Michael Moore appeared at “Stand for Rights: A Benefit for the ACLU” on Friday night, and discussed his time interacting with the non-profit back when he was a teenager.
After his segment on the livestream event, The Huffington Post caught up with Moore backstage, where the filmmaker elaborated on the various anti-Donald Trump statements he’s made recently.
“We’re already past the point,...
3/31/17
Cartoon: Naptime for diplomacy
Rex Tillerson doesn’t like his job , and it’s the only relatable thing about the rich former Exxon executive. He’s already missed events due to “fatigue” after less than two months on the job.
An hour before I finished this, it was announced that he’d attend the NATO meeting...
Wealthy White House Staffers' Finances Detailed In New Disclosures
WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Friday released details of the personal finances of his many wealthy staffers, including senior adviser Steve Bannon, whose pre-White House bank accounts, real estate and other holdings were valued at between $3.3 million and $12.6 million.
The late-night download of federal employee disclosure forms confirmed the affluence of many Trump...
Legislator tells colleagues Iowa women should be forced to carry dead fetuses indefinitely
Here's Iowa state representative Shannon Lundgren, aRepublicanOfCourse, explaining during a committee hearing on new anti-abortion legislation that yes, perhaps in the new republic of Gilead your daughter may be forced to carry an already-dead fetus inside her until the point at which it begins to rot...
Tina Fey Jokes That Trump Gave Up Assaulting Women For Lent At ACLU Event
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Tina Fey threw out one-liner after one-liner while co-hosting “Stand for Rights: A Benefit for the ACLU” on Friday night.
She started out by poking fun at her status as a “stay-at-home actress” before tossing some burns Donald Trump’s way, notably claiming that the president gave up assaulting women for Lent.
“Earlier tonight, in what is surely an April Fools’ joke, the president...
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Chelsea Clinton Stops By ACLU Event To Tell America She's Not Giving Up
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Chelsea Clinton delivered a clear message to all those watching “Stand for Rights: A Benefit for the ACLU” on Friday night: she’s not giving up and we shouldn’t either.
Introduced as the “alternate universe current first daughter of the United States,” Clinton stopped by the event to bring attention to voter suppression and the various efforts lawmakers utilize to prevent from...
Colin Jost Will Show You How To Improve Your Protest Signs
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Colin Jost stepped out from behind the “Saturday Night Live” Weekend Update desk tonight to anchor an extended bit at the ACLU’s “Stand For Rights” live benefit. The comedian instructed viewers on how to avoid making a bad protest sign.
“It seems as though there is something new to protest here everyday, and what do protests need? They need protest signs,” Jost said early in...
Missouri says no to federal money so it can say yes to restricting abortion
For women seeking abortions in Missouri, things just got even harder. For years, the state assisted low-income women in paying for family planning through a Medicaid program called Extended Women’s Health Services—a program funded by both the federal and state government. But now, a new...
Gordon Ramsey Just Shut Down The Pineapple Pizza Debate
Gordon Ramsey’s opinion on food, whether it’s laden with expletives or not, is the gold standard.
So when the “Hell’s Kitchen” chef weighs in on a hotly debated food topic ― like putting pineapple on your pizza ― we can rest assured that his word is the final word.
While hosting the late-night British talk show “The Nightly Show,” Ramsey ordered a pizza on TV and turned to the audience for suggestions...
Jane Krakowski Supports 'Boating Lights' At ACLU Event
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Jenna Maroney — uh, we mean Jane Krakowski — came out to talk about “boating lights” during “Stand for Rights: A Benefit for the ACLU” Friday night.
“It’s a matter of safety!” Krakowski exclaimed. She implores viewers boating in the dark to “just use a light.”
“Boats just speeding around in the dark, not a care. I mean, you could end up driving your boat right into the mouth of a whale!...
AT&T, Comcast Fire Back At Criticism Over Internet Privacy Policies
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House Republicans earlier this week passed a bill to scrap regulations preventing internet service providers from sharing customers’ personal information, including their web browsing history, without their consent.
Understandably, people aren’t exactly thrilled about the prospect of ISPs profiting off their browsing histories, and are raising hell about it. But AT&T, Comcast and...
Air Pollution Links People Thousands Of Miles Apart In Deadly Ways
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Air pollution and its costs travel, which means countries can’t fix this problem alone, according to an article published Thursday in the journal Nature.
The researchers looked in particular at how the human costs of ambient air pollution shift between China and the United States and Western Europe because of nature and the economy.
On the one hand, air contaminated by fine particulate...
Zendaya Shows Students Incredible STEM Career Opportunities In The Recording Studio
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Republicans put your internet privacy up for grabs. What can you do to take it back?
Since every Senate Republican and all but 15 House Republicans voted to dismantle your online privacy this week, what can you do to fight back? You can start by tweeting at popular vote loser Donald Trump and telling him to veto the bill, since we know he's on Twitter—a lot. But that's probably...
Tom Hanks Puts The ACLU's Mission In Words The Internet Understands
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If there’s anyone who could compel Americans to stand up and fight for human rights, it’s “America’s sweetheart” Tom Hanks.
As the de facto host of “Stand for Rights: A Benefit for the ACLU” on Friday night, Hanks kicked off the evening on a lighter note with an off-the-cuff and “kooky” opening to encourage viewers to get in formation.
The Oscar winner decided to distill...
Alec Baldwin: 'Just To Clean Up The Mess' After Trump Will Be 'Almost Impossible'
Alec Baldwin’s Twitter presence is infamous enough to both warrant a “South Park” parody and a loving moniker from his longtime friend Tina Fey. In an interview Fey did with David Letterman for The Hollywood Reporter after the election, she talked about Donald Trump’s mistake in feuding with Baldwin on the social media platform.
“You think you’re good at being a jerk on Twitter? You will now...
Woman Licks World Record For Stopping Fan Blades With Tongue
Tongues will surely be wagging over this Guinness World Record attempt.
Sideshow performer Zoe Ellis, aka Zoe L’Amour, recently appeared on the “Guinness World Records Italian Show” in hopes of breaking her own world record for stopping the most electric fan blades using her tongue in one minute.
Ellis previously managed to lick the world record by stopping fan blades with her tongue...
NYT takes on North Carolina’s 'bait-and-switch' repeal of the HB2 'bathroom bill'
When North Carolina lawmakers enacted a sham repeal Thursday of the state's anti-LGBTQ "bathroom bill" known as HB2, they locked in discrimination against gay and transgender individuals for the foreseeable future. Though the new law eliminated the requirement that restrooms used by transgender...
Shocking Video Shows Bad-Ass Badger Burying Entire Cow By Itself
This is one bad-ass badger.
University of Utah scientists who spent the winter studying how scavengers in the Great Basin handle the cold weather discovered something unprecedented in the annals of science: A very industrious badger managed to bury an entire cow carcass by itself over five days, then feasted on it.
The scientists had set out the carcass of a 50-pound calf in the belief...
Rainbow Flag Creator Gilbert Baker Dead At 65
Gilbert Baker, the artist and LGBTQ rights activist who created the rainbow flag, has died at age 65.
The Bay Area Reporter confirmed the news Friday on Facebook. The newspaper’s post offered few details, but noted that Baker had died in New York.
Author and activist Cleve Jones, whose book, When We Rise, inspired the recent ABC miniseries of the same name, also shared the news...
Democratic Senator In Deep-Red State Comes Out Against Neil Gorsuch
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WASHINGTON ― Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), who is up for re-election in 2018 in a state President Donald Trump won by double digits, announced Friday that she’ll vote against his Supreme Court nominee, appeals judge Neil Gorsuch.
McCaskill will join Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and a growing list of Democrats intent on denying Gorsuch the 60 votes he needs to clear a...
Orange County Sheriff's Department Admitted To Cultivating 'Hundreds Of Jailhouse Informants,' Lawyer Says
LOS ANGELES ― A notorious jailhouse informant program in Orange County has been maintained and promoted for decades by the OC Sheriff’s Department, whose leadership and staff were committed to illegally concealing it ― those are the explosive allegations from Assistant Public Defender Scott Sanders stemming from his review of more than 5,600 internal sheriff’s department documents.
The trove of...
Remembering César Chávez
Today, nearly a dozen states are observing the birth and legacy of César Chávez, the civil rights and labor rights leader who, along with Dolores Huerta, founded the United Farm Workers union to promote and defend the fair treatment of farm workers:
Chavez, an advocate of nonviolence, is...
U.S. Rates Of Double-Mastectomies For Breast Cancer Vary By State
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span class="articleLocation" style="transform: translate3d(0px, 0px, 0px);">(Reuters Health) - The likelihood that U.S. women with early-stage cancer in one breast will have both breasts removed varies depending on where they live, a new study shows.
For example, between 2010 and 2012, among women ages 20 to 44 with cancer in one breast, about 15 percent had both breasts removed in the...
Blind Teen Touched By Simple But Rare Act Of Getting Braille Manu
A powerful tweet is helping people realize the everyday struggles that people with disabilities face.
On March 27, Alyssa Herrera, a 16-year-old from Grove City, Ohio, went to a Red Robin restaurant with her grandmother, brother and her 17-year-old sister, Annalicia, who is blind.
Alyssa told the Huffington Post that dining out isn’t the most pleasant experience for her family.
“When we are out...
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