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Janine Lorente

@jlorenteconnell.bsky.social
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Independent consultant. Defends and promotes economic and creative rights of authors writers directors composers worldwide. Interested in politics democracy social justice

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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 6h
Climat : les propositions de Gabriel Zucman pour financer la transition
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Climat : les propositions de Gabriel Zucman pour financer la transition
L’économiste Gabriel Zucman propose de taxer les milliardaires et les compagnies pétrolières pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique. Dans cette version vidéo du podcast « Chaleur humaine », il explique comment cela pourrait être fait, et combien d’argent cela pourrait rapporter.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7h
Reminder: Voter registration deadlines are hitting TODAY, October 5, in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas. Please make sure you’re registered to vote!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5h
Women suffer more pain than men across the whole body, major global study finds
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Women suffer more pain than men across the whole body, major global study finds
Researchers looked at pain around the world and across the human lifespan, finding steepest rise happens before age 55 Women report suffering more pain than men, a major new global study has found. That was true for all types of pain the researchers measured, and comes amid continuing concern about the gender pain gap, which means women are less likely to be prescribed the pain relief they need. Continue reading...
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 9h
Democratic state officials and organizations across the country are preparing for a scenario in which the Trump administration deploys federal agents to the polls in November. www.washingtonsun.com/campaigns/sta…
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State Officials Are Trying to Get Ahead of Federal Agents at the Polls
The Trump administration has left open the door to sending federal agents to polling locations on Election Day.
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 7h
Former White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt is taking a new job at Fox News just two months after leaving the Trump administration. www.washingtonsun.com/media/former-…
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Karoline Leavitt Has a New Job at Fox News
She’s taking the new gig just two months after leaving the Trump administration.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 27/09/2026
Police in the west of England declared a 'major incident' on Sunday after several men were arrested on suspicion of explosive offences near an RAF base being used by the US Air Force for action against Iran. ft.trib.al/29yfnj5
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/09/2026
Exclusive: MLB approached the Trump administration about hosting a game at a national park, officials said, and Grand Teton was scouted. The Tetons are about “wildlife, opportunity for solitude, not for more amusement,” said the county commissioner. wapo.st/3Vh0N50
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 24/09/2026
ICE and other federal agencies have wasted tens of millions of dollars pursuing controversial plans to rapidly increase detention capacity – and the total will likely rise due to ongoing mismanagement, congressional investigators warned on Thursday.
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ICE has wasted tens of millions to carry out Trump’s mass detention agenda – report
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 24/09/2026
State supreme court rules Chad Bianco’s conduct unlawful and says he ‘must refrain from further handling’ of ballots
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California sheriff ordered to return ballots he confiscated in voter ‘fraud’ inquiry
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CNN @cnn.com · 25/09/2026
In a new campaign ad, GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers blames the war with Iran for soaring prices, underscoring the trouble Republicans face as they campaign to fix the affordability crisis worsened by the war. cnn.it/4d5evy0
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CNN @cnn.com · 23/09/2026
The deleted exchange was part of a broader pattern of Michele Tafoya criticizing the state she is now running to represent. cnn.it/4AtTRl8
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 23/09/2026
Majorities in six countries said there was at least a “moderate” risk that AI could “destroy humanity,” according to a new POLITICO Poll. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/poll...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/09/2026
New report reveals prevalence of physical and sexual violence in US
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New report reveals prevalence of physical and sexual violence in US
Study finds more than half of US adults have experienced physical violence and nearly half sexual violence
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/09/2026
The number of 9/11 survivors who are receiving aid for cancer has roughly tripled over the last five years, according to a Post analysis. “This is something that we are worried about,” said one researcher.
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Cancer’s toll on 9/11 survivors is accelerating 25 years later
The number of victims receiving aid has tripled in recent years, a Post analysis finds, as the illness’s toll becomes more apparent.
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Herb Scribner @herbscribner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW by me -- AI doomsday is possible, and experts are sounding the alarm. In fact, AI researchers say there's a non-zero chance of AI killing off humanity in the next decade. Here's how AI could kill us all (if the worst fears come true).
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Here's how AI could kill us all (if the worst fears come true)
After Anthropic's warning, questions about p(doom) and AI killing humans are rising.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/09/2026
England’s teenagers outperform peers in most countries in maths, reading and science
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England’s teenagers outperform peers in most countries in maths, reading and science
OECD test sees results dip in almost all member nations and warns of ‘digital distractions’ eroding academic skills England’s teenagers are outperforming their peers in most countries in maths, reading and science, according to an international survey that warns of “digital distractions” eroding academic skills around the world. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) programme for international student assessment (Pisa), which last year tested 760,000 15-year-olds in 91 countries and regions, found that results dipped in almost all of its members compared with previous years, with the exception of England and a handful of others. Continue reading...
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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
AI music company Suno has been sued again - this time by the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN). SOCAN shared examples of Suno’s output. Here is one: www.socan.com/socan-ai/ai-...
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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The WGA Negotiating Committee has unanimously approved a tentative agreement w the AMPTP for the 2026 MBA. This deal protects writers’ health plan & puts it on a sustainable path, builds on gains from 2023 & helps address free work challenges. Members will receive more info in coming days #WGAStrong
Tentative agreement reached
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Janine Lorente @jlorenteconnell.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
www.advanced-television.com/2026/03/12/r...
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Research: US giants dominate European streaming
The European streaming market is under global pressure, reports Mediaivision. The shift in viewing has been dramatic: across the analysed markets, US services n
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
FLAG: Trump-related files are missing from DOJ's Epstein release. There's at least one witness for whom three 2019 FBI interviews are missing. That woman is the same person who, in a 2025 FBI presentation, is identified to have accused Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15.
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NPR, MS NOW: Trump-related files missing from DOJ's Epstein file release
NPR and MS NOW report that files related to President Trump are missing from the Department of Justice's release of the Epstein documents. MS NOW Senior Legal Reporter Lisa Rubin, MS NOW Senior White ...
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Janine Lorente @jlorenteconnell.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
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After Colbert-CBS Rift, Interview With Texas Senate Candidate James Talarico Draws 85M Views Across YouTube & Social
Stephen Colbert's interview of U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico, intended for CBS but instead posted only online, has now drawn 85 million views.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 19/02/2026
AI robots take the stage for China’s New Year celebration reut.rs/3ZKuOJr
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AI robots take the stage for China’s New Year celebration
Have ads started popping up in your conversations with ChatGPT yet? More than 30 advertisers have run ads on ChatGPT this month, according to estimates from Sensor Tower. Unsurprisingly, a third of them are retailers — including Best Buy, Urban Outfitters, Target and Home Depot — looking to reach consumers inside chatbot conversations.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 19/02/2026
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BBC reports that King Charles' brother Andrew has been arrested
BBC News reported on Thursday that Britain's former Prince Andrew had been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
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NPR @npr.org · 19/02/2026
President Trump is asking the federal government for billions of dollars in damages, putting his own Justice Department on the spot and creating an unprecedented ethical morass. n.pr/4rpUBTy
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Trump would like the government he leads to pay him billions
President Trump is asking the federal government for billions of dollars in damages, putting his own Justice Department on the spot and creating an unprecedented ethical morass.
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Janine Lorente @jlorenteconnell.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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Get Your AI Off Our ‘Stranger Things’ & ‘KPop Demon Hunters,’ Netflix Tells ByteDance In Latest Hollywood Cease & Desist Letter
In a cease & desist letter over Seedance 2.0, Netflix want generated AI videos of Stranger Things, KPop Demon Hunters, Squid Game and Bridgerton shut down now
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 18/02/2026
Despite the efforts of American envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Moscow, Kyiv and Washington concluded another round of talks in Geneva with scant progress toward ending the Russian war in Ukraine.
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Surprise, surprise: Russia-Ukraine talks yield no peace breakthrough
The negotiations have largely become political theater for an audience comprising Donald Trump.
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Janine Lorente @jlorenteconnell.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
www.advanced-television.com/2026/02/17/r... % of-tv-film-industry-workers-considering-leaving/
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Research: 74% of TV & film industry workers considering leaving
The Film and TV Charity’s second Money Matters report - examining the financial resilience of industry workers - uncovers that the UK’s film, TV, and cinema
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Reporterre 🌍 | Le média de l'écologie @reporterre.net · 04/02/2026
Le sénateur Laurent Duplomb a déposé un nouveau texte pour réintroduire l’acétamipride, insecticide interdit et décrié dans sa loi Duplomb. Face à ce passage en force, de nombreux rassemblements sont prévus en France. Lire l'article ➡️ l.reporterre.net/kl1
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MS NOW @ms.now · 03/02/2026
BREAKING: Police body cam footage acquired by AJC shows confusion at FBI raid of Fulton elections office
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 03/02/2026
European governments are moving away from U.S. tech giants, opting for domestic or open-source alternatives.
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France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
European governments are moving away from U.S. tech giants, opting for domestic or open-source alternatives.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 03/02/2026
The Justice Department finalized its release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. But the Trump administration won’t release millions of other files and many other records with heavy redactions, concerning from those critical of the administration.
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Despite 3 million files, Epstein release leaves big questions unanswered
The members of Congress who wrote the law requiring disclosure of the files are still looking for explanations.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Sadly, this is NOT satire.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 02/02/2026
Sloppy redactions in Epstein documents are traumatizing survivors www.ms.now/news/sloppy-...
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Sloppy redactions in Epstein documents are traumatizing survivors
An abuse survivor whose sensitive personal information was released in latest drop calls the Justice Department’s mishap “profoundly distressing.”
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 03/02/2026
Huit doubleurs français mettent en demeure deux sociétés d’IA pour avoir cloné leur voix
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Huit doubleurs français mettent en demeure deux sociétés d’IA pour avoir cloné leur voix
Ces acteurs qui ont doublé des stars d’Hollywood (Julia Roberts, Richard Gere…) et des personnages d’animation (Buzz l’Eclair, Cartman…) somment VoiceDub et Fish Audio de retirer de leurs plateformes tous les « modèles de clonage exploitant [leur] voix » sous huit jours. Ils réclament également 20 000 euros de dommages et intérêts.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/02/2026
New Epstein files fail to quell outrage as advocates claim documents are being withheld
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New Epstein files fail to quell outrage as advocates claim documents are being withheld
Advocates call for further disclosures after Trump’s justice department released more than 3m files last week
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MS NOW @ms.now · 02/02/2026
FIRST ON MS NOW: “Sen. Jacky Rosen is calling for the watchdog at the Department of Justice to review the agency’s shuttered probe into White House border czar Tom Homan and his alleged acceptance of $50,000 from undercover FBI agents.” www.ms.now/news/jacky-r...
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Sen. Jacky Rosen calls for DOJ review of Tom Homan and $50,000 bribe investigation
Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., says she wants to ensure Tom Homan’s “fitness for the job” as he takes the leadership of ICE operations in Minnesota.
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The Economist @economist.com · 03/02/2026
A chat room for bots already boasts some 1.5m accounts. Many of the posts on Moltbook so far are prosaic. But not all
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A social network for AI agents is full of introspection—and threats
How worried should you be about Moltbook?
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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Join us as we honor the memory of union member Alex Pretti and stand in solidarity with the people of Minnesota.
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Janine Lorente @jlorenteconnell.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
www.advanced-television.com/2026/01/28/d.... “Omdia research shows least-watched 99 %of videos account for just 9 %of total viewing time. Yet YouTube continues to host equivalent of 280,000 years of video content... This content also forms the backbone of Google’s video training data for Gemini. «
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Data: YouTube reaches 29bn videos
YouTube has reached 29 billion videos as of December 2025, with modern growth driven by Shorts, AI-generated content, and expansion in markets such as India, ac
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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Congratulations to the 2026 #WritersGuildAwards nominees! Tune in to see who wins at 2:00 PM PT Sunday, March 8 LIVE on YouTube. awards.wga.org/awards/nomin...
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2026 Writers Guild Awards Nominees
The Writers Guild Awards honor outstanding writing in film, television, streaming, news, radio, and promotional categories.
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 27/01/2026
Capgemini dans la tourmente pour son travail avec l’ICE, la police de l’immigration américaine
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Capgemini dans la tourmente pour son travail avec l’ICE, la police de l’immigration américaine
Une filiale américaine du groupe de services informatiques, très impliquée auprès du gouvernement, aide à rechercher les personnes en situation irrégulière pour le compte de l’ICE.
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Federation of Screenwriters in Europe - FSE @fsescreenwriters.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The FSE supports the American campaign #StealingIsntInnovation. JOIN www.stealingisntinnovation.com #AI #screenwriters #creators #authorsrights #copyright @writersguildirl.bsky.social @almaguionistas.bsky.social @fagaguionistas.bsky.social @dramatiker.bsky.social @writersguildgb.bsky.social
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/01/2026
Copyrighted art, mobile phones, Greenland: welcome to our age of shameless theft | Jonathan Liew
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Copyrighted art, mobile phones, Greenland: welcome to our age of shameless theft | Jonathan Liew
The human impulse to steal has been accelerated by AI, inequality and our political leaders – with profound consequences, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 28/01/2026
EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : pannes de courant à grande échelle dans tout le pays après de nouvelles attaques russes
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EN DIRECT, guerre en Ukraine : pannes de courant à grande échelle dans tout le pays après de nouvelles attaques russes
Le vice-ministre de l’énergie ukrainien précise que la situation reste la plus tendue à Kiev et dans sa région mais aussi dans toutes les zones proches du front. Quatre morts et des blessés ont été recensés dans les oblasts de Donetsk, d’Odessa, de Zaporijia et de Kherson.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/01/2026
Russian and Ukrainian military casualties in war nearing 2m, study finds
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Russian and Ukrainian military casualties in war nearing 2m, study finds
Thinktank says about 1.2m Russians troops killed, wounded or gone missing to date and 600,000 Ukrainians The number of Russian and Ukrainian troops killed, wounded or gone missing in nearly four years of war could reach 2 million by this spring, according to a study, as Moscow’s invasion shows no sign of abating. A report by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) estimates Russia has had about 1.2 million casualties, including as many as 325,000 deaths, while close to 600,000 Ukrainian troops have been killed, wounded or gone missing. Continue reading...
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NPR @npr.org · 28/01/2026
In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from WHO, California is the first state to participate in the agency's disease monitoring network. Are others following? n.pr/4a1T7qW
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As the U.S. bids adieu to the World Health Organization, California says hello
In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from WHO, California is the first state to participate in the agency's disease monitoring network. Are others following?
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Janine Lorente @jlorenteconnell.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
deadline.com/2026/01/alfr... Hitchcok’s 1927 silent feature The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog has become possibly the first classic movie to be reframed as a microdrama.
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Alfred Hitchcock Reframed For Microdrama Generation
An Alfred Hitcock microdrama of 'The Lodger' is available in the U.S. on Tattle TV.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/01/2026
Minneapolis residents are risking their lives so that the world can see what is actually happening to their city, Charlie Warzel reports.
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Believe Your Eyes
People are risking their lives to document agents in Minneapolis.
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NPR @npr.org · 25/01/2026
Federal officials described the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old U.S. citizen by a federal agent as an act of self-defense. The video evidence that has surfaced so far contradicts that assertion.
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Watch: Videos refute DHS account of fatal shooting in Minneapolis
Federal officials described the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old U.S. citizen by a federal agent as an act of self-defense. The video evidence that has surfaced so far contradicts that assertion.
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