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Matt Taibbi | College Kids Aren't the Only Ones Demanding 'Safe Spaces' 
Some students at the University of Kansas recently became upset about pro-Donald Trump chalkings that appeared on campus. (photo: Mike Yoder/The Lawrence Journal-World/AP) 
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone 
Taibbi writes: "Conservatives who get hysterical about the campus 'safe spaces' controversy should take a look at their own media-consumption habits. It's hard to imagine anything funnier than a 70-year-old who watches 90 hours of Fox News a week and then rails against college kids who are afraid of new ideas." 
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Bill Clinton Tangles With Black Lives Matter Protesters 
Sam Frizell, TIME 
Frizell writes: "President Bill Clinton engaged repeatedly with Black Lives Matter protesters who interrupted a rally in Philadelphia on Thursday in a series of tense confrontations, defending his own and his wife Hillary's positions in the 1990s." 
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Watch Ellen DeGeneres Blast Mississippi's 'Religious Freedom' Law 
Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone 
Spanos writes: "Ellen DeGeneres spoke out against Mississippi's recently passed law that allows people to deny the LGBT community the right to adopt children, hold jobs or rent homes. She called the law 'the very definition of discrimination.'" 
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Offshoring Isn't Just a Problem in Panama, Nevada Has 1000 Secret Firms 
Steve Reilly, USA TODAY 
Reilly writes: "A new analysis of more than 1,000 American-based companies registered by Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the heart of the Panama Papers leak, casts the United States openly into an uncomfortable role: an offshore haven of corporate secrecy for wealthy business operations across the globe." 
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Expanding Medicaid Eligibility Would Help Low-Income Workers Find Better Jobs: Study 
Angelo Young, International Business Times 
Young writes: "A recent study suggests that more Americans would be emboldened to switch jobs if their access to health insurance wasn't tethered to their employers. This uniquely American system encourages so-called job lock, in which workers are fearful of migrating to potentially better-paying jobs out of fear of losing access to employer-subsidized access to medicine and doctor's visits." 
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Class-Action Suit Targets System That Added a Baby to Terrorist Watch List 
Ryan Devereaux, The Intercept 
Devereaux writes: "The watchlisting system has come under fire from attorneys across the country, who have blasted the procedures for secretly labeling individuals as known or suspected terrorists as discriminatory against Muslims, arbitrary in execution, and devoid of acceptable means for legal challenge and redress." 
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BP Supervisor Avoids Jail Time for 2010's Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 
Kevin McGill, Associated Press 
McGill writes: "A former BP rig supervisor was sentenced Wednesday to 10 months' probation for a misdemeanor pollution charge connected to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill." 
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