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• Rainbow 50 Pence Coin to Mark 50 Years of Pride Movement in the UK

  19-05-2022 12:03 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: BBC News - UK NewsA rainbow 50p coin will be minted to mark the the 50th anniversary of the Pride movement in the United Kingdom. The coin features Pride in London's values of Protest, Visibility, Unity, and Equality in rainbows with the Pride progression flag. It was designed by Dominique Holmes, an east London artist, writer, and LGBTQ+ activist. This will be the first time the LGBTQ+ community has been celebrated on an official UK coin.
  
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• Biden Calls on Americans to Reject "Poison" of White Supremacy

  19-05-2022 12:03 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthPresident Joe Biden on Tuesday did not hesitate to call the deadly mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, an act of domestic terrorism, condemning the racist ideology of the suspected shooter. "White supremacy is a poison. It's a poison... running through our body politic," Biden said, adding that "We need to say as clearly and as forcefully as we can that the ideology of White supremacy has no place in America... Silence is complicity."
  
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• Australia Election: Why Is Australia's Parliament So White?

  19-05-2022 12:03 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: BBC News - AsiaAustralia is one of the most multicultural nations in the world, but it's a different story in the country's politics, where 96% of federal lawmakers are White. Nearly half of all Australians were either born overseas or have a parent who was born overseas, yet the parliament looks almost as White today as it did in the days of the "White Australia" policy, when from 1901 to the 1970s, the nation banned non-White immigrants.
  
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• Federal Judge Strikes Down Tennessee Bathroom Signage Law

  19-05-2022 12:02 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: CNN - Top StoriesA federal judge on Tuesday struck down a Tennessee law that required some businesses to post signs outside their bathroom doors if they allow transgender or nonbinary people to use those that match their gender identity—a policy LGBTQ advocates charged was "offensive and humiliating" for members of the community and could lead to harassment. In her ruling, the judge deemed the law "a brazen attempt to single out trans-inclusive establishments."
  
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• U.S. Navy Desertions Have More Than Doubled Amid Suicide Concerns

  19-05-2022 11:56 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthThe number of sailors who deserted the Navy more than doubled from 2019 to 2021, while desertions in other military branches dropped or stayed flat, pointing to a potential Navy-wide mental health crisis amid a spate of recent suicides, according to experts. Among more than 342,000 active sailors, there were 157 new Navy deserters in 2021, compared with 63 in 2019. The total number who were still at large in 2021 was 166, and most were 25 and...
  
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• Liz Cheney Accuses GOP Leadership of Enabling White Supremacy

  19-05-2022 11:50 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: Google News - HealthIn the wake of the Buffalo supermarket shooting, Republican Representative Liz Cheney is accusing her party's leaders of enabling white nationalism, white supremacy, and antisemitism. "History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse," she tweeted Monday morning. Cheney then went a step further, calling on Republican leaders to "renounce and reject these views and those who hold them."
  
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• Jill Biden, Selena Gomez Lead Talk on Youth Mental Health

  19-05-2022 11:31 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: U.S. News and World ReportSelena Gomez joined first lady Jill Biden and U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy at the White House on Wednesday for a conversation about youth mental health. The singer/actor has been public about her struggles and revealed in 2020 that she had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Murthy said open conversation will help change "hearts and minds" and help remove the stigma associated with mental health.
  
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• How Climate Change May Be Putting Millions at Risk of Radon Exposure

  19-05-2022 11:02 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: PBS ScienceDeep in the frozen ground of the north, a radioactive hazard has lain trapped for millennia, but today, climate change is melting permafrost at an accelerating rate. In a report published in January, one study used modeling techniques to show that homes with basements built on areas of permafrost could be exposed to high levels of an invisible but deadly radioactive gas named radon.
  
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• ‘Some things can’t be repaired’: how do you recover when a friend betrays you?

  19-05-2022 11:00 via theguardian.com
  
  With the ‘Wagatha Christie’ trial poring over the destruction of a celebrity friendship, four people share their experiences of treachery and traumaAs the libel suit between Rebekah Vardy and Coleen Rooney rumbles on in the high court, the public has heard weeks of claims and counterclaims about Instagram stings, paparazzi ambushes and phones lost in the sea. But one thing has been clear from the outset: one of the two women has been betrayed. Either, as Rooney claims, Vardy sold sto
  
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• U.S. Doctors Often Mistreated by Patients, Families, Study Finds

  19-05-2022 10:53 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: United Press International - Health NewsNearly one-third of U.S. doctors have experienced mistreatment from patients or their families, including racist or sexist remarks, a study published Thursday in JAMA Network Open found. Among more than 6,500 responding physicians across the country, just under 30% said they were "subjected to racially or ethnically offensive remarks" within the past year, and a similar percentage indicated they had had "offensive sexist remarks" directed toward...
  
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• Canada's Indigenous Leaders Ask for Royal Apology

  19-05-2022 10:53 via socialpsychology.org
  Source: BBC News - UK NewsIndigenous leaders met Prince Charles in Canada and asked for an apology from the Queen over the "assimilation and genocide" of indigenous schoolchildren. RoseAnne Archibald, Assembly of First Nations national chief, said the prince "acknowledged" failures in handling the relationship with indigenous people. Canada is dealing with a scandal in which indigenous children died or were abused in residential schools, yet the Queen has yet to...
  
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