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BREAK UP WITH HER!!!!!!!!!
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With all the craziness of this long presidential campaign, who wouldn’t want to get the voting over with? If you live in one of 34 states with early voting, you can!
Alaska
Vote early in person through Nov. 7. Bring any valid photo ID or government-issued document with you to one of these locations to cast your ballot.
Check your registration status and polling location here.
Arizona
Vote early in person through Nov. 4. Bring sufficient photo ID or one of the options on this list.
Check your registration information and polling location here.
Arkansas
Vote early in person through Nov. 7. Bring photo ID or a government-issued document if you haven't voted in Arkansas before.
Read here for more information.
California
Vote early in person at your County Elections Office.
Bring photo ID or government-issued document with you if you haven't voted in California before.
Your official voter information guide can be found here.
Colorado
Vote early in person at any Voter Service and Polling Center in your county. Make sure you bring valid ID.
Click here to find your nearest VSPC.
District of Columbia
Vote early in person through Nov. 4. No ID required unless this is your first time voting in DC.
Click here to find an early voting center near you.
Florida
Vote early in person through Nov. 6. Bring sufficient photo ID.
Check your voter status and polling place here.
Georgia
Vote early in person through Nov. 4. Bring driver's license or other photo ID issued by the state of Georgia.
Check your voter status and polling place here.
Hawaii
Vote early in person through Nov. 5. Bring driver's license, state ID card, utility bill, or bank statement.
Find your polling place here, and take a look at some frequently asked questions.
Idaho
Vote early in person through Nov. 4. Bring accepted photo ID or sign a sworn statement of identity at your polling place.
Click here to find your polling place.
Illinois
Vote early in person through Nov. 7. Bring driver's license, state ID, or another government-issued document if you haven't voted in Illinois before.
Click here to find your polling place.
Indiana
Vote early in person through Nov. 7. Bring an Indiana- or US government–issued photo ID.
Click here to find your polling place.
Iowa
Vote early in person through Nov. 7. Bring photo ID, utility bill, or bank statement if you haven't voted in Iowa before.
Click here to find your polling place.
Kansas
Vote early in person now through Nov. 7. Bring accepted form of ID to cast your ballot.
Click here to find your polling place.
Maryland
Today (Nov. 3) is your last day to vote early! Bring driver's license, ID card, utility bill, or other government-issued document if you haven't voted in Maryland before.
Click here to find your polling place.
Massachusetts
Vote early in person through Nov. 4. You may need to show ID if this is your first time voting in Massachusetts.
Click here to find your polling place.
Minnesota
Vote early in person at your local election office through Nov. 7.
Bring ID if you plan to register to vote in person.
Montana
Vote early in person at your local election office through Nov. 7.
Read up on the process here.
Nebraska
Vote early in person at your local County Clerk/Election Commission Office through Nov. 7. Bring photo ID, utility bill, or government-issued document to cast your ballot.
Nevada
Vote early in person through Nov. 4. If you haven't voted in Nevada before, bring photo ID or other document showing your name and address.
Click here to find your polling place.
New Mexico
Vote early in person at your County Clerk's office through Nov. 5.
Read up on the process here.
North Carolina
Vote early in person at your county's one-stop early voting site. Bring photo ID, bank statement, utility bill, or paycheck if you haven't voted in North Carolina before.
Click here for additional voting information.
North Dakota
Some counties allow for early voting. Bring driver's license or your North Dakota or Tribal ID.
Click here to find your polling place.
Ohio
Vote early in person through Nov. 7. Bring driver's license, government ID, or military ID.
Click here to find your polling place.
Oklahoma
Vote early in person through Nov. 5. Bring driver's license or other government-issued photo ID.
Click here to find your polling place.
South Dakota
Vote early in person at your County Auditor's Office through Nov. 7.
Bring photo ID.
Tennessee
Today (Nov. 3) is your last day to vote early! Get moving and bring your photo ID.
Click here to find your polling place.
Texas
Vote early in person through Friday, Nov. 4. Make sure you bring one of the seven accepted forms of ID.
Click here to find your polling place.
Utah
Vote early in person through Nov. 4. Be sure to bring valid ID.
Click here to find your polling place.
Vermont
Vote early in person through Nov. 7. No ID required unless this is your first time voting in Vermont.
Click here to find your poling place.
Washington
Vote early in person through Nov.7. Bring valid photo ID.
Click here to find your polling place.
West Virginia
Vote early in person through Nov. 5. Bring photo ID, utility bill, or bank statement if you haven't voted in West Virginia before.
Contact your county clerk to confirm early voting hours and locations.
Wisconsin
Early voting dates vary by county. Read here for your in person ID requirements.
Click here to find your polling place.
Wyoming
Vote early in person through Nov. 7. Bring driver's license, government-issued ID, bank statement, or utility bill if this is your first time voting in Wyoming.
Click here to find your polling place, and here for a general voting guide.
Early voting has already closed in Maine, Louisiana, and New Jersey. You can still vote on Election Day.
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If you absolutely, positively cannot vote on Election Day and have an excellent excuse why, some of these states will allow you to cast an early absentee ballot, but otherwise you are going to have to wait until Tuesday, Nov. 8.
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No matter who you're buying for or what they're interested in, our guide has the gift ideas you need. And we're not just talking "gifts for kids" or "gifts for grandparents" — from Dolly Parton fans to people who love carbs, we've got you covered for even the most unique individuals on your list.
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Take notes, other makeup companies.
Afia has an Instagram fanbase of over 300,000, and a YouTube channel—where she share's clear skin secrets, makeup tutorials, and stylish ways to tie her hijab—with over 200,000 subscribers.
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CoverGirl took to Instagram to write, "💜#LashEquality = bold, sexy lashes for ALL.💜 At COVERGIRL, we’ve always stood for inclusive beauty that supports any and all types — from skin types to lash types. We know that whether you have short, straight, light or long lashes, you all crave the same bold end look, so we listened and created #SoLashy mascara: the first mascara designed for any and all lash types. Representing all types of beauty, our #SoLashy fam (and their lashes) have come together to stand for #LashEquality."
Sorry, folks. It wasn’t canceled because the guys were being wimps.
The study aimed to find out if injections of testosterone and progestogen would suppress sperm count enough to prevent pregnancy — and it did!
Starting in 2008, researchers enrolled men at 10 study sites around the world to test the safety and efficacy of a male birth control shot. Overall, the failure rate was just 7.5%.
The popular narrative (including a post published by BuzzFeed) was that the men were wimps who couldn't handle the side effects, or that the researchers were out of line for halting a study due to the same adverse events that women experience on hormonal birth control. Boo men! Boo science!
But none of that is true.
BuzzFeed Health talked to one of the study co-authors, Doug Colvard, PhD, deputy director of programs for CONRAD (a co-sponsor of the study), for the real story.
At the beginning of the study, an independent Data Safety and Monitoring Committee (DSMC) was created by the study sponsors. A DSMC is typical in most clinical studies to ensure an independent review of safety. This committee received preliminary data throughout the study to make sure it was all running smoothly. In addition, the researchers also reported every year to a separate review panel within the World Health Organization (WHO).
During one of these regular reviews, the panel noted that certain side effects, especially mood swings and increased libido, were more common than expected. So they decided that the risk of men continuing in the study outweighed the benefits of continuing the study to the end to obtain more complete effectiveness and safety data. They recommended that new participants should not be enrolled and that injections should stop, with all men transitioned to the recovery phase of the trial.
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Out of nearly 1,500 adverse events reported, about 39% were determined not to be related to the medication.
That means the majority of side effects were thought to be possibly, probably, or definitely related to the medication, including one case of depression, one case of intentional overdose, and one case of irregular heartbeat after stopping the injections.
A few limitations worth noting here: The men weren't specifically questioned about depression, anxiety, or mood swings prior to the study. And, for obvious ethical reasons, there was no placebo group in this study. Interestingly, most of the adverse events were reported at one study site in Indonesia, though the study authors do not speculate as to why that may be the case.
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Chips and salsa or breadsticks and salad?
Fake tan and massive belts 4ever.
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We all know that “blood” is a very simplified term for what a period really is.
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The lumps are just so gross and fascinating.
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How do they get there? Nobody knows.
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“Being an adult is like being a Quentin Tarantino movie: it starts out real cool, there’s lots of cursing, it’s very confusing, everyone dies”
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“It literally gave me an existential crisis.” This is a spoiler-free zone.
"The movie really messed with me. So much so that I sat there stunned for ten minutes after the credits rolled. I watched it one more time and it still left me with that same sense of 'what the actual hell'. It's a good movie that will make you a little nervous about all the recent AI news."
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"I had to watch it for a class and I just left feeling uncomfortable, dissociative, and like I was on an entirely different plane of existence. It's still my favourite movie though."
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"The Lobster was not at all what I was expecting. So twisty and disturbing. It really makes you think."
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Because there’s nothing worse than a baby that needs to sleep but won’t.
OK, OK, lil' puppies come pretty damn close.
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We don’t need daylight; we have the aurora, and blazing star trails over ancient castles.
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MEXICO CITY, Mexico — All the boy wanted for his birthday was a papier-mâché Donald Trump that he could call his own. For roughly a minute, before tearing it to shreds.
In Sarah Clift's short film, titled The Good Mother, a couple is confronted with their child's request for a Trump piñata as the Republican presidential candidate's anti-immigration message begins spreading. "No, that man won't enter my house," the mother says.
But, wanting to please her son, she eventually comes around. The mother hops on a motorcycle and drives across mountainous landscapes to a candle-filled cave. There, she meets a long-haired shaman who produces a Trump piñata, cleanses it of spirits, and hands it to the frightened-looking woman.
The mother drives back, the life-size piñata strapped to her waist, its blond hair blowing in the wind, face frozen over, to meet its fate.
The film has nearly 40,000 views on YouTube and Vimeo and, with the US election five days away, is beginning to get traction on other social media platforms.
After several woman accused the business mogul of sexual harassment, polls placed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton well ahead of Trump. But since the FBI director's letter last week informing Congress that the bureau was looking into a new set of emails from an account that used Clinton's private server, the margin between the two has narrowed.
When Clift began looking for inspiration for her first film project last year, Trump "was saying some radical things I didn't agree with. It wasn't the Mexico I had fallen in love with. And it sort of evolved from there," she told BuzzFeed News in a phone interview from Berlin. Clift, who recently quit advertising after nearly two decades, wanted the film to show the other, feminine, family-oriented face of Mexico just as Trump was ossifying its image as a violent, drug-ridden place.
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Trump has called Mexicans "rapists" and criminals, and has vowed to build a wall along the US southern border. He has also promised to deport about 12 million undocumented immigrants in the US if he is elected. A visit to the country ended with a Twitter feud between Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto over just who would pay for Trump's proposed wall.
Clift says she is not a very political person. "I think that what I do have is a set of beliefs about treating people as human beings and calling out things that aren't right," she said.
In the months since Trump launched his political career, spoofs of him have proliferated on both sides of the border. But for Clift, it was important to make sure her film, which is both comical and heartwarming, got widely shared and transcended the electoral period. That meant avoiding lawsuits, so she hired an impersonator to imitate some of Trump's statements that are voiced-over in the film.
The film was low budget and depended heavily on favors and gifts from friends, Clift said. People from across the world signed on — a musician in Sydney, editors in London and actors in Mexico. During casting, Clift had actors talk to a Trump piñata as if it were real to gauge their passion and sensitivity.
The Good Mother has won several international awards but, because Clift decided to release the film online, it is no longer eligible for a number of festivals.
On election night, Clift is organizing a party with the film's production party in London. There will be a Trump piñata.
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There are lots of things that I haven't been good at in my life: karaoke, finishing David Foster Wallace novels, telling a joke without cracking up like a '90s sitcom audience member at my own punchline. But I'm really good at being alone. And my absolute favorite thing to do alone is go to the drugstore.
I fucking love drugstores. I love the whoosh of the automatic doors. I love the pop music from the early '00s, the threadbare carpet speckled with mystery stains. I love the bins of travel products: tiny effigies of Crest toothpaste and Dove deodorant, waiting to join me on imaginary adventures. I love that, at the drugstore, it’s OK to be alone. After all, almost everyone there is.
I shop with the tickled seriousness of someone two drinks in and bellying up to the bar for a third. Revlon ColorStay eyeliner. Sour Patch Kids. Fancy mouthwash, just because I like the packaging. Things you shouldn’t really buy at drugstores: plastic measuring cups, mittens, string cheese. Often, I don’t buy anything — I just take an aimless lap around the store before I have to whoosh myself back to reality.
My love for roaming drugstores started at 16, when I learned how to drive, a rite of passage that gave me the freedom to run errands by myself. As I was discovering makeup, the drugstore was my holy of cosmetic holies. The green Cover Girl compacts! Those Wet ‘n’ Wild eyeliners that are practically free! I’d use money from my part-time job to stock up on lip gloss and body glitter. Later, I’d buy cheap vanilla body spray to mask the scent of cigarettes I’d sneaked with my friends.
Grad school brought me to the Northeast for the first time and introduced me to two of my soon-to-be best friends: social anxiety and occasional panic attacks. Not helping was my other new chum, student loans, which I used to pay for an apartment with a clanging radiator and hot water that liked to short out on February mornings. When I’d done my frigid walks to and from class, I’d drive up to Rite-Aid one town north and indulge myself in winter “necessities”: the Emergen-C flavor that tastes like hot apple cider, fuzzy socks from the clearance endcap, boxes and boxes of my favorite guilty pleasure snack, Cheez-Its (for inner warmth).
In a drugstore, you’re not You, with all of your insecurities and anxieties and emotional whatnots. You’re just a person who needs Band-Aids and some nail polish remover.
Drugstores are a safe space for not only solitude, but also a soothing detachment from the self. In a drugstore, you’re not You, with all of your insecurities and anxieties and emotional whatnots. You’re just a person who needs Band-Aids and some nail polish remover. And so is the CEO of your company; even the 1% need an overpriced umbrella when it’s raining. In this way, drugstores, like commercial air travel, are the great societal equalizer, a refreshing pause from classist reality. Check your status at the automatic doors!
Of course, I can't help worrying that finding emotional solace in Walgreens purchases is, in a word, bad. First, the corporate pharmacy is a study in capitalist sprawl. You can go from Brooklyn to Boulder to Boca Raton, and every CVS looks and feels the same. It probably used to be a local credit union or laundromat. It might even have a past life as a quaint local apothecary, before it got steamrolled by Big Drugstore. There’s now an ugly brick toiletries emporium on practically every block in America, and I'm shopping in it.
Also, spending $24.89 on random crap is not a financially prudent way to kill time or soothe wounds. Jessica, have you heard of reading books, or jogging, or phone calls with loved ones, or like, getting right with God? Do you really need a 37th lipstick that you’ll be obsessed with for a week and then never use again? The problems with using shopping as a spiritual pacifier are many and fraught. As any consumer knows, the heroin-like comfort of buying new stuff is very real. And like a drug rush, it fades almost instantly.
But just for a second, I like to pretend that the solution to my problems can be found down one of these gleaming rows of Garnier products. Maybe this new mascara will be the one to turn my eyelashes into magical, man-snaring critters. This is the Mrs. Meyer’s cleaner that will make my apartment resemble a Clean and Responsible Person’s. This will be the conditioner that gives me flawless Beyoncé hair. And how can you be lonely when you have Beyoncé hair? When I get home with my tiny bag of things and put the new hand sanitizer on my desk, I don’t feel as much like an old piece of bread on the side of the road. I bought important stuff I needed for life! I’m the head of this household (of one). I am keeping. It. Together.
After all, nothing else is helping. Maybe I just haven’t found the right face wash yet.
Two years ago, I moved across the country, to San Francisco, by myself. It was a Friday night in early January, that post-holiday doldrums that stretches out like molasses. I had nowhere to go and no one to see. The stillness of my tiny apartment felt like a jail.
Itching with loneliness, I put on my puffer coat and walked 10 blocks in the damp fog. No one else was around; the Chinese restaurants that lined my neighborhood were blinking closed.
Through the mist, Walgreens glowed its happy, sterile glow. Duncan Sheik was singing about barely breathing over the sound system. I bought Dove soap and some Swiffer dusters and hurried back, my boots making staccato jabs into the night air.
I came home and put the new body wash in the shower and stashed the Swiffers under the kitchen sink. And for a second — just for a flickering, gross, consumerist second — I felt content.
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