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My Kid Got an Out-of-School Suspension, And I Couldnt Be Prouder of Him

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ShareTweetPin “Five days of Out of School Suspension (OSS) for beating up the kid that has been tormenting and bullying him since middle school. I know as a parent I’m suppose to be upset with him for resorting to violence or getting suspended, but I’m not. Not even a little bit. For years the school has failed Drew. When this kid has constantly threatened to beat Drew up along with several of his friends, the school did nothing. When this kid followed Drew down the hall threatening him and making…

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This Is How You Love Someone With Anxiety

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By By Someone with anxiety often feels like they are hard to love, like they have to apologize for how their mind works. Therefore, nothing is more comforting, life-affirming, or encouraging than knowing that there is someone by their side who is willing to help them fight the battle, who is willing to show them that they can be loved for who they are. And while it can be difficult for those who suffer from anxiety to ask for that love, and to communicate how they need to be cared…

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Here’s Where To Get All The Super Pretty Spring Starbucks Merch

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TotallyTheBombDotCom/Instagram Here’s Where To Buy Starbucks’ Spring 2020 Cold Cups & Tumblers For A Seasonal Sip By Cianna Garrison March 6, 2020 With spring on the horizon, Starbucks didn’t waste any time giving customers some pastel-colored goods to celebrate the change of season. This year, the brand has its merchandise decked out in pinks, blues, corals, and yellows. Here’s where to buy Starbucks’ spring 2020 cold cups and tumblers to hold your favorite sips. The Starbucks’ spring 2020 collection includes everything from tumblers to ceramic mugs. The goods started rolling…

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Voting Isn’t Business. It’s Personal. | Betches

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It’s been almost five decades since the United Nations first celebrated International Women’s Day, but in the current political climate, it’s taken on new energy and a heightened sense of importance. Every year on March 8th, thought pieces are written, vague assurances are offered, and observance is given to issues that ought to command daily attention, not just a day of attention. At its core, International Women’s Day is an occasion to highlight issues important to women of all backgrounds, across the globe, and, to remind women that if we…

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The Problem With Nice Guy Jesus

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ShareTweetPin You’ve definitely heard it in the songs. Take for instance The Killers, who make Jesus seem like a guy you’d like to bring home to mom & dad: He doesn’t look a thing like Jesus but he talks like a gentleman like you imagined when you were young Think about it for a second…how closely does this line up with the Jesus presented to us in the Bible? -He’s homeless. -He is relatively ugly. Become A Contributor -He’s poor—to the point that women are traveling with & supporting Him.…

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Joaquin Phoenix rescued a cow and her calf one day after Oscars win

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On Feb. 10, he headed down to have a conversation with the head of the slaughterhouse, Anthony Di Maria. Despite clearly different perspectives, Phoenix believes the two were able to become friends. The slaughterhouse already had more gentle guidelines than many others. Di Maria told Phoenix that calves and their mothers are never separated at his facility, and all of his cows die in 60 seconds or less when being harvested. My hope is, as we watch baby Indigo grow up with her mom Liberty at Farm Sanctuary, that well…

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Kamala Harris endorses Joe Biden for president

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(CNN)US Senator and former Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said Sunday she’s endorsing Joe Biden for president, the latest in a series of high-profile announcements from Democrats backing the former vice president. “Kamala — You’ve spent your whole career fighting for folks who’ve been written off and left behind — and no small part of that alongside Beau. From our family: thank you,” the former Vice President said in a retweet of her endorsement. The long-anticipated endorsement from Harris comes as a string of former 2020 presidential contenders have thrown…

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US Soccer says it offered women’s team equal pay for matches under its control

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US Soccer says it has offered the womens national team pay equal to their male counterparts for matches under its control US Soccer says it has offered the womens national team pay equal to their male counterparts for matches under its control, but maintains the womens union wants bonuses for tournaments such as the World Cup to match those of the men. Since extending this offer, we have made multiple attempts to meet with the WNT to discuss these new options, the US Soccer president, Carlos Cordeiro, wrote in a…

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Mike Huckabee’s defense of Trump’s coronavirus response will make you nauseous

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Amid criticisms of President Donald Trumps handling of the coronavirus outbreak, his proxies are resorting to increasingly bizarre ways to defend him. Trump has been criticized for letting politics, not science, dictate his administrations response to the virus thats quickly spreading across the globe. Trump has contradicted his own health officials in public statements about coronavirus and put (non-medical doctor) Vice President Mike Pence in charge of the outbreak and made him a gatekeeper for communications about it. Meanwhile, a whistleblower has claimed that federal health employees who interacted with…

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The US is deporting a Tennessee man who was an armed guard at a Nazi concentration camp

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(CNN)A US immigration judge has ordered a Tennessee resident, who served as an armed guard at a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, be deported to Germany. Prisoners were held in “atrocious conditions and were exploited for outdoor forced labor, working to the point of exhaustion and death,” Holt and the court found. The judge also found, and Berger admitted, that he “guarded prisoners to prevent them from escaping during their dawn-to-dusk workday, and on their way to the worksites and also on their way back to the subcamp…

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Big meditation money, new VC funds, and how do you value Airbnb?

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Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. After having a good time with NEA’s Rick Yang last week, we thought we’d bring on another venture capitalist. So this week Danny and I had Elliott Robinson from Bessemer swing over for the show. As it turned out, he was about as correct as guest as possible as not only did the topics of the week line up with where he invests, he’s also friends with some of the folks that we…

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