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Slavery Abolition

Stonewall’s Legacy and Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Misuse of History

Alan Singer is the author of New York's Grand Emancipation Jubilee: Essays on Slavery, Resistance, Abolition, Teaching, and Historical Memory(Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2018). In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, “Stonewall and the Myth of Self-Deliverance …

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Captain of Sea-Watch threatens to run Italy ‘blockade’

The captain of the Sea-Watch 3 charity rescue vessel threatened Tuesday to enter Italian waters illegally to bring 42 migrants to shore after they spent 13 days in limbo at sea. Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has banned the Dutch-flagged vessel from approa…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Recycling

See a Just-Retired Qantas Boeing 747 at an Airplane Recycling Center

While British Airways is celebrating the final few years of its 747 fleet with a recent refresh, many carriers have begun retiring their 747s. Others, like Delta and United, have completed the process altogether. Australia’s flag carrier Qantas continues to …

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Silk Road

Everything You Need to Know About the True Origins of the Everything Bagel

Sesame and poppy seeds, dried onion and garlic, coarse salt. In a word: Everything. chrislearyphoto / Shutterstock The everything bagel is the king of bagels. On this there should be no argument. In the same way that it combines all of the key bagel toppings…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Climate Change

Oregon Climate Bill Appears Dead After Some Ridiculous Bullshit You Can’t Make Up

A landmark climate change bill that appeared on the brink of passing the Oregon state legislature last week now seems to be dead. The states senate was set to take up a vote on a cap-and-trade bill that would have used a market mechanism (favored by conserva…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Seleção

Copa America Remains Wide Open Entering Quarterfinals

After 13 days of group stage action in Brazil, which featured a mixed bag of quality and entertainment, Copa America is finally ready for the quarterfinal stage and the promise of knockout, go-big-or-go-home South American drama. Make no mistake about it: t…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

CCTV

Dad-of-four died ‘after being hit with machete in violent ongoing family feud’

A dad-of-four died after his ears were sliced off with a machete in a violent family feud, a court heard. Sajed Choudry, 42, died from his injuries to the top and sides of his head after an alleged altercation between the Choudry and Ali families, and anothe…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Bees

Climate change: bees are disorientated by flowers’ changing scents

Climate change is altering the smell of rosemary, affecting its quality and quantity Grégoire Lannoy/Flickr Coffee, apples, honey – were it not for the precious work of pollinators, countless things that we eat and drink would not exist, totalling more than 3…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Elon Musk

Elon Musk bewilders Twitter users with tweet about Mars

The SpaceX CEO, who's known for his Twitter of "complete nonsense," seemingly mistook a blood moon for Mars in a tweet. Read more here.

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Silk Road

The Sex Worker Next Door

1.Ive been interested in prostitution ever since a deathbed revelation in 1998. As my beloved maternal grandmother lay dying, my mother, an only child, cried her eyes out. She said to me: You have no idea how much she has suffered: the famine, the Nanjing Mas…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Stonewall’s Legacy and Kwame Anthony Appiah’s Misuse of History

Captain of Sea-Watch threatens to run Italy ‘blockade’

See a Just-Retired Qantas Boeing 747 at an Airplane Recycling Center

Everything You Need to Know About the True Origins of the Everything Bagel

Oregon Climate Bill Appears Dead After Some Ridiculous Bullshit You Can’t Make Up

Copa America Remains Wide Open Entering Quarterfinals

Dad-of-four died ‘after being hit with machete in violent ongoing family feud’

Climate change: bees are disorientated by flowers’ changing scents

Elon Musk bewilders Twitter users with tweet about Mars

The Sex Worker Next Door

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