#Stories

Okayyyy, I’ll join everyone else in responding to today’s news (instead of just sighing, gazing into middle distance). The profit incentive baked into private prisons is a mess. But you
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The Tribune features an essay by a parent this morning, Nicholas Conant, who explains his frustration with @ChiPubSchools' chaotic efforts to provide hybrid instruction by making a common comparison to
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Someone I know is pregnant and I'm thinking of how to congratulate her and reading some suggestions online leaves a really bitter taste. This one says "pregnancy is awesome
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ALERT! Some netizens starting to red tag @ANCALERTS anchor and 2020 Marshall McLuhan fellow @IanEsguerra just because he has a photo with CPP founder Joma Sison.Please spread the word to
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Men: wHy Do WoMeN wAnT tHe MoNsTer AnD bAd BoY? You really want that answer? I don’t know if men are ready to hear this, but... women in real life
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We have a responsibility problem. When it comes to taking responsibility we often assume it is rather done by others than us. This is why we blame others for what
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Let's talk film/TV. A ton of major news starring some of our favorites dropped over the last few days. First up: Yara Shahidi and her mother Keri inked an overall
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Before Christmas, I bought myself a calendar from @radicalteatowel, who make all kinds of products celebrating aspects of progressive politics and civil rights struggles over the years, including the stories
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So, I think the furore surrounding this story is kind of bullshit. It's one story abt the DTES & Chinatown. It's not the ONLY story. Yes, graffiti = a trivial
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why does it always feel like stories like this about revolutionary environmental technological innovation pop up then disappear? i feel like this is major and we should be investing billions
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Jan 25th, 1954. 66 years ago to the day, M N Roy passed away in Dehradun. He had one of the most fascinating life stories of any Indian in the
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Facebook is absolutely teeming with right-wing misinformation right now. These are all among the 10 most-engaged URLs on the platform over the last 24 hours (per @NewsWhip data) A Newsmax
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People aren’t going to like hearing this, but defunding law enforcement is the best thing to happen for child traffickers in a long time. The resources law enforcement had to
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This is for the racists who think there were no black or non white people in Britain before the Windrush! This thread focuses mostly on black british history but also
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There is a fairly common human tendency to conflate pain with progress.Healthy food tastes bad, therefore this bad-tasting food must be good for me.Exercise hurts, therefore hurting myself must make
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TW: Sexual violenceIt turns out, people are still watching Pornhub. So for anyone who is still unaware of Pornhub’s pattern of profiting from non-consensual content, child sexual abuse material, image-based
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