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If imitation is the highest form of flattery, you’d think Kingpen, a popular California-based cannabis brand, would be positively tickled by the fact that they make one of the most widely counterfeited vape cartridges on the market. But with a mysterious lung disease putting both manufacturers and consumers on high …

Update: The death-metal version of Greta Thunberg‘s speech is now available as an official single with all proceeds benefiting Greenpeace. The single (with new artwork) is available on YouTube, major streaming services and Bandcamp. Original story: When thrash-metal drummer John Meredith watched teenage climate-change activist Greta Thunberg give her fiery …

Oprah Winfrey has announced her 2020 Vision: Your Life in Focus Tour, in partnership with WW (Weight Watchers Reimagined). Her first national tour in five years, Oprah’s 2020 Vision will feature “full day wellness events” in nine U.S. cities, where Oprah will be joined by a different lineup of special …

Weeks after Orange Is the New Black referenced a toll-free hotline that helps immigrants in detention centers obtain legal counsel, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) allegedly shut down the number. Freedom for Immigrants, the California organization that created the National Immigration Detention Hotline in 2013, says the number was nixed …

Over the past year, the extremist, far-right group the Proud Boys has undergone what appears to have been a dramatic implosion. Gavin McInnes, the group’s bombastic, ironically mustachioed founder (and the co-founder of Vice magazine), resigned late last year. More recently, the group was one of the targets of social …

After yet another weekend of horrific mass shootings in a country where gun violence has become numbingly routine, The New York Post has called for an assault weapons ban. The U.S. tabloid, owned by conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch, made its case on the cover of its Monday issue, writing …

When Kristen DiAngelo was younger and doing sex work, police officers would routinely do big sweeps of areas known to be frequented by sex workers. “Cops would roll up. They’d grab your purse and dump it out. They’d look at your arms for track marks. They’d look through your pockets,” …

Leonard Pozner, father of the Sandy Hook massacre’s youngest victim, has won a defamation lawsuit against the editors of a book that claims the 2012 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut never occurred. Wisconsin’s Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington issued a summary judgment on Monday against James Fetzer and Mike Palecek, …

Last month, Sheila McNallen posted that her husband, Steve, had been kicked off of Facebook, “apparently forever.” Steve is the founder of the Ásatrú Folk Assembly, a group headquartered in California that advocates for a return to Germanic Paganism, including an espousal of what they have deemed traditional, Nordic white …

For years, opponents of marijuana legalization have voiced the same arguments whenever the subject of dispensaries comes up: having legal cannabis vendors, they say, promotes the spread of crime, brings property values down in the neighborhood and encourages teenage marijuana use. And even though the push for marijuana legalization has …