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Gen Z Have a Problem With Telephobia
Instead of calling, younger generations are relying on texts, voice notes, and social media to communicate, avoiding the spontaneity of real-time conversation, causing more and more people to be scared of making a phone call. The phenomenon even has a name—telephobia.
Gen Z Have a Problem With Telephobia
'White Lotus' reflects new reality
Tampa Bay Rays players refused to wear a Pride rainbow
Can you imagine the club that would allow a player to opt out of wearing a 42 on his jersey for Jackie Robinson Day? Or refuse to wear some camo for a Military Appreciation Day? Complete disaster.
Unfortunately, the Rays management approached this differently, allowing homophobia amongst a handful of 20-somethings to drive the uniforms that some of the players wore.
Tampa Bay Rays players refused to wear a Pride rainbow
Most Americans oppose biological men competing in women's sports
Twitter debates banning Libs of TikTok
Gay pride jersey sparks player boycott
MLB more pro-gay than Target
A gay manager was fired by the Chicago Blackhawks
NFL again allows a player to fund the most anti-gay organization in sports
San Diego FC readies 'detailed plan' to combat anti-gay chant
Are tank tops gay?
Kids as young as eight are set to attend an overnight 'Art of Drag' weekend camp
The three-day, two-night workshop was organized by The Young Actors' Theatre Camp, and was billed as a safe place for campers to 'create their own drag personas.'
A recent, unspecified donation to the Santa Cruz theater group has also allowed them to offer a 'Pay What You Can' price point this weekend - meaning as many who want to attend the 'very special weekend camp' could have done so for free.
'Art of Drag'
Children ‘forced’ to watch trans people undress for TV show
Rapper Sings About Gay Sex To Infants
Americans Overwhelmingly Support Restricting Transgender Procedures for Minors
California to replace 'alien'
“This important legislation removes the word ‘alien,’ which is not only an offensive term for a human being, but for far too long has fueled a divisive and hurtful narrative,” he added. “By changing this term, we are ensuring California’s laws reflect our state’s values.”
California to replace 'alien'
How does Demi Lovato know that aliens are offended by the term 'ALIENS'?
Crime Rate for Illegal Aliens Vastly Understated
Suspected crime tourism ring targeting Southern California neighborhoods
New York Is Wasting Taxpayer Money on Migrants and a Reparations Commission
Enraged Chilean beats bystander to death with fire extinguisher
Millennials Aren’t That Into God, Patriotism, or Having Kids
Voting Republican has become an activity analogous to reminiscing about air-raid drills or complaining incessantly about back pain: ordinary for boomers, but a marker of eccentricity among the young.
In 2016, Donald Trump commanded the support of only 28 percent of voters under 30, according to Pew Research. His disapproval rating among Americans under 35 currently hovers around 70 percent. And millennials’ antipathy for our Republican president isn’t personal; the Fox News grandpa-in-chief might be especially unappealing to the rising generation, but the kids don’t have much use for the GOP’s kinder, gentler reactionaries, either. Less than 30 percent of millennials wanted Republicans to retain control of Congress last year. And in broader measures of generational opinion, both millennials and Gen-Zers evince higher levels of support for liberal ideological premises and policy proposals than any older cohorts.
No God, Patriotism, or Having Kids
14-Year-Old Reported Missing From Ex-NFL Player...
‘Lack of sleep, constant crying’ leads dad to inflict 14 fractures on 2-month-old daughter
Dad waited for wife and mother-in-law to leave house before beheading 1-year-old son
Starving child forced to eat paint chips and play with empty McDonald’s Happy Meal box by parents
Woman locked zip-tied 7-year-old in cage with mouth duct-taped over ‘behavior at school’
A spate of abandoned newborns unsettles Texas
1-year-old baby dies from ‘massive impact’ after dad repeatedly slammed her to the floor
Churches fight to stay open as attendance dwindles
Parents looking for an alternative to Christian instruction settle on Satan
Who's To Blame For The Current State Of The U.S.
“We’re more interested in a Beyoncé or a Taylor Swift concert or Reesa Teesa on TikTok than to be worrying about if women have rights, if Blacks are going to keep their rights, if women are going to be able to continue to vote,” she continued.
Who's To Blame For The Current State Of The U.S.
‘It’s despicable’ schools would allow another country’s flag to fly in America
...migrant thieves shoplifting up to 6 times a week
Democratic stronghold fuming as migrant mega shelter causes explosion of gang-related crime
...seven children were held hostage in a St. George hotel room
Boy, 11, gets handcuffed, thrown in jail
Trio fights with cops after basketball legend shows up
Ohio town struggling after influx of illegal immigrants
Fan who created Wicked poster responds
More children are being tortured in recent years
Migrants are 'drinking all day,' 'having sex in the stairs' in taxpayer-funded New York hotels
An employee at Row, one of New York City's best-known hotels, became a whistleblower Wednesday after he released video and photos of illegal immigrants trashing the hotel and leaving fresh food out to rot.
Rodriguez shared videos of fresh, "good food" sitting out to rot in trash bags because "the migrants don’t want to eat them."
"They said they don’t like it," he said. "This is all food that is going to waste. This is insane."
Migrants are 'drinking all day'
NYC can’t cater to migrants’ ‘cultural taste’ on food
Marco Murillo, 13, stabbed to death outside Chick-fil-A
Migrants' refusal to leave New York hotel met with outrage
Migrant crisis causes chaos in the streets
Shake Shack Founder Shutters Two Manhattan Restaurants
Block turned into illicit open-air market for migrants
How Venezuelan gang members are slipping into the U.S.
Illegal immigrants linked to vicious sex crimes
Rape surges 11% in NYC — as bail reform, vulnerable migrants, depleted NYPD
The New American Flag? Redesign Sparks Outrage
The above example is meant to symbolize America’s past, present, and future. But the “symbolism” is so abstract and non-existent that the creator needed to over-explain what each stripe and square meant.
The New American Flag?
Majority of Americans hate socialism, reject AOC: survey
Nearly 60 percent of the country thinks poorly of Progressive darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and 75 percent want nothing to do with the socialism she preaches.
Asked whether the free-market economy or socialism was better, 75 percent of likely voters chose capitalism, while 11 percent backed socialism, according to a Heartland Institute/Rasmussen poll.
Another 14 percent said they were “not sure.”
“Likely voters hate socialism,” the pollster said.
“Despite the countless calls for more socialism among elites in media and Hollywood, Americans aren’t interested in adopting the same socialist policies that have led to mass poverty wherever they have been tried,” the Illinois-based nonprofit said in a statement released Wednesday, the Washington Times reported.
Majority of Americans hate socialism, reject AOC: survey
Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies
The world wonders what's happened to America
What happens to a country that is an idea, when that idea turns ugly?
Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the United States has been the leader of the free world economically, militarily, but also -- as communism and fascism fell by the wayside -- as an idea.
They went too far in Iraq in 2003, got too greedy before 2008, and let Syria down in 2013. But still, the US' obsession with painstakingly transparent self-analysis, allocation of blame and rooting out failure, got it back on top. However much you hate it, the idea seemed to justify its existence.
But this has been a difficult month. Well, a difficult year. Actually, scratch that too: everything since November 2016 has been discombobulating. I recall watching American expats, Europeans, Lebanese aghast in Beirut when Donald Trump won. It seemed to them like the wheels were coming off civilization. But surely, they could not forever, as the idea of the United States was designed to be tamper-proof?
CNN
Pulitzer Winner Jose Antonio Vargas Still Wrestles With Being Gay
Vargas came out about his immigration status publicly in 2011 and has since devoted his entire career to fighting for the rights of undocumented people.
Now Vargas is ready to focus more energy on himself, starting with his sexuality. "I'm trying to understand the gay thing," Vargas says. He makes a point to say that he's 38 years old and has never had a serious romantic relationship. Being undocumented has colored his entire life, even his personal relationships he's still discovering.
On this week's episode of LGBTQ&A, Jose Antonio Vargas talks about becoming more comfortable with his queerness, why the mainstream media's coverage of immigration is so dangerous, and the silver lining of the Trump era.
Advocate
Poll: Most Voters Don't Believe U.S. Is Ready for a Gay President
A new poll shows mixed feelings about the presidential prospects of Pete Buttigieg.
Only 36 percent of voters believe that the United States is ready to elect a gay man as commander in chief, according to new results posted by Quinnipiac. Fifty-two percent said the country is not ready, and the rest did not know or did not wish to respond.
Advocate
Why racist politics appeals to white women, explained by American history
“What is wrong with white women?” Moira Donegan asked at the Guardian after last week’s midterm elections.
“Why do half of them so consistently vote for Republicans, even as the Republican party morphs into a monstrously ugly organization that is increasingly indistinguishable from a hate group?”
Questions about white women’s allegiances came to the fore again this week, when news broke that a white woman senator facing a runoff in Mississippi had made a joke on the campaign trail about attending a “public hanging.”
Progressives sometimes expect white women, as a group, to support the interests of people of color of all genders — after all, women know what discrimination feels like.
“Most of us continue to see white women through the lens of gender,” explained Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, a history professor at UC Berkeley and the author of the forthcoming book They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. “This allows for us to be optimistic about the possibility that their gendered oppression will allow for them to find common cause with other dispossessed groups.”
But that common cause has been elusive.
Vox
California’s housing crisis is so bad people are living in cars
There is a shortage of affordable housing in every state in the country, but it's especially bad in California, where more and more people are discovering the only place they can afford to live is inside a car.
There's only one affordable housing unit for every five extremely low-income households in the state, and the gap isn't just pushing more and more people out onto the streets — it's also creating a new, fast-growing, and hidden class of homelessness.
Vice
Marines have way more sex than any other branch of the military, survey finds
This just in: A new report from the RAND Corp. has found that Marines have more sex than any other branch of the U.S. military.
Queerty