Publication: AlterNet.org

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Ted Cruz against the world

One bonus for Republicans in the trifecta of pseudo-scandals ensnaring the Obama White House this month is that it distracted the party from its looming civil war. It’s even possible that the Senate immigration reform got as far as it did partly because ... [Published AlterNet.org - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Ted Cruz, Republican Party (US), John McCain

First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton memoir shows up on Amazon

It'll be the best beach read of 2014.Hillary Clinton's untitled new memoir, to be released June 1, 2014, now has its own Amazon page where fans of the former Secretary of State can preorder the book at a steep discount from the hardcover list price ... [Published AlterNet.org - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Hillary Clinton, Simon & Schuster

First reported 12 hours ago - Updated 12 hours ago - 1 reports

No women allowed: Summer music festivals are dudefests, again

Texas had just shaken off the last bits of a chilly spring. The elegant Austin City Limits Live’s Moody Theatre was packed in anticipation of a concert by the hot French band Phoenix. Producer Terry Lickona took the stage to give the customary warnings ... [Published AlterNet.org - 12 hours ago]

Entities: Austin, Lionel Richie, Pre-emption

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

The Family Research Council's sad attempt to attach gay equality to the DOJ leak story

This is just pathetic. Apparently the Family Research Council is attempting to attach gay equality to the Department of Justice leak story:When the Justice Department is done violating journalists' First Amendment rights, it looks like they'll move on ... [Published AlterNet.org - May 23 2013]

Entities: Gay, Equality, Homosexuality, LGBT

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Is recreational pot use safe?

Marijuana is more popular and accessible in the U.S. than any other street drug. In national surveys, 48 percent of Americans say they have tried it, and 6.5 percent of high school seniors admit to daily use. So it was not too surprising when two states, ... [Published AlterNet.org - May 23 2013]

Entities: Tetrahydrocannabinol, Cannabis, Receptor, Paul Armentano, Molecule

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Exxon Mobil Corporation

Lawsuit alleges anti-gay hiring practices at ExxonMobil

A lawsuit filed by the advocacy group Freedom to Work alleges that ExxonMobil discriminated against a prospective employee because the individual was gay.After the oil and gas giant failed to adopt a nondiscrimination policy that included protections ... [Published AlterNet.org - May 23 2013]

Entities: Exxon Mobil Corporation, Allegation, Anti-Gay

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Teenagers care more about online privacy than you think

The latest round of research on teenagers and digital privacy is out, this time in the form of a joint study by the Pew Research Center and the Berkman Center for Internet Society. The results of the study are similar to the results of past studies on ... [Published AlterNet.org - May 23 2013]

Entities: Internet Society, Pew Research Center, Cellphone

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Why do men pretend to be women online?

Breaking: Sometimes men pretend to be women online!This shocking revelation comes courtesy of Markus Frind, founder of the immensely popular dating site Plenty of Fish, who explained his reason for shutting down the site's casual sex section by announcing ... [Published AlterNet.org - May 22 2013]

Entities: Cyberspace, hypothesis, Sex

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

The camp-free “Behind the Candelabra”

The most impressive thing about “Behind the Candelabra,” Steven Soderbergh’s much-anticipated HBO film co-starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon as the flamboyant pianist Liberace and his young lover, Scott Thorson, respectively, is what it is not: campy. ... [Published AlterNet.org - May 22 2013]

Entities: Scott Thorson, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Actually, Beyoncé is a feminist

Who run the world? If entertainment domination is the litmus test, then all hail Queen Bey. Beyoncé. She who, in the last few months alone, whipped her golden lace-front and shook her booty fiercely enough to zap the power in the Superdome (electrical ... [Published AlterNet.org - May 22 2013]

Entities: Feminism, Home Box Office Inc, Inequality

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation

On an oppressively hot evening last May, David Cornsilk addressed a room of so-called “black Indians” at Gilcrease Hills Baptist Church in northwest Tulsa. He wore a leather-braided bolo tie clasped by an emerald quartz. Though Cornsilk never formally ... [Published AlterNet.org - May 22 2013]

Entities: David Cornsilk, Tulsa, Quartz

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Snapchat is secretly storing your photos

We all knew it was too good to be true. Snapchat, the photo-texting app designed to delete your pictures soon after they’re received, is supposed to be a completely safe way to send naughty pics to your significant other without consequences.But for $300 ... [Published AlterNet.org - May 22 2013]

Entities: Forensics, Richard Hickman, Decrypt, Android, Smartphone

Quotes

...He told users that the "Intimate Encounters" section "can be summed up as a bunch of horny men talking to a bunch of horny men pretending to be women." Of course, I'm kidding about this being surprising news. Isn't it, like, Rule No. 1 of the Internet?

Why do men pretend to be women online? [Published AlterNet.org - May 22 2013]

...then decides she would like to have a child and someone donates sperm and she gives birth to a child, is that child heir to the throne?" he asked. "It’s like one of my colleagues said: We've got to make these same-sex marriages available to all. It would lift my worries about (the) inheritance tax because maybe I'd be allowed to marry my son. Why not? Why shouldn't a mother marry her daughter? Why shouldn’t two elderly sisters living together marry each other?"

UK leader fears sperm-donor lesbian queen! [Published AlterNet.org - May 21 2013]

...The Pioneer-Press reports Monday that an anti-bullying bill has been withdrawn "after Republicans said they planned 10 hours of debate on the issue."

GOP actually bullies an anti-bullying bill [Published AlterNet.org - May 20 2013]

...In a statement on the parts per million number hitting 400, 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben said, quote, "The only question now is whether the relentless rise in carbon can be matched by a relentless rise in the activism necessary to stop it."

Climate Tipping Point? Concentration of Carbon Dioxide Tops 400 ppm for First Time in Human History [Published AlterNet.org - May 13 2013]

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