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Month: January 2020

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Men, Stop Trying To Tell Us How To Be Women

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Olayemi Olurin Updated January 12, 2020 Felix Uresti Olayemi Olurin Updated January 12, 2020 Felix Uresti Lately, all I have been seeing is men giving advice to women and writing articles directed at women, all of which keep taking the form of lectures to women about how we dress, how scantily clad we are allowed to be, how we should feel about ourselves, how to be women, what makes us worthy of male attention, who we have sex with, how many people we have sex with, how men feel about…

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Video From Jeffrey Epsteins First Suicide Try Destroyed, Feds Admit

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In the latest screw up in Jeffrey Epsteins death case, federal officials revealed Thursday that video of the cell where the pedophile reportedly made his Epsteins death while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges. The corrections officers who were supposed to be checking on Epstein every 30 minutes were charged in November with failing to do so and falsifying prison records to make it look like they had. Attorney General William Barr has said he personally reviewed security video that shows no one entered Epsteins area the night of…

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Meghan Markle plans to move to Los Angeles only after Trump leaves office, report

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FILE – In this Tuesday Jan. 7, 2020 file photo Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex leave after visiting Canada House in London after their recent stay in Canada. In a stunning declaration, Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, said they are planning “to step back” as senior members of the royal family and “work to become financially independent.” A statement issued by the couple Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020 also said they intend to “balance” their time between the U.K. and North America. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, FILE)…

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As DraftKings finds an exit, a reminder of what could have been

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Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today the big news that falls into our orbit is about DraftKings, a sports betting service focused on fantasy sports that will go public via a reverse merger. Not too long ago DraftKings and its erstwhile rival FanDuel were ubiquitous on television; now the two are fractions of what they once were. Let’s chat about what went wrong and what’s next. The ascent Both DraftKings and FanDuel raised modest sums…

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30 Thought-Provoking Digital Illustrations That Expose The Flaws Of Our Modern Society

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Art has recently grown into a relatively strong medium to convey critique. Whether it’s of the way we live our lives, the way “things are done” in our society, or the way we abuse the planet (or abuse each other). In a world where a single picture can tell a thousand words—how information is much more consumed via imagery rather than language—art turns out to be an effective way to understand the scope of an issue and to call for change. This is the trajectory that artist and illustrator Davide…

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Obama watches ‘Fleabag,’ which means he saw THAT scene

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Former President Barack Obama shared his list of favorite movies and TV shows from 2019, and one, in particular, has caught the attention of . , as listed in Obamas tweet, has become well known as the one with the hot priest. But in most cases, if you watched season 2, you watched season 1. And if you watched season 1, you probably remember that a few minutes into the pilot episode, Phoebe Waller-Bridges character gets caught by her boyfriend masturbating to Obama giving a speech. ok i'm gonna try…

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Inside the US prison where inmates ‘begged for their lives’ amid days of violence

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In a system marked by racism and neglect, five inmates died this month. Prisoners and families demand urgent reform People were begging for their lives as they were stabbed, said Kelly Mallett, as his gaze drifted. There were fires being set. Trash everywhere. Rats. Roaches. It was just total chaos. The 44-year-old is a former inmate at Mississippis crumbling state penitentiary at Parchman, part of a sprawling, century-old prison farm complex in the north of the state. He had only been free for two days and was the first eyewitness…

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Fox News reporter posts years-old photo of Iranian graffiti thanking Trump

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A Fox News producer tweeted out a photo of Arabic graffiti that supposedly shows Iranian support for President Donald Trump. After a military strike killed Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani on Thursday, Iranian protesters took to the streets to mourn Soleimani. However, Yonat Friling, from Fox News, portrayed support for Trumps decision in Iran with a tweet on Friday. From Tehran this morning graffiti says Thank you Trump. (Source protected), @Foxyonat tweeted. Her tweet has since been deleted. @Foxyonat The image; however, has a few suspicious qualities. First, this…

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The Oscar nominations are a bit mixed up – just like a movie industry that’s in transition

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(CNN)If the “snubs” and oversights feel a little more acute and arbitrary with the latest round of Oscar nominations, blame that in part on a year that produced an abundance of good movies, and few genuinely great ones. Both “The Irishman” and “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” are fine movies. For many, however, each paled next to signature works by the directors responsible for them — “Irishman,” another mob drama, falling short of Martin Scorsese’s “Goodfellas,” while “Once Upon a Time” is arguably the fourth or fifth best…

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Police Searching For Suspect Who Killed 10 Seagulls After Luring Them With Popcorn – Perez Hilton

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The world is a sick place sometimes. Police in Maryland were left dismayed by a case of animal cruelty after someone allegedly lured seagulls to a local parking lot with popcorn and proceeded to purposefully run them over with their vehicle. Laurel police Cpl. Laura Wilson said to FOX 5 DC: “I was shocked. I heard the call come out through our dispatchers, and you have that moment and you’re like, is this really a call? Am I going to this right now? And I get there, and the sight…

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112 Stars And Exoplanets Named In Huge Worldwide Campaign

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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently ran an incredibly popular naming campaign where 780,000 people worldwide participated in naming exoplanets and host stars as part of the 100th anniversary of the IAU. The NameExoWorld initiative previously took place in 2015 when 31 exoplanets were given proper names. The IAU wanted to go bigger this year and get even more countries involved. A total of 112 countries participated, proposing names that were then voted on by the general public. Overall, 360,000 names were proposed and each national committee prepared a shortlist. The…

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112 Stars And Exoplanets Named In Huge Worldwide Campaign

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The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recently ran an incredibly popular naming campaign where 780,000 people worldwide participated in naming exoplanets and host stars as part of the 100th anniversary of the IAU. The NameExoWorld initiative previously took place in 2015 when 31 exoplanets were given proper names. The IAU wanted to go bigger this year and get even more countries involved. A total of 112 countries participated, proposing names that were then voted on by the general public. Overall, 360,000 names were proposed and each national committee prepared a shortlist. The…

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California’s wildfire risk keeps getting worse. Now a decade of blackouts lie ahead

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The states 2019 fire season was relatively mild, but included nine public safety power shutoffs. Is it making the system safer? In 2019, millions of Californians experienced a wildfire safety blackout, some for nearly a week at a time, as the troubled utility company Pacific Gas & Electric and other investor-owned utilities grappled with replacing one devastating disaster with another, comparatively manageable one. 2019 was not an anomaly, but the beginning of a new way of life for many California residents. While de-energization for fire safety has been state policy…

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