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There is no shortage of horrors currently happening at this country’s southern border and at concentration camps around the United States right now. According to the claims of one family, we might have to add “forcing a toddler to choose which parent she wants to not be separated from” to the list. A Honduran couple…
Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley directly addressed President Donald Trump’s most recent racist tirade against them, urging Americans not to “take the bait” and instead come together to do the important business of the nation. “Our squad is big,” Pressley said, using the…
It’s been only a couple of days since President Trump tweeted a racist screed telling four congresswomen of color, three of whom were born in the U.S., to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Since then, Trump has doubled down on his attacks, and many…
Elizabeth Warren relied on a multimillion-dollar Democratic donor to cover the cost of an expensive voter database — a move that risks putting her campaign at odds with the spirit, if not the letter, of the pledge she made to abstain from “big money” fundraising. In February, two months into her presidential campaign, Warren set…
As the suspect was being held at gunpoint by police, he was allegedly updating his Instagram Story with photos of the victim. A low-level Instagram influencer killed his girlfriend and posted photos of her body on social media sites, police said. Brandan Andrew Clark, 21, allegedly killed fellow influencer Bianca Devins, a 17-year-old from Utica,…
What happens when white supremacists on the hate site Stormfront learn that they’re not as white as they thought? Two researchers investigated. ImageMembers of the National Socialist Movement en route to a rally in Little Rock, Ark., last year. A new study looked at white nationalists’ responses to their sometimes surprising DNA test results.CreditCreditJim…
A Subway in Queens.CreditCreditAn Rong Xu for The New York Times Operators say they’ve lost their stores to conflicted managers over petty infractions, like cucumbers sliced too thick and sabotaged meatball bags. A Subway in Queens.CreditCreditAn Rong Xu for The New York Times Manoj Tripathi couldn’t shake the feeling that someone had a vendetta against…
In February 2016, Republican state Sens. Dan Soucek, left, and Brent Jackson review historical maps in an extra session of the North Carolina General Assembly. (Corey Lowenstein / Associated Press) The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the partisan gerrymandering that has allowed Republicans to control power in several closely divided states. A majority ruled that…
In the spring of 2018, I visited the offices of the millennial/Gen-Z-oriented website babe.net, a sunny loft space in Williamsburg, just around the corner from Vice. Babe.net — now shuttered — was then at the frothy peak of its existence. I made sure to wear my coolest pants. The site’s managing editor, Eleni Mitzali, a…
Image: bob al-greene / mashable By Rebecca Ruiz2019-06-21 09:30:00 UTC When burnout comes for you, it’s not subtle. It casts an inexplicable darkness on the most mundane things: driving in traffic, showing up to work on time, filing an expense report. It feels like a weight tied to your waist, stealing any spark of energy…