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Wed, 01/10/2025 - 22:00

To the woman at the bra store who clocked me as a “Gerry” in reference to my G-cup breasts when I was coming of age,

I’m certain you haven’t spared one thought for me since our only encounter nearly twenty years ago. But your impact on my life has been so significant that I’m compelled to write to you now—especially as I find myself reaching to readjust a new bra that just doesn’t fit right.

The year was 2006. “Temperature” by Sean Paul and “Unwritten” by Natasha Bedingfield were on the Billboard Hot 100 at the same time. I was trying to survive high school.

And my breasts were enormous.

Granted, you may not have appreciated how embarrassing that was for me at the time. I’m sure you met people like me every day, which is to say, fools, with deep grooves in their shoulders caused by ill-fitting bras. But my enormous breasts were not something I had yet come to terms with—that is, until that fateful day when I met you.

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Wed, 01/10/2025 - 19:05

On 1 July this year, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Occupational Safety and Health published its report on the legacy of Cape Asbestos, which was founded in London in 1893. The company owned asbestos mines in Africa and factories across Britain, relying on imperial domination and, later, South Africa’s apartheid government, to keep mining costs […]

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Wed, 01/10/2025 - 19:03
The Labour peer, lawyer and human rights activist speaks to Byline Times’ Editor-in-Chief Hardeep Matharu about why her new podcast – Shami’s Speakeasy – focuses on having human conversations with those of shared values but differing politics, and an edge of resistance
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Wed, 01/10/2025 - 17:00
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Wed, 01/10/2025 - 15:39
by Maximillian Alvarez: The Real News Network Last week, The Real News Network published a bombshell interview with two federal whistleblowers working in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez spoke with Paul Osadebe and Palmer Heenan, two attorneys in HUD’s Office of Fair Housing, about the “chaos” that has upended HUD under the new Trump administration, and the vulnerable Americans who are being systematically abandoned as a result.
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Wed, 01/10/2025 - 12:26
by Martin Eiermann* In international comparison, the United States stand out for the wide range of political hopes that are attached to the right to privacy—which covers anything from abortion and contraceptive access to employee claims against workplace surveillance and consumer rights—and for having a uniquely fragmented landscape of privacy laws. The privacy of health-related […]