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Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about today.

• Black Lives Still Matter
  In order to truly ensure that, we will have to confront the broader culture of violence that has long gripped this nation.
• What Sanders' Endorsement Of Clinton Can Teach Us About Fighting Fair
  Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee for president Tuesday, ending a long, and at times bitter, battle for the nomination.
• You Never Know What Someone Is Going Through, So Be Kind
  We really never know what’s going on in someone’s life—what news they might have gotten that day, whether they just lost their job or have a loved one who is ill. That’s why it’s so important to lead with kindness as often as we can.
• Philando Castile Should Still Be Alive
  I shouldn’t have to find the right words to talk about it with my 5-year-old son. I shouldn’t have to tell him that Mr. Phil was killed by the police for no reason. I shouldn’t have to explain that the people charged with protecting us all too often end up killing people with brown skin.

Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about today.

• For White People Who Believe Black Lives Matter
  Before he became governor of Indiana and a candidate to be Donald Trump’s vice-presidential nominee, Mike Pence was a congressman, and he voted for every free-trade agreement that came before him. That record, along with at least two votes favoring freer trade with China, puts him squarely at odds with Trump on one of the signature issues of the businessman’s presidential campaign.
• Why 'reverse racism' is a stupid accusation | John Paul Brammer
  Jesse Williams’ BET speech named aspects of racism that are invisible to those who do not encounter them. That’s why it’s provoked an ill-informed petition.
• It Is Time to Notice That Horrible Mass Bombings Are Targeting Muslims
  It is necessary to call the brutal actions of mass murderers deviant behavior, not radical Islam.
• Are You Ready for Some Hard Truths About the Birth of Our Nation? Brace Yourself
  Cutting edge historians are breaking new ground to help us understand the dogged persistence of white racism.

Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about today.

• To Right-Wing Religious Leaders: ‘Can We Forgive You?’
  Can we forgive you for your insulting and repugnant mantra “We love the sinner but hate the sin”? Can we forgive you in your efforts to deny me and members of my community the rights of self-definition and self-determination, and to deny us our integrity and our humanity by attempting to prevent us from maintaining our subjectivity, our agency, and our voice?
• Barack Obama has made America great again
  Three public opinion charts demonstrate the effect of the Obama administration.
• 5 Big Meat Companies Produce A Combined 162 Million Tons Of Manure Each Year
  Factory farms create hundreds of millions of tons of manure each year, and that is threatening some of America’s most vulnerable bodies of water.
• Transgender Americans Can Now Fight And Die For A Country That Doesn't Protect Them At Home
  Transgender people are now allowed to serve in the military, according to a new policy announced by Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Thursday. That means these individuals can go to war and bravely fight for their country without fear of being discharged or denied re-enlistment. But when they come home as civilians, it will be legal to fire them.

Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about today.

• American Culture Is Inflicting Pain on Our Boys
  The fears of immigration whipped up by Nigel Farage mirror Donald Trump’s. If he makes it to the White House, they too will be exposed as lies the very next day.
• Brexit stands as a warning to American conservatives
  The fears of immigration whipped up by Nigel Farage mirror Donald Trump’s. If he makes it to the White House, they too will be exposed as lies the very next day.
• America, your hands are not clean in Orlando massacre
  A culture that fosters and promotes anti-gay sentiment — and for some, in recent days, refused to even acknowledge the victims as LGBT people of color, thereby erasing their identities even in death — must share some of the responsibility for the hatred Mateen and others like him harbor.
• Lives Are on the Line: The Smearing of LGBTs by the Right Is More Than Disturbing—It's Dangerous
  Politicians and anti-LGBT activists have created a climate in which gay and trans people are constantly at risk.
• Donald Trump Isn’t the Presidential Candidate We Should Be Worried About
  The real danger is the smarter, more capable neo-fascist politician who will inevitably rise in his wake.
• Five Right-Wing Predictions About Marriage Equality That Still Haven't Come True
  Here are just five of the craziest predictions that conservative politicians and pundits made about Obergefell v. Hodges, all of which are yet to come true.
• Stop Asking Me to Denounce Islam to Prove I Care About LGBT Rights
  Surely, I am not less queer just because I am Muslim.
• Gun Reform Has an Overwhelming Majority of Support—So Why Isn't It Happening?
  It will take more than sit-ins in Congress.
• Here’s a better way to punish the police: Sue them for money
  Federal law makes it more difficult to hold an officer accountable for denying constitutional rights than for injuring by negligent conduct.

Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about today.

• Get Over It: Mass Shootings Are the New Normal in America
  Americans only begin to get serious about a problem after it’s too late to solve it.
• If Black Men Want to Heal Racism’s Wounds, We Can’t Pretend to Be Strong All the Time
  We’re proud that we’ve survived. But we should be honest about the costs.
• 6 Ways We Accidentally Teach Our Boys Rape Culture
  Here are six (very common) ways we get it wrong, and how we can do better.
• Pride parades started as protests. After Orlando we must cry out again | Zach Stafford
  Before the Stonewall Inn was a landmark, it was the site of a fight for LGBT lives. Our lives our still at risk, so we should keep fighting.
• Rep. Jim Himes: Why I walked out of the House's moment of silence for Orlando
  Silence won’t do anything to prevent gun violence.
• We need to be angry to overcome the tragedy in Orlando – video
  Steven W Thrasher gives a personal response to mass killing at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Thrasher says we should approach this tragedy with love, but also a renewed sense of anger at gun lobbyists, hyper masculinity and other sources of oppression.

Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about today.

• Trump And Mateen: Brothers In Hate
  Let’s call out Trump for what he is. He’s the flipside of Omar Mateen — a man driven by hate, a man who would call America to define itself by its hates.
• The Orlando massacre’s moral imperative: Don’t propagate hate
  Preventing further violence requires wisdom, not posturing.
• This statistic about gun violence in America seems hard to believe, but is true
  In fact, if you add up the number of firearm-related deaths in America since 1968, that figure is larger than all of the battlefield casualties in all of the wars in American history.
• Samantha Bee Furiously Demands We Work, Not Pray, to Change Society After the Pulse Shooting (Video)
  “There is no shortage of troubled twenty-somethings out there and whether they’re radicalized by ISIS or homophobia or white nationalism or a dislike a movies,” said the “Full Frontal” host, “we are making it far too easy for their derangement to kill us.”
• We Have a Right to Grieve Losses Big and Small
  There is no healing without grief and no grief without pain. To stop yourself from grieving because it’s against the rules or because you think it shouldn’t hurt so much leaves you emotionally stunted and numb.
• Overcompensation Nation: It’s time to admit that toxic masculinity drives gun violence
  In the midst of pitched battles over whether some Americans can discriminate against LGBT Americans based on religion, we are viscerally reminded that terror and violence do not discriminate.
• It’s easier for privileged men like the Stanford attacker to bounce back from prison
  Money, education and support systems cushion the blow.

Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about today.

• What No One is Saying About Hillary
  The Hillary story I have yet to see is the one that explains how any woman could have possibly gained the political clout she has, without being the person she is. Anything less would have made the glass ceiling impenetrable.
• Hillary Clinton made history. But she did so upon the shoulders of giants | James Nevius
  Women fought for political rights decades before Clinton clinched the nomination. But her most notable forerunner was perhaps Eleanor Roosevelt.
• Stanford swimmer attacker isn’t alone: Sexual violence against women prevalent in university sports cultures
  How have we come to this point where sexual violence against women is a common — and seemingly accepted — trait of masculinity?
• Stanford Rapist's Father Issues Despicable Plea for Leniency: 'A Steep Price to Pay for 20 Minutes of Action'
  This statement to the judge at Brock Turner’s sentencing is a stunning example of rape culture in action.

Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about today.

• The time Muhammad Ali stopped a man from leaping to his death.
  In January 1981, the champ talked a man down from a ninth-floor ledge.
• Op-Ed Contributor: Muhammad Ali: Never the White Man’s Negro
  When he was a young man, the best black boxers were expected to be cautious and restrained. But Ali would have none of it.
• Ali’s confidence, cockiness made him symbol of black pride
  For Muhammad Ali, the idea of being a humble athlete — someone pre-packaged and palatable for white America — was never an option. Instead, he demanded respect not only as a boxer but as a brash, unbought and unbossed black man and endeared himself to African-Americans as a symbol of black pride. He radiated courage and confidence, skill and showmanship.
• Muhammad Ali: The True Definition of Success and Celebrity
  As this three-time world champion boxer is being remembered, lauded and applauded after his passing, I argue that not only did his superior skills in a fight make him stand alone, but it was his substantive and unselfish existence that served to redefine what celebrities should be honored for and therefore made him the global phenomenon that he was and remains even upon his death.

Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about today.

• I Had to Leave the U.S. to Stop Pretending to Be an Extrovert
  America values the bold and gregarious, but when I moved to Switzerland, I found my people—no fake smiles required.
• Prince’s Death Reveals How Hard It Is To Escape Opioid Addiction
  As Prince’s death shows, our nation faces a troubling dilemma: We’re simultaneously in the midst of a chronic pain epidemic and an opioid epidemic.
• Forget the Economy. Donald Trump Is Fighting the Culture Wars.
  The economy has been picking up for years and all of the evidence suggests that most Trump supporters are doing at least OK financially. What bugs them is culture war stuff.
• The Limits of White Compassion: Imagine If Black Lives Mattered as Much as One Gorilla's
  Harambe’s death is a tragedy—as are the deaths of Black people killed by police. They deserve your outrage, too.
• Trump wants revenge: His hunger to be president is all about gaining power to settle petty personal scores
  Increasingly, the evidence is pointing to a certain conclusion: Donald Trump is running for president because he believes the power and fame of the White House will allow him to settle the score in his ever-expanding list of petty grievances.
• Good riddance to the “Devil Wears Prada” economy: It’s not just exploitative, it’s a diversity killer
  Is the “Devil Wears Prada” economy coming to a close? Will the sort-of-abusive, round-the-clock, sadistic-boss culture of entry-level jobs in Hollywood, book publishing, fashion magazines, and Washington politics find itself done in by the new overtime rules?