Virginia Lawmakers Approve Commission to Examine Universities’ Displacement of Black Communities (www.propublica.org)
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We now live in a world in which the right-wing media sets the national agenda. The mainstream media follows. (newrepublic.com)
Going way back in time, we had only a mainstream media—the Times and the Post and the Associated Press and the major networks. In the 1970s, after the famous Powell Memo, wealthy conservatives began funding their own media. For most of the last 50 years, even as the right-wing media grew, it remained clear that the mainstream...
A small city in Oklahoma elected a white nationalist. Will it be able to vote him out? (www.nbcnews.com)
Judd Blevins, a city commissioner in Enid, Oklahoma, marched in the 2017 white nationalist Unite the Right rally. Now he faces a recall vote....
Former CBI scientist intentionally manipulated data, casting doubt on 652 cases, investigation reveals (coloradosun.com)
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US Lawmaker Cited NYC Protests in a Defense of Warrantless Spying (www.wired.com)
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More Migrants Are Drowning in the Rio Grande Than Ever. No Agency Is Keeping Track of How Many. (www.texasmonthly.com)
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US pause on funding UN's main Palestinian relief agency UNRWA may become permanent (www.reuters.com)
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Dorie Ann Ladner, civil rights activist who fought for justice in Mississippi and beyond, dies at 81 (apnews.com)
Dorie Ann Ladner, a longtime fighter for freedom and equality in her home state of Mississippi with contributions to the NAACP, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and voter registration drives, has died, her family confirmed....
Kansas will pay $1 million over the murder of a boy torture victim whose body was fed to pigs (apnews.com)
Kansas will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit over a 7-year-old boy’s murder in 2015 alleging that the state’s child welfare agency should have removed him from an abusive home before he was starved and tortured and his body was fed to pigs....
The IRS launches Direct File, a pilot program for free online tax filing available in 12 states (apnews.com)
After weeks of testing, an electronic system for filing returns directly to the IRS is now available to taxpayers from 12 selected states....
Oh look, cracking down on Big Tech works. Brave, Firefox, Vivaldi surge on iOS (www.theregister.com)
Since Apple implemented a browser choice screen for iPhones earlier this month to comply with Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Brave Software, Mozilla, and Vivaldi have seen a surge in the number of people installing their web browsers....
Montana man used animal tissue and testicles to breed 'giant' sheep for sale to hunting preserves (apnews.com)
A Montana rancher illegally used tissue and testicles from wild sheep killed by hunters in central Asia and the U.S. to breed “giant” hybrid sheep for sale to private hunting preserves in Texas, according to court documents and federal prosecutors....
US safety agency says Boeing video of door-plug removal was overwritten (www.theguardian.com)
NTSB also said investigators still do not know who worked on door plug before it blew out mid-flight...
Republicans will no longer get to handpick their judges when they sue Biden (www.vox.com)
The federal judiciary’s new rules target “judge shopping.” That’s terrible news for Matthew Kacsmaryk and other partisan judges....
Denying same-sex marriage is unconstitutional, a Japanese high court says (apnews.com)
A Japanese high court ruled Thursday that denying same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and called for urgent government action to address the lack of any law allowing for such unions....
Bernie Sanders unveils 32-hour workweek bill with no loss in pay for workers (thehill.com)
LGBTQ teen Nex Benedict died by suicide, medical examiner says (abcnews.go.com)
Very sad situation.
Pet DNA testing company in doghouse after identifying human as canine (www.theguardian.com)
DNA My Dog received human genetic sample and identified it as a malamute, shar-pei and labrador, according to news station
Nearly half of young adults have 'money dysmorphia,' survey finds (www.cnbc.com)
The economy is fine! We just have… money dysmorphia. /s...
The Medieval Times Union Campaign Is Over (www.huffpost.com)
Greta Thunberg dragged by police from climate protest blocking Swedish parliament (www.independent.co.uk)
Paul Alexander: 'Man in the iron lung' dies at the age of 78 (www.bbc.com)
Paul Alexander contracted polio in 1952 when he was six, leaving him paralysed from the neck down....
Republicans’ House majority is their smallest in decades, and shrinking (www.washingtonpost.com)
Republicans are entering a months-long stretch of legislating with their smallest House majority in decades. And the margin is about to tighten even more....
US energy industry methane emissions are triple what government thinks, study finds (phys.org)
American oil and natural gas wells, pipelines and compressors are spewing three times the amount of the potent heat-trapping gas methane as the government thinks, causing $9.3 billion in yearly climate damage, a new comprehensive study calculates....
