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Alec Karakatsanis's new book ‘Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News’ criticizes how the media covers — and enables — policing.

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"We created Indicator because our digital information ecosystem is under attack. Scammers, state actors, disinformation peddlers, unscrupulous marketers, and purveyors of AI slop are all clogging our online spaces with lousy, harmful content. " indicator.media/p/welcome-to...

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THIS! “It’s global apartheid, a pyramid scheme, and landlord economics all rolled into one”

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cruel and unusual

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With #measles making a resurgence, efforts are under way to educate doctors who’ve never seen it in person. A generation of Canadian physicians have only ever encountered the virus in textbooks, by @kkirkup.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #vaccination

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Love this from Pedro Pascal at Cannes: "Fear is the way that they win, so keep telling the stories and expressing yourself and fighting. F*ck the people that try to make you scared and fight back. Don’t let them win"

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The story of the smallpox vaccine, told through dataviz + narrative

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all love and respect to Logan Rozos, a Black trans artist, revolutionary voice and truth-teller who used NYU’s platform to indict genocide.

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This is the way.

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Fyi - here is a clip from a tour of the now destroyed #NottowayPlantation do not let anyone tell you that place wasn't as evil now as it has always been. While they spun lies about how "good" enslaved people were treated & made money off doing so.

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Complete ahistoric bullshit in addition to being morally repugnant and bad politics. If Dems embrace transphobia the way that Labour has, they will lose even more voters (and make no actual gains with the so-called centrists who vote for Republicans every time).

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So I haven’t said anything about the whole “grok making everything about white genocide,” but it reminded me about the article I read about Target being able to figure out who was pregnant based on what they bought.

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That’s definitely the vibe.

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“My only financial strategies are panic and prayer.” — @garthgreenwell.bsky.social

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As highlighted in the article, many critical scientific projects - with immense potential benefits to people in the United States, like studies on cancer, PTSD, heart failure, maternal mortality, and more - CANNOT continue without international partnerships. This is beyond foolish and wasteful.

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I had missed this. But I’m adding it as a new entry into the category of video clips that need no additional commentary, it speaks for itself

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In a sworn deposition in 1994, the co-designer of Street Fighter II claimed the game's characters aren't inspired by "other sources." That... seems false, right?

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A high school freshman takes transphobic Maine politicians to task for bullying the trans girl who beat her in a race. Kudos to you, Anelise Feldman.

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Happy Birthday Liberace! From the Red Skelton show in 1968, performing the Simon and Garfunkel classic, Feelin Groovy.

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Gaby Hoffmann and an alligator, together at last. My recap of the latest Poker Face.

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Season 8 of 9-1-1 is over, and while the finale wasn’t great, it still managed to make me cry. Here’s my recap.

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Right now this bill has an incredibly low chance of even making it past committee meetings let alone becoming law, but that doesn't mean we can't act to make that chance even lower. Find out who your reps are and be ready to call them. This bill will be incredibly unpopular, even with Republicans.

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If everyone of my followers gives me two bucks we can knock this out tonight I am exhausted and the replaced most of my industries with AI / decimating non profit/ civic technology

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Using AI is basically crossing a digital picket line, and treating authors who use it like scabs feels appropriate. If you care about your rights and the rights of other creatives, you don't use generative AI under any circumstances (marketing, editing, drafting, outlining, artwork, narration, etc.)

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There is so much moral cowardice, bigotry, and gullibility in my profession

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Shoppers Drug Mart (Loblaws) is stealing money from Ontario's health care system by forcing pharmacy staff to cold call people and then fraudulently bill medication reviews. The Ministry of Health has long been aware of this, but they're still working on "improving" the program.

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Why is this story not in an American paper Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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I'm asking this honestly, why is Chris Van Hollen among the ONLY Democrats in the Senate who is actually doing anything at all? What accounts for this?

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The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

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Chicago has a new program that lets police file felony gun charges without getting a prosecutor’s approval. Two of the police officers who have overseen many cases under this program have 59 misconduct complaints between them. boltsmag.org/cook-co...

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Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians face growing hunger as supplies run out and charity kitchens shut down under Israel’s ongoing blockade. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/1yddgt

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For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.

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Good times tonight interviewing Kristen Kish for Chicago Humanities Festival about her new book, Accidentally On Purpose. Check it out - good read about her adoption, childhood, culinary career and Top Chef success.

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Japanese women’s baseball legend Ayami Sato made her debut today as the first woman in a men’s professional baseball league in Canada and retired the side in order in her two innings. Story from the Toronto Star: www.thestar.com/sports/baseb...

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Every single person is one preventable illness away from being “very sick”

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4 artists & 3 scientists created a series of posters to communicate some of the science issues most important to us. These posters are made to be shared! We're selling them in 4-packs, so YOU can share them outside of the science circles where we hang out online. get 'em squidfacts.bigcartel.com

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The longest game in PWHL history. Five hours. Four OTs. One Victoire victory. It’s also Montreal’s first franchise playoff win.

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"I like to dream about a people who have the wits and the strength of character to choose what they like and want from complex technology, and just leave what they don't need aside - instead of letting everything become a need and then an obligation and then a mess..." - Ursula K. Le Guin

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Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

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Well, here we go. The GOP has just introduced a bill to effectively outlaw all pornography. The bill dismantles the Supreme Court's Miller Test for obscenity, removing provisions that the content be patently offensive to community standards. dailycaller.com/2025/05/08/n...

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Love, love, love our poster art for #CZF2025, featuring the delightful clutter & chaos of zine creation. 🎨🖍🖌✂️📌 Thank you to Chicago cartoonist & printmaker Kelly Wang for capturing the creativity of #zines!! See more of their incredible work at www.cchianart.com.

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Texas has passed a law allowing the arrest of librarians who allow minors to check out LGBTQ+ literature, arguing that it's "pornography." The "free speech" right is positively giddy with the prospect of jail time, showcasing books they think are "harmful to minors"

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Time for a #MetGala style cagematch! T picked Brian Tyree Henry! Lo picked Lewis Hamilton! You get to vote for the winner! Which of these Dandies is more dandy? (click for more) tomandlorenzo.com/2025/05/met-...

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