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Senate Panel: “There is no doubt that Russia undertook an unprecedented effort to interfere with our 2016 elections.”

Reading Time: 2 minutes While most expected the Senate committee to yield different results  than the House Committee did, the degree to which this report raises alarm is surprising. It doesn’t say “maybe” it happened. The Senate committee clearly states Russian meddling did happen. It’s impossible to calculate the impacts of that meddling. However, it’s also impossible to suggest that Russian influence didn’t factor into seating Donald Trump in the White House.  The words “Illegitimate President” seem less inflammatory when the House Intelligence Committee and the Intelligence Community publicly acknowledge significant and sophisticated meddling by a foreign government. 

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9-1-1 What’s your emergency? Yes, It Even Happened to Bob Marley’s Granddaughter

Reading Time: 7 minutes Next time you decide to call the police, if you can, and your life is not in imminent danger, please pause. First fully assess the situation. Take a deep breath. Do you need to call the police? Or is it just your sense of pristine dignity that just got offended?

Just know that if it is a person of color that you are calling the cops about, you may have just lynched the person.

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Teach girls bravery, not perfection | Reshma Saujani | TedTalk

Reading Time: < 1 minute We’re raising our girls to be perfect, and we’re raising our boys to be brave, says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code. Saujani has taken up the charge to socialize young girls to take risks and learn to program — two skills they need to move society forward. To truly innovate, we cannot leave behind half of our population, she says. “I need each of you to tell every young woman you know to be comfortable with imperfection.”

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