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While we’ve been going back and forth on which spring nail art trend to try next, Kylie Jenner asked the very important question: Why not all of them?

Yesterday, the beauty mogul showed off her latest design on TikTok and Instagram Stories. In one manicure, she managed to work in French tips, a rainbow of bright colors, and retro swirls, not to mention the long rectangular shape Jenner often wears. Each nail’s groovy swirled pattern — placed only on the tips, like a traditional French manicure — incorporates a different ’70s-inspired color palette. Jenner credited the design to celebrity nail artist Chaun Legend, noting they were inspired by UK-based nail pro Tori Watterson.

Recreating this look might be difficult without the help of a nail technician, given that Jenner’s art appears to be freehand painted onto gel-tip extensions. Reviewing Jenner’s TikTok of the process confirms it’s an intricate endeavor that requires a steady hand. However, if you want to try your hand at it — or the parts of it that don’t require knowing how to set gel tip extensions — the swirly pattern itself is a good place to start.

@kyliejenner

this is basically just a page for my nails

♬ All To Me – Giveon

Now that we have combining trends on the brain, we’re wondering what other trends we can put together to create our own meta nail art. Stripes combined with foils, or maybe color blocking with earth tones? Jenner’s fresh new manicure has opened up a treasure trove of possibilities.

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With Easter just days away, I thought it would be a good time to round up some dresses for the occasion! And with Amazon, you know you can get your look shipped in time for the holiday.



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‘Tis the season of colorful marshmallow bunnies and chocolate eggs, as spring is in the air and Easter candy in its various forms prepare their take over of grocery store shelves. This year, in a collaboration that literally no one asked for, marshmallow Peeps and Pepsi are putting out a strange new beverage that you won’t actually be able to buy in stores. To make matters worse for anyone curious to try the new “Pepsi x Peeps” flavor, the two companies absolutely blew an opportunity to market their strange creation as “Peepsi.” I mean, Pepsi meets Peeps — it’s a no-brainer. 

The Pepsi x Peeps cola will mix the flavor of Pepsi cola with “the pillowy-soft and sweet” Peeps marshmallow flavor, making it the “ideal accessory and thirst quencher for springtime,” the companies said.  

While many people online first took an opportunity to express their disgust at the marshmallow-flavored pop, many more couldn’t believe that Pepsi x Peeps blew it on the branding. To be fair, mixing marshmallow and cola isn’t the weirdest flavor combo for a carbonated sugary drink, and it’s close enough to a cream soda. The biggest issue here really is that the companies didn’t brand their beverage as “Peepsi.”

“CALL IT PEEPSI YOU COWARDS,” one Twitter user wrote. Another called it a “missed opportunity.”

CALL IT PEEPSI YOU COWARDS. https://t.co/p9rMymsuRd

— Fahey (@UncleFahey) March 25, 2021

A seasonal marshmallow treat and the second best soda brand combine and they don’t call the flavour Peepsi?
Y’all messed up. pic.twitter.com/TNx2BXiq22

— Brittney ✨💖 (@britl) March 25, 2021

It’s not even called “Peepsi,” so you’ve already lost. https://t.co/jv9Lp1znav

— Patrick Lucas Austin (@patbits) March 25, 2021

1. Gross
2. How do you not call it Peepsi? https://t.co/T3hClmcVxd

— Karen Howell (@karenehowell) March 25, 2021

It turns out the companies did consider calling the drink Peepsi. Pepsi’s Twitter account recalled a time about a month ago when Pepsi apparently brought David from Legal a “great name for the Peeps collab” that David from Legal promptly turned down.

Us a month ago: David from Legal, we have a great name for this Peeps collab. It’s…
David from Legal a month ago: I know what you’re gonna say. No.
Us today: David, check Twitter. 🤦‍♂️ #PepsiXPeeps

— Pepsi (@pepsi) March 25, 2021

Unfortunately, Pepsi x Peeps will not be available on store shelves and is only available to people who enter their online sweepstakes. The only way to get your hands on the beverage that should be called “Peepsi” is by posting a photo of yourself enjoying the springtime with friends on Twitter or Instagram and using the hashtag #HangingWithMyPEEPS. 

But even if you happen to win a package of the three colorful mini-cans of Peeps-flavored Pepsi, which come in bright yellow, pink, and blue, you will never know the joy of drinking Peepsi. It’s one drink we didn’t know we needed in this year 2021. Pour one out for Peepsi.

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On Wednesday, Senator Bernie Sanders announced that he would be flying out to Birmingham, Alabama to meet with workers at an Amazon warehouse. Employees at the trillion-dollar company are currently on the precipice of a historic vote that will determine whether or not they’ll unionize, despite Amazon’s repeated attempts to dissuade workers from doing so.

But then, Amazon’s corporate overlords responded to the Senator’s planned trip. Dave Clark, Amazon’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations, weighed in: “I often say we are the Bernie Sanders of employers, but that’s not quite right because we actually deliver a progressive workplace,” Clark wrote on Twitter. “If you want to hear about $15 an hour and health care, Senator Sanders will be speaking downtown. But if you would like to make at least $15 an hour and have good health care, Amazon is hiring.”

Unsurprisingly, Clark’s attempts to school the Senate’s resident champion for workers’ rights backfired. First, Sanders confirmed his plan to visit. “All I want to know is why the richest man in the world, Jeff Bezos, is spending millions trying to prevent workers from organizing a union so they can negotiate for better wages, benefits and working conditions,” he added. Clark then replied with an accusation that Vermont’s $11.75 minimum wage is lower than Amazon’s $15 an hour. But that argument doesn’t make sense for several reasons: Amazon implemented the minimum wage after pressure from supporters of the Stop BEZOS Act, a piece of legislation introduced by Sanders. Vermont also has a Republican governor, and because Sanders is not a state legislator, his home state’s minimum wage is not exactly under his jurisdiction. What Sanders can do is fight for a higher federal minimum wage, which he’s been doing. For ages.

I am proud to stand in solidarity with Amazon workers in Alabama who are fighting for better wages and better working conditions. If they win, they will improve the lives of workers at the warehouse in Alabama and all over this country. pic.twitter.com/w3luS3vjyP

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 25, 2021

The heated back-and-forth only continued to unfold when others got involved. Clark’s Twitter mentions were — and still are — a mess, with users sharing article after article about Amazon’s exploitative, disturbing working conditions. “Hey Dave Clark, remember that time you lied to millions of Americans about people dying of COVID at Amazon?” wrote one person. Fight for 15, a workers’ rights organization, shared another link to a Guardian story about warehouse workers dying (of reasons unrelated to COVID, prior to the pandemic) — employees have alleged that they’ve watched coworkers die of heart attacks, and by suicide, and then been instructed to get back to work as if nothing had happened. Several people even cited a Fortune article about Clark, which alleges that he was nicknamed the “Sniper” because he admitted to hiding “in the shadows” at Amazon’s warehouses in order to find slackers he could fire.

But what really took this Twitter war to new heights was responses claiming that workers are forced to pee in bottles and trash cans. These allegations have floated around for a while, with several workers and undercover employees in both the U.S. and the U.K. sharing that because there weren’t any nearby bathrooms, workers would pee wherever they could so as to not miss their “targets” and get fired. But according to a U.S. staffer who spoke with Business Insider in 2018, workers caught peeing in cans were fired anyway. “Paying workers $15/hr doesn’t make you a ‘progressive workplace’ when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles,” Wisconsin Rep. Mark Pocan wrote on Twitter.

A verified Amazon account responded to Pocan’s statement. “You don’t really believe the peeing in bottles thing, do you?” wrote @AmazonNews, adding that “if that were true,” nobody would work for Amazon. But New York Rep. Mondaire Jones put it best: “‘If that were true, nobody would work for us.’ Imagine if our economy made it that easy. That’s why we need unions.”

Amazon executives have been accused of working overtime to prevent employees from unionizing and even gone so far as to hire intelligence analysts to monitor “labor organizing threats.” Recently, the company was accused of deleting the profiles of hundreds of thousands of entry-level employees from an online staff directory, which some people viewed as an attempt to cut communication between workers. (An Amazon spokesperson denied that this change was related to unionization efforts.)

The decision of whether to form a union will be determined by a mail-in election. Workers began voting in February, and the National Labor Relations Board will start tallying results on March 30. Refinery29 has reached out to an Amazon representative for comment.

Sanders has been a longtime critic of Amazon’s labor conditions and surveillance practices. “The fact that Amazon has decided to heavily invest in systems to retaliate against freedom of expression about unsafe and unhealthy working conditions, and to refer to organizing efforts as threats against the company equal to those posed by hate groups and terrorism, is unacceptable,” Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and two other Senators wrote in a letter to CEO Jeff Bezos last October.

And on Thursday, he once again reiterated his support for warehouse workers: “In the case of Amazon, let’s be clear. You’re dealing with an enormously profitable corporation owned by the wealthiest guy in America, Jeff Bezos,” Sanders said in a video shared to Twitter. “They can afford to pay their workers living wages and provide decent health benefits.”

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New Zealand voted on Wednesday in favor of paid bereavement leave in the case of a miscarriage or stillbirth. The legislation would allow pregnant people and their partners to take paid time off work in the case of a miscarriage, which was already required of employers in the event of a miscarriage or stillbirth after 20 weeks or more. The new bill will extend these benefits to anyone who loses a pregnancy at any point in their pregnancy, rather than having to use sick leave.  

“I felt that it would give women the confidence to be able to request that leave if it was required, as opposed to just being stoic and getting on with life, when they knew that they needed time, physically or psychologically, to get over the grief,” Ginny Andersen, the Labour member of Parliament who drafted the bill, said. 

As New Zealand prepares to pass the measure into law in the coming weeks, this more inclusive legislation should be an example for how other countries, like the U.S., might handle paid leave for matters of reproductive and sexual health going forward.

According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, about 10% of pregnancies end in miscarriages. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention further notes that “1 pregnancy in 100 at 20 weeks of pregnancy and later is affected by stillbirth” in the United States. 

The issue is not only medical but psychological as 29% of women who experienced early pregnancy loss after one month exhibited signs of post-traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression, the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology found. People who experience miscarriage or stillbirth should not have to rely on paid sick time during their healing process. Instead, reproductive health issues deserve their own labor policy so that individuals can have space to grieve and recover physically and emotionally from the loss before worrying about their return to work.

“The two most common things I see women for after a miscarriage is trauma, grief or both,” Tessa Sugarbaker, a gynecologist who now works as a therapist with people who have experienced pregnancy loss, told The Washington Post. “I think the trauma can come from feeling helpless that nothing could be done, from doctors not being sensitive to the experience of the woman, and from society not recognizing it as a loss.”

Of course, the United States is not the most progressive country with matters of reproductive health or labor rights. Since the passage of Roe v. Wade in 1973, the landmark Supreme Court decision that protects the right to an abortion, there have been a number of cases where women were criminalized for having a miscarriage or stillbirth. Since Minnestota became the first state to pass a fetal homicide law in 1986, another 37 states had similar statutes on the books by 2018 as a result of the conservative Personhood Movement in response to Roe, according to ProPublica. 

Further, both Arkansas and Michigan have additional laws on the books that criminalize alleged actions that might lead to miscarriage or stillbirth. The New York Times reports that in Arkansas, for example, five women have been criminalized and incarcerated for stillbirth or miscarriage, one as recently as 2016.

When an individual experiences a pregnancy loss, it’s not enough for their workplace to offer condolences and flowers. Taking unpaid time off from work is not an option for many, and paid leave policies that don’t prioritize matters of reproductive health will always disproportionately harm low-wage workers and people of color. And it’s long past time for sweeping changes to both labor laws in the U.S. that protect the rights of pregnant people, and a more just vision of reproductive and sexual health.

“We hear from women, low-wage women in particular, who are often a complicated pregnancy away from losing their job,” Dina Bakst, co-founder of A Better Balance, told TODAY. Bakst added, “I think there’s a growing recognition in this country that people have health needs and they need job-protected time off.”

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