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Bringing the Fun Back to Childhood
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JL
- 4 days ago - kaboom.org
When six-year-old Jadon Gotay (now seven) was given a class project to help a nonprofit, he knew he wanted to help an organization that did "fun things for kids."
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Take Action/Video:Student Freaks Out In Front Of His Class And Says What We're All Thinking About Our Education System
Offbeat  (tags: abuse, americans, children, corruption, culture, dishonesty, education, ethics, government, interesting, sadness, society, rights, usa, unusual, ethics )

JL
- 8 days ago - upworthy.com
Duncanville High School student Jeff Bliss got in trouble in class for talking out of turn. What was he talking about? Basically everything that's wrong with our education system today. It's a mic-droppingly epic speech.
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FBI Doesn't Think It Needs a Warrant to Read Citizens' Email
Offbeat  (tags: abuse, usa, rights, computers, investigation, police, protection )

Abdessala
- 9 days ago - thinkprogress.org
Americans may think their email is private, but federal investigators may not agree. Documents uncovered by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) suggest the FBI is using subpoenas, not warrants, to read email.
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Flying Over America - YouTube   video
Offbeat  (tags: usa, off-beat )

Christeen
- 20 days ago - youtube.com
Enjoy your flight.
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Bringing In The May   video
Offbeat  (tags: Bringing in the May, May Day, May Pole, Morris Dance, Beltane, England, USA )

Dandelion
- 21 days ago - youtube.com
Jennifer Cutting describes and displays some of the folk traditions surrounding May Day (May 1) in Britain and the United States. She is a folklife specialist in the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. For those who enjoy historical fact.
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"Batgirl" to Feature First Transgender Character
Offbeat  (tags: americans, culture, ethics, gayrights, freedoms, safety, society, rights, usa, arts, goodnews, interesting, society, pictures, unusual )

JL
- 24 days ago - salon.com
The comic world takes yet another step toward becoming one of the most artistically inclusive mediums
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Stephen Colbert Wins Late Night Television With His Hilarious Critique Of Brad Paisley's Racist Song
Offbeat  (tags: abuse, americans, culture, ethics, freedoms, tv, usa, society, rights, sadness, news, interesting, funny, humor )

JL
- 25 days ago - upworthy.com
This whole thing is great, but at 3:06, it gets really good, and at 3:56, it gets FANTASTIC.
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The Man in the Cowboy Hat: Meet Carlos Arredondo, a Hero of the Boston Bombings
Offbeat  (tags: activists, americans, culture, crime, children, ethics, freedoms, humans, media, rights, sadness, safety, society, violence, usa, philanthropy, unusual, news, interesting, goodnews )

JL
- 30 days ago - motherjones.com
One of the responders in the photograph--the man in the cowboy hat--has been identified as Carlos Arredondo, a Costa Rican immigrant (originally undocumented) whose Marine son died in action in Iraq in 2004.
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The '80s: The Decade That Made Us
Offbeat  (tags: nostalgia, history, 80s, USA, world )

Giana
- 35 days ago - channel.nationalgeographic.com
It's, like, totally tubular. The '80s: The Decade That Made Us isn't about nostalgia; it's about the history of our modern world that spawned political, technological, cultural, and social revolutions that began in the United States.
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Game:Tax Evaders
Offbeat  (tags: corruption, dishonesty, ethics, economy, propaganda, lies, usa, unusual, odd, design, americans, society, safety, protection )

JL
- 38 days ago - taxevaders.net
They seem to have come from another planet - it would certainly explain how little they care about the upkeep of this one.Every Tax Day we watch as corporate Tax Evaders skim untold billions from America, while the rest of us actually pay for the upkeep
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Who Would Bully A Firefighter?! The Answer Is Crazy.
Offbeat  (tags: women, usa, rights, society, law, ethics, americans, abuse, dishonesty, labor, business, corruption, dishonesty, corporate, unusual, interesting )

JL
- 40 days ago - upworthy.com
Do we still need feminism? Hell yes. And nobody knows that better than the women working in male-dominated fields like firefighting and longshoring, like Liane Tessier.
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Video: College Kid Forced To Remind Know-It-All Economist That He's Actually Not A Scientist
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JL
- 41 days ago - upworthy.com
Stephen Moore, libertarian economist and Wall Street Journal columnist learned the hard way that spin doesn't work in the face of facts.
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Three Photographs of the Whale (That Summarize the Enormously Complex $6 Billion "London Whale" Derivatives Trade By JPMorgan)
Offbeat  (tags: abuse, world, usa, americans, business, consumers, corporate, corruption, dishonesty, debt, ethics, finance, government, investments, law, lies, money, marketing, investing, investors, society, politics, photos, pictures, odd )

JL
- 43 days ago - citizenvox.org
Below is a photograph of the senior JPMorgan witnesses testifying before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee On Investigations on Friday, March 15.They oversaw the loss of more than $6 billion in depositor funds. This loss dramatized many issues, including
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(Petition Available to 4/18/13):I Can't Wait To See The Obama Administration's Reply To This Amazing And Totally Ridiculous Peti
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JL
- 43 days ago - upworthy.com
A genius new petition asks the White House to require senators and members of congress to wear the logos of their financial backers on their suits anytime they're on the job. The bigger the donation, the bigger the label, & the more foolish politicians
36 comments
Video:Rick Santorum Comes Out Of Retirement To Say The Craziest, Most Bigoted Thing I'Ve Ever Heard
Offbeat  (tags: abuse, americans, culture, dishonesty, gayrights, freedoms, ethics, media, politics, rights, sadness, safety, society, usa, protection, bizarre )

JL
- 47 days ago - upworthy.com
As we all know, a single television show was probably the cause of all this "gay marriage nonsense," but it's been almost impossible to figure out which show it was ... until now. Special thanks to Susie Sampson for the exclusive story.
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