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Female bloggers have a long, sordid history of harassment on the Web.IPGGutenbergUKLtd/Thinkstock In 2014, while still recovering from a very public spat with Google over SEO marketing techniques that resulted in a brief suspension from Google’s search results and an 80 percent drop in traffic to the site, the lyrics and annotation site Rap…
Three individuals and two LGBT advocacy groups early Monday morning filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the recently passed North Carolina law that nullified local LGBT rights ordinances and restricted transgender people’s access to restrooms. “By singling out LGBT people for disfavored treatment and explicitly writing discrimination against transgender people into state law, H.B….
This article originally appeared on AlterNet. The following is the latest in a new series of articles on AlterNet called Fear in America that launched this March. Read the introduction to the series. When black people wake up and begin the day, we have a wide range of issues we have to think about before leaving our homes. Will a police…
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Beach retreats. Yoga. Visiting reptiles. Or how about a Porsche? In an attempt to keep employees from burning out, some agencies are loosening the tethers of the workplace and piling on the perks. Later this year, new federal labor regulations granting overtime pay to all employees who make less than $50,400 a year are expected…
Photo: AP Nicholas Kristof, a columnist for the New York Times, and always one for public self-flagellation, has whole-heartedly embraced the idea that “we in the media” have “empowered” Donald Trump. This is incorrect. According to a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, barely half of GOP primary voters said that they’d be satisfied with…
Kenneth Harmon—affectionately known on the Internet as Sad Papaw—invited everyone to a giant burger cookout, and unlike his first attempt to cook burgers, everyone showed up this time. As the photo of Harmon staring into his burger spread online earlier this month and grandkids Kelsey and Brock Harmon updated a captive audience, many expressed a…
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A new international trailer for Warcraft has popped up online, finally showing us some magic that will be showcased in the movie. What’s nice about this promo is that it actually seems to suit the world, and after several trailers of hand to hand combat, it’s nice to see that magic will be alive and…
We’ve been enjoying Burger Fiction’s in-depth videos on film, and in light of Batman v Superman’s release this weekend, they’ve released a pair of videos looking at the evolution of each character. Here’s the one for Superman: Here’s the one for Batman: It’s really interesting to see just how the two characters have evolved cinematically…