Recent library book challenge from a mom in North Texas. “I read every page expecting to be offended.” But after finding “Ash” by Malinda Lo to be filled with “kindness and caring,” parent Mary Smith wanted it banned anyway because it “normalizes lesbian love.”
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Facebook was informed it had approved pro-genocide ads in Kenya, so it took action by rushing out a press release describing all the ways it was cracking down on hate speech ahead of elections next month.
Then it approved more pro-genocide ads.
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Should 18-year-olds be able to buy semiautomatic rifles? In Georgia, two young men who want to be the ‘good guys with guns’ try to decide.
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Get a glimpse of "the post-Roe building"-- a $10 million crisis pregnancy center w/ the feel of a "coastal spa" thanks to Texas taxpayers' $100 million investment in clinics designed to talk women out of abortions. W/
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New: Rep. Matt Gaetz was caught on a hot mic assuring Roger Stone that Trump would likely pardon him shortly before Stone’s criminal trial in 2019. “The boss still has a very favorable view of you … he said it directly.”
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This Hyundai plant has been hiring 12 yos for years and both the company and local plant claimed they didn’t know
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BREAKING: The U.S. House has passed legislation to revive a ban on semi-automatic guns, the first vote of its kind in years and a direct response to the firearms often used in mass shootings.
It is expected to stall in the 50-50 Senate.
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New: The Secret Service’s "ludicrous" deletion of Jan. 6 phone data has baffled tech experts. The agency bungled a routine phone task by telling its agents to back up their own messages, which is "not something any other organization would ever do"
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Of course, with the pancakes, militias were handing out QR codes with directions on how to join the militia.
This is how militias in the U.S. recruit now: They go to disasters, when the government isn't there yet, and win favor with locals.
The ideology comes later.
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When the largest demographic growth in your newsroom is the equivalent of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ aka "did not disclose". Wonder how that option shows up in the survey today versus 5 years ago. washingtonpost.com/pr/2022/07/28/
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As gun crime soars in cities, many Black women who previously loathed and feared firearms are taking a step they once thought unimaginable: Arming themselves for self-protection. My latest, w/ great photos from Matt McClain & :
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Data visualization inspiration thanks to DALL-E: how Rothko, Basquiat, Picasso, and Monet would create an academic chart.
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We got the gang together IRL for our second day of bargaining with the company! The Guild is fighting for fair wages, pay equity, a flexible remote-work policy and greater inclusivity.
Together, we will make The Washington Post a better place to work for all.
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As FB pushes video-heavy feeds, doubling down on a strategy that pretends to know what people want by inferring from passive viewing habits & cues, little attention is paid to how this'll steer creators and fuel "just giving people what they want" content
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Very rarely do investigative reporters get the kind of smoking gun documents that this powerful story is built upon. The result is a confidently told story about how a dark money group worked for power companies to block renewables and efforts to hold the companies accountable.
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They bought news websites. They spied on reporters. They hired PI’s to dig dirt on pro-solar mayors. They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars promoting #ghostcandidates And that’s just in Florida. Our investigation tracked them to at least eight states. rb.gy/mu2pzb
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Wait, WHAT? "A 'buyback' program through the Minneapolis Police Department allows wealthier neighborhoods to buy extra police patrols."
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“ EPA could not provide AP with a single example of a polluter being fined or cited for failing to report, or underreporting emissions.” investigative reporters and
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A tiny oil and gas facility in Texas spewed methane into the atmosphere with the same earth-warming power as burning seven tanker trucks of gasoline every day. It was one of 533 so-called “super emitters” found in the biggest U.S. oil field. apne.ws/icMwglN
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Rather than acknowledge the predictable consequences of their own actions, anti-abortion advocates have retreated into the dark delusion of a vast conspiracy between doctors, lawyers, and journalists to concoct horrific miscarriage stories. It's a complete break with reality.
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This is a story about a sting operation involving cows outfitted with tracking devices.
Go ahead and click.
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Absolutely mesmerizing story by about how a group of local journalists nailed down the Ohio rape case story at the very moment that pundits and politicians were blithely claiming it couldn’t be true.
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It’s been great to work with the talented data journalist , who got a byline on this story with washingtonpost.com/world/interact about how nearly 1,200 politicians in Brazil’s Amazon have been cited for doing environmental harm:
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"Athletes must accept that they are sitting in a seat perhaps last occupied by a migrant bloodied from abuse..." wrote human rights attorney Kathleen Bergin on the link between the US deportation industry & sports travel. buff.ly/3ozGlbQ
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“The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council has officially suspended all activity of every single church & missionary on the reservation until all employees/volunteers can pass a background check, provide full finical statements which will prove how much money they are receiving…”
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It's always journalism that gets sacrificed on the alter of video metrics fakery and BS.
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Of all the people laid off at the last I worked that did the 'ol pivot to video, exactly one, a year later, has a job in journalism. twitter.com/Sulliview/stat…
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Now that Facebook is pivoting to video again, I thought it might be useful to go over a rough timeline of the on-again-off-again pivots to video over the last 5+ years...
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By far, the most accurate representation of machine learning pipelines in the real world 🍿 😀
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In photos: From mass shootings that garner headlines to daily attacks that receive little attention, gun violence takes many forms.
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"R is not a language driven by the purity of its philosophy; R is a language designed to get shit done." – #rstudioconf2022
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Practically everybody has a pandemic buy they've grown to regret. I talked to people about theirs, including a bike, a patio heater, and a (gasp!) dog.
I have not laughed this hard reporting out a story in a while:
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It started with used and then new cars, later whole chickens and ground beef. Now it’s gas at the pump or an affordable two-bedroom apartment.
shows the ever-changing forces behind inflation's rise over the past 18 months. washingtonpost.com/business/2022/
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Thread 🧵 : I can’t stop thing about this tweet and the idea that white people are marginalized in publishing. As a Black man who has multiple New York Times bestselling books, let’s talk about the Black experience in publishing…
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Fifty years ago today, reporter Jean Heller broke the news of the Tuskegee Study, an unethical experiment that claimed the lives of many of Black men.
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NEW: This devastating account from and our crack photojournalist team and of how a little town at the entrance to Yellowstone was destroyed by extreme weather is worth a read. Gardiner Montana does not deserve this.
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On A1 today: He's accused of stealing dozens of homes from elderly Black and Latino homeowners. He rents them out, sometimes on the city's dime, and owners have little hope of reclaiming the property. An investigation w/ &
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Why does FEMA fail to help the most vulnerable even as its budget keeps expanding? "Money, it turns out, is not the problem. Instead, agencies are hamstrung by rules that often make little sense, even to the officials in charge."
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