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June 2015[edit]
   | 17 | Cracked: How Daesh was created by the US. |
| 13 | Dylann Roof, 4chan, and the New Online Racism: How anon-style trolling has led to the current state of online hate. |
| 6 | The Guardian: why libertarians and progressives are not allies: the case of David Leyonhjelm. |
| 20 | Let's not forget the T in LGBT with John Oliver. |
| 10 | Interesting stuff here about science fiction and white supremacy. |
| 8 | Cracked: It would indeed be nice if "free speech" didn't become just a dog whistle for "incredible racism, homophobia, etc". |
| 12 | Video: Coheed and Cambria sing Scalia's dissents on gay marriage and the Affordable Care Act. |
| 32 | Your Porn Addiction Isn’t Real: The brains of those 'addicted' to porn bear no neurological resemblance to those of other well-documented addictions while watching it, says a new study. Why the word needs to change. |
| 21 | Why Conspiracy Theories Aren’t Harmless Fun |
| -3 | Tim Hunt on women scientists? It was satire, as this states. [WARNING: Daily Mail link] |
| 12 | We will never get to the centre of the Earth. |
| 13 | Ben Goldacre: How medicine is broken, and how we can fix it. |
| -20 | Look who finally joined facebook! The Good Lord Below |
| 22 | Feminists never have sex Pure gold |
| 32 | John Oliver explains online harassment and revenge porn. |
| 37 | Humanists baffled and outraged that women count as human. |
| 12 | Why people who say they’re "fiscally conservative but socially liberal" are, of course, socially conservative. |
| 28 | How for-profit prisons have become the biggest lobby no one is talking about. Marco Rubio is also a major beneficiary. |
| 25 | Ann Coulter is at it again. Why do women and latinos keep voting for the Democratic Party, I wonder. |
| 26 | How Rachel Dolezal got that way: homeschooled using To Train Up a Child abuse. |
| 29 | Back in April, Gamergate/A Voice for Men group the Honey Badger Brigade was kicked out of Calgary Expo for TOS violations and disruption. They will SUE!! So they got gators to donate to their legal fund. They are using the money to hire a ... disbarred lawyer. Disbarred for ... defrauding clients. This will definitely end well. |
| 10 | Just when you think you've seen it all this happens. So what we have here is a white lady who passed herself off as black for a decade, and who ends up becoming the leader of the NAACP chapter in Spokane only to be outed now by her parents. As you might imagine this little fiasco has ignited the blogosphere. |
| 3 | Why is the abortion rate falling? |
| 10 | If you want to vote "All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me" Donald "I'm more honest and my women are more beautiful" Trump, Cracked.com is your friend (because "quem te avisa teu amigo é" - "the one who warns you is your friend"). |
| 14 | What if Daesh wins? |
| 12 | I Was Transgender And Didn't Know It: 6 Weird Realities |
| 16 | American TV and police brutality |
| 11 | The town where Jesus and dinosaurs coexist peacefully. |
| 24 | A UK male rape charity (a good one) has had its funding slashed to zero. So ... where are all the outraged MRAs? |
| 22 | Handy infographics to explain what evolution is and what not. |
| 14 | Libertarianism, LessWrong rationalism and neoreaction. "Nerds don՚t like politics, perhaps because they are generally no good at it. These ideologies are all, in different ways, trying to replace politics with something more tractable to the nerdish brain." |
| 10 | Controversial study on how to prevent rape shows a reduction in rape. |
| 43 | Reddit enacts new anti-harassment policy and begins to crack down on subreddits that promote harassment. Among the first on the block is the infamous /r/fatpeoplehate along with /r/hamplanethatred, /r/transfags, /r/neofag and /r/shitniggerssay. A large number of users are enraged by the news, and the announcement is currently flooded with downvotes. |
| 13 | Billboard that hides when it 'sees' a cop |
| 8 | Pencilsword: On A Plate |
| 12 | Cracked: 5 Ways Powerful People Trick You Into Hating Underdogs. |
| 16 | A long Guardian piece on Richard Dawkins |
| 36 | U.S. House Introduces Resolution Calling for the Global Repeal of Blasphemy Laws. |
| 39 | Five things I learned at a Pray Away the Gay Camp. |