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Obamacare

Sign-ups slip in initial days of Obamacare open enrollment

bubmagNovember 14, 2019

Times Square

John Lahr: Cole Porter’s secret songs

Of the many remedies Cole Porter used to kill pain boys, drink, luxury the most powerful was song. In October 1937, at the age of 46, out for an early morning canter at the Piping Rock Club in Locust Valley, New York, Porter lost his stirrups when his horse s…

bubmagNovember 14, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Megan Rapinoe Dedicates Women Of The Year Acceptance Speech To Colin Kaepernick

Megan Rapinoe praised former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s activism while accepting a Glamour Women of the Year award at a ceremony on Monday evening. The soccer star and activist, one of Glamour’s 2019 Women of the Year, began her spee…

bubmagNovember 14, 2019

Venezuela

DC Police Attempted To Arrest Code Pink Activist Medea Benjamin For Allegedly ‘Assaulting’ Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Police in Washington, D.C. surrounded the home of Code Pink activist Medea Benjamin and attempted to arrest her for assaulting Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. But police did not have a warrant and apparently were uncertain whether an assaul…

bubmagNovember 14, 2019

Targeted Killings

In second day of Gaza flare-up, Islamic Jihad fires hundreds of rockets as Israel pounds the Strip

Gaza factions launched massive rocket barrages at Israel for the second straight day Wednesday, a day after Israel assassinated a top Islamic Jihad commander, Baha Abu al-Ata. At around 11:15 P.M. a massive barrage of rockets reached as far north as Rehovot …

bubmagNovember 14, 2019

Water Scarcity

The Growing Threat Of Water Wars

Authored by Jayati Ghosh via Project Syndicate, In 2015, United Nations member states adopted the Sustainable Development Goals, which include an imperative to ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all. Yet, in the last f…

bubmagNovember 14, 2019

Filter Bubble

David Dondero Goes Post-Apocalyptic With “Easy Chair” (premiere)

Singer-songwriter David Dondero returns with a new album, The Filter Bubbles Blues, on 17 January 2020 via Portland, Oregon's Fluff & Gravy imprint. "Easy Chair" exemplifies the album's chronicling of the American dream's death rattle amid political theat…

bubmagNovember 14, 2019

Air Pollution

Climate Change Poses Threats to Children’s Health Worldwide

To that end, the report does contain glimmers of hope. Carbon intensity, or how much energy can be produced for each unit of greenhouse gas released, has increased. And more cities are filing climate assessments detailing solutions that can be put into place.…

bubmagNovember 14, 2019

Climate Change

How the Climate Crisis Is Killing Us, in 9 Alarming Charts

Maybe you live in Ohio, far away from rising seas. Maybe you live in Canada, nowhere near a blazing desert. You might think climate change isnt your problem, at least not yet. But maybe today we can change your mind. The medical journal The Lancet just relea…

bubmagNovember 14, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Here’s How Trump Spent The Day While Congress Debated His Impeachment

When the public phase of the impeachment hearings began on Capitol Hill at 10 a.m. Wednesday, President Donald Trump was at the White House, where, according to press secretary Stephanie Grisham, he was too busy with work to watch the proceedings. Was he bus…

bubmagNovember 14, 2019

Sign-ups slip in initial days of Obamacare open enrollment

John Lahr: Cole Porter’s secret songs

Megan Rapinoe Dedicates Women Of The Year Acceptance Speech To Colin Kaepernick

DC Police Attempted To Arrest Code Pink Activist Medea Benjamin For Allegedly ‘Assaulting’ Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz

In second day of Gaza flare-up, Islamic Jihad fires hundreds of rockets as Israel pounds the Strip

The Growing Threat Of Water Wars

David Dondero Goes Post-Apocalyptic With “Easy Chair” (premiere)

Climate Change Poses Threats to Children’s Health Worldwide

How the Climate Crisis Is Killing Us, in 9 Alarming Charts

Here’s How Trump Spent The Day While Congress Debated His Impeachment

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