Haha, came here to say the same thing. Growing up in a small town in southern Idaho, we had a one black family, and only a few African-Americans in the entire valley (they played for the junior college basketball team).

Sesame Street has always been so great about diversity and inclusiveness. Did you know that the South African version includes a character who is HIV positive?

Autism Speaks doesn’t use a puzzle ribbon, they use a puzzle (which is offensive to Autistic people), but yes they do also use the color blue in their logos and in their ‘Light It Up Blue’ campaign because of the myth that boys are overwhelmingly more likely to be diagnosed as Autistic than girls.

So yes, it’s one of…

I’m glad they made her a girl. It took me until I was 17 to get diagnosed with Aspergers and I’m pretty sure my being a girl had a large part in that. Not just because of prejudice, but because girls on the spectrum can often present different symptoms than boys. For instance my mother was told that it wasn’t possible…

Sesame Street introduced me to diversity back in the day and I’m glad to see it’s still fulfilling that role, anyway. As a rural white child in the early 1970s, I didn’t see people of color IRL ever and knew they existed only because of Sesame Street.

Please don’t blame DC for them. None of them are from here, they don’t know the city, and they don’t represent us. :(

They should make a muppet out of Alex Jones. He could have a radio show and everything, it’d be cute. Trump might even take to watching and not canceling it.

It gave the world Kelly Macdonald, so there’s that as well!

Yeah, this seems to boil down to “Ignorance is bliss” vs “The power to make my own decisions”

I just binged this entire series in like three days and I cannot wait for this. I need more Nora! And more evil-as-fuck Meg!

You’re a big hockey guy? Or you’re a big NHL guy? Your comment suggests the latter.

Thanks for this. The countless comments using words like “crime, compensation, and greed” are really bothering me. Discarded biopsy material is, even today, not “owned” by a patient. A patient can refuse to consent to tissue-banking, in which case the specimen will be incinerated. Either way, it’s not as if the…

I’m sure I’ll get in trouble for this but, if you take away privacy concerns, I see no inherent injustice done in using discarded tissue for medical research. In fact, I see much more issue in wasting hard-to-obtain medical samples and losing valuable information that could help solve devastating medical issues.

Worse, the scientific community made millions on developments from her cells, and her descendants lived in poverty, obscurity, and without adequate healthcare until the proceeds from Skloot’s book.

I hope Oprah’s film will benefit the family, as well.

Gary Steiner is cisgendered.

Poor guy, he feels unsafe! He was triggered by the protestors! He can’t help being a bigot, it’s just how he was born - ask his doctor!

The response from the N.C. Democratic Party was beautiful.

Trump: Making House Of Cards look reasonable.

Actually, Trump is much, much worse than Bernie Madoff.

This. My brother is a public defender who has dealt some truly tragic cases. Yet he defends them and puts his effort into doing so without resorting to BS social media grossness like this. Fuck this dude, fuck his defense attorney. May he rot in jail and may his attorney be disbarred.