Op-Ed
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“Five conservative Republican men serving on the Supreme Court, led by a chief justice who has violated 200 years of judicial precedent, despite pledging under oath during his confirmation hearings to respect judicial precedent, are waging a legal war of mass destruction against core principles of American democracy . . .” — Brent Budowsky Editorial from…
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Right-wingnuts bless progressives
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6 min read
“The Republican base is driving the party toward a political agenda that makes its candidates increasingly unelectable for national and statewide offices.” — Howard Dean, former Vermont Governor, the preceding Chair of the Democratic National Committee, and founder of Democracy in Action, speaking to Politico Magazine We spent the entire year before the 2008 presidential election,…
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MSNBC’s Toure: Can a man be a feminist, too?
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2 min read
We were so happy to hear Toure, one of the anchors of MSNBC’s The Cycle, talk about a favorite topic of ours: men can and should ascribe to feminism. The battle for any identity group’s liberation cannot and should not proceed solely with members of that group, and it never does. Not only is feminism…
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Supreme Court: Don’t F#ck it up
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3 min read
Congressional Clarity: Americans United, Allies Deliver Briefing on Hobby Lobby Suit “Should the Supreme Court rule in favor of Hobby Lobby, employers would be able to privilege their religious convictions over their employees’ – something we consider to be an egregious distortion of the principle of religious liberty” — Litigation Counsel, Greg Lipper, Americans United for…
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Super-hero Holder calls out Boy Scouts
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3 min read
Last week, we lamented the flagrant hypocrisy of newly appointed Boy Scouts President, Robert Gates (former Bush and Obama Defense Secretary) in failing to step up to resolve the organization’s dislocation when it comes to accepting gay scoutmasters. Last year, after public pressure, the Boy Scouts finally reversed a century of discrimination against gay people with a…
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New “SecureDrop” is a game changer
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3 min read
Guardian Launches SecureDrop System for Whistleblowers to Share Files We took to Facebook the other day, so thrilled to see that The Guardian has just launched something called SecureDrop for use by anonymous whistleblowers to securely submit documents and data. Our first reaction? This . . . will be a real game-changer. Game-changer really understates…
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Jamie Raskin, law professor and Maryland State Senator, is trying in vain to explain to the luddites in Congress why free speech shouldn’t cover things like bribery to politicians, recently okayed by the US Supreme Court in several rulings. He wisely invokes prostitution to get their attention, to show the context of free speech, but…
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A Manifesto For The New Age of Sexual Freedom
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7 min read
Editor’s note: republishing it by popular demand … The New Age of Sexual Freedom is synonymous with the end of sexism and racism (the greatest form of sexual oppression), and the end of nationalism for the purposes of war (the greatest form of racism), in the shortest amount of time (because we are killing each other). One of our…
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A Gentleman’s Guide to Rape Culture We are so grateful to author and actor Zaron Burnett (@zaron3) and Medium (@medium) for bringing his essay that puts misogyny and rape culture in a feminist perspective. It is a must-read for every young (and old) man, women too. It continues the important conversation that has finally (and…