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05.17.13 - 8:19 PM

Watch the stampede of NYPD at a 135th Street subway station when Clive Utter, 31, allegedly jumped the turnstile, after which he was slammed into the wall, dropped onto the floor and cuffed by at least 25 officers - and a bystander filming the mayhem was forced to stop. Your tax dollars at work.

-Abby Zimet
05.17.13 - 12:08 PM

As debate rages about sexual assault in the military, an officer in charge of sexual assault prevention has for the third time in two weeks been arrested for doing the things he's supposed to be preventing. Lt. Col. Darin Haas was charged with stalking and sending his wife threatening texts in violation of a court order. Haas was head of the sexual harassment and assault response program at Fort Campbell, Ky. Getting surreal.

-Abby Zimet
05.16.13 - 9:30 PM

The most ambitious survey on the causes of climate change - covering 11,994 peer-reviewed papers by 29,000 scientists over 20 years - has found that 97.1% agree climate change is caused by human activity, with dissenters representing a "vanishingly small proportion." Yet industry lobbying has created a "gaping chasm" between scientific consensus and public perception, with just 42% of Americans seeing the connection.

"The public have been confused because people have been trying to confuse us."

-Abby Zimet
05.16.13 - 12:04 PM

A gender-swapping prank from the gaming industry shows speaking up can make a difference. Meet Brosie the Riveter.

-Abby Zimet
05.16.13 - 11:03 AM

Enduring ailments ranging from dizziness to kidney failure to "aching heart," up to 130 detainees at Guantanamo enter their 100th day of a hunger strike Friday, with at least 30 being force-fed, five in critical condition, many facing irreversible health risks and several charging that they are threatened with body searches if they seek to contact lawyers. Thus has CNN responded to the travesty by running a heartfelt piece on the harsh conditions facing guards.

“Let them kill us as we have nothing to lose. We died when Obama indefinitely detained us.” - one longtime detainee

-Abby Zimet
05.15.13 - 12:06 PM

Fed up with Abercrombie & Fitch's douchey elitist policies - no clothes for the chubby, uncool or otherwise unbeautiful people, and surplus burned not donated - an L.A. filmmaker has begun a campaign to rebrand A&F clothes by giving them away to the people he knows A&F doesn't want wearing them - the homeless. Greg Karber's video has sparked both the indignant charge that he's exploiting the homeless by using them as props, and righteous admiration.

-Abby Zimet
05.15.13 - 11:35 AM

Today marks the 65th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba, or catastrophe, when over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from the land that became Israel. Protests, visuals, analysis and much more on the losses and hardships, lest we forget, that Palestinians continue to endure.

-Abby Zimet

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