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April 3, 2018

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April 3, 2018

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April 2, 2018

Watch Sinclair Broadcast News Anchors Parrot Their Bosses Opinions in Perfect, Deafening Unison

Last month, local television journalists across the country were told to read the same thing: a script from the owner of their stations, Sinclair Broadcast Group, declaring that “biased and false news” is extremely dangerous for democracy. It’s a talking point straight out of President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed, and when Deadspin made a video syncing more than a dozen clips of anchors at Sinclair-owned television stations all reading the same thing in unison, it quickly went viral. Of course it did: Here was the Trump-supporting owner of the largest television empire in the country flexing its muscles, brazenly (if cartoonishly) trying to scare Americans into mistrusting all other sources of information.

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https://slate.com/culture/2018/04/watch-sinclair-broadcast-group-local-news-anchors-parrot-their-bosses-opinions-in-perfect-deafening-unison.html
Watch Sinclair Broadcast Group News Anchors Parrot Their Bosses’ Opinions in Perfect, Deafening Unison
April 1, 2018

rising tide of young people are fighting against the custom of virginity tests in this Indian commun

rising tide of young people are fighting against the custom of virginity tests in this Indian community

Advocate Ranjana Gavande has been helping women who were abandoned following virginity tests in the Sangamner district of Maharahstra for the past eight years. She says that there are thousands of councils of the Bhantu community all over the country, and countless women have been wronged this way.

Twenty-eight Indian states lack a law protecting women from this kind of assault. And even when there are laws in place, like in Maharashtra where Tamaichekar lives, the police are usually reluctant to act on such complaints. They often believe that laws of the community are more important than books of statute, says Gavande.

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Vivek Tamaichekar, who is due to get married in May this year, first learned about this “cruel, discriminatory” practice when he got engaged to his fiancee, Aishwarya Bhat two years ago. Determined to protect his would-be wife from the virginity test, he told his family that he wouldn’t participate in the ritual.

“My family turned against me, while Aishwarya’s kin threatened to call the wedding off. That’s when I realized the magnitude of the issue, and decided to mobilize youngsters from my community who were willing to raise their voices against the archaic custom,” he says.

https://www.thelily.com/a-rising-tide-of-young-people-are-fighting-against-the-custom-of-virginity-tests-in-this-indian-community/

April 1, 2018

David Hogg: Laura Ingraham should apologize to Lebron James too

https://www.salon.com/2018/04/01/david-hogg-laura-ingraham-should-apologize-to-lebron-james-too/

Weeks before conservative Fox New host Laura Ingraham went after Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg, a teenage gun control advocate, she attacked NBA star Lebron James for daring to criticize President Donald Trump.

“It’s always unwise to seek political advice from someone who gets paid $100 million a year to bounce a ball,” she said about James and fellow NBA star Kevin Durant in February. “Keep the political comments to yourselves. … Shut up and dribble.”

There was no backlash to telling two multi-millionaire African-Americans to "shut up." Undeterred, Ingraham upped the ante the next month.

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