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Britain’s farming leaders are urging the government to clamp down on the illegal use of powerful antibiotics following a Guardian investigation that found evidence that the superbug MRSA – linked to the overuse of antibiotics in livestock – has ente…
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It has been a long week for residents in Berkeley. When six students fell to their death on Tuesday, the community was shaken. Those questions are unlikely to subside as more information comes forward, but for the families, coping has been difficult…
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As he sits in the airport waiting for a flight, 22-year-old James Anderson talks about his life before, during and after incarceration with breathtaking candidness. via Pocket
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Anti-austerity demonstrations – live | World news | The Guardian
The Guardian’s own Damien Gayle will be on the frontline of the protest today. Here are some words from him about what we can expect. Tens of thousands of people are expected to gather in central London today for the biggest anti-austerity march yet…
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The impossible world of MC Escher | Art and design | The Guardian
The artist who created some of the most memorable images of the 20th century was never fully embraced by the art world. via Pocket
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If you crush a cockroach, you’re a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you’re a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria. (self.Showerthoughts) I read a thread yesterday where someone died and people were arguing over whether it was more tragic…
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Daniel Sturridge on how to kick a ball | Life and style | The Guardian
I can’t remember not kicking a ball. As a kid, I messed around with a tennis ball, I kicked cans – anything that remotely resembled a football. I don’t think you have to have natural talent to play football. The people who end up being successful ar…
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Terrorism in Charleston – The New Yorker
During the second debate of the 2012 Presidential campaign, Mitt Romney repeated the frequently levelled Republican charge that it had taken Barack Obama many days to refer to the attack upon the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi as terrorism. via Pocket
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People in the year 9999 might claim that the Gregorian Calendar ends there and that Italians predicted that the universe would then end. (self.Showerthoughts) And those people would be just as dumb as the 2012ers. via Pocket
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TIL that Hitler’s plan for moscow after capturing it during WW2 was to kill all its residents and replace it with a lake (en.wikipedia.org)submitted 2 hours ago by loading… via Pocket
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The Fulda Gap (en.wikipedia.org)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading… via Pocket
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If you swap the spinach for beer, then any episode of Popeye becomes a bitter story of a raging alcoholic, right down to the speech impediment and tendency to fight people who he believes are trying to steal “his girl” (self. via Pocket
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My friend’s wife and cat watching a shy stray kitten eat the food they put out. : aww
My friend’s wife and cat watching a shy stray kitten eat the food they put out. (imgur.com) That’s not my food is it?? via Pocket
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Red Devil saves team-mate as his parachute fails to open | UK news | The Guardian
The incident took place during the Whitehaven Airshow on the Cumbrian coast, where the British Army freefall parachute display team was performing on Friday night. via Pocket
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Sorry, liberals, liking free markets doesn’t make someone a jerk : TrueReddit
Correct, but automatically thinking liberals don’t appreciate free markets is just as divisive. via Pocket
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Electronic tag to be removed from terror suspect who ‘feared it was bomb’ | Law | The Guardian
A Somalian refugee who authorities believe acted as a recruiting agent for an Islamist terror group is to have his electronic tag removed because he was scared it contained a bomb. via Pocket
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Stay inside this summer: the best new shows on TV | Television & radio | The Guardian
Summer is traditionally off-season for TV. Schedule-obliterating sport events, and the unreliable but still enticing prospect of spending evenings outside in the warm, have proven tough competition. via Pocket
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Victor H. Mair (born 1943) is a philologist specializing in Sinitic and Indo-European languages, and holds the position of Professor of Chinese Language and Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of …
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Sewell – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sewell may refer to: In people: Almondo Sewell (born 1987), American football player Anna Sewell (1820–1878), British writer, author of Black Beauty, daughter of Mary Wright Sewell Anthony Sewell (b. via Pocket
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Show off No one man should have all that power Cafu’s keep-ups Balls If at first you don’t succeed… via Pocket
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Tangentially related is this War Nerd article: Which confederates should’ve been hanged, come April 1865? The confederate flag is the symbol of those who committed treason against the United States of America. via Pocket
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Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows | The Kansas City Star The Kansas City Star
ABC’s “This Week” — Not available. NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee; Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. via Pocket
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Donald Trump’s plan to save America – Telegraph
The most powerful man in the world-in-waiting reveals how he will tackle the the problems facing the previously greatest country on earth This week Donald Trump, the plain-speaking property billionaire, announced his decision to stand for US Preside…
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El número de atentados terroristas en el mundo aumentó más de un tercio en 2014 respecto del año precedente, según conclusiones de un informe del Departamento de Estado estadounidense, que sostuvo que Irán sigue siendo un “Estado que promueve el ter…
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Uber prohíbe portar armas de fuego en sus viajes | El Financiero
Uber Technologies anunció el viernes la prohibición de armas de fuego en viajes arreglados a través de la plataforma Uber, y que los choferes o pasajeros que la violen podrían perder acceso a la misma. La regla es aplicable también a las afiliadas d…
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EEUU: Jeb Bush promueve política antiaborto para seducir a derecha religiosa | Mundo | Peru21
Jeb Bush, cuando ejercía el cargo de gobernador de Florida en los años 2000, promovió lo que llamó la “cultura de la vida” e hizo clausurar clínicas donde se practicaban abortos, recordó el viernes durante una conferencia de religiosos conservadores…
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Haitianos, entre la zozobra y el drama por salida de República Dominicana
Sentadas en su improvisado puesto ambulante de artículos de belleza, Marushka Pierre y su familia se debaten entre quedarse en República Dominicana o volver a su natal Haití de donde salieron hace 15 años, luego de que no lograron legalizar su estat…
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Hay dos visiones en Brasil sobre la visita de los senadores a Venezuela – Nacional y Poltica
Caracas. via Pocket
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Hallan millones en droga entre vasos desechables — Telemundo Houston
LAREDO, Texas – Los agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza descubrieron miles de libras de marihuana escondidas en cajas de vasos desechables. via Pocket
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Universitario recién graduado, una de víctimas en Charleston | El Nuevo Herald El Nuevo Herald
Uno de ellos era un bibliotecario que ansiaba jubilarse. Otro se acababa de graduar de la universidad con una licenciatura en negocios. Ellos son dos de las nueve víctimas del tiroteo al interior de una iglesia en Charleston. via Pocket
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Presos fugados en Nueva York, entre los “Most Wanted” – Grupo Milenio
David Sweat, de 34 años, y Richard Matt, de 48, se fugaron del penal de máxima seguridad de Clinton, cerca de la frontera con Canadá, en la noche del 5 al 6 de junio, y las autoridades todavía no han sido capaces de dar con su paradero. via Pocket
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Universidad en Utah creó ‘carriles para textear’ – Univision Noticias
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Arrestan en Brasil a dos constructores por caso Petrobras – Internacional
Río de Janeiro, Brasil.- La policía federal brasileña arrestó este viernes a los presidentes de las dos más grandes constructoras del país, Odebrecht SA y Andrade Gutiérrez, en el marco de las investigaciones sobre corrupción en contratos firmados c…
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“The Big Island of Hawaii showed me the darkest night sky I’ve ever seen near the summit of Mauna Kea. While the naked eye can only see so much, I was blown away by all the detail that the camera was able to pick up” [3190×1400] Photo by Shane Black…
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Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows | Miami Herald Miami Herald
ABC’s “This Week” — Not available. NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee; Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. via Pocket
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All choked up: did Britain’s dirty air make me dangerously ill? | Global | The Guardian
Three months ago, a surgeon at Liverpool Heart and Chest hospital took a saw, ripped through my sternum, levered open my ribcage, cut into the aorta of my still-beating heart and stitched in a vein from my leg. The long, brutal operation was a great…
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‘If anyone was going to wake from a coma, it was my brother’ | Life and style | The Guardian
It was an average Saturday night in our family pub: busy, with people three or four deep at the bar. My younger brother Matty and I each had our own section to serve, and had got used to the art of it. via Pocket
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Classics for the people – why we should all learn from the ancient Greeks | Books | The Guardian
Just how special were the ancient Greeks? Was there really a Greek “miracle”? The question has become painfully politicised. Critics of colonialism and racism tend to play down the specialness of the ancient Greeks. via Pocket
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Reddit Is A Shrine To The Internet We Wanted And That’s A Problem – BuzzFeed News
Reddit has a problem. It’s a well-documented problem, which, oddly, is a big part of the problem. via Pocket
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One of the sure signs that summer is in full swing are the boxes of Alphonso mangoes stacked up outside my local Lebanese grocer. via Pocket
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The Goring Hotel, a petit four’s throw from Buckingham Palace, is heavy on swagged curtains, massive flower arrangements on fluted pedestals and discreetly luxurious powder rooms; you can see why Kate Middleton and her wedding party spent the night …
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Attention-seeking? Yes. Self-aggrandising? Yes. Sort of admirable for sheer chutzpah? I think so. Fathers4Justice is best-known for a series of stunts featuring dads dressed as superheroes – climbing bridges and buildings to promote the belief that …
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Pope’s climate adviser lambasts Australia | afr.com
Professor Hans Schellnhuber, head of the highly-regarded Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research outside Berlin, told reporters Australia’s reliance on coal exports to China was a “suicide strategy”. via Pocket
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NY police investigate possible sighting of escaped prisoners | Fox News
LINDLEY, N.Y. – New York State Police are investigating a possible sighting of the two convicted killers who escaped from an upstate New York prison two weeks ago. via Pocket
New York State Police are looking to a possible sighting of two convicted murderers who escaped from an upstate New York maximum-security prison two weeks ago. via Pocket -
Rachel Dolezal and the neuroscience of cultural identity | Toronto Star
According to scientists, identity — even racial identity — doesn’t arise from any single place in the brain. via Pocket
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A man remains in a critical condition in hospital after surviving a 10-hour flight by clinging to the undercarriage of a British Airways flight from which another stowaway is feared to have plunged to his death. via Pocket
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I once tried to cheat sleep, and for a year I succeeded – Quartz
In the summer of 2009, I was finishing the first—and toughest—year of my doctorate. To help me get through it, while I brewed chemicals in test tubes during the day, I was also planning a crazy experiment to cheat sleep. via Pocket
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Saint Columba’s church in Oakland, California, yesterday became the focal point for the outpouring of grief among the families, J1 students and the wider community which mourned the death of the young people killed in Tuesday’s accident. via Pocket
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For the past four months Shane Rae has been living under the threat of having his driving licence taken away – yet he has committed no offence and his 30-year driving record is unblemished. He has even been forced to retake his driving test and take…
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This has been the standing joke in our staffroom for years, owing to the teacher’s over-zealous approach to diagnosing any child not brilliant at reading as “dyslexic”. via Pocket
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Recently, a reply to a hello message that I wrote last autumn arrived out of the blue, apologising drily for the delay. It came from Miles, who is an academic and lives an hour away by train. Miles is round-faced with wild, grey hair and a wide smil…
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A dusting of flowers: Ruby’s floral bakes | Life and style | The Guardian
Baking is so often about making hearty comfort food that it’s difficult to even imagine what “summer baking” would look like. The heaviness of suet is certainly off-limits, as are hefty gateaux, steamed puddings and ladlefuls of hot custard. via Poc…
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A letter to … My dad, who didn’t live to see my sons | Life and style | The Guardian
My stomach still knots when I see the card shops advertising Father’s Day. I avoid looking at the cards or watching those lucky enough to have a dad, happily choosing which jokey one to buy. It’s just gone 18 years since you passed away. via Pocket
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In James Holmes trial, bereaved mother speaks, and prosecution rests – LA Times
She thought it was a prank — the explosion just fireworks, the hissing some kind of a stink bomb. But Ashley Moser wanted to get out of the packed theater anyway, to protect the unborn child inside of her, to herd her 6-year-old daughter, Veronica M…
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A Palestinian man shot and killed an Israeli, and wounded one other, near a West Bank settlement on Friday, in what security forces believe was a terror attack. The full text is available for subscribers & registered users. via Pocket
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Pope Francis: Climate Change A ‘Principal Challenge’ For Humanity : The Two-Way : NPR
Pope Francis today issued a sweeping 184-page papal letter, writing that climate change is a global problem with far reaching environmental and social consequences – especially for the poor. via Pocket
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What’s Your Disney Porn Star Name
A Hole New World One Hundred and One Bottoms The 13-Inch Mermaid Fantorgy Hoe-zen The Jungle F*ck The Many Orgasms of Winnie the Pooh Alice in Thot-erland The Emperor Gets His Groove On Oliver and Cum-pany Sinderella Booty and the Beast via Pocket
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Lightning damages George Washington stone monument in Maryland | US news | The Guardian
The oldest monument dedicated to George Washington, the first president of the United States, was partially damaged in a violent lightning storm in Maryland, officials said. via Pocket
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These Are What the Google Artificial Intelligence’s Dreams Look Like | Popular Science
Google’s artificial neural network has some explaining to do. Google’s servers drive the much of the world’s data, and apparently, they dream as well, according to a Google blog post by two Google software engineers and an intern. via Pocket
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Declaring that he refused to “act as if this is the new normal”, President Barack Obama on Friday called for a national moment of soul-searching over gun violence, in his second statement in as many days on Wednesday’s mass shooting inside a church …
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Perry calls Charleston church shootings an ‘accident’ | Dallas Morning News
WASHINGTON — Rick Perry said Friday that the massacre at a black church in Charleston was an “accident” as he accused President Barack Obama of succumbing to a “knee jerk” liberal impulse to push a gun-control agenda. via Pocket
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Hawaii becomes first U.S. state to raise smoking age to 21| Reuters
Hawaii’s governor on Friday signed a bill raising the legal smoking age statewide to 21, the first U.S. state to do so. The law takes effect on Jan. 1, 2016, and will also ban the sale, purchase or use of electronic cigarettes for those under the ag…
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Rick Perry calls Charleston church shooting an ‘accident’ – The Washington Post
The one presidential candidate who cannot make a mistake did just that Friday. Addressing Wednesday’s massacre at a South Carolina church, former Texas governor Rick Perry referred to it as an “accident. via Pocket
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US Open: Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed joint leaders after two rounds | Sport | The Guardian
Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed, two shining beacons in an otherwise dismal Ryder Cup showing by the United States at Gleneagles last September, will head into the third round of the US Open as the joint leaders at Chambers Bay. via Pocket
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Faced with an online backlash, a member of the National Rifle Association’s board deleted comments Friday criticizing the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, a South Carolina lawmaker who was one of the nine people shot and killed in the attack on his church…
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We Are 100%, For Sure, in the Middle of a Major Extinction Event | Motherboard
Lots of people know about the risk of losing endangered animals like pandas and tigers, but they’re just the tip of the iceberg, according to a new study showing a major global extinction is currently underway. via Pocket
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I Spoke To Guys The Way They Speak To Girls On Tinder, And Here’s What Happened
One of the things that took her by surprise was how some men on Tinder were sending demeaning messages and being aggressively persistent. She was even more shocked when I told her that this was a regular occurrence for many women using dating apps. …
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New York prison break: another officer suspended as pair remain on run | US news | The Guardian
A prison officer has been suspended over the escape of two inmates from a maximum security New York jail – becoming the second employee under scrutiny in the case, following the arrest of Joyce Mitchell for allegedly assisting the pair. via Pocket
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Open thread for night owls: Interlude
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2010—The opacity of tropes: The President should have spoken to Dorgan and Feinstein months ago, and said, “We need to do this. We’re going to do this. I need your help. via Pocket
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When an elderly Pope Leo XIII released a document in 1891 on the rights of workers to unionize and of owners to hold private property, European capitalists and socialists alike cried foul. Why should we listen, they fumed, to a pope’s pronouncements…
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Bad news for Uber as California says its drivers are employees
Companies get big advantages from misclassifying workers, because they’re not responsible for paying things like Social Security, workers’ compensation, and unemployment insurance. That’s a huge competitive advantage Uber has used, and losing it wou…
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According to Bradley A. Smith, a former Federal Election Commission chairman, corporations face “more campaign-finance disclosure than ever before. via Pocket
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When tragedies happen, it’s natural for people to come together in the spirit of protecting each other. via Pocket
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A meeting of eurozone finance ministers on Thursday, which was billed as the last chance to stave off a Greek default and a Greek exit from the euro, collapsed in rancor and recriminations less than an hour after it started. via Pocket
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Your editorial accurately points out that while the flow of Central American migrants has decreased — including that of children and youths — our fellow citizens continue to arrive at the southern border of the United States. via Pocket
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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“College Rape Prevention Program Proves a Rare Success” (news article, June 11) suggests that training female students to avoid rape can be effective. But rape avoidance is not rape prevention. via Pocket
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Pope Francis is to be applauded for making environmental issues a catalyst for our moral awakening. He has hit on a number of critical issues. The environment is a complex and fascinating system that should be managed globally. via Pocket
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Low-wage industry tries to fearmonger on overtime pay, fails
The NRF’s projections are intended to be critical of the Labor Department’s rules update, but I have a hard time seeing why it would be a bad thing to create 76,000 new retail jobs, given that 8.6 million Americans are currently unemployed. via Pock…
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I wept as I read about the events in Charleston. And now young Dylann Storm Roof, who sports the predictable white-supremacist insignia and paraphernalia, has been captured. He will presumably stand trial. via Pocket
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The Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Hector Ayala, who has been on California’s death row for 25 years, turned on the question of whether a judge could hear a prosecutor’s reasons for dismissing people from the jury pool without the defendant…
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Ted Cruz was for an Obamacare subsidy extension before he was against it
But in February, Cruz introduced the ObamaCare Repeal bill, which would have provided a six-month transition period as well. According to Cruz’s office, the two ideas—total repeal and elimination of the subsidies—are completely different. via Pocket
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ON Monday, New York City is expected to settle a three-year-old class-action lawsuit by the Legal Aid Society over excessive use of force at Rikers Island. As a former chief of internal investigations at the Department of Correction, I am a defendan…
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The DxO One makes your iPhone better than most compact cameras | The Verge
We all take pictures with our phones but some of us want to grow the experience up a little. via Pocket
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TORONTO — AMONG environmental activists, the international market for carbon credits is often compared to the medieval sale of indulgences. via Pocket
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He couldn’t say the L word. On the “Today” show Friday morning, the former NBC anchor Brian Williams used every verbal variation imaginable to express error and regret. via Pocket
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History Returns to Charleston – The New Yorker
We don’t know much about Dylann Storm Roof, but one of the questions we will want answered is just how premeditated his actions were on Wednesday, when he entered the famous Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church on Calhoun Street, sat for an ho…
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Thanks, net neutrality. Sprint is going to stop throttling data
That argument cuts against what many larger cellular carriers have argued, which is that heavy demand for mobile Internet requires carriers to be flexible in how they manage their networks. via Pocket
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — A cloud of fear and uncertainty has settled over the Dominican Republic in the two days since the government officially closed the doors to migrant workers trying to normalize their status. via Pocket
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An epic history of the movie trailer — Hopes&Fears — flow “Film”
For as long as there have been movies, there have been attempts to get people into movie theaters. via Pocket
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My Smartphone Gave Me a Painful Neurological Condition
A few months ago I started getting headaches, and they were weird. If a bad hangover headache feels splitting, I’d describe these headaches as searing, as if someone had hit me over the head with a red hot rod of steel sending electric bolts of pain…
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After tracking tiny mutations in the genome of Ebola, scientists from around the world are developing a fuller picture of how the virus spread and evolved genetically during the world’s worst outbreak of the disease. via Pocket
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The former governor of the northeast Mexican border state of Tamaulipas, Eugenio Hernández Flores, has been indicted on money-laundering charges in South Texas, prosecutors said Friday. The charges stem from allegations by United States law enforce…
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Lawmakers in the lower house of Parliament gave tentative approval on Friday to a bill that would move up next year’s parliamentary elections by three months, a tactic critics say is an effort to weaken the opposition. Under the bill, the 2016 elect…
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The French foreign minister will travel this weekend to Egypt, Jordan, Israel and the West Bank for meetings that the government asserts will be an effort to restart peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. via Pocket
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The average inmate at Riker’s Island is now waiting a ridiculous 593 days for their trial to begin
We now know that the average inmate being housed in the pre-trial detention center at Riker’s Island waits in this hell hole of a place for an average of 593 days. Mind you, these men and women have not yet been found guilty of a crime. via Pocket
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Unicef expressed concern on Friday over a possible surge in the trafficking of Nepalese children who might have been orphaned, abandoned or sold in the nearly two months since two severe earthquakes struck Nepal. via Pocket
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MoveOn Petitions – Remove the Confederate Flag From All Government Places
Petition Statement Symbols of hate and division have no place in our government. via Pocket
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Obama Urges Action on Gun Violence After Charleston Church Shooting – NBC News
President Barack Obama on Friday called for a national discussion on gun regulations in the wake of a deadly attack at a historic black church in Charleston, saying “it is not good enough simply to show sympathy. via Pocket
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LHO, Nepal — A dozen children, wearing the maroon robes of Buddhist monks, sat together on the packed earth of the village courtyard, solemn-faced and whispering. Behind them, vertical cliffs rose to snow-covered peaks. via Pocket
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CAN it ever be ethical for companies or governments to experiment on their employees, customers or citizens without their consent? via Pocket
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Martin O’Malley calls for getting 100 percent off fossil fuels by 2050
As president, I would support a Clean Energy Financing Authority to support projects to increase efficiency and resiliency upgrades in cities, towns, and rural communities nationwide. O’Malley did not become a climate hawk just yesterday. via Pocket
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Take down the Confederate flag. Now.
Atop the South Carolina statehouse, both the national and state flags flew at half mast yesterday. But not the Confederate Flag. The symbolic reasons loom large. The literal reason was uncovered by a reporter. via Pocket
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Jon Stewart Has No Jokes To Make About The Charleston Church Shooting – Digg
“Al Qaeda? ISIS? They’re not shit compared to the damage that we can apparently do to ourselves on a regular basis. via Pocket
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Cheers and Jeers: Rum and Coke FRIDAY!
“This is amazing! America’s id is running for president. Trump is the part of your brain that’s like at 3am going, ‘Let’s take a shit in a mailbox! C’mon, who’s gonna know???’ … Thank you, Donald, for making my last six weeks my best six weeks.’”-…
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As many of us have noted, it’s hugely unfair when people claim that Greece has done nothing to adjust. On the contrary, it has imposed incredibly harsh austerity and substantial reforms on other fronts. via Pocket
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Obama on gun control: ‘We need a change in attitude’ – CNNPolitics.com
(CNN)President Barack Obama continued to press for greater gun restrictions Friday in the wake of the church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, that left nine dead earlier this week. “We need a change in attitude,” Obama said in remarks to the …
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Clinton Camp Blasts Republicans For Religion Attack – BuzzFeed News
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta went on the offensive on Friday against Republicans who have seized on a remark Clinton made in April about the need for some religious beliefs to change in the context of women’s rights.…
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Police Say Indigenous Women Are Still Overrepresented in Canadian Murder Statistics | VICE News
Canada’s federal police force said on Friday it has made progress in solving cases of missing and murdered indigenous women, but the number of those who have disappeared continues to climb. via Pocket
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Rick Perry calls Charleston church shooting an ‘accident’ : nottheonion
Given the current state of the Republican Party, we’re probably lucky he didn’t call it “Thugs shot by a man defending his Second Amendment Rights”. via Pocket
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I have no doubt that had the Rev. Clementa C. via Pocket
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Scorsese’s Achievement with “GoodFellas” – The New Yorker
The movie “GoodFellas” (settling in today for a week-long revival at Film Forum) opens with a three-ply scene, set in 1970, of grotesque contrasts, with the easy camaraderie of three men in a car interrupted by their completion of a gory and flamboy…
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Memorial in Charleston – The New Yorker
The only time I sat in what is known in Charleston as Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church was in the early nineteen-sixties, when Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered a sermon. via Pocket
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An Old Comic Strip About Modern Fatherhood – The New Yorker
Chris Ware first came across the work of the late cartoonist Frank King in the nineteen-eighties, in the seminal anthology “The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics. via Pocket
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Inside the mind of Bernie Sanders: unbowed, unchanged, and unafraid of a good fight : democrats
Unbowed, unbent, unbroken? We really need to start calling him “The Sand Viper”. via Pocket
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Connecting the dots: Charleston shooter, Trayvon Martin, Freddie Gray, and the American Confederacy
Roof did not come out of nowhere. His worldview, driven by racism, white supremacy and an outrageous fear of African Americans, is actually a very particular, popular and dangerous somewhere. via Pocket
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Indigenous Women Still Overrepresented in Canadian Murder Statistics: New Police Report | VICE News
Canada’s federal police force said on Friday it has made progress in solving cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women, but the number of those who have disappeared continues to climb. via Pocket
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The Confederacy is not our heritage
But the Confederacy is not my heritage. It’s not anyone’s heritage. The Confederacy is our shame. In the whole of the Confederacy, there is not one thing to be proud of. Not the men. Not their actions. Certainly not the ideals. via Pocket
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Martin O’Malley Launches Major Post-Charleston Gun Control Push With “I’m Pissed” – BuzzFeed News
WASHINGTON — Martin O’Malley launched a major push for gun control tied to the Charleston shooting Friday, his campaign’s latest attempt to use his record as Maryland governor to drive up support for his presidential campaign. via Pocket
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El Niño Conditions Mean 2015 Could Be the Hottest Year Ever | VICE News
VICE News is closely tracking global environmental change. Check out the Tipping Point blog here. It just keeps getting hotter and hotter. via Pocket
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In Photos: A Community in the Crosshairs of the Dominican Republic’s Naturalization Law | VICE News
On the far eastern edge of Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, lies a concentration of bateyes, or sugar cane cutting communities. via Pocket
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The Exquisite Corpse Project 2 on Vimeo
The Exquisite Corpse Project 2 is a motion graphics piece directed by Michael Waldron and created by a group of artists from around the world. It debuted at this years Motion Conference in Santa Fe. The idea was to create a piece of art that you sha…
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On the far eastern edge of Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, lies a concentration of bateyes, or sugar cane cutting communities. via Pocket
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Cartoon: Mission creep techniques
Click to enlarge. We’re sending more troops to Iraq! That always ends well. via Pocket
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Pranksters Dressed As Dinosaurs Scare The Crap Out Of Chris Pratt – Digg
That whole “Jurassic World” thing really came back to bite him in the ass huh? via Pocket
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In the 1970s, Sugar Was Sold as a Diet Aid – The Atlantic
In the 1970s, the Sugar Association launched an ad campaign premised on the idea that sugar is … a useful diet aid. Sugar, these days, has a bad reputation. via Pocket
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Aurora shooting trial: prosecutors finish presenting emotional case | US news | The Guardian
Prosecutors in the Colorado theater shooting trial were wrapping up their case Friday against James Holmes after eight weeks of testimony in which they sought to show that the former neuroscience student meticulously planned and carried out the 2012…
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For The First Time in Decades, McDonald’s Is Closing More Stores Than It’s Opening | VICE News
McDonald’s will close more stores than it will open this year, a circumstance that hasn’t happened since the 1970s, according to the Associated Press, which reviewed the company’s regulatory fillings. via Pocket
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BALTIMORE — ATTENTION, downward-facing-dog enthusiasts. The International Day of Yoga is coming on Sunday. A brainchild of Narendra Modi, the Indian prime minister, it is being backed by more than 175 countries and heavily promoted worldwide. via Po…
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The National Review grapples with Confederate flag love
Needless to say, this lonely appeal to plain history (and not distant history, but history that a nontrivial chunk of the modern conservative movement was alive for, and witnessed themselves) is no match for the resounding cries of nuh-uh, because s…
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The date of birth on his passport – 27 July 1993 – confirms the age belied by his already receding hairline, but in so many other ways Jordan Spieth is hardly your typical 21-year-old. via Pocket
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ASCOT, England — While Americans view the Kentucky Derby as the time and place to break out their best hats and go to the races, the overall finery on display pales in comparison to what one sees during the five-day Royal Ascot meet here. via Pocket
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Mike Huckabee decries the moral state of America
Huckabee: Yes. America has witnessed the slaughter of over 55 million babies in the name of choice. Politicians and unelected judges threaten the foundation of religious liberty by criminalizing Christianity. We even have Republicans demanding that …
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Cover Story: Charleston’s “Nine” – The New Yorker
“It’s distressing contemplating another story like this,” says Barry Blitt, about the appalling murders referenced on next week’s cover, “but not really surprising, I guess.” The cover is titled “Nine” and appears on the issue of June 29th, 2015. vi…
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The Internet is looking for who designed this cup. What does Springfield have to do with it?
Disposable cups, forming a permanent legacy. But whose? That was the question. via Pocket
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LONDON — The surprisingly strong showing in elections on Thursday of Denmark’s anti-immigration, anti-Brussels Danish People’s Party has underlined a growing crisis of confidence in traditional political institutions and in the European Union itself…
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Rick Perry calls Charleston church shooting an ‘accident’ | World news | The Guardian
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry on Friday suggested the fatal shooting of nine black people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a white male was a drug-induced “accident”. via Pocket
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Elephant Poaching Ivory: Times Square Ivory Crushing Against Trade
More than a ton of ivory taken from poached animals was crushed in New York’s Times Square on Friday to highlight the threat of the ivory trade to the African elephant. via Pocket
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KABUL, Afghanistan — With Afghanistan’s fractious coalition government already struggling, a new deadline looms that could further hurt its credibility: The Afghan Parliament’s term is set to expire on Sunday, with no elections scheduled and no agre…
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Jeb Bush: In time of mourning, ‘all of us must fortify our love of Christ’
It also speaks to Jeb!’s cluelessness that he’d even suggest such a thing. via Pocket
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New Robocalls Restriction May Affect 2016 Political Campaigns | VICE News
With the 2016 campaign getting underway, much of the politicians’ talk will be anti-Washington. But yesterday a decision came down from the Federal Communications Commission that may find Washington on your side. via Pocket
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Bernie Sanders Calls for End of Deportations In Name of Families
White House hopeful says he would expand protections to include parents of those in the United States illegally. via Pocket
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Meet the Drone That Carries Out the Airstrikes Before the Airstrikes | VICE News
At the French Ministry of Defense’s booth in the Paris Air Show this week, the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) proudly displayed what will soon be the crown jewel of the French air force’s aircraft fleet: an armed drone designed in collabora…
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Massachusetts police fatally shoot man wielding knife in Boston – reports | US news | The Guardian
Massachusetts state police said on Twitter that officers responded to a report of shots fired on the Silber footbridge over Storrow Drive near Boston University shortly before 3pm ET. via Pocket
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With this month’s announcement that the European Union is investigating Amazon for possible anticompetitive behavior in the sale of e-books, antitrust fervor in Europe seems to have hit fever pitch. via Pocket
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Bernie Sanders: I Support Further Executive Action On Immigration, Too – BuzzFeed News
In a forceful speech at the NALEO conference of Latino elected officials in Las Vegas, Nevada, Friday, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said he supports a path to citizenship and further executive action on immigration that would pro…
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NRA blames Charleston victims as the mass shooting reaction pattern repeats | US news | The Guardian
Reactions to mass shootings in the United States admit little variation. Gun control groups diagnose an epidemic, the president declares a crisis and gun advocates prescribe more guns. via Pocket
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The path toward non-Grexit — toward Greece and its creditors reaching a deal that keeps it in the euro — is getting narrower, although it’s not yet completely closed. I’ve been reticent on the subject, for fear of adding my bit to the crisis atmosph…
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Children’s Museum Survival Tips for Dads – The New Yorker
For as long as there have been small places in strip malls with boxes of filthy Legos and even filthier dress-up clothes, there have been “Children’s Museums. via Pocket
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Jon Stewart’s Charleston Despair – The New Yorker
On Thursday, two men known for their ability to inspire optimism in others seemed to have met the limits of their respective abilities. via Pocket
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How to Tell the “Orphan Black” Clones Apart – The New Yorker
MARIA: “I never look at recipes. I’m just a natural cook!” Sign up for the daily newsletter.Sign up for the daily newsletter: the best of The New Yorker every day. via Pocket
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A Dishonest Attack on Abortion Rights – The New Yorker
The stated purpose of Texas House Bill 2 is pretty uncontroversial. As the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals put it last week, in an opinion upholding the law, H.B. via Pocket
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Wrong time. Wrong place. Judge in Charleston shooting calls family members of shooter “victims”
What? What the hell? What is he even talking about? We have no idea who this young man’s family is, what racist teachings they may have instilled him, if they encouraged him, etc. It is far too early to be calling anyone other than the true victims …
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At Least 77 People Have Reportedly Been Killed Since the Protests Began in Burundi | VICE News
At least 77 people have been killed and more than 500 wounded since the end of April in clashes between protesters and security forces in Burundi, according to the Association for the Protection of Human Rights and Detained Persons (PRODH), a Burund…
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Someone in Florida snapped a picture of a raccoon riding a gator at the Ocala National Forest. (imgur.com) This will not end well. via Pocket
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Martin O’Malley is Pissed and Wants More Gun Control
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley told supporters in the wake of this week’s South Carolina shooting that he’s “pissed” Congress is not passing more stringent gun control measures. Nine people were shot dead in a historically black church in Char…
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Stephen King hits out at ‘closed minds’ who oppose US gun control laws | Books | The Guardian
American novelist Stephen King has hit out at the “proudly closed minds” on gun control in America following the murder of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina this week. via Pocket
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In his first interview since being removed as anchor of “Nightly News” on NBC, Brian Williams called the last several months “torture” and owned up to telling stories that were not true. “This came from clearly a bad place, a bad urge inside of me,”…
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Alan Rickman AKA Snape On Helium Will Put A Much-Needed Smile On Your Face
1. After seeing Benedict Cumberbatch and Jimmy Fallon’s impressions of him, Alan Rickman decided to challenge Fallon to a wonderful Q&A using helium, and it’s everything. Prepare yourselves for sassy Snape. youtube.com 2. via Pocket
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The path toward non-Grexit — toward Greece and its creditors reaching a deal that keeps it in the euro — is getting narrower, although it’s not yet completely closed. I’ve been reticent on the subject, for fear of adding my bit to the crisis atmosph…
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Delaware is 18th state to allow possession of recreational marijuana | US news | The Guardian
Delaware governor Jack Markell has signed into law a bill decriminalising possession and private use of small amounts of marijuana. The move follows the lead of nearly 20 states that have eased penalties for personal consumption, state media reporte…
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In an interview with Steve Malzberg’s Newsmax TV program on Friday, Republican presidential candidate and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry called the shooting deaths of nine black church members in Charleston, S.C. an “accident.” “This is the M.O. via P…
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The diplomatic overture was dispatched to Hu Yaobang, chairman of the Chinese Communist party, on 29 October 1981. A near-identical letter was sent to the Kremlin, for the attention of Leonid Brezhnev, general secretary of the Communist party of the…
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Midday open thread: Bachmann still raising and spending campaign contributions; wolf-safe beef
Bachmann has $1.6 million cash on hand. Back then, only a few dozen wolves lived in Idaho. Today, that number has risen to about 770. via Pocket
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Canadian Police Want to Create a System to Track Bad Cops | VICE News
Canada’s federal police service plans to pull in a renowned American scholar to help it deal with cops behaving badly. via Pocket
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Mexico’s Military Says One of the Missing 43 Students Was an Active Soldier | VICE News
Mexico’s military has acknowledged that one of the 43 young men who were kidnapped and allegedly killed by a drug gang in the state of Guerrero last year was a Mexican soldier. via Pocket
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The Murdered Women of the State of Mexico (Part 3) | VICE News
A wave of homicides targeting female victims — labeled as femicides — has been sweeping the State of Mexico, the sprawling suburb that engulfs Mexico City. via Pocket
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Judge Sets South Carolina Shooting Suspect’s Bond at $1M for Weapons Charge | VICE News
A Charleston, South Carolina judge Friday afternoon set a $1 million bond on a weapons charge against Dylann Storm Roof, the 21-year-old white man who has reportedly confessed to gunning down nine black church congregants Wednesday night. via Pocket
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When Tywanza Sanders, the poet and peacemaker of the family, saw the man draw his gun during Bible study and point it as his elderly aunt, Susie Jackson, he shielded her and tried to talk the gunman into laying down his weapon, a relative said Thurs…
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Charleston’s History of Hellish Violence | Rolling Stone
Though only 21, Dylann Roof has an old soul — that of a 19th-century white supremacist with 21st-century tools. via Pocket
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The path toward non-Grexit — toward Greece and its creditors reaching a deal that keeps it in the euro — is getting narrower, although it’s not yet completely closed. I’ve been reticent on the subject, for fear of adding my bit to the crisis atmosph…
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The Life & Death of an iPhone on Vimeo
“The Life and Death of an iPhone” is shot entirely on an iPhone, edited on the iPhone about what it’s like to be an iPhone. Seen entirely from the phone’s point-of-view beginning with its inception through its life… death… and ultimately its reincar…
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[Friday, June 19th] Delaware has decriminalized recreational marijuana, NASA has moved ahead with a mission to Europa, and most kangaroos are left-handed (self. via Pocket
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GAZA CITY — Men and women stood with suitcases at the port, waiting for a boat. Suspicious, Tarek, a 13-year-old tea seller, wandered over and asked, “Are they really leaving?” He had never seen anyone leave Gaza before, he explained. As it turned o…
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Strengthen South Carolina’s gun laws? Hell no, says Gov. Haley
You can see where Gov. Haley is coming from. via Pocket
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UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations mediator for Yemen peace talks said on Friday that four days of discussions had ended with no agreement for even a brief pause in fighting, but that he remained “optimistic,” as aid agencies w via Pocket
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43 Things Kids Born After 1999 Will Never Understand
1. Going through this rigmarole every time you wanted to play Solitaire. 2. How powerful you felt when you were put in charge of the OHP. 3. The painful decision of which text to delete because your phone memory ran out. 4. via Pocket
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The horrific church shooting in Charleston, S.C. via Pocket
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Europe’s Biggest Illegal Dump — ‘Italy’s Chernobyl’ — Uncovered in Mafia Heartland | VICE News
It’s being called Italy’s Chernobyl — but with all the trappings of the mafia. via Pocket
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World shocked at enduring racism, gun violence in US – Yahoo News
BEIJING (AP) — Often the target of U.S. human rights accusations, China wasted little time returning such charges following the shooting at a historic black church in South Carolina that left nine people dead. via Pocket
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Rick Perry: Psychiatric Medication May Have Been A Factor In Charleston Shooting – BuzzFeed News
Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said Friday that he thinks “there’s a real issue to be talked about” in the wake of Wednesday’s mass shooting at Emanuel AME church in South Carolina — psychiatric medication. via Pocket
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Ted Power’s Citibike key broke, so he pried the chip out of it and 3D printed a new key with a built-in bottle opener. Power used Shapeways’ printing service to make the key. His exact key isn’t publicly available on the site, but you can print this…
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The Dark Web as You Know It Is a Myth | WIRED
The ‘dark web’ may be close to becoming a household name. via Pocket
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Cartoon: A confederacy of denial
A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for “Barack Obama,” is this a diary they’d be trying to find? Use a person’s full name, without any title. Senator Obama may become President Obama, and Michelle Obama might run for of…
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Duo Performs Unreal Dance Routine On A Subway Platform – Digg
Look, we don’t know what city this is, but the floor of most (see 99.9%) subway platforms is absolutely filthy, so that’s concerning. If you like the music this is set to, the song is called “Slip” and it’s by Elliot Moss. via Pocket
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On Thursday, hours after a white gunman killed nine people in a black church in Charleston, S.C., a Confederate flag continued to fly over the grounds of the state’s Capitol. via Pocket
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The Shooting at Charleston’s Historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church – The Atlantic
A man suspected of killing nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, including a state senator, will be charged with nine counts of murder. via Pocket
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Charleston and the Age of Obama – The New Yorker
Between 1882 and 1968, the year Martin Luther King, Jr. via Pocket
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Trump: Pope’s Call to Save Planet Masks Even More Reckless Call to Feed Poor – The New Yorker
NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) – The Presidential candidate Donald Trump blasted Pope Francis on Friday, arguing that the Pontiff’s recent call to save the planet had largely overshadowed his “far more reckless” call to feed the poor. “I’ve been to …
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Lindsey Graham: The Confederate flag is ‘who we are’ even though ‘it’s been used in a racist way’
Because let’s be clear. That flag’s official presence, the fact that the governor cannot order it to fly at half staff as she can so order the American and state flags, is not some age-old remembrance of 19th-century war dead. via Pocket
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Thanks to a ruling handed down by the Iowa Supreme Court on Friday, patients in the state will continue to be able to use the latest technology that makes the abortion pill more accessible. via Pocket
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Citizenship Limbo for Dominican Haitians: Dominican Deadlock (Dispatch 2) | VICE News
A 2013 ruling by the Dominican Republic’s top court rendered hundreds of thousands of Dominican Haitians in the country effectively stateless by revoking their citizenship. via Pocket
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Cancer-Causing Chemicals Found In Drinking Water Near Texas Fracking Sites | ThinkProgress
Scientists have found elevated levels of cancer-causing chemicals in the drinking water in North Texas’ Barnett Shale region — where a fracking boom has sprouted more than 20,000 oil and gas wells. via Pocket
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TEL AVIV, Israel — An attacker opened fire on a civilian vehicle near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Friday, killing one man and wounding another, Israel’s military said in a statement. via Pocket
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On Wednesday, New York passed a law that will require a college student’s transcript to note that they were charged with sexual assault. The law applies to both public and private universities. via Pocket
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Calls to Remove Confederate Flag Follow South Carolina Murders | VICE News
As the city of North Charleston, South Carolina reels from the massacre of nine black church congregants in a racially motivated shooting Wednesday night, calls have strengthened for the removal the Confederate Flag from the statehouse in Columba an…
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Shaq’s New Podcast: Half Amazing, Half Amazingly Sexist | ThinkProgress
The iPod is in the dustbin of history, but podcasts — the on-demand audio shows the devices spawned — are big business. Case in point: Shaquille O’Neal, an NBA legend turned media mogul, launched his own podcast this month, The Big Podcast With Shaq…
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MEAN bosses could have killed my father. I vividly recall walking into a hospital room outside of Cleveland to see my strong, athletic dad lying with electrodes strapped to his bare chest. What put him there? I believe it was work-related stress. Fo…
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Stowaway Survives 10-Hour Flight, as Another Body Crashes From 1,000 Feet | VICE News
The body of a suspected stowaway was found atop an office building in West London on Thursday, and is believed to have plunged around 1,400ft from a Boeing 747 as it approached Heathrow Airport. via Pocket
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WASHINGTON — BuzzFeed News has obtained parts of the video produced by Tea Party group FreedomWorks several years ago that appears to feature two female interns dressed up as a panda bear and Hillary Clinton, respectively, and pretending to engage i…
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With Lawsuit Looming, North Carolina Scrambles To Loosen Voter ID Rules | ThinkProgress
Just weeks ahead of a major court case from civil rights groups challenging North Carolina’s voting restrictions, state legislators passed a bill Thursday easing the controversial voter ID provision. via Pocket
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The EPA Just Cracked Down On Carbon Emissions From Big Trucks | ThinkProgress
The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation released a new proposal for combating emissions from heavy duty trucks on Friday, a proposal the agencies estimate will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about one billion metric …
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PARIS — The French, it seems safe to say, have had a hard time getting over Waterloo. Their defeat on the battlefield 200 years ago on June 18, at the hands of the British Duke of Wellington, ended Napoleon’s empire. via Pocket
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Crafted is a 25-minute documentary from Morgan Spurlock about artisanship in the contemporary age, profiling knife makers, potters, and restaurateurs who still do things more or less manually. A trailer: via Pocket
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Unlike the ban on openly gay troops repealed in 2011, the policies that prohibit transgender people from joining the armed forces have historically attracted minimal, if any, interest on Capitol Hill. Until now. via Pocket
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Hillary Clinton Grassroots Campaign Uses Technology
At first, there was nothing on the screen, just the hum of a distant, crowded room. Then Hillary Clinton appeared, peering out of a television into Liz and Tom Nash’s bedroom on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. via Pocket
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Black People Aren’t Making Things Up: The Science Behind ‘Racial Battle Fatigue’ | ThinkProgress
In the early 2000s, University of Utah researcher William A. via Pocket
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Children Held Without Charge After Raids on ‘Boko Haram Training Camps’ | VICE News
At least 84 children have been detained for months without charge in Cameroon, after officials accused their schools of operating as “terrorist training camps,” human rights activists claimed today. via Pocket
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WASHINGTON — Iran continued its “terrorist-related” activity last year and continued to provide broad military support to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, the State Department said Friday in its annual report on terrorism. via Pocket
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Rival Gangs Coming Together To March For Racial Justice | ThinkProgress
On Friday evening, rival gang members will walk together for the United Hood March in downtown Seattle. Following in the footsteps of “brothers, and sisters, and other black organizations across the nation,” participants plan to call for systemic ju…
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SoundWorks Collection – The Sound of Jurassic World on Vimeo
In this exclusive SoundWorks Collection sound profile we talk with Sound Designer and Re-recording Mixer Pete Horner and Supervising Sound Editor and Sound Designer Al Nelson from Skywalker Sound about their work on Jurassic World. Located off the c…
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ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Greece’s leftist prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, might seem an unlikely partner of President Vladimir V. Putin, Russia’s conservative nationalist leader who is at odds with Europe over Ukraine and who this week unveiled plan…
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WASHINGTON — Iran continued its “terrorist-related” activity last year and continued to provide broad military support to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, the State Department said Friday in its annual report on terrorism. via Pocket
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GShV interviewed on Mashable, check it out! via Pocket
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On Brink Of Summer, At Least 17 Large Wildfires Ablaze Across The West | ThinkProgress
With the official start of summer just days away, wildfire season is off to a hot start across the West. As the Associated Press reports, there are currently blazes in at least four states — Alaska, Arizona, California, and Washington — and over 1,0…
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Space Travel: See 2 Dramatic Views
A trip to the International Space Station starts and ends with fire, but in between, there is only a sweet, shimmery drift. via Pocket
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Federal flood insurance in the United States is a mess, with politics continuing to trump data, and taxpayers paying the price. Just track the heroic passage of the Bigger-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act in 2012 and its subsequent gutting as prope…
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US crushes ‘blood ivory’ in New York’s Times Square | Environment | The Guardian
The US government destroyed more than one US ton (907kg) of “blood ivory” before crowds in New York’s Times Square on Friday, in a move designed to signal a dramatic crackdown on the illegal trade. via Pocket
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Don’t close your eyes: waking up to climate change | Environment | The Guardian
Word on the Curb is a collective of artists who use film and spoken word as a tool to engage young people in important issues that affect them. We spoke to co-founder Hayel Wartemberg, 22, about their new film, ‘Don’t close your eyes’. via Pocket
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In the aftermath of a mass shooting at Charleston’s historic Emanuel A.M.E. Church that killed nine people, most elected officials and political pundits are carefully expressing their condolences in a way that avoids mentioning race. via Pocket
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WASHINGTON — Iran continued its “terrorist-related” activity last year and continued to provide broad military support to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, the State Department said Friday in its annual report on terrorism. via Pocket
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“Cannabis conference?” the doorman politely asked, signaling a mood hardly mellow but deep into profit-making as the Cannabis World Congress and Business Exposition displayed the wares and wisdom of the nation’s flourishing marijuana industry. via P…
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— Joshua Oakley (@JoshuaStarlight) June 19, 2015
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Grow Light (Explore 6/18/15) by Pedalhead’71 http://t.co/6gdIKbtajW pic.twitter.com/0wGSfM6Ybo
— Joshua Oakley (@JoshuaStarlight) June 19, 2015
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Grow Light (Explore 6/18/15) by Pedalhead’71 http://t.co/6gdIKbtajW pic.twitter.com/0wGSfM6Ybo
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— Joshua Oakley (@JoshuaStarlight) June 19, 2015
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This is my Siberian Husky 😉 by janninjo http://t.co/jFOAj49IAm pic.twitter.com/IlE2joVQfR
— Joshua Oakley (@JoshuaStarlight) June 19, 2015
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This is my Siberian Husky 😉 by janninjo http://t.co/jFOAj49IAm pic.twitter.com/IlE2joVQfR
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— Joshua Oakley (@JoshuaStarlight) June 19, 2015
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Joshua Oakley on Twitter: “Summer Mist by Damian_Ward http://t.co/NAGR6OxO2k http://t.co/Pw2sFTkHKO”
Summer Mist by Damian_Ward http://t.co/NAGR6OxO2k pic.twitter.com/Pw2sFTkHKO
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Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson says that part of his plan for education would be to have the Department of Education monitor colleges and universities for “political bias” and withhold funding from them if it exists. via Pocket
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Trans Fat Deforestation Palm Oil: Why FDA Rule May Cause Deforestation
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned trans fat this week in a move hailed as major step forward in the fight against heart disease. But the move may have some unfortunate environmental consequences. via Pocket
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NASA: ‘All Systems Go’ for Europa Mission
An observational spacecraft is slated to launch by the late 2020’s. via Pocket
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But the murder of nine people at a black church by a white man in Charleston, S.C., rendered the comedian unable to find material on Thursday. “I didn’t do my job today,” Mr. via Pocket
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On Thursday night, Chris Singleton, an outfielder for Charleston Southern University, stepped onto the baseball field and faced the cameras to address something unfathomable: The murder of his mother. via Pocket
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iht-retrospective.blogs.nytimes.com
When an elderly Pope Leo XIII released a document in 1891 on the rights of workers to unionize and of owners to hold private property, European capitalists and socialists alike cried foul. Why should we listen, they fumed, to a pope’s pronouncements…
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New trending GIF tagged disney, pixar, sadness, inside out via Giphy http://t.co/QKIYKnSwgR pic.twitter.com/K8o3rFRL61
— Joshua Oakley (@JoshuaStarlight) June 19, 2015
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New trending GIF tagged disney, pixar, sadness, inside out via Giphy http://t.co/QKIYKnSwgR pic.twitter.com/K8o3rFRL61
— Joshua Oakley (@JoshuaStarlight) June 19, 2015
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New trending GIF tagged party, kristen wiig, bridesmaids, ready via Giphy http://t.co/7tXK0MStKg pic.twitter.com/986VVEVZZF
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New trending GIF tagged party, kristen wiig, bridesmaids, ready via Giphy http://t.co/7tXK0MStKg pic.twitter.com/986VVEVZZF
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New trending GIF tagged go, mine, bugs bunny, daffy duck via Giphy http://t.co/IhN3Tn6yDj pic.twitter.com/gpc0bhGh4q
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New trending GIF tagged go, mine, bugs bunny, daffy duck via Giphy http://t.co/IhN3Tn6yDj pic.twitter.com/gpc0bhGh4q
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— Joshua Oakley (@JoshuaStarlight) June 19, 2015
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I Read The New “Fifty Shades” Book, And It Is Absolutely Batshit
It’s Fifty Shades of Grey, this time written from the perspective of Christian Grey. So, armed with a highlighter pen, I decided to read and live-tweet the whole thing. via Pocket
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— Joshua Oakley (@JoshuaStarlight) June 19, 2015
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The shooting in Charleston on Wednesday night left nine people dead — nine worshipers who had come to the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church for peace and evening prayers. via Pocket
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Joshua Oakley on Twitter: “film by La fille renne http://t.co/Haxmm08V6f http://t.co/SWPyrTF8H3”
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— Joshua Oakley (@JoshuaStarlight) June 19, 2015
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While reading this otherwise excellent article written by US soccer player Christie Rampone, I discovered a type of diet I’d never heard of before, the blood type diet (italics mine). Age and parenting make me think about longevity. via Pocket
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Nattbilde fra Notaberget by Martin Ystenes – celebrating 10 million views! http://t.co/wPgZR77Ioz pic.twitter.com/1KJNFWHgIM
— Joshua Oakley (@JoshuaStarlight) June 19, 2015
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MANNHEIM, Germany — If Giulia Enders had not contracted a mysterious illness as a teenager that left her covered with sores, she, like most of us, might never have thought much about her digestive tract, except when it was out of whack. via Pocket
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Nattbilde fra Notaberget by Martin Ystenes – celebrating 10 million views! http://t.co/wPgZR77Ioz pic.twitter.com/1KJNFWHgIM
— Joshua Oakley (@JoshuaStarlight) June 19, 2015
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Leon the Professional (1994) Full Movie HD – YouTube
Leon the Professional (1994) Full Movie HD http://t.co/RqY300sTpK Amazon Referral Link: http://t.co/MxgWSq6w5v
— Joshua Oakley (@JoshuaStarlight) June 19, 2015
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Leon the Professional (1994) Full Movie HD http://t.co/RqY300sTpK Amazon Referral Link: http://t.co/MxgWSq6w5v
— Joshua Oakley (@JoshuaStarlight) June 19, 2015
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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YANGON, Myanmar — Some of the practices of Myanmar’s dictatorship have eased in recent years: Political prisoners have been released, censorship of news media has been lifting, and the erstwhile empty roads of the country’s largest cities are now ja…
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It’s 1909, and the whole world is waking to the possibilities of flight. Miss Todd dreams of flying, but she’s got more than gravity holding her down. This is the story of her determination, her perseverance, and her passion – inspired by E. Lilian …
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The Best Non-Apologies From Brian Williams’ Apology Tour (So Far) | ThinkProgress
Brian Williams, the man who misremembered getting shot out of the sky, is embarking on one of America’s most time-honored pastimes: the apology tour. via Pocket
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WASHINGTON — The shooting massacre of a black pastor and his parishioners at a South Carolina church on Wednesday night once again confronted President Obama with a moment of racial turmoil in a country that for all its progress has yet to completel…
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The massacre of nine African-Americans in Charleston has been classified as a possible hate crime, apparently carried out by a 21-year-old white man who once wore an apartheid badge and other symbols of white supremacy. via Pocket
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The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian
Skip to main content Environment The week in wildlife The week in wildlife – in pictures Warthogs chase off a cheetah, a cougar takes down a wolf and goldfinches bask in the summer sun in this week’s pick of images from the natural world via Pocket
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— Joshua Oakley (@JoshuaStarlight) June 19, 2015
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The Golden State Warriors are the N.B.A. champions. via Pocket
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A white gunman opened fire at a prayer meeting inside the church after 8 p.m. on Wednesday, killing nine, including the pastor. He had sat with parishioners for nearly an hour before opening fire. Mr. Roof, 21, of the Columbia, S.C. via Pocket
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Jon Stewart Tells No Jokes About Charleston Church Shooting
Jon Stewart can usually make jokes out of even the most sensitive news stories, but on Thursday night, the Daily Show host refused to treat the shooting in Charleston, South Carolina as fodder for comedy. via Pocket
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iht-retrospective.blogs.nytimes.com
When an elderly Pope Leo XIII released a document in 1891 on the rights of workers to unionize and of owners to hold private property, European capitalists and socialists alike cried foul. Why should we listen, they fumed, to a pope’s pronouncements…
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The Charleston Shooter: Racist, Violent, and Yes – Political | Rolling Stone
In the biggest surprise of recent memory, the young man arrested for massacring nine black people in the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church was a person with “strong conservative beliefs,” a commitment to his heritage and tradition …
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Why 82,000 Is An Extraordinary Number – Digg
And it’s not just because it comes after 81,999. via Pocket
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On Friday morning, Dylan Roof confessed to the murder of nine African American church goers at the historically black Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina. via Pocket
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Yes, Charleston was terrorism. Denying that isn’t just wrong, it’s offensive. – Vox
What “counts” as an act of terrorism? It’s a question that is both easy and impossible to answer, and one that many Americans are now debating with regards to the mass murder in Charleston, South Carolina. via Pocket
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Pope Francis released his official encyclical on the environment Thursday, a document that comprehensively spells out the Church’s stances on climate change, the treatment of the natural world and its creatures, and other environmental issues. via P…
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There’s A “Pokémon” Porn Parody Called “Strokémon” And It Will Kill Your Soul
1. Woodrocket is a porn site that makes a lot of different porn parodies. Their newest one is called Strokémon. 2. 3. 4. It has Jesse and James in it… 5. And Nurse Joy… 6. And Brock… 7. 8. According to the trailer, this is Dickachu, Fisty, and Gash……
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Japan asked to prove its whaling is for scientific research | Environment | The Guardian
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) on Friday demanded that Japan provide more information to prove that its revised Antarctic whaling programme was for scientific research, saying it could not reach a consensus based on documents submitted. …
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Charleston Suspect Confesses To Killing 9 At Black Church | ThinkProgress
Law enforcement officials said Friday that 21-year-old Dylann Storm Roof confessed to shooting and killing nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, N.C. Officials say that Roof purchased the .45-caliber handgun used in the shooting at a…
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In recent years, the federal government has adopted a large number of soft interventions that are meant to change behavior without mandates and bans. via Pocket
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Liberals are fuming after the House advanced President Barack trade bill Thursday, setting up another fight in the Senate. But the ordeal is the latest to demonstrate the limits of Obama’s powers on a range of priorities. via Pocket
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It’s not easy to make it in tech. There are nearly 3 million apps in the Google Play and Apple App stores, all competing to be one of the average 27 apps we use each month. Most of those apps, 80 percent in Apple’s app store, are lifeless and rarely…
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The Most Outrageous Responses To The Pope’s Encyclical On Climate Change | ThinkProgress
The papal encyclical on climate change — highly anticipated and applauded by people who accept and care about the fact that human-caused climate change is threatening our existence — came out Thursday morning. Not everyone was pleased. via Pocket
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — In 2009, 34-year-old Honduran national Jose Efrain Vasquez was running from immigration authorities to board La Bestia, the Mexican freight train that carries hundreds of thousands of migrants northward, when he slipped on a rock.…
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The Controversy Over The Health Effects Of Fasting During Ramadan | ThinkProgress
The Islamic holy month of Ramadan commenced this week for more than one million Muslim men and women across the world who will fast during daylight hours, eat small evening meals at community gatherings, and reconnect with the Qur’an — the book they…
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My office fielded hundreds of complaints Wednesday from readers who are – quite understandably – upset about an article that went online Tuesday night. The article concerns a terrible balcony collapse in Berkeley, Calif. via Pocket
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MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is speaking Friday at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Neil MacFarquhar, the Moscow bureau chief for The New York Times, is providing real-time updates on Twitter, below, and will provid…
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NEW DELHI — Dozens of people in India have died after drinking toxic liquor in a Mumbai-area slum, the police said on Friday. Thirty-seven people had died as of Friday afternoon, and at least 25 others were hospitalized, said Atulchandra Kulkarni, a…
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MRSA in pork: farming leaders join calls for clampdown on illegal antibiotics use | Society | The Guardian Britain’s farming leaders are urging the government to clamp down on the illegal use of powerful antibiotics following a Guardian investigation that found evidence that the superbug MRSA – linked to the…
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