Ever since Chelsea Manning was revealed as the whistleblower responsible for one of the most important journalistic archives in history, her heroism has been manifest. She was the classic leaker of conscience, someone who went at the age of 20 to fight in the Iraq War believing it was noble, only to discover the dark reality not only of that war ( Read more... )

[tldr:Using his own misogyny and ignorance against him Clinton and her Team  "turned in a truly effective and ruthless performance"  sparking meltdowns that he carried on for weeks, and basically succeeding where none of the male GOP candidates failed.]

Hillary Clinton’s 3 debate performances left the Trump campaign in ruins

Donald Trump didn't ( Read more... )

Bernie Sanders tweet sends shares of Ariad Pharmaceuticals down 15%

Drug corporations' greed is unbelievable. Ariad has raised the price of a leukemia drug to almost $199,000 a year. https://t.co/EB4nEPxP2G
- Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) October 14, 2016

The stock ended the day down about 14.8 percent at $11.14 a share ( Read more... )

Vice President Joe Biden penned an open letter to the Stanford sexual assault survivor who read a powerful message to her assailant in court detailing the effects of his actions on her.

Her letter has since been read by millions of people and has drawn attention to the judge’s six-month sentence for Brock Turner - the champion swimmer who was ( Read more... )

Pope Francis issued a blistering critique Monday of the Vatican bureaucracy that serves him, denouncing how some people lust for power at all costs, live hypocritical double lives and suffer from "spiritual Alzheimer's" that has made them forget they're supposed to be joyful men of God.

( total burn, Pope Francis-style )

Since bursting onto the big screen with her Oscar-winning breakthrough performance in '12 Years A Slave', Lupita Nyong'o quickly became the world's sweetheart. And a very stylish one at that ( Read more... )

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Nate Silver, the statistician who attained national fame for his accurate projections about the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, is parting ways with The New York Times and moving his FiveThirtyEight franchise to ESPN, the sports empire controlled by the Walt Disney Company, according to ESPN employees with direct knowledge of his plans ( Read more... )

Last week the US Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as between a man and a woman. But same-sex marriage has been possible in some states since 2004 - and one gay couple even craftily obtained a marriage licence more than 40 years ago.


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Sierra DeMulder, finalist in the 2013 Women of the World Poetry Slam, performs during the one minute round in WOWPS prelims in Minneapolis, Minnesota with a searing blast of Michele Bachmann.

I transcribed it so you can follow along. You'll probably be watching more than once.

( Your husband owns a clinic that offers to cure homosexuality for up to $10,000 a year... )