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June 2016[edit]

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9Making abortion rights real.
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13The working-class wounds hidden behind Trump voters’ racism.
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5An interesting comparison between the responses of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to the recent attack in Istanbul, Turkey.
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20Republicans find out once again that trying to appease the far right is a fool's errand: wingnuts now are floating the idea that Congressional Republicans are part of the Benghazi "conspiracy" because they refuse to say that Obama and Hillary were behind the attacks.
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4The violence of eviction.
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31The tyranny of forced fun at work.
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3How should property rights in space be governed?
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17The toxic myth that working moms fail their kids is based on old pseudoscience.
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19A world without work isn't a bad thing.
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-1Brexit's success shows the failures of the West's established institutions.
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9How American Politics Went Insane
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9Donald Trump, Poland, and America 'B'.
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13Why does homelessness look the same in San Franciso?
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14America's shameful history of mistreatment of migrant workers.
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7Confessions of a payday lender.
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12The "knowledge economy" is a myth.
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10Social justice and democracy must be at the heart of Brexit negotiations.
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13Everyone should love explainers: Why Brexit Should Scare The Shit Out Of You, Explained
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18Brexit: the reaction from that immigrant Englishwoman in Portugal from the other day. (This time, just pull down to the end of the Portuguese text to read the English one, although you'll still have to click the blue rectangule in order to continue to read the text.)
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15Andrew Cuomo’s BDS blacklist is a clear violation of the First Amendment.
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8Fully Loaded: Inside the shadowy world of America's 10 biggest gun manufacturers.
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7The Democrats gun reforms are weak and disingenuous.
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19My four months as a private prison guard
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19Twitter Trolls Are Reporting Pro-LGBT Muslim Women to Their Governments, Where Punishment Can Mean Death
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16"Today, I can no longer disregard the inconvenient fact that I was a quack": Former Naturopathic doctor Britt Marie Hermes speaks of the start to her journey into the world of real medicine.
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20Donald Trump’s problems are making it too easy for Democrats to ignore their own.
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13The best courtroom transcript ever recorded.
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10What it's like to have your period in a women's prison.
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4How union contracts shield police departments from DOJ reforms.
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7I grew up in a racist militia. (Cracked)
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17Someone from the Daily Caller tries to pick a fight with Snopes. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
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-8The Democrats' war against due process and terrorist fearmongering have long predated Orlando.
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6How years of macho food marketing is killing men.
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1The return of lesser evilism.
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5Why did white workers leave the Democratic Party?
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1Death has become a part of Britain’s benefits system.
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-10These are the nine lost souls the FBI charged as terrorists while letting the Orlando shooter go.
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11Cracked: I (Charlie Veitch) Was A Professional 9/11 Truther (And I Gave It Up)
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5There can be no racial justice until we end money bails.
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6Scientific publishers are killing research papers.
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-4A Twitter thread on why the "Berniebro" narrative is harmful to PoC and women.
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15Youth unemployment is caused by late retirement, driven by pension precarity, not by automation.
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6An immigrant Englishwoman in Portugal talks about Brexit (to read the English version, just click on the blue rectangule that says "continuar a ler", then scroll down 'till the end of the Portuguese text, which is just a little bit more).
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10Six answers to the question behind Donald Trump’s immigration ban.
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14Why wasteful military spending never stops. (The American Conservative)
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10The US's mental health crisis ensnares inmates, judges, jailers and hospitals.
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12Why doesn’t education in juvenile detention facilities get any attention or support?
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6Remembering the 1953 East German worker's strike.
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-1The FBI was right not to arrest Omar Mateen before the shooting.
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10The shadowy war on the press: How the rich silence journalists.
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5How Israel is inciting Palestinian violence.
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-3Recalling the judge that sentenced Brock Turner may hurt racial minorities.
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11My mom was killed in the Charleston shooting. Executing Dylann Roof won’t bring her back.
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12How I bought an AR-15 in a Five Guys parking lot.
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13How juice companies game science to perpetuate the myth that cranberry prevents UTIs
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10Britain is in the midst of a working-class revolt.
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10I escaped Romania's dictatorship, went to Oxford and started a business – all thanks to European openness.
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13Why is Jo Cox's killer not being called a terrorist?
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177 bullshit cures for Zika that are spreading online
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33"This is just soul-crushingly awful": A live-tweet of the June 14 Trump Rally in Greensboro, NC by a Georgia Southern U. professor.
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15Public defenders can be biased and it hurts PoC.
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2The Supreme Court is afraid of racial justice.
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-7What activist Jasmine Richards's "lynching" conviction means for the Black Lives Matter movement
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-20I don't have to vote and I can still complain. (The Federalist)
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12Poor Native Americans have a hard time recieving a lawyer.
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23How Menards bombards its employees with right-wing propaganda
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12Since When Is An Act of Terrorism an Act of God?: A discussion of religiously-motivated/ideologue-driven hate from a devout LGBT Catholic.
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16After Orlando, time to recognize that anti-gay bigotry is not religious freedom
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286 ways Ronald Reagan ruined the country. (Cracked)
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11United States of Paranoia: A look at the targeted individuals community.
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30Only the rich are gaining from the recovery after the Great Recession.
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10PTSD may be more physical than psychological.
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15Senator Ron Wyden and Judge Andrew Napolitano (video) have both come out against the FBI's unconstitutional attempt to increase their warrantless surveillance access over internet browsing history.
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5The Humanist Report on why Bernie Sanders should not drop out before the Democratic Convention in July.
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0The UK might leave the European Union. Here’s why.
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12The State of Surveillance. - Vice News
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12Your definitive guide to the Silicon Valley's bizarre politics.
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15All human knowledge is there so why can’t everybody access it?
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8Democrats work with Big Tobacco and Big Pharma to choke the vaping industry.
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14Drones emerge from shadows to become key cog in U.S. war machine.
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16Three years on, it appears Snowden's leaks have damaged the NSA so badly that it's healthier than ever.
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13Tased in the chest for 23 seconds, dead for 8 minutes, and now facing a lifetime of recovery.
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18The Day the Micropig Internet Mob Came After Me: a reminder of the Greater Internet Fuckwad TheoryWikipedia and how a small vocal group on the Internet can turn into a storm of harassment and anger over something as innocuous as an album of cute tiny pig photos.
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6Kyle Kulinski on Bernie Sanders' response to a journalist asking whether or not it is sexist of him to keep running against Hillary Clinton.
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3The Bitcoin price is an illusion built by faked volume: A sale of 265 coins crashed the price.
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17Everyone from the The Week and Salon, to the National Review and Reason agree that Andrew Cuomo's order against businesses and organizations associated with BDS is a threat to freedom of expression.
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10Challenging police violence shouldn’t require black Americans to sacrifice their privacy.
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7This is where Libertarians abandon fusionism with social conservatives.
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11The myth of of the 70's ice age prediction.
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3These photos show some of the many places people have died crossing the US's southern border.
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25When DNA implicates the innocent.
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-2Tattoo recognition research threatens free speech and privacy.
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10To stop bad prosecutors the Fed must gain oversight over them.
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14Andrew Cuomo and other Democrats launch severe attacks on free speech in order to protect Israel.
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6Nixonian palace guard now protects Hillary - Jonathan Turley
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10How MSG got a bad rap: Flawed science and xenophobia.
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14John Oliver explains debt buyers.
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39Now that Muhammad Ali is dead and no longer able to respond, conservatives are already rushing to whitewash and claim him for themselves, just like they did with "MLK the Republican" (Spoilers: he wasn't one either).
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10Cruel and Unusual: Radiolab explores the legal history of the death penalty.
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13Three IMF economists have released a report doubting the success of neoliberalism.
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17As restrictions on free speech grow we must speak out to save it.
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12Doubt grows as Michel Temer's presidency continues to crumble under corruption.
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4Having Their Cake and Eating Ours Too
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21Your money or your life data: How Russian cybercrime bosses crafted a ransomware empire out of an economic crisis.
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10It should be OK to teach "wrong" ideas in science. Case study: the Bohr model.