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Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn’t Realize It (www.techdirt.com)

Illinois School Districts Sent Kids to a For-Profit Out-of-State Facility That Isn’t Vetted or Monitored (www.propublica.org)

Americans are going into debt to buy groceries. Here's why those balances can be difficult to pay down (www.cnbc.com)

[US Representative] Stefanik Loses It When Fox News Host Reminds Her She Called Trump a 'Whack Job' (www.rollingstone.com)

Biden slams ICC prosecutor’s ‘outrageous’ request for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, Netanyahu (www.thehill.com)

Iran's president, foreign minister and others found dead at helicopter crash site (apnews.com)

Disneyland Workers Form Union In Landslide Election Win (www.huffpost.com)

'That did not happen': CBS host busts J.D. Vance on Trump's jobs record (www.rawstory.com)

Supreme Court won't hear Maryland school district gender identity case (www.nbcnews.com)

Boebert ridiculed for fumbling sign of the cross during House Oversight Committee hearing (www.salon.com)

‘A history that’s been suppressed’: the Black cowboy story is 200 years old (www.theguardian.com)

When Larry Callies went to the movies as a boy in Rosenberg, Texas, the heroes riding horses and wearing 10-gallon hats were all white men....

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange facing pivotal moment in long fight to stay out of US court [ BRIAN MELLEY | May 18, 2024 | Associated Press] (apnews.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/15602407...

Rudy Giuliani indicted for role in Arizona fake-elector scheme (www.theguardian.com)

Ex-New York mayor last of 17 defendants to be served in plot to overturn Donald Trump’s election loss to Joe Biden in 2020...

In 'Abandonment of Public Education,' Louisiana to Allow Tax Dollars to Pay for Private Schools (www.commondreams.org)

‘Scary’: public-school textbooks the latest target as US book bans intensify (www.theguardian.com)

Gig companies spent $224 million to write their own labor law. The state Supreme Court could throw it out (calmatters.org)

Texas governor pardons ex-Army sergeant convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester (apnews.com)

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs admits he beat ex-girlfriend Cassie: ‘I take full responsibility’ (www.theguardian.com)

The rap mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs admitted in a video apology that he punched and kicked his ex-girlfriend in 2016 in the hallway of a hotel after CNN released footage of the attack, saying he was “truly sorry” and his actions were “inexcusable”....

Zombie 2nd mortgages are coming to life, threatening thousands of Americans' homes (www.npr.org)

Sen. Lindsey Graham Suggests Nuking Gaza, Calls Hiroshima ‘the Right Decision’ (www.thedailybeast.com)

The Bezos Earth fund has pumped billions into climate and nature projects. So why are experts uneasy? (www.theguardian.com)

But privately in the climate and biodiversity sector, the mood around the Bezos Earth Fund has turned to one of growing unease. Researchers, climate policy advisers and NGO staff voiced concerns about the level of influence the organisation holds over critical environmental institutions for halting climate change and...

What happened to OpenAI’s long-term AI risk team? (arstechnica.com)

Former team members have either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups.

US House votes to force weapons shipments to Israel, rebuking Biden (www.reuters.com)

The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Thursday that would force President Joe Biden to send weapons to Israel, seeking to rebuke the Democrat for delaying bomb shipments as he urges Israel to do more to protect civilians during its war with Hamas....

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