No one seems to care about women’s sports. From youth sports to the Olympics, women’s achievement in sports is eclipsed by sexism: comments, headlines, and announcers all downplay women’s athletic ability. In 2016, the Chicago Tribune posted “Wife of a Bears’ lineman wins a bronze medal today in Rio Olympics” on ...
A former Boeing employee responsible for providing evidence in a whistleblower lawsuit against the company was found dead in South Carolina on Saturday. John Barnett, 62, worked at Boeing for 32 years and retired in 2017. The day before his death he testified about a slew of issues he identified ...
The Republican response to the State of the Union Address took place in an eerily empty, dark kitchen, delivered by Alabama Senator Katie Britt. Britt wears a green dress reminiscent of the green gowns the wives wear in The Handmaid’s Tale and speaks with a terrifying intonation and zealous rigor. ...
I, like many other book reviewers, have been harassed and attacked by an author. The popular book-centered social media platform GoodReads allows anyone who loves reading to leave a review, and the relationship between authors and their reviewers has become more perilous. This relationship should be one of mutual respect, ...
Last night’s 96th Oscars saw major wins for Oppenheimer and Poor Things cast and crew. Oppenheimer, the historical drama about the life and struggles of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb, took home seven Oscars in total: Best Picture, Best Director (Christopher Nolan), Best Actor in ...
Last night, President Joe Biden gave his State of the Union Address and Republicans felt it appropriate to disrupt his speech and heckle him. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) interrupted the president mid-sentence to remind him of the death of college student Laken Riley. Several other GOP lawmakers told Biden ...
“You’re just a sub.” I was told that I was “just a sub” more times than I could count during my year and a half of substitute teaching. I was “just a sub,” I was no more than a warm body in a classroom only good for taking attendance and ...
The image you see above of Donald Trump posing with African American men and women is not real — it was generated by AI. Did you fall for it? Despite Artificial Intelligence platforms having strict rules against creating misleading political and election data, people can easily use AI to create ...
Only hundreds of feet from where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa, a Russian missile exploded early Wednesday morning. Sources report that this was “the closest call ever,” aside from Zelenskyy’s visits to troops on the front ...
The United States, Qatar, and Egypt have spent weeks trying to broker a deal between Israel and Hamas that would result in the release of 40 Israeli hostages in exchange for a six-week ceasefire, the release of some Palestinian hostages, and humanitarian aid. According to two Egyptian officials, the latest ...
Colleen Hoover, the viral romance author, has teamed up with Olive & June to create a press-on and nail polish collection available at Target. The colors of the 17 press-on nail sets and eight polishes are inspired by the covers of Hoover’s novels. The collection is rapidly selling out, but ...
I sat next to a collegiate football player in an undergraduate Speech class my freshman year. I couldn’t tell you his name, about his behavior in class, or what his speeches pertained to, as he was never there. On the first day of class, he told the professor that he ...
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