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Doctors Are Prescribing Powerful Antipsychotics to Many People With No Mental Illness

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, September 08, 2015

Doctors Are Prescribing Powerful Antipsychotics to Many People With No Mental Illness
- Large numbers of people with learning disabilities and no record of severe mental illness are being prescribed strong psychotropic drugs, possibly as ...

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AI and the far-right riots in the UK

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, June 10, 2025

The riots that erupted across several cities in the UK following the horrifying stabbing of three young children at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event in Southport in 2024 have been widely linked to the mainstreaming of the far right and the amplifying nature of social media View article...

How five Black survivors of racial violence sued the Ku Klux Klan

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, June 12, 2025

Their victory set a legal precedent still used in US courts today. Five Black women from Chattanooga survived a shooting by members of the Ku Klux ... View article...

Delaware County adopts 'safe haven' designation for LGBTQ community

Pacific Standard Time — Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Officials in Delaware County are pushing forward in the fight for LGBTQ rights. County Council unanimously passed a resolution to designate the ... View article...

What do transgender people want? Respect. The ability to use the bathroom in peace.

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 09, 2025

Eight years after Texas' "bathroom bill" controversy, a renewed effort to enforce facility use by birth sex is under sharp scrutiny from LGBTQ ... View article...

Education or Entrapment? How Student Debt Sustains Systemic Youth Oppression in ...

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 09, 2025

Education remains a critical instrument for addressing inequality and alleviating poverty. ... Instead, structural inequalities ensure that ... View article...

Texas teens worry as lawmakers ban LGBTQ clubs in public schools

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 09, 2025

It also forbids schools from providing instruction, guidance or programming on sexual orientation or gender identity. Advertisement. Related: LGBTQ ... View article...

Judge blocks anti-LGBTQ executive orders as lawsuit continues

Pacific Standard Time — Tuesday, June 10, 2025

A U.S. District Court has granted a injunction blocking three executive orders that threatened to defund vital services for LGBTQ people, View article...

New research shows HALF of the UK experiences financial insecurity

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 09, 2025

Given the UK is one of the richest countries in the world, it's clear that rampant inequality – where 1% of the population have more wealth than ... View article...

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Companies take action to reduce inequality for LGBTI+ people

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 30, 2025

They are investing in support groups, leadership training, awareness campaigns, and strict codes of conduct to ensure inclusion. View article...

How Ally's benefits support LGBTQ workers

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 30, 2025

Part of being an LGBTQ -inclusive workplace is ensuring employee benefits provide equitable coverage. For online bank Ally, supporting their LGBTQ ... View article...

China Is Quickly Eroding America's Lead in the Global AI Race

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, July 03, 2025

Chinese artificial-intelligence companies are loosening the U.S.'s global stranglehold on AI, challenging American superiority and setting the ... View article...

Are Red States Squandering Their Housing Advantage?

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 30, 2025

we're looking at lagging housing construction in red states, misguided analyses of inequality , and proposals for the redesign of New York's ... View article...

NYC, San Francisco and other U.S. cities cap Pride Month with a mix of party and protest

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 30, 2025

The monthlong celebration of LGBTQ Pride reached its rainbow-laden crescendo Sunday as huge crowds took part in jubilant, daylong street parties ... View article...

Portage Foundation creates LGBTQ+ Fund after new law shuts down higher ed support

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 30, 2025

The fund includes both grants for organizations providing resources for the LGBT community and student emergency aid for LGBT college students who may ... View article...

Women Against State Pension Inequality

Pacific Standard Time — Monday, June 30, 2025

The Women Against State Pension Inequality campaign has been pursuing the battle of justice without any respite. With 3.6 million female citizens ... View article...

NUJ supports motions on ending violence against women and girls and challenging racism

Pacific Standard Time — Thursday, July 03, 2025

“Before any more women or girls are murdered, attacked, intimidated, harassed, bullied and tortured.” Supporting motion 45 on 'challenging racism , All ... View article...

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