August 12, 2016
By The Morning News
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- Trump cant win if he loses Florida, but he only has one field office and no visible footprint in the state.
- Right-wing commentators cycle through baseless theories about Clintons dire health.
- Despite his former insistence, Trump now says he was being sarcastic when he said Obama founded ISIS.
- Charting the Arab world's catastrophe since the invasion of Iraq 13 years ago, leading to the rise of ISIS and a global refugee crisis.
- France undergoes its own "public exposés of police violence" that inspired Black Lives Matter.
- Led by a tiny party, Barcelona has become a leader in urban policy.
- East African countries ban imports of donated clothing, viewed as undermining local industry.
- American workers need their hearts and minds more than their muscles.
- Thanks to faulty IP mapping, one couple in Kansas has been constantly accused of other people's crimes.
- DEA to make more marijuana available for medical research, but wont reschedule the drug.
- Many phone sex operators cant access the traditional job market due to disability or hardship.
- Touching portraits of phone sex operators.
- Cops in schools mean Tasers and rap sheets for typical schoolyard fights.
- Fuck empowerment! Children are little death machines, they rip through your body. They chew on you. They are animals.
- Gendered user-experience testing leads to virtual reality optimized for men.
- Male boxers in Rio don't wear helmets anymore, supposedly for safety.
- Heterosexual male journalist at the Daily Beast endangers closeted Rio athletes with gotcha piece about Grindr dates.
- LGBT teens are three times as likely as their peers to consider suicide.
- In the age of gay marriage, study sheds light on the social and romantic reasons bisexual men still rarely come out.
- San Francisco's restaurants are now so expensive and polarized, even rich people are learning how to cook.
- Swedish fish Oreos are a thing.
- Your weekend poem: "Snails," by Francis Ponge.
