LGBTQ activists document how they translated oppression into “joyous” rebellion in a trailer for Generation Woodstock, an upcoming ABC News special about the late Sixties counterculture movement that spawned both the titular music festival and the Stonewall Uprising. “I had worked late that night, walked up Christopher Street, and I …
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Even as cannabis usage is increasingly legalized and destigmatized in the U.S., there’s still little knowledge of how the drug is used by or affects several population groups — including new parents. To coincide with Mother’s Day, the online women‘s cannabis lifestyle magazine Miss Grass released the results of a …
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WNYC Studios has launched a new podcast, The Stakes, that will offer deep dives into various social issues, from queer politics to the state of democracy, how the status quo came to be and what might be done to drive further change. WNYC host and managing editor Kai Wright will …
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“People think I’m a nasty piece of work,” Ralph Steadman claims. That’s because of how his satirically morbid illustrations brought Hunter S. Thompson’s gonzo acid trips to life and captured the atrocities of the Nixon era, such as when he depicted the president’s face melting and rotting on the cover …
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Allison Mack, the Smallville actress implicated in the NXIVM sex cult case, pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering and one count of racketeering conspiracy at a Brooklyn federal court on Monday. In court, Mack tearfully said that she took “full responsibility for [her] conduct” as the alleged second-in-command of …
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TikTok is the first buzzy app to make me feel really, truly old, which sucks for more reasons than the growing realizations that come with aging: TikTok is simply unavoidable now. If you’re on Twitter, you probably see the app’s Vine-like videos retweeted on your timeline at least once a …
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Jake Patterson, the man accused of abducting 13-year-old Jayme Closs and murdering her parents, pleaded guiltyduring a court appearance on Wednesday. Patterson, 21, pled guilty to two counts of homicide and one count of abducting a minor. According to investigators, Patterson developed an obsession with Closs after he spotted her …
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An astonishing new report inThe Atlantichas revealed the alleged existence of a decades-old database of accused pedophiles within Jehovah’s Witnesses, asect of Christianity with more than 1.2 million members in the United States. The database, which has reportedly been kept for decades, contains up to tens of thousands of names …
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Nonconsensual porn, otherwise known as “revenge porn,” is a fairly widespread phenomenon, and research shows that its psychological effects can be devastating: according to one study, 80 to 93 percent of revenge porn survivors report struggling with paranoia, anger and shame after their nude photos or videos are posted without …
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The nation is going through a marijuana revolution, but officials throughout the federal government continue to live in the prohibitionist, anti-drug eras of ages past. But that’s no longer good enough for many lawmakers on Capitol Hill. A bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives are increasing pressure on the Food …
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