Rebekah Kuschmider

Rebekah Kuschmider

Bio

Rebekah Kuschmider is a DC area writer with a background in non-profit management and advocacy. Her work has been seen at Babble, Scary Mommy, Huffington Post, The Mid, Redbook online, and The Broad Side. She is the creator of the blog Stay at Home Pundit and is a contributor to the upcoming book Love Her, Love Her Not: The Hillary Paradox (an anthology, SheWrites Press, Nov. 2015). You can follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

Rebekah Kuschmider Articles

You're going to need patience, and probably a singular focus.

#RavsRadar: Don't Let Trump Turn You Into A Directionless Heap Of Despair

The next few months are going to feel like drinking from a firehose of bad political news. Just today, my email is pinging away with alerts about all the executive orders that Trump seems to have signed expressly to make me, Rebekah Kuschmider, lose my mind. I keep feeling jolts of adrenaline, and I reach for my phone to email or call or Tweet or SOMETHING to release my endless rage.

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Medicaid Coverage At Planned Parenthood Isn't Going Anywhere

In other words, you can’t cut off a source of health care because you got all wee-wee’d up about a sketchy video.

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The "investigation" into voter fraud is strictly ridiculous, but that doesn't mean it won't have consequences. (Image Credit: Flickr/Tim Evanson)

#RavsRadar: The Need To Fight Voter Suppression Just Got Even More Real

Everyone knows that Hillary Clinton got three million more votes than Donald Trump, right? Yeah. It’s true.

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Steve Bannon Is Dangerous — Here's What You Can Do To Stop Him.

Since November 8, Bannon has only grown in stature, now looming over the American political landscape like some sort of Godzilla-sized Pepe the Frog meme.

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Women and sports?

Can I Be A Sports Fan And A Feminist?

Can you name a WNBA team in your state? Do you know the name of a top woman golfer? Did you know it took Venus Williams digging her heels in to get equal prize money for men and women at Wimbledon and that didn’t happen until 2007. Venus Williams! Getting paid less than a dude! VENUS WILLIAMS!

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"Sort of the way they brought the Garden of Eden to life, complete with dinosaurs and humans living together."

This New Kentucky Attraction Is Possibly The Strangest Attraction

Have you ever wondered what Noah’s Ark looked like? Would you like to go inside the Biblical vessel and see how the last family on earth after the Great Flood lived and how they kept all the animals? Well, you’re in luck! Tomorrow a museum called the Ark Encounter is opening in Kentucky!

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Apple Refuses FBI Requests To Hack iPhones

Apple CEO Tim Cook has taken to the internet to tell the world the company will not be complying with FBI requests to hack the San Bernardino shooters’ phones.

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Flynn talked to Russians about lifting sanctions before Trump took office. Now, he's out. (Image Credit: Flickr/Jim Mattis)

Flynn Just Resigned: What Even Is Reality Anymore?

What’s going on is that Gen. Michael Flynn, one-time general, disgraced former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Trump campaign advisor and - very briefly - Trump National Security Advisor resigned last night. Why did he resign?

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BangFit: The App That Tracks Your F*cking Exercise (Literally)

PornHub has announced the upcoming launch of BangFit, a phone app that — you guessed it — helps you get fit by banging.

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Some people are commenting that back in the day, Jesse Owens, the legendary sprinter, actually raced a horse. But I would remind everyone that horses were domesticated thousands of years ago and have no history of eating people. (Image Credit: Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil via Wikimedia Commons)

Internet Mad At Michael Phelps For Not Really Racing A Great White Shark

The race itself was anti-climactic because it wasn’t a race. It was basically two heats of a race. First, scientists convinced a wild great white to chase a hunk of fake seal meat for 100 meters so they could time it. Then Phelps donned a specially designed shark suit and swam the exact same route.

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