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Tom Hardy at Venice Film Festival
Shocked, Shocked: The Senate Exploits Unpaid Interns
If you walk into any of the 100 Senate offices spread across Capitol Hill, there is one consistent element. Marco Rubio’s furniture won’t be the same as Elizabeth Warren’s and Mark Udall’s landscape photographs won’t match Lindsey Graham’s wall hangings. The ubiquitous fixture of every Senate (and House) office is livelier: the young, sometimes bright-eyed, cohorts of interns that flood the Capitol in the summer.
Across the spectrum of industries, internships have been commonplace for decades, but the unpaid variety has come under close scrutiny only recently, following a number of high-profile incidents challenging the legitimacy of the practice — long bemoaned by many interns themselves. In June, a federal judge ruled for the first time that Fox Searchlight broke employment laws by not paying interns. Two days later, former interns at Condé Nast, who had been paid at a rate less than $1 an hour, filed suit against the magazine group. Condé Nast has recently revealed it has stopped paying interns altogether. Seeking a more conciliatory approach, interns at The Nation wrote a letter to their editors at the end of July instead of taking legal action, and were later rewarded by a promise of minimum wage. As the case of the unpaid intern garnered national attention, it wouldn’t be long before the national legislature would get its turn. That happened when Jessica Padron, who’s been offered an internship in the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, took to Indiegogo to crowdfund her otherwise-unpaid internship.
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“He said I’d killed him.” Raylan paused. “I told him I was sorry, but he had called it.”
Art was frowning now. “You’re sorry you killed him?”
“I thought I’d explained it to you,” Raylan said in his quiet voice. “Boyd and I dug coal together."
“He said I’d killed him.” Raylan paused. “I told him I was sorry, but he had called it.”
Art was frowning now. “You’re sorry you killed him?”
“I thought I’d explained it to you,” Raylan said in his quiet voice. “Boyd and I dug coal together."
— “Fire in the Hole” by Elmore Leonard (via aclutteredmind)
Nobody else is being honest about it, but the real reason folks are manufacturing outrage over this Rolling Stone cover is because Tsarnaev is looking kinda fuckable.
According to the traditional narratives, we’re supposed to be dehumanizing this swarthy foreign terrorist. Monsters are meant to be grotesque, and here he is looking like some sensitive singer/songwriter. How dare Rolling Stone allow him into a cultural space reserved exclusively for rock stars?
Please. It’s no accident they used a photo of the kid where he vaguely resembles that one-night-stand every sorority girl screwed on a foam mattress in some youth hostel that summer she backpacked through Europe.
The editors knew exactly what they were doing. It’s deliberately provocative. It was intended to illicit an uncomfortable reaction, and it seems to be working.
This is mainstream media trolling at its finest.
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