https://www.wedgies.com/js/widgets.jsVote on our poll for #SoundOff! Should the US ban the Confederate flag from flying above government buildings?! newsweek: #SoundOff! We want to hear from you. In the wake of a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal, a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a white shooter the nation’s cable news cycles…

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motherjones: The leadership gap is abysmal.  Tech companies often chalk up their lack of gender diversity to a “leaky pipeline,” or a surge of women leaving engineering. But a new LinkedIn analysis of its members’ data suggests that the lack of female engineers working in tech can’t be so easily explained away.

aquariusirl: Whoops there it is Source: kehaunani

Marvel Officially Hires Ava DuVernay to Direct Black Panther Movie

soph-okonedo: Marvel made good on one of the most exciting rumors surrounding their upcoming Phase Three slate. Ava DuVernay of Selma fame will direct Chadwick Boseman in Black Panther, Marvel’s first minority-led superhero movie. The DuVernay choice is great news for the future of the Marvel franchise not only because of the more diverse perspective she can…

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songofsunset: So I was on Bernie Sander’s official website just now (because oooh mailing lists, I want in) and I scrolled down and at the bottom of the page Gettin’ salty there Mr. Sanders

Anti-Union “Silly Billy” Targets Raging Chicken Editor in PASSHE Records Request

Anti-Union “Silly Billy” Targets Raging Chicken Editor in PASSHE Records Request On June 11, faculty and staff at Kutztown University and other PASSHE campuses received email notification that the anti-union activist, Simon Campbell, is filing an appeal to gain access to the home addresses of university employees who asked that their addresses be excluded from Campbell’s original…

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#PABudget: House Speaker Uses Talking Points Prepared By Natural Gas Industry at Capitol Press Conference

#PABudget: House Speaker Uses Talking Points Prepared By Natural Gas Industry at Capitol Press Conference Who is running our government? At a press conference on Governor Wolf’s Marcellus Shale Severance Tax earlier this week, House Speaker Mike Turzai attacked Governor Wolf’s proposed severance tax.  The AP wrote: Turzai says the natural gas industry is already producing about…

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#PaBudget: Scott Wagner’s Whirly Bird Gets a Twitter Account

#PaBudget: Scott Wagner’s Whirly Bird Gets a Twitter Account Last week, State Senator Scott Wagner took ABC 27’s Dennis Ownes for a ride. Literally and figuratively. As a budget stunt, the senator flew the media personality over some of the Commonwealth’s “well to do” claiming that there’s nothing wrong with public schools because they look fine…

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