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@masakofukuisydney.bsky.social
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independent audio producer, writer, English and Japanese bilingual journalist based in Sydney Australia, I eat dairy, writing my prequel, love watching bread rise

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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Noura Erakat On Why She Was Arrested for Protesting Israeli Bond Investments
The Human rights lawyer is joined by the executive director of the Internationalist Law Center to shed light on the largest government investor in Israeli bonds.
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Vale Gloria Steinen www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...
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Gloria Steinem Gave It All
Emma Watson remembers Gloria Steinem, who understood that you may spend your whole life walking toward a world you will never enter, but that does not relieve you of the obligation to walk.
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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How a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threat
When Andrew asked his AI personal assistant to book him a spot in a gym class, he had no idea he would accidentally initiate an autonomous cyber attack.
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
lest we forget #HiroshimaDay
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Politico @politico.com · 29/07/2026
BREAKING: Former Covid czar Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right at the Senate hearing on the pandemic.
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Fauci takes the Fifth
The former Covid czar was at a Senate hearing at which Sen. Rand Paul pressed him on his handling of the pandemic.
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/o...
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Opinion | A Billion Eyes. One Shared Experience. (Gift Article)
The number of people who attend the World Cup is nothing compared with the sheer world-buckling biomass of those who experience it on a screen.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 20/07/2026
AUKUS avoids the short-term need for domestic refuelling infrastructure, but it backloads major decommissioning, dismantling and waste-disposal risks onto future Australia, Peter Briggs writes in the second of a two-part series. #auspol #AUKUS #Nuclear
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AUKUS leaves Australia with the long nuclear goodbye – part two
In the second of a two-part series, Peter Briggs examines the decommissioning, dismantling and waste-disposal risks Australia will inherit from AUKUS reactors.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 08/07/2026
Australia and New Zealand rightly criticise China’s nuclear-capable missile tests in the Pacific. Their silence on repeated US tests exposes a glaring double standard, Jeremy Rose writes. #auspol #Pacific #NuclearWeapons
pearlsandirritations.com
The hypersonic hypocrisy of Pacific nuclear politics
Australia and New Zealand rightly criticise China’s nuclear-capable missile tests in the Pacific. Their silence on repeated US tests exposes a glaring double standard.
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
'After years of explosive expansion, U.S. growth for Spotify and TikTok have shown signs of slowing, likely because of market saturation.' 'The revolution has been won—the audience is in charge. And what the audience wants to do, at mass scale, is scroll.' www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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How Lizzo Became One of Pop Culture’s Great Flops
The singer is experiencing a new form of downward mobility—and she’s not alone.
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
politico.com
Has Trump Changed Democracy Forever? We Asked 11 Historians.
Experts on U.S. history look to the past — and the future.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 05/07/2026
The Odyssey has become the most imitated of forms—a model for “The Wizard of Oz” and James Joyce’s one-day Dublin epic, “Ulysses,” alike. Yet the story has troubled filmmakers for decades. Do we need a big movie of the Odyssey at all? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ow7pTh
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Why the Odyssey Keeps Defeating Filmmakers
Full of violence, desire, monsters, and magic, Homer’s epic has tempted directors for decades. Can Christopher Nolan’s new adaptation survive the voyage?
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 05/07/2026
As East of Eden becomes a Netflix series, Steinbeck’s sprawling Californian saga still holds power through its moral ambition, regional depth and slow contest between destiny and choice, Paul Giles writes. #Books #Netflix #Literature
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Why Steinbeck's East of Eden still stands the test of time
As East of Eden becomes a Netflix series, Steinbeck’s sprawling Californian saga still holds power through its moral ambition, regional depth and slow contest between destiny and choice.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/07/2026
The Vatican on Thursday excommunicated the clergy of a breakaway conservative faction of the Roman Catholic Church, as well as any worshipers who do not leave the group.
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Vatican Excommunicates Breakaway Group, in Biggest Schism in 156 Years
The move against the Society of St. Pius X followed its defiance of Pope Leo XIV by consecrating new bishops against his wishes.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/07/2026
We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,600 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients. Explore the database:
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Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,600 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Interesting article and reporting from ABC Verify www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
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She claims to be helping children around the world, but is it real?
Receiving millions of views online, the Lily Jay Foundation claims to help children across the world. She was even given an award for her work. But what is real and what is AI-generated? ABC NEWS Veri...
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/06/2026
A doctor in the Netherlands assisted in the death of a terminally ill child between between 1 and 12 for the first time, a Dutch minister told lawmakers. The practice has been legal in the country under certain rules since 2024. trib.al/BFD4gZI
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The Netherlands Records Its First Assisted Death of a Child Between 1 and 12
Physician-assisted death for terminally ill children in that age group has been allowed in the country since 2024.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 27/06/2026
The World Cup offers a simple answer to a complicated political debate: a nation is strongest when people with different pasts choose the same future, says Sirwan Barzanji. #auspol #multiculturalism
pearlsandirritations.com
Where 'we' begins: the World Cup and multicultural Australia
The World Cup offers a simple answer to a complicated political debate: a nation is strongest when people with different pasts choose the same future.
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Took me 2 weeks to read, so disturbing was this article. Kudos to @heidiblake.bsky.social Fine reporting In light of #KarlStefanovic link with Robinson...this article's links with #manosphere men/Trumposphere is seriously frightening www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
newyorker.com
Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse
How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
substack.com/@naomiklein/...
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Israel's Tech Boom & the Economy of Genocide
Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur, joins Naomi to discuss calls for her removal and her latest report documenting the 'corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project.’
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
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Video: How the Epstein Files Paralyzed the Trump White House
President Trump’s advisers gathered in secret in the Situation Room without him as they struggled to handle the Epstein files scandal, our reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan learned while res...
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
White House journalists need to defend their colleagues open.substack.com/pub/historyn...
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White House journalists need to defend their colleagues
Trump attacks yet another female correspondent.
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/w...
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How Curry Shops Got Caught in Japan’s Immigration Crackdown
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Hamish Sewell @hamish-sewell.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Landscape is hewn with stories. Our stories are hewn into landscape: if we slow down, we'll hear it all around us. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Dqe...
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Forbes @forbes.com · 07/05/2026
Traders made over $2.6 billion through four suspicious trades made in March and April, according to an ABC News report.
forbes.com
Justice Department Investigating Suspicious Oil Trades Timed To Trump Iran War Announcements, Report Says
Traders made over $2.6 billion through four suspicious trades made in March and April, according to an ABC News report.
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Great reporting @theatlantic.com but thoroughly disturbing to read.... www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Kash Patel’s Personalized Bourbon Stash
The FBI director has been leaving an unusual calling card.
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This podcast, The Epstein Files is so creepy... theconversation.com/the-epstein-...
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The Epstein Files: the AI podcast that sounds like journalism but isn’t
This first fully AI podcast produces a coherent-sounding narrative. But coherence is not the same as sense making, and pattern recognition is not interpretation.
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A good read: historyneverended.substack.com/p/my-brush-w...
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My brush with Banksy
And the BBC’s decision not to disclose his identity.
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
...'to fetishize vulnerability and to fetishize confession only takes us back to the most reactionary forms of bourgeois subjectivity'... Catherine Liu www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS1N...
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
This is worth reading: www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
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How Trump got Iran wrong
To mark the launch of Thomas Wright’s “Inflection Point: Biden, Trump and the Future World Order”, published by the Lowy Institute in conjunction with Penguin Random House Australia, we present this e...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 05/05/2026
"The American political conversation has moved on from abortion," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social. "But the state-by-state patchwork of women’s rights remains an untenable reality, and the ferocity of the anti-choice movement’s misogyny has not been abated."
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Abortion pills are saving women’s lives. The right is trying to eliminate them | Moira Donegan
The supreme court has kicked the can down the road after a federal court sought to ban the mailing of mifepristone
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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Sign the Petition
Save 2SER-FM
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Eleanor G @zaichishka.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Very sad news
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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
The Tokai region has it's first three foreign bus drivers with specified skills visas. The three Indonesian men are employed by Meitetsu Bus, and were formally introduced at a ceremony in Toyota City. www.chunichi.co.jp/article/1245...
Three Indonesian men in Meitetsu Bus uniforms. One is behind the wheel of a bus, the other two are inside, standing net to him.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/05/2026
WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story: propub.li/4tHp2Wd
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Nic McConnell @mcconnell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Boost for language education...too little too late? www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
smh.com.au
Speaking the region’s language: Why fluency is our new front line
With university enrolments in South-East Asian languages in freefall, Labor is investing in the migrant-run weekend schools that have kept these tongues alive.
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mulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Asako Yuzuki has taken the publishing rights for her award-winning novel "Butter" away from Shinchosha, and given them to Kawade Shobo. It's believed this is a response to a discriminatory column published by Shūkan Shinchō last year. www.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/book...
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柚木麻子さん、小説「BUTTER」の版権を新潮社から引き揚げ…週刊新潮の差別的コラム問題が背景
【読売新聞】 作家の柚木麻子さんは22日、人気小説「BUTTER」の版権を新潮社から引き揚げ、河出書房新社に移すことを、自身のSNSで明らかにした。この措置は、新潮社の「週刊新潮」に昨年、差別的なコラムを掲載されたとして作家仲間であ
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20/04/2026
“I continue to hope for children’s shows and movies as brilliant as ‘Bluey’ which more closely reflect my daughter’s reality to her,” Jean Garnett writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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The Pain and Play of Divorce on Kids’ TV
A “Sesame Street” writer once said it was easier to write an episode about death than one about divorce. Where are the shows that manage to do it well?
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center
I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...
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Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center
I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Just heard the Levittown podcast by @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/features/202... Disturbing...but well crafted podcast.
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Levittown: A Bloomberg Podcast
The story of how a New York suburb became the epicenter of the global fight against deepfake pornography. Bloomberg, Kaleidoscope and iHeart media present a new podcast, Levittown.
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hitpix+ @hitpixplus.com · 05/04/2026
An Italian court just told Netflix the price hikes it pushed from 2017 to January 2024 were unlawful, ordered refunds, and said some users could get up to €500 back. Imagine opening the app and finding out the plot twist is consumer protection. 
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 03/04/2026
important note. This “freelance journalist” is a wealthy investment banker. His wife did Kate Middleton’s make up. Aside from AI this is also about careless mediocrity being accepted if you move in the right circles. He was reviewing books for fun & even then couldn’t be bothered to do it properly
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 03/04/2026
US allies in the Gulf are discovering that hosting bases brings exposure, not protection. For countries like Australia, the lesson is clear – alignment without control carries real strategic risk, Paul Malone writes. #auspol #ForeignPolicy #AUKUS #Geopolitics
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Allies are learning the cost of relying on the US
US alliances are exposing partner nations to conflict without giving them control over decisions. From the Gulf to Australia, the risks of strategic dependence are becoming clearer.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/04/2026
Since the U.S. and Israel launched attacks on Iran on Feb. 28, President Trump has made contradictory statements about the U.S.'s strategy for the war. Read more about what Trump said his aims were hours after those attacks and where the war stands now: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/u...
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masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
politico.com
She Spoke Out About Gaza. Now She Can’t Use a Credit Card.
After accusing governments and corporations of complicity in Gaza, the U.N. investigator for Palestinian territories now finds herself in Washington’s crosshairs.
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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Jesse Eisenberg is very funny! If I Made Novelty T-Shirts www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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If I Made Novelty T-Shirts
Ever wondered why “I’m with Stupid”? Let me explain.
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Politico @politico.com · 31/03/2026
She spoke out about Gaza. Now she can't use a credit card. The UN investigator for Palestinian territories is facing U.S. sanctions and accused of antisemitism by the State Department.
politico.com
She Spoke Out About Gaza. Now She Can’t Use a Credit Card.
After accusing governments and corporations of complicity in Gaza, the U.N. investigator for Palestine territories now finds herself in Washington’s crosshairs.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
elegant, important pieces like this -- at WIRED -- show that the glory days of american magazine writing are not behind us: www.wired.com/story/opposi...
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Opposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your Life
For months, lone vibe coder Rafael Concepcion has obsessively built tools to counter the federal immigration crackdown—pivoting as he’s been outmatched. He’s also lost his job and become a target.
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