Category: Climate
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
CAN JAMES MATTIS STOP TRUMP’S TRANSGENDER BAN IN THE MILITARY? Regardless of the study’s finding, as of March 23, 2018, Trump’s order will roll back President Barack Obama’s June 2016 policy that allows transgendered troops to serve openly. All money going to fund sex reassignment surgery for service members will be stopped by that date,…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Phoenix police fire tear gas at anti-Trump protesters Thousands in Phoenix decry president as he holds the first event since deadly white supremacist violence in Charlottesville. #TrumpRally#Phoenix#PoliceState#Politics Brazil scraps Amazon reserve to allow mining The government of Brazil has abolished a vast national reserve bigger than the size of Denmark to open the…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
America Fixates On 500 Assholes Instead Of Healing Its Own Institutional Racism “The excuses are endless as to why the possibility of slavery reparations shouldn’t even be subject to mainstream debate, let alone actually tried. As soon as you suggest that liberals put their money where their mouth is because screaming at Nazis every once…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Majority of Women Say Their Interest In Politics Has Increased Since Election For the majority of the country, the election of Trump is still stressful to talk about. The poll found that 59 percent of the country feels it’s “stressful and frustrating” to talk about politics with people who don’t share their opinion of Trump.…
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Trump Faces ‘Uncomfortable Conversations’ With World Leaders at G20 Summit “The G20 agenda is set for some uncomfortable conversations,” Charles Kupchan, a Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow, told NBC News. “It will be dominated by climate change, by free trade, by immigration, and these are issues where Trump is — more or less —…
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The Week In Stories Around the Globe
Kids have been using Trump’s name and words to bully classmates Students have threatened their classmates with deportation, chanted Trump’s name or “white power” at minority students, paraded Confederate flags and spray-painted racial slurs and swastikas at schools around the country. #Trump#Bullying#America#UnitedStates#Bigotry The shocking UK election results explained “The result, then, is that May’s gamble…
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Noose found at exhibit in African-American Smithsonian Museum “The noose has long represented a deplorable act of cowardice and depravity — a symbol of extreme violence for African Americans. Today’s incident was a painful reminder of the challenges that African Americans continue to face,’’ Lonnie Bunch III, the museum’s founding director, said in a statement.…
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The Evolved Man of the Week: Ani Yahzid
Welcome to the Evolving Man Project’s ‘Evolved Man of the Week’ profiles. Each week we will highlight an individual that embodies what it means to be an evolved man, famous and non-famous men alike. The world needs to know their stories and deeds. This week’s honor goes to Atlanta native, filmmaker, photographer, musician, and current…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH IN WASHINGTON, DC. HOW THE HELL ARE PEOPLE AFFORDING IT? “Does everybody have a roommate? Is everybody rich? Is everybody rich and white? Who the fuck lives in DC right now? How is a city full of government workers and millennials trying to make a difference also full of…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
The free press is in really bad shape around the world. A new report says populism is to blame. A key explanation for this is the rise of populism around the world, the report’s authors say. They write, “discrediting the media is the preferred weapon of those who are ‘anti-system.’ ” So outsider candidates such…
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