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Donald Trump yukks it up with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the Oval Office (Credit: Russian news service TASS)
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The Seth Rich ‘Scandal’ Shows That Fox News Is Morally Bankrupt These spurious insinuations have been put forward (before being largely recanted) by a sometime Fox News contributor named Rod Wheeler. Never mind that Rich’s family, the Washington police force, CNN, the Washington Post, and the New York Times, among ...
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How Fonts Are Fueling the Culture Wars Why don’t we use blackletter anymore? The answer is literally “Hitler.” Nazi leadership used the Fraktur, an archetypal variety of blackletter, as their official typeface. They positioned it as a symbol of German national identity and denounced papers that ... Tarkloon
Debunking the Most Common Holocaust Denial Twitter Memes.If you've ever waded into the "alt right"/neo-Nazi twittersphere you have probably seen memes like these: Indeed, the pseudo-academic denial - the thick footnoted tomes full of obscure trivia - exists, but this sort of primitive image-based denial appealing to ...
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Ivanka Trump Praises Saudi Arabia on Women’s Rights After Country Donates $100 Million to Her Cause Ivanka Trump has praised the progress of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia after the country and the United Arab Emirates pledged to donate $100 million to the first World Bank's global project for women entrepreneurs. Speaking in Saudi Arabia ...
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Nebraska Democrat Kills Death Penalty Drug Secrecy Bill Nebraska's state legislature is unique in the nation in three ways:(a) It is a unicameral legislature (the only other such legislature is the US Virgin Islands territory)(b) It has the smallest number of legislators (thus, though Democrats are in ... Anymouse
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu Eloquently Defends the Removal of Confederate Monuments in Speech In addition to being a wonderful defense of the removal of Confederate monuments this speech is also a great and valuable history lesson. I commend Mayor Landrieu! On Friday, May 19, 2017, Mayor Mitch Landrieu delivered an address about ... teleskiguy
Blackstone, Saudis Set to Invest $40 Billion in Primarily U.S. Infrastructure "This will create well-paying American jobs and will lay the foundation for stronger long-term economic growth," Blackstone president Hamilton James said. Blackstone is not the only American company to strike a business deal with the Saudis. General Electric and ... Birth Control Works Tarkloon
White People Can Have a Torch-Wielding Mob, but When Black Folks March Peacefully, It’s Martial Law I’ve lost count of the number of marches and street protests black citizens have planned and led in this Black Lives Matter era. Lets go with “a lot.” What isn’t lost on me is black people’s recurring fear that ... Birth Control Works Birth Control Works
Five Truths About Voter Suppression - Center for American Progress The United States has a troubled history of voter suppression. Prior to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, many states used policies such as poll taxes and literacy tests to prevent African Americans from voting. Even ... Birth Control Works
Love It or Hate It-What Saudi Arabia Is Buying in Its $110 Billion Arms Deal Huge deals with israel, and Saudi Arabia. Our industrial war machine grows apace. TanksSaudi Arabia is expecting 153 M1A1/A2 tank structures, which will be turned into 133 Saudi-specification M1A2S main battle tanks. Twenty additional tanks will replace those from ...
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Work, Not Sex? the Real Reason Chinese Women Bound Their Feet Girls who had their feet bound didn't lead a life of idle beauty but rather served a crucial economic purpose, especially in the countryside, where girls as young as 7 weaved, spun and did work by hand, Bossen said.Read ... Birth Control Works
Why Are All the Anti-Abortion Democrats Men? A troubling pattern emerges if you start looking at who in the Democratic Party supports women's reproductive rights and who doesn't. Though disappointing, it's far from surprising that all of the anti-abortion Democrats are men. Let me put that ... Birth Control Works
Virtual Reality Can Help You Feel More Empathy for Women Harassed at Abortion Clinics It's hard to understand what it feels like to be confronted or bullied outside a women's health center — until it happens to you. I'd never had that experience until last year, while reporting on the Supreme Court case ... Birth Control Works
Families of Chechen Gay Men Pressured to Sign ‘No Complaint’ Documents, Org Says The existence of anti-gay pogroms in Chechnya first surfaced in the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazet in April, reporting that hundreds of people had been detained and at least three are now thought to have died. Since then, police ... Birth Control Works
Indonesia’s Mass Rape Victims Are Waiting for Justice That May Never Come On July 15, 1998, then president BJ Habibie condemned the violence against women in a formal government apology. His new Reformasi government established a fact-finding committee to investigate the riots shortly after Suharto's fall. The National Commission on Violence ... Birth Control Works
Read a Book, Gamble With Your Life In 19th-century England, fears over women reading hit hysterical highs. Doctors — male and female — worried novels’ sensational plots could make ladies insane, infertile or prematurely “developed” (there were no such worries about men, whose constitutions were believed ... Birth Control Works
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