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President Joe Biden took a turn down the dark alleys of the Internet during remarks on the Violence Against Women Act at the White House Wednesday. He spoke about people who have a 'revealing picture' taken only to be blackmailed or humiliated when it got posted online. "How many times have you heard? I bet everybody knows somebody somewhere along the line that was in an intimate relationship and what happened was the guy takes a revealing picture of his naked friend, or whatever, in a compromising position and then literally sends blackmails or mortifies that person. Sends it out,...

There have been a lot of people protesting the war in Russia, and in a time where such protest can get you locked up–facing a lot of punishment–that’s a brave thing to do. They’ve been protesting since the first day of the invasion. But perhaps it’s even more dangerous an effort to protest when you have a very high-profile position. It’s hard to think of people with a “higher” position than cosmonauts being sent into space, to the International Space Station.Three Russian cosmonauts arrived at the Station on Saturday, as the first Russian group sent into space since the Russian...