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Nine-Year-Old Building Shelters for the Homeless

Fort wrestled with the idea of homelessness at age 5. Ever since she noticed a homeless person in Kitsapp County, Washington, Hailey Fort has dedicated her childhood to helping people who don’t have homes. She couldn’t understand why some people didn’t have a place to stay and she wanted to do something about it. “I think everyone should have a…

Rain Dove Says There’s Magic Between the Binary

Rain Dove wants to be boring. They grew up in rural Vermont where they had a wild stint pretending to be a male firefighter. Rain took up modeling after losing a bet to a friend. That bet, turns out, landed them on front pages around the world for being a model actively redefining gender in a field notoriously in love…

Palestinian Muslim Comedian Breaking Rules

Maysoon Zayid is smashing stereotypes with love and laughter. She’s a Palestinian Muslim from Jersey living with Cerebral Palsy and she loves breaking rules. Like, you know, the one that says standup comedians don’t sit down. Or, that women can’t be funny. Because Zayid does both. She also works with disabled children and tells jokes in the Middle East. And…

Airbnb for Seniors

The Freebird Club is not, as you might expect, a collection of those loud guys from every concert ever discussing ways to get bands to actually play Freebird. It’s an Airbnb-like startup promoting travel and social connection among a demographic often overlooked by the tech crowd – seniors. The club’s members are all age 50+ and host or stay with…

Nuns Block Pipeline Construction

In Pennsylvania’s rural Lancaster County, a group of nuns has staunchly refused to let an energy company build a natural gas pipeline through a cornfield – a place the whole community cherishes. Now the company is appealing to ’eminent domain’ as a way to work around their protest and build it anyway. The nuns replied “not so fast” and, on…

Cop Takes Money from Street Vendor, Internet Cries Foul

This past Saturday, a hot dog vendor was serving folks at a UC Berkeley game when things got strange. A UC police officer passing students and alumni drinking alcohol on campus (which is technically illegal) approached the vendor, Juan, and wrote him a ticket for selling food without a license. What happened next is what many people from both the…