The Supreme Court has announced that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was treated for pancreatic cancer this summer, spending three weeks at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center for radiation. In a statement crafted to calm the hearts and minds of frantic progressives, the court was explicit: “The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence…
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This may have happened to you: Post–Marie Kondo, you take a huge load of stuff that no longer brings you joy—but could certainly bring joy to others—to donate, only to have perfectly good bras rejected. Surely someone would be in need of practical things like never or gently used undergarments, right? Alas, some places don’t…
Read moreEllen DeGeneres is standing up for elephants by taking a stand against President Donald Trump. On Thursday, DeGeneres took time during her show to explain to her massive audience that Trump plans to reverse an Obama-era ban on importing elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia. “I want to talk about the elephant in the room.…
Read moreThe Hurricane Harvey relief effort just got a boost thanks to a very unlikely source: a cat named Jerry in Brooklyn, NY. Rachel Millman, who’s 29 and also happens to Jerry’s owner, was out for a walk in her Brooklyn neighborhood, thinking about how she’d wanted to help storm-ravaged Texas but didn’t have the funds…
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PHOTO: David M. Benett/Getty Images Amal and George Clooney are adding their considerable power to the fight against bigotry and hate in the U.S. In a press release issued Monday, the Southern Poverty Law Center revealed that the Clooneys have donated $1 million via their Clooney Foundation for Justice to the center’s fight against hate…
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