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Burn The Republican Party To The Ground
Today marks the one-year anniversary of The New York Times' report that brought down Harvey Weinstein, which effectively launched the #MeToo movement. The Republicans have decided to honor that by confirming an alleged sexual assaulter to the Supreme Court. Despite the thousands ...read more
Jeff Sessions' Religious Liberty Task Force Is Disguised Bigotry
In a speech yesterday at the Religious Liberty Summit, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the creation of a Religious Liberty Task Force, ostensibly to uphold last year's religious guidance that ensured government officials would not suffer from religious persecution. In ...read more
Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block His Twitter Haters
For most of his presidency, Donald Trump has used campaign rallies and Twitter as his primary means of communicating with the public. Attendance at his speeches might be waning on its own, but his audience on Twitter has received a lot of deliberate pruning by the president ...read more
Why Are We Positioning Support For A Torturer As A Vote For Feminism?
The very premise of feminism rests on the tenet that all human beings are created inherently equal. And this principle extends not just to women, but to all human beings — regardless of not only gender, race and nationality. How, then, can the Trump administration tout that ...read more
Russian Facebook Ads Targeted American Voters by Exploiting Racial Tensions on Both Sides
Last week, the US House Intelligence Committee released approximately 3,517 Facebook ads purchased by the Russians between 2015-17, meant to influence the 2016 election, all of which are available to download. USA Today conducted a study of the ads and concluded that more than ...read more