Systemic Racism Explained
Reading Time: < 1 minute In case you have some friends that still don’t understand systemic racism 😉 (via act.tv)
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Protester Alaa Salah Brings Global Attention to Sudan
Reading Time: < 1 minute This young woman has become a symbol of hope and resistance in Sudan amid protests against the country’s former president (via NowThis)
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NO SPIN ZONE: Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), chair of the House Intelligence Committee Press Conference
Reading Time: < 1 minute Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), chair of the House Intelligence Committee, is holding a press conference now in the aftermath of the Mueller report release. Attorney General William Barr spoke to the press about the report this morning, hours before it was made available to Congress and the public, but after the White House counsel’s office had been briefed by the Department of Justice, according to the New York Times. Schiff has invited Special Counsel Robert Mueller to testify before his committee. ‘After a two year investigation,’ Schiff tweeted today, ‘the public deserves the facts, not Attorney General Barr’s political spin.’
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Brie Larson: An Interview Worth Watching with the Super Hero We Deserve
Reading Time: < 1 minute Brie Larson has a strong, simple message about equal pay: “Ask for what you deserve.”
On Wednesday night, the Captain Marvel star and best-actress Oscar winner sat for an interview with Vanity Fair editor in chief Radhika Jones at the Women in the World summit in New York, where she spoke frankly about the wage gap.
“Money is actually something I’m very excited to talk about,” Larson began. “It’s this thing that people think is super-icky—and that’s the trap. The trap is they make you feel icky about it, so that you don’t ask for what you deserve—because you know what that number is inside.”
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called out the right’s hypocrisy when it comes to gov’t intervention on climate change
Reading Time: < 1 minute ‘We will change the face of life on this planet.’ — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke to the urgency of ‘bold’ solutions to climate change, despite cries of socialism from Republicans
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Blasts Trump Administration for Using WhatsApp | NowThis
Reading Time: < 1 minute ‘What is next? Putting nuclear codes in Instagram DMs? This is ridiculous.’ Press reports suggest that Trump administration officials with security clearances are carrying out foreign relations on WhatsApp. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not about to let that happen without an investigation and wants to see the subpoenas fly.
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Cory Booker: I believe in ‘radical love of all people’
Reading Time: < 1 minute “Christ is the center of my life,” Sen. Cory Booker says during a CNN town hall, discussing how his faith impacts his political views. “I believe in that radical love of all people. I believe that the Bible talks more about poverty, about greeting the stranger, about being there for the convicted, far more than it talks about the kind of toxic stuff you often hear the President spewing out there.”
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Adam Schiff is Just Not Having It Anymore and No, He will Not Yield
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Trump campaign’s contact with the Russians was immoral, unethical, and unpatriotic. And yes, it was corrupt. Whether it was a crime was Mueller’s decision, and we all respect that.
But none of it was okay. And the day we think it is will be the day we will look back and say, that was the day America lost its way.
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This Woman Was Fat-Shamed While Running A Marathon
Reading Time: < 1 minute Latoya Shauntay Snell (Running Fat Chef) has experienced fat-shaming her whole life — by friends, family and doctors, and even by spectators watching her as she ran the New York City Marathon. Latoya’s response? “Fat-shaming can go f**k itself.”
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Rep. Stephanie Borowicz Prays for Trump and America Before Pennsylvania’s First Muslim Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell Is Sworn In
Reading Time: < 1 minute ‘We’ve forgotten you God, in our country, and we’re asking you to forgive us, Jesus.’ — This state rep held a prayer for Pres. Trump before the first Muslim member Rep. Movita Johnson-Harrell was sworn in.
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