Politics
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Quickies: Cultural Appropriation, Satanic Pregnancies, and a Few Separated Families Reunite
On Cultural Appropriation: A Latina Novelist Calls Herself out Amid the “American Dirt” Controversy, Salon: Whether or not you’ve followed the controversy over Jeanine Cummins’ book, this article provides a nuanced look at cultural appropriation worth a read. Trump’s Spiritual Adviser Called for “All Satanic Pregnancies to Miscarry.” It Was a Metaphor, She Says, Washington Post (free article limit): I’ve…
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Abortion Heads to the Supreme Court (Again)
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: I love having a mildly popular website. There are so many positives to it: needing to learn how to manage a database or else risk bankruptcy, the semi-regular libel lawsuit threats, barely making enough in ad money to cover…
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Quickies: The Wage-Suicide Link, Vulnerable Voting Machines, and Adaptive Fashion
Higher Minimum Wages Linked to Reduced Suicide Rate, Ars Technica: “A number of studies . . . have indicated that financial stressors are a significant contributor [to suicides]. And a few recent studies have suggested a public policy that can reduce financial stress does seem to have an influence on suicide rates: the minimum wage. Now, researchers from Emory University…
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Quickies: Trump Presidential Library at a Trailer Park, GOP Admits Voter Suppression, and the LGBT Mafia Strikes Again
$1 Billion for Briny Breezes? Real Estate Broker Thinks Trump Would Buy . . . and Residents Are Listening, Palm Beach Post: This is too on the nose not to share. Apparently, Trump family friend Vanilla Ice is pushing for a Palm Beach County trailer park as the site for Trump’s presidential library. Every word in that sentence is true.…
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Ohio to Charge Doctors with Abortion Murder if They Don’t Perform a Surgery that Doesn’t Exist
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: I recently saw news that an Ohio state legislator had introduced a bill that would require insurance companies to cover the reimplantation of ectopic pregnancies into the uterus rather than the normal course of action, which is to remove…
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Ohio Bill Would Give Students “Religious Freedom” in Science Class
This post contains a video, which you can also view here. To support more videos like this, head to patreon.com/rebecca! Transcript: Man, is it 2005 because the US president is a criminal, the last movie in a Star Wars trilogy is coming out, the Patriots won the Super Bowl, and US states are passing anti-evolution bills? Mmm, nostalgia! Seriously, this…
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Quickies: Homophobic Hallmark and Boomers’ Heightened Narcissism
Shot: Things We Saw Today: Hallmark Caves to Homophobes, the Mary Sue: “The campaign was spearheaded by One Million Karens who would like to speak to the manager Moms, which started a petition demanding that Hallmark not only remove the ads but cave to their demand not to create any sort of LGBT content. Their reasoning? ‘Such content goes against…
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Quickies: Fascist Trump Children’s Book and States Taking on Private Prisons
Metaxas’ “Donald Builds the Wall” Recalls Nazi Children’s Books, at Love, Joy, Feminism: “I watched a video of Metaxas doing a ‘dramatic reading’ of his book. I wanted to make sure I wasn’t being unfair to him—I do try to give everyone the benefit of the doubt, and my friends still [tell] me I hand out way too many second…
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