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Internet Archive @archive.org · 20/08/2026
📚🎵🎞️ Go behind the scenes at the Physical Archive! Join us IN PERSON Tuesday, Oct. 20, 6–8 PM in Richmond, CA, for a special tour of the preserved collections and learn how materials move from donation & preservation to digitization & access. Sign up ⤵️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1997613506...
Photo of Brewster Kahle at the Internet Archive’s physical archive site. He is leaning forward and looking into a large shipping container used for storage, with palettes visible inside.
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Jennifer Waits @spinningindie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Happy National Radio Day! It's an embarrassment of riches as far as radio material on @archive.org. And my heart belongs to college radio. Vintage correspondence, publications, posters, playlists, and more can be found in the @dlarc.bsky.social college radio collection archive.org/details/coll....
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DLARC College Radio
Part of the Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications (DLARC), DLARC College Radio is a curated collection of items related to college radio in all its forms. Student radio experimentat...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Professor Jason Stanley - ex-Yale, now Toronto - is also a leading authority on fascism. He busted Nathan Cofnas back in 2020 BEFORE his appointment at Cambridge. This entire story has been reported without any meaningful expertise of the context. spectator.com/article/acad...
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Academics are trying to get my paper retracted — and some of them haven’t even read it
Philosophy is ultimately about questioning orthodoxies and challenging taboos
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Andrew Pope @andrewpope.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
They’ve finally fired the eugenics guy who set the dogs on Jason Arday. Meanwhile it turns out that he didn’t plagiarise anything and a lot of his supposed “fantasies” were, in fact, true - as ten minutes of Googling would have shown.
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I was just suspended by Ghent University. They will almost certainly fire me.
The decision was made by rector Petra De Sutter, a former leader of the
Green Party.
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f0rcryin0utl0ud 🇨🇦 @f0rcryin0utl0ud.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/08/2026
Conservative education activists such as Moms for Liberty co-founder Tiffany Justice now have access to the top levers of the government. “If America’s public schools cease to exist tomorrow, America would be a better place,” Justice told ProPublica. (Published Oct. 2025)
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These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.
Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A programmable electrobioreactor device called SCHEPHERD for studying the effects of direct current on cells, monolayers & spheroids 📹 @yubin-lin.bsky.social & Jeremy S. Yodh et al @djcohen.bsky.social @princeton.edu in @science.org Advances ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... + John Ankers
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f0rcryin0utl0ud 🇨🇦 @f0rcryin0utl0ud.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Geezus Toronto! 🤬 "We have learned that Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Arieh King, an extremist Israeli settler and anti-Palestinian racist, has been invited to speak in Toronto on August 25." www.cjpme.org/ban_settler_...
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Canada Must Ban Settler Extremist Arieh King
Join us in calling on Minister of Public Safety Anandasangaree and Minister of Immigration Diab to deny entry to far-right Israeli settler extremist Arieh King.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 21/08/2026
🎉 JOIN US IN PERSON! Democracy’s Library: Tools for Participation is this year's Internet Archive extravaganza. We're celebrating the tools that help us preserve, explore, share & build knowledge together. 📅 Wed, Oct 21 • 5–10 PM 📍 300 Funston Ave, SF 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1998015902... 🧵
Event graphic for "Democracy's Library: Tools for Participation," Wednesday, October 21st, 5pm–10pm, at Internet Archive, 300 Funston Ave., San Francisco. On cream graph paper, a schematic line drawing of a classical library building (columns and pediment) is rendered in overlapping pink, blue, yellow, and orange lines with dot joints, beside bold black and pink text.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 21/08/2026
Teressa found herself raging at what she labeled the insurance company’s “weaponized incompetence.” Fax numbers were wrong. Key records were no longer available online. The insurer wouldn’t even give her access to her husband’s medical records. (Published Sept. 2025)
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“Just Let Me Die”: After Insurance Repeatedly Denied a Couple’s Claims, One Psychiatrist Was Their Last Hope
After a North Carolina man attempted suicide twice, his wife tried to get him help at an inpatient clinic. But their insurance provider refused to cover the treatment, deeming it “not medically necess...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/08/2026
Every other day, 83-year-old Marilyn Tewa of the Hopi Tribe loads buckets into her pickup and drives 5 miles to haul water. “That’s what keeps us alive,” Tewa said. Four states stand in the way of a deal to give her community water. (Published June with @kjzz.org)
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Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal.
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are resisting the deal because it would allow the Navajo and Hopi to lease water to cities downstream, likely the growing towns around Phoenix.
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Forcing a Rethink: Factors governing the fluidity of tissue not as once thought - study finds fluidity can increase without change in cell shape index 📹 Pradip K. Bera et al @uwmadison.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Snake Airways Land: Organoids derived from python airway cells enable study of reptile-hosted zoonotic pathogens & treatments 📷 @samwillemsen.bsky.social et al @hansclevers.bsky.social lab @hubrechtinstitute.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...
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Lisa Catara (official)💎 @lisa-catara.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If ever a case were made to get all of your stuff and things out of the cloud and amass physical copies of everything, here is a prime example of why: PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute | PCMag share.google/mVR4o9Uk84T9...
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PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute
The lost footage, said to amount to roughly 50 terabytes of data, reportedly included historical items shot over roughly 70 years of the station's programming.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17/08/2026
Update from @brewster.kahle.org: "We are still bringing up the upload feature, but otherwise we are live and kicking." More here ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/08/17/s...
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Service Restored from Overnight Power Outage | Internet Archive Blogs
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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
An NSF proposal would politicize its process for awarding research grants. Take action by attending our Aug. 18 workshop with @ucs.org’s Kei Koizumi. We’ll explain the proposal and provide info on writing a public comment. Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Public Comment Workshop for NSF's Proposal to Politicize Grantmaking – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has proposed policy changes that would politicize its grantmaking process and threaten the integrity of federally-backed research.
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
How waves of neural activity link with programmed cell death & angiogenesis in the developing mammalian retina 📷 Michael A Savage, Gerrit Hilgen et al @northumbriauni.bsky.social @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social in @elife.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...
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Sam T. @brixius.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Love me some spinning media and this is an unusual and interesting subcategory of it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 13/08/2026
The gene therapy Zolgensma helped children born with a fatal disease grow up to run and play. But the cost was stunning: $2M per dose. While taxpayers and charities funded the drug’s early development, execs, venture-capital backers and a pharma giant have reaped the profits. (Pub. Feb. 2025)
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What a $2 Million Per Dose Gene Therapy Reveals About Drug Pricing
Taxpayers and charities helped develop Zolgensma. Then it debuted at a record price, ushering in a new class of wildly expensive drugs. Its story upends the widely held conception that high prices ref...
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 13/08/2026
💃 Copyright uncertainty can keep culture out of public view, even when it’s preserved. In RECLAIMING FAIR USE, Patricia Aufderheide, Peter Jaszi & Dave Hansen discuss how communities use fair use to make cultural collections more accessible. 🎧 futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/rec... 🧵
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f0rcryin0utl0ud 🇨🇦 @f0rcryin0utl0ud.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
WHAT the ACTUAL fuck is THIS shit? Our own IDF?🤬 "The Canadian-based Israel Now movement has officially announced the formation of a new initiative, the “New Jewish Defense Force,” aimed at...rising antisemitism and threats directed at the Jewish community in Canada." www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant...
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Canadian pro-Israel group form 'New Jewish Defense Force,' against antisemitism | The Jerusalem Post
Weinstein said that the group's immediate focus will involve documenting where hostile groups and individuals operate, conducting research, and gathering intelligence to confront security threats.
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f0rcryin0utl0ud 🇨🇦 @f0rcryin0utl0ud.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Geeezus! 🤬 You should lose your medical license if you're trying to use these fucking glasses while examining patients naked!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/08/2026
A study concluded that the uninhibited pumping of groundwater by farmers, cities and corporations around the world now accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live. (Published July 2025)
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“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
TAK1 is a vital signalling molecule at cilia level regulating cardiogenesis 📸 Canan Doganli, Oskar Kaaber Thomsen, Daniel A. Baird & Yeasmeen Ali et al University of Copenhagen in @plosbiology.org ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Intestinal stem cells optimise receptiveness to signals within the niche by orientating Golgi apparatus laterally towards Paneth cells 📹 Ilya Belevich et al Sandra Scharaw @katajistolab.bsky.social @helsinki.fi in @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Study of acoel Hofstenia miamia reveals a wide range of strategies of wound repair before whole body regeneration – insights for mammalian tissue healing 📷 @apkann.bsky.social & Mansi Srivastava @harvard.edu @natcomms.nature.com ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Image someone is arrested for fentanyl possession, we know who sold it and know they're still selling it to anyone who wants it, but no action is taken against the dealer, not even suspending their billions in gov't contracts. Somehow, that's fine when people keep using xAI to generate CSAM.
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Her childhood photo. Thousands of explicit images. One woman’s nightmare.
A Wyoming woman alleges in a federal lawsuit that her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to transform a childhood photo into child sexual abuse material.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/08/2026
A @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social-ProPublica report recently found that 1 in 10 of homes in Omaha that were remediated by the EPA still has enough lead to cause IQ loss in children. The risk worries one mother, whose daughter tested high for lead as a baby.
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More Than Half the Homes in East Omaha Have Unsafe Lead Levels. That Doesn’t Mean the EPA Will Clean Them Up.
The EPA hasn’t reevaluated its cleanup guidelines for homes in a residential Superfund site in Omaha, Nebraska, in 17 years, despite research showing that even small amounts of lead can cause IQ loss ...
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I'm just learning today that Carney's new consul general to New York City is the former President of Shell Canada, and y'all, if this were more on the nose it would be lodged up there like a toddler's crayon
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Here are some nice mushrooms
A cluster of young, healthy, aggressive golden oyster mushrooms grow of the buttressed roots of a dead American elm stump. All photos by me
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
AXIN1 & AXIN2 regulate WNT-signaling to generate distinct mesodermal cell types in the early embryo 📷 Rocío Hernández-Martínez et al @mskcancercenter.bsky.social in @cp-devcell.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Tiny magnetic pillar platform for studying how cells convert physical forces to biological signals 📷 Roel Kooi et al, @tue.nl in Advanced Healthcare Materials ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with @antdlewis.bsky.social
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Cancer cell entry into lymphatics is driven by balance of TNRC6B/circTNRC6B gene products – possible prognostic marker & treatment target 📷 Lingjiao Meng, Haotian Wu & Jiaxiang Wu et al Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University in @cp-cellreports.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Access Denied: Subtype of influenza A H3N2, but not H1N1, needs transporter protein Rab11B to enter host cells 📷 Allyson H. Turner & Sara A. Jaffrani et al @uvmvermont.bsky.social in @jvico-eics.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with @rooph.bsky.social
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
3D imaging & analytic light sheet microscopy pipeline for tracking cancer spread to new sites & revealing malignant cell interaction with vessels there 📷 Sabrina M. Lewis et al @wehi-research.bsky.social in @natureportfolio.nature.com npj Imaging ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Heart-on-a-Chip platform with induced pluripotent stem cell-derived heart cells for predictive cardiotoxicity testing 📷 Karine Tadevosyan et al @idibell.bsky.social in Advanced Healthcare Materials ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... with @antdlewis.bsky.social
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Erythroblastic islands – niches where red blood cells mature – have distinct compositions in mouse & human 📷 Xu Han & Kehan Ren et al @nufeinbergmss.bsky.social in @natureportfolio.nature.com Nature Genetics ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026...
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C&EN (Chemical & Engineering News) @cenmag.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The latest edition of #PeriodicGraphics by @compoundchem.com explains the chemistry that can cause sunscreen to stain clothing and how some chemistry know-how can quickly remove the stains: cen.acs.org/materials/co... #chemsky 🧪
A graphic explaining the chemistry that can cause sunscreen to stain clothing. The left column shows the structures of the organic compounds that cause stains. The right column shows the structures and chemical reactions involved in removing stains.
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squidge.org @squidge.org · 17/07/2026
Squidge Image Hosting Please note that Squidge Image Hosting is currently working, but there is no way to currently sign up. Do not send in requests. Do not open trouble tickets. Do not attempt to sign up. We are having performance issues and cannot guarantee your request won't get lost in the…
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Squidge Image Hosting
Please note that Squidge Image Hosting is currently working, but there is no way to currently sign up. Do not send in requests. Do not open trouble tickets. Do not attempt to sign up. We are having performance issues and cannot guarantee your request won't get lost in the shuffle. Let us work out the performance issues, and we'll be back.
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Manda M @bettesays.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Casual reminder that anyone can still play the 1990 version of MECC's Oregon Trail online thanks to @archive.org archive.org/details/msdo...
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Oregon Trail, The : MECC : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive
The Oregon Trail is a series of strategy computer games. The first game was originally developed by Don Rawitsch, Bill Heinemann, and Paul Dillenberger in 1971...
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17/07/2026
Wonder how websites, books, government info & digital history are preserved? Subscribe to the Internet Archive's #EmpoweringLibraries newsletter for updates on the Wayback Machine, digital preservation, upcoming events, and the people working behind the scenes. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/07/17/k...
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Biomedical Picture of the Day BPoD @bpodaily.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Fitness Race: Modelling antibody evolution by replaying a monoclonal germinal centre reaction over a 100 times 📷 William DeWitt, Ashni Vora, Tatsuya Araki et al @victora.bsky.social @rockefeller.edu @matsen.bsky.social in @cp-cell.bsky.social ➡️ bpod.org.uk/archive/2026... + John Ankers
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2026
The New Mexico attorney general’s office urged one school district to “acknowledge the facts” after a report found Indigenous and Hispanic students often receive harsher discipline than their white classmates for similar infractions.
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New Mexico AG Calls for Reform After Report Finds “Substantial Racial Disparities” in One School District
The state’s attorney general launched an investigation after reporting by New Mexico In Depth and ProPublica exposed high rates of harsh punishment for Native American and Hispanic children in Gallup-...
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Please help if you can #Donate 🇨🇦🍁
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/07/2026
What we discovered: Police brushed off rapes. Prosecutors bungled confessions or were defeated at trial. Judges overlooked irregularities. And Syracuse University seemed more interested in suppressing news of a rape epidemic than solving it.
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What We Uncovered About the Sexual Assault of Alice Sebold and a City’s Buried Rape Crisis
ProPublica spent years investigating the attack on the bestselling author and the wrongly convicted man who lost decades of his life. Here’s what we learned about the failures in the justice system — ...
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Suspension may not be enough in this case, considering she lied to the judge. Disbarment may be needed, if only to send a strong enough message to the profession.
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6-month suspension for Toronto lawyer who cited fake ChatGPT cases, blamed law student, faced contempt of court hearing, went back to ChatGPT for advice
"The court must quickly and firmly make clear that, regardless of technology, lawyers cannot rely on non-existent authorities or cases that say the opposite of what is submitted."
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 18/07/2026
If you don't know the words to search for, history can feel like it never existed. Brooke Palmieri explores how finding queer history requires more than institutions; it takes community knowledge and new ways of looking. 🎧 Listen & subscribe: futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/van... 🧵
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Future Knowledge | Vanishing Culture #3: Saving Queer Memory with Brooke Palmieri
Queer history has often been overlooked, erased, or excluded from traditional archives. In the third episode of our special six-part series on Vanishing Culture, host Vida Vojić speaks with writer,...
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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 18/07/2026
"Israeli Environmental Minister Idit Silman signed a directive Wednesday reclassifying Nile crocodiles as “specially managed wild animals,” a novel legal category enabling the government to keep them for security purposes." - via Ccommon Dreams www.commondreams.org/news/israel-...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/07/2026
A group that advocates for private school funding programs estimated that last year, states allocated $10.6B to these programs, up 29%. One company encouraged churches to tap into public funds, calling them "God's new gold mine."
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Barns, Go-Karts and Strip Malls: The Wild West of Private Schools That Collect Taxpayer Dollars
As private schools proliferate, states are choosing a hands-off approach to regulating them. The backgrounds of school founders — sometimes with criminal histories — often don’t matter
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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Say what you want about crabs but those sumbitches can pinch
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