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Black Market Intimacies
The Transpacific Sexual Economy of the Korean War
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December 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Reimagining Aid
Foreign Donors, Women’s Health, and New Paths for Development in Cambodia
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December 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
December 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
How Chiropractors Became the Backbone of MAHA

Why they love Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and he loves them
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How Chiropractors Became the Backbone of MAHA
Why they love Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and he loves them.
www.politico.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Congressman William Hall. Originally from Portland, Maine. He gained notoriety for presiding at the 1855 trial of Celia, a 19-yr-old slave who killed her master, who'd been raping her for yrs. Celia was executed after Hall ruled that she had no right to defend herself
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December 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Police department forced to cough up $30m following 'catastrophic failure of policing'

The San Diego police shooting case reached a record-breaking settlement after an innocent 16-year-old was killed by cops
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Cops forced to cough up $30m following 'catastrophic failure of policing'
The San Diego police shooting case reached a record-breaking settlement after an innocent 16-year-old was killed by cops
www.themirror.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Factors associated with commercial sexual activities among students engaging in casual heterosexual behaviors: a cross-sectional study in Zhejiang Province www.frontiersin.org/journals/pub...
December 7, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Funny Pet Videos on Social Media Conceal Animal Suffering: Stress reactions of the animals were observed in 82% of all videos, while risks of injury were found in 52%. This study showed that successful animal videos are often related to poor animal welfare
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Popular but Harmful – How Funny Pet Videos on Social Media Conceal Animal Suffering
Every day, thousands of humorous animal videos are uploaded on social media platforms. In this study, 162 pet videos intended to be funny from various social media platforms were analyzed for conte...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Maximum duration of paid sick leave, in months (EU +UK)
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December 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Righting systemic wrongs of Illinois prisons

For decades, the state has offered limited avenues for rehabilitation and shorter sentences. It’s time lawmakers fix it.
chicagoreader.com/news/on-pris...
Righting systemic wrongs of Illinois prisons - Chicago Reader
For decades, the state has offered limited avenues for rehabilitation and shorter sentences. It’s time lawmakers fix it.
chicagoreader.com
December 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
New article examines how the live-action Snow White handles its 7 dwarfs: replacing actors with dwarfism by CGI figures & keeping a circus-style stereotype

The study argues these choices matter for how kids learn about disability, work & who is seen as “normal”
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Freirean Concept of Reading the World in the Live Action of Snow White | Cadernos de Linguística
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December 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Prisoners Sue Aramark, Contractor for Both Kitchen Service and Commissary
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Prisoners Sue Aramark, Contractor for Both Kitchen Service and Commissary - Filter
Commissary vendors, which provide the food and hygiene items sold to incarcerated people at a markup, have for years reaped ...
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December 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
San Francisco - 23 wild years of lesbian bar culture, this Sunday at Rikki’s

Last Call at Maud’s packs the Roxie. Rikki’s on Castro is next.
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23 wild years of lesbian bar culture, this Sunday at Rikki’s
A screening "Last Call at Maud's" brought an older generation of lesbians together to reminisce on the height of the lesbian bar scene.
missionlocal.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Colored Insane
Slavery, Asylums, and Mental Illness in the Nineteenth Century cup.columbia.edu/book/colored...
December 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Broken Bars: Reimagining a Blueprint for Healthcare in and Beyond Carceral Settings www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNIV...
Broken Bars: Reimagining a Blueprint for Healthcare in and Beyond Carceral Settings
YouTube video by Harvard Kennedy School Program in Criminal Justice
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December 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Dictating Reality
The Global Battle to Control the News cup.columbia.edu/book/dictati...
December 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Fabricating Communists: The Imagined Third That Reinvented the National Fault Line in Mid-Twentieth-Century Colombia’s Civil War journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
December 7, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The Eugenic Origins of Three Strikes Laws
How 'Habitual Offender' Sentencing Laws Were Used as a Means of Sterilization [PDF] www.sentencingproject.org/app/uploads/...
December 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
South London Refugee Association
Working with refugees, asylum seekers and other migrants in crisis. www.slr-a.org.uk
Home page - SLRA
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December 7, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Da'aro Youth Project
Our mission is to promote the well-being and empowerment of young individuals who arrive in the UK alone after traumatic journeys. www.daaroyouth.org.uk
December 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The Criminal Record Complex: Risk, Race, and the Struggle for Work in America press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
December 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It’s time for the decriminalisation of sex work in the United Kingdom decrimnow.org.uk
DECRIM NOW
National Campaign for Sex Workers’ Rights
decrimnow.org.uk
December 7, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The shifting sex industry in Singapore and the need for better screening for sex workers sph.nus.edu.sg/news/the-shi...
December 7, 2025 at 4:42 PM