- May 2017
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www.teenvogue.com www.teenvogue.com
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although this is often a felony, he was convicted of a misdemeanor charge.
wtf
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www.latimes.com www.latimes.com
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Although Trump earned Klein’s vote, he worries that recent executive orders ratcheting up deportation plans and calling for a wall are putting a chokehold on an already tight pool of workers.
You get what you paid for
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fusion.kinja.com fusion.kinja.com
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Ellison’s friendship with Democratic Rep. Collin Peterson in the seventh district would lead to “Muslim refugees coming to western Minnesota.”
wtf. Also who cares if refugees are settled in that area? THEY NEED HELP
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www.thedailybeast.com www.thedailybeast.com
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Common Cause vice president Paul Ryan said in a statement on the complaint.
that must be an awkward name to have
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especially Goldman Sachs.
but then he appointed people from Goldman Sachs, so
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has also called for a "21st century" Glass-Steagall.
It's literally called Dodd-Frank
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The Republican platform also backs restoring the law, which was repealed in 1999 under former President Bill Clinton.
Since when? Ted Cruz wanted to take de-regulation back before the Great Depression.
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theweek.com theweek.com
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she may well be the best of the bunch.
UHH
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She's not out to restore a lost imperial glory, nor has she advanced a program for colonizing the state and turning it into an instrument of her party.
That she's made public anyway
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Brussels rules not so much with the consent of the governed as with the conviction that it alone is capable of properly balancing the continent’s manifold interests — which is precisely what ordinary democratic politics is supposed to be for. Is it so unthinkable to prioritize the latter threat over the threat of populism
not really sure what this argument is supporting here
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Does anyone, at this late date, really believe that the EU is working?
young people in Britain do
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it is not actually possible to do so.
True
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It is not reasonable to exile the "national question" from politics entirely
why not?
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rehabilitation
I'm not sure what rehabilitation means in this article.
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www.citiprogram.org www.citiprogram.org
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The project would not become research by virtue of sharing its results.
ouch
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The project may be systematic, but is not considered research because the intent of the project is to improve the library's service to its patrons, rather than contribute to a body of knowledge.
it could be both though.
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www.thedailybeast.com www.thedailybeast.com
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building coalitions, focusing on the broadcast and avoiding prima donna behavior,” Maloney added.
lolwut
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but also knew that Bill O'Reilly's removal from Fox meant no one was safe
yeah, no one was safe from his sexual harassment
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the Murdoch sons, who are seen as “liberals”
lmao
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- Apr 2017
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fusion.net fusion.net
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Du never served a day in jail for killing Latasha Harlins. A jury found her guilty of voluntary manslaughter—a crime that comes with a maximum sentence of 16 years—but Judge Joyce Karlin let her off with a $500 fine, some community service, and probation.
WHAT THE FUCK
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Du, who was working in the store, accused Latasha of trying to steal the orange juice, despite the money she had in her hand. This sparked an altercation captured on a security videotape. In the video, Harlins places the orange juice back on the counter and turns to leave. As she walks away, Du picks up a gun and shoots her in the back of the head.
jesus christ
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he Board and its Director do recognize that there is a paucity of degreed librarians of color at EPL. This problem is not restricted to EPL; the entire public library field is grappling with it. The latest available statistics from the ALA show that only 5% of all credentialed librarians are African American; only 3% are Hispanic.
"It's not OUR fault almost all of our librarians are white!"
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Indeed, the Library of Congress, founded in 1789, appointed its first African American director just last year.
YOU MEAN THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT APPOINTED THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS.
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www.chicagoreader.com www.chicagoreader.com
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expression of interest on behalf of the Evanston Library in a genealogy collection the Winnetka Library was handing off.
Why was she suspended for this??
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techcrunch.com techcrunch.com
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although it would have been smarter to pull it from the app entirely until a non-racist replacement was ready to ship.
Yup
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blog.varidesk.com blog.varidesk.com
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lower muscle activity in the neck and shoulders,
what is meant by "lower muscle activity"?
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h2o.law.harvard.edu h2o.law.harvard.edu
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the simulated sounds on MP3-based music files are not physically identical to the sounds on the original CD recordings.
not technically wrong.
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Moreover, defendant argues, its activities can only enhance plaintiffs' sales, since subscribers cannot gain access to particular recordings made available by MP3.com unless they have already "purchased" (actually or purportedly), or agreed to purchase, their own CD copies of those recordings.
seems legit
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so far as the derivative market here involves is concerned, plaintiffs have not shown that such licensing is "traditional, reasonable, or likely to be developed."
wat
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Japan was steadfastly pro-US and has even begun echoing the language of Trump, who has said that every possible response to North Korea’s tests is on the table.
The Japanese people tend to be very anti-military intervention, so hopefully they'll put pressure on PM Abe to cool it down a bit.
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nsarchive.gwu.edu nsarchive.gwu.edu
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Merrick Garland overturned the lower court’s decision
Who should be on the Supreme Court
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www.chicagoreader.com www.chicagoreader.com
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sought to put on a layer of "truth in sentencing," requiring that the offenders would have to do 85 percent of the time that they're sentenced for no matter what—no matter if they participated in rehabilitative programming or what, so it kind of disincentivizes both the offender as well as the Department of Corrections from engaging the individuals in rehabilitative services.
interesting
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arstechnica.com arstechnica.com
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Story made the extraordinary finding that Public.Resource.Org is engaged in "commercial" copying despite being a nonprofit, stating that the organization "profits" by "the attention, recognition, and contributions it receives in association with its copying and distributing the copyrighted OCGA annotations, and its use was neither nonprofit nor educational."
That's not what the term profit means? What???
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he terms include agreeing not to make copies, and it even prohibits using the code in "newsletters" and "articles."
WTF????
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First of all, it's hardly "free," because anyone who uses it has to agree to onerous restrictions and two separate terms of use.
Huh
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The OCGA is the only official copy of Georgia's laws, so that was the one citizens needed to be able to read.
interesting
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states can hold copyrights and state contractors can make copyrighted works.)
which is some bullshit
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the actual text of the laws, which were available to the public, and the annotations, which were copyrighted and owned by the state.
If it's owned by the state, why isn't it available to Georgia residents for FREE?
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Malamud thinks reading the law shouldn't cost anything.
Well yeah, it shouldn't
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www.nationalreview.com www.nationalreview.com
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otably, since the beginning of PEPFAR, almost $2 billion in U.S. funding has gone to faith-based organizations
Yeah I'm not happy about this
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et Alito got through the Senate without a filibuster.
Wait, I thought then-Senator Obama filibustered Alito?
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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we are returning to using sound science in decision-making — rather than predetermined results.”
what evidence of predetermined results?
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Likewise, Rosalind Brewer, an African-American woman and Sam’s Club CEO, was called racist for advocating for diversity.
ffs
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www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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The European commission spelled out earlier this month that an independent Scotland would have to apply to join the bloc, a point reinforced by Dastis. “They would have to join the line of candidates at some point and would have to start negotiations,” he said.
why tho?
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www.slate.com www.slate.com
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some people are much more vulnerable to chlorpyrifos because of their genetic makeup.
interesting.
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used the power of his position and with all of his GOP colleagues lined up behind him, to essentially change the rules of the Senate — to lower that threshold on Supreme Court nominations to end debate from 60 to 51 votes
McCain's whole rant about changing this being "idiocy" was all bluster then. Go figure.
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www.npr.org www.npr.org
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"It is not the responsibility of the federal government to manage non-federal law enforcement agencies."
It is IF THEY'RE ENGAGING IN CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
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he bid to reconsider an agreement in Baltimore are the strongest signs yet that the Trump administration not only plans to scale back the number of new investigations it launches into unconstitutional policing, excessive force and other law enforcement misconduct allegations but also the likelihood it will seek to reopen agreements the Obama civil rights unit had already negotiated.
this is some bullshit
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newrepublic.com newrepublic.com
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concomitant
adj. "naturally accompanying or associated." n. "a phenomenon that naturally accompanies or follows something."
This instance is an adjective.
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insurers in states that waived community rating couldn’t tell sick customers to take a hike, but they could jack up premiums enough to make insurance plans for these customers unaffordable or useless.
Community Rating: "A rule that prevents health insurers from varying premiums within a geographic area based on age, gender, health status or other factors." https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/community-rating/
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the rating provision, but not the coverage guarantee for people with pre-existing conditions, would make the latter functionally useless.
to what part of this does the rating provision refer?
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but when pressed on whether gutting the community rating provisions would allow insurers to charge people with pre-existing conditions more, he acknowledged that some sick people may be picking up the slack so that premiums of the healthy would go down.
oh
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the key concession from GOP leaders that is likely to satisfy conservative House Freedom Caucus members—would allow states to waive not just the ten essential benefits that are required by the ACA, but its central risk-pooling provision, which prohibits insurance companies from charging sick customers more than healthy customers.
wtf
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www.healthcare.gov www.healthcare.gov
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Insurance companies will sometimes retroactively cancel your entire policy if you made a mistake on your initial application when you buy an individual market insurance policy.
wtf, why would they do that???
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motherboard.vice.com motherboard.vice.com
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There are not a lot of people complaining about white supremacy, and there isn't a lot of chatter about the surge of Islamophobia in the world. I understand the need to insulate oneself from upsetting topics, but insulation necessarily breeds insularity.
So it sounds like a lot of the users of Mastodon are probably white
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mastodon.social bans Nazis. Not even implicitly, but explicitly.
LOVE IT
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Peter Thiel will never partly own Mastodon.
He'll probably find a way just out of spite
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www.crossref.org www.crossref.org
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Crossref and DataCite employ this method of linking. Data repositories who register their content with DataCite follow the same process and apply the same metadata tags. This means that we achieve direct data interoperability with links in the reverse direction (data and software repositories to journal articles)
uhhhh what
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These were selected in consultation with DataCite and data working groups. They will provide the level of specificity requested by the community
See, now this is interesting. Since when is DataCite advising on how to use these? It's not in the documentation for the DataCite metadata schema and the advice we got via email was not super useful for these.
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it was generated de novo as part of the research results
if the software or data were newly generated as part of the research, e.g. you created the data or wrote the code yourself.
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For those generated by another project and then reused, we recommend applying “references” in the relationship type.
interesting
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www.haaretz.com www.haaretz.com
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This law represents Kulanu as a nationalist socially oriented party that believes in a balance between national pride and human rights.”
nationalist socially oriented? Wow. Really? REALLY?
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On Monday, it passed a law denying entry to any person “who knowingly issues a public call for boycotting Israel” or any territory “under Israeli control,” which includes settlements in the West Bank.
wow WTF
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- Mar 2017
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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Republicans said the measure would let states divert money now going to groups that provide abortion to organizations that don’t, like community health centers.
or abusive Christian "crisis centers"
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only if they are incapable of providing those services.
only if who is incapable of providing the services? The state government?
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This is enraging and sickening.
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But education groups oppose the law and want it changed, saying the decision of when to start school should be decided at the local level.
True, and year-round school years prevent the loss of learning over the summer (like the related article ad says and like I've heard from teachers previously)
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But in a nod to the tourism industry, which has long supported the post Labor Day start requirement, the legislation would prohibit schools from holding class on Mondays or Fridays in August.
Then what's the point? To ease into the school year???
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www.sciencemag.org www.sciencemag.org
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writing legislation that would punish scientific journals that publish research that doesn’t fit standards of peer review crafted by Smith and the committee (although he didn’t say how that would be accomplished).
is he a researcher? I don't think so
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he term politically correct science.”
ffs
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Michael Mann, a climate researcher at Pennsylvania State University in State College and a frequent target of climate change doubters. “That’s why this hearing is going to be so much fun,” Smith said with a huge grin on his normally impassive face.
wow, this isn't bullying at ALL sarcasm
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The audience cheered loudly as Smith read the names of three witnesses—climate scientist Judith Curry, who recently retired from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta; policy specialist Roger Pielke, Jr. of the University of Colorado in Boulder; and John Christy, a professor of earth system science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville—he expects to support his view that climate change is a politically driven fabrication and that taking steps to mitigate its impact will harm the U.S. economy
And I'm sure none of them have received funding from the Oil and Gas Industry
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“Next week we’re going to have a hearing on our favorite subject of climate change and also on the scientific method, which has been repeatedly ignored by the so-called self-professed climate scientists,
No it hasn't. Super condescending
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The most basic thing you can do if and when your service provider tries to collect and sell your data? Switch to another provider—assuming you can find one that won’t turn around and do the same.
And this is assuming you have the option of another provider
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What’s more, the measure bars the FCC from passing similar protections in the future.
HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE
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(The Senate’s approval last week stuck strictly to party lines.)
ugh I was wondering about that
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In April 2016, an anti-encryption bill was submitted to the Senate, which proposed that people should be required to comply with any authorized court order for data and that if that data is “unintelligible” – meaning encrypted – then it must be decrypted for the court.[
pretty sure this didn't go anywhere though
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www.theroot.com www.theroot.com
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The university has promised to give the descendants preferential admissions status at the school.
not, I dunno, SCHOLARSHIPS OR MONEY????
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www.theroot.com www.theroot.com
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“I don’t hate anyone. I don’t think it is on my level,” he said
what....
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“I got depressed. ... I saw it was too late. It’s irreversible,” he said, adding, “I didn’t want to put my family through any more pain.”
wat
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www.crueltyfreekitty.com www.crueltyfreekitty.com
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Acquired By Estee Lauder Nov. 2016
ugh well I'm sure they'll stop catering as well to WOC now
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www.teenvogue.com www.teenvogue.com
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really fair, look for something more silvery or pinkish to complement your tone, says Quynh
what if you're not fair-skinned? Got any suggestions for darker skin tones?
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www.districtdispatch.org www.districtdispatch.org
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In 1990, educational computer researcher Margaret Neiss dismissed programming as being an outdated skill unnecessary for teachers to master
hahahaha
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www.citylab.com www.citylab.com
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Top-down, one-size-fits-all regulations by Washington bureaucrats won’t help make affordable housing more accessible to those who need it. The best way to reduce the cost of housing and increase access is to enable state and local authorities to make decisions that are best suited to the needs of their communities and residents.
generic
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shortly after the Supreme Court ruled that housing policies that inadvertently hurt minorities were just as bad as those that explicitly discriminated
WEIRD
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Romney’s initiative, which by no means addressed every local government that violated the FHA, was soon reeled in by Nixon.
because of course
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He dubbed his initiative "Open Communities" and did not clear it with the White House.
LOVE IT
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The legislation seeks to nullify the 2015 Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing rule, which gives concrete guidance to entities receiving federal funds on how to proactively dismantle historical patterns of housing segregation—a requirement of the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
ffs Marco Rubio
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news.illinois.edu news.illinois.edu
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Reif calculated the social value of the reduction in elderly mortality attributable to Medicare Part D at $5 billion per year
what does "social value" mean?
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www.americanprogress.org www.americanprogress.org
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confirmed that one of the prosecutors was fired because Republican politicians complained to the White House that he was not prosecuting Democrats for voter fraud and corruption
wtf
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boingboing.net boingboing.net
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were supplied with bottled water at taxpayer expense even as the state insisted that the water was safe for the poor people of Flint to drink.
wtf
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ischool.illinois.edu ischool.illinois.edu
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The School also placed in the top ten for Archives and Preservation, Health Librarianship, and Information Systems.
This doesn't even make sense - there's no archives program at this iSchool
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from to existing multidisciplinary data repositories,
I don't think the "to" should be here
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www.thedailybeast.com www.thedailybeast.com
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he State Department came under fire for selecting McPike to go on the trip, rather than following tradition and allowing a pool reporter to go. “When I have something important and useful to say, I know where everybody is and I know how to go out there and say it,” Tillerson said. He also said taking fewer reporters with him means the plane “flies faster, allows me to be more efficient,” and noted that there’s plenty of media in the places he’s going to get the story out.
way to be partisan
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Saturday dismissed concerns over his decision not to let a pool reporter travel with him on his trip to Asia, saying he’s simply “not a big media press access person.”
yeah, we can tell with your use of an outside email address and alias
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Trump reportedly called his predecessor to thank him for the letter he left in the Oval Office but that overture was never returned
fabulous!
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They dropped for a few days after Mr. Sessions, who is viewed as a bullish influence on the stocks, came under pressure for failing to disclose to the Senate that he had met twice with the Russian ambassador, amid a furor over possible Russian meddling in the presidential election. But Mr. Trump has stoutly backed Mr. Sessions, and “the stocks responded positively,” Mr. Kodesch said.
some bs
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Investor expectations that the actual business of incarceration and detention will expand under Mr. Trump have fueled their levitating share prices.
INCARCERATION AND DETENTION SHOULD NOT BE A BUSINESS.
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Since the election, CoreCivic’s stock price has climbed 120 percent, and Geo’s has gained 80 percent.
this is disgusting
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thehill.com thehill.com
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“I think the starting position is that we’re not going to support regulating broadband as a telecom service or utility, the Title II provisions,” Wicker told The Hill in an interview Wednesday. “It’s just completely unacceptable in a world where technology changes every few weeks.”
boooo
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That uncertainty has many in the tech world hoping Congress can craft lasting rules and has Thune and Wicker believing they have an opening.
great
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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Melvin also noted that the NASA Education program MUREP, which helps fund students seeking STEM degrees at historically black colleges and universities, will be eliminated — weeks after Trump signed an executive order moving oversight of a federal initiative to support HBCUs from the Education Department to the White House.
damn, I missed this
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www.chronicle.com.proxy2.library.illinois.edu www.chronicle.com.proxy2.library.illinois.edu
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Nothing stops officials, whether at public schools or public colleges, from promoting sensitivity, tolerance of difference, and civil behavior.
literally everything you say does
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Walk away, don’t listen, or respond
NOT EVERYONE HAS THAT PRIVILEGE. LIKE IF THEY'RE IN THE SAME CLASS AS YOU, YOU CAN'T WALK AWAY, FFS
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principals can’t punish children who hurl racist and sexist insults at classmates unless the slur is accompanied by physical acts.
UH WHAT. NO THAT IS HARASSMENT. HARASSMENT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE PHYSICAL.
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That means allowing students to wear Confederate symbols unless a school has a history of serious racial conflict, including violent incidents.
THAT IS LITERALLY ALL OF AMERICAN HISTORY
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Insults, group disparagement, and offensive speech targeting individuals are, naturally, a shock to young men and women who have been shielded from them.
I can't
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eschewing the logic of what we have come to know as "microaggressions," the justices rebuked officials who claimed they had acted in part to spare the feelings, and avoid the possible reactions, of students who were friends with a recent graduate who had died in the war.
said like someone with a whole lot of white privilge
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unable to distinguish between harassment and a legitimate theological stance, a high-school teacher in Michigan removed Daniel Glowacki from a Spirit Day anti-bullying lesson after Glowacki objected to the message, explaining that, as a Roman Catholic, "I don’t accept gays."
Uhm, the high school teacher isn't the one who can't distinguish between harassment and legitimate theological stances. When a theology teaches hatred, it ceases to be legitimate.
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symbols like the Confederate flag
this is a symbol of Hate. The same way public schools don't allow students to wear gang symbols, so should the Confederate flag, Nazi symbols, and other symbols of hatred and ethnic cleansing, be banned.
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but they also often censor and punish controversial constitutionally protected speech of all sorts.
more from minority students than white students I bet
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Indeed, with speech codes sometimes stricter than those of public schools, colleges only reinforce students’ ignorance of, if not disdain for, crucial free-speech principles.
needs citation
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40 percent of millennials believe that society should prevent speech that offends minority groups.
Hate speech should not be protected by the First Amendment. Hate speech is not Free speech
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www.factcheck.org www.factcheck.org
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CBO predicted 89 percent of the nonelderly would be covered by last year. CDC put the actual percentage at 89.7 percent.
wow
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CBO greatly overestimated the number who would get government-subsidized coverage through the new insurance exchanges.
especially considering the mandatory expansion of medicaid wasn't upheld by SCOTUS
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CBO projected that in 2016 that nonelderly rate would fall to 11 percent, and the latest figure put the actual rate at 10.3 percent.
nonelderly rate of what?
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arstechnica.com arstechnica.com
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The US has a net neutrality rule that prohibits ISPs from blocking websites
for now
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www.urban.org www.urban.org
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Efforts that limit access to federal data can harm the local decisionmakers the bill aims to protect.
"protect"
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eliminate the collection of local housing data, stating that “no Federal funds may be used to design, build, maintain, utilize, or provide access to a Federal database of geospatial information on community racial disparities or disparities in access to affordable housing.”
uggggh
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www.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com
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shouldn’t be encumbered by lawsuits while in office.
and yet...
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www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
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The Independent that the initial registration of a long-denied Trump trademark "certainly seems to run afoul of the foreign emoluments clause" of the US Constitution.
hmm, they were denied before?
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www.politico.com www.politico.com
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The trip is now a focus of congressional and FBI investigations into Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election.
Oh so there is an FBI investigation then?
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www.citylab.com www.citylab.com
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Kennedy plans to work with a local architect, reports Berkeleyside, and use union labor to address any such problems in Berkeley.
or maybe just moving forward?
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an unspecified parcel of city land, possibly in a stack of 100 that reaches up four stories. The rent for the units is $1,000 a month, which would be paid by the city and is well below Berkeley’s average apartment rent of $3,233.
that's still more than my mortgage
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www.opensecrets.org www.opensecrets.org
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when President Bush used his power to make recess appointments to circumvent a filibuster by Senate Democrats.
Obama should have done this
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a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that doesn’t reveal its donors but seems to have plenty of money to throw around these days. Last year it spent more than $7 million, by its own count, encouraging GOP senators to stand fast against filling Scalia’s seat in a campaign it dubbed “Let the People Decide.”
disgusting
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Another member of that class: Norm Eisen, Obama’s former ethics czar, who has been vociferously critical of conflicts of interest in the Trump administration.
this is a totally unnecessary sentence
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All the justices except Anthony Kennedy and Clarence Thomas have an average estimated net worth of more than $1.5 million.
fascinating
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One somewhat extreme method he suggests is to set up two-factor authentication for your sensitive accounts, so that accessing them requires entering not only a password but a code sent to your phone via text message. Then, before you cross the border, make sure you don’t have the SIM card that allows you—or customs officials—to receive that text message, essentially denying yourself the ability to cooperate with agents even if you wanted to.
there are other methods of two-factor authorization tho
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preferably an iPhone,
no
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boingboing.net boingboing.net
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authorizes an attorney to visit you if you are detained at the border, but it has to be completed and signed in advance of your crossing.
why does this have to be completed at all? Isn't having access to a lawyer part of fundamental rights??
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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nd as a result put preclearance back on the table for Texas.
!!!! I'm sure Sessions won't do it though
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the DOJ attorneys viewed state officials and the legislative majority and their staffs as a bunch of backwoods hayseed bigots who bemoan the abolition of the poll tax and pine for the days of literacy tests and lynchings,” Judge Smith wrote.
I mean, where is the lie
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www.actionnewsjax.com www.actionnewsjax.com
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To deactivate the filter, you would have to request it in writing, prove that you are 18 or older and pay a $20 deactivation fee.
wtf
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It would require the manufacturers of mobile devices that have internet access to create and impose the filter. It’s up to the manufacturers to decide whether material is obscene.
this is stupid
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www.argusleader.com www.argusleader.com
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He hasn't donated the items, saying he doesn’t trust they’d be added.
what an idiot
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he man at the Ronning branch Leneker called out for refusing his donation told Fick he didn’t recall the interaction.
hahahahaha
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“They’re focusing and limiting the knowledge of people who are using their library,” said Leneker, who wrote another letter to the Argus Leader expressing his frustration over the donation issue. “Some people don’t like history because they have an agenda.”
do you even library bro
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He suspects the political content of the materials was behind that.
Uh, did he check to see if the library, I don't know, MAYBE ALREADY HAD IT
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Pundit Glenn Beck has endorsed it and interviewed its author, G. Edward Griffin.
oh lord
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www.haaretz.com www.haaretz.com
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ally in Rotterdam for a Turkish referendum on constitutional reforms to expand presidential powers, which the Dutch see as a step backward from democracy.
don't the Dutch have Freedom of Speech though?
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he right of Turkish government officials to speak about their political plans at rallies in Europe.
why wouldn't they be allowed to do so?
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www.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com
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Eventually, Germany could also lower corporate taxes and social contributions, making itself more attractive to international companies.
haha yeah right
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www.propublica.org www.propublica.org
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Banks also said that he was mistakenly registered as a lobbyist due to an error by his office manager.
uh huh
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Trump’s order also removed the requirement to provide a public interest justification for waivers.
like ffs
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banning them from directly handling issues on which they had lobbied.
okay butt Pruitt
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"has everything to do with an understaffed, overworked U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services."
uh huh
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theintercept.com theintercept.com
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Iowa and Kansas have prohibited the use of Black Asphalt by law enforcement agencies because of concerns that it “might not be a legal law enforcement tool,”
holy crap
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ICE’s enforcement focuses overwhelmingly on immigrants, the ICM funding documents make clear the intelligence tool can also be aimed at U.S. citizens. “Citizenship can be established a variety of ways to include biographical and biometric system checks,” one document states. “U.S. Citizens are still subject to criminal prosecution and thus are a part of ICM.”
wtf
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The system provides its users access to intelligence platforms maintained by the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and an array of other federal and private law enforcement entities.
uh, is this legal?
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us11.campaign-archive2.com us11.campaign-archive2.com
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seized by deputies, who informed the protestors that they could pick the guns up at the sheriff’s office.
the Black Panther Party had their guns seized, eh?
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instituting voluntary background checks
well duh
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www.eff.org www.eff.org
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by the benefits accrued to their professional reputation when other scholars read, and cite, their published work. They care about recognition, not royalties.
Plus, the authors rarely see any income from those royalties; the publishers usually get all of it
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www.illinoissenatedemocrats.com www.illinoissenatedemocrats.com
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it’s unclear if probable cause is a requirement for police to seize property in Illinois. Even if an owner is never charged or convicted of a crime, law enforcement agencies are not obligated to return property that was seized during an investigation.
that's so ridiculous
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talkingpointsmemo.com talkingpointsmemo.com
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WikiLeaks has a long track record of releasing top secret government documents.
it's not that long of a history
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talkingpointsmemo.com talkingpointsmemo.com
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saying, if we mandate everybody buys what we say they have to buy, then the government will always estimate that they’ll buy it.”
the ACA doesn't do that
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“What matters is that we're the lowering costs of health care and giving people access to affordable health care plans,” Ryan responded.
but lots of these people are ALREADY on affordable health insurance plans
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lowering costs for everyone was more important.
uh huh
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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It is not unusual for a new president to replace United States attorneys appointed by a predecessor, especially when there has been a change in which party controls the White House.
whew
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www.diglib.org www.diglib.org
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the scrubbing of Nexis-Lexis data about Jeff Sessions just before his Senate confirmation;
woah, I missed this
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hedgehoglibrarian.com hedgehoglibrarian.com
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I got the results of my campus tenure vote and I PASSED. Of the people voting for me, no one voted no on my dossier at the campus level. Couple of absence/abstention so I can’t say unanimous but I’ll take an overwhelming majority and no one against.
YAY!
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www.nationalreview.com www.nationalreview.com
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The money was seized because law-enforcement officials believed that it was “substantially connected to criminal activity,” including the sale of narcotics. James Leonard’s mother, Lisa Olivia Leonard, claimed to be the rightful owner of the money from the house sale and sued the government to regain it. But because she didn’t raise her due-process claims at the trial level, the Supreme Court declined to hear her case, leaving her with little recourse.
wtf
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And I just don't know how you do that if you have someone looking over your shoulder and sort of coughing slightly to let you know when you're off."
that's not what this is
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People are more sensitive now, she says, but literature can't come from a place of fear.
Or more vocally conscientious? Have more tools for vocalizing criticism?
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www.news-gazette.com www.news-gazette.com
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"We're not boycotting Israeli companies. We're only trying to divest in companies that are involved in the internationally recognized illegal activities of the Israeli government and military within Palestinian territories," he said
so in the occupied Gaza Strip territories?
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www.governing.com www.governing.com
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The Republican sponsors of the legislation have argued that the government should not crowd out private financial firms, which offer such services.
Obviously private financial firms aren't meeting a necessary demand and don't want to meet it, which is why the states found it necessary to do so. This is literally how the free market is supposed to work.
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www.geekwire.com www.geekwire.com
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younger researchers, female researchers, and researchers in developing countries.
not researchers of color?
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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Facebook is outsourcing its decision-making power about what’s in your News Feed
this just reinforces the so-called "echo-chamber" effect
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www.rawstory.com www.rawstory.com
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“You and your family are fired,” the text read. “I hope you enjoyed your day off, and you can enjoy many more. Love you.”
wtf
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lj.libraryjournal.com lj.libraryjournal.com
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What mechanism must be created to foster a more nimble, reflexive, responsive, and even proactive national voice?
or empowered?
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www.govtech.com www.govtech.com
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The counterpoint is that developing, maintaining and publishing technical codes is expensive, which is why the current copyright system should remain in place.
the current copyright system is too restrictive in favor of copyright holders rather than in favor of the Public
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There is, however, debate over whether the formatting is sufficiently accessible.
so they're not usable for screen readers then
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the technical codes are available online for free, which is true.
Literally earlier in this article it says "The standards in question were written by these organizations and incorporated into law in Georgia. They were then made available in reading rooms and libraries for viewing in person, or for purchase from the standard organizations." - where does it say they're available for free online???
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the resulting opinion questioned whether copyright law as it relates to this issue was in the interest of the public, going so far as to suggest that changes be made in Congress.
that's something at least
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anyone who subsequently posts them online is committing a copyright violation.
that is some BS
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This debate was at the center of a recent court ruling that questioned whether technical standards created by private entities and incorporated into law can be copyrighted. The answer, as passed down by a U.S. District Court, was indeed they can
ugh
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www.engadget.com www.engadget.com
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The emphasis switched from leukemia to lung cancer, and a change in medical record software rendered Watson incompatible without an overhaul. Moreover, the info used to feed Watson is outdated.
how so?
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aotus.blogs.archives.gov aotus.blogs.archives.gov
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ederal records apply to all “federal agencies” in the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches, but do not include the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Architect of the Capitol.
why not??
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the state-run program will allow more rural health clinics to offer family planning services.
Uh, how?
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isni.ringgold.com isni.ringgold.com
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The proprietary data held by Ringgold, such as the Ringgold ID, metadata, demographics and organizational relationships are not shared in this dataset.
boo
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talkingpointsmemo.com talkingpointsmemo.com
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I regret if anyone was offended by my choice of metaphors but my intention was to focus on the protesters being hateful and to open up a dialogue on this point."
man, you're an idiot
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The drawing depicts a woman passively walking while being protected from angry protesters. Isn't that what went down the other day when Devos visited a school to do her job?
because she wants to dismantle those schools and continue segregation. That's why people protested her
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www.governing.com www.governing.com
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So far, jurisdictions in 21 states have passed laws regarding body camera footage -- most of them restricting it. The state of South Carolina has exempted the footage from public records requests altogether.
this defeats the entire purpose of requiring body cameras then.
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www.miamiherald.com www.miamiherald.com
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“What if we had a band playing outside inviting young people in to rock the library? What if there was live music on the weekends? A lot of kids out there don’t have places to go, and a lot of the time they go to the wrong places. What if this would become that place?” Christopher said, noting that the Cybrary will also have a themed coffee shop and restaurant.
Public libraries across the US are already doing these things. See also: "Phoenix Public Library Teen Central"
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Before you know it libraries across the country will want a Cybrary in their community,”
They already do. This isn't unique. See: "makerspaces"
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Christopher said one goal is to have the Cybrary bring in revenue to the city. The city even trademarked the “Cybrary” brand.
LIBRARIES AREN'T FOR REVENUE GENERATING. THEY'RE A SERVICE
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“Most of it will be free but there are going to be aspects of it that there will probably be a charge for. Most of these decisions have not been made,” Porter said.
This is some bullshit
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How long books stay around will depend on their popularity.
Oh you mean like they are currently?
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council members asked 20 high school students if they had been to the library in the past two years. Only two students raised their hands. At the time, the city already had starting planning the Cybrary and wanted to know where conventional libraries fall short.
Did they ask if the students had been to, I don't know, their school library? Did they go to the library and ask the students who are there (because there are always HS students at the public library) how often they show up?
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What if children weren’t hushed but rather encouraged and inspired to really want to read, to learn, to explore new places to really engage?” said Tony Christopher, Landmark’s founder, CEO and president.
are you fucking kidding me
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no shushing, no boredom
Librarians don't shush very much anymore. Books aren't boring. People often go to libraries specifically for the quiet areas.
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“When you think about bettering this thing called a library, which has been around since before 300 B.C, do you turn to the library scientists — the librarians — to create a fresh and new thing, or do you turn to people who have expertise in the areas of entertainment and attraction?”
wow, this is a super condescending statement. Why take input from the people who have to work in this library every day?
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the world’s first “Cybrary,” or cyber library.
someone didn't hear about the one in Austin
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www.govtrack.us www.govtrack.us
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Senate votes on key Trump nominations.
why not EPA/Pruitt???
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www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
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she could have told me where to go for it. But she wouldn’t because she needed me to be pregnant for her case.”
or maybe because it was illegal????
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Norma Nelson — her middle name was variously spelled Lea, Leah and Leigh — was born in Simmesport, La., on Sept. 22, 1947. Her father, a television repairman, was largely absent from her life.
what about her mother?
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www.oif.ala.org www.oif.ala.org
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Polemics
n. A person engaged in or inclined to controversy, argument, or refutation. - wordnik
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Mr. Trump tells foreign leaders in his phone calls. Some staff members have turned to encrypted communications to talk with their colleagues, after hearing that Mr. Trump’s top advisers are considering an “insider threat” program that could result in monitoring cellphones and emails for leaks.
wow. That is terrifying
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www.politico.com www.politico.com
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The president has complained to at least one person about "how his people didn't give him good advice" on rolling out the travel ban and that he should have waited to sign it instead of "rushing it like they wanted me to."
that's what happens when you appoint a bunch of people with no government experience
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isa-specs.readthedocs.io isa-specs.readthedocs.io
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https://git.io/vPZbh
broken link
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