Massimo
Massimo
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“Non mi chiedere se ho vinto o se ho perso” KINA
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People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.
January 17, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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Every ICE homicide victim as a character from Game of Thrones.

by Chris Cillizza
January 16, 2026 at 2:42 AM
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I just redid my website and I have some new wood magnets up!! I laser cut the wood and finish these by hand, and these are all my own designs (of course!) www.angrygatodesigns.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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Hey #BlackSky, @atbw.bsky.social just opened applications for their 2026 Web Archiving School
Apply – ATBW
www.archivingtheblackweb.org
December 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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A 17-year-old worker died at a pork producer in Nebraska run by the governor’s family. Two investigations later, the boy’s mother is still searching for answers. trib.al/z7ZUF62
December 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year.

(Published July 2024)
School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Folks could have read Morgan Ames's book and came to the same conclusion. But good to have the econometricians confirm.

mitpress.mit.edu/978026253744...
December 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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I don't think transgender athletes are the problem facing girls and women in sports.
Investigators say former coach Sean Gardner created videos showing close-up images of at least 10 minors naked or undressing, which they recovered from his computers last year while investigating reports of sexual abuse.

Gardner has pleaded not guilty and has been jailed pending trial.
Olympics Sports Watchdog Failed to Stop Mississippi Coach's Sexual Abuse, Women Allege
Two gymnasts who say they were sexually abused at an elite academy in Iowa filed lawsuits Monday against the sport’s oversight bodies.
www.mississippifreepress.org
December 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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ha yeah
December 2, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.
37-year-old quit her $390,000 Google job after saving up $1.5 million—see the 'no buy checklist' that helps her spend less
She left a $390,000-a-year job and now uses a simple set of rules to make her savings last in Switzerland.
www.cnbc.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Someone give me $500,000 so I can offer 1 year fellowships to young people in 2026.
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Some good news amongst the deluge of daily horrors
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Today's post is the second in my trilogy of research into GenAI and metaphors, providing an overview of the most recent #AI #metaphor studies. There will be gaps and if you find any, please let me know. #linguistics #education
makingsciencepublic.com/2025/11/21/a...
AI metaphor studies: An overview
In my previous post (part 1 of a trilogy) I called for an AI metaphor observatory to watch how people make sense (and sometimes nonsense) of generative artificial intelligence, or GenAI, through me…
makingsciencepublic.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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#OtD 16 Nov 2019 Chilean riot dog Rucio Capucha was injured by police water cannon during a protest in Santiago. Rucio frequently joined protests, and became a target of deliberate police violence. He survived the attack, and was adopted by a family shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
November 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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this is actually really something. The NY Times stuff is bonkers.
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal.

www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...
IOC set to introduce blanket ban on transgender women in female sport
The ban is reportedly expected to come into effect early next year
www.the-independent.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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The Autumn 2025 issue of The Recipes Project is live! This issue, GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES, was co-edited by Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, & Amanda Herbert.

recipes.hypotheses.org
Autumn 2025
GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES INTRODUCTION By Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, and Amanda E. Herbert, Editors The early modern globalization of food and medicine was also a globalization of recipes. A...
recipes.hypotheses.org
October 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Private equity destroys 200-year-old book distribution company that libraries around the country rely on and now libraries are having trouble getting new books:

www.404media.co/libraries-sc...
Libraries Scramble for Books After Giant Distributor Shuts Down
Why it might have been and may continue to be harder to get new releases from your local library.
www.404media.co
October 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Good morning everyone. It's me again here to ask NYC residents to please send a letter to your City Council person in support of allocating 0.5% of the city expense budget to our local public libraries. Thank you. It will only take you 90 seconds. This time with the correct link:
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
October 26, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Google and Apple’s documentation around how the company’s AI features handle encrypted chat apps needs significant improvements. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
When AI and Secure Chat Meet, Users Deserve Strong Controls Over How
Both Google and Apple are cramming new AI features into their phones and other devices, and neither company has offered clear ways to control which apps those AI systems can access. Recent issues
www.eff.org
October 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Property taxes have become a political lightning rod in Ohio, but few voters realize what’s truly at stake if these taxes are abolished.
Ohio’s beloved parks and libraries face annihilation in Republican war on property taxes
How lawmakers shifted tax burdens to homeowners while giving billions to wealthy friends, now putting community institutions at risk
buff.ly
October 18, 2025 at 6:01 PM