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Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. SHARE THIS SHARE THIS Skimm for October 5th Skimm’d while making sure everyone we have ever met ever is registered to vote QUOTE OF THE DAY “Exotic Matter” - Why three scientists were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday. Google at your own NSFW risk. Whatever you find, that’s not what they won for. Skimm This THE VICE GUYS THE STORY Last night, two white guys in suits yelled at each other while using their indoor voices. WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? The vice presidential debate at Norwood…no, Longwood University in VA. It was the first, and probably last, time voters will hear them talk until Election Day. In GOP nominee Donald Trump’s corner was Gov. Mike Pence (R-IN). He won even before he started, says the person who’s probably getting fired today. In Dem nominee Hillary Clinton’s corner was Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA). And in the ‘will you just STFU’ corner, CBS moderator Elaine Quijano reminded the candidates to please stop talking over each other. WHAT’D THEY TALK ABOUT? Tax returns...as in Kaine was feeling feisty about Trump’s financials. A report recently came out that Trump maybe didn’t pay federal income taxes for 18 years after taking a $900+ million loss back in ’95. Pence calls that ‘taking all the deductions you can get.’ Terrorism…as in how many times can two people say ’9/11′ in two minutes. Kaine says Clinton fought for funding to rebuild NYC after the attack, while Trump was busy avoiding the IRS. Pence thinks the world is a lot less safe than it was eight years ago. Race relations…as in the one that made Pence say “at the risk of agreeing with you…” They both agreed the relationship between black communities and their local police departments need to improve. Kaine thinks Trump’s stop-and-frisk proposals are too aggro, while Pence thinks that Hillary’s comment about “implicit bias” demeans local PDs. Social Security…as in they both have Boca on the brain. Kaine says Hillz will adjust the federal tax cap instead of engaging in a risky scheme to privatize social security. Pence says that plan will put the US in “mountain range of debt.” Russia...as in the bear never sleeps, it just hibernates. Kaine thinks Pence has a crush on Russian President Vladimir Putin, Pence said Russian aggression has to be met with ‘Murican strength. Not the same thing. Feelings…as in they hurt each other’s and it’s too late to say sorry. Kaine thinks Pence doesn’t know how to defend his own boss, and Pence says Hillz has run an “insult-driven” campaign. Religion…as in they had an amen-off, and argued over who’s more down with G-O-D. Cue the transition to everyone’s fav dinner table topic: abortion. Pence is pro-life and proud, while Kaine is pro-choice (now that he’s on Clinton’s ticket). theSKIMM The ‘my candidate is less bad than yours’ debate had more actual policy talk than everyone’s used to in 2016. But chances are it didn’t make anyone change their mind about who they’re pulling the lever for next month. Skimm This GUEST SKIMM: Vice President Joe Biden October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. VP Biden’s spent basically his entire public career fighting for women’s rights. He Skimms the Domestic Violence Awareness Act, which he wrote and helped pass in Congress, and his campus sexual assault awareness campaign, It’s On Us. Note: Skimm’d on the phone. theSkimm is a nonpartisan media company WHAT IS THE ‘IT’S ON US’ CAMPAIGN? The It’s On Us campaign is to get men to step up on campus to stop sexual assault against women. They have a responsibility to act to change the culture. If they don’t step in they’re being cowards [...]. I think we’re beginning to change the culture. No man has a right to raise a hand to a woman period. YOU’VE SPENT DECADES WORKING TO PREVENT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN, INCLUDING WRITING THE VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN ACT, WHICH PASSED 22 YEARS AGO LAST MONTH. HOW DID THIS BECOME YOUR ISSUE? My dad who was a gentle man said ‘the greatest sin anyone can commit is the abuse of power and the greatest abuse of power is for a man to raise his hand to a woman.’ From the time I can remember he instructed his three sons, ‘if you see it intervene.’ It’s just a heinous, heinous crime [...].The Violence Against Women act did a number of things. One, it said that we would provide shelter, housing, and services for women who were abused [...]. Secondly, it increased the penalties for domestic violence when an intimate partner abuses his partner or her partner. And thirdly…we’ve expanded it[...]. YOU RECENTLY WROTE AN OPEN LETTER TO THE STANFORD SEXUAL ASSAULT SURVIVOR. WHAT CAN BE DONE DIFFERENTLY TO FIGHT SEXUAL ASSAULT ON CAMPUSES? We’re threatening to - and in some cases will - take away federal funding from [some universities] if they do not have a mechanism on campus where a woman can report what happened to them, and they can be treated the way we know after significant experience victims should be treated [...].The issue is a woman should never have to ask herself, ‘what did I do?’ A woman could get up, walk across a stadium stark naked, violate the laws of decency, but no man has a right to put a hand on her. Period. Period. Period. SO WE HEAR THAT YOU WENT TO A FRAT PARTY RECENTLY. ENLIGHTEN US. I went with [actor] Adam [DeVine], [...] we’re under cover, and we’re going to see what’s going on at this frat party, anything inappropriate. And it’s kind of corny, but it got the point across. [...] I never belonged to a fraternity. Any ‘frat brother’ who starts to walk an inebriated coed up the stairs and someone else doesn’t come up and say ‘hey, Jack, not on my watch,’ he’s an accomplice. We’ve got to shame these people. We’ve got to make them the pariah. We’ve got to change the culture. WHAT CAN SKIMM’RS DO? They can demand that people be held accountable. If they have children they can teach their sons and their daughters. Their daughters should never, ever have to be in a position where she has to yield to a man, where she thinks this is what society asks of her. And young men should know never, never, never do they have a right to touch a woman, do anything with a woman without her permission. theSKIMM HAS REGISTERED MORE THAN 85,000 SKIMM’RS TO VOTE. ANY MESSAGE YOU WANT TO GIVE THEM? I want to say to them thank you, thank you, thank you. Let me tell all you Skimm’rs out there: when I was your age in the middle of the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement hadn’t come to fruition yet, women’s movement was just getting started...but a lot of us got involved and took over the political system. You guys can own the political system. If you all vote, and this is not hyperbole, you will determine the outcome of this election. You have an obligation. WHILE WE HAVE YOU, WE HAVE TO KNOW…IS ‘MALARKEY’ YOUR FAVORITE WORD? Well, ‘malarkey’ was a word I was raised with. [...] I tell you what - as was pointed out to me by my brother - no one ever doubts Joe says what he means, but the problem is that he sometimes says all that he means. I’m told when I used it with Paul Ryan, it ended up in the Webster Dictionary for the first time.* *Skimm note: Not the first time HOW BADLY DO YOU WISH YOU COULD DEBATE HOUSE SPEAKER PAUL RYAN AGAIN? Well Paul Ryan…wouldn’t it be fun to debate Donald Trump? Can you imagine any president of the United States in the past and the future getting up at 3:30 in the morning and tweeting vitriol about a beauty queen who gained weight? I mean, what have we come to? LAST QUESTION: HOW MANY PAIRS OF AVIATORS DO YOU HAVE? My lord, I’ve been wearing aviators since I was a freshman in college as a lifeguard. I think Ray Ban should [sponsor me], I tell you what. I probably end up with four or five pairs a year because I put them down. Sometimes people steal them for souvenirs. Skimm This REPEAT AFTER ME... WHAT PEOPLE ARE WATCHING... Hurricane Matthew. Yesterday, the most powerful Atlantic hurricane in years hit Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Not a good combo. At least 11 people have died as the storm’s moved through the Caribbean. In Haiti, the storm hit an especially poor area of the island where some people live in coastal shacks. The rain has swept away rooftops, left a lot of homes without electricity, and shut down most transportation in Haiti. The good news is that the worst of Matthew is expected to leave the Caribbean sometime today. The bad news is that it could hit Florida toward the end of the week and make its way up the Eastern Coast this weekend. Happy weekend. Skimm This WHAT TO SAY TO YOUR FRIEND WHO SPENT MOST OF COLLEGE IN THE LAB… Time to nerd out. Today, three chemists won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for their work on molecular machines. Skimm This WHAT TO SAY TO YOUR CO-WORKER WHO PUTS A STICKER OVER HER IPHONE CAMERA... This won’t help your paranoia. Yesterday, a report came out that Yahoo’s allegedly been doing what you feared all email providers have been doing for years…secretly been reading your emails. The report says The ‘Hoo built a program last year that let it search all of its customers’ incoming emails for certain information on behalf of the US gov. Yahoo was apparently ordered to snoop by either the FBI or NSA. This affected hundreds of millions of accounts, so yes, they could have heard about your bad date, saw the pic of your dog that your mom sent, and know about your email to your ex. Experts say this case is unusual because Yahoo was allegedly searching all incoming emails instead of just ones from accounts that seem shady. Google and Microsoft said ‘we’ve never done this.’ Still, this is only the latest case of the US gov asking major tech firms for help tracking what people are up to. This also comes weeks after Yahoo said at least 500 million of its email accounts were hacked back in 2014. And Yahoo’s also in the middle of a deal to sell its core business to Verizon for $4.8 billion. Could have done without this. Skimm This WHAT TO SAY WHEN YOU GET AN EMAIL FROM YOUR LONG-LOST COUSIN ASKING YOU TO WIRE HIM MONEY… This is suspicious. Turkey feels you. Yesterday, the country suspended nearly 13,000 police officers and forced a TV station off the air on suspicions that they’re all against the government. Reminder: earlier this year, Turkish military tried to overthrow the gov. That’s because they’re not too happy with Turkey’s President Erdogan, who they say is trying to push Islam on the traditionally Western country. The coup didn’t work out. Erdogan blames his rival Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric in self-imposed exile in the US, for what happened. And wants pretty much anyone associated with Gulen to be fired. He says that includes a small part of the country’s police force. Hence thousands of officers taking forced sick days. Skimm This THING TO KNOW Cuffing season: ‘Tis the season. Not talking about handcuffs (unless you’re into that). It’s another way to say ‘baby it’s cold outside, so I want to find a significant other to watch Netflix with.’ SKIMM THE VOTE This week’s all about getting up close and personal with the candidates. Here’s where they stand on some key issues… Donald Trump…as in his economic policies will create ‘the biggest economic boom since the New Deal.’ When it comes to national security, Trump says the key thing is he has “great judgment” and has spent his career calling so many shots. Re: immigration, the US needed a beautiful wall along the southern border yesterday. Hillary Clinton…as in she says the middle class has struggled in recent decades, and her job is to turn the economy around for them. When it comes to national security, Clinton says she’s got the “rock steadiness” and strength to be able to make tough calls. Re: immigration, she wants to pass major reform in her first 100 days in office. Ok. Let's talk deadlines. VP Biden just told you to vote. See above. It’s rude not to. 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