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September 15, 2018

Study Finds No Link Between Transgender Rights Law and Bathroom Crimes

Stephanie Ebbert The Boston Globe

“Reports of privacy and safety violations in public restrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms are exceedingly rare.”

September 15, 2018

New International Movement Will Fight Rising Fascism and Globalists

Yanis Varoufakis The Guardian

Fascists did not come to power in the mid-war period by promising violence, war or concentration camps.

September 15, 2018

Nike, Colin Kaepernick, and the History of “Commodity Activism”

Sarah Banet-Weiser Vox

Nike’s Kaepernick ad continues — and tweaks — the tradition of brands commodifying politics. Kaepernick’s ad, and the message he offers, may illuminate the promise of innovative creative forms, including advertising.

September 14, 2018

Friday Nite Videos | September 14, 2018

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Beto O'Rourke: We Don't Need a Wall. Amber Says What: Colin Kaepernick, Aretha Franklin, Serena Williams. Wajahat Ali on Being Muslim in America. DNA Shows Cave Girl Was Half Neanderthal. Senator Elizabeth Warren at Netroots Nation 2018.

Beto O'Rourke: We Don't Need a Wall

September 14, 2018

The man running against Ted Cruz to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate says we should be focused on smart security solutions and citizenship for DREAMers

Amber Says What: Colin Kaepernick, Aretha Franklin, Serena Williams

September 14, 2018

Late Night writer Amber Ruffin hilariously recaps what's happening in pop culture news

Wajahat Ali on Being Muslim in America

September 14, 2018

Actor and writer Wajahat Ali shares some of the ridiculous things people ask him as a Muslim in post-9/11 America.

DNA Shows Cave Girl Was Half Neanderthal

September 14, 2018

An extraordinary piece of genetic sleuthing shows that this girl's mother was Neanderthal, her father Denisovan.

Senator Elizabeth Warren at Netroots Nation 2018

September 14, 2018

Warren tells her own story to show how radically government has abandoned its responsibility to help the poor and working class. A speech about fighting the politics of division in the age of Trump.

September 14, 2018

Bernie Sanders: A New Authoritarian Axis Demands an International Progressive Front

Bernie Sanders The Guardian

To combat the rise of an international authoritarian axis, we need an international progressive movement that mobilizes behind a vision of shared prosperity, security and dignity, and that addresses the global inequality in wealth and political power