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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
How Occupy Democrats became so big on Facebook One of the most popular Facebook news sites in America is run out of a pool house in Los Angeles by a pair of Mexican-American twins. Occupy Democrats is a left-leaning page with nearly 7 million followers. But it’s not connected to Occupy Wall Street or the Democratic Party. Omar Rivero started the page in 2012, while working a gig cleaning vacation rentals after college.
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Orange County Line
Spending Free-For-All in South OC's 45th Congressional District Democrat challenger Katie Porter takes on incumbent Mimi Walters (and vice versa) via commercials
Bodies
Unraveling In a lot of ways, menopause is like puberty. Your hormones are changing and setting off a whole host of bodily changes. It’s something that happens to half the population, but still, it’s full of mysteries. In this episode we hear from Lisa Hartman and another women who you’ve heard from once before. To learn more and to share your own story, visit our Facebook group www.facebook.com/groups/BodiesPodcast/ .
The Treatment
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Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Drawing new attention to vulnerable animals through photography Joel Sartore takes simple, intimate photographs of vulnerable animals in a studio. He hopes the images will give people a new perspective on what we could lose if the animals go extinct. He’s shot more than 8000 portraits as part of his Photo Ark.