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Charlie McKenna | June 17, 2016
Kaitlyn Juvik, a student at Helena High School in Montana, hosted a “No Bra Day” to protest sexualization of women's bodies. She told The Guardian she was walking along one ordinary day, not wearing a bra, when she was stopped by a school administrator who told her to put a bra on. The administrator told her “[T]here are a lot of male teachers and students here and that makes them…
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Charlie McKenna | June 16, 2016
“I am fully and finally done accommodating religious hatred towards queer lives.” This statement opens the long tirade against religious people by Huffington Post writer Paul Raushenbush. He goes on to state that it is “pathetic” that it took the murder of 49 people for him to stop dialoguing with people who (in his opinion) think queer lives aren’t fully human. He says he has tolerated…
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Charlie McKenna | June 16, 2016
In an effort to promote stability in Libya, the Obama administration plans to increase aid to the UN-backed Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA). Special envoy for Libya Jonathan Winer laid out the plan in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Wednesday. The State Department plans to reallocate $35 million in current funding already approved by Congress, and has requested an…
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Charlie McKenna | June 15, 2016
ISIS is on the move. After the Orlando shooting that was perpetrated by an ISIS supporter and the deadly stabbing of a French police officer and his partner in Paris by an ISIS operative Monday night (both of which ISIS has taken credit for), ISIS is certainly going through a mobile spell in the Western world. But apparently, the bloodshed probably won't stop with these attacks. Belgian…
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Charlie McKenna | June 15, 2016
  The feminists were out in full force at the United State of Women Conference on Tuesday. Here’s some of the most interesting moments from the morning session. Joanne Smith, a black feminist author, encouraged women to use their voices to unsettle the patriarchy. She stated: “Our native, our Latina, our black, our Muslim and white sisters and brothers, are together; and in this country our…
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Charlie McKenna | June 13, 2016
Over the weekend, there has been a plethora of responses to the Orlando shooting, most of them offering prayers and support for the victims and their families. However, the inevitable political dialogue from such a tragedy has come. Case in point: Chase Strangio, a lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union’s LGBT and AIDS project, came to a mind-blowing conclusion regarding the real…
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Charlie McKenna | June 10, 2016
The Buddhist ritual of fang sheng (release life) is the practice of buying captured animals and releasing them back to the wild. This practice is supposed to acquire good karma, as it is considered a gesture of compassion.   But when a woman in the southern Chinese province of Sichuan wanted to practice the fang sheng, the exercise went horribly wrong. The woman, who calls herself “Cool Mandy…
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Charlie McKenna | June 9, 2016
 Civil Asset Forfeiture can now extend to prepaid debit cards and account information in the state of Oklahoma. Without proving any crime, making an arrest, or even obtaining a warrant, police in Oklahoma can now seize money from a prepaid debit card, and access limited account information from debit or credit cards if they believe a person’s funds were involved in a crime. To do this, they…
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Charlie McKenna | June 8, 2016
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) released a mock media advisory on Wednesday, telling the press, “Speaker Paul Ryan will not be available to answer your questions today about his surrender to Donald Trump.” The alert went on to say Ryan cancelled his usual Wednesday press conference out of fear that the press would ask about Trump’s “racist commentary against a federal judge, and…
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Charlie McKenna | June 8, 2016
Update (6/8 5:05 EST) Police now assign terrorism as the motive for the shooting. Update (6/8 5:00 EST)  Police now say one two attackers were involved in the shooting. Original Story: At least three people were killed in a shooting at a popular outdoor market in Tel Aviv Wednesday, according to Israeli officials.  Eight others were wounded, with five in serious condition. Two of the three…