June 2021 Impact Articles
- Federal agencies used facial recognition tech on George Floyd protesters, according to a new report
- "Safety isn't just physical": How martial arts can help Black queer people build every kind of strength
- Tucker Carlson thinks he's the victim of a super serious top-secret spy game that is definitely real
- Democrats are once again pushing to remove Confederate monuments from the Capitol
- How wrestler Mack Beggs found a higher calling as a trans activist
- There was an "ice quake" in Alaska, thanks to this monstrous heat wave
- The charges for the Trump organization are reportedly on the way
- High schoolers wore "White Lives Matter" shirts on their last day of school
- The Pacific Northwest is literally melting away thanks to this heat wave
- Pride has become corporate and white as hell. How do we reclaim its rebellious roots?
- Toyota keeps funding lawmakers who don't believe in the law
- Florida is the latest red state to force its cities to keep using fossil fuels
- Gavin Grimm's fight for trans rights has ended in a win
- Derek Chauvin has been sentenced to 22 and a half years in prison for murdering George Floyd
- Biden's attempt at inclusive language did not, uh, go so well
- The Biden administration is suing Georgia over its new voter suppression law
- You've Been Scooping Ice Cream All Wrong
- Weed and masturbation: What are the benefits of getting yourself off while high?
- Congratulations to these two dudes and their boring shoes for solving politics
- We might get a chance to watch major Supreme Court cases on TV soon
- Biden got his bipartisan infrastructure deal, though it's missing all the good stuff
- Tucker Carlson thinks Google wants to make you shorter and allergic to meat
- Rudy Giuliani lost his law license because of that time he tried to overturn a presidential election
- Slow Internet Really Does Stress You Out, Says Study
- The Supreme Court unanimously reminds cops to get a friggin' warrant first
- A new Florida bill seems designed to keep schools from teaching about racial inequities
- NASA is trying to solve the problem of dirty underwear in space
- Apparently, Trump wanted COVID to "take out" John Bolton
- Is it possible to make crypto sustainable? A few coins are trying
- It's 118 degrees in the Arctic, which sure seems bad
- A 400-mile climate march ended with protesters crashing Ted Cruz's front yard
- These Kickass Women Said What We're Thinking About High Heels
- Sex Simply Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Kickass Women
- 57% of Republican voters believe Trump only lost because of fraud, per a new poll
- Trump wanted to quarantine Americans at Gitmo last spring, according to a new book
- QAnon followers are pretty dejected by Trump's speaking tour with Bill O’Reilly
- How Jess Moore Matthews is training the next generation of digital activists
- SCOTUS just dealt a unanimous blow to the NCAA over student-athlete compensation
- 45 things trending on amazon under $30 that reviewers are obsessed with
- These Are the Foods That Will Make You Better in Bed, According to Science
- GOP Congressman says the quiet part loud about taking back the House
- An entire police unit just disbanded after a single officer was charged with assaulting a protester
- A Philly foster agency can continue discriminating against LGBTQ families, SCOTUS rules
- Capitol insurrectionists are tired of BLM and Antifa getting credit for their work
- "She's gonna disappear": A GOP congressional candidate threatened to sic Russian hitmen on his opponent
- The GOP has tried to kill Obamacare for a decade. SCOTUS just saved it for a third time
- The Biden administration just re-extended federal protections to trans students
- Greta Thunberg calls out G7 leaders for their frivolous and wasteful meeting on climate change
- Someone please tell this poor simple insurrectionist which office he's running for
- Two men shook hands, and CNN went wild
- The Gulf Stream is weaker than it has been in 1,000 years. That's bad news
- The Milky Way is probably full of dead alien civilizations, according to physicists
- The mystery of how insects developed wings has finally been solved
- Can people see your Memories on Snapchat? Here's what you need to know.
- The 10 things you're doing wrong on Snapchat — according to these teenage power users
- Mark Zuckerberg joins the ranks of rich dudes getting owned by a band
- Rainbow-washing is all the rage among the big corporations this month
- 'Zelda: Breath of the Wild' max hearts: How to get the most health possible
- This FBI report on QAnon's future is terrifying
- Kayleigh McEnany is lying about her history of lying
- At least Mitch McConnell is honest about being terrible
- Honolulu police spent $150k on a robot dog to monitor homeless people
- Lara Trump's border solution is for people to "arm up and get guns and be ready"
- The history of the LGBTQ+ Pride flag, from the OG rainbow to Progress Pride
- How many energy drinks will it take to cause a heart attack? Here's how caffeine can kill
- When you eat honey, you're probably eating nuclear fallout
- 9 Gender and Sexuality Acronyms You Should Learn
- 9 emojis you've been using wrong and their actual meanings
- If you hate being sweaty, you're going to LOVE these 37 clever things on Amazon
- 40 clever products Amazon reviewers think are the best things since sliced bread
- How tax prep companies conspired to make filing your taxes so damn hard
- Somehow the Swiss Alps are still growing, shocking scientists
- 'Zelda: Breath of the Wild' Tarrey Town Guide: How to complete "From the Ground Up"
- Conservative group wants teachers to wear bodycams so they won't teach Critical Race Theory
- Marjorie Taylor Greene rejects the "so-called science" of evolution
- Here's a chilling peek into just how close Trump got to running a police state
- Uber offered its drivers help with health care, but of course it was a mistake
- Is it ever OK for white people to wear cornrows?
- Marco Rubio wants to give survivors of domestic terrorism … one year of student loan relief?
- How climate change and capitalism conspired to make everything more expensive
- Nevada wants to let tech companies start their own governments
- Democrats' attacks on Ilhan Omar are embarrassing for everyone
- The Southern Ocean is officially our planet's fifth ocean
- An oddsmaker explains why aliens are most likely to attack the U.S. first
- Behold, the McConnell-Manchin bromance that truly no one needed
- Why are there protests in Colombia? How a tax proposal ignited decades of unrest
- GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert has some truly appalling questions about outer space
- Ring of fire solar eclipse: Here's how to watch
- Turns out the feds had a pretty good idea what was coming well before Jan. 6
- Eco-friendly houseplants: Here's how to ensure your indoor plants are good for the planet
- This new poll of registered voters is an extremely wild ride
- Newly uncovered IRS documents reveal exactly how the rich swindle the rest of us
- Kamala Harris's trip to Guatemala highlights Biden's impossible task on immigration
- Joe Manchin is tanking the Democratic agenda from the inside
- Congrats to GOP Rep. Mo Brooks for tweeting his own passwords out to 100k followers
- The Brood X cicadas are showing up on weather reports now
- Jeff Bezos is going to space, which is the most divorced guy thing imaginable
- Supreme Court justices' political leanings: A guide to the 2021 court
- Donald Trump, king of scams, says Bitcoin is a scam
- Facebook might let Trump back just in time for the 2024 election
- We might have AI-powered murder drones to worry about now, a U.N. report suggests
- A Minnesota college professor raised $200k in Philando Castile's name. Where did the money go?
- There are already 19 QAnon candidates running for Congress in 2022
- Watch this Texas teen's valedictorian speech blasting her state's new anti-abortion law
- Overdraft fees hurt Black and Latinx customers the most. This bank just eliminated them
- “A.I. is actually the fastest path to communism,” and other thoughts from Grimes that make no sense
- NASA announces new missions to Venus, our fiery sister planet
- Derek Chauvin's lawyers seriously just asked for probation instead of jail time
- Donald Trump's blogging days are over
- West Virginia is offering guns to incentivize people to get vaccinated
- "Our society is really totally nuts": Newly revealed emails show how Fauci really felt during the pandemic
- The G7 countries promised to go green, then poured money into fossil fuels instead
- Arizona plans to restart executions with the gas Nazis used at Auschwitz
- Are carbon offsetting apps legit?
- Nearly 40% of heat-related deaths are directly due to climate change
