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A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance, so it plans to record classroom conversations and use artificial intelligence to flag speech deemed “hateful” or “inciting.” apnews.com/article/gaza-chil…

A US charity plans to use AI to monitor its Gaza classrooms for 'hateful' speech

A U.S. charity in Gaza is worried that teachers at its schools might stray from a curriculum it says promotes peace and tolerance.

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Adam Rasgon@adamrasgonOct 8
David Milstein, a senior adviser to the US ambassador to Israel, has repeatedly suppressed embassy reporting on Israeli activities to present the Israeli government in a favorable light, according to U.S. officials & documents. w/Natan Odenheimer nytimes.com/2026/10/08/world…

How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel (Gift Article)

A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.

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Spent a few weeks earlier this year roaming a Hollywood almost entirely reoriented around the production of “microdramas,” which are kind of like soap operas except they’re short and completely demented and optimized for your phone. Started as one kind of sad story and ended as another, differently sad kind of story. You can read it now in @NYTmag nytimes.com/2026/10/06/magaz…

Secret Billionaires, Mafia Brides, Alpha Kings: The Insane World of Microdramas

Vertical soap operas for your phone have taken over film and TV production, and they may soon need no humans at all.

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The Secretary of Defense and 600 troops in matching “This is WAR” t-shirts amid the conflict with Iran that senior admin officials & Republican lawmakers have argued is not technically a war
DOW Rapid Response
@DOWResponseSep 30
Six hundred of our finest warriors joined @SECWAR for morning PT at the Pentagon ahead of his HISTORIC State of the Force address.
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So you're telling me people want to read interesting, well written stories that aren't listicles even if they're long????
Max Tani@maxwelltaniSep 23
Per a note to Boston Globe staff today, the lesbian bar story generated 1,000 subscriptions to the paper yesterday. The Globe’s managing editor said it was “by far our best performing story of the year,” and appears to be “on pace to shatter all sorts of Globe records.”
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How an outsider athlete and her once unruly horse created a new standard in the élite equestrian sport. nyer.cm/25anU6N
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With little more than a smartphone and a network of suppliers, Jos Leijdekkers has transformed a beautiful corner of west Africa into his personal fief in just four years. 1843 uncovers the story of the drug kingpin who rules Sierra Leone economist.com/interactive/18…

He was one of the world’s most wanted men. So he bought a west African country

How Jos Leijdekkers turned Sierra Leone into a drug-dealer’s paradise

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For the @BostonGlobe, my dispatch from Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue in Greenfield: bostonglobe.com/2026/09/22/m…

A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose....

Last Ditch Bar in Greenfield wanted to build community. They got a firestorm instead.

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Thrilled and honored to be on this list, and to be working with @highcountrynews on this project
The Robert B. Silvers Foundation@silversfoundJul 31
The Robert B. Silvers Foundation is pleased to announce the 14 winners of the 2026 Silvers Grants for Work in Progress: silversfoundation.org/2026-g…
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What a Reuters headline: "US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference"
Hümeyra Pamuk
@humeyra_pamukJul 30
Quite the story — July 30 (Reuters) - A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at ‌a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screenshots and posted them online.
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Second version of last week's story about @theblackcowgirl family land dropped, this time for The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. More colorful, more literary, more America 250 focused. Give it a look below. amacad.org/news/tobacco-nort…

In old tobacco country, Americans turn over a new leaf

Many people fought to expand the Declaration of Independence, which originally aimed to protect land-owning white men, into a big tent that covers every American. Now pursuing liberty and pushing for...

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My latest for @guardian
philip lewis
@Phil_Lewis_Jul 23
The Gooch family has owned land in Eagle Rock, NC, since 1944, and they refuse to sell it. Instead, they've built the area into a cultural landmark for the growing Hispanic community in the region theguardian.com/us-news/2026…

Black lands, Mexican bands: how a southern rural family built a Latino cultural hub

As the Latino population of North Carolina booms, opportunities abound – and Donal Gooch is capitalizing on changing nature of his home region

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An amazing read!! Learn more about our horse farm, venue and the place I grew up! theguardian.com/us-news/2026…

Black lands, Mexican bands: how a southern rural family built a Latino cultural hub

As the Latino population of North Carolina booms, opportunities abound – and Donal Gooch is capitalizing on changing nature of his home region

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My words, @darecoulter visuals. Past and present of @theblackcowgirl family land for @guardian. Support from @econhardship and @americanacad. Story has norteño bands, a miniature horse on a literacy mission, bull-riding, and a 1980's coke problem. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…

Black lands, Mexican bands: how a southern rural family built a Latino cultural hub

As the Latino population of North Carolina booms, opportunities abound – and Donal Gooch is capitalizing on changing nature of his home region

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ICE officer who shot Colombian man in Maine has history of threatening behavior and mental illness, family and court documents say. apnews.com/article/ice-david…

AP Exclusive: ICE officer in Maine shooting has history of violent behavior, family and records say

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer who shot a Colombian man in Maine this week is an Army veteran who has struggled with serious mental health issues since early childhood, according to...

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WIRED
@WIREDJun 17
A trove of internal records from a secret society for figures in US politics, finance, and tech was left exposed online, WIRED has confirmed, naming participants in its events and revealing sensitive personal details they were assured would stay private. wired.com/story/leak-exposes…

Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society

More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building and sex to prepping for World War III. An associated app offers matchmaking.

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For the past 9 months, I've been investigating Andrew Tate's empire of sexual exploitation — drawing on thousands of private messages and sealed court files, as well as interviews with the Tates, their associates & more than a dozen alleged victims. Here's what I found: newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

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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The 15 Latin Americans deported from the US to Kinshasa are holed up in a hotel by the airport, where there are water cuts, rats, and lots of mosquitoes. They have no passports, don't speak French, and have no idea what comes next. My story for @NPR: npr.org/2026/04/28/nx-s1-579…

'We don't know what will happen to us': U.S. deportees in limbo in DRC

15 South American migrants and asylum seekers deported from the U.S. to the DRC are now living in uncertainty in a country an with ongoing armed conflict, where they have no ties.

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Tom Burgis
@tomburgisApr 23
SCOOP from Sarajevo. I got hold of a letter from the EU to Bosnia. It shows Brussels is risking a confrontation with Donald Trump after it sought to stall the awarding of a lucrative Balkans pipeline contract to a company fronted by his personal lawyer. theguardian.com/world/2026/a…

EU risks fallout with US over Trump-linked Balkans pipeline plan

Exclusive: Brussels seeks to stall award of contract to firm fronted by US president’s lawyer in letter seen by Guardian

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WIRED
@WIREDApr 13
As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. wired.com/story/the-internet…

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

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