Her Thoughtful Spot

Nevertheless, she persisted

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A tweet from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez convinced me I've been using the wrong word to describe waitresses. Here's why I'll never call them 'u

Economists say low-paying work is a result of a high supply of non-college educated workers — not because the work isn't hard.

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MS-13 Was Born in the USA

Trump is using the gangs to justify turning people away from our borders who will then be murdered by gangs that began here and are mostly f

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Why Did Jake Tapper Invite a Nazi on CNN — but Not the Last Living Nuremberg Prosecutor?

What Happens When a Society Gives its Nazis a Voice, but Ignores Those Who Brought Them to Justice?

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Also Apple Bees, Outback Steakhouse, Urban Outfitters, Coachella

Sources (x/x/x/x/x/x/x)

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Friendly reminder that under Trump, multiple food safety regulations have been removed or relaxed so that corporations like these can cut corners and increase profits by putting both customers and employees at risk of harm. Especially the poor, which have always been considered an expendable resource by capitalists anyway.

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BEHOLD

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I’m a Journalist but I Didn’t Fully Realize the Terrible Power of U.S. Border Officials Until They Violated My Rights and Privacy

I complacently assumed that CBP’s horrendous treatment of migrants wouldn’t affect me directly, least of all in Austin, the city where I was

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Black Poverty Is Rooted in Real-Estate Exploitation

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Bones discovered in an island cave may be a new human species

The group of human species includes Neanderthals, ourselves and, scientists say, a unusual sort of oddball named Homo luzonensis.

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Female dragonflies fake their own deaths to avoid males harassing them for sex

Scientists observed female dragonflies stopping mid-air, falling to the ground and lying motionless until the male had gone.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Coming for Your Hamburgers!

David Remnick writes on Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the unrelenting criticism of her and her audacious policies by the Repub

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A pre-Civil War battle over segregated trains and the forgotten Northern origins of Jim Crow

An early civil rights struggle in Massachusetts featuring a young Frederick Douglass

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Scientist who resisted censorship of climate report lost her job

Climate change scientist Maria Caffrey led a trailblazing study outlining the risks of rising seas at national parks.

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Between Brock Turner and Brett Kavanaugh, when do girls matter?

Did Brett Kavanaugh try to rape a 15-year-old girl when he was seventeen? Did he drag her into a bedroom, hold her down on a bed, grind on h

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