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Posted: 31 Mar 2021 05:33 AM PDT

Slater and Marjo had a chance to speak with Susan Birns about women being the victims of street harassment primarily by men. Slater remembers when his high school friend used to "cat call" women out of the window of his car. Terrible.

Marjo also got candid about being "told to smile" while working in the restaurant business. You can listen below.

UNH Graduation Ceremony to be Held at Wildcat Stadium on May 23 - wokq.com - wokq.com

Posted: 31 Mar 2021 06:26 AM PDT

At least there will be a graduation ceremony for the kids completing their degrees this year at the University of New Hampshire. The original date was May 15, but that date has been pushed back to May 23 according to WMUR.com. I am happy they are getting a commencement ceremony since last year so many colleges and high schools had to skip them or do them virtually.

I saw a story last year about a girl that had been in the high school band and she had played her instrument at every graduation commencement ceremony for her high school and she was really looking forward to having the band play for her last year, but it was done virtually. I mean, you work so hard for something it's hard. We have all had to grieve the loss of some important activity such as the holidays with loved ones or graduation ceremonies.

According to reporting by WMUR.com, the university president said moving the date will allow the ceremony to be held at Wildcat Stadium on the weekend. The students really wanted their commencement to be held in Wildcat stadium, so I am glad they found a date in May. No word on if guests will be invited to attend. But you can be sure that all COVID-19 safety guidelines will be enforced such as social distancing and mask-wearing. We are so close to ending this pandemic with the rollout of vaccines and keeping the case numbers down. Here's hoping next year's commencement ceremonies will look more like normal for both University graduations and high schoolers alike.

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The Right Way to Fight Back Against Georgia's Voter-Suppression Law

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyGoldie Taylor has been working in and around Georgia politics for decades. So she knows firsthand the kind of stunt Republicans are trying to pull with this new voter-suppression law."What [Gov.] Brian Kemp will tell you, what other state GOP office holders will tell you, is that they've done this to restore confidence in the ballot. Poppycock. They have done it to keep people who don't look like them, church like them, live like them, away from the voting booth," Taylor tells Molly Jong-Fast on the latest edition of The New Abnormal.Taylor knows a lot of her out-of-state friends are outraged, too. But their calls to boycott Georgia over this law? They're just wrong, she says."Sometimes being an ally means shutting up," Taylor continues. "As soon as this began to happen, we heard people, especially people in Hollywood, say, 'Oh, we're going to boycott Georgia until they stop this.' Right. And both me and Dr. Bernice King stood up and immediately said, 'No, you want to put the very people that you aim to help out of work in the middle of a pandemic. You're going to make it so that they can't recover in an effort to pay back a governor who won't feel it.'""Sometimes you have to take on a whole state or a whole county or a whole country. I do believe in that," she added. "In this case, that's not where the leverage lies. In this case, the leverage lies in the direct contributions, the financial pipeline that greases the pockets of state house Republicans. Dry it up."How do you dry it up? You target their donors, big corporations: Coca-Cola, UPS, Home Depot, AT&T—all these companies who have huge footprints here in Georgia who are pouring money into our state house. You put pressure on them specifically. But what you don't do is tell Major League Baseball to take a game out of the city, because who gets hurt? The people who are selling the popcorn, who parked the cars. People who scan your tickets. The people who can least likely afford it."Listen to Bonus Episodes of The New Abnormal PodcastThen! Punchbowl News co-founder Jake Sherman discusses why even people on the left need to take Jim Jordan seriously. And Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall talks about why "Washington is a town that is really wired for Republican governance."Listen to The New Abnormal on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and Amazon.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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