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• When You Hear GOP Call To 'Repeal and Replace' the ACA, Remember The Hermosillo Sisters

  Source: Crooks and Liars

  These two sisters, age 24 and 27, are victims. Keep that in mind. Love Infinitely has the details: At the neighborhood park where the girls had just come from their walk, two groups of men had gotten into an argument on the basketball court. One group decided to leave the argu …

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• Anti-Gay Activists Adopt a Dubious Model — the Confederacy

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  Conservatives tend to object when the gay rights movement is compared to the civil rights movement, often claiming that LGBT activists are trying to “hijack” a unique moment in American history. It had been our impression here at Hatewatch that this objection was u …

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• The American Middle Class, Income Inequality, and the Strength of Our Economy

  Source: Center for American Progress

  The research for this project began with a series of interviews and a national conference with leading U.S. economists to learn their views about the mechanisms through which income inequality and the strength of the middle class affect economic growth and economic stability. T …

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• Minority Births the Majority? On how the whole idea of White People is Made Up

  Source: Informed Comment

  The news is going around breathlessly that 50.4% of births in the US in the past 12 months were to families categorized as ethnic minorities, presaging the time when ‘whites will be a minority’ in the US. The unselfconscious deployment of these categories just take …

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• Pennsylvania Doctors Worry Over Frigging Fecking Fracking Gag Rule on Toxic Chemicals Used in Fracking

  Source: NPR

  Fracking exposes citizens to a wild mix of highly toxic chemicals and carcinogens. So when patients show up at their doctors' offices, the doctors need to figure out which chemicals are the likely culprits. The doctors of sick patients can, with great effort, access the names of …

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