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By me: Black communities in 2020 did not march for months,risking arrest & tear gas, to receive apologies & platitudes, nor did they plead for more Black officers, bodycams, yet another “community policing” program, or long discredited programs of mass criminalization www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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NEW: @wendyorent.bsky.social wrote a beautiful review of David Zweig’s new book on COVID school closures, “An Abundance of Caution” for @accountabilityji.bsky.social. Orent absolutely takes an ice pick to it. If you read anything today, read this. www.accountabilityjournalism.org/insights/an-...

submitted 23 hours ago • 20 comments

Texas cops tried to find an abortion patient by using data from an automatic license plate reader (ALPR), which gave them access to over 83,000 cameras across the country. The dystopian future feminists have been warning about is already here. www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

submitted 18 hours ago • 17 comments

MUST WATCH: ICE kidnapped a disabled American citizen. Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy. She’s lived here 48 years. They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her. She. Is. A. Citizen.

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I am just bereft. Our data and science was some of the best things America gave to its citizens and the world.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Did you know someone reverse-engineered the Weather Channel computer system from the 80s/90s and now you can generate your own private weather channel for your location? weatherstar.netbymatt.com

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In testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on May 21, Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared: "No one has died because of USAID cuts. That’s a lie. Meet Miriam Mohammad. Miriam lives in Nigeria and she had two sons. Both of them have sickle cell disease.

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35-year-old Dem Harry Jarin launches primary challenge to Rep. Steny Hoyer, who's 50 years older: "I'm not trying to be cruel or callous, but I want Democrats to win, and there are consequences for having this gerontocracy, and we have to reckon with that."

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It’s sort of funny the article stops short of drawing the obvious conclusion: RFK asked an LLM to cook up a phony report supporting his crackpot notions, and it churned out the usual slop full of hallucinated citations.

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