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Reaching Voters: The Effects of Political Ads

Indonesia Miss Transgender crowned in a slap for hard-liners

The Alphabet That Will Save a People From Disappearing

Ant bridges connect shy tropical tree crowns

DIY breast reconstruction: Device lets women do part at home

Catholic Churches Built Secret Astronomical Features Into Churches to Help Save Souls

As people use more emoji, they use fewer emoticons and nonstandard spellings

Inventive Cubans hunt expensive fish using inflated condoms

Stateless limbo ends as 3,000 'legal ghosts' in the Philippines get nationality

Teaching Mandarin: Chinese influence in Kenya’s slums

Watch What Camp Life is Like for Children Who are Allergic to the Sun

What New Yorkers Recall About School Integration Efforts of Earlier Era

The first children’s court was in the East Village

The Heartbreaking History of Divorce

U.S. officials are canceling 15 oil and gas leases in an area bordering Glacier National Park that's considered sacred to the Blackfoot tribes of the U.S. and Canada, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Wednesday.

The Propaganda Kimonos Japan Kept Hidden From Outsiders

These Racist Collectibles Will Make Your Skin Crawl

Chandeliers, marble and propaganda: Inside North Korea's metro system

Drug prices don't budge even after pressure from Congress

Brothers Behind Bars

Hate crimes against Muslims in America soared 67 percent in 2015, according to a new FBI report that also reveals a nearly 7 percent increase in hate crimes overall.

Difficult to foresee how global warming will influence life in oceans and lakes based on existing research

Prisons fight opioids with $1,000 injection: Does it work?

Depression rates growing among adolescents, particularly girls

Report: Cities passing more laws making homelessness a crime

When a Populist Demagogue Takes Power

India’s crackdown in Kashmir: is this the world’s first mass blinding?

Fear, Secrecy and Danger a Way of Life for Afghan Gays

Are Western Journalists Too Afraid to Report the Truth in Turkey?

The girls have some friends over

I just went down to talk to them. "Guys? I'm trying to call our representative here -"

Eva: You mean TRUMP?
Me: No. I do not. I mean our Representative, Donovan. I'm trying to call him to say I'm concerned about the direction our government is going -
Eva and Ana: YOU MEAN TRUMP?
N: I hate that guy!
J: Me too!
Me: Yeah, me three, and I thought I told you kids I don't want to hear that word in this household.
Eva and Ana: You mean... Trump!?
Me: That's the word. Don't say it. Anyway, our representative is a Republican, and it seems we don't agree on anything, so I plan to call him pretty frequently. And I can't have this call getting off on the wrong foot, because I intend to be on a first name basis with him and his staff, so stop screaming.

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Stop Steve Bannon’s Appointment As Trump’s Top Advisor In addition to calling, you should also sign the two petitions. One Two. I'm sure that an online petition is possibly the least effective form of activism, but it's also low-effort. If you're able to get on the internet to read this post you really have no excuse.

The Best Ways to Contact Your Congress People, From a Former Staffer Related video, well worth watching

How Steve Bannon and Breitbart News Can Be Pro-Israel — and Anti-Semitic at the Same Time (Don't read the comments.)

Godwin of Godwin's Law is officially okaying Trump-Hitler comparisons Also

Hillary Clinton’s Popular Vote Victory Will Likely Keep Growing

Sanders backs Trump protests, questions Electoral College

Protesters Take Anti-Trump Message to His Doorstep, and Plan Next Steps

How one deplorable sign at an anti-Trump protest foreshadows the fight over fake news

So we're just going to forget WikiLeaks and Russia helped Trump?

Comey really did elect Trump. Here's the data that shows it.

Yep, race really did Trump economics: A data dive on his supporters reveals deep racial animosity

Why Wall Street Is Suddenly in Love with Trump

Never mind closing Guantanamo, Trump might make it bigger

What Donald Trump’s Vow to Deport Up to 3 Million Immigrants Would Mean

ACLU, other groups report post-election surge of donations

When Trump Takes Control of the Justice Department, Be Afraid

Some disturbing Trump related links, strongly suggest you read

The cracks are already starting to show between Donald Trump and Republicans

GOP senator declares US 'reset' with Russia unacceptable (GO FOR IT, GOP! YOU'VE GOT LOTS OF PRACTICE OPPOSING SO OPPOSE YOUR LITTLE HEARTS OUT!)

How Donald Trump Became Conspiracy Theorist in Chief

Democracy suffers if our news environment incentivizes bullshit

Right-wing vs. progressive populism: How to win in these populist Trump times

‘Yesterday We Were Stunned, Today We Organize’

How Trump Made Hate Intersectional

Japan rubber-mask makers happy to face a Trump presidency

Trump and the demise of the American global order

Why these rural, white, gun-owning guys didn’t vote for Trump

Reflections From Trump’s America

Then again, maybe I shouldn't be so quick to just write off the comments.

Maybe, instead of telling each other not to get involved with trolls, we should spend our efforts asking for organizations with comments sections to make and enforce a comment policy. Maybe we should make it clear that nobody is fooled by arguments about "oh, oh, oh, free speech" and that outright bigotry and poor logic are unacceptable in civilized society.

_{I just don't want to be the only one.}

A huge portion of my backlog are science articles

So I thought I'd post them all in one fell swoop.

New gene-editing technology partially restores vision in blind animals

Distant star is roundest object ever observed in nature

How the Pull of an Icy “Heart” Sent Pluto’s Poles Wandering

Ultra-long acting pill releases daily doses of medicine for a month

New AI algorithm taught by humans learns beyond its training

Words and bones tell a similar story about deep history

Skillful cockatoos able to shape same tool from different materials

Changing views of evolutionary factors at work on earliest mammals

Dinosaur discovery casts light on final flurry of animals' evolution

A new type of atomic bond has been discovered

Female chimpanzees employ babysitters to wean young faster

Gluten May Not Be to Blame for Wheat Sensitivities, Research Shows

Researchers develop way to 'fingerprint' the brain

Depression during pregnancy is associated with abnormal brain structure in children

Traumatic stress changes brains of boys, girls differently

Scientists uncover genetic evidence that 'we are what we eat'

25% of individuals in a Sierra Leone village were infected with the Ebola virus but had no symptoms, suggesting broader transmission of the virus than originally thought.

Coastal erosion study could hold valuable lessons for climate change mitigation

Moral values influence level of climate change action

Climate change already dramatically disrupting all elements of nature

Climate change may prevent volcanoes from cooling the planet

Record growth in atmospheric CO2 despite stable anthropogenic emissions due to weaker sinks

Large-scale wind energy slows down winds and reduces turbine efficiencies

Climate change may be escalating so fast it could be 'game over', scientists warn

Watch the Grim, Ongoing Loss of the Arctic's Historical Ice

If you’re looking for good news about climate change, this is about the best there is right now