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Multiple members of the raised concerns about Turcios’ contribution to the Star-T last year.
We also filed a records request on how he and 3 other contributing columnists were selected. denied the request, saying it “wasn’t relevant to bargaining.”
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EXCLUSIVE: Carlos Turcios, who regularly wrote columns for the @startelegram criticizing Fort Worth Independent School District while simultaneously working for a PAC that opposed “critical race theory," has been spewing hate in a TPUSA chatroom.
texasobserver.org/carlos-turcios
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I talked to about the proliferating scandals involving the mishandling of classified info. I told him that the bigger scandal is the classification system itself, which is broken in ways that are bad for security and also democracy.
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"human-generated" is doing nothing in this headline. there is no such thing as AI-generated journalism. and people who review AI generated copy are not news editors. these activities do not mimic anything remotely resembling a reporting process, of which writing is maybe 10%.
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"BuzzFeed Remains Focused on Human-Generated Journalism in Its Newsroom. Spokeswoman Says" an early contender for bleakest sentence of the year twitter.com/DeItaone/statu…
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i mean... if an army of murderous zealots robbed my family of all its possessions at gunpoint and tried herding us into a boxcar bound for a death camp I simply would have said something
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Emily Austin, a media consultant for Israeli delegation at the U.N., at a book signing event for Pompeo on 1/24: “Everyone says the Jews were sheeps to the slaughter” during Holocaust. “And the reason being was everyone was afraid to be vocal and proud of their identity.” 
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an app that tells cats what the temperature is outside so they don't have to ask me to hold the door open for 20 seconds before turning around and going back to wherever the hell they are all day.
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Miranda barely protects your rights and police routinely violare it without consequence anyway. Every day is Shut the Fuck Up Friday.
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Scope of Arizona's snooping into money transfer payments wider than previously known, new documents reveal azcentral.com/story/news/pol via
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what’s a good male performance where he’s being a SLUT a MANWHORE
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lawyers say "don't talk to police" because they know this kind of coercion, which affects your ability to reason properly, doesn't require you to be handcuffed first.
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people know miranda & think it's for their benefit. nope. it was only deemed necessary b/c cops pose an inherent threat to your freedom & therefore every conversation is coerced. it's a legal disclosure to protect cops treated like a spell that ward off psychological manipulation
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Super interesting piece by @fmanjoo: Alec Baldwin Didn’t Have to Talk to the Police. Neither Do You.
nytimes.com/2023/01/25/opi
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wtf did i find at Goodwill this thing rules
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2 police officers in upstate New York allegedly stole $6,000 during the search of a parolee's house and they were caught on camera saying "we can share the money"
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Would you believe that egg prices are higher because a giant company decided they could make more profit by raising prices and blaming "bird flu" and "inflation" rather than anything to do with bird flu or anything else
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Over the past couple weeks I've heard from several people who previously worked with Justin Roiland, and want to hear from more.
ethangach@protonmail.com
+12673263042 on Signal
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when the lawyers approve the draft
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@NBCNews is proposing $0 in annual wage increases over the life of our contract and wants us to agree to merit *decreases* at management's discretion.
11 months ago, we requested the merit amounts from the last few years to craft a counter proposal.
Nearly a year later, nada.
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assuming none of the people involved in this decision care about or even play video games — those silly little amusements americans shell out $60bn a year for. enjoy your not-traffic.
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Today The Washington Post decided to lay off five members of the Launcher team and sunset the site. I’m heartbroken to lose @LeaderGrev, @JhaanElker, @pithyalyse, @Shannon_Liao and @Vahn16 to The Post's layoffs. 
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as always, the question that actually warrants asking is why is so invested in endangering trans children
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These crimes already have names: vandalism, arson, etc. Important to remember “terrorist” is not just a pejorative term; it’s used to expand the scope of police authority and call down resources, surveillant & others, not typically deployed for these crimes.
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Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum claims that "Breaking windows and setting fires is Terrorism."
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Atlanta right now - cop car on fire as they try to shut down the Cop City protests.
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The demise of Amazon Smile coincides with the increasing enshittification of Google Search, the only successful product the company managed to build in-house. 107/
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“I wouldn’t quite call it spyware. It’s more like ‘shameware,’ and it’s just another way the church controls you.”
Churches are using invasive phone-monitoring tech to discourage “sinful” behavior. Some software is seeing more than congregants realize.
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To be clear, you can get up to $7500 for the "electric vehicle" on the left - a car that is worse for the environment than many ICE cars, 3x more dangerous, and weighs 9,000 lbs.
But you will get $0 for the electric vehicle on the right.
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As of January 1, you can receive a tax credit of up to $7,500 when you buy a new electric vehicle.
Head over to CleanEnergy.gov to learn more.
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Happy six year anniversary of that time hundreds of political protesters were slapped with felony rioting charges for taking part in a demonstration on a public street while wearing a certain color of clothing.
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got a massage from a virgo. 9/10
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I lot of questions about the no-fly list leaking, but, uh...
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i have waded into the generative AI Discourse to ask: why...does it look...like that...
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Tucker: If you want to know why they don't teach history anymore, one thing you should know is the most popular president in American history was Richard Nixon. Yet somehow without a single vote being cast by a single American voter, Richard Nixon kicked out of office…
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The GOP just proposed new restrictions on the types of food eligible for purchase with SNAP benefits, putting even more pressure on families with children.
In addition, they would aim to keep families with more than one vehicle from receiving help. 
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facebook does this with ben shapiro posts but instead of a button they just ignore civic engagement policies
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Our latest: Employees at TikTok and ByteDance have access to a secret back-end button that can make any video go viral, immediately pushing it to more viewers. The practice, which TikTok has never disclosed, is known internally as “heating.”
forbes.com/sites/emilybak
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NEW: Feds just unsealed documents that show they arrested 3 active duty Marines on Jan 6. charges.
Aside from currently serving, these 3 also had intel jobs, awards, clearances...the lot. One was even working at Ft. Meade.
Now they face 4 charges each.
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Being an active member of the GMG Union was one of the best things I've done both in my career and in my life more broadly. The union transformed my relationship to my work, my colleagues, and my personal values, and I promise it will do the same for you
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also while I’m scrambling with my fellow Vox union comrades to respond to this stuff I wanna shout out @rcmacleod @xoxogossipgita and @alexhcranz , some of the first reps I saw in action at my first union gig, who quietly made me wanna be a rep too
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Media leaders & CEOs, if you want to know how to communicate layoffs effectively, Jim Bankoff is good example
-He has always been transparent w staff & public about the # of roles impacted, which depts, & why
-Vox never does drip, drip, drip cuts
-Employees always told first twitter.com/sarafischer/st…
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