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Dylann Roof: far right denies links and disowns ‘act of purposeful evil’ | US news | The Guardian
Almost exactly 20 years ago, Timothy McVeigh blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing dozens of innocent civilians including 19 babies and toddlers in the hope of triggering a race war that would overthrow the American government. via Po…
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They’re the perfect marriage of new and older tech users. Aaron Dean’s 49, born at the back-end of the Baby Boom. Katie Dean’s, 32, a seemingly more tech-savvy millennial. via Pocket
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I found this on a Youtube video for Eric Satie’s Gymnopedie no.1 : im14andthisisdeep
I found this on a Youtube video for Eric Satie’s Gymnopedie no.1 (i.imgur.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading… via Pocket
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Charleston church where nine black churchgoers were killed to reopen | US news | The Guardian
The South Carolina church where nine people died in a gun attack by an alleged white supremacist less than a week ago is due to reopen to worshippers on Sunday. Related: What happened at the Charleston, South Carolina, church shooting? via Pocket
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The Supreme Court Gets Ready to Scramble the 2016 Race – The Atlantic
The ruling in King v. Burwell will be a starting gun for the big campaign debate on healthcare The early-going of the 2016 presidential campaign has been heavy on personality and light on policy. Thanks to the Supreme Court, that’s about to change. …
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Which Ice Cream Brand Actually Has The Most Cookie Dough
2. Let’s be honest. We all know the difference between the good stuff and the GrEaT stuff comes down to one thing: big, glorious chunks of dough. With that in mind, we decided to put four popular pints to the test to see which one gives you the most…
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The First Graphene Light Bulb Is Also the ‘World’s Thinnest’ Light Bulb | Motherboard
On your rapidly diminishing list of things graphene cannot improve, go ahead and cross off “light bulbs. via Pocket
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Nick Robinson: Cameron threatened to close down BBC on election bus | Media | The Guardian
David Cameron threatened to “close down” the BBC in comments made to journalists on a campaign bus during the election, according to the corporation’s political editor, Nick Robinson. via Pocket
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The ‘Face’—And Soul—Of John Dickerson – The Daily Beast
Journalists, especially political journalists, are a famously cynical breed. Considering that much of their job consists of chronicling the nasty bits of human behavior, it’s hardly common for members of this skeptical tribe to wear their hearts on …
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Taste test: high street ice cream | Life and style | The Guardian
Waitrose Seriously Madagascan Vanilla Ice Cream500ml, £4, waitrose.comThey may have used mashed up vanilla pods, not seeds. The overriding taste is of fresh milk and cream.★★★★ Asda Chosen by You Really Creamy Vanilla Ice Cream900ml, £2, asda.comLik…
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LONDON — As the Copa América passed through its opening round over the weekend, it seemed fair to ask whether South America puts its star players on a pedestal of unconditional worship. Some have had a better tournament than others. via Pocket
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South Carolina protest calls for removal of Confederate flag – video | US news | The Guardian
Thousands protest in South Carolina’s capital on Saturday against the Confederate flag that flies on the state house grounds, an issue reignited by the shooting of nine black churchgoers in Charleston. via Pocket
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TIL Nolan Ryan is the only pitcher in MLB history to have struck out seven pairs of fathers and sons. (en.wikipedia.org) Every pitcher’s dream. via Pocket
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This Is What Ramadan Looks Like Around The World
Thousands of Turkish people break their fasting at the Blue Mosque square in Istanbul, during the first day of the holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan is sacred to Muslims because it is during that month that tradition says the Koran was revealed to the …
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Can we have a discussion about the Charleston shooter’s manifesto? : TrueReddit
Can we have a discussion about the Charleston shooter’s manifesto? (self.TrueReddit) I’m hesitant to give this event any critical thought at all. But after reading the 4 page ‘manifesto’ some thoughts do come to mind. via Pocket
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If Greece collapses, there will be giant dollops of blame to go round. The biggest ones will stick on whoever behaves most unreasonably in the stand-off between Athens and its creditors, which could easily end in default and disaster. via Pocket
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Osborne to proceed with £12bn welfare cuts despite anti-austerity protests | Politics | The Guardian
via Pocket
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Inga Beale has been chief executive of Lloyd’s since January 2014. Q. You started work in the insurance industry in the early 1980s as a reinsurance underwriter. What do you remember of those days? via Pocket
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22 Brisbane Walks That Will Take Your Breath Away
You can’t say you really live in, or even appreciate, Brisbane until you’ve stood at the top of Kangaroo Point Cliffs looking towards to the glass towers of the CBD. This 1.6km track is flat, weaving along the riverside before you climb the “dreaded…
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TIL the world’s oldest ever flamingo was badly beaten by four teenagers, survived, and lived another 5 years to the age of 83. (en.wikipedia.org) News article about the attack. via Pocket
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Starbucks Is Closing Its La Boulange Stores. Can Its Other Brands Survive – BuzzFeed News
It has been about three years since Starbucks acquired La Boulange, a San Francisco bakery, in 2012. Starbucks planned not only to bring its baked goods into its existing U.S. via Pocket
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Yazidi Kids Draw Horrors of Fleeing ISIL | Al Jazeera America
DOHUK, Iraq — Dozens of children, bundled in sweaters against a winter chill, sprawled on a patch of grass in their camp for displaced people and studiously began to draw. via Pocket
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Strawberry Pickers Strain to See Fruits of Labor | Al Jazeera America
SAN QUINTÍN VALLEY, Mexico — In the fields of BerryMex, one of the largest berry growers in the San Quintín Valley of Mexico, laborers hunch over at the waist for hours. via Pocket
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Skype Translator Works with Text Conversation And Voice Call In Real Time With Supported More Languages (techzigg.com)submitted 2 minutes ago by loading… via Pocket
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Every Jurassic Park film I am disappointed the Universal Logo isn’t an ancient version of the earth’s continents. (self.Showerthoughts) Well to be fair they are set in modern times… via Pocket
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Bernie Sanders: “From Ferguson to Baltimore and across this nation, too many African-Americans and other minorities find themselves subjected to a system that treats citizens who have not committed crimes as if they were criminals, and that is unacc…
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Edward Kennedy Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an African American jazz composer, pianist, and band leader who has been one of the most influential figures in jazz, if not in all American music. via Pocket
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Bembridge railway station – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bembridge was the terminus[1] of the 2¾ mile branch line that connected it to the main line at Brading.[2] On holiday Saturdays the sector table revolved continuously because the station area was too small to contain points. via Pocket
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This is deep. : im14andthisisdeep
This is deep. (i.imgur.com) via Pocket
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TIL the creators of Adventure Time, The Regular Show and Gravity Falls are all college friends and all worked together on a show near the beginning of their careers. (en.wikipedia.org) The misadventures of flapjack is a great show! I think its on hu…
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DAE forgive for spite? : im14andthisisdeep
DAE forgive for spite? (imgur.com) via Pocket
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Jon Stewart Drops The Humor, Citing The Charleston Church Massacre – BuzzFeed News
Stewart also described a “gaping racial wound” in the U.S. that “we pretend doesn’t exist.” He criticized a “disparity of response,” pointing out that “we invaded two countries” and were willing to do “whatever we can” when foreigners attacked. via …
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Summer solstice sun rises on gathering of 23,000 at Stonehenge | UK news | The Guardian
Thousands of people have descended on Stonehenge to mark this year’s summer solstice. via Pocket
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Bernie Sanders Wows Hollywood Progressives at Two L.A. Fundraisers : politics
Bernie Sanders Wows Hollywood Progressives at Two L.A. Fundraisers (hollywoodreporter.com) via Pocket
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I want a banged-up knight : im14andthisisdeep
I want a banged-up knight (imgur.com)submitted 10 minutes ago by loading… via Pocket
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Who Would Be Your Dad In The TV Show Of Your Life
Rome Los Angeles Disney World New York London We wouldn’t go on vacation Angelina Jolie Halle Berry Sofia Vergara Cameron Diaz Tina Fey Jennifer Garner Josh Hutcherson Selena Gomez Evan Peters Dave via Pocket
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In the first season of HBO’s fictional detective anthology, True Detective (Monday, 2am & 9pm, Sky Atlantic), Louisiana State Police investigator and bucket-seat philosopher Rust Cohle made philosophical sport out of confusing his slower-witted part…
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UK will be assertive in military strategy, says Michael Fallon | Politics | The Guardian
The defence secretary has defended the government’s military strategy and spending, saying that “no country in Europe is playing such a strong global role”. via Pocket
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TIL George Smith (1840-76)(modest family, left school at 14) had a keen interest in Assyriology and was so often seen at the British Museum that he was employed as classifier. He taught himself Sumerian and literary Akkadian and became the one to di…
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Little can trump news of The Donald’s true wealth | US news | The Guardian
American politics is reassuringly consistent. Every four years we get a presidential campaign – and every four years Donald Trump says he will run. via Pocket
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India tainted liquor death toll rises to 92 | World news | The Guardian
Indian police say eight more people have died in Mumbai from drinking tainted liquor, raising the death toll to 92 in the worst such incident in more than a decade. via Pocket
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Chefs on the beach: Tom Kerridge’s Isle of Wight summers | Life and style | The Guardian
I have a vague memory of a weekend in Ostend involving Dad when I was a young kid, of the windows and windows of chocolates and seeing swirly shellfish-shaped chocolates for the first time. via Pocket
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Life after 7 July attacks: survivors tell their stories | UK news | The Guardian
My last working memory before 7/7 was jumping up and down in the office in front of a big screen. On 6 July, London had won its bid to host the Olympics and we went out to celebrate. via Pocket
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21 Melbourne Walks That Will Take Your Breath Away
Enjoy a few kilometres of fresh air with some killer views of the bay. The Bayside Coastal Trail stretches 17km, but you don’t have to go all the way from Beaumaris to Brighton. via Pocket
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Acoustic Kitty (en.m.wikipedia.org)submitted 9 minutes ago by loading…[–]untouchedURL 0 points1 point2 points 8 minutes ago(0 children)Here is a non-mobile link: https://en.wikipedia. via Pocket
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Here’s How To Make Shaving Your Bikini Line Less Miserable
You are sexy and beautiful no matter how you deal with your body hair. This is a guide for people who want to shave some or all of their pubic hair, for one reason or another. If you don’t want to shave, don’t! via Pocket
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My first adventure in yoga: less cobra, more corpse | Life and style | The Guardian
The first surprise is that Swami Jyotirmayananda is Dutch. I never discover the 41-year-old’s original name. She abandoned it when she ceased to be a social worker in the Netherlands and decided to devote her life to yoga. via Pocket
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Do You Remember When Lois Lane Tried To Be Black
1. There’s been a lot of talk about Rachel Dolezal this week — a white woman who disguised herself as black for several years. 2. But what you may not know is that Superman’s longtime lover Lois Lane also dabbled in changing races in 1970. Not Littl…
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Police seize knives and send 300 people home from Dagenham house party | UK news | The Guardian
Police have broken up a house party in Dagenham, east London, that descended into violence after as many as 300 people turned up. Two teenage boys were arrested and three large knives confiscated after disorder broke out on Saturday night, Scotland …
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TIL that the film version of “Fahrenheit 451” has spoken opening credits in keeping with the film’s story of a world without reading matter. (youtube.com) The written Universal logo sort of ruins the effect. via Pocket
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The Emanuel AME Church Wikipedia Page Matters | Motherboard
The first thing most writers do when news breaks is head to Wikipedia, regardless of what’s taught in journalism school these days. via Pocket
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President Jesus: You don’t need religion to believe in a Messiah. You need politics. : TrueReddit
President Jesus: You don’t need religion to believe in a Messiah. You need politics. (buzzfeed.com) via Pocket
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19 Times Jo Brand Knew How To Deal With Life
1. When she perfectly described the ideal man. http://lelbka.tumblr.com/post/46328628037 View this embed › 2. When she knew when to big herself up. http://chrodoara.tumblr.com/post/17825170700 View this embed › 3. When she knew how to give a proper …
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Al-Shabaab detonates car bomb outside Somalian intelligence compound | World news | The Guardian
Fighters from Somalia’s al-Shabaab group detonated a car bomb and fought their way into a compound where national intelligence agency officials train, police and the militants said on Sunday, as gunfire raged inside. via Pocket
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My first Father’s Day and I plan to milk it for all it’s worth | Life and style | The Guardian
My dad isn’t exactly a fan of Father’s Day. As far as he’s concerned, the whole thing is an unnecessary Americanism, a pointless counterbalance to Mother’s Day that doesn’t deserve to be recognised, let alone celebrated. via Pocket
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Stories of Seclusion: Diary of a Laid-Off Man | Psychology Today
One evening, Robert was checking his email. One just came in from his boss—telling him to come to the conference room at 4:30 PM tomorrow. His heart leapt. Was he getting fired? At 4:30, 20 employees were there plus his boss, the HR person, and so…
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The Psychology of Ethics Committees | Psychology Today
Many kinds of public institutions have found it necessary to appoint ethics committees. Ethics committees are there usually to facilitate decisions as to whether a course of action – such as conducting a research project – fulfils certain criteria.…
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He Tried Every Diet, But Couldn’t Lose Weight—Until He Did THIS And Blew Everyone Away : TrueReddit
He Tried Every Diet, But Couldn’t Lose Weight—Until He Did THIS And Blew Everyone Away (transformation.littlethings.com)submitted 2 minutes ago by loading… via Pocket
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Fifa 16 should let you use real-money to bribe officials in online matches for a more realistic experience. (self.Showerthoughts) If you pay money, the camera zooms out and you can see Migrant workers die at the edges of the frame. via Pocket
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Life on Earth is in trouble. That much we know. via Pocket
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If technology dies, the ruling class will die. : im14andthisisdeep
If technology dies, the ruling class will die. (i.imgur.com) via Pocket
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Funeral plans are being announced for Clementa Pinckney, the South Carolina state senator who was one of nine people killed in the shooting spree at a Charleston church on 17 June. via Pocket
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Some quality spirit “science” : im14andthisisdeep
Some quality spirit “science” (m.imgur.com)submitted 4 hours ago by loading… via Pocket
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Father has a new habit of turning up in a rabbit ushanka and a coarse black wool coat, and a hint of his torn and scratchy red-checkered scarf can be made out from under the top button. Or perhaps there is no scarf. Then it must be his silk prewar s…
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IBM Cancels Ribbon Cutting In Louisiana After Governor passes “Religious Freedom” Law : politics
It’s a shame they didn’t move their business and their ceremony 75 miles downriver to New Orleans that has declared its open and friendly attitude toward all without regard to race, religion, ethnic original or sexual orientation. via Pocket
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Bernie Sanders packs thousands into a Denver gymnasium : politics
People are so excited for something actually different, it’s insane. I was there too!! So glad to see thousands of people show up to support this guy! via Pocket
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TIL that John Lasseter tried to pitch the idea of a fully computer-animated film to Disney, but the idea was rejected and Lasseter was fired, after that he went on and co-founded Pixar. (en.wikipedia.org) I don’t think your oversimplification is cor…
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Race, Violence, and Illusory Correlations | Psychology Today
A young man walks into a church. He shoots and kills 9 people in a prayer meeting. via Pocket
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Ten people shot, one dead, at party on Detroit basketball court | US news | The Guardian
Ten people were shot, one of whom died, when someone opened fire at a block party on a basketball court in Detroit, police said. On Saturday night police were not releasing the identity of the person killed in the shooting. via Pocket
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These 23 Orgasm Facts Will Make You Tingle
Some people orgasm during exercise, while meditating, or even when they get super anxious. More info on weird types of orgasms here. via Pocket
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Argentina 1-0 Jamaica | 2015 Copa América Group B match report | Football | The Guardian
An early goal from Gonzalo Higuain was enough to give Argentina a 1-0 victory over Jamaica at the Copa América on Saturday and secure their place in the quarter-finals as winners of Group B. via Pocket
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It’s weird that Universal’s logo is just the Earth. : Showerthoughts
It’s weird that Universal’s logo is just the Earth. (self.Showerthoughts) Every Jurassic Park film I am disappointed the Logo isn’t an ancient version of the earth’s continents. via Pocket
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Two Views of Aging While Creative | Psychology Today
Two well-known authors, May Sarton and Donald Hall, have written intimate tell-alls about how it feels to be 80-something. I read them both, and they couldn’t be more different. Both are fascinating. via Pocket
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Alabama Cops Fired for Palling Around with White Supremacists – The Daily Beast
It was their white-nationalist hobby that cost them their jobs. via Pocket
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US Open: Jason Day rally makes it a four-way tie with 18 holes to play | Sport | The Guardian
Jason Day retains a strong chance of completing what would be one of the more astonishing major championship victories in recent times, with the Australian part of a four-way 54-hole lead at the US Open. via Pocket
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“Micro-traumas” Can Undermine Our Emotional Health | Psychology Today
By Margaret Crastnopol, Ph.D. via Pocket
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Open thread: Heroes, teachers and zombies
What’s coming up on Sunday Kos … via Pocket
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Cornerstone Speech – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Cornerstone Speech, also known as the Cornerstone Address, was an oration delivered by Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens at the Athenaeum in Savannah, Georgia on March 21, 1861. via Pocket
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Earth isn’t a planet we live on but rather, we are an organism called Earth. Everything we eat is part of earth, when we die we go back into earth. It’s all one. (self.Showerthoughts) Is surprising how often I have to ask this… via Pocket
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How Mitt Romney’s opposition to Confederate flag just put the GOP’s current presidential candidates on the spot (washingtonpost.com)submitted 4 hours ago by loading…[–]tisn [score hidden] 2 hours ago(4 children)Romney: “Remove it now to honor the …
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List of films featuring time loops : wikipedia
List of films featuring time loops (en.wikipedia.org)submitted 4 minutes ago by loading… via Pocket
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Ha-ha (en.wikipedia.org)submitted 4 minutes ago by loading… via Pocket
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WASHINGTON — Sweet Briar College, the women’s liberal arts college in rural Virginia that announced it would close in August — setting off a storm of protest and lawsuits from students, faculty and alumnae — will remain open via Pocket
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My Brother’s Keeper: Documentary Focuses on Obama Program
President Obama barely knew his father, who deserted the future president and his mother in Hawaii when he was very young. So when he talks about growing up in a new documentary, it’s tinged with a sense of loss. via Pocket
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My son just turned two. Something that once traveled through my penis now knows how to use crayons. (self.Showerthoughts) How high are you? via Pocket
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Cargo cult programming : wikipedia
Cargo cult programming (en.wikipedia.org)submitted 6 minutes ago by loading… via Pocket
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Alternate Infoboxes from the “What Madness Is This?” Alternate History : wikipedia
Alternate Infoboxes from the “What Madness Is This?” Alternate History (wiki.alternatehistory.com)submitted 1 minute ago by loading… via Pocket
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Rick Santorum turns South Carolina massacre into political fodder
Speaking to Joe Piscopo on his New York radio station AM 970, Rick Santorum took the tragedy that unfolded in South Carolina last night and turned it into a talking point on the imaginary “assault on religious liberty” he and others on the religious…
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The Emanuel AME Church Wikipedia Page Matters — the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, the important historically black church had no Wikipedia page before the shooting (motherboard.vice.com)submitted 6 minute…
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Hundreds of people gathered at South Carolina’s state house on Saturday night in support of demands lawmakers remove the Confederate flag from flying on its grounds in the aftermath of the Charleston killings where the shooter killed nine people bec…
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Mercy and a Manifesto in Charleston – The New Yorker
It is an enduring mystery of life how the moral range of humanity can stretch from a twisted young racist such as Dylann Roof, who faces charges of slaughtering six women and three men during a Bible study, to a woman such as Nadine Collier, who is …
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Wednesday was a busy day at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church. The pastor, the Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, a tall, rangy man with a deep voice, would normally have stayed in Columbia, the capital, for his job as a state senator. via Pocket
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WASHINGTON — Max Scherzer pitched a no-hitter and came agonizingly close to a perfect game, hitting a batter with two outs in the ninth inning Saturday in the Washington Nationals’ 6-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. via Pocket
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My grandmother used to speak of Klansmen riding through Louisiana at night, how she could see their white robes shimmering in the dark, how black people hid in bayous to escape them. via Pocket
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We’re told to boil water before drinking, that this kills the germs. So boiled water really is dead germ soup. (self.Showerthoughts) Oh. Thanks for that. via Pocket
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The New York Times asked Paul Monck, a boilermaker and instructor at Lincoln Technical Institute, in Union, N.J., to run a series of tests on a three-foot section of carbon-steel pipe similar to the one in the prison that the inmates cut and crawled…
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Cartoon: Animal Nuz #256 – Don’t Wave That Flag Edition
If you donated during last week’s Nuz Hounds Blogathon, please reply to my thank you email with your Daily Kos user name, so the Nuz Shaman can divine your Animal Spirit Nuz Name. Or, let me know if you want your real name modified. If you snail-mai…
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19 Photos Of The Last Surviving Chinese Women With Bound Feet
British photographer Jo Farrell is documenting a tradition that is dying out with China’s oldest women: foot binding. The process of binding feet (also known as “lotus feet”) started before the arch had a chance to fully-develop – somewhere between …
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24 Reasons Why iPhones Need To Be Stopped Immediately
No. One. via Pocket
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — An Afghan family returning to their home after fleeing a possible military operation struck a roadside bomb on Saturday in southern Afghanistan, the authorities said. The blast occurred in the Marja District of Helmand Provin…
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New York State Police troopers converged on Saturday on a spot near Friendship, N.Y., in the southwestern part of the state, where they believed a resident caught sight of the two convicted murderers who staged an elaborate escape from the state’s l…
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — In the heart of this southern city’s historic downtown, there has been in the last few days an almost surreal paradox playing out on the street. There is no bigger news, no larger topic of discussion, than the massacre at Emanuel …
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — It seems that everyone wants something from Saudi Arabia. Before becoming the president of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi wanted visas to take his family on a religious pilgrimage. A Lebanese politician begged for cash to pay his bodyguards.…
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Missed opportunity to do George, George and Jeb, if that’s what they were going for. Maybe they wanted to say “everyone is corrupt not just the right or left”. via Pocket
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Caught this on my facebook feed. So deep, even the Mariana’s trench is jelaous. : im14andthisisdeep
Caught this on my facebook feed. So deep, even the Mariana’s trench is jelaous. (imgur.com) via Pocket
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Sanders gaining against Clinton in early polls: “So let me lay it out on the table for you,” he said. “You’re living in a country today which has more wealth and income inequality than any major industrialized nation on earth.” (netnebraska.org) via…
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BUJUMBURA, Burundi — Eleven police officers were wounded overnight when gunmen hurled grenades and attacked police stations across Burundi’s capital, police officials said Saturday. via Pocket
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There’s Growing Evidence of Volcanic Activity on Venus
Standing on the surface of Venus, your body would be crushed by the immense pressure, fried by the lead-melting heat, and dissolved by sulfuric acid thunderstorms. Too bad, because if you could survive on Venus, you might witness some epic volcanic …
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I like how the term “as fuck” is a common unit of measurement. : Showerthoughts
I don’t think it’s a unit of measurement so much as an indicator of extremes. Abbreviated to AF I find it quite effective! eg. I’m cold AF son. via Pocket
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Why Republicans were quick to cite religion — but not racism — on Charleston : politics
I’d love to know who wrote and sent out the talking points. Roger Ailes? Because they are dishonest, even to their own selves. via Pocket
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Rising in /r/comics : im14andthisisdeep
This comic isn’t really proving any point, either. It’s just being foux-edgy. via Pocket
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TIL Jackie Chan dislocated his pelvis, which was previously thought to be impossible, while filming ‘Police Story’ in 1985. (kotaku.com) I thought that was him burning all the skin on his hands and getting glass in his scalp. He runs off screen at t…
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CAIRO — A prominent Al Jazeera journalist was detained Saturday in Germany over an Egyptian arrest warrant, the latest in a series of legal entanglements between Egypt and Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera, which is based in Qatar, reported the detention. via …
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The Latest Image Of Ceres Reveals A Towering Mountain
We’re learning more and more about Ceres with each orbit made by the Dawn spacecraft. Earlier this week, NASA released a fantastic new image of the dwarf planet’s terrain, with a resolution of 1,400 feet per pixel. The image shows some new features,…
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SANA, Yemen — A car bomb exploded on Saturday outside a mosque in Sana, the Yemeni capital, killing at least two people and wounding six as the country’s civil war raged on, the authorities said. The Islamic State’s Yemeni affiliate claimed responsi…
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — It seems that everyone wants something from Saudi Arabia. Before becoming the president of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi wanted visas to take his family on a religious pilgrimage. A Lebanese politician begged for cash to pay his bodyguards.…
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Dylann Roof: ‘If we could turn every jew blue for 24 hours, I think there would be a mass awakening’
Unlike many White naitonalists, I am of the opinion that the majority of American and European jews are White. In my opinion the issues with jews is not their blood, but their identity. I think that if we could somehow destroy the jewish identity, t…
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One year after outrage about long waiting lists for health care shook the Department of Veterans Affairs, the agency is facing a new crisis: The nu via Pocket
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GAZA CITY — For much of the past year, Gaza has sat in frustrated isolation as it struggled to recover from a devastating war with Israel. But for the people of the battered coastal enclave, the past week brought some welcome signs of relief. via Po…
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WASHINGTON — Max Scherzer lost his bid for a perfect game in startling fashion, plunking a batter with two outs in the ninth inning before finishing off a no-hitter Saturday in the Washington Nationals’ 6-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. via Pocket
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Guy Enthusiastically Jacks Up His Car To Eric Prydz’s ‘Call On Me’ – Digg
It’s Saturday, the sun is shining, you’re about to do some routine maintenance on your ride and you’ve got classic club banger “Call On Me” blasting. If that doesn’t make you want to hump your floor jack, then there’s something dead inside if you. v…
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Charleston shooting: Confederate flag at heart of growing political storm | US news | The Guardian
Pressure is mounting on South Carolina to pull down the Confederate flag that continues to fly on the grounds of the state capitol, after a Republican legislator announced plans to introduce a bill to remove the divisive symbol that has inflamed fee…
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There should be an “I’m Sorry” button in cars that you press whenever you know you screwed up. (self.Showerthoughts) I love it! But then people would add “Fuck You” buttons, and that would not be good. via Pocket
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Technically, you can go the rest of your life without eating : Showerthoughts
You can go the rest of your life without masturbating too! He went for the feels… via Pocket
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TIL: From having lived and worked in China, President Herbert Hoover and his wife were fluent in Mandarin Chinese, and would frequently have conversations in the language to prevent their staff from eavesdropping. (books.google.com) via Pocket
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Drawn + Quarterly To Publish Tom Gauld’s Mooncop
Tom Gauld, known for his cartoon You’re All Just Jealous Of My Jetpack announced that Drawn + Quarterly will be publishing his graphic novel, Mooncop. Drawn & Quarterly has acquired world rights to Mooncop, the new graphic novel by cartoonist Tom Ga…
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Max Scherzer pitches no-hitter for Nationals but just misses perfect game | Sport | The Guardian
Max Scherzer pitched a no-hitter and came agonizingly close to a perfect game, hitting a batter with two outs in the ninth inning on Saturday in the Washington Nationals’ 6-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Scherzer was masterful in retiring the fi…
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MEMPHIS — It was for years an open secret that behind the blues music, barbecue trophies and neon signs of Beale Street, the small strip of clubs, restaurants and history that helped put Memphis on the map, a legal and political mess existed that to…
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The makers of Tic Tacs had a problem on their hands. After 18 months of internal study, they had concluded that the all-important millennial generation might not be content with a mere mint. via Pocket
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Cuba’s Vision Of The Future, As Seen Through Two New Translated Novels
With the United States beginning to ease restrictions against Cuba earlier this year, we’re poised to get a new peek into Cuba. One such opening is through a pair of translated science fiction novels, set to be published next week from Restless Book…
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Outing the Bogeyman: A necessary vengeance, long delayed : TrueReddit
A very well-written article that sucks you in and takes you through twists until the big conclusion. In addition to being a personal tale, it has useful information about child molesters, their psychology and characteristics. Could also raise questi…
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Dylann Roof: FBI probe website and manifesto linked to Charleston suspect | US news | The Guardian
The FBI and local authorities were on Saturday investigating a website that may contain a manifesto created by the white supremacist Dylann Roof before he walked into a South Carolina church this week and shot dead nine black churchgoers. via Pocket
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About 11.6 million Syrians have been displaced, nearly half of Syria’s entire population. Most of them are scattered within Syria, but 3.9 million were living abroad by the end of 2014 – nearly all of them in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. via Po…
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This week in the war on workers: Celebrate Father’s Day by reducing poverty
Continue reading below the fold for more of the week’s labor news. via Pocket
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US official says British government undermined progress on tax avoidance | Business | The Guardian
Britain has been attacked by a senior US official for undermining progress on a global clampdown on tax avoidance by multinationals ahead of an international agreement to be published at the G20 talks in the autumn. via Pocket
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I hope 9gag never stops providing these gems. : im14andthisisdeep
I hope 9gag never stops providing these gems. (i.imgur.com)submitted 3 minutes ago by 5hroomsheepleloading… via Pocket
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TIL that the combined reports of 40 years of use by the extreme sports underground, LSD can increase your reflex time to lightning speed, improve your balance to the point of perfection, increase your concentration until you experience “tunnel visio…
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Mourners arrive in Charleston from around the United States to pay their respects to nine black churchgoers killed this week, with services planned throughout the day ahead of a rally in the state capital later in the evening Photograph: Carlo Alleg…
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How To Live Alone – The Hairpin
Find a one-person apartment You will most likely inherit one, so make a lot of friends. Neighbors Keep an open mind. Neighbors who party and fuck all the time—the neighbors you’re most likely to have in your 20s—can be a major source of comfort when…
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Appearances are misleading.. : im14andthisisdeep
Appearances are misleading.. (imgur.com) It’s kind of awful that a man with flowers behind his back makes you think ‘child molester.’ Although with the context I guess it’s not too far of a reach. via Pocket
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The Confederate Flag In Every State, In Every Form, Must. Come. Down. : politics
The Confederate Flag In Every State, In Every Form, Must. Come. Down. (time.com) It blows my mind that it takes a mass murder of a white racist piece of shit to get a movement like this traction. The confederate flag SHOULD HAVE been taken down ever…
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Witness The Kp8 Solar Storm Over Iceland In This Incredible Film
Last year, we came across Henry Jun Wah Lee’s video Eye of the Storm. He’s recently put together another stunning video titled Apotheosis. Filmed in March 2015, Lee was filming right at the peak of solar activity, which brought out some extrordinary…
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Forgiveness for Dylann Roof After Charleston’s Mass Murder – The Atlantic
The compassion expressed by relatives of Dylann Roof’s victims will help them heal. But is it enough to spare his life? via Pocket
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New York prison break manhunt: police swoop on town of Friendship | US news | The Guardian
Police swooped on an area in southern New York state a few miles from the border with Pennsylvania on Saturday evening, in the hope that they were closing in on two convicted murderers who escaped from an upstate prison two weeks ago. via Pocket
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Study Confirms: IVF DOES Drive People Crazy | Psychology Today
I’ve been saying this for years, and now data reaffirms it—IVF often reduces the quality of life for people who use it to conceive.IVF—in vitro fertilization— is a process by which a woman’s egg is fertilized outside her body. via Pocket
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SEOUL, South Korea — Kim Jeong-mi, a 43-year-old prostitute in Seoul, says she knows about humiliation. She usually charges customers 20,000 to 30,000 won, or about $18 to $27 — roughly a third of what her younger competition gets. When desperate, s…
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There was probably a point in history when salt was someone’s “secret ingredient”. (self.Showerthoughts) Not very likely. Salt has been known since the dawn of civilization. The first human city in Europe was built on a salt mine. via Pocket
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The First All-Female Transformers Combiner Team Revealed
Revealed yesterday in a USA Today exclusive, Victorion is two race cars, two helicopters, a motorcycle and a rescue truck combined together into unit more cohesive than any gestalt Transformer before her. via Pocket
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Justice Kennedy’s remarkable opinion on solitary confinement
MR. DAIN: 1996, yeah, very close. JUSTICE KENNEDY: Has he spent time in solitary confinement, and, if so, how much? via Pocket
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Ferguson. Baltimore. Staten Island. North Charleston. Cleveland. Over the past year in each of these American cities, an unarmed black male has died at the hands of a police officer, unleashing a torrent of anguish and soul-searching about race in A…
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Common marmosets have a complex mating system. It was thought that they were monogamous, however both polygamy and polyandry have also been observed. (en.wikipedia.org) via Pocket
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“Game Of Thrones” According To People Who Have Never Watched It
BuzzFeed staff from around the world who have never seen Game of Thrones were asked to explain some photos and answer questions about the show. Here’s what happened… Stephanie A (Australia): A bunch of medieval families fighting to get control of th…
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New York State police officers converged on Saturday on a spot near Friendship, N.Y., where there was a possible sighting of two convicted murderers who staged an elaborate escape from the state’s largest prison. via Pocket
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TIL the Han dynasty of China drilled for natural gas, transported it in pipelines and gas containers and burned it in stoves … in 200 BC (en.wikipedia.org) Watch someone is going to write a long post to undermine this achievement and hint that whi…
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Itty, Bitty Baby Chameleon Is All The Cuteness
This baby panther chameleon was just born, and it’s already breaking us with its cuteness. Photographer Nick Henn helped it break out of its shell (it had gotten stuck on the way out), and took several pictures of it curled up as if it were still en…
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About 700,000 people were expected to visit Coney Island in Brooklyn for the annual Mermaid parade. Photograph: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close via Pocket
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Mitt Romney Calls for Removal of Confederate Flag at South Carolina Capitol Mitt Romney, the Republican Party’s nominee for president in 2012, demanded that South Carolina remove the Confederate flag flying above the grounds of its state Capitol on …
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Seven Ways to Yell Less At Your Child | Psychology Today
Yelling at your kids just makes you a “poster adult” for temper tantrums. Doing this unfortunately also gives your kids the message that you are not in control. Children and teens who become difficult or defiant may already believe that they are equ…
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A weekly comic strip featured in the Sunday Review. via Pocket
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Michigan’s antigay GOP lawmakers propose clergy-only approach to performing marriages
This guy couldn’t be a bigger hypocrite if he tried. From his campaign website: Courser’s bill is one of three. Here’s how Equality Michigan described them in an email to supporters: via Pocket
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Families Are Deporting Themselves to Haiti: Dominican Deadlock (Dispatch 3) | VICE News
The border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti functions as a free trade zone. Twice a week, the gates open and people from both sides congregate to buy goods to bring back to their respective countries. via Pocket
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A Space Lawyer Explains How We’ll Forge a Civil Society Off Earth
Without even looking a century or so ahead when we’ll take a Virgin Galactic flight to spend our summers on Europa, there are many legal issues that are already confronting humanity in space. via Pocket
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Texas Turns Away From Criminal Truancy Courts | Al Jazeera America
Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday signed into law a measure to decriminalize unexcused absences and require school districts to implement preventive measures, The Texas Tribune newspaper reported. The new law will take effect Sept. 1. via Pocket
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NASA’s Mission To Europa Moves One Step Closer To Reality
A mission to study Europa in detail has cleared its first major review, and will soon be in planning stages. If all goes well, we’ll be headed to the Jovian moon in the 2020s, where we’ll gain new insights into active planetary bodies. via Pocket
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Breaking the Enlightenment spell: Idealising the age of reason as a perfect model of truth, virtue and knowledge is bad history as well as bad philosophy (prospectmagazine.co.uk)submitted 1 hour ago by loading… via Pocket
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Could you imagine a world without the United States? : im14andthisisdeep
Could you imagine a world without the United States? (i.imgur.com) That’s Lionel Hutz the lawyer from The Simpsons. He actually says: via Pocket
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Tens of Thousands Gather Across the UK to Protest Conservative Austerity Measures | VICE News
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across the United Kingdom on Saturday to protest against anti-austerity measures. via Pocket
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Greece to Offer More in Debt Talks | Al Jazeera America
Greece may bring more to the table in negotiations for a debt deal with its creditors, a close aide to the prime minister said on Saturday, as time runs out for the austerity-battered country to avoid default and help its ailing banks. via Pocket
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Clinton Calls for ‘Common Sense’ Gun Control
Three days after nine black church members were gunned down in Charleston, Clinton said the country must take steps to keep guns from criminals and the mentally ill. “The politics on this issue have been poisoned, but we can’t give up,” she told the…
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The Confederate Flag In Every State, In Every Form, Must Come Down
J. Richard Cohen is president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. TIME Ideas hosts the world’s leading voices, providing commentary and expertise on the most compelling events in news, society, and culture. We welcome outside contributions. To submi…
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The 10 Percent of the Brain Myth is Still Bullshit, Neuroscientists Say
There’s this persistent notion that we use a mere 10 percent of our brains at any given moment. If only we could tap into more of the magnificent, squishy machine in our heads, we’d become quicker, cleverer versions of ourselves. It’d be a lovely id…
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A St. Louis Cardinal Sin? | Psychology Today
As most are now probably aware, the St. Louis Cardinals are under investigation for possibly hacking into the database of the Houston Astros. It has been suggested that this occurred on several occasions. Whatever the outcome of this particular case…
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TIL Alabama is the only U.S. state where a law prohibiting the sale of sex toys remains on the books, though Alabama residents are permitted to buy sex toys with a doctor’s note. (en.wikipedia.org) Alabama district attorneys pretty much decided to i…
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Sixth Extinction: Scientists Warn in New Paper
The paper used conservative premises and still arrived what scientists said was a concerning conclusion A new paper warns that a major extinction event, one that would be the sixth in our planet’s history, may be underway. via Pocket
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Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered on Saturday her boldest remarks yet on race and gun violence, topics that have quickly become some of the most prominent and divisive in the presidential campaign, particularly after Wednesday’s mass shooting in Char…
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Apple Versus Google : TrueReddit
Apple Versus Google (newyorker.com)submitted 1 hour ago by loading… via Pocket
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You Don’t Have Daddy Issues But Your Piece of Shit Father Might
Until recently, I’d never been on the website AskMen.com, I suppose largely because I never had the occasion to ask a man anything. via Pocket
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Unarmed Man Shot by LAPD Officers for Allegedly Raising Arm Wrapped in Towel | VICE News
VICE News is closely watching policing in America. Check out the Officer Involved blog here. via Pocket
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The Summer of Joe: Sheriff Arpaio’s court cases
. This week Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio celebrated his 83rd birthday, so we might pause a moment and light an Old Yankee candle that smells like 113-degree Tent City sweat. via Pocket
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What she mourns most, says Solange DeLaPaz, are the mundane pleasures and rituals of her once-active life. A weekly manicure at the corner nail salon. Saturday excursions to Macy’s shoe department. Though only 67, Ms. via Pocket
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You win, Microsoft: How I accidentally went back to Microsoft Word | Ars Technica
I remember how I felt about Word for iPad when Microsoft released it last year, a full four years after the first iPad came out: I actually like this OK, but it felt like too little too late. I dabbled a bit every time an update came out for a few m…
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BALTIMORE, Md. — FBI director James Comey said Friday that while his agency is investigating the murder of nine people in Charleston, S.C. as a hate crime, it is not an act of terrorism. via Pocket
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WikiLeaks reveals Saudi intrigue and unpaid limo bills
ISTANBUL (AP) — At the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, diplomats talked about airing the grievances of disenchanted local youth using Facebook and Twitter. At the embassy in Khartoum, they reported anxiously on Iran’s military aid to Sudan. via Pocket
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President Obama spotlighted a national crisis last year when he launched My Brother’s Keeper, an initiative that encourages communities, nonprofits and the private sector to focus on ways to improve the lives of some of the nation’s most vulnerable …
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TIL PETA kills 97,3% of the animals under it’s care : todayilearned
Did you know that psychiatry is the root cause of all evil?! Source: http://www.scientology.org.uk/ That’s because PETA is not pro animal life, they’re against of pets all together. They are against the fact that animal are being kept as pets at all. via P…
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An irresistible force and an immovable object: that would be Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett on Friday evening at Radio City Music Hall where they sang more than 30 standards, separately and together, before a respectful multigenerational audience that t…
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I miss depression : TrueReddit
Having one of those days so I decided to refer to this article that I bookmarked back in 2007. I found the article incredibly useful in how it describes emotions in a way that I could never put together myself. via Pocket
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Los Angeles police shoot unarmed man in head | US news | The Guardian
An unarmed man was shot in the head and critically wounded by Los Angeles police officers on Friday night, after he appeared to be flagging them down for assistance. A passerby recorded graphic video of the incident from a car, and then posted it on…
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Mitt Romney: Take Down Confederate Flag At South Carolina Capitol – BuzzFeed News
Take down the #ConfederateFlag at the SC Capitol. To many, it is a symbol of racial hatred. Remove it now to honor #Charleston victims. via Pocket
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Romney joins call to remove Confederate flag from S.C. Capitol
Demonstrators preparing to gather at the South Carolina Capitol on Saturday to protest the flying of a Confederate flag on statehouse grounds got unexpected support from former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. via Pocket
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Audrey Hepburn’s Son Didn’t Realize His Mother Was a Movie Star
Luca Dotti, the son of the late actress Audrey Hepburn, has opened up about life with one of the world’s most famous women. In his new book, Audrey at Home, Dotti describes his mother’s favorite dishes, including simple pasta with tomato sauce, Peop…
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Being a wealthy Nigerian with legitimate overseas interests must be really hard. : Showerthoughts
Being a wealthy Nigerian with legitimate overseas interests must be really hard. (self.Showerthoughts) Nah. Just hire legitimate lawyers in the west. Problem solved. (For you, the lawyers might have to do some work…) via Pocket
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It’s been several painful weeks since Steve Schwarzman revealed that we denied him admission to the Harvard Class of 1969. via Pocket
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Love Lies: 7 Tips for Relationship Clarity | Psychology Today
Some years ago I remember a newspaper headline that read: “Permission to lie to yourself.” And I asked, “But why?” Sometimes the truth is too painful. But lying to ourselves is a roadblock to solutions. You can’t solve a problem until you name it.…
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Chicago warns gay men to vaccinate against meningitis ahead of pride week | US news | The Guardian
As Chicago kicked off its annual pride week on Saturday with a street festival and parade that was expected to draw more than 1 million people, city and national health officials were asking that all gay and bisexual men be vaccinated against a rare…
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Killjoys Is The Space Opera We’ve Been Waiting For Since Firefly
SyFy’s latest space opera, Killjoys, began last night, and over the course of the first episode, and there’s an entire season’s worth of material packed into forty minutes. Clearly, we’re in for a treat with this show. Spoilers ahead! via Pocket
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Jeffrey Sterling Took on the CIA — And Lost Everything
THIS IS HOW it ended for Jeffrey Sterling. In Sterling’s blind spot, behind his left shoulder, his wife tried not to sob so loudly that the judge would hear. via Pocket
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THE terrorist attack in Charleston, S.C., an atrocity like so many other shameful episodes in American history, has overshadowed the drama of Rachel A. Dolezal’s yearslong passing for black. And for good reason: Hateful mass murder is, of course, mo…
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A Space Lawyer Explains How We’ll Forge a Civil Society Off Earth
Without even looking a century or so ahead when we’ll take a Virgin Galactic flight to spend our summers on Europa, there are many legal issues that are already confronting humanity in space. via Pocket
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Thousands of Dogs Will Be Eaten in China to Celebrate the Summer Solstice | VICE News
Despite an official ban by the Chinese government, it doesn’t appear that the sun is setting on the infamous Yulin dog meat festival anytime soon. Held annually around the time of the summer solstice, the festival attracts thousands of tourists and …
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Fatherhood Apart – The New Yorker
It’s a family portrait, and the father is falling out of it; even in his own family, he is off to the side. via Pocket
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — Stunned by the massacre at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, South Carolina has been abruptly forced to confront an issue that has bedeviled it for decades: the Confederate battle flag that flies above the grounds of the…
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Wean Yourself Off Your GPS Dependency and Actually Find Your Way Around
I just moved to a new city, and I live and die by my phone’s GPS. But as a result, I’ve realized that I still don’t know anything about how the city is laid out, nor can I make a simple drive to my friend’s house—where I’ve been many times—without m…
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Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History — ‘Now it’s over, I can enjoy my holiday.’ It’s sometimes self-indulgent and often irrational. So why do many of us spend our lives fretting? (theguardian.com) In defense of pragmatic pessimism. via Pocket
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A reverse Whois domain name lookup by Twitter users @HenryKrinkle and @EmmaQuangel has revealed a manifesto that appears to be written by Dylann Roof, the white 21-year-old who recently confessed to the brutal murders of nine black people at the his…
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Spotlight on green news & views: A few go a-pope-lectic over encyclical; sixth extinction underway
Many environmentally related posts appearing at Daily Kos each week don’t attract the attention they deserve. To help get more eyeballs, Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue) normally appears twice a week, on W…
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Corrosive Communication | Psychology Today
Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded. ~ Dostoyevsky Sarcasm rarely leads to any good. via Pocket
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One of the biggest health insurers in the country, Anthem, on Saturday announced an offer to acquire a rival, Cigna, for more than $47 billion in cash and stock. The move is the latest step toward an expected consolidation among health insurance com…
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I was critical of CBO yesterday — probably excessively — for giving what seemed like undue cover for deficit scolds in its long-run budget projection. via Pocket
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7 Best-Case Scenarios for the Future of Humanity
Most science fictional and futurist visions of the future tend towards the negative — and for good reason. Our environment is a mess, we have a nasty tendency to misuse technologies, and we’re becoming increasingly capable of destroying ourselves. v…
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California car mounts sidewalk, killing woman and injuring seven | US news | The Guardian
Police say a 65-year-old man was driving the Nissan Versa that hit people near a bus stop in Vallejo on Friday afternoon. The Vallejo Times-Herald says the car went 50ft, dragging two women. A passing tow truck driver lifted the car off them. via Po…
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Confederate Flag: Mitt Romney Urges South Carolina to Take It Down
In the wake of the recent shooting at a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, S.C., 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has urged that state to take down the Confederate flag flying at the state’s capitol in Columbi…
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Calling the racial massacre in Charleston an attack on faith is like calling the Newtown massacre an attack on education. (self.Showerthoughts) He didn’t. He just had issues with his family. I belive he was bullied a lot too. via Pocket
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The Story of the Story at Tal Abyad – The New Yorker
Last weekend, a coalition of fighters from the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (Y.P.G.) and the Free Syrian Army (F.S.A.) laid siege to Tal Abyad, a hardscrabble border town in northern Syria. via Pocket
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Rick Perry condemns Charleston shooting after earlier ‘accident’ remark | US news | The Guardian
Rick Perry on Saturday commented again on the shooting deaths of nine people in a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina, an incident which he previously described as an “accident”. The suspect in the Charleston shooting, 21-year-old Dylann R…
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MARAJÓ ISLAND, Brazil — Legends flourish about how the first Asian water buffaloes made it to this colossal island in the Amazon River Delta. via Pocket
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OVER the course of five days in March, Christie’s auctioned off the holdings of the dealer Robert H. via Pocket
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IN Pope Francis’ sprawling new encyclical, “Laudato Si’,” there are many mansions: A meditation on biblical ecology, a discussion of environmental policy, a critique of consumerism, even a reflection on the perils of social media. via Pocket
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OVER the past two years, election polling has had some spectacular disasters. via Pocket
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Readers discuss issues raised by a white woman’s efforts to pass as black. via Pocket
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IN THE NUBA MOUNTAINS, Sudan — THE eight children in the Shanta family lived in a village of grass huts and had never turned on an electric light or worn a watch, never ridden a car or even a bicycle, never spoken on the telephone. via Pocket
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WASHINGTON — IT’S hard being Elizabeth Warren. Especially when you’re not Elizabeth Warren. via Pocket
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Dagur Eggertsson is the mayor of Reykjavik, Iceland. READING “Letters from Bhutan,” by Ragnar Helgi Olafsson. It’s about a man who is not really traveling but is lost in all meanings of the word. via Pocket
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Granted, Khartoum, Tehran, Damascus and Pyongyang are not terribly popular tourist destinations. But they are places Americans can visit without running afoul of federal law. Yet, traveling to Cuba for tourism continues to be banned. via Pocket
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REMEMBER the AIDS crisis? If you lived in a big American city during its spread, you were witness to constant sorrow and countless examples of gay people treated as second-class citizens. via Pocket
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I’M all in for the plan announced last week by the Treasury to put a woman on a piece of American folding money. But in bumping Alexander Hamilton from the center of the $10 bill, we would be exiling the man most responsible for our nation’s having …
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A highly lethal contagious disease that has been detected in camels and humans in the Middle East is slowly spreading around the world and is causing havoc in South Korea. Known as the Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS, it has killed 35 perc…
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AT the sprawling Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas one day last spring, I was met by five men with earpieces who escorted me to the pastor’s office. via Pocket
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LAS VEGAS — BEFORE my first flight lesson, my father sat beside me in the small cockpit and told me the story of a flight instructor whose student stalled on descent, panicked and didn’t release the controls. They both died in the crash. And I did. …
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Can Wikipedia Survive? : wikipedia
Can Wikipedia Survive? (nytimes.com) One of the biggest threats it faces is the rise of smartphones as the dominant personal computing device. via Pocket
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The battle flag was never adopted by the Confederate Congress, never flew over any state capitols during the Confederacy, and was never officially used by Confederate veterans’ groups. The flag […was] resurrected by the resurgent KKK and used by S…
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View from the left—what the GOP’s silence on Trump really says
The GOP presidential field ignored the outrageous comments altogether. Perhaps that was smart politics. As Howard Dean noted on MSNBC, you don’t get in a wrestling match with a pig because you both get dirty and the pig likes it. via Pocket
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Does Jeb Bush Know Anything? | The New Republic
Jeb Bush has worked in politics for 35 years, and has been a potential presidential candidate for at least 10, but there’s still so much he doesn’t know. He doesn’t know what’s causing climate change. He doesn’t know whether the Iraq war was a good …
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BEIJING — The police in a southern Chinese township arrested 13 people who illegally detained officials and police officers and stormed a police station and a government building in a dispute over a young woman’s death, the authorities said late Fri…
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Argentina’s Most Violent City Has Its Own ‘Guns for Sale’ Facebook Group | VICE News
Just about anyone with a Facebook account could get their hands on a gun in the city of Rosario, Argentina. One need only type these magic words: Rosario Guns For Sale. “Selling and trading of arms, just for connoisseurs. Price, caliber, and zone. v…
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[Saturday, June 20th] Germany turns military bases into wildlife sanctuaries, Hawaii raises the legal smoking age to 21, and Earth has entered its sixth period of mass extinction (self. via Pocket
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Mitt Romney Calls for Removal of Confederate Flag at South Carolina Capitol Mitt Romney, the Republican Party’s nominee for president in 2012, demanded that South Carolina remove the Confederate flag flying above the grounds of its state Capitol on …
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The FBI is investigating a website that appears to contain a manifesto by the white supremacist Dylann Roof, who is suspected of shooting dead nine black churchgoers in South Carolina. via Pocket
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Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America | Psychology Today
The tragedy in Charleston last week will no doubt lead to more discussion of several important and recurring issues in American culture—particularly racism and gun violence—but these dialogues are unlikely to bear much fruit until the nation underta…
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — A website with a white supremacist manifesto features dozens of photos of Dylann Storm Roof, the man accused of killing nine people at a church in Charleston, S.C. via Pocket
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Photos, manifesto of Charleston shooting suspect | Al Jazeera America
A website, LastRhodesian.com, features what appear to be pictures of Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old suspect in this week’s deadly shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, and an unsigned racist manifesto explaining why the wr…
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TIL that Muhammad Ali threw his 1960 Olympic Gold Medal into the Ohio River, following is refused service at a “whites-only” restaurant. He would be awarded with an honorary medal in 1996. (chicagoreader.com) Somebody give me a very, very rough idea…
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29 Small Ways To Change Your Eating Habits Big Time
To make it easier, BuzzFeed Life spoke with Jessica Jones, M.S., R.D., co-host of Food Heaven Made Easy, and Danielle Omar, M.S., R.D., creator of Food Confidence, and came up with 29 simple ways you can improve your eating habits and be healthier i…
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L.A. to Nepal – The California Sunday Magazine
Gerald Gonzales stared out the helicopter window at the devastation below. He’d been a California firefighter for nearly 25 years, but he’d never seen anything like this. via Pocket
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Quality of Whose Life? : TrueReddit
Quality of Whose Life? (thebaffler.com) This article is 20 years old, and yet as recently as 2012, famously liberal cities like Madison WI are criminalizing the homeless by instituting ‘illegal camping’ laws. via Pocket
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Bush turns to Washington veterans to ‘disrupt’ the ‘culture’ of Washington
Lincoln Diaz-Balart: A former congressman from Florida, Diaz-Balart has his own lobbying group, Western Hemisphere Strategies, which has lobbied Congress on behalf of textile companies in Guatemala and El Salvador. […] Michael Hayden and Porter Go…
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Donald Trump’s hair achieves both states simultaneously. Donald Trump’s hair has confounded our best scientists for years. via Pocket
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My dog always follows me into the bathroom in the morning and after work. I wonder if she thinks she’s taking me to go potty before I go to take her. (self.Showerthoughts) Maybe one day soon, you’ll discover her collection of your feces, each indivi…
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — For much of the past year, Gaza has sat in frustrated isolation as it struggled to recover from a devastating war with Israel. But for the people of the battered coastal enclave, the past week brought some welcome signs of re…
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In Aspen, Colorado, there is a saying: “The billionaires have moved out the millionaires.” Of the Forbes list of the world’s 400 richest people, 50 have homes in the verdant hills and valleys that surround the steep ski slopes. via Pocket
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COLUMBIA, S.C. — A website with a white supremacist manifesto features dozens of photos of Dylann Storm Roof, the man accused of killing nine people at a church in Charleston, S.C. via Pocket
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MARAJÓ ISLAND, Brazil — Legends flourish about how the first Asian water buffaloes made it to this colossal island in the Amazon River Delta. via Pocket
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No, Self-centeredness is Killing America | Psychology Today
David Niose rightly points out one problem in America: anti-intellectualism and the abandonment of critical thinking in certain sectors of society. via Pocket
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TIL During Apartheid in South Africa, Glasgow renamed the street which at the time was the address of the South African Consulate from St George’s Place to Nelson Mandela Place. Consular officials would be forced to look at his name when reading and…
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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens : TheOnion
I dont know why this is on the onion… Its certainly far too true for it. It’s funny when sometimes the onion is more credible a news source than professional news sources. via Pocket
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WASHINGTON — WIKIPEDIA has come a long way since it started in 2001. With around 70,000 volunteers editing in over 100 languages, it is by far the world’s most popular reference site. Its future is also uncertain. via Pocket
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I wrote a book on how I make money selling video games. You can have it for free. : Flipping
TipI wrote a book on how I make money selling video games. You can have it for free. (self.Flipping) I’ve been flipping video games for the past few years and have gotten quite proficient at it. Even if you’re already good you may find a new idea or…
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Perk tv has been crashing non stop since last night : perktv
Has anyone had the same problem? 2.3.0 crashing like crazy these past few days. Sometimes mere minutes in. Full crashes, freezes, etc. LG Fuels and ZTE Zingers both affected equally, it seems. Nothing new in Perk land, really. via Pocket
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/u/Kerily Details the essentials for a newly blind person to adapt to : DepthHub
/u/Kerily Details the essentials for a newly blind person to adapt to (reddit.com)submitted 4 minutes ago by loading… via Pocket
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/u/ApleJax04 describes in great detail how engineers create plans for multi-billion-transistor processors (reddit.com)submitted 10 minutes ago by loading… via Pocket
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James Salter in The New Yorker – The New Yorker
The writer James Salter died on Friday in Sag Harbor, New York. He was ninety years old. via Pocket
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New Fifty Shades book – “As arousing as the diary of a sex offender” : books
New Fifty Shades book – “As arousing as the diary of a sex offender” (telegraph.co.uk)submitted 6 minutes ago by loading… via Pocket
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Currently you still have to be using an iOS device or have an optimum.net account (currently only available in NY, NJ, and CT when Optimum is your broadband provider), to get HBO Now. I’m not seeing how this is any better than paying for cable. via …
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Hi reddit! I am Lois Lowry, author of The Giver – AMA! : books
Hello, it’s Lois Lowry. I am the author of more than forty books of fiction; I write for young people but I hear from people of all ages about my books. via Pocket
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Pope Francis: Humans Are Turning the Earth Into an “Immense Pile of Filth” : environment
Pope Francis: Humans Are Turning the Earth Into an “Immense Pile of Filth” (motherjones.com)submitted 25 minutes ago by loading… via Pocket
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Silly Bluetooth boys, act like WiFi : im14andthisisdeep
That’s not how WiFi works. I’d say non-judgmental instead of slut. WiFi accepts all devices if you can sweet talk her right, but not for her own benefit but for others to benefit from. WiFi is the slut I try to be……..wait what are we talking abo…
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Charleston Thrusts Confederate Flag Into Spotlight | Al Jazeera America
CHARLESTON, S.C. – Today, Alexis Brown’s flagpole in her Moncks Corner, South Carolina home has a San Diego Padres flag on it. It wouldn’t be unusual, however, to see a Confederate flag on the pole, she said. “It would be flown with the U.S. flag.” …
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FIFA’s “United Passions” confirmed as lowest-grossing film in U.S. history : entertainment
FIFA’s “United Passions” confirmed as lowest-grossing film in U.S. history (theguardian.com) Random thought with no basis. Didn’t this movie cost a shit ton of money to make? Aren’t certain people affiliated with FIFA dirty as a babies diaper. via P…
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/r/tolkienfans hits 30K subscribers : tolkienfans
We can now take on an Orc-legion at unawares, and destroy it. Reddit meet-up! Bring your weapons! via Pocket
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Website Surfaces With Disturbing Photos and Manifesto Purportedly Written by Dylann Roof | VICE News
A website purportedly created by Charleston church shooting suspect Dylan Roof surfaced Saturday. The site contains numerous disturbing photographs of Roof, presumably from his personal collection, and a manifesto filled with racist language. The si…
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This mask is 5000 years old. it was made in Uruk, on of the first cities, hundreds of years even before Gilgamesh. (en.wikipedia.org) via Pocket
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High cheekbones -develop with maturity and are a sign a woman is old enough to be capable of reproduction… in males prominent facial features such as high cheekbones and a strong jaw and chin are a sign of a high level of testosterone and are cons…
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The Langoliers (1995) : fullmoviesonyoutube
The toaster in the pillow case was the only good part of this movie. This comment is a reminder to format your title with a (Year) and a [Resolution tag], acceptable tags are located on the sidebar. Make sure you match the tags exactly as shown and …
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Star Wars I-VI (1977-2005)[360p][ALTERED?] (All Overlapped) : fullmoviesonyoutube
No, no this is six movi… oh you are doing like a thing. Why would anyone watch all of this? via Pocket
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Damn! Straight boys… Damn straight? Boys! via Pocket
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I’ve found my sub. No place I’d rather be than California. Agreed. The fog is one of the things I’ll miss the most of the Bay Area when I move. via Pocket
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That’s the best thing I’ve seen all morning. Source vid? via Pocket
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“Getting to the Diving Board was a challenge, as there is no official trail. For anybody who is prepared and careful, the reward is one of the most breathtaking views in all of Yosemite.” – Half Dome, Yosemite National Park, California [2000×1333] P…
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There Are 200 Million Fewer Hungry People Than 25 Years Ago. : TrueReddit
There Are 200 Million Fewer Hungry People Than 25 Years Ago. (npr.org) Lot of jokes in this thread but I am completely floored by this. Two billion more people, crazy growth all over the third world, and hunger went down? via Pocket
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Would you agree with this statement? : google
Would you agree with this statement? (i.imgur.com) That’s a really good point and I would tend to agree with it. via Pocket
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Article looks into a recent case of civil forfeiture, where people don’t have to be charged with a crime to lose their cash. via Pocket
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A small gesture goes a long way : gifs
A small gesture goes a long way (i.imgur.com)submitted 5 minutes ago by loading… via Pocket
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NASA moves ahead with a mission to Europa : space
NASA moves ahead with a mission to Europa (sciencenews.org)submitted 3 minutes ago by loading… via Pocket
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Space Shuttle Endeavor : space
Space Shuttle Endeavor (i.imgur.com)submitted 2 minutes ago by loading… via Pocket
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The Brain Age – The Long and Short Season 4
This sounds fun. But then a lot of things do until you consider the advertising opportunities. The film Minority Report is comparatively utopian in its vision of the hero being bombarded only by audiovisual ads selectively projected at him as he wal…
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“The problem is not that I don’t understand the global banking system. The problem for these guys is that I fully understand the system and I understand how they make their money. And that’s what they don’t like about me.” — Sen. Elizabeth Warren (…
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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says the NSA whistleblower “gave up his own life . . . to help the rest of us”. (fortune.com) When it is illegal to report your country doing something illegal, you are being governed by criminals. via Pocket
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As a writer, I’ve actually found this page immensely helpful. : writing
As a writer, I’ve actually found this page immensely helpful. (tvtropes.org) No one is commenting because they’ve been stuck on that site for the past 12 hours. via Pocket
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Except when it’s one of the surveys looking for rare multi-minority-status people instead. 😉 Actually the screener would be there to the contrary, to screen out the majority of white males ages 18-49, right? That’s what I am and I get screened out…
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For all you writers who are creating worlds: This website can generate continent maps for you, including 3D views of topography. (www-cs-students.stanford.edu) via Pocket
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Whats your daily Beermoney routine? : beermoney
Whats your daily Beermoney routine? (self.beermoney) On weekdays, I run EarnHoney videos during the day for the most part. When I get back home, I’ll do some SB encraves while I’m studying or watching TV or something. via Pocket
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[20 SB] Get FREE Breakfast Recipes : SwagBucks
Found this right on the home page if you scroll down a bit. Must select Type 2 diabetes. Swagbucks credited immediately after submitting information (first page, don’t need to advance after that) Thank you very much. via Pocket
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Thanks Swagbucks; it’s a graphics card : SwagBucks
And thanks to everyone who posts fast and easy surveys and special offers here so that I got enough for it that much faster. How long did it take you? via Pocket
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In Star Wars, how many people would have died when a Star Destroyer was destroyed and blew up within moments in space? (self.scifi) Oh, not too many. Just under 50,000. Plus droids. via Pocket
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Is this Dylann Roof’s racist manifesto?
Several pictures on the site show Roof holding Confederate flags; another shows him burning an American flag. The website’s name is LastRhodesian. via Pocket
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America’s drone policy is all exceptions and no rules | Trevor Timm | Comment is free | The Guardian
The Obama administration is again allowing the CIA to use drone strikes to secretly kill people that the spy agency does not know the identities of in multiple countries – despite repeated statements to the contrary. via Pocket
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Getting To Know Adorabilis*, A Newly Discovered Species Of Very Cute Octopus – Digg
What do you call a tiny octopus with big eyes, gelatinous skin and is cute as a button? Nobody knows quite yet! The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute is aiming to classify and name this presently undescribed deep-sea cephalopod using preserve…
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Nope, it’s the boy who cried wolf thing. We’ve heard way too many alarms to even consider that it might be working as intended. Every now and then I will yell “Stop Thief” when I hear a car alam in a busy parking lot. The owner either looks mortifie…
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Police brutality may be overwhelmingly legal, but it’s far from being ethical or just.
An innocent man may be found guilty in a court of law, lose all of his appeals, and be executed for a murder he did not commit. Everything about his case may have been legal, but not ethical. Executing a man for a crime he did not commit can never b…
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He’s also the only president not to have waged a war. Having been there myself and visited the memorial center, every world leader should be required to go. via Pocket
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James Salter, whose intimately detailed novels and short stories kept a small but devoted audience in his thrall for more than half a century, died on Friday in Sag Harbor, N.Y. He was 90. His wife, Kay Eldredge, confirmed his death, saying he had b…
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Mitt Romney: ‘Take Down The Confederate Flag’ | ThinkProgress
Following the brutal murder of nine people at a historic black church in South Carolina, many have wondered why the Confederate flag — a symbol of racial segregation — has continued to stand outside of the state Capitol building. One of those people…
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How America Broke Its Drone Force – The Daily Beast
In a tent at Nellis Air Force Base on the northern edge of Las Vegas, the officer in charge of a U.S. Air Force drone unit strolled into a meeting with the 20 or so pilots and sensor operators under his command. via Pocket
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Judge Who Called Dylann Roof’s Family ‘Victims’ Previously Made Racist Remark in Court | VICE News
When alleged Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof appeared in court for a bond hearing on Friday, Charleston County Magistrate James Gosnell began the proceeding by declaring that Roof’s family members were also “victims” in the attack that killed …
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Girl Laughs a Lot on First Aerobatic Plane Ride With Dad: Video
She wants to be a flight attendant when she grows up A Canadian pilot took his four-year-old daughter on an aerobatic plane ride for the first time and filmed her reaction, which involved a delightfully maniacal laugh. via Pocket
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Game of Thrones: Everyone Who Has Died
Plenty of people have lost their lives on Game of Thrones, and most have met a violent end. While this list doesn’t record every named soldier who’s had his throat slit, it is a comprehensive account (in chronological order) of now deceased characte…
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Uber Isn’t Letting Its Drivers Carry Guns Anymore | The New Republic
We have adopted a no-firearms policy to ensure that both riders and drivers feel safe and comfortable on the platform. We made this policy change after assessing existing policies and carefully reviewing recent feedback from both riders and driver-p…
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I am surprised more ELI5 answers arent “because i told you so”. : Showerthoughts
Direct replies to the original post (aka “top-level comments”) are for serious responses only. Jokes, anecdotes, and low effort explanations, are not permitted and subject to removal. via Pocket
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Right-wing Terrorists Kill More Americans Than Islamic Extremists : TrueReddit
Right-wing Terrorists Kill More Americans Than Islamic Extremists (youtube.com)submitted 15 minutes ago by 2daaa8aaaloading… via Pocket
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A Republican Lawmaker Is Pushing A Bill To Remove Confederate Flag From State House | ThinkProgress
The Confederate flag flies in front of the South Carolina State House in Charleston. A Confederate flag license plate is attached to the front of 21-year-old Dylann Roof’s car. Roof, who reportedly wanted “to start a civil war,” shot and killed nine…
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Juneteenth President Obama: Read Statement After Charleston Shooting
President Obama issued remarks observing the June 19 celebration. Here is his statement in full: On this day 150 years ago, more than two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, the slaves of Galveston, Texas finally rece…
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TIL Lawrence of Rome was sentenced to die by being roasted alive. After a while of being seared over burning coals, he told the executioners “turn me over, I’m well done on this side.” Today he is the patron saint of cooks and chefs in the Catholic …
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In the aftermath of Thursday’s tragedy in Charleston, the U.S. and South Carolina flags flew at half-mast over the top of the South Carolina State House to honor the black victims of a hate crime. But flying high in front of the building was another…
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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Directing his confession to the camera, a man declares his feelings about his recent breakup with ‘the love of his life.’ But is all as it seems? via Pocket
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The ‘unworkable’ Republican Obamacare non-fix
But the block grant idea is just a mirage. It’s hard to see how many, if any, states with a federal marketplace would provide meaningful assistance through the block grant to people who are now getting subsidies. via Pocket
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And this is a thing i got told by a friend who have been in Greenland for most of his life, that is it is very rare to find a girl over the age of 10 who is virgin, this is a big problem for the communities of Inuit people. But Walter Mitty made it …
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Squirrel climbs netting, runs into dugout – YouTube
6/19/15: A squirrel scales the netting behind home plate, then leaps down and eventually makes his way into the Phillies dugoutCheck out http://m.mlb.com/video for our full archive of videos, and subscribe on YouTube for the best, exclusive MLB cont…
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£12,000 worth of biscuits stolen from Cwmbran factory – BBC News
Thieves have stolen £12,000 worth of biscuits from a south Wales factory. The trailer was later found empty in Warrington, Cheshire. via Pocket
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TIL a stray dog followed a Swedish racing team through the Amazonian jungles and rivers to complete a 430-mile (688 km) race, just because one of the team members had given it a meat ball during one of the earlier halts. (hexapolis.com) … via Pock…
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Medical Marijuana Patients Are Getting Fired — And There’s Not Much They Can Do About It | VICE News
This story is part of a partnership between MedPage Today and VICE News. If the Brandon Coats court case had turned out differently, Dr. Margaret Gedde’s medical marijuana patients would have been talking about it. via Pocket
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Paramedic High Speed Ride on a Motorbike Through the City During Rush Hour – YouTube
Like, share, follow: http://facebook.com/CCCvideos… CCC 🙂 … via Pocket
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Exclusive: Advanced Micro Devices mulling breakup, spinoff – sources| Reuters
Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices is at the initial stage of reviewing whether to split itself in two or spin off a business, seeking to reverse its fortunes and take on rival Intel Corp, according to three people familiar with the matter. via Pocket
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Space: Beautiful NASA Photos From Across the Solar System
It’s one of the most mysterious aspects of the universe—what, exactly, is out there? NASA’s Deep Space Network has for decades been helping us get closer to understanding, sending back images from across our solar system. via Pocket
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Avalanche Video: This Is What It’s Like to Get Caught in One
It’s every skier’s worst nightmare, but one that can indeed be survived. Kristoffer Carlsson survived an avalanche while skiing in 2011, and brought back helmet-cam video of the snow burying him. via Pocket
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Obama pitches trade deal, wage reforms in weekly address
President Obama used this week’s video address to again advocate for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact.[I]n a relentlessly-changing economy, we’ve got more work to do. via Pocket
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For the past several summers, Bill and Hillary Clinton have done what New York City’s moneyed residents have done for decades: They spent their vacation amid the prime beachside real estate of Long Island. via Pocket
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I read in a TIL that “huh?” was the only universal word. That means the only word everyone can understand is a sign of misunderstanding. (self.Showerthoughts) What about “oww”? via Pocket
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Amazon Upgrades Review Software | Re/code
Amazon is giving its reviews system an overhaul, using new software it says will surface more helpful commentary from buyers. The company says it is using machine learning to provide more frequent, more useful updates to reviews on its U.S. site. vi…
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NEW DELHI — At least 84 people have died after drinking toxic liquor in a Mumbai-area slum, the police said Saturday, as the toll continued to rise in the worst episode of its kind in more than a decade. via Pocket
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The Real Geology of Tibetan Flood Myths and Noah’s Ark
I came to Tibet in the spring of 2002 to investigate a geologic mystery: How had the mighty Tsangpo River cut through the rising Himalaya to carve the deepest gorge in the world? Origin questions like this one fascinate me. via Pocket
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It’s Not Just Climate — Pope Francis Is Also Warning About The Health Of Our Oceans | ThinkProgress
With the release of his encyclical “Laudato Si” on Thursday, Pope Francis made headlines for recognizing the threat of human-caused climate change. But the encyclical also called attention to the world’s oceans, affirming just how vital they are to …
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Psychology Today: Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America : TrueReddit
Psychology Today: Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America (psychologytoday.com)submitted 15 minutes ago by loading… via Pocket
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Life on Mars Could Change Our View of the Universe, If It Is a Second Genesis
While some scientists search for extraterrestrial life by landing rovers on Mars, launching telescopes into space, and scanning the skies with giant radio dishes, geobiologist Joseph Kirschvink thinks that the first telltale signs of alien life may …
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When I was a child, I’d thought I would encounter quick sand regularly : Showerthoughts
Both you and John Mulaney. He had a stand-up where he talked about that. Pretty funny. And lava? via Pocket
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5-Second Summaries with Vince Vaughn – YouTube
Jimmy and Vince race the clock to summarize movie plots trying to get each other to guess the title.Subscribe NOW to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: http://bit.ly/1nwT1aNWatch The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Weeknights 11:35/10:35cGet…
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Amazon’s New Plan to Pay Authors Every Time Someone Turns a Page – The Atlantic
Amazon is about to find out. When I recently learned of Amazon’s new plan to pay some authors for each page that a Kindle user reads, I remembered an editor who looked at my one of my book proposals and said something along the lines of, “It feels l…
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When Donald J. Trump arrived on an escalator and announced on Tuesday that he would seek the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, he set off a gold rush among late-night comedians who could not wait to satirize his bombastic, digressive declarat…
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Russia Is Getting New Nuclear Missiles — But It’s Probably Not the End of the World | VICE News
Speaking at the opening ceremony of a military theme park outside of Moscow, President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia will deploy 40 new nuclear ICBMs in the coming year, prompting a great deal of handwringing about the prospect of a new nucle…
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This week in science: Thou shalt not let religion influence politics
It’s not clear exactly who Jeb Bush is talking to when he talks about climate change. There’s a possibility he might in part actually be talking to the deniers in his own party. via Pocket
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TIL that because of a lucky genetic mutation happened in the 18th century, today 38 people in a small town in northern Italy don’t suffer from cholesterol artery-clogging, making them virtually immune to heart disease and strokes. They all smoke, th…
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Submission summary: ISIS fighters aren’t really that different from the guys who first developed the art of political violence as public spectacle: the Russian revolutionaries of the turn of the 20th century. via Pocket
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Why humans run the world : TrueReddit
Why humans run the world (ideas.ted.com)submitted 1 minute ago by loading… via Pocket
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Here’s Who’s Been Celebrating Pride On Social Media | ThinkProgress
Pride Month is an opportunity for the LGBT community to remember its rebellious roots and remind the world that LGBT people are everywhere and refuse to be ashamed of who they are. via Pocket
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Welcome to Yemen, Where War Has Turned Cities Into a Living Hell | VICE News
The fatigue of war is evident on the streets of Sanaa in the form of shattered glass that residents have given up on cleaning away. via Pocket
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Blink-182 and ‘Game of Thrones’: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing – The Atlantic
The Internet Accused Alice Goffman of Faking Details in Her Study of a Black Neighborhood. I Went to Philadelphia to Check. Jesse Singal | New York Magazine“‘They’re funny to people,’ Goffman said of these videos. ‘They’re really funny, these cat vi…
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I was critical of CBO yesterday — probably excessively — for giving what seemed like undue cover for deficit scolds in its long-run budget projection. 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 Biggert*-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act in 2012 and its subsequent gutting as pro…
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‘Wanna Grab a Marijuana Tea After Work?’ – The Atlantic
As pot laws liberalize, cannabis capitalists eye opportunities for business—and to upend stereotypes. But can white-collar workers handle it, man? Jill Amen always wanted to be a barista. She has also always loved cannabis, growing little saplings a…
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Millennials Are Most Worried About Student Loan Debt – The Atlantic
They’re also still worried about wealth accumulation and saving enough to buy a home. Thirty-seven-year-old Kelly Tynan would like to give her younger self two pieces of practical financial advice. First, go to state school; it’s far cheaper than a …
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In an Age of ‘Jurassic World,’ Spielberg’s ‘Jaws’ Is Still a Masterpiece – The Atlantic
Steven Spielberg’s film set the template for the heavily promoted, wide-released summer hit. But decades later, it stands out for its relatively small scale and everyman heroes. via Pocket
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Conservative 2016 Candidates Pander To Anti-Women Agenda | ThinkProgress
WASHINGTON, DC — “It was right here in this room that we celebrated the burial of the Equal Rights Amendment,” conservative Phyllis Schlafly, who led the fight against the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s, told a cheering crowd in Washington, D.C…
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WASHINGTON — After the fatal shootings at a landmark black church in Charleston, S.C., Senator Joe Manchin III, who sponsored gun safety legislation that failed in Congress two years ago, released a statement lamenting “the nine souls who were lost.…
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Barack Obama Golfs in California Amid Drought
President Obama will golf Saturday on a lush, green course in California, even as the state grapples with a drought of historic proportions. As in past golfing trips, this will likely raise more than a few eyebrows. via Pocket
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The search for the £1.9bn Atlantic treasure lost at sea – but does it exist? For years, the UK has been fighting to claim the spoils from a huge shipwrecked cargo of platinum (independent.co.uk) via Pocket
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The Decline of the American Actor – The Atlantic
Why the under-40 generation of American leading men is struggling—and what to do about it Is it time for American actors to take a hard look in the mirror? Earlier this year Michael Douglas mused darkly to a magazine interviewer, “I think we have a …
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Three-week-old baby killed in attack by terrier in Sunderland | UK news | The Guardian
The boy was taken to hospital on Saturday morning following an attack by a small terrier, but later died. The police were called to a home in Falkland Road in the north of the city at 4.15am. A 30-year-old man has been arrested and the dog has been …
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On an On – “It’s Not Over” on Vimeo
A story about long distance relationships. Starring Elizabeth Rian and Thomas Bailey Directed, filmed and edited by Carlos Lopez Estrada Produced by Alissa Torvinen Executive Producer: Matt Pittman for Alpen Pictures Visual Effects: Tanner Merrill S…
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Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Grace and anger
One said, “God forgive you,” too. A large part of this is punitive. Roof wants to be a terrorist — for us to admit that he terrorized us. He likes the attention, telling the police as he admitted to his acts that he wanted to make sure they were “k…
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‘If I burn out, I burn out’: meet Taylor Wilson, nuclear boy genius | Science | The Guardian
Taylor Wilson has a Geiger counter watch on his wrist, a sleek, sporty-looking thing that sounds an alert in response to radiation. As we enter his parents’ garage and approach his precious jumble of electrical equipment, it emits an ominous beep. v…
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Myth No1: Gun control would never pass Congress. Related: Obama’s strong words on Charleston shooting: ‘I refuse to act as if this is the new normal’ A majority of US senators voted for a package of gun control measures only two years ago. via Pocket
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US Open: Chambers Bay greens cause red faces but finest will prevail | Sport | The Guardian
It is hardly breaching acts of sporting secrecy to point out the tendency of professional golfers to complain. This can take various forms, over various issues. via Pocket
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7,473 volumes at 700 pages each: meet Print Wikipedia : wikipedia
They are well on their way to inventing the encyclopedia. via Pocket
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Grexit and the Eurozone: Can Greece and the EU Avoid Default? – The Atlantic
Furious negotiations to prevent a Greece from defaulting are ongoing in Brussels—though worries about a “Grexit” from the eurozone continue. The scariest quote for the world economy this week came from a member of the European Central Bank’s executi…
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Dylann Roof: far right denies links and disowns ‘act of purposeful evil’ | US news | The Guardian Almost exactly 20 years ago, Timothy McVeigh blew up a federal building in Oklahoma City, killing dozens of innocent civilians including 19 babies and toddlers in the hope of triggering a race…
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