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Reading Time: < 1 minute Robert De Niro, Rob Reiner, Sophia Bush, Stephen King, Jonathan Van Ness, and more are cutting through the Trump administration’s lies about the Mueller report.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Psychologists have explained quite a lot about Donald Trump’s political invincibility and the unconditional allegiance of his followers. One well-supported explanation is that the president keeps his base loyal by keeping them fearful. Through persistent fear-mongering, with scary messages like, “Illegal immigrants are murderers and rapists,” and “Islam hates us,” Trump gets to play the role of the great protector.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute More than 1 million Americans rely on insulin, but skyrocketing prices are forcing many to take extreme measures in order to get the life-saving drug.
We followed 29-year-old Paloma Kemak as she traveled across the U.S.-Mexico border to get the medication she needs to survive.
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Reading Time: 8 minutes Dr. Evelin Dacker has been a healthcare provider for twenty-four years, and she has some big plans for the future of sexual health in America. Today, this sex-positive doc with a TEDx talk tells us why herpes is the new chicken pox, how sex-workers are healers, and why your doctor might be motivated to overprescribe.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute AOC confronted this official about why the FBI doesn’t treat white supremacists the way it treats other terrorists (via NowThis Politics)
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Reading Time: 2 minutes Parents with low to moderate incomes (up to nearly $50,000, or even higher in some states) may be able to enroll their children in Medicaid or CHIP. There’s no special open enrollment period; you can enroll your children at any time during the year. To enroll your children, you can apply in-person with your state’s Medicaid or CHIP agency, visit the “Find Coverage for Your Family” section on InsureKidsNow.gov or call 1-877-KIDS-NOW (1-877-543-7669).
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Reading Time: < 1 minute “Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over”: That’s all you have to say for your phone to start recording.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The president of the United States gave an interview to CNBC and he sounded like a man who doesn’t know what the hell is going on. But what was even more concerning is instead of his usual word-salad, this was more like a word Chipotle bowl that was dropped on the floor and then kicked around.
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Rep. Rashida Tlaib broke into tears during a hearing on white supremacy while reading an Islamophobic death threat she received.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Imagine you lived in a world where your family, your faith, your community, your government and your society told you that there was something wrong with you. If you didn’t get fixed, you had no place, no acceptance, and you didn’t deserve love. In the last 20 years, our society has become more accepting, but those wounds on society do not heal overnight, they scar. At the core of Pride is one basic idea; that as LGBTQ people, we deserve love, we are not broken or shameful, we should be proud to be who we are. It never hurts to feel love from the straight people in our lives, that they are proud of us too.
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