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Harry Godwyn
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Still the best correction (The New Yorker, 8/14/1995)
October 15, 2023 at 6:55 AM
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ICYMI, last week some Floridians (not named Trump) were sentenced to 5 to 12 years in prison for duping people into buying bleach as a COVID cure.

www.justice.gov/usao-sdfl/pr...
Leaders of “Genesis II Church of Health and Healing,” who sold toxic bleach as fake “Miracle��...
A federal judge in Miami has sentenced Jonathan Grenon, 37, and Jordan Grenon, 29, to 151 months in prison, for conspiring to defraud the United States by distributing an unapproved and misbranded dru...
www.justice.gov
October 9, 2023 at 1:41 PM
Brilliant
losing twitter is like losing the library of alexandria if the library of alexandria was 80% hate crimes but also 20% the most wonderful conversations and stories to ever exist
October 8, 2023 at 6:55 PM
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I think one of the worst quirks of online spaces is the idea that if someone doesn't post about something, they don't care about it. It encourages performative posting often makes things worse.

I care a lot. I just don't want to add another poorly-informed voice. I'm reading & thinking.
October 8, 2023 at 1:23 PM
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Hey there, friends! 👋 In case you missed it, we had a fantastic chat with @RuthBenGhiat earlier this week about the rise of authoritarianism in the U.S. If you haven't checked it out, head to #TheBigPicture for the full interview! Trust me, it's a conversation you'll want to be a part of:
The Big Q&A With Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on the history of fascism and authoritarianism, answers questions from George and Team Takei.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
October 6, 2023 at 5:03 PM
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spending this week talking to the Cleveland Mayor's office and local digital equity advocates about the city's plan to deploy cheap gigabit fiber (or wireless broadband for as little as $18 a month) across the whole city
October 6, 2023 at 8:06 PM
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the writers strike tentative agreement occurring about eight minutes from when scabs like bill maher and drew barrymore first announced they were scabbing (before backing down) goes to show just how bad both their timing and PR instincts are. All they had to do was wait another minute lol
September 25, 2023 at 5:29 PM
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In fact, the last 120 days of the strike was getting them to promise to not call art “content”.
No, absolutely not. We’re not calling it “the content industry” now, you psychopaths
September 25, 2023 at 7:55 PM
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it's almost as if major paper opinion pages are run by fail upward trust fund brunchlords with a grotesque and comical aversion to challenging money or power
September 24, 2023 at 6:24 PM
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The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it is reviving a program to mail free rapid coronavirus tests to Americans.

Starting Sept. 25, people can request four free tests per household through covidtests.gov.
Federal government to start providing free coronavirus tests once again
Americans can again order four free tests through covidtests.gov starting Sept. 25.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 20, 2023 at 8:09 PM