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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Persistent Fantasy of a Trump Knockout Punch</strong> - Will the New York case against the Trump Organization—finally—be his accountability moment? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/the-persistent-fantasy-of-a-trump-knockout-punch">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>New York City’s Needless Election Fiasco</strong> - A bungled vote-counting procedure brought national attention to the city’s long history of poor election administration. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/new-york-citys-needless-election-fiasco">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>After a Hundred Years, What Has China’s Communist Party Learned?</strong> - Beijing reverts to a belief that paranoia and suspicion are the best policies. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/after-a-hundred-years-what-has-chinas-communist-party-learned">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Britney Spears’s Conservatorship Nightmare</strong> - How the pop star’s father and a team of lawyers seized control of her life—and have held onto it for thirteen years. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/american-chronicles/britney-spears-conservatorship-nightmare">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Celebrating the Fourth with a Little Liberty</strong> - The arrival on Ellis Island of a little-sister statue from France offers a moment to reflect on what liberty means in 2021. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/celebrating-the-fourth-with-a-little-liberty">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>The GOP backlash against corporations isn’t real — yet</strong> -
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<img alt="The suspended Twitter account of President Donald Trump appears on an iPhone screen on January 8, 2021." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/XD_0p4udyNYib5m_3UQZ2_XRbhU=/244x0:4901x3493/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/69537636/1295389847.0.jpg"/>
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How culture wars and the diploma divide are pushing corporate America and the GOP apart.
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For much of this year, Republicans have been openly feuding with their most important constituency — big business.
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After the January 6 insurrection, the social media giants deleted Trump’s accounts while other major corporations, like Comcast and UPS, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/01/business/corporate-pac-suspensions/">suspended campaign donations</a> to Republicans who supported overturning the 2020 election.
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After Georgia passed its crackdown on voting rights in April, <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2021/4/5/22368566/corporate-response-georgia-sb202">Coca-Cola and Delta Air Lines condemned the bill</a>, while <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/31183822/mlb-moving-all-star-game-atlanta-georgia-voting-law">Major League Baseball moved its All-Star Game out of Atlanta</a> — leading <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/dont-buy-conservative-rebellion-against-corporations/618519/">Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell</a> to warn that “corporations will invite serious consequences if they become a vehicle for far-left mobs to hijack our country.” <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/04/02/983709091/these-are-the-businesses-speaking-out-against-texass-newly-proposed-election-law">Corporate criticism of Texas’s new voting legislation</a>, likely to be approved in a <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2021/06/22/texas-greg-abbott-special-session/">special legislative session</a>, prompted <a href="https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/lone-star-politics/watch-lt-gov-dan-patrick-discusses-texas-election-ballot-security-bill/2598206/">Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick</a> (R) to openly threaten financial retaliation.
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In May and June, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/06/08/republicans-business-desantis-cruise/">blocked cruise line companies’ renewed efforts</a> to require their passengers and crew to get Covid-19 vaccinations. The phrase “woke capital,” an epithet for a corporate world deemed overly left-wing, is everywhere in conservative discourse.
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The liberal reaction to all this has <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/dont-buy-conservative-rebellion-against-corporations/618519/">largely been dismissive</a>, seeing the GOP battle with corporations as more lovers’ spat than divorce. Liberals point out that Facebook <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2021/6/4/22519076/trump-facebook-two-years-oversight-board">opened the door to a Trump return</a> in two years, while corporations have <a href="https://popular.info/p/what-corporate-pacs-are-doing-6-months">figured out ways around their no-donation pledges</a>. Meanwhile, they say, most of the GOP anti-corporate rhetoric isn’t backed up by policy substance: DeSantis’s fight with cruise lines is one of only a handful of Republican efforts with real teeth.
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Certainly, history doesn’t give much reason to think this will all amount to something real. The GOP and corporate America have been joined at the hip for the entirety of the modern political era, animated by opposition to regulation and taxation.
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Yet the tremors are worth taking seriously: They are manifestations of a tectonic shift in American politics toward polarization along <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22256052/democrats-white-suburban-voters-economy">educational lines</a>.
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Whites with college degrees, a longtime Republican demographic, <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22256052/democrats-white-suburban-voters-economy">have shifted into the Democratic camp</a>; noncollege whites have <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2018/11/education-gap-explains-american-politics/575113/">become the GOP’s most important base</a>. These fundamental shifts are realigning the interests of both the corporate world and the GOP — leading the former to lean into social liberalism, while the latter embraces right-wing cultural war as its principal message.
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These trends have been building up over time, and they suggest that the GOP anti-corporate turn could one day swell into something consequential, instead of mainly posturing.
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An important test case is happening now. The House is currently considering <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/23/gop-infighting-big-tech-crackdown-495605">a series of anti-trust bills targeting Big Tech</a>, the corporate sector populist Republicans hate most of all. How Republicans handle this legislative fight will give us a clue as to how serious the GOP’s anti-corporate turn is.
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“The longstanding relationship between the business community and the Republican Party is now changing,” says Didi Kuo, a Stanford political scientist who studies business and politics. “I’m really not sure what happens next.”
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How education polarization is leading to a clash between business and Republicans
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Corporate America is not a monolith. Different sectors of the economy and individual companies have different interests in politics; an oil firm and a renewable energy company will have very different views on which political side to favor. Many firms give heavily to both parties; some even favor Democrats.
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But it’s fair to say that the business community is generally on the GOP’s side. A 2014 study of <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/James-Gimpel/publication/268810620_Business_Interests_and_the_Party_Coalitions_Industry_Sector_Contributions_to_US_Congressional_Campaigns/links/5cbf1c8a92851c8d22ff6092/Business-Interests-and-the-Party-Coalitions-Industry-Sector-Contributions-to-US-Congressional-Campaigns.pdf">corporate PAC donations</a> found that 35 percent donated primarily to Republicans while a scant two percent preferred Democrats. A <a href="https://academic.oup.com/jla/article/doi/10.1093/jla/laz002/5552028">2019 paper</a>, which looked at campaign contributions from 3,800 CEOs of large companies, found that 57 percent heavily favored Republicans (only 19 percent leaned Democratic).
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That makes the recent rhetorical turn in the GOP striking. In his recent book <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Tyranny_of_Big_Tech/rCcrzgEACAAJ?hl=en"><em>The Tyranny of Big Tech</em></a>, Sen. Josh Hawley labeled companies like Google “the gravest threat to American liberty since the monopolies of the Gilded Age.” In May, Sen. Marco Rubio wrote an op-ed in <a href="https://prospect.org/economy/wall-street-must-stop-enabling-communist-china/?utm_campaign=wp_the_daily_202&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_daily202">the left-wing <em>American Prospect</em></a> blasting the GOP’s traditional pro-business policies. “Politicians in my own party have too often been reluctant to intervene over concerns about the ‘free market.’ But things are changing,” argued Rubio.
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<img alt="NIH Leadership Testify Before Senate Appropriations Subcommittee" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/5AqnDW-TCUtQwGno9SgyAw_PaFk=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22696394/1233119191.jpg"/> <cite>Getty Images</cite>
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Sen. Marco Rubio at a committee hearing.
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This kind of rhetoric is a direct outgrowth of the Trump years. The former president showed that the politics of cultural grievance can be a winning formula for the GOP — that attacks on minorities, the media, and “liberal elites” are powerfully resonant with non-college whites in particular. From vaccines to public safety to <a href="https://www.vox.com/22443822/critical-race-theory-controversy">“critical race theory,”</a><strong> </strong>virtually all of the GOP’s messaging works to highlight the culture war. The party’s free market ideology is, as a consequence, simply less important to its public identity.
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“At this point, [Republicans] are driven mostly by cultural grievances that stem from the preoccupations of their most activist followers and … the conservative entertainment complex,” says Geoffrey Kabaservice, the vice president of political studies at the center-right Niskanen Center. “Those things really have very little to do with business’ calculations about those things that are best for it.”
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While Republicans have political incentives to play up their populist, culturally conservative stances — even when they come into tension with free-market ideas — corporations face powerful pressures to take liberal positions on the social issues that most animate the GOP base.
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Over the past few decades, the percentage of Americans with a college degree has <a href="https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2016/demo/p20-578.pdf">increased significantly</a>, as has <a href="https://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/Pages/degree-inflation-us-competetiveness.aspx">the percentage of good-paying jobs that require one</a>. The biggest sectors in the new “knowledge economy,” like Big Tech and finance, are full of employees with college degrees, while some traditional blue collar sectors like manufacturing have stagnated.
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Between 1956 and 2016, Republicans won a majority of whites with college degrees in <a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trump-may-become-the-first-republican-in-60-years-to-lose-white-college-graduates/">every single presidential election</a>. But in the Trump years, Republicans’ identity demagoguery pushed college-educated whites — who tend to have more culturally liberal values — <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22256052/democrats-white-suburban-voters-economy">into the Democratic camp</a>.
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Research suggests that these changes are behind the new corporate willingness to make liberal statements on significant cultural issues, like voter suppression and anti-trans bills. “It’s harder for businesses [now] to stay out of the chaos and say ‘we’re not involved’ in the social issues of the day,” says Zhao Li, a Princeton professor who studies the politics of business.
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Liberal consumers care a lot about the politics of the corporations they buy from. One study found that Democrats are <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2053168017738632">more likely to boycott businesses for political reasons than Republicans</a>; another found that liberal consumers are more likely to purchase a company’s product <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1086026619848144">if its CEO had publicly taken liberal political stances</a>.
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For major retail corporations with high brand recognition, like Coca-Cola, the political perceptions of liberals really matters. Not only are there more college graduates than ever, but these graduates have an outsized market share because <a href="https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/page1-econ/2017/01/03/education-income-and-wealth/">college graduates make more money</a>. When you combine rising education polarization with other changes to key demographics, like the <a href="https://www.prdaily.com/report-83-of-millennials-want-brands-to-align-with-them-on-values/">overwhelmingly liberal preferences of younger Americans</a>, corporations have strong incentives to offer at least symbolic support for socially liberal causes.
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But pressure on corporations isn’t just coming from the outside — it’s coming from the inside as well. The increasingly educated and urban workforce at major corporations is also pushing them in a more socially liberal direction.
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A <a href="https://corymaks.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/ergs_lgbt_activism_withtitlepage.pdf">recent paper by two political scientists</a>, Cory Maks-Solomon and Josiah Mark Drewry, examined the effect of LGBTQ employee groups on every Fortune 500 company, finding “robust evidence that in highly-educated workforces LGBT employee groups persuade management to take public stances in support of LGBT rights.”
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Another <a href="https://faculty.insead.edu/jasjit-singh/documents/Bode_Singh_Rogan_Corporate_Social_Initiatives_and_Employee_Retention_PRINT.pdf">study of 10,000 employees at a management consulting firm</a> found that the launch of corporate social initiatives made employees less likely to quit: “Consultants in this firm willingly took pay cuts to participate in corporate social initiatives, and their post-participation likelihood of staying at the firm was greater than that of nonparticipants.”
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Beyond the culture wars, there’s also the issue of how the Republican Party’s assaults on democracy affects the stability of the American system — something corporate America is deeply invested in. Corporations may instinctively side with the GOP on policy, but if right-wing radicalism leads to market dysfunction and political instability, then that may sway business toward the Democratic Party and its small-d democratic agenda.
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“As the country becomes more dysfunctional, that presents a greater existential threat to the business community that I think they’ll also be responsive to,” Kuo says.
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The GOP’s “war” on corporate America has been hollow, so far
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For all the tension between the Republican Party and big business so far, there has been no break-up — not even close.
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There have been policies here and there: DeSantis’s battle with cruise lines, for example, and a vote in Georgia’s House of Representatives to <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/04/01/georgia-house-passes-bill-stripping-delta-of-a-multimillion-tax-break-after-it-slammed-the-states-new-voting-restrictions/">eliminate Delta’s special multi-million dollar tax cut</a> as punishment for its opposition to the state’s new voting law. But the spat has been mostly rhetorical, corporate-bashing to win points with anti-elite Trumpists. The Delta bill, for example, was <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/01/politics/georgia-voting-law-house-delta-tax-breaks/index.html">never even considered by the state Senate</a>.
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What would a true breakup look like? It would at least involve an end to the mutual aid agreement that’s sustained their political alliance: businesses cutting off the cash flow to the right and Republicans becoming more willing to raise taxes and regulate corporate behavior.
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So far, there’s very little evidence of this happening. “It’s striking how the GOP has doubled down on very unpopular plutocratic priorities, e.g., opposition to reasonable changes in tax code,” says Jacob Hacker, a political scientist at Yale.
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When Rubio <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/03/12/amazon-union-not-helping-working-class-economy-column/6947823002/">wrote an op-ed</a> in March supporting the unionization drive an Amazon plant in Alabama, he argued on pure culture war grounds — casting his position as punishment for Amazon removing an anti-trans book from its book store. He also said that he would continue to oppose <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22307891/democrats-unions-pro-act-policy-feedback">the PRO Act</a>, the transformative pro-union bill passed by Democrats in the House, because “adversarial relations between labor and management are wrong.”
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Rubio’s article is unusually transparent about the hollowness of its argument. But it’s representative of the party’s anti-corporate positioning so far — all hat and no cattle.
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“The party appears at this point to be caught between its old identity and this new identity that it thinks it wants to take on, due to the influence of Donald Trump. But there’s very little convincing about this transformation so far,” says Kabaservice, the Niskanen scholar.
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Yet the fact that business-Republican tensions haven’t yielded much of a substantive shift doesn’t mean they won’t in the future. One of the most significant tests of the GOP-corporate alliance’s durability, at least in the short term, is the Republican relationship with tech.
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Mark Zuckerberg testifying before Congress.
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Republicans have long been suspicious of Big Tech, accusing them of censoring conservative speech (<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/02/01/censorship-conservatives-trump-facebook-twitter-youtube/4316155001/">generally with little evidence</a>). Adding to the suspicion is that these companies — Apple, Facebook, and the like — tend to have highly educated workforces with <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/02/most-liberal-tech-companies-ranked-by-employee-donations.html">extremely liberal political views</a>.
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Tensions exploded after the January 6 attack on the Capitol, when multiple platforms banned then-President Trump for fear that his inflammatory posts could incite future violence. “If Big Tech can ban a former president, what’s to stop them from silencing the American people next?” Republican National Committee chair <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/facebooks-oversight-board-rnc-trump-ban">Ronna Romney McDaniel</a> said in May after Facebook extended its Trump ban to 2023.
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Currently, the GOP’s seriousness in taking Big Tech to task and using government to regulate business is being tested in the House, which is considering <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/06/24/tech-antitrust-bills-pass-house-committee/">a package of bills</a> strengthening anti-trust regulations on big tech companies.
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The bills, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-joe-biden-amazoncom-inc-apple-inc-technology-4c2765b955e4c556002aebb8e48d3c21">a Democratic-led effort that began with some Republican buy-in</a>, have gained support from prominent Trumpy House Republicans like Matt Gaetz (FL) and Madison Cawthorn (NC) — though House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has come out against them, as has ranking House Judiciary member Jim Jordan (OH) (they have <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/mccarthy-plan-big-tech-accountable-stop-bias">their own counterproposal</a>).
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So far, the early signs are that GOP leadership is winning: The bills passed out of the Judiciary Committee with mostly Democratic support.
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Anti-tech Republicans may well fail to bring the party to their side. But the fact that we’re even talking about a conflict between Republicans and corporate America speaks to a fundamental shift in American politics. As white voters continue to polarize along educational lines in the post-Trump era, these skirmishes between two long-time allies deserve real attention.
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<li><strong>How sperm got all the credit in the fertilization story</strong> -
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The school system probably failed you. Here’s how fertilization really happens.
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The fertilization story most of us know is skewed. In the textbooks we read in middle school and high school, it’s presented as a sort of fairytale: The strong sperm go on a journey where they have to defeat and overcome obstacles to reach the egg. Meanwhile, the egg just sits around waiting to be fertilized.
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The story inherently carries a lot of gender bias, and what’s worse is that it’s not entirely true. The sperm can’t make the journey on its own, and the real story of fertilization involves two reproductive systems working together. While sperm have tails that seem like they’re meant for swimming, they can’t propel themselves all the way to the egg — they need the female reproductive tract to help move them forward. And the egg doesn’t just wait around for the sperm to reach it; it has an active role in selecting which sperm will be the best one to fertilize it.
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So why has the fertilization story been skewed in this gender-biased way? We dig into a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbG5YcHY4ZUVDR3NySWE4aG9VNlpnWTBYOGNKQXxBQ3Jtc0tsRW5oc2lpMW1FUFVWV2pqWVYtVFp1Tno2VnVlZXFXQ1JySEhIemxCNzFrNHVyVzNFOUNXLXRrVnViU2l4M1RMNmpRTEpTazV2WENtSklZV29IeFRrR1E2RjVLLTlxeTZfNXc1dzZ2VHM0cTltWUMtUQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchgate.net%2Fpublication%2F257682406_Revisiting_The_fertilization_fairytale_an_analysis_of_gendered_language_used_to_describe_fertilization_in_science_textbooks_from_middle_school_to_medical_school">study of textbooks</a> from middle school to medical school to find out.
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You can find this video and all of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLXo7UDZvByw2ixzpQCufnA">Vox’s videos on YouTube</a>.
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<li><strong>It’s incredibly hard to get a rape conviction. Bill Cosby’s release makes it feel pointless.</strong> -
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Bill Cosby walks towards reporters gathered outside his home in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, after his assault conviction was overturned on June 30. | Matt Slocum/AP
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After Cosby’s vacated conviction, is rape a crime?
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Is rape a crime?
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That’s the question at the center of Michelle Bowdler’s provocative <a href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=66960X1516588&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbookshop.org%2Fbooks%2Fis-rape-a-crime-a-memoir-an-investigation-and-a-manifesto%2F9781250255631&referrer=vox.com&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.com%2Fculture%2F22559561%2Fbill-cosby-vacated-sentence-is-rape-a-crime-michelle-bowdler-interview" rel="sponsored nofollow noopener" target="_blank">2020 book</a> with that title — and in light of the news on June 30 that a conviction against Bill Cosby, accused by 60 women of sexual assault and rape, <a href="https://www.vox.com/22557691/bill-cosby-pennsylvania-released-commonwealth-david-wecht-andrea-constand-metoo-sexual-assault">would be vacated on constitutional grounds</a>, Bowdler’s question takes on a new urgency.
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<a href="https://www.nsvrc.org/resource/criminal-victimization-2018">The National Sexual Violence Resource Center</a> estimates that only a quarter of all rapes committed every year are reported. <a href="https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system">According to RAINN (Rape Abuse Incest National Network)</a>, of every 1,000 sexual assaults, 310 will be reported to the police, 50 will lead to arrests, 28 to conviction, and 25 to incarceration. Although studies estimate that <a href="https://www.nsvrc.org/resource/false-allegations-sexual-assault-analysis-ten-years-reported-cases">between 2 and 10 percent of rape claims are false reports</a> — roughly the same rate as other crimes — law enforcement officials are disproportionately likely to dismiss rape cases as unfounded.
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“Are there other crimes where the first question asked is whether the victim is being truthful,” asks Bowdler in her book, “and where there is no ensuing investigation to determine if that conclusion can be backed up with facts?”
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Cosby’s case is an unusual one. He was convicted of sexual assault in 2018 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/9/25/17896250/bill-cosby-andrea-constand-sentence-sexual-assault-prison">sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison</a> for assaulting Andrea Constand more than a decade earlier, in 2004. However, in 2005, Cosby had come to an informal agreement with then-Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor, under which Castor assured Cosby that he would not pursue criminal charges against him. When deposed in a civil case Constand brought against him later that year, Cosby admitted to giving Quaaludes to women he wanted to have sex with. That deposition was later used as evidence against Cosby in his 2018 trial.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/023DKk4fm0pv6TIskdBBdPouE6o=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/22695658/GettyImages_1326349998_copy.jpg"/> <cite>Michael Abbott/Getty Images</cite>
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Bill Cosby with his team (from left) attorney Jennifer Bonjean, spokesperson Andrew Wyatt, and others outside of Cosby’s home in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, on June 30.
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Cosby most likely would not have made such an admission of guilt in his deposition if he had believed criminal charges would ever be brought against him, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court concluded. That logic formed the basis of its June 30 ruling that Cosby’s case would be vacated, and Cosby himself would be released from prison.
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There’s a legal argument to be made that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court made the right call in a messy case, <a href="https://www.vox.com/22557691/bill-cosby-pennsylvania-released-commonwealth-david-wecht-andrea-constand-metoo-sexual-assault">as Vox’s Ian Millhiser explains here</a>. But within the context of a larger conversation about how painfully difficult it is to get a rape conviction, the vacation of a conviction as high-profile as Cosby’s is striking.
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<em>Is Rape a Crime?</em> is one of the best summaries of that conversation I know of. Part memoir, part manifesto, it tells the story of how Bowdler navigated the aftermath of her own rape in 1984, when two strangers broke into her house and robbed and assaulted her at knifepoint. Bowdler reported her rape to the police immediately and submitted to a lengthy and traumatizing sexual assault evidence kit, but her attackers were never caught. It would be 20 years before she learned that the police never actually investigated her rape, apparently because the detective in charge of the case didn’t care for the department’s new bureaucratic policies on sexual assault cases and was throwing his weight around.
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“My ability to learn about a life-altering trauma depended on what this person had done with my case,” Bowdler writes, “and, it seemed, he had done nothing.”
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As <em>Is Rape a Crime?</em> makes clear, cases like Bowdler’s have happened all over the country: shocking acts of violence that the police would never investigate, or that prosecutors would decline to take to court, or that juries would dismiss out of hand; acts of violence that the apparatus of our law enforcement system would refuse, over and over again, to treat as crimes. That’s the context in which Cosby’s vacated conviction exists.
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To make sense of it, I called up Bowdler, who is now executive director of health and wellness at Tufts University, and asked her to put it all into words for me. On the day after Cosby’s vacation was announced, we talked about how the justice system fails rape survivors, and what it would mean to truly treat rape as a crime. Our conversation, lightly edited for length and clarity, is below.
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<strong>What does it mean to ask the question, “Is rape a crime?”</strong>
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It actually was a question that was asked of me by a survivor. Initially, it shocked me.
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She came to that question, and I came to that question, after doing advocacy work, trying to make changes with the criminal justice system, and feeling like we were not making the kind of progress that we would have expected given a lot of the conditions that existed. After yesterday, it felt even more relevant.
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The question is actually meant to ask, “What does it take for survivors to feel like they can get any form of justice, or even acknowledgment of the devastation of this experience in our society?”
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It is the least successfully prosecuted major felony. It’s the least reported. Out of the reported crimes, very, very few even go to prosecution and conviction. And while I have my own significant criticism of our current criminal justice system, it doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t at least look at why this felony crime is treated differently than all others.
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<strong>I think some people would look at the case of what’s happening with Bill Cosby and say, “Okay, but his sentence isn’t getting vacated because law enforcement didn’t take his crime seriously. It’s because the prosecutorial team messed up.” How do you respond to that idea?</strong>
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The prosecutorial team is part of the criminal justice system. Think about what it takes to get a conviction. Think of that <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2015/07/bill-cosbys-accusers-speak-out.html">New York magazine cover</a> with 35 women, just sitting, who had accused him of the very same behavior. For a lot of different reasons, some came forward, and some didn’t feel comfortable prosecuting him. Which is understandable: He was rich and famous. Yet when they all came together, the pattern was created.
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To have it vacated in that way, <a href="https://twitter.com/BillCosby/status/1410359498162769926">where he was reporting that he was vindicated</a>, and he doesn’t have to register as a sex offender — it’s like none of what’s happened over the last several years has happened.
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People were devastated. It just feels like more of the same. What does it take for people to be held accountable?
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<strong>In 2017 and 2018, as the Me Too movement was really taking off, I think a lot of people hoped that something had fundamentally shifted in our culture, and that we were really starting to treat rape and sexual assault as serious crimes. Do you think that change really arrived?</strong>
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Right after Harvey Weinstein, when people were losing their jobs who had been accused, it felt like a difference was starting. In fact, <a href="https://www.vox.com/2019/12/11/21003592/me-too-movement-sexual-assault-crimes-reporting">there was a blip in the data</a> for 2017: The reporting of cases seemed to go from about a quarter to 40 percent. People wondered if that was going to be a trend. Now it’s back down to a quarter again.
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<a href="https://nypost.com/2021/06/01/chris-matthews-takes-ownership-of-behavior-in-msnbc-return/">Chris Matthews is back on TV</a>. <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2021/06/11/jeffrey-toobin-cnn-problematic-apology-after-zoom-debacle/7654174002/">Jeffrey Toobin is back on TV</a>. <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/04/charlie-rose-tv-series-me-too-scandal-matt-lauer-louis-ck-tina-brown">Charlie Rose might be making a comeback</a>. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/03/11/louis-ck-new-standup/">Louis C.K. is sort of making a comeback</a>.
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It’s like, “I’ll say I’m sorry. I’ll say that I’m going to do some sort of treatment, and then I’ll come back.” It doesn’t really work that way, and the impact on victims and survivors doesn’t work that way either.
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I do think people are talking about it and writing about it more. There is a lot more expression of outrage, and an awareness of how and why we need to make change. And that is appreciated.
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But I think that we are going to have to do a lot more for the changes to stick: Overhaul our criminal justice system. Have more people in politics who look more like the rest of society. Have basic values of fairness and equity be expectable and not a surprise when they happen.
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<strong>What would it look like to actually treat rape as a crime?</strong>
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It’s about the response. Right now, somebody goes to law enforcement, and they’re not believed. It’s: “Are you sure about that? You’re a little fuzzy on details.” They’re trying to convince people not to go forward, because law enforcement is all about “what’s my win rate, what’s my case solve rate,” and rape cases are notoriously difficult.
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So to begin with, to have the people who are hearing people’s stories treat it like any other report of a devastating event. Not wondering if it’s true as the first thing, but to just listen, care about it, and investigate it.
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There were hundreds of thousands of rape kits in cities and towns all across the country that were never investigated. It was called a backlog, as though people intended to get to them but then they ran out of money. But in fact, many of these cases were closed without investigation.
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This is a crime of violence. More than 50 percent of the people it’s done to think it will end with their death. It’s not he-said/she-said, yet people treat it as if it’s as likely that somebody’s lying as that they’re telling the truth.
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We’re not going to get people reporting, and we’re not going to get people taken seriously, if we keep going on like this. But there’s healing that occurs when people just listen. If they believe you and say they’re sorry that it happened and they’ll try to investigate.
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It’s really hard to go through a criminal case. So what if there was an alternative? What if we did more on restorative justice? What if we did more to shore up people who’ve experienced such a devastating crime, and had ways to have them feel like they could move forward in our world and function, as opposed to thinking about guilt and innocence and winning cases?
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The whole model that we have is flawed. Our criminal justice system is not the model that I would look at to help rape victims feel taken seriously. But if we are going to, we have to have people trained in trauma response. We have to have a way for survivors to feel acknowledged and validated, and not treated like liars and as if they’re wasting people’s time. Which is too often the case.
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Semenya misses Tokyo, may be forced out of Olympics for good</strong> - In 2018, world track and field’s governing body introduced rules it said were aimed at female athletes with conditions called differences of sex development.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Lionel Messi’s Argentina heavy favorite vs Ecuador in Copa quarters</strong> - Ecuador has yet to win a match after three draws and a loss, but Argentina coach Lionel Scaloni has “maximum respect” for the team coached by his countryman Gustavo Alfaro</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Italy edges Belgium in thriller to reach Euro 2020 semis</strong> - The Azzurri will face Spain at Wembley on Tuesday for a place in the final.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>I now know the art of running better: Dutee Chand</strong> - Sprinter Dutee Chand says her first objective is to make it to the semifinals at Tokyo</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Spain beats Switzerland in penalties to reach Euro semi-finals</strong> - In open play, Spain took an early lead when Jordi Alba’s shot from outside the box was deflected into his own net by Denis Zakaria.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Heatwave abates, IMD forecasts drop in temp by 3-4 degrees over north India</strong> - The IMD had issued a heatwave alert for July 1-2</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Supreme Court expresses displeasure over Jharkhand HC orders summoning officials in bail case</strong> - The Supreme Court has expressed displeasure over the Jharkhand High Court orders summoning senior state officials while allowing an anticipatory bail</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Government’s OTT platform a cultural intervention: KSFDC Chairman</strong> - The State government’s proposed foray into the online content streaming space with the launch of an over-the-top (OTT) platform is a cultural interven</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Rahul, who flagged corruption in Rafale deal, stands vindicated: Congress</strong> - Party renews call for a probe by a Joint Parliamentary Committee into purchase of the fighters</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>CB begins probe into voters’ list ‘leak’</strong> - Illegal removal of poll data from a laptop at the CEO’s office</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Angela Merkel hopes to open up travel for double-jabbed visitors to Germany</strong> - Quarantine may be eased for fully vaccinated visitors to Germany from the UK, Angela Merkel says.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine plans for women to march in high heels spark outrage</strong> - The military wants women soldiers to march in heels rather than army boots on independence day.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Switzerland 1-1 Spain: Spain beat Switzerland on penalties to reach Euros semis</strong> - Spain book their place in the semi-finals of the European Championship after a penalty shootout win over Switzerland.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Belgium 1-2 Italy: Azzurri set up Euro 2020 semi-final with Spain</strong> - Italy set up a Euro 2020 semi-final match with Spain after edging an exhilarating tie with Belgium in Munich.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Russian hackers are trying to brute-force hundreds of networks</strong> - Moscow’s Fancy Bear group has been on a password-guessing spree this whole time. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1777985">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>OpenZFS 2.1 is out—let’s talk about its brand-new dRAID vdevs</strong> - dRAID vdevs resilver very quickly, using spare capacity rather than spare disks. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1777983">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Apps with 5.8 million Google Play downloads stole users’ Facebook passwords</strong> - Researchers uncovered 9 apps that used a sneaking method to pilfer credentials. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1778045">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>US hits anti-robocall milestone but annoying calls won’t stop any time soon</strong> - Large carriers deploy STIR/SHAKEN. Small carriers, old landlines are still problems. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1777987">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>German scientists built a high-resolution microscope out of Lego bricks</strong> - The only non-Lego components are the lenses, salvaged from smartphone cameras. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1777775">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>What do you call the sexuality where you’re attracted to men and women but neither are attracted to you?</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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Bi-yourself.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/patoreddit"> /u/patoreddit </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ocn75o/what_do_you_call_the_sexuality_where_youre/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ocn75o/what_do_you_call_the_sexuality_where_youre/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>My girlfriends name is Wendy and I had it tattooed on my penis (NSFW)</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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My girlfriends name is Wendy and I had it tattooed on my penis.
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When it’s flaccid you can only see WY.
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On a trip to the Caribbean I went to the bathroom and was standing at the trough next to a local.
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I briefly gazed down and saw that he too had WY tattooed on his penis.
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I asked him if his girlfriends name was also Wendy.
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He said ‘No. When I am aroused it says “Welcome to Jamaica- Have a nice day” ‘.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/notriple"> /u/notriple </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ocok2h/my_girlfriends_name_is_wendy_and_i_had_it/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ocok2h/my_girlfriends_name_is_wendy_and_i_had_it/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>My friend got really mad when he caught me sniffing his sister’s underwear.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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I don’t know if it was because she was still wearing them or that the rest of the family was watching. Either way, the funeral got very awkward after that.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/timthedriller"> /u/timthedriller </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ocp50a/my_friend_got_really_mad_when_he_caught_me/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ocp50a/my_friend_got_really_mad_when_he_caught_me/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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A 75-year-old man walked into a crowded doctors waiting room and approached the desk.
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The Receptionist said, ‘Yes sir, what are you seeing the Doctor for today?’ ‘There’s something wrong with my dick’, he replied.
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The receptionist became irritated and said, ‘You shouldn’t come into a crowded waiting room and say things like that.’
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‘Why not, you asked me what was wrong and I told you,’ he said. The Receptionist replied; ‘Now you have caused some needless embarrassment in this room full of people. You should have said there is something wrong with your ear or something and discussed the problem further with the Doctor in private.’
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The man replied, ‘You should not ask people questions in a roomful of strangers if the answer could embarrass anyone.’ The man then decided to walk out, waited several minutes and then re-entered.
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The Receptionist smiled smugly and asked, ‘Yes??’
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‘There’s something wrong with my ear,’ he stated loudly.
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The Receptionist nodded approvingly and smiled, knowing he had taken her advice. ‘What is wrong with your ear, Sir?’
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‘I can’t piss out of it,’ he replied.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Nigital_au"> /u/Nigital_au </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/oc9naq/a_75yearold_man_walked_into_a_crowded_doctors/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/oc9naq/a_75yearold_man_walked_into_a_crowded_doctors/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>Why should you always post jokes in American English?</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MoS42"> /u/MoS42 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/oca26g/why_should_you_always_post_jokes_in_american/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/oca26g/why_should_you_always_post_jokes_in_american/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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