Batwomen, Squirrel Girls, & Swashbuckling Women Pirates: sexual harassment & assault, denigrating leers & comments, blond & bimbo jokes

PASTICHE

a compelling compendium

VENEZUELA

Meet the charismatic opposition leader the Venezuela government just can't silence

Venezuela president makes surprise appearance at OECS meeting

Venezuela and the eclipse of American leadership OPINION

Venezuela accuses Latin American neighbours of 'meddling'

For Venezuela's government, protesting is 'terrorism'

Deaths and injuries reported amid 'mother of all marches' in Venezuela

Unchecked Power Police and Military Raids in Low-Income and Immigrant Communities in Venezuela

THAILAND

MRTA gears up to sign monorail deals

Panel hears bribery rife in fish industry

World Bank keeps wary outlook

Concerns raised over capital flight amid North Korea face-off

Southern attacks 'reflect tension over peace talks'

Multiple police raids hit global 'ice' trafficking cartel

Why Thailand’s military is trying to erase me from the Internet

CLIMATE CHANGE

Canadian glacier melt rerouted in rare case of 'river piracy,' scientists say

Twelve economic facts on energy and climate change A joint report from The Hamilton Project and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago

Middle Schoolers Lobby State Legislators for Clean Energy


Climate change upsets lives guided by nature, say native Americans


Put people first to solve the world's growing problems OPINION

WOMEN'S RIGHTS = HUMAN RIGHTS

Of Batwomen and Squirrel Girls: Why comics are becoming increasingly female

The Swashbuckling History of Women Pirates

White House Adviser Who Opposes Paid Leave, Equal Pay Now Working On Women’s Issues

Joe Biden Has Some Strong Words For Betsy DeVos

1986 | ‘Ms.’ Joins The Times’s Vocabulary

David Schwimmer's sexual harassment films are good. But this is women's work OPINION

YOU DECIDE

The True Story of Hitler’s Fake Baby Photo

The fake news that haunted George Washington


Fake olds: ‘Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force’ is probably not a real George Washington quote OPINION


The Forged ‘Ancient’ Statues That Fooled the Met’s Art Experts for Decades


Anchor Roundtable: Savannah Guthrie, Jake Tapper and More on Fake News, Fairness and When Trump Calls Your Phone


James Comey Says Americans Should Be Wary of 'Troll Farms' Peddling Fake News


Facebook fights fake news online with full-page print newspaper ads


You avoid fake designer handbags and watches, but what about furniture?


The real cost of Trump’s ‘fake news’ accusations

Fake Bernard Henri-Levy Quote Triggers French Anti-Semitic Avalanche

BOOKS

How to Tell a Story and Other Essays NONFICTION

The Refugees FICTION

Pirate Women: The Princesses, Prostitutes, and Privateers Who Ruled the Seven Seas NONFICTION


Crude Nation: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela NONFICTION

Communities of Potential: Social Assemblages in Thailand and Beyond NONFICTION

Looking for Alaska FICTION

WHIMSEY

Wat Pha Sorn Kaew (Temple on the Glass Cliff)

Umbrella Trees

WORDS MATTER



“But a hemisphere that prioritized the principle of sovereignty over all else had no desire to weigh in on Venezuela . . . except to try to keep the United States out of the political mix.” ---  Eric Farnsworth of the Council of the Americas and Americas Society

Beware those who lust after power. They are destroyers. [A picture is worth a thousand words]

On Lincoln’s birthday in February, Trump tweeted out an obviously fake quote from the 16th president: “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.” He later deleted it.

A fake CNN chyron went viral (this never actually appeared on the air):  The right-wing war on science didn’t start with climate change. The Right’s anti-science attacks have ranged from decrying the teaching of evolution in public schools, pushing instead for the teaching of Creationism and Intelligent Design, to promoting anti-choice junk science about how abortions cause breast cancer and infertility. And Republican politicians like Todd Akin (remember the “legitimate rape” guy?) rely on fake science from biased sources to push policies that restrict access to abortion. And anti-gay activists have routinely used pseudoscience that pathologizes the “homosexual lifestyle” to argue against rights for the LGBTQ community.  --  katie O'Connell, People For the American Way NOTE: The news sources here vary.  Not all sources have the same credibility, but in an effort to share some different perspectives, they are included here.  This compendium itself cannot claim to be unbiased.  Please take into consideration where these different perspectives originate in assessing their value.  Thank you.

A fake CNN chyron went viral (this never actually appeared on the air):  The right-wing war on science didn’t start with climate change. The Right’s anti-science attacks have ranged from decrying the teaching of evolution in public schools, pushing instead for the teaching of Creationism and Intelligent Design, to promoting anti-choice junk science about how abortions cause breast cancer and infertility. And Republican politicians like Todd Akin (remember the “legitimate rape” guy?) rely on fake science from biased sources to push policies that restrict access to abortion. And anti-gay activists have routinely used pseudoscience that pathologizes the “homosexual lifestyle” to argue against rights for the LGBTQ community.  --  katie O'Connell, People For the American Way NOTE: The news sources here vary.  Not all sources have the same credibility, but in an effort to share some different perspectives, they are included here.  This compendium itself cannot claim to be unbiased.  Please take into consideration where these different perspectives originate in assessing their value.  Thank you.

A fake CNN chyron went viral (this never actually appeared on the air): 

The right-wing war on science didn’t start with climate change.

The Right’s anti-science attacks have ranged from decrying the teaching of evolution in public schools, pushing instead for the teaching of Creationism and Intelligent Design, to promoting anti-choice junk science about how abortions cause breast cancer and infertility.

And Republican politicians like Todd Akin (remember the “legitimate rape” guy?) rely on fake science from biased sources to push policies that restrict access to abortion. And anti-gay activists have routinely used pseudoscience that pathologizes the “homosexual lifestyle” to argue against rights for the LGBTQ community.  --  katie O'Connell, People For the American Way

NOTE: The news sources here vary.  Not all sources have the same credibility, but in an effort to share some different perspectives, they are included here.  This compendium itself cannot claim to be unbiased.  Please take into consideration where these different perspectives originate in assessing their value.  Thank you.