In an interview with Vogue, Hari Nef, the transgender actor who plays one of the Barbies in the movie, talks about a gay man and his Barbie character. He says his character is not a child’s toy. The only problem with that is that Barbie is a child’s toy. And a girl’s toy. Dream your dreams as an adult, but remember that childhood is a vulnerable time.
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Protesters mobbed the Moms for Liberty summit in Philadelphia, held June 29-July 2, citing the SPLC accusation. They also cited a Moms for Liberty chapter which apologized after quoting Adolf Hitler to illustrate that the Nazis tried to brainwash and recruit children. Tina Descovich, the other cofounder, exclusively shared many of the death threats her organization received after the SPLC’s accusation. “I will personally eradicate you from Massachusetts,” one person wrote to the organization’s “Contact Us” page. He condemned Moms for Liberty as “nasty sows.”
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The suit was filed in defense of Monica Miller and Suzanne Abdalla, who volunteer with Red Rose Rescue, an activist group whose participants enter the waiting room of abortion centers to offer red roses and life-affirming alternatives to women planning to kill their unborn babies. During a press conference held by New York’s Democratic Attorney General Letitia James branded the group’s activists as “terrorists” without evidence to support the claim.
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In the book “The Unsettling of America”, Wendell Berry details the way that we lost a kind of localized rural culture through the introduction of Big Agriculture and the industrialization of farming. My trip to Ireland showed me just how much America missed out on with the mass migrations to the big cities.
But it’s not just America. Ireland has largely lost this rural, localized culture as well.
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Reforming the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) presents such an opportunity, and one that could also address issues of family affordability and work-family balance. To encourage marriage and marital childrearing and to provide working- and middle-class families with more options in combining work and parenting, EITC eligibility should be tied to individual earnings rather than the earnings of the tax unit. This change would not affect single beneficiaries, but it would markedly alter the benefits available to married couples.
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