Archive - June 15th, 2016

How a Conservative-Led Australia Ended Mass Killings

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“I told people all over the country, in town hall meetings, we don’t want to go down the path that America has traveled, […] Eroding those laws now, chipping away at the edges, would be a folly.” – Tasmania’s former premier, Tony Rundle Australia has had no killings of five or more since a 1996 […]

Why I walked out of the House’s moment of silence for Orlando

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“If the House of Representatives had a solitary moral fiber, even a wisp of human empathy, we would spend moments not in silence, but screaming at painful volume the names of the 49 whose bodies were ripped apart in Orlando, and the previous victims and the ones before them. […] “Congress houses the 535 people […]

‘Hundreds’ of masked protesters clash with police in Paris

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Riots in Paris yesterday over changes in labor laws. Protests turned violent in Paris once again as an estimated million people were expected to demonstrate against labour reforms nationwide. via Facebook http://ift.tt/25Xv1Jf through IFTTT

What it’s like to live under North Carolina’s bathroom law if you’re transgender

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“This is a situation where I’m choosing between safety or breaking the law, and I’m going to choose my safety every time.” Going to the bathroom in public makes Payton McGarry nervous now. He’s worried somebody will confront him. Or, worse, attack him. So before he leaves his apartment, he asks himself: “Have I drunk […]