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LGBTQ Google employees ask SF Pride to remove the company from celebrations
LGBTQ employees within Google are petitioning San Francisco Pride to kick the company from its official festivities this weekend. “[We] urge you to revoke Google’s sponsorship of Pride 2019, and exclude Google from representation in the San Francisco Pride Parade on June 30th, 2019,” reads a Medium post with the full petition. The name includes close to 100 signatures of employees who “are compelled to speak,” despite potential repercussions.
The petition, which is addressed to San Fransisco Pride’s board of directors, was first reported by Bloomberg. Prior to the petition’s public existence, a source told The Verge it was “extremely controversial” within the Gayglers group, but it had already collected dozens of signatures by Tuesday…
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BMW has spent the last few years steadily working toward an electric motorcycle, and this week, it showed off a revamped vision of what that bike might ultimately look like. As part of a suite of announcements tied to the company’s new push to accelerate its electrification plans, BMW revealed the “Motorrad Vision DC Roadster,” an electric motorcycle concept that looks as close to road-ready as almost anything the company has shown before.
In true concept form, the company hasn’t released any specs, and it hasn’t said if or when it will turn into a real motorcycle that people can buy. But it’s one of the most grounded takes on an electric motorcycle from BMW yet.
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How to stream the first 2020 Democratic debates
The 2020 US presidential election cycle is in full swing (yes, it is still the summer of 2019; you did read that correctly), and things are kicking with a bang. The first debates for the Democratic Party are set to begin the process of selecting a candidate to challenge incumbent Donald Trump next fall.
It’s a big field of candidates, with 20 hopefuls set to take the stage in NBC’s first debates to make their case about why they should be the one to serve as the party’s nominee. Here’s everything you need to know.
When are the debates?
The initial 2020 Democratic Party candidate debates are actually being split into a two-night affair: the first batch of 10 candidates will air on Wednesday, June 26th, and the second batch will debate on…
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