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If you live with a cat, you live with a weirdo: your tales of feline oddityWe asked readers for the strangest things their beloved feline companions do
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To end the refugee crisis, we need more than grief. We need to see we're brokenIt’s emotional voyeurism when we fail to care beyond being sad for the victims of the tragedies that our governments helped create and which we all ignored
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Kim Davis's denial of same-sex marriage licenses is not what Jesus would doWhile Jesus opened himself to be changed by people who were different, the Rowan County clerk is using religion as a social bludgeon
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How dare Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer be her own woman about having babies!So Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer is only taking two weeks’ maternity leave? That’s her business
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Why are the baby boomers desperate to make millennials hate ourselves?New statistics from the Pew research centre show the youngest workers have totally internalised the messaging of the luckiest generation in human history
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To cast Paula Deen on Dancing With the Stars is to condone her racismThe decision to give airtime and attention to an unapologetically racist celebrity proves that, to those who make decisions on US TV, black lives don’t matter
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Your guilt trip won't stop gentrificationInstead of feeling paralyzed, gentrifiers should support local tenants advocacy and homeless services groups
#FergusonNext
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'Things will never be the same': the oral history of a new civil rights movementOne year ago, the world turned to Ferguson. From mourning emerged a coalition of activists proclaiming that black lives matter and fighting for life and love. The Guardian spoke to 18 leaders about what has changed and what has not ... yet
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Why Bernie Sanders' run-in with Black Lives Matter activists made me squirmGrassroots activists are pushing their way through spaces and forcing conversation. That makes us all a little tense but that’s the whole point, isn’t it?
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Cops ignore me because I have light skin. That just reaffirms their racismIf police officers were really good at their jobs, not so quick to target darker-skinned men, they would be coming after me, too
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Hurricane Katrina proved that if black lives matter, so must climate justiceThe environmental justice and Black Lives Matter movements are complementary. We can’t afford to choose between the two
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Why laptops are mightier than gunsIn West Baltimore, young men are swapping weapons for a chance to become technologically savvy and learn skills that will help them find work
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When the media misrepresents black men, the effects are felt in the real worldWe need a nuanced narrative of African-American men, as well as black history, culture and life in America. We are individuals, not types
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Steven W ThrasherSteven W ThrasherJohn Kasich wants to take lounges away from teachers. He is just the latest Republican to make an enemy of America’s educatorsRepublicans' deep hatred for teachers can't be denied and they're not trying
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Jess ZimmermanJess ZimmermanMost of our books and movies set in the future are dystopian, which makes it hard to work toward something betterThe future is grim, insists our culture — so why build a brighter one?
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Jeb LundJeb LundThe candidate who wants to deny the science behind male-pattern baldness more than the science behind climate change isn’t in it to win itWhen you're as bad at campaigns as Scott Walker, you should just give up
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Syreeta McFaddenSyreeta McFaddenRacism and capitalism are fire and air - one cannot exist without the other but many progressives can’t see thatBernie Sanders must show he takes race as seriously as class struggle
Rentboy.com was closed because the government thinks I need to be saved
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