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History, Japan, Asia. Thinking about aquariums.
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That is to say, she was teaching a curriculum about children's literature in a children's literature course; the student claimed she had offended her religious views, which has not been demonstrated; and the student accused her of breaking "President Trump's law," which is not a thing.
December 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Help people improve their information diets and support quality journalism that supports democracy.

Follow and support these folks and outlets & share this thread and our blog post describing the contributions of these heroes!

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OUR YEAR IN REVIEW: 2025 MAD HEROES OF THE MONTH
Join us in celebrating those who inspired us and gave us hope in 2025
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December 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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🚨My @ms.now SCOOP on VA abortion ban has been UPDATED w/ more detail:

Screenshots of an internal memo sent Monday to the leaders of the VA’s 18 regional care systems by the VA’s under secretary of health say the VA must comply with the DOJ memo effective immediately. 👇
🚨🚨 SCOOP @ms.now : The Department of Veteran Affairs has quietly implemented its abortion ban following a DOJ memo issued last week.

This will affect 9 million veterans and their dependents, and has been a long time coming: It was outlined in Project 2025.

Read/share 👇
Department of Veterans Affairs quietly implements abortion ban
A VA spokesperson confirmed to MS NOW that the ban was in place following a Department of Justice memo issued last week.
www.ms.now
December 23, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Opinion | Now that phones alter our photos without us knowing, how do we know what’s real? - The Guardian
December 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Wild @404media.co story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social on being able to stalk himself when Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking cameras livestreaming on the open internet. The panopticon we are living in has my skin crawling and makes me want to stay inside forever.
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
www.404media.co
December 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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PBS FRONTLINE's "Surviving CECOT" is incredible, disturbing, moving, and they didn't self censor.
Surviving CECOT | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series
The story of three Venezuelan men branded as gang members and deported to CECOT.
www.pbs.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Clear evidence that at universities conservatives don't face higher obstacles than liberals to establish student groups + invite outside speakers.

"These results fail to offer support for the view that conservative students encounter more difficulty in efforts to access campus resources."
December 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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A Trump-appointed judge was so upset with the living conditions in which ICE detained an immigrant in Long Island, New York, that he threatened to hold the government in contempt.

“I have never encountered anything like this." trib.al/2LMHIj6
December 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Illinois created civil rights tool HB 1312, allows residents to sue ICE agents who violate constitutional limits and for unlawful arrests within 1000' courthouse protection zones. Contact your state AG now and demand they adopt policies modeled on Illinois HB 1312.
open.substack.com/pub/wendy664...
Illinois Just Made It Legal To Sue ICE Agents For $10,000 Per Unlawful Arrest
Free states once defied the Fugitive Slave Act by blocking federal overreach. California and Illinois now revive that resistance through modern civil rights law.
open.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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This is extraordinary, heartbreaking, and a red alert warning sign for our democracy.

These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6.

They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".
Sen. BLUMENTHAL: Was the U.S. Capitol attacked on January 6, 2021?

Trump nominee: *dodges*

Trump nominee: *dodges*

Trump nominee: Well, individuals entered the Capitol.

Blumenthal: You are in fear—how will you have the courage to be fair and impartial?
December 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Anyone have Brett Kavanaugh's email, I want to send him a link.
“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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🚨 THE FINAL FOUR 🚨

We’re nearly at the end! 32 candidates have been narrowed down to a nefarious final four. But who will move on to the finals? You must decide!

🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit25-semif...
December 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Centrist Republicans revolt, signing a petition to force a vote on Affordable Care Act funding - NBC News
December 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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And GOP Rep. Rob Bresnahan has signed the Democratic discharge petition for a 3-year ACA funding extension.

He's the third Republican to sign it.

One more and it gets to 218.
December 17, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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I remember writing years ago about a then-new initiative by Amazon to disrupt local government procurement of things like office and school supplies. Turns out Amazon's become very popular with school districts, and it's using dynamic pricing to rip those schools off.
prospect.org/2025/12/17/a...
Amazon Has Been Conning School Districts out of Millions - The American Prospect
Amazon Business is billed as a convenient one-stop shop for schools. Reality is more expensive.
prospect.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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A HUGE French study, which examined data on 28.6 million adults, showed high effectiveness & safety:

Vaccinated people had a 74% lower risk of dying from COVID-19 in hospital & lower all-cause mortality over 4 yrs

The MAGA/MAHA crew are just playing politics to serve their masters: Trump & RFK Jr
For its next attack on Covid vaccines, FDA is weighing the use of a label reserved for the most dangerous drugs.
Covid shots may get FDA's strongest warning
The agency's black-box label is meant to flag serious threats to life and health.
www.motherjones.com
December 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Massive Layoffs at the Dept of #Education Erode Its #CivilRights Division

Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve #discrimination complaints.

www.propublica.org/article/educ...
Massive Layoffs at the Department of Education Erode Its Civil Rights Division
Only five of the agency’s civil rights offices remain nationwide. Those who are still with the department say it will now be “virtually impossible” to resolve discrimination complaints.
www.propublica.org
December 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago.

His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship."

He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm.

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
December 15, 2025 at 4:34 PM