Reality Checks: US Threats over Used Clothing, Informing Your Rapist about your Abortion, Equals Signs, and Come Home, Cardinal Pell

Elizabeth — July 11, 2017

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Rwanda is banning used clothing imports. About time. (via this is Africa)
Arkansas wants pregnant women to consult the man who impregnated them prior to abortions. (via the Mary Sue)
The equals sign, a history. (via Ars Tehnica)
Cardinal Pell is going home! (via NPR)

Featured image credit: Sarah R via flickr

Elizabeth

Elizabeth is a professional belly dancer, a flaky computer scientist, and a returned Peace Corps volunteer. She lives in Georgia (the state of the U.S., not the country) but is nonetheless somehow not a combination of stereotypes from Gone with the Wind and Deliverance. Her personal blog is Coffeefied. Operafied. Fluffified. Beglittered.

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