Two men describe homophobic torture in Chechnya

Two men have spoken out about the torture they endured for being gay in Chechnya, where they claim they were beaten, electrocuted and abused by police before fleeing the country.
The men, who were granted anonymity over fears of reprisal, gave Reuters accounts of their horrific ordeals at the hands of the authorities.
One of the men described being beaten by police after he refused to hand over the names of other gay men he knew, only escaping further torture after telling the authorities he was related to a policeman. He was taken to his family, and was then handcuffed to a radiator before his sister helped him escape.
"There was only one thing left to do: to get rid of me,” he said. “Because it was such a shame for a military family, for a rather big family. We [in Chechnya] have only one way to resolve this.”

Two men describe homophobic torture in Chechnya

A Wingnut and Two Liberals Swapped News Feeds—It Didn't End Well

A Wingnut and Two Liberals Swapped News Feeds—It Didn't End Well

ISIL moves into Osama Bin Laden's old home of Tora Bora

The Islamic State militant group (ISIL) has overtaken an area in Afghanistan once used as a headquarters for former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
ISIL, the foremost killer of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan this year, captured Wednesday the complex of caves known as Tora Bora, located in the country's eastern, restive Nangahar province. The advance reportedly followed a weeklong battle with the Taliban, a rival ultraconservative Sunni Muslim group whose affiliation with Al-Qaeda prompted the U.S.'s post-9/11 invasion of the country in 2001.

ISIL moves into Osama Bin Laden's old home of Tora Bora

Fox 'News' FINALLY Tells Truth About Itself

Fox 'News' FINALLY Tells Truth About Itself, Then Immediately Falls Back Into Old Pattern Of Lies

A flash of sanity, and then…

Fox 'News' Is Dropping Its 'Fair & Balanced' Slogan

As Fox 'News' tries to move past its Ailes era.
Of course they have never been "fair" or "balanced" anyway.

Breitbart News' Dramatic Tailspin Is Irreversible

Breitbart News' Dramatic Tailspin Is Irreversible 

Dumbass Trump's Pravda is going down.

Why Is PBS Airing Wingnut-Sponsored School Privatization Propaganda?

Why Is PBS Airing Wingnut-Sponsored School Privatization Propaganda?

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Today in History

1184		King Magnus of Norway is defeated by his rival, Sverre.
1215		King John signs the Magna Carta.
1381		The English peasant revolt is crushed in London.
1389		Ottoman Turks crush Serbia in the Battle of Kosovo.
1607		Colonists in North America complete James Fort in Jamestown.
1752		Benjamin Franklin and his son test the relationship between electricity and lightning by flying a kite in a thunder storm.
1775		George Washington is named Commander-in-Chief by Congress.
1779		American General Anthony Wayne captures Stony Point, New York.
1836		Arkansas is admitted into the Union as the 25th state.
1846		Great Britain and the United States agree on a joint occupation of Oregon Territory.
1849		James K. Polk, the 11th president of the United States, dies.
1862		General J.E.B. Stuart completes his “ride around McClellan.”
1864		The Battle for Petersburg begins.
1866		Prussia attacks Austria.
1877		Henry O. Flipper becomes the first African American to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
1898		The U.S. House of representatives approves the annexation of Hawaii.
1904		Fire aboard the paddle steamer General Slocum on New York’s East River kills 1,021, mostly German-Americans.
1916		President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America.
1917		Great Britain pledges the release of all Irish captured during the Easter Rebellion of 1916.
1920		Three African Americans are lynched in Duluth, Minnesota, by a white mob of 5,000.
1928		Wingnuts, convening in Kansas City, name Herbert Hoover their candidate for Pretender.
1932		Gaston Means is sentenced to 15 years for fraud in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping.
1940		The French fortress of Verdun is captured by Germans.
1944		U.S. Marines begin the invasion of Saipan in the Pacific.
1947		The All India Congress accepts a British plan for the partition of India.
1958		Greece severs military ties to Turkey because of the Cyprus issue.
1964		The last French troops leave Algeria.
1977		The first general election in Spain since 1936 results in victory for the UCD (Union of Democratic Centre).

New York City, Then and Now

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The New Yorker put together a side-by-side comparison of New York City in the 1930s and how it looks today. While there are plenty of changes (not to mention New York is now in color), there are a lot of things that remain from 80 years ago.

How to Get to Know Someone

If you are on a college campus, the usual way to learn a lot about someone quickly is to ask, "Where are you from, and what's your major?" Outside of an academic setting, those questions don't quite make sense. It's tough enough making new friends as an adult, much less getting to know a potential romantic partner. In business relations, too, it's essential to learn all you can about the people you deal with. If you ask the right questions, you can spark a conversation that really gets to the heart of what the other person is all about.

Many of these questions are deceptively revelatory, such as “who or where would you haunt if you were a ghost?” It may seem like harmless fun, but this question might reveal if your conversation partner has a sentimental or a vengeful streak, for example. The best part is that asking just one of these questions can open and carry an interesting conversation that will leave you far better acquainted with a new contact than everyday small talk.

One question might work, but in this list at Gentlemen's Gazette, there are 53 to select from, so you can pick and choose what might work in a given situation.

Things Only Poor Teens Understand About Poverty

Growing up poor for me meant having one pair of shoes per school year, eating no frills food made from the same staple ingredients, and earning my own money to buy toys my friends got from their parents for "being good". My family wasn't so poor we went hungry, and we could afford basic electronics and electricity so we weren't bored, but I had a few friends who were so poor their lifestyle seemed bizarre to me.
Which is why I appreciated and enjoyed reading this article revealing 5 Things Only Poor People Understand About Poverty by Cracked's John Cheese, a guy who understands there's broke and then there's BROKE.

John discusses issues only people living in poverty truly understand, like how cleanliness becomes a luxury you sometimes can't afford, haircuts are done at home and fads can make it hard to afford new clothes.

Read 5 Things Only Poor Teens Understand About Poverty here

U.S. Women Disproportionately Burdened by College Debt

U.S. Women Disproportionately Burdened by College Debt

Et Tu, Bank of America?

Et Tu, Bank of America? Phony 'Julius Caesar' Scandal Exposes the Craven Stupidity of Our Corporations

Intermittent Fasting Can Improve Your Health

15 Ways Intermittent Fasting Can Improve Your Health

South still has high HIV rates

Here is why the South still has such high HIV rates

Minority communities will be hit hardest by soaring rates of Alzheimer's disease

Minority communities will be hit hardest by soaring rates of Alzheimer's disease

These Parents Suffered an Unfathomable Tragedy

These Parents Suffered an Unfathomable Tragedy—Now They're Leading the Push for Single-Payer Health Care

The Dumbass Trumpcare Threat?

What Will It Take For You To Get Angry Again About The Dumbass Trumpcare Threat?

Multitask. Our lives depend on it.

If You're Serious, America

If You're Serious, America: Here Are 26 Concrete Policy Steps to Reduce Opioid Addiction and Overdoses

The Case for Prescription Heroin

The current opioid epidemic can lead people into poverty, jail, or death. The conventional response is to cut off the supply, such as is attempted with the War on Drugs (and rehab programs for a lucky few). Vancouver is trying out a different response. At the Providence Crosstown Clinic, heroin addicts can receive medical-grade heroin, which they inject themselves under the supervision of a nurse. It doesn't cure the addiction, but it reduces the chances of dying of an overdose, contracting an infection, or being poisoned by bad drugs. It also reduces the need for addicts to commit crimes to support their habit.

Crosstown represents an international move toward providing a full spectrum of care for people who are addicted to drugs. It isn’t a first-line defense against opioid addiction, and it’s not going to solve the crisis by itself. But for a fraction of opioid users suffering from addiction (maybe about 10 to 15 percent), other treatments won’t produce good results, almost certainly leading users to relapse — and possibly overdose and die.
To combat this cycle, Crosstown offers these opioid users medical-grade heroin (called “diacetylmorphine”). Under supervision, nurses are at the ready with the overdose antidote naloxone and oxygen tanks in case of an emergency. These patients are the people for whom other treatments have failed. It’s a last resort. And it works.
Since 2011, the clinic has seen about 200 patients. None of them, MacDonald said, have died under the clinic’s supervision. In fact, as far as he can tell, no one has died at any prescription heroin facility due to an overdose — not in Canada, Switzerland, Germany, or the Netherlands.

Read about Vancouver's heroin program at Vox

Delta Airlines let drunk ‘roam freely’ while he exposed himself and groped woman on flight

Delta Airlines let drunk ‘roam freely’ while he exposed himself and groped woman on flight: lawsuit

A Michigan woman is suing Delta Airlines for allegedly allowing a fellow passenger who sexually assaulted her and masturbated next to her to “roam freely” on a flight despite staff’s knowledge of the man’s misconduct.

NUTJOB Missouri Wingnut Beheads Live Chicken On Facebook

NUTJOB Missouri Wingnut Beheads Live Chicken On Facebook Video To Make Point About Abortion

Hopefully, the backlash from this stunt will make Mr. Moon realize that women deserve access to healthcare, regardless of what he likes to do to chicken in the privacy of his own home.

Coral reefs show signs of climate stress, but there's still hope

They show signs of stress, but also resilience.

Coral reefs are home to a vast array of ocean creatures. They provide food, protection against storm damage, sustain tourism and inspire wonder. “If we lose corals, we lose a vital piece of our planet,”

Coral reefs show signs of climate stress, but there's still hope

Fox Gets a New Tunnel

Kristen built a new tunnel for her pet fox Riot. Riot loves it! Castiel, the German shepherd, can't even fit into the tunnel, but Riot can zip right through and even turn around inside it. Here, he's having a great time irritating Castiel with his tunnel shenanigans.

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Watch Riot play tag and peek-a-boo and hide and seek! See more of Riot and his animals friends at Instagram.

4 facts about ghost sharks

The ghost shark’s name is appropriate in more ways than one — not only does the shark look ghastly, but it is also elusive and hard to spot in its natural habitat.
It’s also known as a chimaera or ratfish.
Scientists released video of the marine animal some months ago, which had been shot a few years earlier, and it was believed to mark the first time candid footage of the creature alive in the wild had been documented.

4 facts about ghost sharks

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1381		The Peasants’ Revolt, led by Wat Tyler, climaxes when rebels plunder and burn the Tower of London and kill the Archbishop of Canterbury.
1642		Massachusetts passes the first compulsory education law in the colonies.
1645		Oliver Cromwell‘s army routs the king’s army at Naseby.
1775		The U.S. Army is founded when the Continental Congress authorizes the muster of troops.
1777		The Continental Congress authorizes the “stars and stripes” flag for the new United States.
1789		Captain William Bligh of the HMS Bounty arrives in Timor in a small boat. He had been forced to leave his ship when his crew mutinied.
1846		A group of settlers declare California to be a republic.
1864		At the Battle of Pine Mountain, Georgia, Confederate General Leonidas Polk is killed by a Union shell.
1893		The city of Philadelphia observes the first Flag Day.
1907		Women in Norway win the right to vote.
1919		John William Alcott and Arthur Whitten Brown take off from St. John’s, Newfoundland, for Clifden, Ireland, on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
1922		President Warren G. Harding becomes the first president to speak on the radio.
1927		Nicaraguan President Porfirio Diaz signs a treaty with the U.S. allowing American intervention in his country.
1932		Representative Edward Eslick dies on the floor of the House of Representatives while pleading for the passage of the bonus bill.
1940		German forces occupy Paris.
1942		The Supreme Court rules that requiring students to salute the American flag is unconstitutional.
1944		Boeing B-29 bombers conduct their first raid against mainland Japan.
1945		Burma is liberated by the British.
1949		The State of Vietnam is formed.
1951		UNIVAC, the first computer built for commercial purposes, is demonstrated in Philadelphia by Dr. John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr.
1954		Americans take part in the first nation-wide civil defense test against atomic attack.
1965		A military triumvirate takes control in Saigon, South Vietnam.
1982		Argentina surrenders to the United Kingdom ending the Falkland Islands War.
1985		Gunmen hijack a passenger jet over the Middle East.
1989		Congressman William Gray, an African American, is elected Democratic Whip of the House of Representatives.
1995		Chechen rebels take 2,000 people hostage in a hospital in Russia.

The NBA Champion Golden State Warriors Unanimously Decide to Skip Their White House Visit

The NBA Champion Golden State Warriors Unanimously Decide to Skip Their White House Visit

Now Five Men Own Almost as Much Wealth as Half the World's Population

Now Five Men Own Almost as Much Wealth as Half the World's Population

United States records highest obesity percentage in the world

The United States is leading the charts when it comes to obesity and obesity-related diseases, according to a study, published Monday. 13 percent of the total U.S. population, including adults and children, has been termed overweight.
In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, it has been determined that more than two billion adults and children of the world are now obese and run the risk of diseases due to carrying excess weight.  Out of them, 710 million were classified as obese, with 5 percent of all children and 12 percent of adults fitting into this category.

United States records highest obesity percentage in the world

LSD Could Help Treat Depression and Anxiety

LSD Could Help Treat Depression and Anxiety, Researchers Hope

Fifty Years Ago, the Supreme Court Knocked Down Bans on Interracial Marriage

Fifty Years Ago, the Supreme Court Knocked Down Bans on Interracial Marriage—How Have Things Changed Since Then?

Get Corporate America and Police Units out of Pride Marches

We Need to Get Corporate America and Police Units out of Pride Marches

Are jokesters screwing up data on gay teenagers?

Teens are mischievous, not to be trusted. You’ve probably heard the trope before – maybe you even believe it yourself. But is the stereotype now warping our trust of scientific results?
Surveys can help researchers better understand the lives of teens, but skeptics argue that youth are often dishonest and that the results cannot be trusted.
This idea led into a study published a few years ago, which called into question over a decade of research on the health and well-being of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) youth.
In a new study, we challenged this idea with our own search for jokesters in this data. We discovered that more than 98 percent of youth told the truth on self-report surveys. We also found that LGB youth were not any more likely than heterosexual youth to provide mischievous responses.

Are jokesters screwing up data on gay teenagers?

It Looks Like the Wingnuts Have Finally Given Up on the Idea of Gay Conversion Therapy

It Looks Like the Wingnuts Have Finally Given Up on the Idea of Gay Conversion Therapy

The Hate Crime I Survived

The Hate Crime I Survived

Medic dragged woman’s half-naked, lifeless body through crowded American Airlines flight

Medic dragged woman’s half-naked, lifeless body through crowded American Airlines flight: passenger

The woman suffered a medical emergency Monday while in the bathroom of an American Airlines Boeing 737 flying from Dallas to the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

Entire Cities Are Cutting Ties With Wells Fargo for Its Support of the Dakota Pipeline

Entire Cities Are Cutting Ties With Wells Fargo for Its Support of the Dakota Pipeline

Have the Cowardly CEOs Who Pulled Their Corporate Sponsorships of 'Julius Caesar' Actually Read the Play?

Have the Cowardly CEOs Who Pulled Their Corporate Sponsorships of 'Julius Caesar' Actually Read the Play?

Dumbass Trump sycophant back in jail

Dumbass Trump sycophant who was busted for voter fraud is back in jail after unhinged rant against neighbor

Terri Rote, an Iowa Dumbass Trump sycophant who was caught last year trying to vote twice for the president, is back in jail after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct.

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It is amazing that every case of voter fraud is a wingnut perpetrating it.
But then again it is what they do - they rant and rave about that they are guilty of claiming everyone else are the guilty ones. 

The Federal Government Is Setting Up to Protect the Elite

The Federal Government Is Setting Up to Protect the Elite from Nuclear Attack While Letting the Rest of Us Die

'Christian' FB Page Threatens To Ban People Who Use Rainbow Emoji, Instantly Backfires

'Christian' FB Page Threatens To Ban People Who Use Rainbow Emoji, Instantly Backfires

The internet’s response may make you beam with pride.

Melania Trump Drops Fake Cyber Bullying Campaign She Only Pretended to Care About

Melania Trump Drops Fake Cyber Bullying Campaign She Only Pretended to Care About

Ivanka Trump's Garment Workers Can't Afford to Live with Their Children

Ivanka Trump's Garment Workers Can't Afford to Live with Their Children

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