky]]; [[US conservatism|conservatives]] should use them too, because they work. +
Although public opinion has coalesced around the belief that the bee death mystery is settled, the vast majority of scientists who study bees for a living disagree – vehemently. +
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Amazon is good for customers. But is it good for books? +
An Indianapolis woman was shocked to discover she had been able to board a plane with a three-inch knife in her carry-on bag not once, but twice. +
An examination of recent voter purges and new voter "verification" practices enacted since 2004 paints a depressing scenario tomorrow for supporters of [[Barack Obama|Obama]] and [[American democracy]]. +
Anthony, who asked to be identified only by his first name, was injured last weekend when cops in riot gear unleashed flashbangs, pepper spray, rubber bullets and other less-lethal weapons as local [[US/OR/Portland/2018/08/04/protest|protesters demonstrated against far-right groups massed downtown]]. +
Armed, proto-fascist gangs are set to rally in [[US/OR/Portland|Portland, Oregon]], this weekend, stirring fears that the city could witness the kind of [[political violence]] not seen since the deadly [[white supremacy|white supremacist]] “[[Unite the Right]]” event in [[US/VA/Charlottesville|Charlottesville, Virginia]], nearly a year ago. +
Article reports the full text of the memo, minus some graphics and links. “I value diversity and inclusion, am not denying that sexism exists, and don’t endorse using stereotypes. When addressing the gap in representation in the population, we need to look at population level differences in distributions. If we can’t have an honest discussion about this, then we can never truly solve the problem.” +
As [[Vladimir Putin|President Putin]] weighs using military forces in a [[Ukraine]] plunging deeper into political turmoil, [[Alexander Mercouris]], international law expert, tells [[RT]] that the presence [of] [[Russia]]'s forces could be a restraining factor for all the parties involved. +
As smoke clears on the implosion of the [[MtGox|Empty Gox]] [[bitcoin]] exchange, thousands of people in the community committed to revealing the truth behind the stonewalling exchange. What was claimed first to be a technical problem, then an outside theft, has been conclusively determined that the MtGox management knew too much, too long ago, to have this be an ordinary case of theft. +
As the justice department’s man in Alabama, [[Trump-Pence administration|Trump]]'s attorney general indicted political opponents in remarkably thin cases, court filings show. +
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Besides [http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/10/18/163158185/swing-state-billboards-warning-against-voter-fraud-stir-backlash billboards in Ohio and Wisconsin] threatening enormous fines and prison sentences for "[[voter fraud]]," Harris-Perry noted the appearance of a Spanish-language billboard [http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20121014/LOCAL08/310149946/1044/LOCAL08 spotted in Pennsylvania] telling voters, "Si Quieres Votar Muéstrala," or, "If you want to vote, show it," a reference to the state [[voter identification law]] that [http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/02/judge-pennsylvania-voter-id-law-on-hold-until-after-election/ was largely struck down] in court earlier this month. +
By the end of this year, if a Chinese entrepreneur gets his way, digging will begin on a waterway that would stretch roughly 180 miles across [[Nicaragua]] to unite the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Giant container ships capable of carrying consumer electronics by the millions (or T-shirts by the billions) could begin making the passage by 2019, according to the most optimistic projections. +
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Congress was told that if the "too big to fail" banks did not receive bailouts that there would be chaos in the streets and this country would plunge into another Great Depression. Since that time, however, essentially no efforts have been made to decentralize the U.S. banking system. Instead, the "too big to fail" banks just keep getting larger and larger and larger. +
Conspiracy theorist [[Paul Craig Roberts]] argues that the CH massacre was a [[false flag]]: "France is suffering from the Washington-imposed sanctions against Russia. Shipyards are impacted from being unable to deliver Russian orders due to France’s vassalage status to Washington, and other aspects of the French economy are being adversely impacted by sanctions that Washington forced its NATO puppet states to apply to Russia." +
Debunking a series of persistent allegations hinting at dark conspiracies, the investigation of the politically charged incident determined that there was no intelligence failure, no delay in sending a CIA rescue team, no missed opportunity for a military rescue, and no evidence the CIA was covertly shipping arms from Libya to Syria. +
Douthat argues that liberals should support [[Hobby Lobby]] because of their internal minimum wage policy, and goes on to argue something about [[liberal intolerance]] of religious diversity. +
Even with only half of the 54 uniformed patrol officers wearing cameras at any given time, the department over all had an 88 percent decline in the number of complaints filed against officers, compared with the 12 months before the study, to 3 from 24. +
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Ever since [[Barack Obama]] signed the [[Affordable Care Act]] on March 23, 2010, the Republicans in Congress have tried to repeal it. This week's vote was their 50th attempt. +
First let me point out that the little tweet I chirped out was because the TERFs were flocking <em>to me</em> — I hadn’t barged into one of their conversations, or invited them to explain to me what makes for a <em>real</em> woman, but there they were, in <strong>my space</strong>. So she doesn’t get to complain about me violating boundaries. +
For the Obama administration to adopt the broad reading of Section Four would be bold (and I hasten to say I don't expect them to do it); but it would hardly be unusual in the recent discourse of presidential power--especially the Republican party's theory of the presidency. +
For the past couple months I worked for [[United Parcel Service]], [[US/KY/Louisville|Louisville]] [[US/KY|Kentucky]], as an "air handler" loading and unloading cargo aircraft... +
2014/03/09/Bush's Defense Secretary Destroys GOP Talking Points Against Obama's Handling Of Crimea +
Former Defense Secretary [[Robert Gates]] pushed back on Sunday against conservatives who've blamed President Obama's "weak" foreign policy for Russian President [[Vladimir Putin]]'s decision to invade [[Crimea]]. +
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Forum thread discussing the traffic death of Raquel Nelson's 4-year-old child, and similar car-centric situations around the US. +
Fox's John Stossel criticizes politicians for being careless with "other people's money". To his credit, the $700 billion military budget is the second item he mentions ("growing entitlements" are, of course, first), but then he immediately proceeds to ridicule a series of absolutely trivial expenditures, the largest of which is 0.0002% of the $700B originally mentioned and most of which are probably quite worthwhile investments of public money (including the bicycle helmets, which probably save money overall). +
Google may have inadvertently swept up some users and handles that were legitimate or simply too innocuous to cause any brand any kind of harm, but I think the intention is clear: to protect brands and businesses from everyday Google service users who might infringe upon their trademarks and brand identities. +
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor told reporters that President Obama walked out "angrily" from a meeting on the debt ceiling; Democratic aides say that Cantor was rude and Obama merely ended the meeting for the day. +
How does this affect <em>me</em>? As a member of a plural system, I would technically not be allowed to sign up as "Noël Dawkins," even though I prefer to use my own name online, rather than presenting as the "front identity." I would probably not be <em>banned</em>, as my name <em>looks</em> like a name, rather than an actual pseudonym, but it would technically be against their strict community guidelines. I suppose that I could simply sign up under the front identity (disclosure: we have already done so), but there is a difference between social networking under that guise, and social networking as myself. +
I replied that the indicated comments by Dr. Pielke, and similar ones attributed by [[Jeff Sessions|Senator Sessions]] to Dr. [[Roy Spencer]] of the University of Alabama, were not representative of main- stream views on this topic in the climate-science community; and I promised to provide for the record a more complete response with relevant scientific references. +
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I'll just defer [to] what others have already said about the court's ruling in [[Kaley v. U.S.]] this week. +
I've been following politics for many years; I've written a book on presidential campaigns and I've delved quite a bit into the minutiae of the [[US/president/election/2012|2012 campaign]]. And I'm increasingly convinced that [[Mitt Romney]] is the worst national politician I've ever seen. +
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If a survey asks men, for example, if they ever "had sexual intercourse with somone, even though they did not want to, because they were too intoxicated (on alcohol or drugs) to resist your sexual advances," some of them will say yes, as long as the questions don't use the 'R' word. +
In May, copyright holders sued Internet service provider Elisa, one of Finland's largest, to get the provider to block access to torrent site The Pirate Bay due to charges of media piracy. Finnish public service media company YLE reports that Elisa refuses to comply with such claims, however, citing the technical difficulty of compliance. +
In [[Somalia]]'s breadbasket, many welcome [[al-Shabab]]'s move to expel foreign [[non-governmental organization|aid group]]s and build canals. +
In an unusual move, YouTube announced today that it was blocking access to a video showing clips from "The [[Innocence of Muslims]]"– an [[anti-Islam]]ic film that depicts Prophet [[Mohammed]] as a philanderer who approves of child abuse – after the film sparked violent protests in [[Egypt]] and [[Libya]]. +
In certain [[Protestant fundamentalism|fundamentalist Christian]] sects, fathers are encouraged to "spiritually marry" their daughters in order to keep them "pure". In the context of this "[[purity culture]]", it is entirely acceptable for fathers to have sexual thoughts about their daughters as long as they don't actually have intercourse. +
In fact, I argue, minorities are much better off in a system that protects [[hate speech|hateful or discriminatory speech]] than in a system that protects them from it. +
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In on-line forums, parents have been reporting that their children are experiencing what is described here as “rapid-onset gender dysphoria,” appearing for the first time during puberty or even after its completion. +
In the [[corporate ethics|eyes of the corporation]], [[US prison system|inmate]] labor is a brilliant strategy in the eternal quest to maximize [[profit]]. +
In this article, we will highlight a member of the [[far-right]] that moved over to explicit [[white supremacy]]: self-described white nationalist, [[Allen Wesley Pucket]]. +
In what is a major victory for the president, House Republicans will vote on three bills next week that correct small issues and unintended consequences in the ACA. +
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Interestingly, this criminal is described by one unnamed Norwegian official as a "madman". He may well be, but this is one way that the motivations for heinous crimes can be airbrushed out of the story before they have the chance to take hold in the popular imagination. +
Investigators say King City police ordered hundreds of vehicles to be impounded – most often those driven by Hispanic immigrants – and then either kept the cars for themselves or re-sold them for profit. +
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It was inevitable. With the creation of [[Google+]], a new social network already boasting over 20 million users, the scammers were sure to follow. Here's a note a probable fraudster sent to reader Geoff through his Google+ profile, informing him that someone died in Africa and he needs to be contacted about a "business transaction" of "magnitude." +
It's alarmingly common to hear congressional [[US Republican Party|Republicans]] repeat some deeply odd [[conspiracy theories]]. [http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-befuddled-beck-wing-todays-gop?lite But more often] than not, the theories didn't start on Capitol Hill; they just ended up there. +
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It's not comfortable to side against the state of [[North Carolina]] in the lawsuit filed by [[Planned Parenthood]] of Central North Carolina. Rooting against the state means hoping that we, as taxpayers who pay for the state's legal defense, lose money on litigation. +
Journalists struggling to document the impact of the [[Deepwater Horizon oil spill|oil rig explosion]] have repeatedly found themselves turned away from public areas affected by the spill, and not only by [[BP]] and its contractors, but by local law enforcement, the Coast Guard and government officials. +
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Julia Sweeney recounts her trip to the [[Amazon.com]] warehouse in Whitesville, [[Indiana]] to deliver shipping stock of her CD and DVD ''[[Letting Go of God]]''. +
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Julie Bass of Oak Park, Michigan -- a mother of 6, law-abiding citizen, and gardener -- is facing 93 days in jail after being charged with a misdemeanor for planting a vegetable garden in the front yard. +
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Just a few days before [[Google+]]'s doors officially open on [[:category:2011/07/31|July 31]], [[Google]]'s latest communications from [https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/Fddn6rV8mBX Vic (via Robert)] and [https://plus.google.com/113116318008017777871/posts/VJoZMS8zVqU Bradley] on the raft of [[Google+/suspensions|account suspensions]] and “common names” policy seem unlikely to put the “[http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/07/google-plus-user-names/ identity crisis]” to rest. It's certainly a positive sign that they're engaging, and process changes like giving people with names Google doesn't like a week to change their account name before suspending them are certainly improvements. That said, the impression they're giving is that they're going to try to hold the line with the current policy even knowing that it targets transgender people, human rights activists, people at risk for stalking and harrassment domestic violence survivors, HIV/AIDS victims and caregivers, people with names that sound weird to Americans (or for that matter people in Hong Kong who would rather go by their English names)..." +
Just because the [[Eucharist wafer]]'s significance is purely [[arational]] does not mean that others may treat it as insignificant. +
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Live blog from [[antifascism|antifascist]] mobilization in [[US/OR/Portland|Portland, Oregon]]. +
Members opted for the postponement after [[Patrick L. Byker|Patrick Byker]], attorney for a next-door neighbor of the site, pointed out the school's advocates hadn't addressed how the project might affect the [[property values|value of nearby property]]. +
Myers dissects some bizarre arguments from [https://twitter.com/lissyboops @lissyboops], who is apparently of the [[TERF]] persuasion. +
Now, as his campaign for president ramps up, he's already making a splash. He's in Iowa talking about the [[economic disparity|yawning gap between the rich and the poor]]. He's on Sunday morning talk shows talking about free college and health care. He is waging a rhetorical war against "the billionaire class," whom he believes Democratic candidate [[Hillary Clinton]] will side with at the expense of the middle class. +
Our obsession with the unemployment rate obscures more telling indicators about the economy. +
Poor and unable to find grooms for their daughters, many still seize men at gunpoint in what is known as pakadwa shaadi. +
President [[Barack Obama]] is pressuring [[Israel]] to stop carrying out assassinations of top nuclear scientists in [[Iran]] as the Islamic Republic continues its negotiations with world powers over its uranium enrichment program, according to a new book. +
Protesters demanding reforms in police use of crowd control clashed with security officers at Portland City Hall after Mayor Ted Wheeler shut down a Wednesday morning City Council meeting. +
2014/12/14/Inside The Koch-Backed History Lessons North Carolina Wants To Teach High School Students +
Public high school students in [[US/NC|North Carolina]] will be [http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/12/03/4374397_state-education-department-used.html?rh=1 taught from a lesson plans and worksheets] prepared by [[Bill of Rights Institute|an organization]] closely tied to the billionaire [[Koch brothers]], if the state's Department of Public Instruction gets its way." +
Raquel Nelson, an Atlanta-area mother, was recently [[Raquel Nelson homicide conviction|convicted]] of vehicular homicide because her 4-year-old son was struck by a car and killed while she was crossing a busy street at an intersection with no crosswalk. +
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SATIRE: "The [[Council of Islamic Ideology]] (CII) concluded their 192nd meeting on Thursday with the ruling that women are un-Islamic and that their mere existence contradicted Sharia and the will of Allah." +
Shares in News Corporation have fallen 4.3% in New York amid mounting pressure as the phone-hacking scandal develops. +
Skud summarizes the circumstances of her suspension from Google+, including her prior employment at Google and arguments in favor of pseudonymity. +
Someone, namely US and Canadian oil and gas barons, stands to make a helluva lot of money off this deal. +
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Something happened to Dylan's Google account, and it's been disabled. He doesn't know what happened to the account, and no one at Google with the power to help him is interested in acknowledging the problem or letting him back in to the cloud-based services where all of his correspondence and much of the digital trail from the last few years of his life is stored. +
Soon after taking office, North Carolina Gov. [[Pat McCrory]] and U.S. Rep. [[Mark Sanford]] of South Carolina accepted six-figure stock payouts from an online mortgage broker accused by regulators of deceiving its customers. +
Sunday was a day of messages and mopping up, with Ukrainian and Western leaders trying to dissuade President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia from overplaying his hand and ordering an invasion of eastern Ukraine, even as Russian forces and their sympathizers in Crimea worked to disarm or neutralize any Ukrainian resistance there. +
Talking Heads frontman performs for [[Content Creators Coalition]], a new royalties advocacy group +
The BLM addresses 15 myths regarding their "Wild Horses and Burros" program. +
The City Council in the eastern city of Donetsk has refused to recognize [[Ukraine]]'s self-imposed government and called for a referendum on the region's status. The council has made Russian alongside Ukrainian the official language in the region. +
The Senate has passed legislation to block the impact of across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts that make up the fiscal cliff. +
The [[Content Creators Coalition]] sponsored an event in New York City calling on terrestrial radio to pay artists performance rights royalties. +
The [[just asking questions|questions]]:
* 1) Are there more home-grown terrorists than we realize?
* 2) Are lone wolves avoidable?
* 3) Why guns?
* 4) Who can buy a gun?
* 5) Why a gay nightclub?
* 6) Should we bar all Muslims? +
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The [[neocon]]s had three [[US reasons for invading Iraq|reasons]] for [[US invasion of Iraq|the US to invade Iraq]]: (1) sanctions were working, not leaving US companies in a favored position for doing business in Iraq; (2) the US needed a location for military bases; (3) the US needed to ensure that oil would continue to be traded in [[US dollar|dollars]]. +
The argument goes like this: Because Congress already appropriated the funds in question, it is the executive branch's duty to enact those appropriations. The debt ceiling, then, is legislative "double-counting," because the executive branch is obligated to spend the money Congress appropriates, without having to go back and ask again for permission. +
The deep, salty currents that carry oxygen and nutrients to the ocean depths have been disappearing over the past few decades. +
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The first top-to-bottom audit of the Federal Reserve uncovered eye-popping new details about how the U.S. provided a whopping $16 trillion in secret loans to bail out American and foreign banks and businesses during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. +
The insanity of the GOP, which many people are finally just noticing, has been building gradually for a long time. +
2014/03/05/Russia puts Ukraine far-right leader on international wanted list over calls for terrorism +
The leader of the Ukrainian radical group Pravy Sektor (Right Sector), Dmitry Yarosh, has been put on an international wanted list and charged with inciting terrorism, after asking Doku Umarov to attack Russia. +
The longer I live and the more I read and the deeper I fall in love and the less I give a fuck and the more patience I lose and the more perspective I gain, the more certain I become that the people who most aggressively try to define love for others have never actually experienced it themselves. +
The media initially attributed the event -- with some evidence -- to [[Muslim]] extremists, then rapidly backed off from that conclusion when the "blond Nordic-looking" suspect was identified. This is one of several parallels with the [[1995-04-19 Oklahoma City bombing|1995 Oklahoma City bombing]], and there are reasons to believe that there was a Muslim-extremist connection in that event as well. +
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The movement has good intentions, but it favours the high-functioning and overlooks those who struggle with severe autism. +
The number of uninsured Americans has dropped by three to four million since [[Obamacare]] coverage took effect Jan. 1, according to a new Gallup survey. How much of the drop can be precisely attributed to the health care law is a matter of debate, though [http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/obamacare-uninsured-sign-ups there are signs] that enrollment among the uninsured is picking up. +
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The obvious objections to the execution of Saddam Hussein are valid and well aired. ... But I want to add another and less obvious reason why we should not have executed Saddam Hussein. His mind would have been a unique resource for historical, political and psychological research: a resource that is now forever unavailable to scholars. +
The online giant is creating thousands of UK jobs, so why are some employees less than happy? +
The online retailer has reshaped bookselling since it entered the trade in 1995. But [[Amazon.com|Amazon]]'s aggressive and "anti-competitive" tactics, especially for selling ebooks, are raising hackles in an industry under stress. +
The person filmed by KGW News on June 4 [[US/OR/Detroit/2018-06-04 police beating|being struck on the head 16 times by a Marion County sheriff deputy while pinned down by three additional officers]] says the incident may be partly understood as the response of uninformed individuals to [[autism|people they don’t understand]]. +
The snipers who shot at protesters and police in Kiev were allegedly hired by Maidan leaders, according to a leaked phone conversation between the EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton and Estonian foreign affairs minister, which has emerged online. +
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There is a question so important to the modern economy that it often hides in plain view. I'm talking about the role that technology plays in the distribution of wealth. This connection between our distribution of societal resources and our rapidly evolving technology centers on two fundamental phenomena: (1) The way [[jobsolescence|technology displaces labor]] (2) The way technology concentrates profits +
There's nothing like [[science]] for giving that [[objective]], white-coat flavoured legitimacy to your prejudices, so it must have been a great day for ''Telegraph'' readers when they came across the headline "[http://current.com/items/90259840_women-who-dress-provocatively-more-likely-to-be-raped-claim-scientists.htm Women who dress provocatively more likely to be raped, claim scientists]". Ah, scientists. +
This appears to be the same AP article as [[2012/09/12/California man confirms role in anti-Islam film]]. +
This high-and-low-cortisol reactivity provides different developmental advantages and disadvantages, the authors write. Heightened [[cortisol]] levels characteristic of the doves were related to lower attention problems but also put them at risk for developing anxiety and [[depression]] over time. By contrast, the lower cortisol levels for hawks in aggressive families were associated with lower anxiety problems; however, at the same time, these children were more prone to risky behavior, including attention and hyperactivity problems. +
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This is one of several credible-seeming pseudo-scientifi studies often cited by anti-LGBT activists, but its conclusions fly in the face of an overwhelming body of evidence. +
This is the [[New York Initiative]]'s Craig's List ad offering assistance to [[New York City]] [[sex work]]ers in defending themselves from the [[Long Island Serial Killer]]. +
This week the Center for Media and Democracy released 800 model bills, legislation that is straight out of the corporate playbook and drafted by the American Legislative Exchange Council. +
Those who watched [[Fox News]] almost daily were significantly more likely than those who never watched it to believe that a number of false statements relevant to the election were, in fact, true. +
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Though many may reckon the U.S. government (and its Deep State) are not so much incompetent as merely evil, I suggest incompetence sows the seeds of evil consequences. +
Thousands of pro-autonomy demonstrators rallied across eastern [[Ukraine]], with the coup-imposed president in Kiev threatening to use military against the activists if they don't clear the seized government buildings by Monday morning." +
2014/04/07/If 97 Percent of Americans Sold Everything They Owned and Spent It on Congressional Elections +
To max out on one side of every race including PACs and parties would take $1,291,400. 97% of the country could not reach this limit if they emptied their bank accounts and liquidated all of their possessions. For [[economic disparity|a few lucky souls]], however, $1.3 million is a drop in the bucket. +
Two global warming denialists make a claim which would be important if it weren't totally incorrect, which it is. +
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US President Barack Obama issued a statement Friday evening denouncing "reports of military movements" taken by Russia in Ukraine, warning that "there will be costs for any military intervention." The comments come as the US/European-stoked regime change operation in Ukraine threatens to develop into a conflict between Western powers and Russia. +
Unless something changes dramatically between now and November, [[Donald Trump]] will be the next president. +
Video (83:41): "An inside look at the scandals that rocked Benedict's papacy." +
Whatever the outcome of the political haggling, Congress has failed the 50 million Americans below the bread line. +
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When do we get to stop defining smart, passionate women by the most powerful men in their circle? +
While they fight the expiration of the budget-busting [[Bush tax cuts]], Republicans have continually cited a report that shows that [[51 percent of Americans don't pay income taxes]], even admitting that middle- and lower-class Americans need to shoulder a larger burden in deficit reduction efforts. +
White House chief strategist [[Steve Bannon]] is reportedly a reader of [[neoreactionary]] political theory. A tour through the pro-[[authoritarian]] philosophy gaining visibility on the [[right wing|right]]. +
Would a publisher accept a completely nonsensical manuscript if the authors were willing to pay Open Access publication charges? After being spammed with invitations to publish in [[Bentham Science Publishers|Bentham Science journals]] earlier this year, I decided to find out. ... Bentham confirmed receipt of my submission the very next day (January 30, 2009). Nearly four months later, I received a response – the article was accepted. +
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You might find your Prime membership morally indefensible after reading these stories about worker mistreatment. +
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[[Amazon.com]] is the best-loved company in America, despite being very similar to one of the least-loved companies in America: [[Wal-Mart|Walmart]]. +
[[Barack Obama]]: “A basic principle of the law – and of everyday fairness – is that we apply rules with consistency, and not based on what's convenient or advantageous in the moment. The [[rule of law]], the legitimacy of our courts, the fundamental workings of our [[democracy]] all depend on that basic principle.” +
[[Chick-fil-A]] COO [[Dan Cathy]] defends the company's [[anti-gay]] activities on [[Biblical]] grounds. +
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[[Fox News]] argues in court that [[Tucker Carlson]]'s audience knows that things which Carlson asserts, no matter how definitively stated as fact, may in fact have been entirely made up by Carlson on the spot and could be completely false, and that Carlson's employer will not only take no action against him for doing so but will in fact defend him. +
[[Fox News]] host [[Chris Wallace]] on Sunday confronted Rep. [[Darrell Issa]] (R-CA) after he was rated as having the "highest level of falsehood" for his obsession with the [[2012 Benghazi attack|terrorist attacks in Benghazi]]. +
[[Hobby Lobby]], a large chain of craft stores owned by [[US conservative|conservative]] [[evangelical]] [[Christian]]s, filed a federal lawsuit against the [[Obamacare/mandates/contraception|contraception mandate]] today, claiming they should have the right to deny coverage for emergency [[contraception]] to over 13,000 employees across 40 states. Hobby Lobby's owners, the Green family, claim the [[Obamacare]] requirement to provide employer-based coverage for that contraceptive service violates their [[freedom of religion]] and [[freedom of speech|speech]]... +
[[Jack Matlock]] argues that Russian President Vladimir Putin is acting in response to years of perceived hostility from the U.S., from the eastward expansion of NATO to the bombing of Serbia to the expansion of American military bases in eastern Europe. +
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[[Jaywalker]]s have migrated to the [[suburbs]]. They venture across four- to eight-lane roads, often not using crosswalks, pausing on the raised medians or the middle “suicide lanes” to look for a break in traffic as cars whiz by. Sometimes the crossings end tragically, as it did last month for a young mother who watched her 4-year-old son killed in the road." +
[[John McCain]] and other State Department members have troubling ties to the ultra-nationalist [[Svoboda]] party. +
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[[Mahmoud Abbas]] may not be able to stop the knife attacks. But he shouldn't [[Palestinian Authority Martyrs Fund|pay the killers' families]]. +
[[Maya Forstater]], a tax expert who lost her contract at the [[Centre for Global Development]] after tweeting that transgender women cannot change their biological sex, has lost her tribunal case. +
[[Nakoula Basseley Nakoula]], 55, told The [[Associated Press]] in an interview outside Los Angeles that he was manager for the company that produced "[[Innocence of Muslims]]," which mocked Muslims and the prophet [[Muhammad]] and may have caused inflamed mobs that attacked U.S. missions in [[Egypt]] and [[Libya]]. He provided the first details about a shadowy production group behind the film. +
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[[Pat Condell]] throws his lot in with the US right-wing media on the issue of the [[Ground Zero Mosque]], warning that it is the first major step towards the [[Islamic cultural invasion/US|Islamic cultural invasion of America]]. +
[[Pete Buttigieg]] is the mayor of [[US/IN/South Bend|South Bend, Indiana]]. He is a progressive Democrat, Rhodes scholar, served a tour of duty in Afghanistan during his time as mayor, and is openly gay. In [https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/pete_buttigieg-36-year-old-mayor-south-bend-indiana-2020-713662/ a recent interview with ''Rolling Stone''], Buttigieg talked about the need for [[progressive]]s to recast concepts that [[political conservative]]s have traditionally “owned” – like [[freedom]], [[family]], and [[patriotism]] – in more progressive terms. +
[[Rachel Maddow]] provides considerable background on recent US [[anti-government violence]], from Clinton-era incidents including the [[Sagebrush Rebellion]] through [[Ruby Ridge]], Waco, and [[1995-04-19 Oklahoma City bombing|Oklahoma City]] up to the recent [[Cliven Bundy/BLM dispute/standoff|armed confrontation]] at [[Bundy Ranch]]. +
2014/05/05/Rand Paul says 40 times more Kentuckians have gotten health-insurance cancellation notices than signed up for Obamacare +
[[Rand Paul]] email: "Since the implementation of [[Obamacare]], hundreds of thousands of Kentuckians have received cancellation notices from their current health care providers. For every Kentuckian that has enrolled in Obamacare, 40 have been dropped from their coverage." Rated [[lies|pants-on-fire]]. +
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[[Richard Dawkins]] is uncompromising in his opposition to [[religion]] – except when it happens to oppose something that he thinks is worse, like [[social justice]]. +
[[Ronald Reagan]] may have crystallized, in the minds of [[US Republican|Republican]] strategists, the political ability of [[popular myth]] to be more powerful than the [[truth]] – as exemplified by his well-documented history of working against [[social program]]s ([[Medicare]], [[Social Security]]) while convincingly denying it in debates with [[Jimmy Carter]]. +
[[Somalia]]'s new traffic police tackle illegal parking, speeding drivers and temperamental street lights in Mogadishu. +
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[[Wal-Mart]] appears to be skipping out on its fair share of taxes that most Americans have to pay to help support state governments. New research conducted in part by a leading non-partisan, non-profit tax organization reveals that Wal-Mart avoided $2.3 billion in state income taxes, cutting its payment to state governments almost in half between 1999 and 2005. +
[[Wal-Mart]], the nation's largest employer and the world's biggest retailer, is regularly paying itself rent and using the transaction to decrease the taxes it pays to state governments, according to a report in this morning's ''[[Wall Street Journal]]''. +
[[sexuality/rights|Gay rights]] activists are welcoming a clause in a draft of [[Thailand]]’s new constitution that is aimed at protecting the rights of gay and transgender people. +
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a collection of scientific investigations into why people vote [[US Republican Party|Republican]] +
a detailed rebuttal of the supposedly-scientific arguments supporting [[James Damore/Google's Ideological Echo Chamber|Damore's arguments]]; includes links to many other rebuttals and related resources +
a mostly-audio (spoken word) video (35:05) giving a fairly detailed layout of [[transnegation]] arguments [[transnegation/UK|in the UK]] +
a potpourri of news items, including "The al Qaeda Cheering Section" in which Taranto [[dissent is disloyalty|equates]] dislike of the [[USA PATRIOT Act|Patriot Act]] with being fond of [[terrorist]]s. +
a recent interview conducted with [[Chris Hedges surrounding]] his latest book ''[[Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt]]''. +
an article mainly about the lab technician job market which happens to use [[James Damore]] as an example, long before he became notorious +
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an email from [[Bill Gates]] suggesting that the [[ACPI]] be designed in such a way as to prevent it from working with anything except [[Microsoft Windows]] +
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eight moral/political lessons taught by the ''Harry Potter'' series +
excerpt::The avalanche of news last weekend was triggered by the story that Opensource Obscure, a Second Life resident from Italy, had his profile suspended by Google+ because his name "violated community standards." This was followed by reports of the accounts of Second Life users being culled, much in the same fashion as had happened at Facebook weeks ago. +
lead paragraph:: A Georgia woman convicted on misdemeanor charges in the death of her son after he darted out into traffic will receive a new trial, a judge ruled. +
lead paragraph:: A Georgia woman who was convicted on misdemeanor charges in the death of her son who darted out into traffic will not spend time in jail, a judge ruled Tuesday. +
lead paragraph::A Marietta mother may serve more time than the driver who hit and killed her 4-year-old son. +
lead paragraph::A cousin of admitted terrorist Najibullah Zazi publicly revealed for the first time Monday that he was in on Zazi's chilling 2009 plot to attack New York City subways with suicide bombers. +
lead paragraph::A week ago, I was stunned to discover that my entire Google account -- gmail, reader, blogger, Google documents, YouTube, Google Plus (G+), etc. -- was suddenly suspended because their system "perceived a violation." +
lead paragraph::Earlier this month, the US Travel Association released the results of a survey that found that 45 percent of respondents would pay a fee of "up to" $150 for a background check and verification program that would allow them to speed through airport security. On Friday, America's Transportation Security Administration announced that this Fall, it will move ahead with a plan to test just such a program. +
lead paragraph::I have just been informed that ScienceBlogs will no longer be hosting anonymous or pseudonymous bloggers. In case you are interested, despite extensive communication from many of us as to why we blog under pseudonyms, I have not been given any rationale or reason for this move. Particularly, no rationale or reason that responds to the many valid points raised by the pseudonymous folks. +
lead paragraph::Islamic extremists have launched a poster campaign across the UK proclaiming areas where Sharia law enforcement zones have been set up. +
lead paragraph::On Saturday, January 16, 2010, black activists will be standing outside of a Pizza Hut on Bragg Boulevard. In October, 2008, black pro-life activists with graphic signs stood on Yadkin Road in Fayetteville, North Carolina, to expose what was believed to be a stealth Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in the making. +
lead paragraph::Renowned hacker group Anonymous revealed yesterday that its Google+ profile has been removed and that their Gmail account has been blocked as well. Google claims that the profile and account go against "Community Standards" and has shut down most, if not all, profiles related to Anonymous. +
lead paragraph::Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab have taught a computer how to play strategy game ''Civilization'' by providing it with the game's instruction manual. +
lead paragraph::Sean Hoare, the former ''News of the World'' showbusiness reporter who was the first named journalist to allege that Andy Coulson was aware of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead. +
lead paragraph::Standard & Poor's on Monday placed News Corp.'s credit rating on a negative watch citing increased business and reputation risks from investigations into the widening phone hacking scandal in Britain. +
lead paragraph::The March 2005 issue of ''Popular Mechanics'' magazine contains a 14-full-page cover article which attacks skepticism about the government and media explanation of the 9/11/01 attack. The primary method of the piece is to build and attack a straw man of myths it claims are "at the root of virtually every 9/11 alternative scenario" embraced by the "growing army of conspiracy theorists." PM selects a combination of 16 valid, erroneous, and inconsequential claims found on websites, implying that they are all endorsed by the "army" of skeptics. +
pictures of [[Libya]]ns holding up signs apologizing to US for the death of US ambassador [[Chris Stevens]] +
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quote::...some pundits, mostly right-wing neoconservatives, proclaimed that this bore all the hallmarks of Islamic terrorism, even going so far as to draw policy prescriptions. At the ''Washington Post'', normally a well-respected news outlet, Jennifer Rubin quoted the [[Foundation for the Defense of Democracies]]' Thomas Joscelyn and [[American Enterprise Institute|AEI]] scholar Gary Schmitt to say that the attacks were the result of Islamic terrorism. She then concluded the "jihadist" attack on Oslo means the U.S. shouldn't cut military spending... +
quote::Ahmad Al-Shlash, a tribal leader in Syria, gave an interview to the Arabic language channel Al-Dunya TV in which he, along with his "cousins," reportedly called for the U.S. Ambassador to Syria, Robert Stephen Ford, to be cooked and eaten like "American mutton," either "with salt or without salt." +
quote::Raquel Nelson, 30, could now spend more time in jail than the driver because she didn't use a crosswalk when she walked her three children over a busy street from a bus stop to their apartment in Marietta, Georgia. +
some historical data on economic performance by political party +
sub-headline::Popular Mechanics examines the evidence and consults the experts to refute the most persistent conspiracy theories of September 11. +
“I see a semi-regular appearance of the idea that the WTC7 building (part of the [[World Trade Center/NYC/v1|WTC complex]] but not one of the [[World Trade Center/NYC/v1/twin towers|Twin Towers]]) [[9-11/anomalies/WTC7|collapsed]] due to [[controlled demolition|deliberate demolition]] rather than due to damage from the Twin Tower collapses. This is pretty implausible so I did some internet research to find out why so many people believe it and what actually happened.” +
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