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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Lindsey Graham: Why Don’t Republicans Believe The Scientists On Climate Change?

"If I went to 10 doctors and nine said, 'Hey, you're gonna die,' and one says 'You're fine,' why would I believe the one ... Read more

Democrats Push Accountability And Universal Pre-K For Major Education Bill

Democrats will push for an accountability amendment and pre-k amendment Wednesday. ... Read more

Jeb Bush Wants More Americans To Work Long Hours But Doesn’t Want To Pay Them Overtime

Jeb Bush called expanding overtime protections to five million more workers "the wrong approach." ... Read more

House Republicans Are Outraged That Obama Is Too Merciful

A letter from several House Republicans suggests that bipartisan progress on criminal justice reform could prove fragile in the ... Read more

Across The Globe, Wildfire Season Is Lasting Longer

The global area affected by wildfire has also doubled. ... Read more

Watching ‘The Stanford Prison Experiment’ In The Era Of Mass Incarceration

"I feel guilty about allowing the suffering to go on as long as it did. And that's reinforced in the movie." ... Read more

Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Abortion is a medical procedure. The reality of those often isn't pleasant.

...No matter how legal the events in the video are, in the days to come, I’m sure we’ll see a renewed Republican effort to attack and even defund Planned Parenthood. Not because the organization has done anything illegal, but because people don’t like watching a doctor describing abortion in a matter-of-fact way over lunch...
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/15/planned-parenthood-videos-abortion-truths

Hardly Any Women Regret Having an Abortion, a New Study Finds

The study was carried out by researchers from the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at UC San Francisco’s School of Medicine, and from the university’s division of biostatistics.
http://time.com/3956781/women-abortion-regret-reproductive-health/

How Oregon's Fight To Expand Birth Control Access Is Influencing Other States

...Democratic lawmakers in other states have expressed interest in passing legislation similar to Oregon's new 12-month supply law. The Washington, D.C. Council introduced a 12-month dispensing bill earlier this year, which was not met with any opposition at the hearing. The bill was co-sponsored by nine members of the council and is currently under congressional review after the mayor signed it...
http://www.ibtimes.com/how-oregons-fight-expand-birth-control-access-influencing-other-states-2008050

Christian Terrorists Target Satanic Temple’s Baphomet Statue

The group had plans to unveil the 8.5-foot tall, 1.5-ton bronze statue of the Lord of Darkness, a goat-headed figure also known as a Baphomet, in Detroit on July 25. However, after threats from angry Christians, the owner of the venue scheduled to host the unveiling cancelled the event.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2015/07/christian-terrorists-target-satanic-temples-baphomet-statue/#sthash.8tu84vFD.dpuf

5 American Sex Norms Europeans Probably Think Are Insane

Europeans tend to view us as the land of the free, home of the batshit crazy. Below are some of the biggest sexual WTFs Europeans have about America.
http://www.alternet.org/sex-amp-relationships/5-american-sex-norms-europeans-probably-think-are-insane

China Unveils Plans to Build an 8,000-Mile High-Speed Underwater Railway Line to America

It sounds like an April Fool’s joke, but from what we can tell, the Chinese government is completely serious about their latest high speed rail project. According to multiple news outlets, China plans to build an 8,000+ mile railroad (sounds plausible) connecting China, Russia, Canada, and the U.S. that includes a 125 mile undersea tunnel spanning the Bering Strait! The plan was announced in China’s state-run newspaper, the Beijing Times, and apparently Russia is already on-board with the plan. While it would be nice to travel from China to America in two days without setting foot in a single airport, engineers around the globe are skeptical.
http://inhabitat.com/china-unveils-wacky-idea-to-build-an-8000-mile-high-speed-underwater-railway-line-to-america/

TIL Sweden is so good at recycling that it has run out of rubbish and imports 80,000 tons a year from Norway.

Sweden, a recycling-happy land where a quarter of a million homes are powered by the incineration of waste, is facing a unique dilemma: The nation has run out of much-needed fuel.
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/recycling/blogs/sweden-runs-out-of-garbage-forced-to-import-from-norway

Free book vending machines installed in low-income areas in an attempt to get books into homes.

Now, Jet Blue Airways is launching a pilot program in Southeast D.C. that aims to get books into homes. Starting Wednesday, July 8, their Soar with Reading program will stock three vending machines throughout the area with free books for kids.
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How The Iran Nuclear Deal Could Reshape The Middle East

... What's certain is that the narrow and highly technical negotiations on Iran's nuclear program will influence the much broader trajectory of the Middle East in many ways, large and small. One impact was instant: Oil prices tumbled in response to the prospect of increased Iranian oil on the world market...
http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/07/14/422536452/how-the-iran-nuclear-deal-could-reshape-the-middle-east

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