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  1. “Take On Me” but it keeps getting faster.<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Feminist Groups Are Right to Rally Against the Brock Turner-Inspired Crime Bill<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. The TSA is a waste of money that doesn’t save lives and might actually cost them – Vox<\/a>
    \nWhen more people choose to drive, the result is more automobile deaths – in exchange for which, we’re not actually any safer while flying.<\/li>\n
  4. The Truth About the Biggest U.S. Sex Trafficking Story of the Year – Reason.com<\/a>
    \nVery long read, and the accompanying photos – cheesy pin-ups of Asian women – were a bad choice. But it really does appear that a “sex trafficking” bust was actually the police and the press ginning up a sex slavery story out of consensual sex work, and making things worse for sex workers in the process.<\/li>\n
  5. Thoughts On Victim-Blaming Rape Survivors | Thing of Things<\/a> and the followup post: Why Everyone Is Irrational About Victim-Blaming and Rape.<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Elizabeth Warren Asks Newly Chatty FBI Director to Explain Why DOJ Didn\u2019t Prosecute Banksters<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. How The University Of New Hampshire Chose To Waste An Alum’s $4m Gift<\/a>
    \nAnswer: A million-dollar football scoreboard.<\/li>\n
  8. BBC – Future – The benefits of having a babyface<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Why Color-Blindness Is a Counterproductive Ideology – The Atlantic<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Italy grapples with suicide of woman taunted over online sex video | World news | The Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. This crossword puzzle, with several clues with more than one right answer, is really neat.<\/a><\/li>\n
  12. [re]Assignment review: gender-switching hitman thriller is staggering misfire | Film | The Guardian<\/a>
    \nThis transphobic b-film with a bewilderingly good cast might be the year’s worst film.<\/li>\n
  13. Did You Know We Are Having the Largest Prison Strike in History? Probably Not, Because Most of the Media Have Ignored It | Alternet<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Chelsea Manning Told She Will Receive Gender Transition Surgery, Her Lawyer Says – BuzzFeed News<\/a><\/li>\n
  15. How Donald Trump Exploited Charity for Personal Gain<\/a>
    \nIt’s bewildering that Trump illegally using charity money to donate to a politician who then gave Trump’s business a favorable ruling, is much less of a scandal than Clinton’s emails.<\/li>\n
  16. Artist-in-residence stuck on bankrupt container ship that no port will accept \/ Boing Boing<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. BBC – Earth – A Soviet scientist created the only tame foxes in the world<\/a>
    \nAmazing how few generations it took to turn foxes into, essentially, dogs.<\/li>\n
  18. Some Republicans Acknowledge Leveraging Voter ID Laws for Political Gain – The New York Times<\/a>
    \nIncluding Republicans, in leaked documents, plotting to gin up claims of voter fraud just in case an election turns out to be false.<\/li>\n
  19. Men Caught Catcalling Their Mothers in Disguise – YouTube<\/a>
    \nThanks Grace!<\/li>\n
  20. Shakesville: Media Agree: Clinton’s Policies Are Stellar\u2014So No Need to Cover Them<\/a>
    And, again, thanks Grace!<\/li>\n
  21. People Are Sharing This Photo Of A Young Woman in Chile Standing Up To Police – BuzzFeed News<\/a>
    \nAnd here’s     a bit more info<\/a> about the protests.<\/li>\n
  22. “Supergirl” stuntwoman and “Ninja Warrior” star Jessie Graff on the Emmy Awards red carpet is my new favorite thing:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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