Allene
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Joined on 26 Mar 2018
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over 5 years ago
Republicans who voted against the Dream Act represent over 600,000 people who would have benefited
The House of Representatives passed a historic bill Tuesday night that would offer a path to citizenship for more than 2.5 million young undocumented immigrants, known as “Dreamers,” and immigrants protected under temporary programs. The vote on the American Dream and Pro...continued
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over 5 years ago
Exclusive: Steve Bannon candidly talks about race and gender in deleted documentary scene
“I just don’t buy it,” Steve Bannon said when director Alison Klayman asked him about structural racism in a deleted scene from The Brink, the new documentary about Bannon that comes out on digital Tuesday. “I think people of goodwill can overcome that,” he said. The dele...continued
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over 5 years ago
Uber will start deactivating riders with low ratings – TechCrunch
Uber is now requiring the same good behavior from riders that it has long expected from its drivers. Uber riders have always had ratings, but they were never really at risk of deactivation — until now. Starting today, riders in the U.S. and Canada are now at risk of deac...continued
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over 5 years ago
With future of women’s hockey uncertain, athletes launch Players Association amid boycott
The future of women’s hockey is in flux. Three weeks ago, more than 200 women’s hockey players launched the #ForTheGame movement, announcing that they would not play in any North American professional women’s hockey league this upcoming season, and would remain on the sid...continued
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over 5 years ago
Farmers are hurting, but they still support Trump and his trade war — for now
Iowa farmer Tim Bardole survived years of low crop prices and rising costs by cutting back on fertilizer and herbicides and fixing broken-down equipment rather than buying new. When President Donald Trump's trade war with China made a miserable situation worse, Bardole us...continued
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over 5 years ago
10 Easy Time Management Tips for the Chronically Late - Productivity Theory
Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Facebook Everyone does their best at what they need to do every day, but sometimes life happens and time gets away from us. Time management isn’t always easy, but there are always things you can do to improve how you spend your time.You don’t...continued
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over 5 years ago
Biggest free-agent contracts in MLB history
For a long time, the 2018-19 free agency period was hyped as a potentially historic one. Now it's exactly that. With Bryce Harper and Manny Machado both hitting the market at once, it seemed like it was just a matter of who would sign a record-sett...continued
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over 5 years ago
Low-wage Uber drivers stage mass strike 24 hours before the IPO that has Wall Street drooling
The drivers whose time and labor have positioned insiders to cash out when Uber goes public on Thursday are on strike, a day before the firm’s big stock exchange debut. Drivers across New York City — including those who work for Uber’s competitors, such as Lyft — are tur...continued
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over 5 years ago
Trump thinks he deserves praise for his epic business losses
President Donald Trump kicked off his Wednesday morning by attempting to fire back at a New York Times report from the evening before detailing his extensive business losses in the 1980s and 90s. In a pair of tweets, he attempted to both justify his massive failures while...continued
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over 5 years ago
The simple, yet elusive, key to fighting the climate crisis
By Sarah Sax Anew scientific report finds human behaviors are driving the extinction of non-human species at a rate so severe that the subsequent disappearance of life will soon be a threat to human health and prosperity. Habitat destruction on land, over-fishing in the s...continued
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