School Officials Tried to Stop Her From Talking About Sexual Assault. She Wouldn’t be Silenced.
Lulabel Seitz after her microphone was shut off.Erik Castro/The Press Democrat/AP No, Lulabel Seitz would not shut up. The first in her family to graduate high school, the Petaluma, Calif., senior wouldn’t let school administrators stop her from publicly talking about sexual assault at school. “Let her speak!” her classmates shouted when her mic was cut,…
Californians Will Vote on a Silicon Valley Investor’s Plan to Split Up Their State
Californias, here we comeCal 3 Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Californians head to the polls this fall, they’ll get to vote on whether or not America’s largest and arguably most important state should be broken into three. On Tuesday, a voter initiative known as Cal 3 qualified to be…
Chart of the Day: The South Pole is Shrinking Fast
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Here are the latest results of the ongoing IMBIE team’s measurement of Antarctic ice sheet loss due to global warming: In the 12 years between 1992 and 2004, the Antarctic lost about 50 gigatonnes of ice per year. In the 13 years between 2004 and…
Immigration Compromise Is Doomed Once Again
Nancy Siesel via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. From the New York Times, on an attempt by rogue Republicans in the House to force a discharge petition on immigration legislation: Mr. Ryan desperately wanted to avoid bringing those bipartisan measures to the floor. Can you imagine? How dare anyone…
Democratic Frontrunner Who Abused Ex-Wife Wins South Carolina Primary
Mother Jones illustration; Facebook Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Archie Parnell, a former Goldman Sachs managing director who has long been viewed as the Democratic frontrunner in the primary for the House seat representing South Carolina’s 5th District, won his party’s nomination Tuesday night, meaning he’ll move forward to November despite divorce records made public…
Does Your State Let Parents Refuse Vaccines for “Philosophical Reasons”?
Jovanmandic/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The scientific evidence in favor of vaccines is solid. But many parents don’t immunize their children, citing religious or “philosophical beliefs.” In many states, it’s easy for parents to opt-out of school-mandated vaccinations for kids—which leaves pockets of the population unvaccinated, and puts children at risk of otherwise-preventable infectious…