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'Give them their flowers!' — Lizzo honored women activists during her People's Choice Award speech. Watch the touching moment here.

BREAKING: Judge Stephen Murphy ruled that the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office presented enough evidence in court against defendant David DePape to move the case forward to trial on all charges. The most serious charge is premeditated attempted murder.

Enjoyed this conversation with People are the Answer where we talked about career decisions, working at kiva.org and the impact technology can make on the world: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/peo…

Now this is an ad. Wow.

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Carnations you thought were roses

Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond says if the top 1% of Americans paid the taxes they owed, it would raise $175 billion each year. "That is just about enough to pull everyone out of poverty," the author says. n.pr/3yT1Olt

Natural ecosystems transfer over 13 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide per year (equal to more than one-third of global emissions from fossil fuels) to mycorrhizal fungi, locking it away underground. Rewilding is climate action too. newscientist.com/article/237682…

Am the only one struck by the enormous difference between the massive effort to save five people in the Titanic submersible and the Greek Coast Guard's pathetic effort to save hundreds of migrants from their obviously precarious boat just before it sank? edition.cnn.com/2023/06/21/us/…

In Finland, women get 1 year paid maternity leave, a stipend per child, and free childcare. In the US, you may use the bathroom and drink water.

The news is always like: "America has banned wheelchair ramps because they weren't in the Bible. Finland has made ice cream free."

Today's low: 57 degrees Today's high: the Republican Party in complete disarray

I need young women to hear me: it wasn’t until 1974 women were granted the right to establish credit in their own name and banks could no longer require a co-signer like a husband or father. A brief 50 years. Just like Roe. Pay attention, please. 🙏🏻

Ryan Gosling just released a statement that directly calls out this morning’s Gerwig and Robbie snubs in best director and best actress:

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$70k/yr is considered low-income. $20/hr is only $41,600/yr if you work full-time and never take time off. $20/hr only sounds high because we’ve been told over and over it’s too high by the same businesses making record profits.

When two-thirds of the people killed in Gaza are women and children, when you block humanitarian aid, you’re not just going after Hamas. You’re going after the entire Palestinian people.

I’m a few years older than JD Vance and I can tell you a lot of us don’t have children because we keep meeting guys like JD Vance.