The Spindown with Julie Jurgens

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John Boyega Bought Some Insane Things with His Star Wars Money  

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Damn mouthpiece is on backwards. 

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unrequited friend zone

Why is is men get “friend zoned” and women suffer from “unrequited love”? Aren’t they experiencing the exact same situation and feelings–they love and desire a person who doesn’t love and desire them back?

The difference I think is that men are conditioned to believe they deserve to get what they want, and women are conditioned to believe the opposite.

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2008 was a better time…

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That one time the whole nation got rickrolled but no one was mad about it bless

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#I KEEP TELLING PEOPLE THIS HAPPENED#AND THEY NEVER BELIEVE M E

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OH YES this was BEAUTIFUL

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Happy 8-year anniversary to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade that got Rickrolled

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A cover concept I proposed for our ‘15 release on writing, The Anatomy of Curiosity.

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Every year, 550,000 women in America require medical attention after an assault by a boyfriend or husband. That’s an issue that is belatedly being addressed through screenings under Obamacare, which Trump wants to repeal, and by the Violence Against Women Act, which a large bloc of Republicans opposed in Congress. Trump’s concern about such assaults seems dubious, and in fact both he and his campaign C.E.O., Steve Bannon, have been accused of domestic violence themselves. Since he never held public office, Trump lacks a voting record. But his running mate has tended to look at what might help women and do the opposite, including voting against equal-pay legislation. Mike Pence also signed a bizarre anti-abortion bill as Indiana’s governor requiring burial or cremation even of tissue from an early miscarriage. That led women to form a Facebook group, Periods for Pence, and announce their periods, just in case they might be miscarriages.

What Donald Trump Is Right About - The New York Times

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Wow, Merriam-Webster just murdered a senior editor at Slate.

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Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) 

Horse head. Sketch for “Guernica”, May 2, 1937

Oil on canvas, 65 x 92 cm

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IT ME

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The Classics - JAZZ ICONS

Music and style - Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra and Chet Baker

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Kim Novak shopping for books, Los Angeles, 1956

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Novak reads.

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Pablo Neruda, born on this day in 1904. Read his work at Poets.org.

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Many of these examples—particularly the points about custody inequities and conscription—are popular with men's rights activists. MRAs tend to deploy the arguments as evidence that men are oppressed by women and, especially, by feminists. Yet, what's striking about instances of sexism against men is how often the perpetrators are not women but other men. The gendercides in Serbia and Rwanda were committed against men, not by feminists, but by other men. Prison rape is, again, overwhelmingly committed by men against other men—with (often male) prison officials sitting by and shrugging. Conscription in the U.S. was implemented overwhelmingly by male civilian politicians and military authorities, not by women. Even in cases where women clearly benefit from sexism, it's generally not the case that women, as a class, are the ones doing the discriminating. Neither alimony nor custody discussions are central to current feminist theory or current feminist pop cultural discussions. Thereis no ideological feminist commitment to either of these discussions in the way there is to, say, abortion rights, or workplace equity. On the contrary, the alimony and custody inequities we have at the moment seem mostly based, not on progressive feminism, but rather on the reactionary image of female domesticity that feminism has spent most of the last 60-odd years fighting against. When men suffer from sexism, then, they do so in much the same way women do.

When Men Experience Sexism - The Atlantic

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WHY DO INNOCENT PEOPLE CONFESS? The reasons that people falsely confess are complex and varied, but what they tend to have in common is a belief that complying with the police by saying that they committed the crime in question will be more beneficial than continuing to maintain their innocence. The factors that can contribute to a false confession during a police interrogation include: duress coercion intoxication diminished capacity mental impairment ignorance of the law fear of violence the actual infliction of harm the threat of a harsh sentence misunderstanding the situation Confessions obtained from juveniles are often unreliable -- children can be easy to manipulate and are not always fully aware of their situation. People with mental disabilities have often falsely confessed because they are tempted to accommodate and agree with authority figures. Further, many law enforcement interrogators are not given any special training on questioning suspects with mental disabilities. An impaired mental state due to mental illness, drugs or alcohol may also elicit false admissions of guilt. Mentally capable adults also give false confessions due to a variety of factors like the length of interrogation, exhaustion or a belief that they can be released after confessing and prove their innocence later.

False Confessions or Admissions — The Innocence Project

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Strangely, the most tragic figure in all of this isn’t Mr. Avery, it’s his then-16-year-old nephew Brendan Dassey. Mr. Dassey became a key figure in the prosecution’s case after the high school junior gave a statement saying he not only walked in on Mr. Avery standing over Ms. Halbach chained to a bed, but then participated in the woman’s rape and eventual murder. It seems pretty cut and dry until you get to the end of episode three, which is as horrifying and haunting as any piece of television in years. With nary a parent or lawyer in sight, investigators Mark Wiegert and Tom Fassbender take Mr. Dassey out of school and get a confession so coerced it’s actually sickening. It’s all filmed, so we get to watch as a 16-year-old with an IQ of 69 throws his life away completely because he’s too intimidated to tell the truth.

‘Making a Murderer’ is an Actual American Horror Story, More Haunting than ‘The Jinx’ | | Observer

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Eartha Kitt. Photographed by Gordon Parks. (1952)

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EARTHA KITT WITH KITTENS THERE IS NOTHING MORE PERFECT. 

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John Berryman and Robert Lowell reading at the Guggenheim Museum on Halloween, 1963—the first public reading of Berryman’s Dream Songs.

Find out more and listen to audio from the reading at Poets.org.

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