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The Media and Democracy Project
3 days ago
Thank you for this thread. Those are powerful and insightful words by Belafonte. It helps make the case that “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice” … and for generations the NYT leadership preserves the status quo and undermines those doing the bending.
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Urban Truth Collective
4 days ago
In Belgium, employees receive compensation for every kilometre they ride, with some cyclists earning up to €810 per year. And why not? Biking saves public money for everyone. “All employees in Belgium who cycle to work are entitled to a bicycle allowance of €0.28 per kilometre of their commute.”
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Belgian commutes pay off: Employees earn up to €810 for cycling to work
One in five people in Flanders commuted by bike and received compensation last year, but this figure is significantly lower in Brussels and Wallonia.
https://www.brusselstimes.com/1401729/belgian-commutes-pay-off-employees-earn-up-to-e810-for-cycling-to-work
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Mother Jones
30 days ago
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports
Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/at-largest-ice-detention-camp-staff-bet-on-detainee-suicides-ap-reports/
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Senator Chris Van Hollen
about 2 months ago
A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody. This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer. Not one dime for this cruelty.
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Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/news/ofelia-torres-dies-from-rare-cancer/
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The Verge
about 2 months ago
ICE may have lost the battle for public opinion, and its operation may be hampered by local pushback, but it has succeeded in one respect: It has instilled terror in Minnesota’s immigrant communities, forcing them into the shadows. Read more from
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Eoin Higgins
about 2 months ago
Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
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Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...
https://lataco.com/captive-lotion-bottle-note
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Mike Ananny
2 months ago
“US elites – those running major businesses, universities, law firms, media companies and other mainstream institutions, often hailing from the nation’s most exclusive academic institutions – have continued on their course of compliance and complacency.”
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Why haven’t American elites stood up for Minnesota? | Daniel Altschuler
If US elites can find the courage to speak up, we can still prevent our country from descending into full-blown autocracy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/05/minnesota-business-elites-immigration?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Charles Keener
2 months ago
It comes as the Palestinian Red Crescent says the evacuation of patients and wounded Palestinians via the southern Rafah crossing has been canceled for today. Israel has been tightly controlling the Rafah crossing since it partially reopened on Monday, after two years of total closure.
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The New York Times
2 months ago
As President Trump’s immigration crackdown continues in Minnesota, many immigrants who are detained in the Twin Cities are ending up in a desolate detention camp in the desert of West Texas, only to be released later in El Paso with no money and no obvious way to get home.
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Celeste Ng
2 months ago
Normal people are out there doing extraordinary things. My mom's health aide emailed me: ICE took 2 of her neighbors; when she told them they weren't welcome, she was met w/a rifle. Now she's driving a neighbor to work hidden in the back of her car & escorting the neighbor's kids to the bus stop.
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Andrew Couts
2 months ago
NEW: The
@wired.com
Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there.
www.wired.com/story/how-to...
www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...
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How to Film ICE
Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-film-ice/
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Mike Ananny
2 months ago
Ways to help Minnesota fight ICE:
www.standwithminnesota.com
, with links to action & aid groups. And a form to send a “a brief message of hope, inspiration or gratitude to folks working their butts off on the ground”:
www.standwithminnesota.com/send-a-love-...
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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
https://www.standwithminnesota.com
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
2 months ago
ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.
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Techmeme
3 months ago
Wikimedia celebrates Wikipedia's 25th anniversary, marking its growth from 100 pages to 65M+ articles with nearly 15B monthly views, and releases a docuseries (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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WIRED
3 months ago
With federal agents storming the streets of American communities, there's no single right way to approach this dangerous moment. But there are steps you can take to stay safe—and have an impact.
www.wired.com/story/what-t...
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What to Do If ICE Invades Your Neighborhood
With federal agents storming the streets of American communities, there's no single right way to approach this dangerous moment. But there are steps you can take to stay safe—and have an impact.
https://www.wired.com/story/what-to-do-if-ice-invades-your-neighborhood/
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The New York Times
3 months ago
In
@nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Turning Latin America into a theater of war will not weaken transnational crime; it will entrench it,” write Matias Spektor and Oto Montagner.
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Opinion | This Is How the Cartels Win
Turning Latin America into a theater of war will not weaken transnational crime; it will entrench it.
https://nyti.ms/4qTaqS0
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NPR
3 months ago
If the Supreme Court weakens Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, it could usher in the largest-ever drop in representation by Black members of Congress.
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A Supreme Court ruling could bring historic drop in Black representation in Congress
If the Supreme Court weakens Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, it could usher in the largest-ever drop in representation by Black members of Congress.
https://n.pr/4sFTct5
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ProPublica
3 months ago
After Jan. 6, 2021, we sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there. Revisit our full archive, five years later:
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What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol
ProPublica sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there.
https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1767700810&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb
3 months ago
In today’s depraved beyond belief news, Israel is banning MSF (Doctors Without Borders) from Gaza.
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Cengiz Yar
4 months ago
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at
@propublica.org
we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here:
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Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
https://www.propublica.org/series/deported-and-imprisoned
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NPR
4 months ago
Budget cuts threaten the future of Amsterdam-based Radio Dabanga, which has served as an information lifeline for Sudanese people about their war-torn country.
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A radio station in Amsterdam is a lifeline for Sudan. After USAID cuts, it's faltering
Budget cuts threaten the future of Amsterdam-based Radio Dabanga, which has served as an information lifeline for Sudanese people about their war-torn country.
https://n.pr/4saai1J
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The New Arab
4 months ago
One in every five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces so far in 2025 across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, was a child, according to the UN ⬇️
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Israel breaks record for killing Palestinian children in WB
One in every five Palestinians killed by Israeli forces so far in 2025 across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, was a child, according to the UN.
https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-breaks-record-killing-palestinian-children-wb-0
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Dr Emma L Briant
4 months ago
This is very cool. The manipulation-busters of the future will be hacks like this one: reengineering the system to expose the algorithms beneath and how they trick us...
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Teresa Heffernan
5 months ago
Canada is also falling for AI industry hype, which is threatening to escalate the environmental crisis and derail democracy. "policymakers have a duty to serve the citizens and not cater to the whims of tech CEOs."
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The Guardian
5 months ago
‘They have total impunity’: West Bank settler violence surges after Gaza ceasefire
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‘They have total impunity’: West Bank settler violence surges after Gaza ceasefire
UN logs 260 attacks in October alone, its highest monthly tally, as settlers attack farmers and burn olive trees
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/18/west-bank-surge-settler-violence-israel-palestine?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1763443591
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Dan of the Year
5 months ago
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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Yep! Super happy with this publication, even more happy with the collaboration!
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Drew Harwell
5 months ago
So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller
www.wsj.com/tech/persona...
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I Tried the Robot That’s Coming to Live With You. It’s Still Part Human.
1X’s Neo wants to be your housekeeper. First, it needs to be controlled by a human in your home. Cool with you?
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/i-tried-the-robot-thats-coming-to-live-with-you-its-still-part-human-68515d44?st=guXssw&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Reuters Institute
7 months ago
"All our staff got out safely. But that group probably lost more than 50 family members. Every single one of them had their house destroyed and some would appear to have been targeted strikes" AFP's Phil Chetwynd on AFP's staff journalists in Gaza
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Starved, displaced and exhausted: Inside AFP’s fight to protect its Gaza reporters
“Some of our freelancers have lost 20 or 30 kilos. Their daily battle to find food and to feed their family is immense,” says Global News Director Phil Chetwynd.
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/starved-displaced-and-exhausted-inside-afps-fight-protect-its-gaza-reporters
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Faine Greenwood
8 months ago
AI does appear to be rapidly accelerating human selection of the fittest…. except it’s doing it by straight-up killing people who rely on ChatGPT to plan dangerous trips, not by improving human cognition like the techbros want us to believe:
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Why Are the Italian Alps So Deadly This Summer?
On average, three hikers have died every day throughout the summer in Italy’s high peaks. Experts explain why.
https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/hiking-and-backpacking/italian-alps-deaths/
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Matt Pearce
8 months ago
It’s important to pay for local journalism but not like this.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
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Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/winnie-greco-eric-adams-aide-attempted-cash-katie-honan-reporter/
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Tech Policy Press
8 months ago
The story of Andrew Carnegie’s libraries, originally created to spur the "diffusion of knowledge," has resonance in our present digital age, where information is both readily abundant and increasingly scarce or inaccessible, Stefaan Verhulst writes.
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Why We Need a Carnegie Moment for the Age of AI | TechPolicy.Press
Building modern data libraries, embedding principles of the commons, could restore openness to information online, Stefaan Verhulst writes.
https://www.techpolicy.press/why-we-need-a-carnegie-moment-for-the-age-of-ai/
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Tech Policy Press
8 months ago
Top Republicans and US tech leaders are ramping up a pressure campaign against the EU’s platform regulations, calling it foreign “censorship.” Tech Policy Press unpacks how Washington and Silicon Valley are working to sway Brussels on softening enforcement.
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How US Officials Are Pressuring Europe Over Its Platform Regulations | TechPolicy.Press
Republicans are using trade talks, immigration threats and diplomatic messaging to counter Europe's platform regulations, Cristiano Lima-Strong writes.
https://www.techpolicy.press/how-us-officials-are-pressuring-europe-over-its-platform-regulations/
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Rebecca Fishbein
8 months ago
I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.
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Bonky
8 months ago
If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.
#pediatriccancer
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Corporation For Public Broadcasting To Shut Down Operations After Loss Of Federal Funding
The CPB will lay off staffers at the end of September following the loss of federal funding.
https://deadline.com/2025/08/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-shut-down-1236476552/
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The New York Times
8 months ago
From
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“There is no excuse for the world to stand by and watch two million human beings suffer on the brink of full-blown famine,” the chef José Andrés writes about Gaza.
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Opinion | José Andrés: People of Good Conscience Must Stop the Starvation in Gaza
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/opinion/gaza-starvation-famine-israel.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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Charlotte Clymer
9 months ago
POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
9 months ago
He was the last SS guard, about to be tried when he died at 100. Let this warn the ICE agents who think they are only guards, following orders. Your masked crimes against humans and humanity will mark you to the end of your days. The Last SS Guard
@zeit.de
www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...
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Concentration Camp Duty: The Last SS Guard
Gregor Formanke stood guard in Sachsenhausen. Jerzy Zawadzki was nine years old, and a prisoner. When Formanek is indicted at age 99, their lives intersect once more.
https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2025-06/concentration-camp-guard-gregor-formanek-ss-national-socialism-sachsenhausen-court-trial-english
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His communication skls are next level - as cool as his political agenda!
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#nycmayoralrace
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Sarah Goodyear
9 months ago
If you are a taxpayer in the United States of America, as I am, you are paying for this.
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Consider supporting, especially local stations under threat of closing down
#npr
#pbs
#publicmedia
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