Nothing Much Happening Except For Possible Global Economic Collapse
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6 Months Later, Parkland Teens Are Still Fighting Like Hell
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. One week after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February, student survivors, outraged with Washington’s “thoughts and prayers,” took to CNN to declare politicians complicit in the deaths of their classmates. Just one month later, those same students organized nationwide “March for…
Trump Calls Omarosa “That Dog” in Escalated Attack Against Former White House Aide
Chris Kleponis/ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In a particularly vicious tweet, President Donald Trump attacked Omarosa Manigault Newman as “that dog” and a “crying lowlife” amid the former White House aide and reality star’s release of secret recordings from inside the White House and the Trump campaign trail. The escalated…
The Promise and Peril of Vaginal “Rejuvenation”
champja/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Erika Sherek was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2016, she knew the road to recovery would be long and painful. Surgery and radiation therapy saved her life, but the treatment fundamentally changed her body. Because she stopped producing estrogen, the female sex…
A Texas County Voted to End an Immigrant Detention Contract. ICE May Keep the Facility Open Anyway.
The perimieter of the T. Don Hutto detention center in Texas in 2007. Robert Daemmrich Photography/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In late June, amid the uproar over President Donald Trump’s family separation policy, the commissioners of a conservative Texas county voted to end an agreement that allows Immigration and Customs…
Capitalism? Socialism? For Democrats, It’s More Bernie vs Donald.
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Gallup has a new poll out showing that Democrats now feel more favorably toward socialism than capitalism. But a few folks have pointed out that this isn’t due to increased warmth toward socialism; rather, it’s due to a sudden distaste for Trump-era capitalism. This is…