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

Donald Trump thought BEING PRESIDENT would be EASIER than his regular life. Oh America, what have we wrought? (Image Credit: Flickr/Gage Skidmore)

#RavsRadar: Donald Trump - The Man Who Thought Being POTUS Would Be 'Easier' Than Regular Life. LOLSOB

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders and Jeb Bush and so many other candidates were imperfect and problematic in their own ways, but they were also career public servants who knew the risks and the responsibilities of the office. They expected it to be hard. They were ready for it to be hard. We should have elected one of them.

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"Nudging" people to make healthier choices is a nice way of saying food shaming & manipulation.

#RavsRadar: Researcher 'Brilliantly' Proves Manipulating People's Food Choices 'Works'

The latest news in the worlds of food shaming and behavior modification comes to us from Chicago, where a

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Trump's Ridiculousness Round-Up For October

October is nearly over and with it the ninth month of the Trump administration let's address some of Trump's Ridiculousness. We can't make this stuff up!

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Catholic Church Tells Women Seeking Priesthood Not To Hold Their Breath

Remember how a couple of weeks ago we talked about how the

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Yet More Information About Why BMI Isn't The Best Health Metric

In reality, we should be consulting with our own individual doctors about our own individual health statuses because giant studies don’t tell us diddly-squat about our own bodies (and neither do BMIs, for the most part).

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Image: People's World/Flickr

Unsafe Abortions Are Anything But History — Just Ask Google

I know a woman who worked in an inner-city hospital before the passage of Roe v Wade. Every week, staff there saw women come in battling massive infection or blood loss. They actually reserved beds for women like this because it was so common. The cause? Illegal, unsafe abortions. But that was then, right? That was 42 years ago, right? That doesn’t happen anymore, right? Wrong.

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Is Your Cat Making You Horny? (What?)

Your kitty may be making you kinky.

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Way to go, United - keep those girls in legging in check! (Image Credit: InSapphoWeTrust via Wikimedia Commons)

#RavsRadar: United Airlines Defends Its Dress Code Enforcement. WOW.

The year is 2017. Women have been entitled to all the rights of citizenship for 98 years.

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Texas, like the rest of the US, has a near-zero complication rate for abortions. But apparently it's still... dangerous somehow?

Here's What Went Down In Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt

Yes. That’s right. Texas passed laws to allegedly make abortion safer when abortion is already nearly perfectly safe. Our good friend Justice Breyer honed in on this yesterday, when he asked the lawyer defending the law how often Texas patients are transferred from abortion provider to hospital.

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Ivanka won't be trying to sell you a $19,000 necklace anymore. (Image Credit: Flickr/Michael Vadon)

#RavsRadar: Ivanka's Uber Expensive Jewelry Is Done, But POTUS Trump's Healthcare Will Still Cost You

First Daughter and fashion mogul Ivanka Trump’s company announced this week that it will be discontinuing her eponymous line of fine jewelry.

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